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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2009Yogi Berra
You guys don't know anything about writing, let's see what you know about baseball. Any of you chowderheads ever hear of Yogi Berra? Surprise me on this one .. EG  SignatureRiclanders Dot Com http://riclanders.com/ > You guys don't know anything about writing, let's see what you know > about baseball. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > EG "I didn't say all those things I said." -- Yogi Berra EG SignatureRiclanders Dot Com http://riclanders.com/ > You guys don't know anything about writing, let's see what you know > about baseball. > > Any of you chowderheads ever hear of Yogi Berra? > > Surprise me on this one .. Two quotes come to mind: "This is like deja vu all over again" and "You can observe a lot by just watching". -- WH elanders wrote: >> You guys don't know anything about writing, let's see what you know >> about baseball. >> >> Any of you chowderheads ever hear of Yogi Berra? >> >> Surprise me on this one .. > Two quotes come to mind: > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > "You can observe a lot by just watching". Since I killfiled elanders, he shows up in Usenet for me as nonexistent posts. SignatureLew >> You guys don't know anything about writing, let's see what you know >> about baseball. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > -- > WH Both his parents were Italian immigrants so he probably didn't speak English until he started school. Of course Dean Martin didn't speak English until he was five years old too. Berra was raised right down the street from Joe Garagiola. About the same age, but a much better all-round player. EG SignatureRiclanders Dot Com http://riclanders.com/ > > You guys don't know anything about writing, let's see what you know > > about baseball. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > -- > WH "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. " And the oddly insightful: "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." >> > You guys don't know anything about writing, let's see what you know >> > about baseball. [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. " As we all know the yogi-isms there is no reason to feed the troll. On 18 Jan 2009, Raymond O'Hara wrote -snip- > As we all know the yogi-isms there is no reason to feed the > troll. Couldn't agree more. SignatureCheers, Harvey CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed >>>> You guys don't know anything about writing, let's see what you know >>>> about baseball. [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > As we all know the yogi-isms there is no reason to feed the troll. If we all know it, why do you feel the need to tell us? EG SignatureRiclanders Dot Com http://riclanders.com/ elanders set the following eddies spiralling through the space-time continuum: > You guys don't know anything about writing, let's see what you know > about baseball. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > EG I remember the character well, along with his sidekick Boo-Boo. Always looking for picnic baskets IIRC. Signatureξ:) Proud to be curly Interchange the alphabetic letter groups to reply |
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