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You are completely missing the point, Bill. It is cumbersome to ignore stuff on this board if you don't know it's coming. Hence our periodic attempts to flag up "Food & Recipes", "Politics Warning", and similar topics - in the certain knowledge that some of us will thereby choose to avoid loading (repeatedly) to a thread identified as a topic of interest but subsequently converted to a topic of less than interest (and quite likely nothing to do with language either, though that may be no bar in itself). Tain't much to ask - I am glad to avoid offence to those who find (say) politics boring by clearly flagging something like that. And you need to just be aware that the interminable minutiae of a foreign sport is about as interesting in a world conversation as watching paint dry.
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Dear Mav: I just don't have any problem. If I find a thread or a post boring, I just go elsewhere. I'm don't understand your problem. Maybe my having DSL spares me time waiting for posts to appear. I am having one problem that puzzles me: A post will start to come in, and then everything fireezes for up to a couple minutes, sometimes longer. I think it is those bastards at PacBell,net who keep timing out on me with no notice or admission that they are doing it. It's not only in AWAD. Hope you like that URL about the jerk who got caught up on the Statue of Liberty. http://www1.sympatico.ca/news/Fullstories/w082338.html Bill
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Hey, mav! How come all of a sudden you're calling the shots?  how's that for a sneaky way to get back on topic And, besides, everyone is just a click away from the relief of their boredom. Wasn't there just a rugby star conversation off-topic somewhere? Nobody waved a flag at that.
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Fine. So in the interest of diplomacy, may I suggest that it appears to me we are all agreed on the following:
-- No topic is vebotin, but
-- A topic that may be of such less-than-general interest should be clearly "flagged" as such, so that it can be even-more-easily ignored by those who so wish?
Because if that's the consensus, the sole issue is what methods of flagging to use -- procedure, not substance.
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Musick, didn't you yourself start a "sports" thread just a few hours ago? One that I very much like, I might add.
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Dear Max: while I don't know anything about your sports, I am quite willing to try to learn. And if I get baffled, as WhitmanO'Neill just said, relief is only a click away.
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Regarding the original question...
When I speculate on the origin of "calling the shots," I get a mental picture of a guy with a bullhorn in a chair marked "Director" (hence "shots" would refer to camera shots). Could there be any validity to this, or did we already decide it was something else?
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tsuwm wins: They each ended their respective major league careers in the same city they started in but for a different team.
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