It seems like so many feel we will still miss the playoffs..why?

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  1. DaRizzle

    DaRizzle BLAKER

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    damn straight
     
    DaRizzle, Apr 16, 2009
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  2. julius

    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    The thing that bothers me is when people don't realize that the whistle kills the clock on a foul.
     
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  3. Wizard Mentor

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    No. Mixum posts BS 5 out of 6 times. Half the time he's very obviously wrong or just trying to annoy.
    If it's not one of those cases, then there's some truth to what he's saying 1 out of every 3 posts.
    I can just laugh him off but I try to guess if I hit that lucky 1 intelligent post in 6.

    Of course, I have him on ignore, so I usually only see his posts when someone quotes him. So, I guess
    I really DO laugh him off.
     
    Wizard Mentor, Apr 16, 2009
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxcouldc.html

    The idiom "couldn't care less", meaning "doesn't care at all"
    (the meaning in full is "cares so little that he couldn't possibly
    care less"), originated in Britain around 1940. "Could care less",
    which is used with the same meaning, developed in the U.S. around
    1960. We get disputes about whether the latter was originally a
    mis-hearing of the former; whether it was originally ironic; or
    whether it arose from uses where the negative element was separated
    from "could" ("None of these writers could care less..."). Henry
    Churchyard believes that this sentence by Jane Austen may be
    pertinent: "You know nothing and you care less, as people say."
    (Mansfield Park (1815), Chapter 29) Meaning-saving elaborations
    have also been suggested: "As if I could care less!"; "I could care
    less, but I'd have to try"; "If I cared even one iota -- which I
    don't --, then I could care less."

    Recently encountered has been "could give a damn", used in the
    sense "couldn't give a damn".

    An earlier transition in which "not" was dropped was the one that
    gave us "but" in the sense of "only". "I will not say but one
    word", where "but" meant "(anything) except", became "I will say but
    one word."

    Other idioms that say the opposite of what they mean include:
    "head over heels" (which could mean turning cartwheels, i.e. "head
    over heels over head over heels", but is also used to mean "upside-
    down", i.e. "heels over head"); "Don't sneeze more than you can
    help" (meaning "more than you cannot help"; "help" here means
    "prevent"); "It's hard to open, much less acknowledge, the letters"
    (where "less" means "harder", i.e. "more"); "I shouldn't wonder if
    it didn't rain"; "I miss not seeing you"; and "I turned my life
    around 360 degrees" -- not to mention undisputedly ironic phrases
    such as "fat chance", "Thanks a *lot*", and "I should worry".
     
    Denny Crane, Apr 16, 2009
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    Maybe they could care less!

    Irregardless. :)
     
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    :lol:

    Do you really want to go there? This post alone had a handful of errors in punctuation.

    I promise to use 'lose' appropriately if you promise to use commas, periods and apostrophes.
     
    Storyteller2, Apr 17, 2009
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    irregardless [:lol:] of the mistakes in this thread . . . what was the point of this thread again?
     
    Reep, Apr 17, 2009
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    Whoa, dude... glad to see you FINALLY made it over here to join us, ST--WELCOME! :cheers:
     
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    Why Storyteller2? Is there another Storyteller?
     
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    Hey I beat you by a hr!
     
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    LOL! I signed up for Sports2 about two years ago using the screen name Storyteller. Never got in the habit of posting here. Have no idea what password I used. Plus, I've changed my email since then so I can't have the system email it to me automatically. I tried getting it sent to me by sending a message to an admin, but got no response. So, in the end, I just registered a new name....
     
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