The former #7 wrote:#6 and climbing...
What am I? (UD2)
by udosuk » Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:22 pm
MCC wrote:The award for becoming #1 is the "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" trophy, the trouble is, #1's have a short life expectancy
Let's hope the current #1 doesn't happen to read this and take any offence from those words...
By "life expectancy" if you're talking about "time of reign" then as far as I know the current #1 (regarding to this topic) must have been staying there for quite a long time... Also there are many sporting examples of "long-lived" #1's, e.g. Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, Annika Sorenstam, Tiger Woods, ...
If you mean "life" as its general meaning then I don't find any scientific evidence supporting this... And it could be interpreted as some kind of cursing...
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by MCC » Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:07 am
udosuk wrote:MCC wrote:The award for becoming #1 is the "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" trophy, the trouble is, #1's have a short life expectancy
Let's hope the current #1 doesn't happen to read this and take any offence from those words...
By "life expectancy" if you're talking about "time of reign" then as far as I know the current #1 (regarding to this topic) must have been staying there for quite a long time... Also there are many sporting examples of "long-lived" #1's, e.g. Roger Federer, Pete Sampras, Annika Sorenstam, Tiger Woods, ...
Maybe it's the quiet complacency of not knowing your #1
udosuk wrote:If you mean "life" as its general meaning then I don't find any scientific evidence supporting this... And it could be interpreted as some kind of cursing...
Have you never seen White Heat with James Cagney
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by RW » Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:41 am
udosuk wrote:If you mean "life" as its general meaning then I don't find any scientific evidence supporting this... And it could be interpreted as some kind of cursing...
If you look upon #1 in the more general meaning of 'leader', then there's several examples. The American leaders for example (Lincoln, Kennedy...). Also, as a trained platoon leader myself, I am aware that during WWII at our eastern border, platoon leaders had the shortest life expectancy within the platoon.
PS. I think the Flying Finn at #28 is soon going to be among the top 3 newcomers of the year, even though he missed the first 2 1/2 months of the season!
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by udosuk » Wed Aug 09, 2006 8:19 am
With a wry grin, the Aussie Battler at #5 quitely slipped past the Wicked Lady at #4... And their positions are now swapped... But his very next obstacle, the much dreaded Riddler at #3, looks like a gigantically daunting challenge for any non-Russian speaker...
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by lunababy_moonchild » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:27 am
MCC wrote:Добро пожаловать до верхние 3
According to Babelfish this means Good to grant to upper 3
Luna
PS I'm not sure that I'm happy about foreign languages being used, since I don't really have the time to translate everything and I do have to monitor everything on the site, so please keep these quotes to a minimum.
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by udosuk » Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:34 pm
Sorry luna, in reply to MCC I think I must post this:
I guarantee it's nothing offensive, and would like to challenge MCC to see if he could guess my original English sentence of 7 words...
Russian interpreter wrote:Я не в верхние 3 пока
I guarantee it's nothing offensive, and would like to challenge MCC to see if he could guess my original English sentence of 7 words...
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