Re: OT: national humor
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 11, 2003, 19:15 |
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Joe scripsit:
> > John Cowan (who has memories of shagging flies as a youth)
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> Umm...
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> I hope that doesn't mean what it looks like...
Exactly.
"Flies" in this context = "fly balls", that is, baseballs that have
been hit in a high arc and have not yet hit the ground (catching a
fly ball retires the batter). As for shagging them, that merely
means pursuing them with intent to catch them; AFAIK this verb is
not applied in this sense to other things.
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