Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

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Managed to turn a 15k starting stack into 1,800 by Level 2! Back to nitting for me. K-K looked so nice on the K-6-8 flop, but his 7-9 got the on the 5 turn. Least it was not Flushy, imagine the epic rub! Early bink or early bath awaits. Shame, such a nice event, too. Was pretty sure he had an under set. Me = proper fish.

At least you had more outs on the river

Squawky! Good to see you here. Am seriously tempted by your kind Golf Invite for Monday (where is "Bigbury"?) but I'm not touched a golf club in 2 or 3 years, & before I do again, I think I need you to give me some lessons. Even when I was good I was awful.....I don't actually think there's any solution to a total lack of hand-eye co-ordination.

I enjoy golf mostly for the scenery & wildlife, to be honest, & just walking round is a treat. The Diary is a bit cramped Monday, but I will take you up on your offer soon.

I used to play golf in ANY weather, too, sod the wind rain & frost, let's play, but I think I need the clime (is that a word?) to be more outclement. I made "outclement" up as the opposite to "inclement", just to irritate MerePedant. I think "clime" is OK though.

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PS - What fun last night! But I'm not sure 6-Tabling will ever hold much appeal to me, I was utterly drained by the time it all ended. The results were nice, but the journey was fraught, & that's not why I play poker.

"Clime" is, indeed, a word although probably not the one that you're looking for - I'd suggest "weather".
Outclement made me smile - keep up the good work on the neologisms.

This reminds me of a (probably apochyphal) story about some graffiti.

Someone had written "Il fait freud"
Underneath was added "Clement weather???".

Pack it in, Mere. That word cost me a night's sleep, I spent all night on google & wiki exploring it. I polled 2 Tables at Luton last night, & not one of them - us - had ever heard of the word, but it's a corker.

It's psychiatric connotations make perfect sense, too. Birthday & unbirthday, for example. How would an autistic person not think that way?

It even has it's own Wiki Page.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neologism

But it gets better.....

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How about THE best example of a neo-thingy - "friend". As in "facebook Friend", which is totally different to "real friend".

Some better ones....

"nonfirstordersizability".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonfirstorderizability

Read THAT one! "To Be is to Be a Value of a Variable (or to Be Some Values of Some Variables") is just for starters.

Some of the others listed seem to be oxymorons though. I think. "Accountable Autonomy", "Audio Commentary" etc.

But this one is not for the squeamish - please be warned, it's not ideal pre-dinner reading.....

"santorum"

All of them are here.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neologisms

Take a read through the lower half of that Wiki page, it's utterly awesome.

[AndrewT]

Talking of last night's Show, the runner-up in the Televised Tourney was one "DrMarbles", aka AndrewT, & he earned himself £2,400 for that. Well done Andrew. 1st place paid £4,000.......do try harder, Andrew.

Yeah, nice way to finish the weekend - getting rivered in what was effectively a £1700 pot. Never let it be said I can't blow a 5-1 chip lead HU.

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Today is my first day in my new office at Big Sky, in Osterley. I think I have threre different "desks" in three different Sky properties now.

I've run businesses most of my life, & never would I have imagined offices like these. To some, it must be like dying, & waking up in Heaven.

At Big Sky, it's a TV environment, whereas up in Leeds, & over the road at my other Osterley Desk, in WXH, both being SB&G offices, (Sky Betting & Gaming) it's more sports-based.

But at both, there are huge Plasma TV's everywhere, perma on. In the SB&G Offices, peeps are PAID to sit & watch horse racing, greyhounds, football, cricket, & we can all watch if we want. At work!

The office I moved into today is huge, too. There must be several hundred staff, all about 15 years old. Loads of them appear to be female, too.

Office etiquette is so different, too. Everyone seems to have those ridic "ring tones" on their 'phones, (surely only children would enjoy such nonsense?) & it drives me a bit potty to hear them all going off. After xty years of telling peeps what they can & cannot do - if Facebook has been invented in "my day" & I caught a staffer messing about on it in working hours, I'd sack them like a dog on the bloody spot - but now I'm just a nothing, a water-carrier at the bottom of the food chain. So I just sit here quietly & get on with my work, saying nothing. All very perplexing, different, & deffo fun. What an adventure Sky has been for me.

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Talking of last night's Show, the runner-up in the Televised Tourney was one "DrMarbles", aka AndrewT, & he earned himself £2,400 for that. Well done Andrew. 1st place paid £4,000.......do try harder, Andrew.

Yeah, nice way to finish the weekend - getting rivered in what was effectively a £1700 pot. Never let it be said I can't blow a 5-1 chip lead HU.

Sorry for the Designer-Rub Andrew, but you would expect nothing less. Even so, nice one.

[AndrewT]

Talking of last night's Show, the runner-up in the Televised Tourney was one "DrMarbles", aka AndrewT, & he earned himself £2,400 for that. Well done Andrew. 1st place paid £4,000.......do try harder, Andrew.

Yeah, nice way to finish the weekend - getting rivered in what was effectively a £1700 pot. Never let it be said I can't blow a 5-1 chip lead HU.

Sorry for the Designer-Rub Andrew, but you would expect nothing less. Even so, nice one.

Family were watching on the TV back at home, so they are now busy supersizing their Xmas present expectations now they know there's a bit more folding in my wallet.

[gatso]

I like retronyms. kinda the opposite of neologisms

[Karabiner]

How do you manage without a ringtone?

[Claw75]

How do you manage without a ringtone?

he probably has people to take all his calls

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How do you manage without a ringtone?

he probably has people to take all his calls

Ahoy hoy.

[mondatoo]

Are you a fan ??

A Bowie fan?

Well sort of. Respect, more than like, I'd say.

His later stuff does nothing for me (or anyone else I imagine) but his early stuff was, like Martin Peters - ten years ahead of it's time. More maybe. In fact, even today, some of the Ziggy stuff & Space Oddity still stands up to scrutiny. Hard to believe that stuff was FORTY YEARS ago! Most Members of this Forum were not born when Bowie was cutting the mustard. I'ver not heard any Oddity or Ziggy stuff for 20 years, but still know every word. Ground Control to Major Tom, take your protein pills & put your helmet on, can you hear me?.......

Seriously - if you are going to keep posting this sort of truth please stop posting!! How depressing that is!

Maybe, but how amazing is that, & what a life he has led, eh? That's longevity+.

I've got quite a few,maybe 6/7 songs of his on my daily playlist.The length of time he's lasted is pretty amazing.

[Lucky]

But this one is not for the squeamish - please be warned, it's not ideal pre-dinner reading.....

"santorum"

All of them are here.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neologisms

Take a read through the lower half of that Wiki page, it's utterly awesome.

Using his name like that made a great "revenge" story.  It reminded me of a great little book I read years ago called "The meaning of Liff" where the authors assigned "definitions" to place names.  Here are some Googled examples;

HIDCOTE BARTRAM (n.) To be caught in a hidcote bartram is to say a series of protracted and final goodbyes to a group of people.

HICKLING (participial vb.) The practice of infuriating theatre goers by not only arriving late to a centre-row seat.

HIBBING (n.) The marks left on the outside breast pocket of a storekeeper's overall where he has put away his pen and missed.

HEVER (n.) The panic caused by half-hearing the Tannoy in an airport.

HERSTMONCEUX (n.) The correct name for the gold medallion worn by someone who is in the habit of wearing their shirt open to the waist.

HENSTRIDGE (n.) The dried yellow substance found between the prongs of forks in restaurants.

The "santorum" article made me think we could try doing the same with surnames.

For example a Kendall could be "A little purse-like manbag for metrosexual men to carry around"

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But this one is not for the squeamish - please be warned, it's not ideal pre-dinner reading.....

"santorum"

All of them are here.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neologisms

Take a read through the lower half of that Wiki page, it's utterly awesome.

Using his name like that made a great "revenge" story.  It reminded me of a great little book I read years ago called "The meaning of Liff" where the authors assigned "definitions" to place names.  Here are some Googled examples;

HIDCOTE BARTRAM (n.) To be caught in a hidcote bartram is to say a series of protracted and final goodbyes to a group of people.

HICKLING (participial vb.) The practice of infuriating theatre goers by not only arriving late to a centre-row seat.

HIBBING (n.) The marks left on the outside breast pocket of a storekeeper's overall where he has put away his pen and missed.

HEVER (n.) The panic caused by half-hearing the Tannoy in an airport.

HERSTMONCEUX (n.) The correct name for the gold medallion worn by someone who is in the habit of wearing their shirt open to the waist.

HENSTRIDGE (n.) The dried yellow substance found between the prongs of forks in restaurants.

The "santorum" article made me think we could try doing the same with surnames.

For example a Kendall could be "A little purse-like manbag for metrosexual men to carry around"

Nice Post Mr McBink, love some of those. "Hibbing" - storekeepers still have overalls, & more to the point, pens?

I was blissfully unaware of the source of the santorum thing until you Posted, but google got me there VERY quickly. Savage stuff.

"metrosexual".

Another new one on me. An Urban Dictionary word I suspect. Has it's own Wiki page (strange how so many interesting words do) which says.....

Metrosexual is a neologism portmanteau of metropolitan and heterosexual coined in 1994 describing a man (especially one living in a post-industrial, capitalist culture) who displays behavior stereotypically associated with homosexual men (such as a strong concern for his appearance), although he is not homosexual

Rejected. Not even close. I used to buy Parade, & Tit-Bits.

Metrosexual man, the single young man with a high disposable income, living or working in the city (because that’s where all the best shops are), is perhaps the most promising consumer market of the decade. In the Eighties he was only to be found inside fashion magazines such as GQ, in television advertisements for Levi's jeans or in gay bars. In the Nineties, he’s everywhere and he’s going shopping.

Yup, got me there.

"Purse-Like manbag". It is not even remotely purse-like, but it has a little compartment for a purse, & another perfectly shaped & sized "pocket" for my smartphone. Note "smartphone" please. It has compartments for my sweeteners, headache tablets, car-keys, house keys, wedge, camera, Passport, & for when I go out on shoots, my lippy & a powder puff. It's almost life-changing in it's usefulness.

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Tom Walkinshaw passed away at the weekend. When someone well-known dies these days, I insta-check their age. He was about a year older than me.

I was not aware of his influence in Rugby Union, or at Gloucester, (Tighty, help!), but every motor-racing enthusiast would know of TWR & their various exploits back in the 80's & 90's in TinTops, Endurance, & even F1.

He nearly purchased Ligier, then got a bag full of poo in Arrows F1, which eventually went busto.

In Endurance, he constructed those amazing Jaguars which won Le Mans in 1988. I saw three of those Jags do some demo laps at Silverstone before the British GP one year, presumably '88 or '89, the first & last time I ever saw a British GP at Silverstone. (Silverstone is a national disgrace, bring back Brands). Awesome sight & sound, but incredibly ugly, perhaps the ugliest Jaguars ever designed.

Mosatly I remember Tom for the havoc & fun he caused in TinTops. (BTCC).

He raced a team of Rover SD1's. I had one of these - as did every Police Force in the UK - & it was truly the worst car Rover ever built, which is saying something. But it had the best Engine in any Rover car, ever, a US-made V12 "Stock-Block" (or was it V8?). The engine was unburstable, revved freely, & produced a lovely low exhaust rumble, & amazing torque. Aside from an awesome Honda Prelude I had in the 90's, I doubt if any car I ever owned had a better or more fun engine. (The Prelude came to a very sticky end, & with it, I nearly did, too, in one of the worst prangs I was ever involved in, when someone T-Boned me at about 70mph, ugh).

But my fave memory of Tom was when he was racing - wait foir it - Volvo Estates. Yes, Volvo Estates. Of course, all the "they have not thought that through" brigade of spotty adolescent know-it-all cocks (yes, they existed even back then) mocked him mercilessly, but he spat in their eye real good & swept the board with the Volvo Estates, such that the Rules had to be changed to stop him winning everything. And Aerodynamics in BTTC were born.

He had massive, & often unsuccessful - business interests, some of which went skinto, & I gather TWR Engineering employed upwards of 1,500 staff.

He was a Scot, &, from what I recall, a very tall man. One by one my heroes are all dying.

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Can you imagine racing that Estate?!

What memories that picture evokes, it sums up 80's Saloon Car Racing beautifully.