GOAT added to the dictionary

While there’s no question that the term GOAT is also used with reference to Serena Williams, LeBron James, Michael Jordan, and Lionel Messi, mentions of “GOAT” together with “Brady” are between two and four times more frequent than “GOAT” with any of these other famous athletes in the NEXIS database of newspapers.

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The Brandon Five said:

Helps that MW is in Springfield, Mass.

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Merriam-Webster cites a quote about Tom Brady in the listing: "There's no denying what Aaron Rodgers has done in his career, but to say Rodgers is the GOAT is a big statement considering what Tom Brady has accomplished. —Pro Football Weekly."

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PlainOldEd said:

Has Tom ever played against anyone who is literally 1/2 his age? I dont think so, but it seems like it should be coming soon.... They'd have to be 20 and a half right now... Youngest on the Texans roster is 21, so I guess not this week...

Sorry, just some drunken pondering..

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Thelonious said:

As a card-carrying conservative, subspecies rabid libertarian, I'm not really fond of groups of people changing stuff. These gd innovators never attend to what is lost when they put their newfangled nonsense in place.

Take "gay" for example, formerly as charming a little word as ever there was. As a rabid libertarian, I am of course rabidly in favor of gay rights, and have done quite a lot of work in support of that cause, but whatever worthy ideological point is made by appropriation of this lovely word, such use entails a loss. Botany is a hobby of mine, and one of my favorite flowers is polygala paucifolia, long (fomerly?) known as "gay wings." Well, you see the point: we've certainly lost THAT adorable plant name!

So it is with "goat." The "goat" used to be the guy who screwed up and lost the game, probably for reasons deeply instilled in mankind's collective instinctive memory of our experience as neolithic goatherds, or something. Now we've lost that word, and have no idea what to call these people, except for some wretched, measley, sterile thing like "person whose error led to the loss." Ick.

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PatsWSB47 said:

Don't lose the word Thelonious, it's still as appropriate as it ever was. Shallow agenda ridden partisans want to define us for our language that they have determined must be offensive to someone. The Washington Redskins is a football team, originally so named I guess to make fans proud of their team. Instead now we're told that it's supposed to do the opposite. Actually the word "Washington" I think has morphed into the more offensive one, considering the current behavior of our leaders on both sides.

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Thelonious said:

polygala paucifolia, long (fomerly?) known as "gay wings."

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maineman209 said:

Fringed milkwort really isn't nearly as adorable.

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Thelonious said:

As a card-carrying conservative, subspecies rabid libertarian, I'm not really fond of groups of people changing stuff. These gd innovators never attend to what is lost when they put their newfangled nonsense in place.

Take "gay" for example, formerly as charming a little word as ever there was. As a rabid libertarian, I am of course rabidly in favor of gay rights, and have done quite a lot of work in support of that cause, but whatever worthy ideological point is made by appropriation of this lovely word, such use entails a loss. Botany is a hobby of mine, and one of my favorite flowers is polygala paucifolia, long (fomerly?) known as "gay wings." Well, you see the point: we've certainly lost THAT adorable plant name!

So it is with "goat." The "goat" used to be the guy who screwed up and lost the game, probably for reasons deeply instilled in mankind's collective instinctive memory of our experience as neolithic goatherds, or something. Now we've lost that word, an
d have no idea what to call these people, except for some wretched, measley, sterile thing like "person whose error led to the loss." Ick.

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Tony2046 said:

Well at least we still have the ****ie willow.

Oh wait...

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Dragda said:

Here’s my GOAT! I named him Brady. (Edit: Well if it would let me post it. ) see avatar.

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Dragda said:

Here’s my GOAT! I named him Brady.

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Thelonious said:

A Toggenburg, I believe, maybe an alpine. I'm more a nubian guy myself, though a Saanen, properly groomed is quite a fine little goat. Once upon a time, I had a flock of angoras, because of the government subsidies, doncha know, though shearing them twice a year was burden.

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On reflection, those ears have quite a Nubian look about them. Are you trafficking in hybrids?

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