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Who wants to not be a millionaire?
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 7:56 pm
by etaoin22
Plaxico, to begin with.
Hockey player Sean Avery wins a Darwin award figuratively, for using an offensive term for a former girl friend.
http://www.torontosun.com/sports/hockey ... 6-sun.html
Of course, it helps that Avery is, shall we say, not well-liked....
This term apparently was not understood as offensive by BAM writers as it turned up as the category name for the
Darwin vs Russell
question this year.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10518&p=114306&hili ... ds#p114306
Re: Who wants to not be a millionaire?
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 8:46 pm
by elwoodblues
A league which uses its violence as a selling point and does not even try to control fighting is bent out of shape about a juvenile suggestive term? He should have just tried to maim the guy who is dating his ex. He maybe would have gotten two minutes. Would a more popular player have been suspended?
And I remember the "sloppy seconds" topic on WWTBAM. I thought the question was going to be about Paris Hilton.
Re: Who wants to not be a millionaire?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:36 am
by etaoin22
Many think that the controls, considerably effective, on fighting are why someone like Avery with a predilection on and off the ice for the cheap shot has survived, so far. Partly true, partly illusory. I am not really surprised what gets the league PTB in a knot.
I was surprised to see the phrase on the category list, though.
Re: Who wants to not be a millionaire?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 4:30 am
by Estonut
etaoin22 wrote:Hockey player Sean Avery wins a Darwin award figuratively, for using an offensive term for a former girl friend.
I thought he was referring to his exes in the plural. What a guy! And delusional to boot, since he thinks he was all of their "first"!
Re: Who wants to not be a millionaire?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:39 am
by peacock2121
Estonut wrote:etaoin22 wrote:Hockey player Sean Avery wins a Darwin award figuratively, for using an offensive term for a former girl friend.
I thought he was referring to his exes in the plural. What a guy!
And delusional to boot, since he thinks he was all of their "first"!
I heard this story on talk radio in the car yesterday. I didn't get it. Like, what really happened, as what they said happened didn't seem to warrant the punishment in my head.
so... in sport related things, I always call 'some'one to explain it to me.
"some'one said exactly what you said.
Didn't help me understand the problem this guy got himself into, but it was funny.
Re: Who wants to not be a millionaire?
Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:03 am
by etaoin22
The classic meaning of the phrase would probably refer to what might be now be called elsewhere on the Net 2M-1F
hey, I haven't put any more details. This is just if someone from the FCC is reading. Well, I think I can say as the cancer docs do, "synchronous, instead of metachronous". Always sounds better in Greek.