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OK, its time to work on your clichés...

seinbigdseinbigd Posts: 206 ✭✭
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In the movie "Bull Durham", in prepping Nuke (Tim Robbins) for the "Show", Crash (Kevin Costner) tells Nuke "OK, its time to work on your clichés." A couple cliches from the movie include:

"Just happy to be here."
"take'm one day at a time..."
"...make the best of my God-given talent."

So what's your favorite cliché ?

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  • CGeorgeCGeorge Posts: 24
    "PSA 8 (high end)"

    or

    "PSA 9 (high end)


    (are those cliches or just hackneyed phrases?)
  • BoopottsBoopotts Posts: 6,784 ✭✭
    Not really a cliche but I like how someone invariably 'centering looks off to me' whenever a scan is posted of a blazing PSA 10 on Ebay.

    Others phrases I like:

    'That'll go over like a turd in the punch bowl'.
    ' I just got a visit from the F@k-up fairy'
  • seinbigdseinbigd Posts: 206 ✭✭
    Hadn't heard the one about the "F" fairy although she seems to visit me frequently...
  • TripleCrownTripleCrown Posts: 145
    " Stick a fork in him -- he's done "


    " This is shaping up to be a real pitchers duel "


    " He tatooed that one "


    " Good teams find ways to win "

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  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭


    << <i> (Note: I know ther's supposed to be a tilde over the "e" but its note available on my keyboard). >>

    It's actually an acute accent, i.e. "cliché", which gives the ending e it's "ay" sound.
  • seinbigdseinbigd Posts: 206 ✭✭
    Looks like I have a chance to learn something herer - Is the symbol on a standard keyboard?
  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭
    No, you need to use the little-known Windows program Character Map (charmap.exe) to copy/paste é into the text box.
  • interchangesinterchanges Posts: 864 ✭
    he raised his game to another level.
  • MorrellManMorrellMan Posts: 3,241 ✭✭✭
    Baseball has been bery bery good to me.
    It ain't over till it's over.
    Mark (amerbbcards)


    "All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
  • phreakydancinphreakydancin Posts: 1,691 ✭✭
    "The team is firing on all cylinders."
    "We're taking things one game at a time."
    "This was a big win for us."
  • fur72fur72 Posts: 2,348 ✭✭
    "We just go out there and have fun"
    "He makes everyone he plays with better"
    "We just try to make plays"
    "They played us tough"
    "We made some mistakes out there"

    These 5 quotes you can hear in every post game interview.
    Cory @iamfur72 https://twitter.com/iamfur72

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  • SOMSOM Posts: 1,555 ✭✭✭
    invariably, you'll see this one on raw card auctions:

    "perfect for submission"

    If they were, trust me, they already would have been.
  • Bosox1976Bosox1976 Posts: 8,557 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "I am presently incarcerated for a crime I did not commit..."
    Mike
    Bosox1976
  • LWMMLWMM Posts: 471 ✭
    It's not about the money (it's just that they paid me more)
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  • Carew29Carew29 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭

    Great basketball player--lousy announcer---Bill Russell

    My first favorite of his--" Some shooters are shooters, but some shooters are scorers"

    My 2nd favorite of his--" To be a good rebounder, you have to play the boards"
  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭

    From the COPS tv show :

    "That's not mine."


    Pix of 'My Kids'

    "How about a little fire Scarecrow ?"
  • lostdart58lostdart58 Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭
    ...from a golf broadcast


    "he played with such courage"

    It's friggin golf.... not the Iran war!!!!
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  • gmoneystylesgmoneystyles Posts: 349 ✭✭
    "God helped us win today"

    As if god hates the other team.

    But then again, maybe God does hate the Cubs.
    Now looking for a 1950 Bowman Baseball Box as pictured below.
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  • StingrayStingray Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
    It's not over, till it's over.

    Make my day.


    Stingray
  • MorrellManMorrellMan Posts: 3,241 ✭✭✭
    Cliches refer to interviews - this has got to be the greatest interview of all-time. Be sure to scroll down and click on the link to listen - it's a classic!!
    Mark (amerbbcards)


    "All evil needs to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
  • robstarrobstar Posts: 262 ✭
    Team Canada Hockey player responding to a press scrum at the recent Winter Olympics.

    Let's face it, tonight it's do or die, our backs are clearly against the wall. We have to leave our ego's
    at the door and come together as a team. Everybody needs to give 110% or we'll be packing our suitcases.


    Have a great day.

    Rob..
    Collecting PSA Vintage Hockey
  • wolfbearwolfbear Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭

    Never understood how these guys can give 110 %.
    If you give your all - everything you can give - your absolute utmost best performance - isn't that 100 % ?

    Unless they normally only give 90.9 %,
    in which case they could give 110 % of their normal effort which would get them to their 100 % level.

    Ball players aren't very good at math ... that's why they have agents ... image
    Pix of 'My Kids'

    "How about a little fire Scarecrow ?"
  • seinbigdseinbigd Posts: 206 ✭✭
    Good point.
  • JrMacdaddyJrMacdaddy Posts: 506 ✭✭
    My breath is so bad I could knock a fly off a skunk's ass.
  • Carew29Carew29 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭

    " We made too many of our own mistakes"---Yogi
  • lostdart58lostdart58 Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭


    << <i>" We made too many of our own mistakes"---Yogi >>



    LMAO......Don't start me on Yogi......

    After being knocked down at the plate in a collision........the next day's headline said:

    "X-Raysof his head revealed nothing"

    Speaking of one of his favorite restaurants:

    "No one goes there anymore because it is too busy"
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    Now seeking 1949 Eureka Sportstamps...NM condition
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    Working on '89 Topps autoed set now complete


  • detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭✭
    "I have never used steroids. Period. I do not know how to say it any more clearly than that."
  • seinbigdseinbigd Posts: 206 ✭✭
    You could start a whole new thread on Yogi-isms.

    Here's one of his lesser known gems...After replacing a rookie in right field and subsequently dropping a fairly routine fly ball:

    "...that guy's got right field so screwed-up nobody could play it!"
  • robr1967robr1967 Posts: 264
    ok, now I know this is not really a cliches, but I wanted to put it here just the same.

    This was by far one of the funniest things I had ever heard in my life and still ranks up there quite a bit.

    First a little background.

    When I was younger (in the late 80's here) I was in the Army, stationed at Ft. Campbell, KY. Home of the 101st Airborne Division. image

    Well, my NCOIC (non comm. officer in charge) at the time was an old timer, Master SGT.

    Well, getting to the point, if was raining like crazy down there, I mean total deluge.....

    He looked out the window, looked me straight in the face and said, "it was raining harded the a double cun*ed cow pissing on a flat rock...

    lol

    Don't know if you guys will see the humor there....maybe you had to be there....
  • ToadToad Posts: 101
    My new fave is, "My grades just popped".
  • Carew29Carew29 Posts: 4,025 ✭✭

    " Baseball is won/played between the lines. "
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