My father played American football and loved it all his life. Participating in soccer was considered aberrant behavior at our house. Had I expressed interest in such a thing, I'm sure I'd have been driven from the family fold. So what do you call biscuits over there, or don't you make real southern American-style biscuits which are neither cookies, dumplings, or scones? (Far from being useless, though certainly random, this thread is a font of information.) Poor British getting whomped at New Orleans when the treaty had been signed weeks and weeks earlier. We did get quite a nice song out of it, though.
Bow worn in the back... ace or Robin Williams' "woman in comfortable shoes"? It's a little like the old newspaper code of "confirmed bachelor." So many euphemisms, so little time.
soccer (n.) 1889, socca, later socker (1891), soccer (1895), originally university slang (with jocular formation -er (3)), from a shortened form of Assoc., abbreviation of association in Football Association (as opposed to Rugby football); compare rugger. An unusual method of formation, but those who did it perhaps shied away from making a name out of the first three letters of Assoc. Compare 1890s English schoolboy slang leccer, from lecture (n.). BrE slang for Association Football, hence not an Americanism.
assuming you're talking about these things https://www.saltysidedish.com/american-biscuits/ those are scones
To us, this is a cookie: This is a biscuit: There are many things that fall somewhere in between, which we loosely call biscuits. This, by the way, has been defined in law as a cake, not a biscuit. Someone went to court over this*: *The court case was whether the confectionary attracted sales tax or not - cakes don't, but biscuits do.
Well, they did invent hamburgers, so sky's the limit. I guess an ICBM transcends the sky, so poor analogy there.
Football is a much more aggressive game, discounting the rioting fans. More like rugby, with some rules.
"the world’s most powerful strategic force, the absolute force unprecedented in the century" uh, good luck dude
Huh. Ya don't say. Scones are something different here, usually baked in a round pan and containing stuff like currants. Speaking of round: round biscuits are a waste of dough. We pat ours out into a rectangle and cut the rectangle into squares. No waste.
Definitely scones That would be fruit scones. Containing cheese: cheese scones. Next thing nobody can agree on - how to pronounce scone... scone as in gone, or scone as in bone?
The real GOAT and MVP of Sesame Street. The little red demon-shit ruined the franchise as far as I care.
Prior to Teddy Roosevelt the custom of the 1800s was basically one and done. This was partly due to the Machine politics of the time, using the office as a reward for its members.
Yep. Apparently if there's a war during a president's first term he almost automatically gets a second.
