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Skahtboi Tue May 09, 2006 02:52pm

4,000
 
Welcome to the 4,000 thread posted in the softball section of the Official Forum. Thanks to everyone who has made this an invaluable resource to umpires, players and coaches of the sport.

whiskers_ump Tue May 09, 2006 09:18pm

Seeing some of the posts above, the coaches are not listening....:D

And possibily a couple of umpires......

rodan55 Wed May 10, 2006 08:25am

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Originally Posted by Skahtboi
Welcome to the 4,000 thread posted in the softball section of the Official Forum. Thanks to everyone who has made this an invaluable resource to umpires, players and coaches of the sport.

And 3,000 of those are arguements:D

IRISHMAFIA Wed May 10, 2006 09:55am

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Originally Posted by rodan55
And 3,000 of those are arguements:D

No, they were contradictions.:rolleyes:

rodan55 Wed May 10, 2006 10:00am

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
No, they were contradictions.:rolleyes:

And it's still a foul ball. :D

bkbjones Wed May 10, 2006 02:52pm

And...there are 3,000 references to a "clicker," whatever that is.

I DO own a clicker. In fact, 3 of them. They came with the original "home" version of Jeopardy from back in the 1960s (yes, I was a nerd).

IRISHMAFIA Wed May 10, 2006 03:37pm

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Originally Posted by bkbjones
And...there are 3,000 references to a "clicker," whatever that is.

I DO own a clicker. In fact, 3 of them. They came with the original "home" version of Jeopardy from back in the 1960s (yes, I was a nerd).

I just have the ones I stole from the nuns when in parochial school :eek:

bkbjones Wed May 10, 2006 04:00pm

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
I just have the ones I stole from the nuns when in parochial school :eek:

Did they click them before or after they sternly quoth, "Michael, turn around and shut up!"?

:D

IRISHMAFIA Wed May 10, 2006 05:47pm

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Originally Posted by bkbjones
Did they click them before or after they sternly quoth, "Michael, turn around and shut up!"?

:D

No, the clickers were for signals when in a procession, assembly, church, etc. The nuns used erasers the "turn around and shut up" attention-getter.

whiskers_ump Wed May 10, 2006 06:05pm

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
No, the clickers were for signals when in a procession, assembly, church, etc. The nuns used erasers the "turn around and shut up" attention-getter.

The best of the "attention-getters" was the ruler on the plams of the hands just as fast as they could swing it.

:eek:

CecilOne Wed May 10, 2006 06:10pm

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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
No, the clickers were for signals when in a procession, assembly, church, etc. The nuns used erasers the "turn around and shut up" attention-getter.

Does that mean that when you go off on some long rant that one of us should post "ERASER TIME"? ;)

whiskers_ump Wed May 10, 2006 08:14pm

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Originally Posted by CecilOne
Does that mean that when you go off on some long rant that one of us should post "ERASER TIME"? ;)

Now, that thar is funny!!!!!!!!:D

IRISHMAFIA Wed May 10, 2006 10:05pm

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Originally Posted by CecilOne
Does that mean that when you go off on some long rant that one of us should post "ERASER TIME"? ;)

Like that would help!!!:o

rodan55 Thu May 11, 2006 01:31pm

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Originally Posted by whiskers_ump
The best of the "attention-getters" was the ruler on the plams of the hands just as fast as they could swing it.

:eek:

Went to parochial school, also. Had a male lay teacher who would walk around the class with a golf ball. You better pay attention or you'd soon have a knot on your head.

CecilOne Thu May 11, 2006 01:37pm

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Originally Posted by rodan55
Went to parochial school, also. Had a male lay teacher who would walk around the class with a golf ball. You better pay attention or you'd soon have a knot on your head.

I made it very clear to all principals when my kids were in school that I would not hesitate charge battery if anyone at the school struck or ... them.

Dakota Thu May 11, 2006 02:04pm

I think we have totally screwed up the schools with (among other things)...

Little or no parenting at home for many kids;
Expecting "parenting" responsibilitites to be picked up by the schools; and
Removing all power to act against misbehavior in the schools (and I don't just mean corporal punishment - although I do think we are too afraid of it as a society).

Skahtboi Thu May 11, 2006 02:25pm

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Originally Posted by Dakota
I think we have totally screwed up the schools with (among other things)...

Little or no parenting at home for many kids;
Expecting "parenting" responsibilitites to be picked up by the schools; and
Removing all power to act against misbehavior in the schools (and I don't just mean corporal punishment - although I do think we are too afraid of it as a society).


Amen. You are preaching to the choir, brother!

rodan55 Fri May 12, 2006 09:15am

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Originally Posted by CecilOne
I made it very clear to all principals when my kids were in school that I would not hesitate charge battery if anyone at the school struck or ... them.

Ya. Nowdays. This was 30 yrs ago. I woulds have no problem with a teacher or principle taking a paddle to my kids. Fortunately, I've taught them well. No disciplinary problems or I punished them enough when they were younger.

Bluefoot Fri May 12, 2006 09:25am

When I went to catholic school, the nuns would whack your knuckles with a ruler.

When my parents went in for P-T conferences, the nuns would tell them that my handwriting was atrocious.

My parents would tell them that was becuse my hands were deformed from their beatings with a ruler!

CecilOne Fri May 12, 2006 09:46am

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Originally Posted by rodan55
Ya. Nowdays. This was 30 yrs ago. I woulds have no problem with a teacher or principle taking a paddle to my kids. Fortunately, I've taught them well. No disciplinary problems or I punished them enough when they were younger.

I was talking about 20-30 years ago.


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