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Old Tue Sep 15, 2009, 02:51pm
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Talking Howler Monkey language

Since I am the universally recognized expert on the Howler Monkey language, I thought I'd post some of the more common translated phrases.

I've posted this before, but I thought you guys might get a kick out of it with the season coming up, plus we have some newbies who've never seen it. For those of you unfamiliar with the term "Howler Monkey", it's the term for those who used to be known as "coaches", a term which is quite archaic.

In the lines below, the Howler Monkey phrase is designated as "HM", with the English translation shown as "E". Feel free to contribute with any others you know.

HM: call it both ways
E: call it my way

HM: you suck ref
E: my vocabulary has not progressed since the fifth grade, so I will use a term that truly reflects my maturity level to insult you

HM: the foul count is 8 to 2
E: instead of admitting I have no clue how to teach proper defense, I will blame you so my A.D. won't fire me

HM: that's over the back (also see: that's a reach, etc.)
E: I will now try to impress my supporters with my vast knowledge of the rules by making some comments I once heard while listening to Billy Packer on television

HM: that's the worst officiated game I ever saw
E: boy, my coaching sucked tonight but you'll never get me to admit it

HM: great job, ref
E: I have you again next week and I'm sucking up

HM: that's terrible
E: I have heard that phrasing a comment in this manner might be taken by you as not being a personal comment, so I think I can get away with saying it this way and not get a technical

HM: you're terrible
E: since you are smart enough not to make a distinction between "that's terrible" and "you're terrible" and you gave me a technical for yelling "that's terrible", this time I figure I might as well get my money's worth

HM: how can you call that
E: I have no idea what you called or why since I've never opened a rule book - all I know is the call went against my team and I had to say something

HM: watch number 5 on the other team - he's holding my guys all night
E: none of my guys are quick enough to get around number 5

HM: you'll never work in this gym again
E: you called a great game but we lost and there's no way I'm going to let anyone blame me
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