Re: Trivially true?

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Two friends of mine made the finals in New York High School doubles tennis (or some sub-division of such), the last couple of games were played on some of the U.S. Open courts in Flushing Meadows (though not Arthur Ashe or Louis Armstrong, the two main courts). They were very excited to play on these courts. Also, they lost abysmally in the final (it may have been the semi-final, actually, can't quite remember).


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 11:51 AM
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Do people who play tennis want to play on the courts at Wimbledon?

Of course they do, holboner. If I'd so much as stumbled onto the Chicago Stadium floor, I'd have milked it for at least five posts.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 11:56 AM
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Also, you said "the reason...is because."


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 11:57 AM
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You don't have to jump all over him just because his post blew donkey.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:01 PM
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There are any number of sports where playing on a specific standardized court is cool. During the NHL strike they were renting the Bruin's ice out to anyone who wanted to pay $400/hr, and they had plenty of takers. People pay a lot of money to get on to historic baseball fields through things like fantasy camps. I suppose there are even people out there who'd like to drive their pickup truck around a famous big oval.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:11 PM
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Also, you said "the reason...is because."


I've stopped even trying to dissuade people from that.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:15 PM
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People will ride some of the same routes that the Tour de France follows.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:15 PM
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You can run laps on a racetrack at Delphi.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:17 PM
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I think there is a marathon each year that follows the (alleged) original 26 mile course that what's-his-name-ides ran. But nobody dies at the end.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:19 PM
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Unless they want to, unless they want to.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:21 PM
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nobody dies at the end

I'd keel over dead long before the end if I tried to hoof 26 miles.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:22 PM
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Oh, I think you'd get lots of sports fans who would love to play on their team's turf (rink/court/track/course.) At Notre Dame, the championship inter-hall football game is held at Notre Dame stadium; as it's the only use of the stadium other than varsity football, this is a Pretty Big Deal.

What's unique about golf is that it's relatively common for fans to be able to play on the courses, and the courses are unique (as someone upthread mentioned).


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:23 PM
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Pheidippides.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:26 PM
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Poofdeades.


Posted by: ac | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:29 PM
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Kixdebuketes.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:33 PM
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Salamis.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:34 PM
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Heslippides


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:39 PM
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Tennis courts, one should note, aren't genuinely standardized -- finding a surface just like the one at Wimbledon would be a bit of a challenge. It's not like golf where each course is unique, but they aren't all the same, either.


Posted by: Matthew Yglesias | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:39 PM
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He was giving news of the battle of marathon, no? Hence the name.

Then he fell down. tragic.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:40 PM
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People will ride some of the same routes that the Tour de France follows.

The Etape du Tour happens every year. Regular cycling joes get to tackle Alpe d'Huez, or the col de Madeleine.

But for me... The Koppenberg is my Wimbledon. Wish I could remember how to link.


Posted by: girl27 | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:41 PM
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Golf is one of the few sports where ordinary people can play on many of the historic courses where the pros play

Given that we have shown labs doesn't know what he's talking about (IKBIL), I'll have to ask if this is true. Isn't there a horrendously expensive fee to play on many golf courses? I'd google up a historic golf course, but I don't know any.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:42 PM
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Of course, I click the link after I type.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:44 PM
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Try Augusta National. It's expensive, but lots of non pros still play it. Would be like letting all the peeps in the box seats down onto Soldiers Field for two-hand touch.

Which maybe they do, I don't know.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:45 PM
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If Nocangeogonanon hadn't keeled over, who knows how history would have unfolded. Hitler might have won WWII!


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:53 PM
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Yeah, and Link wouldn't have had to go through all that bother with the Triforce.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 12:57 PM
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This is even more freely associative than usual. Purple monkey dishwasher.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:02 PM
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It might've been a pink monkey and instead a self-cleaning oven, had Gannon won the battle of Salamis.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:03 PM
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or if that horse-headed fellow won the battle of the bulge.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:14 PM
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If truths were beans she could counterfactuals.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:14 PM
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if beans were truths, their prices on the merc exchange would be much higher.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:19 PM
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The people don't want truth, text.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:22 PM
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But they would, if they could buy it.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:23 PM
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The text doesn't admit to verification, only interpretation.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:24 PM
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A truth bought on sale is worth a hill of beans.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:25 PM
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what about interpretations? would that commodity trade at a decent rate?


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:27 PM
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Does the text permit versification?


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:28 PM
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A truth bought on sale > the problems of three little people in this crazy world.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:29 PM
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The horse-headed fellow was from The Adventure of Link. Please, try to stay off-topic.


Posted by: Kriston | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:29 PM
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Of all the movies in all the world, you had to allude to that one.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:30 PM
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Don't bogart all the allusions, people.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:35 PM
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I have three albums whose names begin with a "t" and end with an "l".


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:35 PM
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36 -- only if it's catchy


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:36 PM
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Whoops! Four.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:37 PM
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But eleven which begin with an "l" and end with a "t"!


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:37 PM
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this is now officially a dada thread.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:37 PM
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[coelacanth ~ 02:38:32]$ albums --match "album:^l.*t$"

0001. Bob Dylan - Love And Theft

0002. Etron Fou Leloublan - Les 3 Fous Perdegagnent

0003. Hecate vs Lustmord - Law of the Battle of Conquest

0004. Henry Grimes Trio - Live at Kerava Jazz Fest

0005. Het - Let's Het

0006. Last Exit - Last Exit

0007. Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett

0008. Miriodor - Live at Nearfest

0009. Old Time Relijun - Lost Light

0010. Philharmonie - Le Dernier Mot

0011. Scorch Trio - Luggumt

[coelacanth ~ 02:39:19]$


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:38 PM
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dada entry


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:39 PM
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Comment is made in the fingers.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:44 PM
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Comments meant address.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:45 PM
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PWNED, Labs!


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:45 PM
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No pwnation without attributation.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 1:49 PM
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Robotical eyes are in motion.

Robotical what do they see?

Robotical eyes are in motion.

Please scan me robotically.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 2:00 PM
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The reader is the text.

We are all the text.

The text is not a New York lawyer

The text is an Iranian philosopher swimmer

The text is a North Carolinan technical writer

The text is a deliciously domineering copyeditor

The text is an entirely different New York Lawyer

The text is a midwestern marketer

The text is you

The text is you

The text is you


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 2:21 PM
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text is easy with three java classes

text is the preserved word of god?

text is unreadable

text is incomplete

text is controllable via javascript

text is missing from html file for framemaker paragraphs set to

text is hard to read in framemaker 5 for dec alpha

text is meaningless if you can't read it

text is difficult too

text is difficult

text is good enough

text is whining

text is unavailable

text is abstracted from j

text is formatted for our printed catalogue

text is for email" by bob osgoodby

etc.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 2:28 PM
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chopper is for sale

chopper is a fun

chopper is hiring

chopper is downed

chopper is spotlighted

chopper is here

chopper is a bi

chopper is a dream many people have


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 2:30 PM
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matt weiner is completely correct about how the senate vastly overrepresents rural americans at the expense of urban ones

matt weiner is gay


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 2:30 PM
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text

textile

style

isle

I'll

ill


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 2:31 PM
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my favorite:

text is text


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 3:01 PM
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Texting me textly with his text,

Texting me textly with his text,

Texting my whole text with his text,

Texting me textly with his text.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 3:05 PM
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A IS A


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 3:08 PM
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A IS

You just blew my mind.

Not ATM.


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 3:11 PM
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I enjoyed 59 more than I rightly should have.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 3:26 PM
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I'm totally channeling Lauren Hill right now.

♫ Na na na na, na na na, na nah, whoa-oh-oh, … ♪


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 3:38 PM
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When are you not?


Posted by: Tarrou | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 3:49 PM
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eggplant is the answer

eggplant is funny

eggplant is one of the trickiest vegetables to prepare to achieve that perfect silky texture

eggplant is a cold

eggplant is a native of south and eastern asia and is a member of the nightshade family

eggplant is freshness

eggplant is an issue of variety and age

eggplant is really just that

eggplant is the sweetest of all

eggplant is a warm

eggplant is very soft

eggplant is not soft

eggplant is the best vegetable

eggplant is purging

eggplant is inside all of us

eggplant is? i am guessing that

eggplant is nothing special

eggplant is another matter

eggplant is a rather low

eggplant is delicious

eggplant is


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 3:52 PM
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When are you not?

I didn't know I exuded such Laurenhillosity.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 3:57 PM
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64 -- when SB is channelling the deranged, gifted offspring of Lewis Carroll and Ira Gershwin, which is fairly often.


Posted by: text | Link to this comment | 07-18-05 3:58 PM
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Sorry, Google doesn't know enough about unfogged yet.

wtf?


Posted by: Mitch Mills | Link to this comment | 07-19-05 7:48 PM
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