Verbal Faux Pas, Jargon, Cliches, Boganisms, etc

[Kitty]

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I love February, its the month that precedes January - Damien Fleming this morning on SEN

Some more from the master Murray Walker-

"He's obviously gone in for a wheel change. I say obviously because I can't see it"

"With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go"

"Do my eyes deceive me, or is Senna's Lotus sounding rough ?"

 

[roostersgal4eva]

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Murray Walker was the king of motorsport commentating....

http://www.worldmotorsport.com/murray/

...and there's no damage to the car.....except to the car itself."

"The beak of Ayrton Senna's chicken is pulling ahead"

'and I interrupt myself to bring you this....'

and the catchphrase 'Unless I'm very much mistaken....I AM very much mistaken!'

This is an interesting circuit because it has inclines, and not just up, but down as well."

"Only a few more laps to go and then the action will begin, unless this is the action, which it is."

There is nothing wrong with the car except that it is on fire.

I could go on forever

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

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We haven't undertaken exhaustive research to determine which — if any — of these entries might actually have been uttered by a real person, but the inclusion of some demonstrably old and apocryphal items (such as the joke about Arnold Palmer) leads us to believe that a good many of them are nothing more than fanciful creations of someone's imagination.

Point taken. The Palmer one has been attributed to someone else so fits the bill. However many others are credited to named announcers so are more likely to have merit to them.

 

[roostersgal4eva]

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hehe, I like that. Reminds me of (I can't remember who, years ago):

"He was running around like a head with its chook cut off"

Actually it was deliberate. I use it now and then - keeps people on their toes and you get some interesting double takes

The head with its chook cut off i think was from Jack Cahil, former Port Power coach - read it in the Sunday Mail....

fook funny

 

[Effes]

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Thommo commentating in England "Its ********ing ********ing"

 

[SinCitySainter]

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There was also the classic British snooker commentator that said "he lines up the shot on the brown, and for those of you with black and white televisions, that is the one next to the blue."

 

[Registered User]

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Wayne Schwass:

"transperacy"

 

[zero]

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my favourite is some in-game commentary referring to the england goal keeper of many years, dave seamen

"seaman comes dribbling out of the box...."

 

[Kildonan]

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Bump

I love this thread

 

[Johnson#26]

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"He isn't the most overly skilled player but by gee he's a good kick."

Could have swarn I heard someone say that once...

 

[Pie 4 Life]

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What was Mick Malthouse'd comments about Mars and the way Jupiter circles the moon or something? That was pretty funny.

 

[Johnson#26]

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Pie 4 Life, is this the one you're after?:

"The earth is slow but he ox is patient (sp)."

And Chris Judd in the 2002 Player Profiles:

"I am but a bare and naked man...."

...can someone fil in the rest? It has something to do with the sun - was mentioned in the AFL Record in 2002, round two.

 

[Pie 4 Life]

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Pie 4 Life, is this the one you're after?:

"The earth is slow but he ox is patient (sp)."

And Chris Judd in the 2002 Player Profiles:

"I am but a bare and naked man...."

...can someone fil in the rest? It has something to do with the sun - was mentioned in the AFL Record in 2002, round two.

Yeah something like that. Very interesting way of saying the umpires were pathetic by memory.

 

[Johnson#26]

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"There were three teams out there today".

 

[Registered User]

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Thommo commentating in England "Its ********ing ********ing"

I think I've actually still got it on video somewhere. Thommo said, when he thought he was off air, and it was pissing down rain:

"I'm gettin farkin drowned here"

 

[Registered User]

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3aw caller last night:

"sorry about my voice, I've got boncritis"

 

[Registered User]

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Doug Hawkins from about 10 years ago on ch7:

"he's what a call a '100 meter' player: he runs 30 then kicks it 60"

 

[Registered User]

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Wayne Schwass:

"last year the Hawks had about 10 debutons"

 

[Registered User]

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AFL player manager David Allison:

"For Ian Collins to bring up Kouta's contract again is nonsical"

 

[billybrownless16]

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I often hear commentators misuse the word literally
eg. The players have been literally run off their feet
Meaning that they shouldn't have any feet left

 

[mark73]

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Doug Wade also had trouble with Dipper's name early in his career with his attempt sounding something like "...Dip, Dip, Dip, Dip, Dip dimenco" and he finished off in a fit of laughter saying he was the only football commentator ever to get elocution lessons from Elmor Fudd!!!

Lou Richards (aka Billy Birmingham) : Robert Dippion............Dippimint.............The bloke with the big choco name.

OR

"I wonder how much she set him back?" : Tony Greig commenting on a man and what appeared to be a Filipino bride outside a cricket ground,obviously not realising the mikes were still on.Copped 2 matches for it too.

 

[Grimreepah]

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worst mixed metaphor ever goes to 3aw's political reporter, Alison Carabine:

"it's opened up Pandora's floodgate of worms"

Lol a lot. I'm gonna start using that.

 

[Frankston Rover]

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SEN caller talking about one his cricket mates:


His mate is bowling, and asks the umpire: "how many balls have I bowled?"

Umps reply: "3."

Bowler replies: "thanks. How many do I have left?"

Umpire: " 4. I'm going to no ball you for being a smart@r$e".

 

[Registered User]

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A real stuff-up by David Reyne was shown on Media Watch last night.
He was talking to some sort of doctor about some sort of study, and Reyne said:

"I don't know what placebos are, but they seem to have saved some of these guys, so why don't we give more people placebos?"

 

[H Dolphin]

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David Parkin at training one night at Carlton. "You three pair up over there."

And the immortal Ted Whitten

"We jist gotta get our kickin goin"