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The last post is the WINNER!

Thief

Rogue Theologian
I shall have all that I have done and more.....
hundreds of postings proclaim my winning

and so it was ....is .....and shall always be......mine

It's all about ME!
 

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
I'm currently watching Olympic curling.
It appears to be a game about sweeping a bowling lane
covered in ice, while throwing rocks at another guy's rocks.
I cannot look away...it's like watching a train wreck
involving trains moving at a snail's pace while people yell.
Eventually, they decide who wins. I've no idea how.

Considering its janitorial theme, rock throwing, yelling, &
inscrutable rules, it just had to have been invented by Scots.

How is this a winning post?
After making the above statements, I googled "curling history".
It was indeed invented in Scotland. Brain on fire today!

Not surprised.....Scotland...... a country where they decided putting on a skirt and throwing telephone poles was a fun sport

 

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
Caber curling?

That would be silly..... they would throw the Caber and break the ice so no one could do any curling and then they would all have to....swim...... for it.....

You know, you may be on to something there....... Caber Curling Freestyle......
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
That would be silly..... they would throw the Caber and break the ice so no one could do any curling and then they would all have to....swim...... for it.....

You know, you may be on to something there....... Caber Curling Freestyle......
We have a winner
 

beenherebeforeagain

Rogue Animist
Premium Member
I shall have all that I have done and more.....
hundreds of postings proclaim my winning

and so it was ....is .....and shall always be......mine

It's all about ME!
You are currently seventh on the list of posers...I mean posters...in this thread...which includes me and the other usual suspects...together the six of us have 42,412 winning posts to your dismal 2,805...

It's true...you're a legend in your own mind!
 

Wu Wei

ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
You are currently seventh on the list of posers...I mean posters...in this thread...which includes me and the other usual suspects...together the six of us have 42,412 winning posts to your dismal 2,805...

It's true...you're a legend in your own mind!

To be honest.... I'm not sure he is a legend there either.....but I win just the same
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Caber tossing is nothing. But take a curling stone and attach it to the end of the caber and then lay about bashing everyone near to you. The last one standing wins the gold medal. That's a real sport.
 

4consideration

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Premium Member
They of course did not get off Scot free.
Scott free? I don't think anyone gets that.

But....I was able to find you a coupon.

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sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Scott free? I don't think anyone gets that.

But....I was able to find you a coupon.

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For those who are interested or even if no one is interested, let me inflict some background including the link to drinking booze (sex and booze are at the bottom of so much):

Scot-free arose in the 16th century as an alteration of the earlier term shot-free. It probably originated in the sense ‘not required to pay a scot (tax or fee)’ or ‘free of charge’, as in this example from 1792: ‘Scot-free the Poets drank and ate; They paid no taxes to the State!’ (John Wolcot, Odes of Condolence). This meaning is no longer common, but it seems to have been used as late as 1921, in hearings before the US Senate Committee on Finance: ‘The common laborer does not know that that act [on taxation] was passed. He is scot free at 40 cents an hour’.

However, the earliest attested evidence for scot-free in the OED is in the sense that is more common today, in a more generalized meaning of ‘without being punished’, dating from as early as 1528. Thus, in his epistolary novel Pamela (1740), Samuel Richardson wrote ‘She should not, for all the Trouble she has cost you, go away scot-free.’

The most intriguing scot compound is probably scot-ale. According to the OED, this referred to ‘a festivity or “ale” held by the lord of a manor or a forester or other bailiff, for which a contribution was exacted and at which attendance was probably compulsory’; in other words, a party that one was compelled to attend, and for which was also compelled to pay a cover charge. As one 16th-century writer described it, ‘a Scottall or Scot-ale is, where any officer of the Forest doth keepe an Alehouse…and by colour of his office doth cause men to come to his house, and there to spend their money, for feare of hauing his displeasure’


https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/04/15/scot-free-origin/
 
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