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DanS.
Jan 6, 2012, 3:31:04 PM1/6/12
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When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
it a bye (or a bi).
Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
--
Yours,
Dan S.
it a bye (or a bi).
Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
--
Yours,
Dan S.
Glenn Knickerbocker
Jan 6, 2012, 3:38:27 PM1/6/12
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On 1/6/2012 3:31 PM, DanS. wrote:
> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
> it a bye (or a bi).
I thought I'd always seen "by" as in passing it by, but M-W says it's
> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
> it a bye (or a bi).
"bye"--interestingly, though, as an "alteration of by" (the adverb).
ŹR
Joachim Pense
Jan 6, 2012, 3:53:08 PM1/6/12
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Joachim
Witziges Rätsel
Jan 6, 2012, 4:04:37 PM1/6/12
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On 1/6/2012 3:31 PM, DanS. wrote:
>
>
Leslie Danks
Jan 6, 2012, 4:06:37 PM1/6/12
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Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly.
--
Les
(BrE)
tony cooper
Jan 6, 2012, 4:11:38 PM1/6/12
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On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:31:04 -0500, "DanS." <dslaug...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
The sports term is "bye", meaning "no opponent" and no win or loss is
recorded. The time schedule is "bi".
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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
wrote:
recorded. The time schedule is "bi".
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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida
Ray O'Hara
Jan 6, 2012, 4:23:33 PM1/6/12
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Snidely
Jan 6, 2012, 4:28:13 PM1/6/12
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Witziges Rätsel <z...@roer.invalid.com> scribbled something like ...
No, it refers to having a pass or a "bye", to the extent I'm aware of where
it came from.
Th US colloquial form of the stock market term is "buy low".
/dps "sell on cheese"
it came from.
Th US colloquial form of the stock market term is "buy low".
/dps "sell on cheese"
DanS.
Jan 6, 2012, 4:46:10 PM1/6/12
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--
Yours,
Dan S.
Donna Richoux
Jan 6, 2012, 4:55:35 PM1/6/12
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DanS. <dslaug...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
> it a bye (or a bi).
Same use as in the Dictionary of the Scots Language: To gie it the bye,
> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
> it a bye (or a bi).
gie it a bye, To avoid something or leave it out.
> Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
> and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
All I can picture is an extra post, nothing to do with taking time off.
Or do you mean you suspended your regular schedule and are doing that
single post instead? That post is not a bye.
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Best -- Donna Richoux
John Dean
Jan 6, 2012, 5:19:43 PM1/6/12
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concedes a match without playing then their opponent is awarded a bye and
proceeds to the next round without having to play. Ditto a team who don't
have an opponent because there aren't enough to go round.
--
John Dean
Oxford
Peter Moylan
Jan 6, 2012, 7:02:41 PM1/6/12
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DanS. wrote:
> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
> it a bye (or a bi).
"Bye" means a gap in the schedule, a week when they don't play. "Bi" is
> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
> it a bye (or a bi).
an abbreviation for bisexual, and has nothing to do with football.
>
> Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
> and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
This is unclear to me, but it sounds as if you're doing an _extra_ post
> Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
> and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
rather than missing one. In that case, you need an entirely different
description. "Irregular extra post" or something like that.
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Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org
For an e-mail address, see my web page.
Jerry Friedman
Jan 6, 2012, 7:09:03 PM1/6/12
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On Jan 6, 3:19 pm, "John Dean" <john-d...@fraglineone.net> wrote:
> DanS. wrote:
> > When a football team has a week off during the regular season they
> > call it a bye (or a bi).
>
> > Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
> > and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
As Donna suggested, I don't think I'd call it a bye. That would be
> DanS. wrote:
> > When a football team has a week off during the regular season they
> > call it a bye (or a bi).
>
> > Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
> > and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
when you have one less post than your regular schedule. In this case
you're doing an extra post. I've never heard of anything like that in
football, but if you want a football term, maybe you could use
"exhibition post".
> Not in the UK. It's just a week off. But if a team in a knockout competition
> concedes a match without playing then their opponent is awarded a bye and
> proceeds to the next round without having to play. Ditto a team who don't
> have an opponent because there aren't enough to go round.
a knockout tournament for the leading teams, and the especially
leading teams get a bye in the first round. Or that's one way to look
at it.
Those who want more detail will have no trouble finding it.
In top-level chess, there are byes in round-robin tournaments. For
instance, the tournament in Reggio Emilia that ended today was a nine-
player double round-robin in which each player got a day off. I think
the players like having the chance to rest.
--
Jerry Friedman
R H Draney
Jan 6, 2012, 9:23:12 PM1/6/12
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Peter Moylan filted:
special, I suggest "bonus post"....r
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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
>
>DanS. wrote:
>>
>> Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
>> and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
>
>This is unclear to me, but it sounds as if you're doing an _extra_ post
>rather than missing one. In that case, you need an entirely different
>description. "Irregular extra post" or something like that.
Since I assume you want to make your readers feel that they're getting something
>DanS. wrote:
>>
>> Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
>> and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
>
>This is unclear to me, but it sounds as if you're doing an _extra_ post
>rather than missing one. In that case, you need an entirely different
>description. "Irregular extra post" or something like that.
special, I suggest "bonus post"....r
--
Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
Garrett Wollman
Jan 7, 2012, 12:27:42 AM1/7/12
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In article <44ccb4e2-550a-403d...@k8g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>,
(and one other) get to stay home while the remaining teams play a
regular schedule of Thursday, Sunday, Sunday night, and Monday night
games. It's hard to call it a "rest" when for some unlucky teams it
happens to fall on the first or second week of the (16-week) season.
-GAWollman
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wol...@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program
Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption
my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993
Jerry Friedman <jerry_f...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>That's the situation in the NFL. The season ends with the "playoffs",
>a knockout tournament for the leading teams, and the especially
>leading teams get a bye in the first round. Or that's one way to look
>at it.
The NFL also has a scheduled "bye week" for each team when that team
>That's the situation in the NFL. The season ends with the "playoffs",
>a knockout tournament for the leading teams, and the especially
>leading teams get a bye in the first round. Or that's one way to look
>at it.
(and one other) get to stay home while the remaining teams play a
regular schedule of Thursday, Sunday, Sunday night, and Monday night
games. It's hard to call it a "rest" when for some unlucky teams it
happens to fall on the first or second week of the (16-week) season.
-GAWollman
--
Garrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft
wol...@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program
Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption
my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993
Glenn Knickerbocker
Jan 7, 2012, 12:51:38 AM1/7/12
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On Fri, 6 Jan 2012 22:55:35 +0100, Donna Richoux wrote:
>Or do you mean you suspended your regular schedule and are doing that
>single post instead? That post is not a bye.
I think he means he's posting during his *usual* bye week. He makes
>Or do you mean you suspended your regular schedule and are doing that
>single post instead? That post is not a bye.
regular biweekly posts, and this is a special bye-weekly post.
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I just spent a half hour trying to figure out the STUPIDEST BUG EVAR.
http://users.bestweb.net/~notr/chewy.html Sigh." --Kerri
Mike Lyle
Jan 7, 2012, 3:31:03 PM1/7/12
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--
Mike.
Peter Moylan
Jan 7, 2012, 11:20:19 PM1/7/12
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years ago, yelling out "Hee-a-rald final".
I used to think they were the Herald Angels.
musika
Jan 8, 2012, 7:45:43 AM1/8/12
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Peter Moylan wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRSYe3nJUzg
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Ray
UK
> Mike Lyle wrote:
>>
>> I like "Extry! Extry!!"
>>
> You've brought to mind the boys on all the Melbourne street corners,
> years ago, yelling out "Hee-a-rald final".
>
Reminds me of:
>>
>> I like "Extry! Extry!!"
>>
> You've brought to mind the boys on all the Melbourne street corners,
> years ago, yelling out "Hee-a-rald final".
>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRSYe3nJUzg
--
Ray
UK
Mark Brader
Jan 9, 2012, 2:34:47 AM1/9/12
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Garrett Wollman:
That is, they each play on *one* of those other days.
--
Mark Brader "In general, it is safe and legal to
Toronto kill your children and their children."
m...@vex.net -- POSIX manual, quoted by Thomas Koenig
> The NFL also has a scheduled "bye week" for each team when that team
> (and one other) get to stay home while the remaining teams play a
> regular schedule of Thursday, Sunday, Sunday night, and Monday night
> games...
> (and one other) get to stay home while the remaining teams play a
> regular schedule of Thursday, Sunday, Sunday night, and Monday night
That is, they each play on *one* of those other days.
--
Mark Brader "In general, it is safe and legal to
Toronto kill your children and their children."
m...@vex.net -- POSIX manual, quoted by Thomas Koenig
Richard Bollard
Jan 9, 2012, 10:42:31 PM1/9/12
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On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:20:19 +1100, Peter Moylan
<inv...@peter.pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>Mike Lyle wrote:
>> On 6 Jan 2012 18:23:12 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Peter Moylan filted:
>>>> DanS. wrote:
>>>>> Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
>>>>> and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
>>>> This is unclear to me, but it sounds as if you're doing an _extra_ post
>>>> rather than missing one. In that case, you need an entirely different
>>>> description. "Irregular extra post" or something like that.
>>> Since I assume you want to make your readers feel that they're getting something
>>> special, I suggest "bonus post"....r
>>
>> I like "Extry! Extry!!"
>>
>You've brought to mind the boys on all the Melbourne street corners,
>years ago, yelling out "Hee-a-rald final".
>
>I used to think they were the Herald Angels.
I thought they were looking for Mr Holt. "Harrr-Olld!!!"
<inv...@peter.pmoylan.org.invalid> wrote:
>Mike Lyle wrote:
>> On 6 Jan 2012 18:23:12 -0800, R H Draney <dado...@spamcop.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Peter Moylan filted:
>>>> DanS. wrote:
>>>>> Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
>>>>> and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
>>>> This is unclear to me, but it sounds as if you're doing an _extra_ post
>>>> rather than missing one. In that case, you need an entirely different
>>>> description. "Irregular extra post" or something like that.
>>> Since I assume you want to make your readers feel that they're getting something
>>> special, I suggest "bonus post"....r
>>
>> I like "Extry! Extry!!"
>>
>You've brought to mind the boys on all the Melbourne street corners,
>years ago, yelling out "Hee-a-rald final".
>
>I used to think they were the Herald Angels.
--
Richard Bollard
Canberra Australia
To email, I'm at AMT not spAMT.
Athel Cornish-Bowden
Jan 10, 2012, 1:43:08 AM1/10/12
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(I'm surprised no one else seems to have noticed)
--
athel
Garrett Wollman
Jan 10, 2012, 2:47:11 AM1/10/12
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In article <9n24vr...@mid.individual.net>,
I noticed, all right, but did not consider that old chestnut worth
commenting.
commenting.
Leslie Danks
Jan 10, 2012, 4:28:59 AM1/10/12
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:43:08 +0100, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> On 2012-01-06 21:06:37 +0000, Leslie Danks said:
>
>> On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:38:27 -0500, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/6/2012 3:31 PM, DanS. wrote:
>>>> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they
>>>> call it a bye (or a bi).
>>>
>>> I thought I'd always seen "by" as in passing it by, but M-W says it's
>>> "bye"--interestingly, though, as an "alteration of by" (the adverb).
>>
>> The three ages of man:
>>
>> Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly.
>
> Applause!
Thanks, but I must confess it's from the Old Joke Box and not mine own.
> On 2012-01-06 21:06:37 +0000, Leslie Danks said:
>
>> On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:38:27 -0500, Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/6/2012 3:31 PM, DanS. wrote:
>>>> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they
>>>> call it a bye (or a bi).
>>>
>>> I thought I'd always seen "by" as in passing it by, but M-W says it's
>>> "bye"--interestingly, though, as an "alteration of by" (the adverb).
>>
>> The three ages of man:
>>
>> Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly.
>
> Applause!
>
> (I'm surprised no one else seems to have noticed)
Heard it before, I wouldn't wonder.
> (I'm surprised no one else seems to have noticed)
--
Les
(BrE)
Athel Cornish-Bowden
Jan 10, 2012, 4:34:22 AM1/10/12
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imagine you had invented it.
--
athel
Leslie Danks
Jan 10, 2012, 5:06:13 AM1/10/12
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:47:11 +0000, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> In article <9n24vr...@mid.individual.net>,
> Athel Cornish-Bowden <acor...@ifr88.cnrs-mrs.fr> wrote:
>>On 2012-01-06 21:06:37 +0000, Leslie Danks said:
>>> The three ages of man:
>>>
>>> Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly.
>>
>>Applause!
>>
>>(I'm surprised no one else seems to have noticed)
>
> I noticed, all right, but did not consider that old chestnut worth
> commenting.
A question of etiquette: Should I have labelled it as such? Is there a
> In article <9n24vr...@mid.individual.net>,
> Athel Cornish-Bowden <acor...@ifr88.cnrs-mrs.fr> wrote:
>>On 2012-01-06 21:06:37 +0000, Leslie Danks said:
>>> The three ages of man:
>>>
>>> Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly.
>>
>>Applause!
>>
>>(I'm surprised no one else seems to have noticed)
>
> I noticed, all right, but did not consider that old chestnut worth
> commenting.
threshold level of chestnutness above which (as I believed in this case)
attribution is unnecessary?
--
Les
(BrE)
Skitt
Jan 10, 2012, 1:51:13 PM1/10/12
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Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
> Leslie Danks said:
--
Skitt (SF Bay Area)
http://come.to/skitt
> Leslie Danks said:
>> Glenn Knickerbocker wrote:
>>> DanS. wrote:
>>>> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
>>>> it a bye (or a bi).
>>>
>>> I thought I'd always seen "by" as in passing it by, but M-W says it's
>>> "bye"--interestingly, though, as an "alteration of by" (the adverb).
>>
>> The three ages of man:
>>
>> Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly.
>
> Applause!
>
> (I'm surprised no one else seems to have noticed)
>
>
It's an ancient joke, not worth a second look.
>>> DanS. wrote:
>>>> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
>>>> it a bye (or a bi).
>>>
>>> I thought I'd always seen "by" as in passing it by, but M-W says it's
>>> "bye"--interestingly, though, as an "alteration of by" (the adverb).
>>
>> The three ages of man:
>>
>> Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly.
>
> Applause!
>
> (I'm surprised no one else seems to have noticed)
>
>
--
Skitt (SF Bay Area)
http://come.to/skitt
James Hogg
Jan 10, 2012, 2:07:01 PM1/10/12
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capacity) in print a century and a half ago, when he wrote of a
fictitious "try-weakly family journal".
--
James
Mike Lyle
Jan 10, 2012, 3:24:07 PM1/10/12
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On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:51:13 -0800, Skitt <ski...@comcast.net> wrote:
>Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>> Leslie Danks said:
[...]
>Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:
>> Leslie Danks said:
>>>
>>> The three ages of man:
>>>
>>> Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly.
>>
>> Applause!
>>
>> (I'm surprised no one else seems to have noticed)
>>
>>
>
>It's an ancient joke, not worth a second look.
That's what all the girls say to me these days.
>>> The three ages of man:
>>>
>>> Tri-weekly, try weekly, try weakly.
>>
>> Applause!
>>
>> (I'm surprised no one else seems to have noticed)
>>
>>
>
>It's an ancient joke, not worth a second look.
--
Mike.
bill...@gmail.com
Oct 21, 2015, 1:00:18 PM10/21/15
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On Friday, January 6, 2012 at 2:31:04 PM UTC-6, DanS. wrote:
> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
> it a bye (or a bi).
>
> When a football team has a week off during the regular season they call
> it a bye (or a bi).
>
> Now, I'm doing a post on my blog off of my regular bi-weekly schedule
> and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
> --
> and want to tag it appropriately. How would you tag it?
> Yours,
> Dan S.
Bi-Week is Orgy Week.
Sam Plusnet
Oct 21, 2015, 5:28:41 PM10/21/15
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In article <9ee289d2-3604-4744...@googlegroups.com>,
bill...@gmail.com says...
I certainly doubles your chances of getting a date.
(Copyright W. Allen)
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Sam
bill...@gmail.com says...
(Copyright W. Allen)
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