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JM4CY

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Lol. I once told a girl that I was trying to ask out, a long and rambling story about how the root word "manship" (as in penmanship and craftsmanship) came from an ancient Phoenician custom . The Phoenicians, being a seafaring culture, had a particular rite of passage, where a young boy had to construct his own boat, by hand, in order to be considered a man by society. This vessel was literally his "man-ship" and as time went on, the term came to represent a particular skill that a person possessed, so if someone was good with horses he would have been said to have "constructed his horse man-ship" or if he was adept with a blade, he would have "built his swords man-ship". And over the centuries it came to be used the way we know it today.

When I broke the news that it was all a joke, I got a polite nod, and a well deserved trip to the friend zone.
How many times a day does @Angie ask “what the **** is wrong with you?”
 

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This was a me thing more than anything, but for years I thought the Atlanta Hawks logo was a pacman looking thing. I didn't actually see the 'hawk' until a couple years ago.
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Lol. I once told a girl that I was trying to ask out, a long and rambling story about how the root word "manship" (as in penmanship and craftsmanship) came from an ancient Phoenician custom . The Phoenicians, being a seafaring culture, had a particular rite of passage, where a young boy had to construct his own boat, by hand, in order to be considered a man by society. This vessel was literally his "man-ship" and as time went on, the term came to represent a particular skill that a person possessed, so if someone was good with horses he would have been said to have "constructed his horse man-ship" or if he was adept with a blade, he would have "built his swords man-ship". And over the centuries it came to be used the way we know it today.

When I broke the news that it was all a joke, I got a polite nod, and a well deserved trip to the friend zone.
I stopped reading less than halfway through. All I thought was this a story that keeps someone from getting laid when telling.
 

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This was a me thing more than anything, but for years I thought the Atlanta Hawks logo was a pacman looking thing. I didn't actually see the 'hawk' until a couple years ago.
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It's all about the logo! :)
 

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I just saw a stat the other day that I didn't ever really realize. There are more people in California than all of Canada.
 

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On an Iowa State note, it just blew my mind when I learned that Jackie Stiles and Emily Ryan were from the same hometown.
 

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I was a few years removed from college when I was reading my grandfather's obituary (he died when I was 7) and learned he played football at iowa state in 1948 for a bit before leaving the program due to a knee injury.
 

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I was a few years removed from college when I was reading my grandfather's obituary (he died when I was 7) and learned he played football at iowa state in 1948 for a bit before leaving the program due to a knee injury.
It is crazy to think about how knee injuries - common and easily correctable now - were the end of careers up until not that long ago. So many potential greats had their careers cut short or short circuited before they ever started. Even our own Jeff Grayer had a recurring knee injury that stopped him short from a likely decent career in the League. Arthroscopic surgery to "clean up" such injuries has come a long way even since Grayer's days.
 

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It is crazy to think about how knee injuries - common and easily correctable now - were the end of careers up until not that long ago. So many potential greats had their careers cut short or short circuited before they ever started. Even our own Jeff Grayer had a recurring knee injury that stopped him short from a likely decent career in the League. Arthroscopic surgery to "clean up" such injuries has come a long way even since Grayer's days.
Had a knee scope done a month ago. Zero recovery time required. Walked out of the hospital under my own power and never needed crutches, resuming full workload for the most part after two days of taking it easy during conference basketball tourney week. It's incredible how much one's prognosis improves as the invasiveness of the procedure decreases.
 
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Have you ever wondered why coaches kick dirt on umpires?

Well, back in the old days the chalk was made with lye and the lye would disintegrate their pants.
 
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