Net54baseball.com question and answer

[barrysloate]

Thanks Don. It makes perfect sense.

[barrysloate]

Texas is a little backward, Jim.

[Rob D.]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Frank- to me "further" and "farther" are interchangeable, but I believe there is a nuance between them. If you know please share.

They're not interchangeable. Well, at least they're not meant to be.

Farther should be used for physical distance and further for metaphorical or figurative distance.

[Jim VB]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Texas is a little backward, Jim.

It's all relative, Barry. Folks in Kansas think Texas is on the lunatic fringe.


(No offense to anyone in Kansas. I'm just saying...)

[Jim VB]

Has there ever been a Net 54 thread that went farther, further, and faster off the rails than this one?

Right now, if someone made a baseball card observation on here, would they have to note it as OT?

[GoldenAge50s]

What's a baseball card? ---and why would anyone care?

[Jim VB]

As long as we're already OT...


Word of the day: 1. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

[PGACPA]

delete

[barrysloate]

I think this has become the thread not to discuss baseball cards. It's for filling time on a lazy Saturday afternoon (springlike in Brooklyn today).

[mybuddyinc]

Originally Posted by Rob D.

They're not interchangeable. Well, at least they're not meant to be.

Farther should be used for physical distance and further for metaphorical or figurative distance.

............ and for a virtual illiterate like me, easy to remember:

Farther = FAR = Distance

[Kawika]

[barrysloate]

How about "far out", which doesn't express distance but a state of mind?

[rc4157]

I haven't really checked out the site for a couple of days, I come back today and see this thread!
Wow! Where am I? Chickens/Eggs, Further/Farther, etc.../etc...,
RC

[GoldenAge50s]

What could be more appropriate at this juncture than an elephant joke?

What is the difference between a beer joint & an elephant fart?

[barrysloate]

You've got me Fred.

[Jim VB]

One's a bar room and the other is a BAROOOOM!

[GoldenAge50s]

Hey Barry--

You & I may be the only ones left alive for this thread, so here 'ya go---

A beer joint is a bar room--an elephant fart is a BARRR----OOOOOOOM!

By the way, I wonder if this is the FIRST elephant joke ever on Net54?

---and if it isn't, I'll bet it's the 1st one that, because of this thread, wouldn't be considered OT!



PS---Jim--You slipped in while I was typing! Good job!

[barrysloate]

We haven't had that many elephant jokes.

[Leon]

So there's a guy sitting on a fence in Arizona snapping his fingers. Another guy comes up and asks him what he is doing? Guy on the fence tells him he is keeping elephants away. Guy that walked up says, there ain't any elephants for thousands of miles of here. Guy on fence says "it's working ain't it!!"

[leftygrove10]

What is the difference between Yankee fans and dentists?

[GoldenAge50s]

I'll stab!

A dentist is a pain in the mouth while a Yankee fan is a pain in the -ss!