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@crucial said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@mikedogz teeny tiny?
Funny how that's the first thing that sprung to mind for you. Do you hear it said a lot?
"You make everything else look so teeny tiny"
Yes.
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@bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@crucial said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@mikedogz teeny tiny?
Funny how that's the first thing that sprung to mind for you. Do you hear it said a lot?
"You make everything else look so teeny tiny"
Yes.
You really need to drop a few kilos then
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@machpants said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@crucial said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@mikedogz teeny tiny?
Funny how that's the first thing that sprung to mind for you. Do you hear it said a lot?
"You make everything else look so teeny tiny"
Yes.
You really need to drop a few kilos then
People usually say inches, but I'll take that.
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@bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@machpants said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@crucial said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@bones said in The thread of learning something new every day:
@mikedogz teeny tiny?
Funny how that's the first thing that sprung to mind for you. Do you hear it said a lot?
"You make everything else look so teeny tiny"
Yes.
You really need to drop a few kilos then
People usually say inches, but I'll take that.
Oh, you like to take the inches
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Some will find this interesting.
DID YOU KNOW: THE ORIGINS OF THE 14-CLUB LIMIT
MIKE JOHNSONAPRIL 8, 2020
EQUIPMENTGOLFNEWS
The coronavirus pandemic has hit a giant pause button on fans being able to watch golf on TV, and in some cases, even kept people off courses. But while we hunker down and hope for a speedy return to normalcy, we can also use this time as an opportunity to learn more about the game we love. Here’s our latest installment of “Did you know?”
How many times have you been on a course and wished you had an extra club in the bag to help you with a specific shot? Well, as most of us know, that’s not allowable under Rule 4 of the Rules of Golf, which states players are “limited to no more than 14 clubs and normally must not replace damaged or lost clubs.”
Which often leads golfers to ask, “OK, but why a limit and why 14?” As with most rules that involve equipment, advancing technology was one of the culprits.
For years players were content to go into battle armed with a relatively slim array of hickory-shafted weapons. That changed when the steel shaft was universally approved for use in 1929 (the USGA had approved its use earlier but it took some time for the R&A to get on board). Some golfers were torn, not sure they wanted to go to steel because they were unfamiliar with how those clubs would react, but not wanting to pass on potentially better equipment. The solution for many became to have a bag that incorporated both hickory and steel clubs, sending the number of sticks in the bag soaring.
Good news for players. Bad news for the caddies. Those poor bastards often ended up lugging two bags instead of one – and caddies back then weren’t making the kind of scratch they do now. Lawson Little was perhaps the most infamous offender, as the winner of the 1934 and 1935 US and British Amateurs often had 30 clubs at his disposal. Some players went with a set of right-handed and left-handed clubs and a survey at the 1935 US Open showed the average number of clubs in a contestant’s bag was 18.
At this point, the USGA and R&A had seen enough. Just as with today in which the governing bodies are fretting about the role of technology in the game, the rulesmakers back then were afraid that such a large number of clubs would make skill less prominent. Additionally, it provided an advantage for well-to-do golfers who had the wherewithal to purchase more clubs than their less-fortunate brethren.
In 1936 the USGA and R&A adopted the 14-club limit with it going into effect in 1938. It has been in effect since.
Oh, and why 14? No one really knows, although it has been surmised that most common set makeup at the time was four woods, nine irons and a putter. You don’t even need a calculator to know that’s 14 bats
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How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer
Here at FiveThirtyEight, we tend to think statistics can add to our understanding of sports. (What a surprise!) From the more mature sabermetric movements of ba…
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According to Wiki, it is true...
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@tim said in The thread of learning something new every day:
How One Man’s Bad Math Helped Ruin Decades Of English Soccer
Here at FiveThirtyEight, we tend to think statistics can add to our understanding of sports. (What a surprise!) From the more mature sabermetric movements of ba…
This should be moved to the EPL thread. From what I've read, teams such as Spurs back in the 60s liked to pass through teams. But as a boy watching English football in the early 80s they valued aerial power and pace over skill on the ball, and route 1 predominated. Now I know why
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Billy Hitler:
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Ok this is weird.
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ELO do not yell out "Bruce" in "Don't Bring Me Down" ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Bring_Me_Down
A common mondegreen in the song is the perception that, following the title line, Lynne shouts "Bruce!" In the liner notes of the ELO compilation Flashback and elsewhere, Lynne has explained that he is singing a made-up word, "Groos", which some have suggested sounds like the German expression "Gruß," meaning "greeting."[8] Lynne has explained that originally he did not realize the meaning of the syllable, and he just used it as a temporary placekeeper to fill a gap in the lyrics, but upon learning the German meaning he decided to leave it in.[8] After the song's release, so many people had misinterpreted the word as "Bruce" that Lynne actually began to sing the word as "Bruce" for fun at live shows.[9][10][8]
ELO engineer Mack remembers the genesis of the term differently, stating that Lynne was actually singing "Bruce" as a joke in advance of an Australian tour "referring to how many Australian guys are called Bruce."[8]
Had to look up what it is he actually says after hearing said song today.
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@taniwharugby said in The thread of learning something new every day:
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Could a Blue Whale's Fart Contain a Horse?
This story, like the feeding behavior of the animal in question, is a deep dive.
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Tooth in eye surgery.
https://www.rnib.org.uk/nb-online/tooth-in-eye-surgery#:~:text=Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (OOKP,implanted%20into%20the%20patient's%20eye.
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