Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[Tal]

Reminds me of a wonderful quote from Mike Tyson that I think translates so well to people who comment on the way people at final tables play hands:

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.

[Doobs]

All very dogist omo.

Not all dogs are lazy.

You & I are getting owned here, Tom.

Stop dogging, you can't win.

Fyp

[RED-DOG]

Reminds me of a wonderful quote from Mike Tyson that I think translates so well to people who comment on the way people at final tables play hands:

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.

It's a great quote, and so true.

Consider it stolen.

[david3103]

Has to be jumps because otherwise the sentence would fail in it's task.

[Redsgirl]

Go back to the list and work out what each of the words are doing in your sentence.

Picture the sentence in your mind, word by word. What is the word quick doing? Lazy? Jumps?

(It is jumps, by the way. This isn't just you; it is one of those little things that wind me up. In your sentence, there is no S)

I really haven't got it yet, have I? 
Jumps and quick are verbs and lazy is an adverb?
I know this is screamingly obvious to you. 

Really don't worry about not getting it. This stuff is foreign to the vast majority of people. I'll go through it:

QUICK is used to describe the fox - the fox is quick, which enables him to jump over the lazy dog. Fox is a thing (we can picture a fox, so it is a noun) and so quick is a word that describes a noun: an adjective.

The same is true of LAZY, because dog is the same as fox in that it is a thing (noun) and lazy describes the dog. Lazy is an adjective.

JUMPS. The story of the sentence is that there is this fox that is being hunted and he manages to get past a dog that would be after it by jumping over it while it sleeps. Jumps is a doing word: it tells us about an action something is taking. I jump, you jump, we jump, they jump, he jumps, the fox jumps. It is a verb


So, we have

The adjective, adjective noun verbs over the adjective noun.

The joy of this is you can now replace each of these with other examples:

The shimmering, studded elf vaulted over the dancing sprite

The withering, wittering forumite passed over the grammatical baton.

I think I'm starting to get it.

The prattling, posturing girl glossed over the feeble brain?
 

Thanks for the explanations, I will make an effort to learn these!

[Tal]

Nailed it!

[Redsgirl]

Nailed it!

[Rod Paradise]

Reminds me of a wonderful quote from Mike Tyson that I think translates so well to people who comment on the way people at final tables play hands:

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.

It's a great quote, and so true.

Consider it stolen.

A succinct version of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder's 'no plan survives contact with the enemy', often followed by the add-on 'That's why we call them the enemy'.

No idea if he was related to this guy:

[tonytats]

Nice to see you last night well played

[Chompy]

Yup, nice result Tom. How was the final table?

[RED-DOG]

Yup, nice result Tom. How was the final table?

Very pleasant Mr C. There was plenty of play left in the tournament when the final started, but when we got down to seven we got stuck and couldn't seem to knock a player out. No matter how far behind they were pre flop, they would hit four to the flush or a gut shot.

Eventually, after like 5 lossless levels, the blinds caught up with us so we locked up 2.5k each and played on for the rest. As is usually the case, after the deal was done we lost 3 players in quick succession.

Four handed I picked queens up on the bb v a sb shove with AJ and held.

3 handed I called and held with AJ v a shove from A10.

Heads up we were level in chips, it was 4am and we had been playing for 13 hours straight, he proposed a chop for £4300 each and I accepted.

We played one hand all in pre to decide who's name went on the top of the sheet and I skilfully won it.  

[Karabiner]

 


Well done Tom.

[mondatoo]

Congrats Tom.

[david3103]

Well done Tom.
Was there a trophy?

[LB44]

Well done Tom! Fully deserved!