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Athletes and "humbled/humbling"

Postby David » Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:46 pm

Please just stop the madness.
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Postby Cubswin11 » Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:49 pm

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Postby davell » Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:52 pm

What happened? Did he humbling bragged?
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Postby jersey cubs fan » Wed Mar 08, 2017 9:52 pm

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Postby CubinNY » Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:18 pm

They apparently do not teach the meaning of the word in jock school, or movie star school, for that matter.
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Postby biittner77 » Tue Mar 14, 2017 12:14 pm

CubinNY wrote:They apparently do not teach the meaning of the word in jock school, or movie star school, for that matter.


Or maybe it's Allanis Morrisette teaching it's meaning.
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Postby jersey cubs fan » Sat Mar 18, 2017 12:22 am

This one makes sense

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Postby jersey cubs fan » Fri Mar 31, 2017 6:12 pm

this ego has been humbled

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Postby Duke Silver » Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:21 am

Javy, expecting us to change our name to the Chicago Javys, was humbled that they only named a street after him.
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Postby javy knows my name » Wed Apr 12, 2017 4:26 am

Duke Silver wrote:Javy, expecting us to change our name to the Chicago Javys, was humbled that they only named a street after him.


Nobody can find his street now because he immediately forgot its name
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Re: Athletes and "humbled/humbling"

Postby biittner77 » Wed Apr 12, 2017 6:23 pm

Castro's Spray Chart wrote:
Duke Silver wrote:Javy, expecting us to change our name to the Chicago Javys, was humbled that they only named a street after him.


Nobody can find his street now because he immediately forgot its name


Good thing he doesn't know who Ryan Dempster is since he has his own road.*


*100th time I've made this joke. Still not funny.

here's a list of Chicago street names: http://www.geographic.org/streetview/us ... icago.html
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Postby javy knows my name » Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:29 pm

We as a society are so lacking in humility, we don't know what it is
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Postby Banedon » Thu Apr 20, 2017 12:31 pm

Castro's Spray Chart wrote:We as a society are so lacking in humility, we don't know what it is


[expletive], I'm humble as horsefeathers.
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Re: Athletes and "humbled/humbling"

Postby big ball chunky time » Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:02 pm

It's local awards season here in oklahoma for journos. I can't tell you how many of these horsefeathers have been "humbled" to receive their awards. No one knows how to use this term, even the people who should
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Re: Athletes and "humbled/humbling"

Postby David » Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:21 pm

I want to know who is to blame for this. Is it LeBron?
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Postby Banedon » Fri Apr 28, 2017 4:24 pm

http://www.nerve.com/entertainment/impr ... -literally
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Re: Athletes and "humbled/humbling"

Postby biittner77 » Tue May 30, 2017 6:21 pm

My grandfather used to say that when someone "lucked out" that meant they had run out of luck/ were unlucky but for my generation it meant got lucky/ was fortunate.

Athletes misusing humbled is not new. That doesn't make it any less annoying.
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Re: Athletes and "humbled/humbling"

Postby David » Mon Nov 23, 2020 7:36 pm



damn it, now abe is an offender too
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