Riley Nash commits to Cornell

[Roy 82]

[quote ugarte][quote Trotsky][quote ftyuv]Why can't you extend that simple courtesy to "I could care less?"[/quote]Because that isn't how people use it.  99% of the uses of "could care less" are mistakes -- no irony is intended.[/quote]
Haven't we had this debate before? Doesn't your argument require that people don't know the difference between "could" and "couldn't"? As misanthropic and inclined to believe that people are stupid as I am, even I don't think that is the case.

It is a cheap, low-grade irony that has coalesced into a phrase that has no ironic bite but retains a hint of a sarcastic undertone. Fat chance that you'll accept this, though.[/quote]

As a professional comic I assume that you know that sarcasm is accompanied by variations in inflection, emphasis, timing etc. I do not hear these when people say "could care less". Therefore I conclude that they are simply making an error.

Why does it matter? Because pointing out errors in others makes me feel better than other people and increases my self-esteem. It is even more fun when it is a professional journalist.

[redhair34]

[quote ithacat]Has anyone heard if Riley made the U18 team? [/quote]

Turris was the only incoming NCAA recruit selected to the team.

http://www.tsn.ca/canadian_hockey/news_story/?ID=202877&hubname=canadian_hockey

[MINIteam8s]

Very good, Grammar Police, good catch...my bad.

But wait...according to my paperback dictionary, used for crosswords and Scrabble nowadays, implies is to hint or intimate while infers is to make a deduction based on facts or indications.

In this case might not infer be the better verb?::rolleyes::

[DeltaOne81]

[quote MINIteam8s]Very good, Grammar Police, good catch...my bad.

But wait...according to my paperback dictionary, used for crosswords and Scrabble nowadays, implies is to hint or intimate while infers is to make a deduction based on facts or indications.

In this case might not infer be the better verb?::rolleyes::[/quote]

No, the point was that you, not the statement, would be the one making the deduction. So you are inferring, not the statement. The statement is implying.

I dislike this grammar nazi stuff as much as everyone else who doesn't do it, but don't rolly-eye them when they're technically correct (the best kind of correct!)

[MINIteam8s]

it's the offseason...time to kick back and chill...

[ninian '72]

[quote nyc94][quote jkahn]Getting back to the topic, here's the announcement on Nash and Berk  posted today on Salmon Arm"s site:
http://www.sasilverbacks.com/index.php?more=723[/quote]

"University of Cornell"?  Does it sit on Lake Cayuga?[/quote]

No, it's in Cornell, New York, or was that New Jersey?

[billhoward]

[quote Rita][quote ugarte][quote billhoward]because he liked having the big ring of keys jangling on Sansabelt slacks.[/quote]
I'm not sure you know what "Sansabelt" slacks are. Good luck getting a ring of keys to "jangle on" this.

Also, I wasn't an English major. I apparently studied at the Karl Marx Intstitute for Worker Empowerment and Confiscatory Revolution.[/quote]

Ugarte, thank you for this link, you cleared up a small nagging mystery for me. I enjoyed listening to Jack Arute's Sunday Night ESPN show which was nicknamed something like the "Sansabelt" edition. I always wondered what "Sansabelt" was, but only fleetingly, since I never did get around to googling it.[/quote]

Rita, you never been in a Radio Shack? Where'd you grow up - Shaker Heights? Westport? West Palm? The slacks are de rigeur at a higher end Radio Shack, KMart, etcetera, at least in the '90s. It is a Northern Lights kind of sight to see them being taken off on a dry, wintry night (especially with the lights out) as they generate close to a megawatt of static electricity. Polyester and leg hair form some kind of electrical relationship that is more powerful than even all the lithium ion cells in a hybrid show car of the future. They have a static electricity force field that would ward off a taser attack. A small dog who leaps up and tries to nuzzle your crotch while his rear paws are grounded will no longer have a damp nose once he picks hmself off the floor. Slip your new RFID passport in the back pocket of these slacks and, presto, no more RFID, I bet.

As a kid, I think I got a pair of these slacks for Christmas from a relative who must have wished me ill. There may be some non-poly Sansabelts now, but not then.

And there are key rings that clip over the waistband, so one doesn't need a belt and belt loops. Thus, a Radio Shack manager looking for sartorial splendor could still carry the keys.

But, hey, I'm glad Riley is committing.

[billhoward]

The release missed the obligatory line about the players gaining scholarships to the august Ivy League institution.

[scoop85]

[quote billhoward][quote Rita][quote ugarte][quote billhoward]because he liked having the big ring of keys jangling on Sansabelt slacks.[/quote]
I'm not sure you know what "Sansabelt" slacks are. Good luck getting a ring of keys to "jangle on" this.

Also, I wasn't an English major. I apparently studied at the Karl Marx Intstitute for Worker Empowerment and Confiscatory Revolution.[/quote]

Ugarte, thank you for this link, you cleared up a small nagging mystery for me. I enjoyed listening to Jack Arute's Sunday Night ESPN show which was nicknamed something like the "Sansabelt" edition. I always wondered what "Sansabelt" was, but only fleetingly, since I never did get around to googling it.[/quote]

Rita, you never been in a Radio Shack? Where'd you grow up - Shaker Heights? Westport? West Palm? The slacks are de rigeur at a higher end Radio Shack, KMart, etcetera, at least in the '90s. It is a Northern Lights kind of sight to see them being taken off on a dry, wintry night (especially with the lights out) as they generate close to a megawatt of static electricity. Polyester and leg hair form some kind of electrical relationship that is more powerful than even all the lithium ion cells in a hybrid show car of the future. They have a static electricity force field that would ward off a taser attack. A small dog who leaps up and tries to nuzzle your crotch while his rear paws are grounded will no longer have a damp nose once he picks hmself off the floor. Slip your new RFID passport in the back pocket of these slacks and, presto, no more RFID, I bet.

As a kid, I think I got a pair of these slacks for Christmas from a relative who must have wished me ill. There may be some non-poly Sansabelts now, but not then.

And there are key rings that clip over the waistband, so one doesn't need a belt and belt loops. Thus, a Radio Shack manager looking for sartorial splendor could still carry the keys.

But, hey, I'm glad Riley is committing.[/quote]

Well, after seeing how this thread has devolved, Riley might have preferred being committed :-D

[Rita]

[quote billhoward][quote Rita][quote ugarte][quote billhoward]because he liked having the big ring of keys jangling on Sansabelt slacks.[/quote]
I'm not sure you know what "Sansabelt" slacks are. Good luck getting a ring of keys to "jangle on" this.

Also, I wasn't an English major. I apparently studied at the Karl Marx Intstitute for Worker Empowerment and Confiscatory Revolution.[/quote]

Ugarte, thank you for this link, you cleared up a small nagging mystery for me. I enjoyed listening to Jack Arute's Sunday Night ESPN show which was nicknamed something like the "Sansabelt" edition. I always wondered what "Sansabelt" was, but only fleetingly, since I never did get around to googling it.[/quote]

Rita, you never been in a Radio Shack? Where'd you grow up - Shaker Heights? Westport? West Palm? The slacks are de rigeur at a higher end Radio Shack, KMart, etcetera, at least in the '90s. It is a Northern Lights kind of sight to see them being taken off on a dry, wintry night (especially with the lights out) as they generate close to a megawatt of static electricity. Polyester and leg hair form some kind of electrical relationship that is more powerful than even all the lithium ion cells in a hybrid show car of the future. They have a static electricity force field that would ward off a taser attack. A small dog who leaps up and tries to nuzzle your crotch while his rear paws are grounded will no longer have a damp nose once he picks hmself off the floor. Slip your new RFID passport in the back pocket of these slacks and, presto, no more RFID, I bet.

As a kid, I think I got a pair of these slacks for Christmas from a relative who must have wished me ill. There may be some non-poly Sansabelts now, but not then.

And there are key rings that clip over the waistband, so one doesn't need a belt and belt loops. Thus, a Radio Shack manager looking for sartorial splendor could still carry the keys.

But, hey, I'm glad Riley is committing.[/quote]

I have been into Radio Shacks, KMarts and the like, however, I never really took notice on what the staff was wearing. I'm a "go in, get what I need and leave" type a person. However, if I had known about the "electrical show" that the pants could produce........

[Beeeej]

[quote Rita]I'm a "go in, get what I need and leave" type a person.[/quote]

The world needs more women like you.

[ugarte]

[quote Beeeej][quote Rita]I'm a "go in, get what I need and leave" type a person.[/quote]
The world needs more women like you.[/quote]
This week, Beeeej is prominently featuring his "Ask Me About My Bachelorhood" pin.

[Beeeej]

[quote ugarte][quote Beeeej][quote Rita]I'm a "go in, get what I need and leave" type a person.[/quote]
The world needs more women like you.[/quote]
This week, Beeeej is prominently featuring his "Ask Me About My Bachelorhood" pin.[/quote]

I've traded it for a St. Anselm Hawks pin here at the Frozen Four.

[jkahn]

The NHL has invited 105 players to its pre-draft scouting combine.  Riley Nash is one of the 105.
http://www.nhl.com/nhl/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=298770

[redhair34]

Riley moved up from 99 to 64 (3rd round).