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Old Sun Dec 22, 2002, 09:38am
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About three weeks ago, I posted about a game in which my partner and I T'd a coach and tossed a player from a juco game. For anyone who didn't see the thread, it's:

http://www.officialforum.com/showthr...?threadid=6437

Anyway, had the same team last night and the game went without incident. Coach that was T'd approached me before the game and said, "What game did you work for us?" I told him it was the Clark game and he went back to his team. I think he recognized me, but couldn't remember when he'd seen me.

Before the second half, during halftime warmups, the coach walks across the floor from his bench slowly toward me. He says, "Did you write a letter to the board?" This threw me slightly, b/c to me "board" means my local IAABO board. I was confused, so I said no. He then tells me that somebody wrote a letter saying the officials were threatened. Finally (duh), the light goes on in my head and I apologize and say, yes I did write a letter, but it was to my assignor. He says, "I wish you'd come to me, b/c I don't want my players to behave like that".

In my head, I'm saying, "I wish you'd believed that during the game." But out loud, I told him that the proper procedure is to go through the assignor, etc. I told him basically what I'd put in the letter and why. Described the threats to him, etc.

We talked for about 3 minutes and he reiterated* that he was running a good program and wouldn't tolerate that kind of behavior.

And as I said, the game finished without incident, other than a little more chirping (from both benches) than usual. Anyway, just thought I'd give you the end to the story. Kind of anti-climactic. Darn

Chuck

*If reiterate means to repeat, what does "iterate" mean? Nobody answered me last time!!
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Old Sun Dec 22, 2002, 09:54am
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Chuck,was the player that threatened you disciplined in any way? It's nice for the the coach to come up with the appropriate words,but if there was no action with them,they are meaningless.

As I stated before,reiterating is bad for you and can cause you to go blind!! I quit when I needed glasses.
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Old Sun Dec 22, 2002, 10:22am
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... Kind of anti-climactic. Darn

Chuck

*If reiterate means to repeat, what does "iterate" mean? Nobody answered me last time!!
Chuck,
Aplomb is obviously in your tool bag.
Attaboy.
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From Webster
iterate : reiterate, syn see REPEAT.
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Old Sun Dec 22, 2002, 10:43am
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Re: Interesting.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by mick
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... Kind of anti-climactic. Darn
Chuck,
Aplomb is obviously in your tool bag.
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Old Sun Dec 22, 2002, 11:17am
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Chuck,was the player that threatened you disciplined in any way?
The player who cursed at my partner after the game also played in the game yesterday. As I put in the previous thread, and in my letter to the assignor, and as I said to the coach, I'm not even 100% sure that the threats in the parking lot were made by a player.

I didn't ask him if #4 was disciplined for his "punk-@ss" comment after the game.

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If reiterate means to repeat, what does "iterate" mean? Nobody answered me last time!!
It means "to peat".
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Old Sun Dec 22, 2002, 01:49pm
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iterate

\It"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Iterated; p. pr. & vb. n. Iterating.] To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice.
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iterate

\It"er*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Iterated; p. pr. & vb. n. Iterating.] To utter or do a second time or many times; to repeat; as, to iterate advice.
My dictionary has a similar definition, but the way I've seen iterate used it sounded more like a kind of cycling process rather than an exact repetition. To reiterate, then, would be to begin the cycling process again.
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Old Sun Dec 22, 2002, 10:03pm
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My dictionary has a similar definition, but the way I've seen iterate used it sounded more like a kind of cycling process rather than an exact repetition. To reiterate, then, would be to begin the cycling process again. [/B][/QUOTE]So reiterate means to recycle?
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Old Sun Dec 22, 2002, 10:09pm
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My dictionary has a similar definition, but the way I've seen iterate used it sounded more like a kind of cycling process rather than an exact repetition. To reiterate, then, would be to begin the cycling process again. [/B]
So reiterate means to recycle? [/B][/QUOTE]

Wow, it's the denotations, connotations, annotations thing!! Don't ask me to explain -- we might get chopped for not being about basketball...
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Old Mon Dec 23, 2002, 10:19am
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I just think it's funny that you have two words that mean exactly the same thing, and one of the words contains the entirety of the other word. "Reiterate" is totally superfluous. It's like saying you got a "free gift". Of course it was free; that's part of what "gift" means. So the word "free" serves no purpose in the phrase. The "re-" prefix in "reiterate" serves no purpose at all; let alone its usual purpose. It's just struck me funny ever since I realized the two definitions.

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Old Mon Dec 23, 2002, 11:08am
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you're right -- I've never heard anyone say: "Let me iterate", they always say "let me reiterate"....
deja vu all over again
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Old Mon Dec 23, 2002, 12:09pm
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Chuck,
Aplomb is obviously in your tool bag.
Attaboy.
mick

As in "He stuck in his thumb and pulled out "Aplomb?"
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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Old Mon Dec 23, 2002, 12:40pm
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Cool Hmmmm.

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Chuck,
Aplomb is obviously in your tool bag.
Attaboy.
mick

As in "He stuck in his thumb and pulled out "Aplomb?"
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
Drake,
I'm not sure, but did you just iterate JR?
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Old Mon Dec 23, 2002, 02:23pm
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Re: Hmmmm.

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Chuck,
Aplomb is obviously in your tool bag.
Attaboy.
mick

As in "He stuck in his thumb and pulled out "Aplomb?"
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
Drake,
I'm not sure, but did you just iterate JR?
mick
If he did,I'm sure that I would have noticed!
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