An, here, I thought you were selling lab chemicals.

[/B][/QUOTE]Nope, just ingesting 'em.

Why aren't I surprised? He's always been a dexterhead anyway. [/B][/QUOTE]

Hey! What crawled up your dexter and died? Why don't you just go dexter yourself, you cranky old son of a dexter.

Somewhere along in the next six months or so, someone is going ot do a game where there is a point guard named Alex Dexter. Every other play, a kid will yell, "Dexter!!" for the guard to pass him the ball. The poor ref will end up in the hospital with stomach cramps from laughing so hard.

Or you'll hear from the bench:
"Hey ref! That call was dexter!!"

My 2 usual ones are 1/ get in between those 2 opponents. 2/ My partner is my buddy

"Hey, I don't mind you mumbling <i>dexter</i> under your breath, but if they can hear it in the stands, it's a T!"

Sad thing is, within rec sports, this is sort of a minor expletive.

"Great - Dexter is doing our game."
"Dexter, why'd you have to call that?"
"Dex - slow down."

et cetera

I wonder if any of them read this forum. Could be interesting. What would you do if a player called you a "dexterhole", with a grin on his face?

[Edited by Jurassic Referee on Apr 3rd, 2004 at 10:26 AM]

I'd probably be so happy that someone was taking time to learn some of the rules that I'd let it pass.

Wouldn't it be "Dan is a motherdexterer"?

Dexter me

I like the idea of identifying my competitive match-ups ("watch 23 and 40"), but my dialogue is usually simply "red ball, white arrow. Red ball, white arrow". This helps me know which way I'm going on an OOB call, and also lets me indicate direction immediately on the held ball. Once we're over 7 team fouls, I add "red's shooting".

When we talk about presence (knowing what you're doing), a few things look really really good IMHO: knowing the arrow right away (without patting your pockets), indicating immediately that we're shooting 1-and-1 and pointing to your shooter. Nothing looks worse than being informed that it's 1-and-1 and you have NO idea who the shooter is. Direction, arrow, and bonus. That's my internal dialogue.

By the way, this is post number <font size = +6 color = red>4,000</font> for me! :)

chuck, let me bet the first to congratulate you on your fabulous accomplishment.....

And all but four of them have been complete bulldexter.

<font size = 6 color = brown>An Attaboy for Mark!</font>