Hijack this thread!

[Pucker]

So this thread is for hickackers? I like that, as I have always been careful not to hikack topics on other forums. Sometimes we get carried away, and mods have a hard time putting everybody back on topic. I like the idea of an hijacking quad.

I just wanted to say that I'm still waiting for my copy of Blockade Billy to come in the mail. And I also wanted to say that I want the Montreal Canadiens hockey team winning their match tonight. If not, they'll be off the playoffs, and I don't want that to happen.

If my last post didn't appear to make any sense (as seems likely enough), it is probably because I forgot to link it to this one.

[Becks19]

Congrats STR, Awesome news.

Mookie, is it "adieu" or "ado" ?
I thought "adieu" is French for " good bye "...

I thought it was ado as well and typed it in as such.........The spell checker got me, made me doubt it so I let it fly......Knew I was smarter than that thing LOL

[Bryan James]

I was in a dumb-ball, no-win debate one morning many years ago with a group of teenage writers. I'd had enough and finally stood up and said "Much adieu about nothing," and left the morning session.

I had a one-on-one lunch with James Dickey that afternoon. He had been watching the earlier discussion. I don't remember much of that day, or that Summer, but he told me something like, "You left well when you knew you had nothing left to say."

I try that, but I usually fail. But I try.

[Sigmund]

ado definition
ado (ə do̵̅o̅′)
noun
fuss; trouble; excitement
Origin: ME ado < northern Eng dial. inf. at do, to do


Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.


a·do (ə-do͞oˈ)
noun Bustle; fuss; trouble; bother.
Origin: Middle English, from the phrase at do : at, to (used with infinitive) (from Old Norse at; see ad- in Indo-European roots) + do, do; see do 1.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights res

[Sigmund]

Here's something I didn't know but found interesting. It's a long article so I'll give you idea and you can hit on the link if you are interested.

The ‘Code’: Ten unwritten baseball rules you might not know

Last month, when A’s pitcher Dallas Braden called out Alex Rodriguez for cutting across the Oakland Coliseum mound, the country was informed of a small slice of baseball’s Code that had lain mostly dormant in recent memory.
It was only one of a litany of unwritten rules that covers major leaguers’ actions, designed essentially to preserve a baseline level of respect between competitors. They constitute the moral fabric of the game.
The best known of these rules tells players not to steal a base when their team holds a big lead in the late innings of a game. Others include barring overt displays of exuberance in all but the most extreme circumstances; the hitter who watches his own home runs is the most egregious of violators in this category.
Many fans have heard of these rules (Alex Rodriguez himself was unaware of one). Some sections of the Code, however, fly under the radar (even for baseball insiders, to judge by the number of people within the game who had never heard the rule about restraint from crossing the pitcher’s mound).
So, without further delay, here are 10 of baseball’s more obscure unwritten rules:
1. Don’t swing at the first pitch after back-to-back home runs
This is a matter of courtesy, respect for a pitcher who is clearly struggling, offering just a sliver of daylight with which to regain his senses. When Yankees rookie Chase Wright gave up back-to-back-to-back-to-back homers against Boston in 2007, the guys who hit numbers three and four — Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek — each watched a pitch before taking a cut.
“Let him know, okay, I’m not swinging,” said Hal McRae. “I know you’re out there trying to do a job, and I have to do a job — but you’ve just given up back-to-back home runs. So I take the first pitch.”

http://blog.homerunmonkey.com/the-co...ight-not-know/

[Bryan James]

Baseball is fun, when playing, but it's a worse spectator sport than "Paraplegics Attempting Nude Yoga After Lots-o-Chili While Wearing Funny Hats and Performing for an Extended Family of Hibernating Sloths That Have Never Hibernated Before Because I don't Think That Sloths Hibernate."

OR

If you're into the Arizona thing, come up with another stupid reason why common sense should be suspended.

That is all, ma frien.

[fushingfeef]

Why do some people pronounce the fast food burger chain as "MACK-donalds"? There's no "a" between the M and the c. Is this a regional thing?

[Sigmund]

Baseball is fun, when playing, but it's a worse spectator sport than "Paraplegics Attempting Nude Yoga After Lots-o-Chili While Wearing Funny Hats and Performing for an Extended Family of Hibernating Sloths That Have Never Hibernated Before Because I don't Think That Sloths Hibernate."

OR

If you're into the Arizona thing, come up with another stupid reason why common sense should be suspended.

That is all, ma frien.

Don't wanna irritate anyone but watching baseball, golf, bowling is like...watching paint dry. I just thought the "Rules" were cool.
Reading your oh-so-creative-witty-i-can-just-picture-this-now-oh-God-I'll-never-get-this -image-out-of my-mind-I'm-going-to-hell-laughing....priceless. TK

[Srbo]

Why do some people pronounce the fast food burger chain as "MACK-donalds"? There's no "a" between the M and the c. Is this a regional thing?

How do even hear a thing like that?

And how do you pronounce it if not m-a-c donald?

[Moderator]

m-i-c-k donald