Duck replaced with Eagle

Discussion in 'ten-forward' started by Jimbob1989, Dec 7, 2004.

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  1. big ed

    big ed Registered Member

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    Why in the heck were you walking on your hands? I'm confused...............wait, maybe I'm not!

    Just finished a couple of "Green Beers" so, BURP! (I mean bump)

    Play on, big ed O'mally
     
  2. bigbuck

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    Mc Bump!.............it is St Patrick's Day! :D :D
    PS. Dragged this one up from halfway down page two BS!
     
  3. Marja

    Marja Honestly, I'm not a bot!!

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    Gee, I thought this was buried somewhere! How nice of them to save it for us!! Our grand kids and great grand kids will be sooo proud!!
     
  4. Blackspear

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    Ahhh good to see you are on your toes there Paddy (BUMP)

    :D :D :D
     
  5. Primrose

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    Did he ever find a soulmate :D
     

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    ROFL LOL :D
     
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    ROFLMAO very nice find there Primrose :D
     
  8. BeetleBoss

    BeetleBoss She who posts lots of <I>Smileys</I>

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  9. Firecat

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    Quite a bit. :)
     
  10. BeetleBoss

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  11. bigbuck

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    Here 'tis....
     

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    BeetleBoss She who posts lots of <I>Smileys</I>

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    EXCELLENT WORK!!!

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    DOG!!! HERE DOGGIE!!!

    change that avatar!!!
     
  13. Primrose

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    Now you have a winner there :D

    "Ah ya awrait me duck?" :-*


    You have learn to say 'mi duck' to support Sheffield United". :eek: :p

    Quote:
    In a report about Sheffield United football club appeared this:
    'After seeing them break their duck, Warnock is confident that they
    will emerge as genuine promotion contenders.' Where does "break
    one's duck" come from and what does it mean? [Patrice Kyger]

    A. It's not as cruel as it sounds. It's not the duck that's being
    broken, but a duck's egg. These days the expression can be used in
    almost any game that involves a score of some sort but originally -
    back in Victorian times - it related solely to cricket. It seems to
    have been English public-school slang of the 1850s to call a score
    of nought against a player's name a "duck's egg" - presumably a
    duck rather than a chicken because a duck's egg is bigger and more
    prominent.

    A player who had scored, who had moved off that accusing zero on
    the scoreboard, was said to have "broken his duck's egg". It began
    to appear in print in the early 1860s and soon people shortened it
    just to "duck". The first known example of that form appeared in
    the Daily News in August 1868: "You see ... that his fear of a
    'duck' - as by a pardonable contraction from duck-egg a nought is
    called in cricket-play - outweighs all other earthly
    considerations." A batsman who was dismissed without scoring was
    said to be "out for a duck".

    It's only in comparatively recent times that the expression has
    broadened to other games and to the performance of whole teams
    rather than individual players. In the report you quote, it means
    that the soccer team concerned has won a match, that their count of
    wins has moved off zero, an extension that is so figurative as to
    suggest it might be a misunderstanding of the original meaning.
    Though the expression is known from all cricket-playing English-
    speaking countries, it's only in British usage, I think, that you
    can apply it generally to achieving some particular feat for the
    first time.

    Americans briefly knew of duck's eggs in the 1860s, but prefer now
    to speak of "goose eggs" in much the same sense, a slang term that
    is almost exactly contemporary with the cricket one. A related
    expression also originally from cricket is "to lay an egg", so to
    score a zero; that might be the source of the theatrical version
    from the 1920s onwards that says an actor or a show is a failure or
    a flop, but it might instead be from airman's slang of the First
    World War, meaning to drop a bomb.

    It's often said that the equivalent term "love" in tennis and some
    other games for a zero score likewise derives from the shape of an
    egg, in this case the French "l'oeuf". To forestall lots of e-
    mails, I should say it's a folk etymology. There is no known such
    link between the French word and the English one, and the term
    "love" is recorded in English in 1742, in Hoyle's famous book on
    the game of whist, a century before anybody used the egg analogy in
    cricket, and longer still before lawn tennis was invented. It is
    probable that "love" is from "playing for love", that is, for
    pleasure, so that it doesn't matter if one hasn't (yet) scored.


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    Now that they have used a good cleanser ;) on securitywarns.com :p No one will be stepping in the caca :D
     

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  14. Marja

    Marja Honestly, I'm not a bot!!

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    no matter what you say, Primrose, some ducks are just out of luck(s)!

    (Isn't that remarkable those two hooked up??) Think I'll stay here for my security needs!
     
  15. dog

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    LOL ... What a Team at securitywarns.com, eh? :blink: :D ~Quite fitting considering their start~ :rolleyes: :blink:
     
  16. Marja

    Marja Honestly, I'm not a bot!!

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    I am just glad that our SECURITY WARNS us about places like that!!
     
  17. Primrose

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    Yes indeed..but then I was travelling and not on the Internet much during that time frame and just got bits and pieces of the escapade here and there. I did not bring it up again to rant..and I humbly apologize to LWM and the rest of you fine people since that thread has been closed... that was begun by Lordofdark176 and as Steve put it..they had a rocky start.

    But as I recalled my own sorted past as the age of 14-16 ;) :D ..I started reviewing all the information presented once more yesterday and can't help but remember my suggestion to Jimbob some months ago, when he needed some TOS "boiler plate", to take a look at the Gladiator Forum to get some ideas on what he might want to use at that first site he put together with another group.

    I do not know Lordofdark176 personally..James I know enough to really like the guy as he struggles with life and learns to survive and make friends.

    I am thinking now that Lordofdark176 did not "maliciously" plagiarize content
    .."at least in his mind" at the time they were building the forum..and it is even somewhat flattering their first attempt "looked so familiar". All of you know that no one person at the Gladiator Forum came up with the format we are using.. it evolved....it is really so many great folks who have dedicated their time over the years and still do..tweaking it..trying to make it as easy as possible for anyone to Navigate that sincerely wants help.

    So to sit here in judgement and say..he should have known better... is not the purpose of this post.

    I just want to encourage both James and his young friend from Ohio to hang in there..and to gain the respect needed. It is a wonderful feeling when you know your actions or help has made someone day a little easier..and you have to start someplace.. ;). The personal rewards far out weigh the struggle.

    That is a much better road to take..than having a forum offering bots, etc. and teaching your peers how to whack the other guy.


    Be Well All,
    John
     
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  18. dog

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    Nicely said John ;)
     
  19. Jimbob1989

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    For now, I wouldn't mistake associate for friend.

    Jimbob
     
  20. Primrose

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    Makes sense to me :p
     

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  21. Marja

    Marja Honestly, I'm not a bot!!

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    LOL!! That is a cartoon warning "don't try this at home', pretty hard on computers are ya, JB?

    In agreement with Primrose, I also warn you to be careful.

    Now, you don't believe it, but 10 years from now, depending on what you do - you will feel great about yourself for learning and accomplishing much- or you can take the fast route for 'fame' and be very bitter when someone just like you comes along and has actually taken the time and patience to LEARN - goes you one better, bringing you card castle down.

    It's hard, I know, I knew everything there was to know from 13 to 20, as the years go by I see just how much I still have to learn and decided to enjoy the process, not fight it!

    MOM Marja:cool:
     
  22. bigbuck

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    Missed your foot by a good 2 feet....er....24" there Jim! :D :D
     
  23. Just a little "bump" and grind for the lad


    Hotsy
     
  24. BeetleBoss

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  25. Cochise

    Cochise A missed friend

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    I'll drink to that me Darlin' Beetleboss.....never a truer Oirish word...... :D


    Coirishchise, :cool: (Goes off, doin' a leetle oirish jig....toodlitititootididdleitetitiddle)....etc.,
     
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