GOAT added to the dictionary

[Thelonious]

I don’t know what they are for sure. They’re rescues. Our neighbor wasn’t a good goat owner. We have his mom, too. I think alpine sounds familiar. My wife would know.

We also have two Nigerian Dwarf wethers. I love being a goat keeper but glad I don’t have to sheer them. Change their water twice a day and feed them enough to supplement the field grass and occasional hoof care. Easy. They are surprisingly picky eaters.

Nice. I really do love goats. We've had all sorts over the years. There is no animal cuter than a baby goat. It's only the angoras you have to shear, of course: my wife was into spinning (on a wheel, not a bike!) for a while. We had Romney sheep and angora goats, with an admixture of vagabond Togs and Alpines over the years. Trimming their hooves is a pain, wiggly as goats are. These days we have only one Icelandic sheep and a bazillion chickens: we're winding down. Congrats on the rescue angle. You're good people.

 

[Jackson 2]

I don’t know what they are for sure. They’re rescues. Our neighbor wasn’t a good goat owner. We have his mom, too. I think alpine sounds familiar. My wife would know.

We also have two Nigerian Dwarf wethers. I love being a goat keeper but glad I don’t have to sheer them. Change their water twice a day and feed them enough to supplement the field grass and occasional hoof care. Easy. They are surprisingly picky eaters.

I had 2 Nigerian Dwarfs but I traded them in for their uncle who is a Nigerian Prince because he showed up at our door with a check for $4.6 billion dollars. I cashed the check and gave him a room in the basement. We're all happy now.

 

[Dragda]

Nice. I really do love goats. We've had all sorts over the years. There is no animal cuter than a baby goat. It's only the angoras you have to shear, of course: my wife was into spinning (on a wheel, not a bike!) for a while. We had Romney sheep and angora goats, with an admixture of vagabond Togs and Alpines over the years. Trimming their hooves is a pain, wiggly as goats are. These days we have only one Icelandic sheep and a bazillion chickens: we're winding down. Congrats on the rescue angle. You're good people.

Nubian is the breed of Goat Brady is. Might be mixed. I don’t know the daddy goat.

 

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[maineman209]

Nope. I first saw it on a hike alongside a waterfall in central New York (Taughanock [sp?]). It was a weird electric blue little airplane -looking thing by the side of the trail. I haven't seen it since, which is probably a good thing.

As I understand it, the blue-flowered variety is relatively uncommon, perhaps like Trillium grandiflorum roseum.

 

[maineman209]

Yes, as well as the Lady's Thumb, the Nipplewort, and the Stinkhorn for those seeking a more alternative experience.

I found a patch of Dog stinkhorn growing in some mulch off to the side of one of my raised beds last year. First time I'd ever seen it, aside from photos. That's one .... ummm .... "striking" looking fungus.

 

[Thelonious]

As I understand it, the blue-flowered variety is relatively uncommon, perhaps like Trillium grandiflorum roseum.

Heh. I once saw in some wet woods a wide area of T. Grandiflorum Variegatum, but I have never seen var. roseum. Hope, of course, springs eternal, and there is reputed (per my 1950 ed. of Gray's Manual of Botany) to be a small stand of small whorled pogonia somewhere here in New Hampshire. These are the things that keep me from defenestrating myself.

I wish I were kidding about this stuff, but to a significant degree, I'm not. I mean, have you seen the news lately?

 

[Thelonious]

It occurs to me that I would have VERY mixed feelings if I were to see a goat eating a small whorled pogonia. I'd rather go to to an all-night Jim Carey film festival.

 

[PlainOldEd]

In the near future,

"Tom Brady just beat a QB in the SB who wasn't even born during Brady's first SB victory "

I'm tipsy too so I can follow the logic.

I think it may be 10/29. Tremain Edmunds of the Bills. There may be one before then but he is the youngest currently in the NFL I think.

 

[maineman209]

Heh. I once saw in some wet woods a wide area of T. Grandiflorum Variegatum, but I have never seen var. roseum. Hope, of course, springs eternal, and there is reputed (per my 1950 ed. of Gray's Manual of Botany) to be a small stand of small whorled pogonia somewhere here in New Hampshire. These are the things that keep me from defenestrating myself.

I wish I were kidding about this stuff, but to a significant degree, I'm not. I mean, have you seen the news lately?

Whorled pogonia or whirled peas? Tough choice.

Where we lived in Ann Arbor just before moving to Maine, there was a trail that ran behind our backyard that led to a nature center that was very well cared for, but not very well attended. We pretty much had the place to ourselves - and our golden retriever and two cats who'd go on walks with us.

Part of the nature center trail wound around a fairly, large damp section of wooded area. In the spring, it was literally covered in T. Grandiflorum var. roseum.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

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.

Yeah, the 'Skins were OK when they were in Boston.

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

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.

40 Years Later... "Havlicek Stole the Ball"

Bill Russell: "These goat horns are growing about an inch a second on the top off my head... someone please bail me out!"

And Russ winds up being the GOAT, after all

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

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.

Women's tennis: Margaret Court

But for courage, heroism and pioneering for African-Americans, it's easily Althea Gibson.

Althea Gibson - Wikipedia

Men's tennis: "Rocket" Rod Laver.

But for the very same things mentioned above, it's easily Arthur Ashe.

Arthur Ashe - Wikipedia

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

Merriam-Webster editor on Tom Brady's role in GOAT's entry into dictionary | Boston.com

How is Tom Brady involved?


How do we feel about that quote?
"Awwwwww, Yeah"

Serena who? LeBron who? Michael who? Lionel who?

 

[n1997y]

I submit that the combined discussion of caprine varieties, rescues, and rare wildflowers qualify this as the GOAT (Greatest Of All Threads).

 

[Actual Pats Fan]

I submit that the combined discussion of caprine varieties, rescues, and rare wildflowers qualify this as the GOAT (Greatest Of All Threads).

 

[NormZauchin]

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.

The Redskins got the name because they started off in Boston at a time when the NFL was much less popular than major league baseball. Some franchises traded on the home town baseball club name, thus the Chicago Bears (Cubs), Detroit Lions (Tigers) and New York Giants. In Boston, the two baseball teams were the Red Sox and the Braves. "Redskins" neatly associated the football club with each team.