Chalk

the Leif Ericson Vikings, I would surmise.

 

Maybe for an old fart like F_B (or JR) but not me.

 

Wrong tense. It drove me crazy for years until I found out what it meant earlier this year.

 

Francesca and Russo constantly use the phrase.

 

Should the term be in a newspaper story or column? Not a gambler here, and wondering if you consider this the sort of jargon that should be limited to specialty publications. I never knew the term until this week.

Or do we just exist for the gamblers nowadays?

 

But it seems like this term, while its been around a while, has just recently popped up as a more common term when talking about the NCAA tournament.

I don't care for it.

This is along the same likes as "bump" for baseball. Tonight, Sabathia is on the bump for the Indians. WTF. Suddenly this has caught on and I dislike it very, VERY much.

When I hear it, it's like fingernails on the, um... chalkboard.

 

Waiting for the inevitable ... bump ... later in this thread.

 

I was thinking something similar as dawg: "slab", "two-bagger" and the like.

Those used to be common back in the day, too. They're cute now, but surely not efficient. Neither is "chalk."

Even if you do know what it means -- and many of us do -- when was the last time any bookie had to write out odds on a friggin' blackboard? (Hell, 40 percent of my classrooms in grade school had dry-erase boards anyway, and that was 15 years ago. For you old-timers. )

Just sounds like another attempt to be cute.

 

When is the last time you dialed a number?

 

Though the majority have gone electronic, a number of the betting boards in Nevada remain hand-written in Vegas . . . Leroy's . . . Cal-Neva
at Binion's . . .

 

1990. At a then-81 year old relative's house.

Never used "dialed" in my life, although of course I'm familiar with the term. Doesn't make it any less outdated.

 

Oh, I was not dissing you or arguing. Just throwing that out there.

Sorta like a generation unfamiliar with the term clockwise.