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  1. #701
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    Question Fulani Basketball

    Quote Originally Posted by Fish80 View Post
    Brilliant! So if I drink a lot of milk and eat meat and yogurt I'll evolve to fit into my "genes"?

    I like the Fulani already. Do they play basketball?
    If you do all that, you'll be seeing a cardiologist real soon! And you'll probably won't be getting a bunch of essential nutrients too. But it'll all taste good!

    IIRC, Boris Diaw of the Phoenix Suns (formerly of the ATLANTA HAWKS) might be Fulani in origin.

    Cheers,
    Lavabe

  2. #702
    Comfortably ahead of the Duke football coach thread...see what we can do together!

  3. #703
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    Go Team OT!

    Woot, let's here it for the OT clan. And kudos to BostonDevil for suggesting a great way to kill off holiday time.

    More either-or questions:

    Off-Season NFL talk or Off-Season MLB talk?


    I can't believe my local news station was already talking about the Mariners' spring training -- aigh! But I found the off-season (snif!) Seahawks news even more disquieting.

  4. #704
    Off-Season MLB, though I am a fantasy baseball fan and not a fantasy football fan.

  5. #705
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    There's always that day in February where the local sports news leads off with that picture of the equipment truck leaving Fenway on the way to Florida. It's usually front page of the Globe too. (I love it.)

  6. #706
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    Words that drive you up the wall?

    What word (or words) (or phrases) "drives/drive you up the wall?"

    I'll start.

    For me, it's "like." A close second is "awesome."

  7. #707
    Quote Originally Posted by dukepsy1963 View Post
    What word (or words) (or phrases) "drives/drive you up the wall?"
    "Might could" as in "I might could do that." It's like nails on a chalk board for me.

  8. #708
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    "It is what it is." Of course it is, dip$h!+. That's why it is that thing.

  9. #709
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    Originally Posted by dukepsy1963
    What word (or words) (or phrases) "drives/drive you up the wall?"


    I write news releases for multiple clients. What words drive me up a wall? The most over-used words in my profession: Innovative solutions.

    And I'll add utilize and leverage coming in at a close second and third.

    -EarlJam

  10. #710
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    There are a host of historians' words that do the same for me. Many, I suspect, are program specific. Luckily for most normal people, most of them are pretty jargon-y. For me, the prime offender in this category is "subaltern." Then there are the words that people overuse in an attempt to make themselves look smarter. For example, not everything is "Foucauldian." Foucault was/is great, but overapplication or flat-out misapplication of his ideas (or anyone else's for that matter) does him a disservice and just makes you look silly.
    Colchar, perhaps you would care to weigh in?

  11. #711
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    Foucauldian. Now there's a word I have to start using.

    "Rules are empty in themselves, violent and unfinalized; they are impersonal and can be bent to any purpose. The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing those rules, to replace those who had used them, to disguise themselves so as to pervert them, invert their meaning, and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules." Michel Foucault

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fish80 View Post
    "Rules are empty in themselves, violent and unfinalized; they are impersonal and can be bent to any purpose. The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing those rules, to replace those who had used them, to disguise themselves so as to pervert them, invert their meaning, and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules." Michel Foucault
    Discipline and Punish, right?

  13. #713
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    Quote Originally Posted by dukepsy1963 View Post
    What word (or words) (or phrases) "drives/drive you up the wall?"
    Commentating.

    ARGH! One comments, one does not commentate.

    Frankly, I think they should be sports commenters, not sports commentators, but that's just me.


    Similarly (but less frequently used) - orientating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DevilAlumna View Post
    Commentating.

    ARGH! One comments, one does not commentate.

    Frankly, I think they should be sports commenters, not sports commentators, but that's just me.


    Similarly (but less frequently used) - orientating.
    Let's not forget "conversating."

  15. #715
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    Quote Originally Posted by wilson View Post
    Discipline and Punish, right?
    Maybe it's in there too, but I found it in:

    Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fish80 View Post
    Maybe it's in there too, but I found it in:

    Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews
    It may or may not be. But if you like that quote and the ideas it expresses, I highly recommend D & P.

  17. #717
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    Angry It's FIXIN' to snow outside

    If someone fixes me dinner again, I'll scream.

    Utilize drives me up the wall, but not nearly as much as insure/ensure.

    Its/It's drives me crazy.

    Yes, I'm doing a writing-intensive course this semester. I turn the students to the podcast GRAMMAR GIRL.
    Cheers,
    Lavabe

  18. #718
    Quote Originally Posted by Lavabe View Post
    If someone fixes me dinner again, I'll scream.

    Utilize drives me up the wall, but not nearly as much as insure/ensure.

    Its/It's drives me crazy.

    Yes, I'm doing a writing-intensive course this semester. I turn the students to the podcast GRAMMAR GIRL.
    Cheers,
    Lavabe
    We are dangerously close to earning the wrath of throaty.

  19. #719
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    Wink

    Quote Originally Posted by billybreen View Post
    We are dangerously close to earning the wrath of throaty.
    Anything to get him to cross the 2,000 post mark BEFORE the game.
    Cheers,
    Lavabe

  20. #720
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    Ecosexual

    Ecosexual. And I was just getting used to metrosexual.

    I think that I was just censored. A post on the main board really ticked me off, so I put up a snarky reply that is now mysteriously gone.

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