And I'm not just saying that, either!
SHOOT FOR THE MOON AND IF YOU MISS, YOU WILL STILL BE AMONG THE STARS.
You shoot for the stars, and you hit the roof.
doing 'i never intended that goal, who is slandering me by saying i did?' is much more common. usually you don't even have to say it; its assumed.
Christ. When I shoot for the moon I usually end up with dutch control.
NO YOU FIRE INTO THE AIR IT WILL COME BACK DOWN AND COULD KILL SOMEONE
7 doesn't make any clear sense to me.
when i shoot for the moon i get four points.
When I moon for the shoot, I usually get asked not to be in any more family photographs.
I thought you got ten points if you successfully shot the moon, but I may be thinking of pitch not Euchre.
If you shoot for the moon, you might end up being the forgotten dude who just orbited while the cool stuff happened.
Huh. Maybe this is one of those weird family idioms. In the card game hearts, you generally try to avoid taking points because points count against you. If you take ALL the points, you have "shot the moon," and everyone else gets an unwelcome load of points. If you take all but one of the points, however, you are liable for all of your points--so close and yet so far!--and you have acquired "Dutch control." This probably has something to do with ancient Anglo-Dutch colonial rivalry.
/Standpipe's blog
13: You're probably thinking of a game that involves shooting the moon, which is not euchre. Probably hearts.
I'm pretty sure the opinionated Euchre player is thinking about going a hand alone, which can earn four points, which is quite a scoop.
Euchre was the best thing about Michigan, by far.
It's got the perfect pace and uses about 25% of your attention when you're proficient, so you can be sociable at a party but it's not awkward if conversation lulls. It's like smoking cigarettes. (Ok, what I imagine smoking cigarettes to be like.)
I get confused because I haven't played cards in twenty years or so. Except blackjack.
OT: Did one of you break Twitter or something?
If you take all but one of the points, however, you are liable for all of your points--so close and yet so far!--and you have acquired "Dutch control." This probably has something to do with ancient Anglo-Dutch colonial rivalry.
I'd bet it's "Dutch" in the derogatory sense, seen in "Dutch comfort," "Dutch metal," and "Dutch reckoning," which sense does indeed (according to the OED) date back to the late 17th-century Anglo-Dutch rivalry.
Dutch was a crappy movie precisely because John Hughes wanted to needle the Netherlands.
24: I FEEL NEGLECTED.
There are two kinds of people I can't stand in this world: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch.
26: I would have included you but Wikipedia gave a lot of competing parentage proposals.
I don't think smoking cigarettes uses anything close to 25% of anyone's attention, except maybe the first time.
All I want is to enter my house justified.
the Dutch cookie
We should start calling him Stroopwafel. Because yum.
We should start calling him Stroopwafel.
This isn't exactly a family website, but we have some scruples.
We should start calling him Stroopwafel.
This isn't exactly a family website, but we have some scruples scrapple.
When I shoot for the moon, I blow up the fucking moon. Mark my words.
Fuck it! I'm just fucking swearing.
When I shoot for the moon, I write my name in it.
I fucking love scrapple
Never tasted it, but hey, pork scraps, what's not to like?
So this doesn't seem to be suspicious at all.
35: You shoot at the moon, you best not miss.
32: How can there be thinness in a world in which Stroopwaffels exist?
CAN'T I GET SOME LOVE SATISFACTION AROUND HERE!
ALSO, DON'T SHOOT RAY GUNS UP INTO THE AIR
"It's got the perfect pace and uses about 25% of your attention when you're proficient, so you can be sociable at a party but it's not awkward if conversation lulls. It's like smoking cigarettes. (Ok, what I imagine smoking cigarettes to be like.)"
YES
40: Looks like a tough case. Maybe Scotland Yard should help with the investigation.
20: Nobody played euchre at Michigan when I was there.
The best things about Michigan were LSD, sex, the Arb, and Pizza Bob's chipatis.
the Arb
Michigan must be a sad, sad place if Arby's is one of the highlights.
48: You went to Michigan and then moved into the heart of OSU country? Or am I confusing you with somebody?
49: Not that you care, but the Arb is short for the Arboretum, and is a wooded area near campus. I don't think there is anything objectively spectacular about it, but it meant a lot to me at the time.
I knew what you meant. UNC has one as well.
53: I never knew that. Duke just had lemurs and a bunch of forest that struck me as really creepy after I saw Kiss the Girls.
52: I suppose it's O.K. I'm not a native. I had to ask what TBDBITL could possibly mean and was horribly disappointed when I found out.
53: Do people in NC (or anywhere) refer to Arby's as "the Arb"?
55: Sometimes, it best to lay low. The truth is that by this point, if I bother to care about collgege sports at all, I'm rooting for the Buckeyes.
54: Yeah, just off Franklin Street. However, Duke also has The Gardens, in which the security guys now zip around on Segways.
57: I don't even know how to spell college anymore!
Do people in NC (or anywhere) refer to Arby's as "the Arb"?
Probably not. I was just amusing myself (if you know what I mean).
58: Apparently, I'm getting forgetful. I attended a wedding at the Arb. I was taking allergy medicine and then drinking beer at the reception, so maybe my memory wasn't at its best.
60: Well, they are still in business, so I guess that's fine.
The best things about Michigan were LSD, sex, the Arb, and Pizza Bob's chipatis.
I've combined the first three of these.
Minus the sex, I combined the other two on a number of (generally awesome) occasions. Sigh.
That's supposed to be a *Burger King* bathroom, heebs. Sex in an Arby's bathroom is just trashy.
63, 64: That's good! I was hoping to find some common ground in our Michigan Experience.
I've combined the first three of these.
L, S, and D? I was under the impression they came pre-combined.