Pictures: Buggies from Saturday afternoon, trees and things from this afternoon.
Today an unusually warm January day and one given over to golfing by some of us. Joined Dave and Doug and Short for eighteen holes of six, six and six. That would be Dave and I taking on Doug and Short in six holes scramble, six holes alternate shot, and then six holes of best ball. This one ended up in a draw, dang it all.
More golfing tomorrow with temperatures in the 60's if not 70's. That is if the rains hold off. Our fingers are crossed.
NFL: Giants won earlier; looks like Chargers are going to beat the Titans. That means the Chargers come to Indy and the Jaguars go to Boston. That's jim dandy. (btw, who is this fellow 'jim dandy'?)
In Women's college basketball, watched a little of the ND-Tenn match yesterday. The Irish were soundly beaten. Caught a little of the UCON-Purdue game this afternoon. The Boilers were lapped with the final score being 100-50. Not a good weekend for Hoosier women.
Edwards not polling well in NH. Obama still hot. Clinton still very much in the race, at least I think she is. What fun.
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The Dictionary of Americanisms traces the term back to January 1887. Etymologist Gerald Cohen has cited a published sports usage of it some six months later in a New York Giants game, indicating a possible baseball origin. Certainly baseball helped popularize the phrase. From Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by Robert Hendrickson.
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Jim Dandy An admirable person, thing, or feat; a prime example; something of superior quality. 1st Use. 1887. The term, which the Oxford English Dictionary traces in a non-baseball context to 1887, shows up quickly in baseball writing. In fact, Gerald Cohen has written that his work on the baseball columns of The World (New York) "provides the startling indication that 'jim-dandy' either arose in baseball speech or was spread into standard English by it." His earliest published example from The World (June 19, 1887): "The Giants gave the local patrons of the game a couple of surprises during the past week, and whereas on Wednesday night they were proclaimed 'Jim Dandy' players, they were on Thursday declared to be 'no good." From The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary (1999) by Paul Dickson.
Oh oh. So this means that Jim Dandy has no relationship to Yankee Doodle Dandy? What a disappointment. But then it's good to get the straight skinny. Tks, Marty.
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