VEB glossary of terms

by effin fisk on May 29, 2007 7:24 AM EDT

Okay boys and girls, here it is: The unofficial Viva El Birdos glossary of terms. nycbirdo offered to keep track of the phrases we've made up along the way, so here's the place to post them. If you can, try to provide applicable links to the origins of the nicknames. (Hint: if you can't remember, typing "nickname + vivaelbirdos" into google seems to work.)

Some of this will surely overlap with this post about the meanings of players' names, but let's not stop there. At the very least this will be a nice distraction until the offense starts playing consistently again.

Update [2007-5-17 10:36:59 by lboros]: thanks for getting this started, e.f. i'm gonna keep the diary active for a while, and then eventually i'll make it a permanent page (under the "Why El Birdos," as suggested) with an active comments section, so that it can be updated.

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Two Larryisms

that might throw off your average bear coming to the site for the first time...

viz., as in vis-a-vis
the mysterious and distinctive wonder of that three dash emmmmmm dash

by jfs on May 16, 2007 9:31 AM EDT reply actions

that's not right

viz. is an abbreviation for the Latin "videlicet," meaning "that is to say" or "namely." It's an intensifier or highlighter, and does not mean at all the same thing as vis-a-vis, which means "compared to" (literally, "face-to-face").

by blove121 on May 16, 2007 12:39 PM EDT up reply actions

Sorry

Thanks for the correction!

by jfs on May 16, 2007 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions

Bi-polar Betty & Sophie

Here is the comment regarding the origin of two of the bigger names on VEB.

I don't know if I'll try to update that anytime soon. It was just a wild thought that sprung up unsolicited.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

by Solanus on May 16, 2007 10:54 AM EDT reply actions

Thanks!

That was classic. I'm pretty sure I get the Sno' Cones thing, [wasn't that about serving snow cones in hell when Gary Bennett hit the grand slam against the Cubs last August?] but what is "Shave the poodle"?

by cardsgirl95 on May 16, 2007 1:37 PM EDT up reply actions

Found the reference

Here it is. I think a lot of us were a bit punchy back then.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

by Solanus on May 18, 2007 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Shave the poodle!

Silly me, I thought this was a stretch-run call for Aaron Miles to cut his god-awful mullet last year.

Well, if it wasn't it should have been.

"I don't believe what I just saw!" ~ Jack Buck

by itsalemmon1019 on May 20, 2007 11:32 AM EDT up reply actions

was it AlxFitz....

... who wrote that long dialogue last year when the Cards were sucking?

ah, yes it was, and i found it. i think some of the nicknames came from this, or at least use in it:

http://www.insidestl.com/stlsports/index.php?storyid=399

my wife came up with "The Loneliest Number" for JuanEnc, which gained some minor usage.

by kindred on May 16, 2007 2:53 PM EDT reply actions

Thank god I'm not in a cubicle....

I think I may have even snorted over that one. I was in the same hotel as the team when they started the NLDS in San Diego last year. Let's just say that wasn't too far off on TJ and Lil' Dunc.

I'm new here, so this hasn't made the rounds yet...but in my house we call Miles, "Evil Eckstein" after all those old TV shows and soap operas where the good one was blond and the evil one had dark hair (think Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie).

And, cardsgirl95, it was unintentional that I have a similar screen name. I've never been original. ;o)

JPE 1952-2006 - For My Dad, A Cardinals Fan

by cardsgirlinAR on May 16, 2007 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions

That's okay

Cardsgirl isn't exactly breaking new ground in originality anyway. We are free to share the name in dedication to our beloved Birds.

by cardsgirl95 on May 16, 2007 7:38 PM EDT up reply actions

He even has

an evil goatee!

Everybody off the bandwagon!

by Alxfritz on May 17, 2007 1:55 AM EDT up reply actions

I remember that

Still makes me laugh. The only thing I don't like looking at it now is seeing Marquis in a Cardinals hat......blech

In Albert we trust.

by Mr Redbird on May 16, 2007 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions

holy hell

that was the funniest thing i've ever read

If there's a baseball heaven, Albert Pujols is God.

by kyle man on May 17, 2007 7:49 PM EDT up reply actions

if you don't know

there's a TON of these at dugout.progressiveboink.com. Warning: you may lose your job due to uncontrollable laughter.

I believe in the Sports Guy rule. Any "complaining" in this post is actually happy, cheerful "constructive criticism."

by nycbirdo on May 18, 2007 9:44 AM EDT up reply actions

Where did Wagonmaker for Wainwright come from?

by bailorg on May 16, 2007 3:46 PM EDT reply actions

It's

What his last name means. A wainwright is a wagonmaker.

by stl tyler on May 16, 2007 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Edwards

Edwards = Edmonds

Anyone know wher that originated from?

by Zubin on May 16, 2007 9:38 PM EDT reply actions

look

here

by DCGreg on May 16, 2007 11:10 PM EDT up reply actions

it was then

memorialized here by our leader as we awaited Game 7.

(Doesn't sound like much now, but it sliced through the tension nicely back then.)

by DCGreg on May 16, 2007 11:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Theres also the (over)use of apostrophes...

I think I use these more than anybody else, but I do see them in common usage.



J'Ed or Jed           = Jim Edmonds

A'Pu or Apu           = Albert Pujols

Juan'Cion or JuanCion = Juan Encarnacion

Sco'Ro or ScoRo       = Scott Rollen.

by Zubin on May 18, 2007 1:50 AM EDT reply actions

Rollen is the new Edwards

Everybody off the bandwagon!

by Alxfritz on May 18, 2007 3:48 AM EDT up reply actions

for Juan

various forms of "Enc" are also used a lot. That, and "Eck" for David.

On with the youth movement!

by aet15 on May 18, 2007 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions

Like "Inky"?

by Zubin on May 21, 2007 12:51 AM EDT up reply actions

Hasn't been around for awhile

But the ridiculous "Instant Breakfast" for JEnc. Don't know where it was from or who said it, but there's something about being called instant breakfast that is just instantly degrading.

I've referred to Lance Berkman as 'Twinkle Toes', can't even remember if that was original or not.

Pujols < .300 (it worked for .200)

by joker24 on May 20, 2007 3:43 PM EDT reply actions