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A game in which players toss a jackknife in various prescribed ways, with the object being to make the blade stick firmly into the ground. [From the phrase mumble the peg, from the fact that originally the loser had to pull up with the teeth a peg driven into the ground.]
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yes.
no.
i tend to disagree with my dear husband on this one. why this long, drawn out death? the countdown was at least two weeks too long. but i think there is something about ending it on the day it was started. poor peg, just put it out of it's misery!
Abby,
Do you have something to gain from the death of the peg? A bet perhaps? You seem very eager for our poor dear friends demise.
if I could pick a day to die it would be my birthday. Something noble about that.
i guess i would gain peace of mind, you know, that it's no longer out there, this odd representation of my husband and his friends and all their quandaries. not that there is anything necessarily wrong with the things y'all post, but that everyone has become so disconnected and polarized in their postings. jed is always theological. matt is almost always political or environmental. and george shows up every now and then with baseball or movies. and i had to check to see if jeff and jason were even still contributors. and then you just get the feeling that no one else is as into the thing that the other one is talking about. so maybe jed should have his own theology blog where theology buffs go and matt should have his own birmingham politics and environmental blog and george should just quit blogging altogether for a while :) i guess i think each peg contributor could better stand on his own. but that is not really anything i have to gain. maybe it's just that i can see what it was and that it's not that anymore, but i can see what it could be if it broke off into other singular blogs. in short, the group is not seeming like much of a group anymore.
in longer, i think it has essentially already suffered its demise. and it seems like it would've been better to quit while it was ahead. you said it before, it kind of "jumped the shark" a long time ago.
but i don't really expect you to agree because i am pretty sure george won't either.
but i do agree with you.
I agree that your husband killed the blog last year sometime and that he hasn't added anything of value in quite some time. And I also think Jed's post are very boring. What is worse than reading fiction books? Reading what Jed has to say about them...
Really I blame George for the death...well murder really...of the peg.
I would say that the appeal of this blog was the community aspect and that I have zero interest of creating my own blog (so rest easy world wide web).
matt, look at us being on the same page! i told you we weren't destined to be at odds about everything ;)
but you really don't have any plans of blogging in the future? i wonder if you will change your mind. on the other hand, i sort of see the appeal of being relieved of the obligation to churn out something new for the folks at home.
i think i am a little less eager for the end of the countdown knowing that we won't hear from you somewhere else. i think i just assumed there would be spin offs.
I like the hodge-podge. I am aquainted with both George and Churnock friday afternoon ultimate (from way-back when), and may or may not know anybody else on the blog. My guess is no. But I've enjoyed the posts. Will be missed.
It got killed with the move to privacy. I just wish we could not post about the theological stuff that we know we wont find any sort of satisfactory resolution on. The big stuff, the important stuff, I'm sure we all agree on. It's the other stuff and the comments that follow it from both sides that could have a real detrimental impact on folks.
I was out for a while with the whole changing careers thing. While applying with the FBI, I just couldn't post stuff period. Then with the AIr Force, kind of the same thing. I didn't want someone to google me (which both of those employers do) and find me in some long debate on some irrelevant theological issue or leaving an innocuous comment on a BTM post about masturbation or something.
Now that I'm settled again, I am looking to write some - I have a lot more free time on my hands now even though I have a child, because I'm home between 4:30 and 5:00 every day. Kristin and I went to dinner tonight for our anniversary and we were talking about how I should write some. I would love to do that on here because I trust the contributors and value your unique opinions. Even the opinions of this "Abby" person that clearly doesn't like the peg and who I now, with no basis, blame for it's death. I also wanted to be able to berate George's fantasy baseball offers in a more public setting where he can be subjected to the open scorn he deserves.
Anyway, I don't like the idea of spinnoffs, but I think I am going to start another blog (by the way, we have a blog for our family at gamminsinutah.wordpress.com for anyone who want's to see what we're up to) where I write some stuff and would like y'all to regularly comment or, even better, contribute. I too would hate to see the end of Matt's larry postings (although I rarely follow the links to see what he's so excised about) and even Jed's book postings.
Anyway, all that to say, I don't want to see the peg die.
uh, that's gammonsinutah not gamminsinutah
I blame my fat fingers
Out of everyone who posts/comments on here I never would have thought Gammons would be the one trying to save the Peg. I thought his reaction to the news would be inline with the Blood Hound Gangs song 'The Roof is on Fire'.
"The Roof (the Peg) is on Fire (Dying)
We don't need no water let the m-fer burn.
Burn m-fer, burn."
Brent, are you the Brent from the LRC?
George,
LRC? I'm going to have to say probably not. I was at AU from the fall of '99 through the summer of '03. If my memory serves me properly, I think you had graduated but you still came back to Plains, and whilst there indulged in some disk.
When I look at the impending dilapidation of my frame (It hasn't happened yet, but I see the writing on the wall) I wonder if playing ultimate for 2+ hours striaght on Friday afternoons could remedy that situation.
Oh. I graduated after the fall of '00. SO I would have played a few times that fall and more-so the fall of '99. You must have come in with Tim Pitzer and those guys.
Yes I did.
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