to: mr e. garry hill re: world rankings

[tafnut]

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You may be right, gh, but when I was on a carrier for a while in the 70's, there were plenty of lines all over the place and we talked about a fouled deck as being unready to accept incoming sorties.

Re: to: mr e. garry hill re: world rankings

My websters says "fouled" but I think we all know what the normal reference is. My dad, who was in WW2, told me when I was a kid it was a military term as that was the norm in warfare...usually complete chaos.

Quick dogpile search also brought up: Southern Nevada Ale Fermentors Union...think I'll avoid their brews!

[gh]

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Webster says it doesn't enter the language until 1941, when there was certainly a minimal amount of rigging to be concerned with aboard ship.

[tafnut]

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I was told that that one is actually "fouled", as in a 'fouled deck', i.e. rope lines that crossed each other and caused problems.

[gh]

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Don't forget the grand-daddy of them all, SNAFU

[tafnut]

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yeah - old Navy acronym, like FUBAR or BOHICA

[MJD]

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>He's the HMFIC.
Does that stand for what I think it stands for?

[tafnut]

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I think you already hit the ceiling. He's the HMFIC.

[trackhead]

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is there someone else i should address this to?

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T&F News should revert to rankings based strictly on outdoor performances and sans Cross Country of course. Perhaps T&F News could publich a top 5 world ranking per event from indoors,in April, to appease the desire to include indoor performances in their annual rankings.
I will never buy into the concept that an indoor LJ is 100% equivalent to an outdoor LJ.

[trackhead]

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An interesting note about the AOY awards:

of the 44 Mens AOY TnF has awarded, only 17 of those have been awarded to single-event athletes.

on the womens side, 7 out of 29 AOY awards have been given to single event athletes.

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>>but, how can javelin throwers compete for AOY honours when all others have
>an
>unfair advantage of an extra season?


Exactly. If runners, SP'ers and
>jumpers are "allowed" to have the 'indoor-advantage' for AOY ranking terms,
>then why aren't long-distance runners "allowed" to have the
>'grass-and-road-advantage' also...??>

Track and Field News

[Jon]

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>but, how can javelin throwers compete for AOY honours when all others have an
>unfair advantage of an extra season?


Exactly. If runners, SP'ers and jumpers are "allowed" to have the 'indoor-advantage' for AOY ranking terms, then why aren't long-distance runners "allowed" to have the 'grass-and-road-advantage' also...??

[Jon]

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>Let me try a wild guess, but isn't indoor TRACK & FIELD still TRACK & FIELD,
>and CC/road is NOT? Formula I fans don't consider NASCAR a cognate.



How can you have an indoor field, then...??

[trackhead]

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but, how can javelin throwers compete for AOY honours when all others have an unfair advantage of an extra season?