Figured Out Why Women Play Basketball

[RockyMTblue2]

It is the endless opportunities for shoes!



Boy, am I going to get a whippin'!

 

[Sonny44]

Yea, my wife has over 50 pairs.

 

[oldude]

Yea, my wife has over 50 pairs.

Of basketball shoes?

 

[eebmg]

It is the endless opportunities for shoes!



Boy, am I going to get a whippin'!

Did she wear them in the Lynx / Sun game?

 

[RockyMTblue2]

Did she wear them in the Lynx / Sun game?

I don't think so. But the sticks were out.

 

[triaddukefan]

hideous

 

[nwhoopfan]

I don't think so. But the sticks were out.

Phee hit a mid range jumper, but how about the drive, spin move and dish by Talbot? That's the real highlight of that play.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

OBTW, it was Teddy Roosevelt in 1901 who used the phrase "speak softy and carry a big stick" to describe his foreign policy in a speech 2 weeks before his election. He later attributed it to West African Proverb. Many have looked and none have found any evidence of that origin. Could be TR was just having fun or he wanted to give his foriegn policy phrase folk wisdom shine.

 

[Boreifs]

OBTW, it was Teddy Roosevelt in 1901 who used the phrase "speak softy and carry a big stick" to describe his foreign policy in a speech 2 weeks before his election. He later attributed it to West African Proverb. Many have looked and none have found any evidence of that origin. Could be TR was just having fun or he wanted to give his foriegn policy phrase folk wisdom shine.

If he indeed it it in 1901, it would be two weeks before his inauguration. That quote was known by every school child in the country in the 1950s.

 

[JimGunther]

Wonder if such would be the case today?

Steve Allen used to say: "It's always good form to ascribe half made-up quotes to Mark Twain".

If he indeed it it in 1901, it would be two weeks before his inauguration. That quote was known by every school child in the country in the 1950s.

 

[Bama fan]

If he indeed it it in 1901, it would be two weeks before his inauguration. That quote was known by every school child in the country in the 1950s.

I think Teddy became president in September of 1901, upon the death of McKinley. But "The Phrase Finder" claims that Teddy wrote the speak softly and carry a big stick in a letter he wrote to Henry L. Sprauge in January of 1900. I am not sure of the legitimacy of his claim that he garnered it from a West African proverb, but Teddy reportedly made that assignation. And I like the shoes too!

 

[Triad]

It is the endless opportunities for shoes!



Boy, am I going to get a whippin'!

Yep, you dood it!!

 

[Triad]

If he indeed it it in 1901, it would be two weeks before his inauguration. That quote was known by every school child in the country in the 1950s.

Amen brother, amen. For more than 1/2 century we knew he spoke it.

 

[Triad]

OBTW, it was Teddy Roosevelt in 1901 who used the phrase "speak softy and carry a big stick" to describe his foreign policy in a speech 2 weeks before his election. He later attributed it to West African Proverb. Many have looked and none have found any evidence of that origin. Could be TR was just having fun or he wanted to give his foriegn policy phrase folk wisdom shine.

Sir are you implying that Politicians may not always speak the truth????

 

[VAMike23]

Sir are you implying that Politicians may not always speak the truth????

 

[Puppy Love]

The reasons that woman play basketball are as varied as the women themselves are. Camaraderie, competition, the opportunity to advance themselves, because the parents ‘said so’ or because it might help a college application are just a few. For the very talented and hard-working it might be because they can earn a college scholarship. I doubt very much for any of them that it is because of the shoes. I know this post was hopefully meant in jest, but it would be hard to take for teenager reading this board.

 

[Aluminny69]

"Most of the things I said, I didn't say." Yogi Berra

 

[Aluminny69]

 

[RockyMTblue2]

See, I told you. It's the shoes!!



I rest my case your honor.

 

[vtcwbuff]

These days it's "speak softly and carry a pink murse"