OldTimer’s Dugout - Off Topic Thread

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Hate to say it but we might be staring down the barrel of another 8-4 season. Going to 9 games is single handily the stupidest 💩 Sankey has ever done. Any team in the conference is going to be celebrating going 9-3. 10-2 will feel like we won a national championship.
 
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TN Jed said:
Eff them Paladins. What's a paladin?
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An Arabian prince? …nope:

  • Charlemagne's Knights: The most famous paladins were the twelve legendary knights in Charlemagne's court, analogous to the Knights of the Round Table, appearing in medieval French epics (chansons de geste).
  • Origin: The word comes from Latin, meaning "of the palace," referring to guards of the imperial palace in Rome, later applied to Charlemagne's elite warriors.
 
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TN Jed said:
For you older folks, "what's a Rutgers?"
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"Rutgers" is primarily known as a surname of Dutch origin, meaning
it comes from the male given name Rutger. It was adopted as the name of Rutgers University in 1825 to honor Colonel Henry Rutgers, a Revolutionary War hero and benefactor of the institution at the time.
 
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chuckiepoo said:
An Arabian prince? …nope:

  • Charlemagne's Knights: The most famous paladins were the twelve legendary knights in Charlemagne's court, analogous to the Knights of the Round Table, appearing in medieval French epics (chansons de geste).
  • Origin: The word comes from Latin, meaning "of the palace," referring to guards of the imperial palace in Rome, later applied to Charlemagne's elite warriors.
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Also popular with the dungeons and dragons crowd.
 
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chuckiepoo said:
"Rutgers" is primarily known as a surname of Dutch origin, meaning
it comes from the male given name Rutger. It was adopted as the name of Rutgers University in 1825 to honor Colonel Henry Rutgers, a Revolutionary War hero and benefactor of the institution at the time.
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No, no. When we played Rutgers in the late 60s or early 70s, there was a quote, "what's a Rutgers?" Ended up like Georgia State.
 
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