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Can we be done with GOAT yet?
August 06, 2024, 07:29 AM
Redleg06Can we be done with GOAT yet?
Can we also throw out 'Perfect'?
The response I get to every answer I give to a waiter/waitress/receptionist/etc. is, "PERFECT". It doesn't matter if it's for water or tea, my last name, phone number, make of car. How on earth can they all be "PERFECT'!
Maybe I should start misspelling my name, transposing numbers, or changing my order to milk.
"Cedat Fortuna Peritis"
August 06, 2024, 07:31 AM
irreverentquote:
Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Its lost all meaning, since they apply the GOAT title to fucking everything and everybody anymore. Someone gets called "GOAT" they might as well just say they're "extra neato."
I’m going to try out “extra neato” today and see how it flies
I had a brother who was a motorhead and yes, goat meant GTO. That and mopar were words tossed around a lot. Seems like forever ago.
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August 06, 2024, 09:11 AM
RightwireI just say this and someone has to up the ante to GWOAT.
https://www.clickondetroit.com...elds-i-am-the-gwoat/
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There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. August 06, 2024, 09:12 AM
Rightwirequote:
Originally posted by Rightwire:
I just say this and someone has to up the ante to GWOAT.
https://www.clickondetroit.com...elds-i-am-the-gwoat/
It's one thing if that label gets tossed at you. If you declare it yourself you define arrogant.
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There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. August 06, 2024, 09:12 AM
1967GoatWait, what?
August 06, 2024, 11:01 AM
PrefontaineThe first time I ever heard the term it was a Texan, Colin Edwards II, describing Valentino Rossi. That was around 20 years ago. I consider Michael Jordan the greatest basketball player, greatest team sports player, and best athlete of all time. And I agree with Colin about Valentino.
Now they just throw it around all the time. And people call LeQuit James that
Fuck outta here, not even in the top 10. Glazers (Gen Z) use it all the time as they “glaze” over everything that happened before their time. If it didn’t happen in their lifetime, it doesn’t count and doesn’t exist.
What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone
August 06, 2024, 11:33 AM
CoolRich59quote:
Originally posted by Schmelby:
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Originally posted by PASig:
I still remember when it referred to a football player who fumbled a kick and lost the big game.
Bill Buckner in the 86 World Series. Right between his legs.
The ex-Cub factor.
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August 06, 2024, 11:48 AM
HRKThis is one of the Greatest of All Threads....
August 06, 2024, 12:53 PM
irreverentWe saw that.
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August 06, 2024, 04:42 PM
EdmondI remember some people called the 2004-2006 version of the GTO the goat as well. I wanted one of those. Big V8, small brakes, 6 speed manual. What's not to like?
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August 07, 2024, 09:51 AM
dgshooterI'd like to add the phrase "It's a game changer!"
August 07, 2024, 09:55 AM
selogicIt's here to stay . At least for a while longer until some other silly ass saying comes along . I never use the term and that's all I can do .
August 07, 2024, 10:29 AM
bcereussquote:
Originally posted by Redleg06:
Can we also throw out 'Perfect'?
The response I get to every answer I give to a waiter/waitress/receptionist/etc. is, "PERFECT". It doesn't matter if it's for water or tea, my last name, phone number, make of car. How on earth can they all be "PERFECT'!
Maybe I should start misspelling my name, transposing numbers, or changing my order to milk.
Sounds good.
August 07, 2024, 10:36 AM
TRIOAs a founding member of a local charity, a younger volunteer introduced me as goat to a new volunteer. I was dumbfounded as I don't do anything exceptional.
I think it is a way younger folks express a thought. They don't know how to use a thesaurus.
It is a dumbing down or becoming lazy to only using one expression for everything. Then gets overused, losing it's meaning.
August 07, 2024, 10:38 AM
chellim1
FEAR THE GOAT!
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown
"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor August 07, 2024, 10:50 AM
Z06
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August 08, 2024, 08:53 AM
jhe888quote:
Originally posted by whanson_wi:
I know its current meaning, but whenever I hear it, I see the Peanuts cartoon of Charlie Brown trying to steal home plate. He can be either the hero, or the goat.
Hint: he didn't make it, and he was the goat.
I am also reminded of Charlie Brown by the term.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. August 08, 2024, 08:58 AM
229DAKOfficial definition from the West Point Bugle Notes, 1972 edition:
GOAT, n., A man in the lower sections. A man near the bottom of his class.
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August 08, 2024, 09:06 AM
vinnybassquote:
Originally posted by dgshooter:
I'd like to add the phrase "It's a game changer!"
I'm with you on that.
While we're at it can we add "on steroids" to the list? Which is still being abused to describe anything overblown.
"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities." August 08, 2024, 09:41 AM
Slippery PeteEd Coan is the GOAT.
Anyone else is just pretending.