New service speed record for Karlovic
Roger That
RzR
> 251km/h
cya roddick lol
Manco
> 251km/h
in his 30s no less. Karlovic will be playing another 5-7 years because
of that serve alone!
grif
I read that Raonic played an exhibition with Karlovic at the recent
tourney that Raonic won. Karlovic won the exo in tiebreaks.
pltr...@xhost.org
Given the equipment and conditions, I seriously doubt that the
difference is significant.
-- Larry
TT
What kind of sour grapes is that?
If anyone deserves the record, it must be Ivo.
Iceberg
> 6.3.2011 3:38, pltrg...@xhost.org kirjoitti:
>
> > On Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:15:13 +0100, RzR<2r4z...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> On 5.3.2011 21:05, Roger That wrote:
> >>> 251km/h
> >> cya roddick lol
> > Given the equipment and conditions, I seriously doubt that the
> > difference is significant.
>
> > -- Larry
>
> What kind of sour grapes is that?
>
> If anyone deserves the record, it must be Ivo.
not really, Roddick serves as a 'normal' guy, Ivo is a giant, they
should have a special category for him.
RzR
crying again?
steve jaros
> 251km/h
how about translating that into a legit metric, like miles?
--
When the facts change,
one's opinion ought to change.
- John Maynard Keynes
Roger That
>> On 3/5/2011 2:05 PM, Roger That wrote:
>> 251km/h
>
> how about translating that into a legit metric, like miles?
Good idea. We're all waiting for you to do it.
steve jaros
155 mph.
--
So wrong it is to confound independence with liberty.
No one is less independent than a citizen of a free state.
- De Tocqueville
Vari L. Cinicke
> > On 3/6/2011 12:09 PM, Roger That wrote:
>> Le 06/03/2011 19:02, steve jaros a écrit :
>>>> On 3/5/2011 2:05 PM, Roger That wrote:
>>>> 251km/h
>>>
>>> how about translating that into a legit metric, like miles?
>>
>> Good idea. We're all waiting for you to do it.
>
> 155 mph.
>
Archaic unit + miscalculation = You must be from the US! ;)
--
Cheers,
vc
Joe Ramirez
> On 3/6/2011 1:23 PM, steve jaros wrote:
>
> > > On 3/6/2011 12:09 PM, Roger That wrote:
> >>>> On 3/5/2011 2:05 PM, Roger That wrote:
> >>>> 251km/h
>
> >>> how about translating that into a legit metric, like miles?
>
> >> Good idea. We're all waiting for you to do it.
>
> > 155 mph.
>
> Archaic unit
Archaic? Maybe. But it has countervailing assets. Here's something I
wrote a few years ago:
The Unsexy Kilometer
The mile has a place of honor in rock and pop song lyrics. Whether you
are "Eight Miles High" (Byrds) or "A Million Miles Away" (Plimsouls),
or just a measly "500 Miles" (Proclaimers) from the promised land,
songs that mention the mile will get you there in style.
The kilometer is not so lucky. Where are the classic tunes about
kilometers? It simply doesn't work as a narrative element: "I just
can't take the pain/Of the kilometers between us, babe" -- no thanks.
Of course, part of the explanation may be that pop music in the last
half-century has been dominated by Anglo-American culture, and the
mile makes sense to us. But I think it goes deeper than that.
"Kilometer" (or "kilometre," if you prefer) is not easy to sing -- too
many syllables. And it has a rather cold, technical quality. Its
composite, inorganic nature -- 1000 individual meters, and no
scrimping, please -- is too obvious for it to fit well in the world of
sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. The kilometer is just unsexy.
felangey
Well said! Long live the mile.
It is a weird thing indeed though, the imperial and the metric.
I wouldn't have much idea how fast you are going if you gave it to me in
kph's. Mphs, I have down.
The US tradition of specifying a persons weight in pounds means nothing to
me....tell me in stones.
I can order produce in pounds or kilo's....although I am more accurate in
gms/kilos these days.
....a weird hotchpotch....yet changing any of the above is unthinkable.
Especially the mile. Nuh-uh.
Joe Ramirez
Robert Frost:
"But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
Try converting *that*.
Or a line like this from the incredibly intense Red Riding Quartet of
Northern England crime novels by David Peace: "Foot down, ninety miles
an hour!"
Maybe he tried "Foot down, 144.84 kilometres an hour!" but then edited
himself?
Vari L. Cinicke
Luckily, I only have meters to go before I sleep! :)
People are very funny and parochial that way. There are people who think
in Fahrenheit and those that only comprehend Celsius.
In the US, people only understand miles and gallons. But if you mention
any of the other related units, such as the furlong, they will look at
you like you are crazy.
As for weight, you want stones? I will give you Hazelwood! ;)
--
Cheers,
vc
Vari L. Cinicke
People who think in metric use klicks and k naturally.
What is the speed limit? 100 k sounds way better than 62.5 mi.
--
Cheers,
vc
Vari L. Cinicke
Or, to use your formulation -- 62.13571192 mi.
I should confess though that I think in miles and pounds and Fahrenheit
like the rest of the US.
--
Cheers,
vc
Joe Ramirez
> On 3/6/2011 2:38 PM, felangey wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> >> The kilometer is just unsexy<
>
> > Well said! Long live the mile.
>
> > It is a weird thing indeed though, the imperial and the metric.
>
> > I wouldn't have much idea how fast you are going if you gave it to me in
> > kph's. Mphs, I have down.
>
> > The US tradition of specifying a persons weight in pounds means nothing
> > to me....tell me in stones.
>
> > I can order produce in pounds or kilo's....although I am more accurate
> > in gms/kilos these days.
>
> > ....a weird hotchpotch....yet changing any of the above is unthinkable.
> > Especially the mile. Nuh-uh.
>
> Luckily, I only have meters to go before I sleep! :)
>
> People are very funny and parochial that way. There are people who think
> in Fahrenheit and those that only comprehend Celsius.
>
> In the US, people only understand miles and gallons.
And liters too, thanks to decades of soft drink marketing. The term's
intelligibility has spread to other contexts, e.g., if you told
someone, "In the desert you must drink a liter of water every two
hours," he'd understand how much water was needed.
pltr...@xhost.org
<josephm...@netzero.com> wrote:
>Archaic? Maybe. But it has countervailing assets. Here's something I
>wrote a few years ago:
>
>The Unsexy Kilometer
>
>The mile has a place of honor in rock and pop song lyrics. Whether you
>are "Eight Miles High" (Byrds) or "A Million Miles Away" (Plimsouls),
>or just a measly "500 Miles" (Proclaimers) from the promised land,
>songs that mention the mile will get you there in style....
Very nice, Joe. I'm going to have to echo that on Facebook.
I can't imagine an incredible trumpet player named Kilometer Davis.
And how about "I Can't Drive 88.51392"?
-- Larry
Joe Ramirez
> >Archaic? Maybe. But it has countervailing assets. Here's something I
> >wrote a few years ago:
>
> >The Unsexy Kilometer
>
> >The mile has a place of honor in rock and pop song lyrics. Whether you
> >are "Eight Miles High" (Byrds) or "A Million Miles Away" (Plimsouls),
> >or just a measly "500 Miles" (Proclaimers) from the promised land,
> >songs that mention the mile will get you there in style....
>
> Very nice, Joe. I'm going to have to echo that on Facebook.
>
Joe Ramirez
This sort of proves the point -- slang and abbreviations are needed
because the basic term is awkward. Also, "klicks" has a pronounced
military/sci-fi connotation, making it equally unsexy.
Whisper
Haze was known as '2 inch Hazelwood' in his younger days. '5.08cm
Hazelwood' doesn't have the same flow.
TT
"The Brat Pack: A bunch of guys whose names I forget."
Heheh happens to me as well. Certain to remember only Sheedy, Estevez
and Moore.
MBDunc
sportmagazine listed as the current best servers in tennis (a couple
of weeks ago). For Karlovic (was he #4?) he practically said "he does
not have absolute serve speed enough".
.mikko
GOYLE
> On 3/6/2011 1:23 PM, steve jaros wrote:
>
> > > On 3/6/2011 12:09 PM, Roger That wrote:
> >>>> On 3/5/2011 2:05 PM, Roger That wrote:
> >>>> 251km/h
>
> >>> how about translating that into a legit metric, like miles?
>
> >> Good idea. We're all waiting for you to do it.
>
> > 155 mph.
>
> Archaic unit + miscalculation = You must be from the US! ;)
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> vc
Not really, the US units are just as significant as the metric units
GOYLE
>
> - Show quoted text -
Not really. I use furlong in horse racing but that's the only place.
My wagon was made in Germany and it uses both metric and imperial
units.
GOYLE
>
> - Show quoted text -
I use both gallons, quarts, pints and I use liters too. I also use
grams and troy ounces on a daily basis.
Ted S.
> I can't imagine an incredible trumpet player named Kilometer Davis.
I can. I listen to him on my ounceaphone.
I also listen to all those pop singers singing their tunes in iambic
tetrayard. ;-)
--
Ted Schuerzinger
tedstennis at myrealbox dot com
If you're afraid of the ball, don't sit in the front row. --Anastasia
Rodionova
felangey
> like the rest of the US<
Fahrenwhoosywhatnow? ;)
number_six
I tried to think of some songs with metric units, but nothing readily
presented itself.
The best I could come up with was a jingle from an old cigarette
commercial -- yes, cigarette advertising, of all things -- in which
the additional length of the 101mm fag was touted as follows:
A silly millimeter longer! One-oh-one!
Perhaps there are better examples in the French chanson tradition! But
Robert Burns' line "Tho’ it were ten thousand mile" or Jules Verne's
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" will, I hope, remain in the collective
literary imagination.
drew
>
> I use both gallons, quarts, pints and I use liters too. I also use
> grams and troy ounces on a daily basis
Mind your Ps and Qs.