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Jordu

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Ozymandias was by Percy Shelley and to a lesser degree, Horace Smith, who specifically referenced Egypt and London by his sonnet's end, but lost the race to have his version published first by a month--both published originally in The Examiner in London. Lavender's Blue, the origin of the phrase Dilly dilly in its song, goes back to approximately the 17th century, writer unknown.
During the next commercial break, you may want to check out Dylan Thomas quoting Lavender’s Blue in his poem Over St. John’s Hill: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/over-sir-john-s-hill/

Second stanza:

Flash, and the plumes crack,
And a black cap of jack-
Daws Sir John's just hill dons, and again the gulled birds hare
To the hawk on fire, the halter height, over Towy's fins,
In a whack of wind.
There
Where the elegiac fisherbird stabs and paddles
In the pebbly dab-filled
Shallow and sedge, and 'dilly dilly,' calls the loft hawk,
'Come and be killed,'
I open the leaves of the water at a passage
Of psalms and shadows among the pincered sandcrabs prancing
 

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During the next commercial break, you may want to check out Dylan Thomas quoting Lavender’s Blue in his poem Over St. John’s Hill: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/over-sir-john-s-hill/

Second stanza:

Flash, and the plumes crack,
And a black cap of jack-
Daws Sir John's just hill dons, and again the gulled birds hare
To the hawk on fire, the halter height, over Towy's fins,
In a whack of wind.
There
Where the elegiac fisherbird stabs and paddles
In the pebbly dab-filled
Shallow and sedge, and 'dilly dilly,' calls the loft hawk,
'Come and be killed,'
I open the leaves of the water at a passage
Of psalms and shadows among the pincered sandcrabs prancing
I think that one’s for the Pats game.
 

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I get that Philly has given Atlanta their ten points and seems otherwise determined to give this away. Refs helping too. But the Falcons will be a pain in the ass if they can somehow get to the SB; I don’t like how they match up to the Pats from my standpoint. I want them gone.
 

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They are remarkable commercials, and they do us a solid by changing them up and introducing new ones.

I loathe the Verizon commercial with the dorky guy. I would shoot Flo if I could. Direct TV getting old. Thank you Bud Lite.
The first one was really good. Well delivered catch phrase of indeterminate origin. Poking fun at familiar pretentious guy. Even a little gentle class warfare. I think the sequels do not measure up but are carried through by dilly dilly.
 

Deathofthebambino

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Is that Ellerbe with the long hair on the Philly defense? Man, every time I've watched him, he's either getting knocked down on a relatively soft block, or whiffing on a tackle. I don't think I've seen him make a good play yet, and I've watched probably 15-20 snaps of his for no other reason but to see if he does anything. Did he have a good year?
 

lars10

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They are remarkable commercials, and they do us a solid by changing them up and introducing new ones.

I loathe the Verizon commercial with the dorky guy. I would shoot Flo if I could. Direct TV getting old. Thank you Bud Lite.
You're neglecting to mention old Verizon/new sprint guy, Peyton nationwide and all of those commercials for chevy where they fake having a test group...
 

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During the next commercial break, you may want to check out Dylan Thomas quoting Lavender’s Blue in his poem Over St. John’s Hill: https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/over-sir-john-s-hill/

Second stanza:

Flash, and the plumes crack,
And a black cap of jack-
Daws Sir John's just hill dons, and again the gulled birds hare
To the hawk on fire, the halter height, over Towy's fins,
In a whack of wind.
There
Where the elegiac fisherbird stabs and paddles
In the pebbly dab-filled
Shallow and sedge, and 'dilly dilly,' calls the loft hawk,
'Come and be killed,'
I open the leaves of the water at a passage
Of psalms and shadows among the pincered sandcrabs prancing
Yep, nothing's changed since college. I still don't get poetry.
 

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This reminds me of a comic I once saw where Lot is dragging his now deceased wife off dreaming of all the money he’ll make off of selling the valuable salt into which she has been turned.

It lacks the same commentary on feudalism that the Midas story brings though...

Does that make the King having turned his subjects into cheap consumables a commentary on late-capitalist labor exploitation?
Awesome mental image though, if nothing else. I'd agree with your conclusion and also mention it subtly alludes to the easily replaceable nature of people, as disposable subjects. This also applies as seen in the parallel myth of the Ossounes' king of the Yenisei basin with his donkey ears, much like the post-gold Midas. He killed all his barbers to hide the secret. Like Midas turning the sands into gold, these barbers flooding the well with his secret ultimately created Lake Issyk-Kul (Maillart, Murphy; 1938).

The original Dilly Dilly is all about getting busy.

I heard one say, dilly, dilly,
since I came hither,
That you and I, dilly, dilly,
must lie together
And there's this in the original verse. Kind of concerning what it implies given from what we have learned from #MeToo:

When I am king, dilly dilly, you shall be queen:
Who told you so, dilly dilly, who told you so?
'Twas mine own heart, dilly dilly, that told me so.
 

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Feels like neither team feels confident on offense and each is just hanging around trying to steal it.

Of course, I know that’s not how anyone calls an offense. But it’s a struggle.
 

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I said it early on, and I stand by it. If Philly can score 14 points, they can not only make this a game, they could win it. Atlanta's offense is struggling. Take away the touchdown after the short field due to the muffed punt, and Atlanta has done virtually nothing offensively.
 

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I said it early on, and I stand by it. If Philly can score 14 points, they can not only make this a game, they could win it. Atlanta's offense is struggling. Take away the touchdown after the short field due to the muffed punt, and Atlanta has done virtually nothing offensively.
They can't run the ball and Ryan can't do it alone. They have definitely done nothing on O this game.
 

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Uggh, if you're going to run the ball, RUN THE BALL. Stop with the handoffs out of the shotgun. Give Ajayi a lead blocker and pound it in there. He's running really well, give him a head of steam.
 

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I said it early on, and I stand by it. If Philly can score 14 points, they can not only make this a game, they could win it. Atlanta's offense is struggling. Take away the touchdown after the short field due to the muffed punt, and Atlanta has done virtually nothing offensively.
3 points off the fumble. The other 7 off the punt catastrophe. Then the missed XP. So 13 point lead becomes 2.
 

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When does ATL realize Foles can't throw beyond 10 yards? Play single high, flood the middle and he won't complete a pass over 5yds
 

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I need the back story on this?
Our boy noticed that the fumbling data people were using to say the Pats gained an advantage used data from different sets of balls—ST balls were included and that’s a different set.

So the numbers were fucked and he recalculated them correctly and the “advantage” basically disappears.

https://insidethepylon.com/football-science/football-statistics/2015/11/26/fumbling-data-truth-patriots-fumble-rate/

It got picked up on Twitter by an NYT guy who used it to HAMMER the outlets like 538 or whatever who had run with the initial flawed “study.”

It was one of our finest hours.
 

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The winner of this game is just prolonging elimination by a week. I really can't see either of them beating New Orleans or Minnesota.

How has Freeman not fucking improved at pass blocking?
I've had the same question all day, although no answer here. It's damn funny, trying the same process and expecting different results, especially given the nature and importance of the film room.