Today's Insane News: FPI rips up uniform for having something resembling a cross.

[godmachine12]

His son, a legislator named Nur Agus Haz, was arrested earlier this year for beating up his pembantu. Ironically, this scoundrel is not a stranger to one of the Jakarta nightlife areas under military protection and one of his companies -- but an anti-FPI screed is probably not the place for such stuff.

A new thread then? It's worth reading.

 

[waarmstrong]

Perhaps making up a cover story is a losing proposition, but I dare say that the official Japanese history of World War II is one hell of a college try.

 

[Scooterindo]

Perhaps making up a cover story is a losing proposition, but I dare say that the official Japanese history of World War II is one hell of a college try.

Sorry what do you mean by that ?? I'm not familiar with the expression.

 

[jstar]

Waarmie was in college then...

old college try A wild and desperate attempt to make a play. Sometimes the term carries a hint of showboating. Babe Ruth (Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball, 1928) defined "giving it the old college try" as "playing to the grandstand or making strenuous effort to field a ball that obviously cannot be handled." In a column that appeared in the Columbus (Ohio) Citizen (Nov. 26, 1927) and was quoted in American Speech (Apr. 1930), Billy Evans wrote that "I gave it the old college try" is a term "often used in big league baseball, when some player keeps on going after a fly ball, usually in foul territory, with the odds about ten to one he would never reach it. Teammates of such a player often beat him to it by shouting in unison with the thought of humor uppermost: 'Well, kid, you certainly gave it the old college try,' as he falls short of making the catch." Evans continued: "When some player does something that a professional player might not ordinarily attempt, such as colliding with a fielder who had the ball ready to touch him out, in the hope that he might make him drop the ball, regardless of the danger he was courting, someone is sure to say, often ironically, if the speaker happens to be one of the players in the field: 'That's the old college spirit.'" Extended Use. The term was quickly applied to any effort with limited chances of success.

 

[waarmstrong]

Thanks, Jstar. Lack of college attendance does not mean you cannot make a college try.

Amazing it is not that the English, sometimes need an interpreter to understand English?

 

[Anglian]

Thanks, Jstar. Lack of college attendance does not mean you cannot make a college try.

Amazing it is not that the English, sometimes need an interpreter to understand English?

Yes, happens on occasion,

 

[jstar]

I dare say that the official Japanese history of World War II is one hell of a college try.

Quite an interesting documentary on History Channel: Rising Sun over Malaya.