"The Basketball Fix"

[M&M Guy]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

My wife knitted me a pair of alligator mittens once(you made the alligator mouth with your four fingered mitt-part opposite the thumb) that had an idiot string on 'em. I was around 30 iirc and she made some for my kids; I thought they were way cool so she made me a pair too. I wore those mothers to more than a few games, I tell ya. JR makes a fashion statement.

It's true, it's true......seriously too.

The Big Dawg has either seriously lost his street cred, or these are far enough out there that the cred has been permanently affixed.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by M&M Guy

The Big Dawg has either seriously lost his street cred, or these are far enough out there that the cred has been permanently affixed.

That's them, that's them(excited as hell).....

And there's also nowayinhell that I'm posting that picture of Miss Cubs 2006 wearing 'em either that some nameless goof(coughM&Mcough) sent me either. I know I'm going to hell, but I'm not planning on doing so tonight though.

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

Hell, I knew everything back then!

That lasted until about my fifth year. It's been downhill ever since.

JR used to be the second best ref in his association.

Everyone else was tied for first.

[rainmaker]

Okay, let's see...

1959-60 subtracted from 2006-07, added to 16 y.o. and I get....

you're NOT Jurassic, you're only Cretaceous. You've been lying to us all these years!!!

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by JugglingReferee

JR used to be the second best ref in his association.

Everyone else was tied for first.

I think that I first heard that one in 1959 too.

You're just jealous 'cause you don't have alligator mittens too. I can get my wife to knit ya a pair though. $721 plus freight and handling-COD. Guaranteeed to keep your hands warm during your football games("Ooooo....nice mittens, Mr. Refereee, nice mittens").

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

you're NOT Jurassic, you're only Cretaceous.

I'm a Cretin?

Hey, wait a minute.........

[ausref23]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

Yeah - but how do they indicate the "two" in metric? Do they also have to raise 54/100ths of the next finger?

I have worked with a guy that flagged the two in the same way Winston Churchill gave the "V for victory" sign!!!

He couldn't of been a child of the 60's overwise the 2 fingers facing a more appropriate direction would have been a natural. mind you, when I pointed out to him what he'd done in our post game, it was the source of much laughter!

[JugglingReferee]

Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee

I think that I first heard that one in 1959 too.

You're just jealous 'cause you don't have alligator mittens too. I can get my wife to knit ya a pair though. $721 plus freight and handling-COD. Guaranteeed to keep your hands warm during your football games("Ooooo....nice mittens, Mr. Refereee, nice mittens").

I bet she will! The alligator mittens will match my alligator polo shirt.

I knew you read the beisbol forums, but I didn't know you read the football forum too.

[mick]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

you're NOT Jurassic, you're only Cretaceous. You've been lying to us all these years!!!

Yabut, ...there's a cream for that now !

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by ausref23

I have worked with a guy that flagged the two in the same way Winston Churchill gave the "V for victory" sign!!!

He couldn't of been a child of the 60's overwise the 2 fingers facing a more appropriate direction would have been a natural. mind you, when I pointed out to him what he'd done in our post game, it was the source of much laughter!

So refs in the 60s were signaling a peace sign after every basket?

[dblref]

Originally Posted by rainmaker

Okay, let's see...

1959-60 subtracted from 2006-07, added to 16 y.o. and I get....

you're NOT Jurassic, you're only Cretaceous. You've been lying to us all these years!!!

Ah, Jurassic, someone from my age group. I turned 16 in May of 1959.

[Jurassic Referee]

Originally Posted by dblref

Ah, Jurassic, someone from my age group. I turned 16 in May of 1959.

End of October for me......Old Feller.

Did my first Varsity football game in September that year. Had my first communal post-game brown-pop soiree the same month. One of the Rites of Passage back then.