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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 09:50am
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Aristotle believed that every ethical virtue is an intermediate condition between excess and deficiency.
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:01am
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Aristotle believed that every ethical virtue is an intermediate condition between excess and deficiency.
Aristotle was an idiot. I'll let you decide whether that statement reflects excess, deficiency, or virtuous mediocrity.
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:13am
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If your assigner has no feeling one way or the other about chewing gum, then I guess you need to weigh the cost and benefit. The cost is the perception. If you can do it without looking like a gum chewing moron (I don't seem to be able to), then the cost is probably pretty low. What is the benefit? Some guys do it to keep their mouth from getting dry. I never noticed that it helped that much for me. I did it mostly as a way to feel more relaxed during my first season. It did work for that. So much so, in fact, that I pretty much looked like a gum chewing moron.
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:15am
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If your assigner has no feeling one way or the other about chewing gum, then I guess you need to weigh the cost and benefit. The cost is the perception. If you can do it without looking like a gum chewing moron (I don't seem to be able to), then the cost is probably pretty low. What is the benefit? Some guys do it to keep their mouth from getting dry. I never noticed that it helped that much for me. I did it mostly as a way to feel more relaxed during my first season. It did work for that. So much so, in fact, that I pretty much looked like a gum chewing moron.
Well, that's what you get for blowing bubbles during timeouts.
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Well, that's what you get for blowing bubbles during timeouts.
It impressed the cheerleaders.
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:22am
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Aristotle was an idiot. I'll let you decide whether that statement reflects excess, deficiency, or virtuous mediocrity.
Aristotle would have presented four choices for the statement: virtuous, continent, incontinent, or vicious.
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:24am
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Hey, I am not incontinent. Regular perhaps, but not incontinent.
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:56am
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Aristotle was an idiot.
Why would you say that? He was a genius who dominated western intellectual history for 1500 years.
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Why would you say that? He was a genius who dominated western intellectual history for 1500 years.
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 02:30pm
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Why would you say that? He was a genius who dominated western intellectual history for 1500 years.
Because I was being pissy. No other reason.

Anyone who can continue being the best for 1500 years has my respect. Career longevity alone puts him in the H.O.F. for that feat.

I'm still looking for the rule that says players can't chew gum.
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 02:39pm
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I'm still looking for the rule that says players can't chew gum.
Asked a buddy about the rule, he says the reason we can't find it is because we aren't looking in the right place. Apparantly, the ruling can only be found in the Book of OOO, Chapter 17, Article 38 (pg 1037).

I asked how would he know that?

He said he still owns a copy from his early years of officiating
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 03:03pm
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Asked a buddy about the rule, he says the reason we can't find it is because we aren't looking in the right place. Apparantly, the ruling can only be found in the Book of OOO, Chapter 17, Article 38 (pg 1037).

I asked how would he know that?

He said he still owns a copy from his early years of officiating
I think it may have been a Point of Emphasis in 1925.

As for me, I chew gum for the first 3 minutes of the game. Then I stick on on the bottom of the ball and tell a dribbler that if I see gum on his hand, I know that he carried the ball!!

On a more serious note, I've tried chewing gum while working a game a time or two and it just gets in the way.
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 04:20pm
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Asked a buddy about the rule, he says the reason we can't find it is because we aren't looking in the right place. Apparantly, the ruling can only be found in the Book of OOO, Chapter 17, Article 38 (pg 1037).

I asked how would he know that?

He said he still owns a copy from his early years of officiating
Oh yeah. The "Rookie Book."
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Old Fri Jul 03, 2009, 05:18pm
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He was a genius who dominated western intellectual history for 1500 years.
Damn, he sure lived a long time. Was that just his philosophy career or his whole life?

And just because an idea dominates for a long time, doesn't make it supreme. People thought the world was flat for hundreds of years, too.
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