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Old Thu Mar 21, 2013, 06:43pm
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You do not ask them to remove them in the first place, you just tell them they cannot play with them if on their body.

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I get the point of this, but I don't worry about the semantics here. It seems a lot like the whole "base line / end line" discussion, or a certain long time member's obsession with whether coaches "call" or "request" timeouts. The next time a player sits out the game rather than take out his earrings will be the first time.
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Old Thu Mar 21, 2013, 06:53pm
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Working a softball game a few year ago...highly conteste game but the one coach was clueless. He calls time and comes out to tell me that the batter from the other team had her navel pierced. I said coach I can't see that nor am I interested in looking... he couldn't believe that I wouldn't eject player.


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Old Thu Mar 21, 2013, 07:35pm
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Just consider bandaids on the ears as jewelry. Problem solved!

As far as I know, what is or is not jewelry is not defined anywhere.
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Just consider bandaids on the ears as jewelry. Problem solved!
Better yet, just consider ears to be jewelry, and make exceptions for medical, or religious reasons. Removing an ear has to be considered to be a medical problem, or there has to be some Commandment being broken?
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Old Fri Mar 22, 2013, 06:46am
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As far as I know, what is or is not jewelry is not defined anywhere.
The Supreme Court has already ruled on this: "I know it when I see it. (Justice Potter Stewart)

If you don't concur with him, you can always go to Noah Webster's definition.
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I get the point of this, but I don't worry about the semantics here. It seems a lot like the whole "base line / end line" discussion, or a certain long time member's obsession with whether coaches "call" or "request" timeouts. The next time a player sits out the game rather than take out his earrings will be the first time.
Usually in my experience the coach thanks us for telling his player the rule. Usually not much of an issue as I said because the rule is well known.

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