Chris Long channels Rainer Maria Rilke

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Well, to be fair, his entire name was René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, and he was quoted as saying "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens." Of course Chris Long is an every man, so he just says...

"I just want to get better. I don't know if that would entail having better numbers, but I know what it would look like to be a better football player on the field and that's more what I'm shooting to be. Whatever shows up on paper will show up on paper."

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stori ... ew-system/

 

[Anonymous]

Well, to be fair, his entire name was René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, and he was quoted as saying "The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens." Of course Chris Long is an every man, so he just says...

"I just want to get better. I don't know if that would entail having better numbers, but I know what it would look like to be a better football player on the field and that's more what I'm shooting to be. Whatever shows up on paper will show up on paper."

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stori ... ew-system/

This is the first Rilke reference I have ever seen on a Rams board.

You therefore win the Rilke Reference Lifetime Achievement Award.

All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke

 

[RamFan503]

This is the first Rilke reference I have ever seen on a Rams board.

Yeah well... there's a reason for that.

Really X? You just decide to cut to the chase and start with a derailed thread? Cheater! :sly:

 

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This is the first Rilke reference I have ever seen on a Rams board.

Yeah well... there's a reason for that.

Really X? You just decide to cut to the chase and start with a derailed thread? Cheater! :sly:

How I roll, baby.

 

[RamFan503]

This is the first Rilke reference I have ever seen on a Rams board.

Yeah well... there's a reason for that.

Really X? You just decide to cut to the chase and start with a derailed thread? Cheater! :sly:

How I roll, baby.

:7up:

 

[SunTzu.v.Camus]

In Kindergarten, I used to eat paste...

yep, I was one of those kids!

 

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In Kindergarten, I used to eat paste...

yep, I was one of those kids!

heh. I used to cover my entire hand in glue and then peel it off when it dried so I could scare the girls with my hand skin.

 

[Anonymous]

In Kindergarten, I used to eat paste...

yep, I was one of those kids!

heh. I used to cover my entire hand in glue and then peel it off when it dried so I could scare the girls with my hand skin.

Naw it's a lot more fun to just peel off the actual skin.

Now THAT really freaks em out.

 

[RamFan503]

In Kindergarten, I used to eat paste...

yep, I was one of those kids!

heh. I used to cover my entire hand in glue and then peel it off when it dried so I could scare the girls with my hand skin.

Did both of those and sniffed the mimeograph copies when they hit my desk.

 

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In Kindergarten, I used to eat paste...

yep, I was one of those kids!

heh. I used to cover my entire hand in glue and then peel it off when it dried so I could scare the girls with my hand skin.

Did both of those and sniffed the mimeograph copies when they hit my desk.

Oh man, there was no better smell was there. That's like the starter drug for kids. Copy sniffing.

 

[Angry Ram]

What the hell is a mimeograph?

 

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What the hell is a mimeograph?

That's old people speak for "copy machine." The mimeograph (printing press) had a much stronger ink smell than the copy machine, or Xerox machine, or whatever they called it when you were a kid. That said, the copy machine actually added heat to the equation, giving it that cooked smell too.

Mmmmmmmm copy paper.

 

[Ram Quixote]

What the hell is a mimeograph?

That's old people speak for "copy machine." The mimeograph (printing press) had a much stronger ink smell than the copy machine, or Xerox machine, or whatever they called it when you were a kid. That said, the copy machine actually added heat to the equation, giving it that cooked smell too.

Mmmmmmmm copy paper.

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Mimeograph was an old medium for making a bunch of copies. The machine itself was like a scaled down printing press. The template page had the text punched out using a typewriter (you know what that is, right?) and ink was forced through the template onto paper. I know all this because our church had one and I ran it a couple times.

Pop-culture note: In Animal House, Bluto and D-day go dumpster diving for the test and Bluto comes out with a used mimeograph template.

 

[Angry Ram]

You guys are so old. :bahumbug: Mimeographs.

Yes I know what a typewriter is.

Now the heat from the Xerox, I can relate. On a cold winter day, sometimes that was the only extra warmth we got...