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Plaudits
Ducats

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Man-Child

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Tonsorial

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

What sports rag are these from, "Quentin L. Smythe's Monthly Manifesto of Sport"?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Threepeat

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Cagers

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurler

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

priapism

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Furlong

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

what sport is that from Rumpsy?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Triumph

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

GRIDIRON

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

southpaw

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

not strictly true - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/opinion/17dowd.html

xpost

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

krzyzewski

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Cutoff Man

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"incompletion"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

furlong
-- Rumpsy Pumpsy (jennifer.morga...), March 17th, 2005.

what sport is that from Rumpsy?

-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), March 17th, 2005.

T2-Ball

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

baldelli

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Rout

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 March 2005 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"encroachment"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"One game at a time."

"Dunk"

"Javelin"

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Not so fast.
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― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

On the bubble.

― Sundanceinnm, Thursday, 17 March 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Kegglers.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Trounce
Harriers

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 17 March 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Stanchion.

Screamer (not a person).

Tussle.

― darren (darren), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Skip (as a noun)
Clobber

― Huk-L, Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Foul pole (aka fair pole).

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Aplomb

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Bolton

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

intangibles
untracked

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The word "reverse" used as a synonym for "loss".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

During Euro2004, I heard a commentator refer to one particular cross as "rasping". I've never forgotten it.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

adjudged

― Richard C (avoid80), Thursday, 17 March 2005 21:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Drubbing

― DJ Mencap0))), Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Couvade

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 17 March 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

winningest

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 17 March 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Boo Boys

― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:15 (seventeen years ago)

Stramash

― dada wouldn't buy me a bauhaus (aldo), Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:17 (seventeen years ago)

War chest

Swoop

selection headache

blunder

― vain_bowers, Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:20 (seventeen years ago)

Gunners

Hammers

Wankers

― snoball, Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:29 (seventeen years ago)

fired a broadside, blasted, rapped

― vain_bowers, Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:54 (seventeen years ago)

Clattered

― Enemy Insects (NickB), Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:56 (seventeen years ago)

'shipped' in terms of goals conceded - this also seems pretty recent?

― display mane (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 14 May 2009 11:57 (seventeen years ago)

EEPHUS

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:00 (seventeen years ago)

walkoff

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:10 (seventeen years ago)

Powerhouse

― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:11 (seventeen years ago)

slide rule, pacy, wonder-kid

― vain_bowers, Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:12 (seventeen years ago)

War chest is my favourite. As in every year the Scottish press says that David Murray has a £10 million war chest, and then they end up spending a fiver in the transfer window, because actually they're skint.

― languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:20 (seventeen years ago)

before the transfer window 'slams shut'?

― vain_bowers, Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:25 (seventeen years ago)

"absorbing" to mean "skilled in a particular team soccer skill"

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:27 (seventeen years ago)

End-to-end

― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:29 (seventeen years ago)

'aplomb'

― Michael B, Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:32 (seventeen years ago)

Bustling

― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:48 (seventeen years ago)

... people not cities

― Dante ... Bruno . Vico .. Passantino (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 May 2009 12:48 (seventeen years ago)

netminder

encroachment

― Bill Magill, Thursday, 14 May 2009 13:22 (seventeen years ago)

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