I've never really understood what The Meadow was. Perhaps Skin or someone can explain. http://packerrats.com/showthread.php?23092-The-Meadow
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I've never really understood what The Meadow was. Perhaps Skin or someone can explain. http://packerrats.com/showthread.php?23092-The-Meadow
I think my favorite mean from another board was when one of our posters fresh out of a free public school system pointed out that hindsight was 50/50.
That meme even has deeper levels of meaning. Maybe hindsight is 50/50.
actually 50/50 would be the equivalent of 20/20 so he isn't wrong per say:
"It's essentially equal to 20/20. It means that when standing fifty feet away from something, (let's assume you're reading) you can read what the average person would be able to from fifty feet away. If you had 50/100 vision, it would mean that you would have to be fifty feet away from something to see what the average person can see from one hundred feet away."
There are no cement blocks in the Meadow.
The Meadow: Exists currently as a thread in the Garbage Can where one can hurl insults and witticisms of all varieties at other posters without fear of being punished for vulgarity, rudeness or transgressions of one of the seven deadly sins (pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth for the forgetful). http://packerrats.com/showthread.php?23092-The-Meadow
Which reminds me, there should be seven deadly PackerRats sins thread.
But back to topic. Poster Woodbuck, who might get his own entry in the PackerRats encyclopedia covering several long pages, would express his frustration with posters who vexed him by indicating he desired a place to take whippersnapper posters and teach them some manners. There was a suggestion of violence, but it could also have been an invitation to sit down for a very long conversation (think Entmoot) and tea. Confusion reigned as the Meadow could have been anything between a gunless OK Corral and a parliament meeting in an amphitheater, though we dare say it always seemed slightly foreboding.
The Meadow seemed an important place or concept initially, where men could hash out their differences, but after initial confusion, the lack of details resulted in the Meadow, for PackerRats anyway, simply being another thread in the Garbage Can that is also ignored by most of the posters.
Next up: Soft 'N Small!
I pray a universe exists where Woodbuck is a fist-fighting superhero.
Found this after wasting time reliving fame wars.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodbuck
I am the ruler of The Meadow! and I'm not even sure what it is. All I know is that Upnorth still owes me 3 bags of double stuffed Oreos.
But that is exactly the duality of the Meadow and of woodblock's entire oeuvre. Its a place to meet online to take disputes (like a message board!), accompanied by reminders of how you won't be able to win a physical battle (somewhere in Canada). And that people better than posters have taken their shot and lost.
Its a true mind bender. The Meadow is a place an argument can be settled, except that the final form cannot exist in this space.
Maybe its Part II of a trilogy?
I am Dunderdummy!
Jesus, Woodbuck was a lot nuttier than I thought.
If his rant was real, we are almost the same size.
He is a good bit goofier than I am, but he is Canadian, so It's OK
I'm not dunderdummy, but the rest of you are :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfbQdxHfxgY
I think you got it, Wist.
It was the old Spartacus routine.
Hey Bye George I think you got it.
The Meadow was to be a place where 'only' two verbal combatants could begin a take down of the other (without any posting input by any other member).
It was to be the equivalent to the arranged Street Fight between 'only two combatants' like I was used to, in the tough streets of my Hometown the Port City, Saint John, New Brunswick Canada. That literally without any threats of actual physical violence 'of course'.
It was to be a posting duel with one member having the objective of out duelling the other. Using any writing means possible, except threats of violence was 'off limits'.
That duel may go on for hours to even days and the loser is the member that gives up and fails to post for say 20-30 minutes 'Time Limit'.
My Name Is Ed..woodbuck27
Try to get a GRIP on this KY:
The only thing pertinent to who and what I really am and your post above:
Is the fact I Am Canadian and very proud of that; as I should be. Canadians are certainly near the top if not the most highly respected people on this planet Earth.
I will interject this:
I am far from 'as you deem me... nutty'. I am an intelligent, passionate and competitive man with the skills to achieve certain objectives at a high level. I also have given a lot since I became a member here to not be treated as you have in your post.
In clear Packerrat language FUCK YOU KY...I have never done a thing to you to have you call down on me as you have.
KY, you clearly were mistaken in your assessment of WB.
Way to go, Woody! You are in mid-season form. The offseason workouts (6000 crunches) must have been outstanding.
http://packerrats.com/showthread.php...Lunatic-Fringe
I don't think we will ever see the Meadow explicated better than the last few batches of posts.
Soft 'n Small:
For some time, but building to a crescendo around 2013's disaster of a defense, the public and the media had settled on twin explanations for the defensive failures.
The Defensive front was too small. And the players had a character defect known as soft.
Soft n Small is the boards' small way of reminding you that this is a dumb explanation.
Next up. Joe's suggestion: Dunderdummy
wist should obviously define this one. Just remember to post another PackerRats term when you are done with that opus :)
Dunderdummy:
A nickname given to DC Dom Capers by wist. This is in reference to wist's belief that Capers is a such a bad DC that it would not matter what personnel he is given, he will underutilize them, put them in poor position, or come up with a moronic defensive scheme (usually the much maligned 2-4 front) and thus will result in the defense playing poorly. Usually this involves not covering anyone in the middle of the field and being unable to stop the run. A synonym for this is also Spraypainthair.
Next up, I'm going old school (if it's allowed): Grabby McSmurf.
All right then Ky ! :glug:
This place is certainly not for 'the meek and mild'. LOL
Some times you have to almost get the knuckles out. That was what The Meadow was going to be all about as I viewed it.
To keep any shit between Posters out of the mainstrean limelight and strictly a one on one affair.
Let's get our heads on straight fellas. We got a job to do. So stop fooling around testing out who has the largest horns and hardest head.
And someone answer Craig's challenge and define Grabby McSmurf for new peoples.
http://packerrats.com/showthread.php...l=1#post932307
Bonus points if you remember who coined it.
Grabby McSmurf was Packer cornerback Ahman Carroll. He was dwarf-like. Listed at 5'10", he looked shorter than that. His nick came from his habit of not being able to keep his cotton pickin hands off receivers.
Who hung that name on him?
I'd guess Nutz or Skin. Those boys were usually at the bottom of most mischief in those days.
Yes I thought it was coined for CB Ahmad Carroll.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Carroll
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/i...9RDNGEdhXhRr7Q
Here is a task for someone. Go back, way back over the threads to try and determine exactly who coined that nickname for Ahman Carroll. It seems to me that Mad really like this CB. He certainly was 'grabby' and short for the ideal CB.
I confuse Carrol with T-Buck. But they played ten years apart.
Anybody remember the members of the "EC Club?"
KYP and Woodie have taken care of Grabby McSmurf. I could not find the first instance for the coiner of the nickname, but it is one of the best.
Since neither KYP or Woodie volunteered the next word up for a definition, I will.
Packer People is next.