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Mar 05, 2016 THE BEST GAMES IN SCRATCH, a Studio on Scratch. Bruins Academy: Season 5, Ep. 4 On the latest episode of Bruins Academy, we go to Sal's with Rick Middleton and then we take a tour of Youth Hockey Education Night at WIA.
Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language:
Wake up and waste a day
chase away
a day at a time
and waste away
clean-faced today
clean taste today
toothpaste makes my orange juice sour
waste an hour
or so
my shower
is slow
the flowers
that grow
outside of my window
are blooming
I'm assuming
that you're comin' over soon
it's almost half past four
and you called here at noon
'cause there's a picture that you wanna see
now I'm not even good at being me
anymore.
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She got nicotine-basted lungs
wasted thumbs
and one of them asphalt tastin' tongues
she wakes up to alarm
her make-up is still on
and she can't remember why she set the damn thing
her heart is a machine
art is meant to be seen
not felt, not heard
it's just paint they're just words
and fingers are for feeling
fists are for beating
scabs are for healing
and blood is for bleeding
that's just how I used to be
but I'm not even good at being me
anymore.
I wake up and waste an hour
pace and glower
at the TV set wasting power
and aching in my head
I'm banking in the red
and compulsively charging cd's to my account
So come out Virginia*
Don't make me wait
You Catholic girls start much too late
now it's too late in the day
for a matinee
and I ain't got the money to pay
for you anyway
what should I say?
I know it ain't how it used to be
but I'm not good at being me
anymore.
A scratch team is a team, usually in sport, brought together on a temporary basis, composed of players who normally play for different sides. A game played between two scratch teams may be called a scratch match.
The earliest instance of the term 'scratch team' recorded by the Oxford English Dictionary[1] is a restaurant guide in 1851 (London at table, by an anonymous author, referring to 'a scratch team' of servants'[2]). The OED also records the term 'scratch match' - defined as an impromptu game played by scratch teams - being used in the same year in Rev. James Pycroft's The Cricket Field - one of the earliest books about cricket - '...that is the time that some sure, judicious batsman, whose eminence is little seen amidst the loose hitting of a scratch match, comes calmly and composedly to the wicket and makes a stand;...'[3]
Another early and notable use of the term is from 1874, when The Wanderers, who had just lost an FA Cup match for the first time, were due to play a match against Upton Park.[4] In the words of the contemporary report, 'unfortunately the Wanderers failed to put in an appearance. In order, therefore not to disappoint a large number of people who had assembled to witness the play, a scratch team was chosen to represent the missing team.'[4] The match was lost 11-0, with each of the opposing team scoring a goal..'[4]
The term is listed in the 1913 Nelson's Encyclopedia, among slang terms.[5]
References[edit]
- ^'scratch, adj.'. OED Online. November 2010. Oxford University Press. http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/173358?rskey=APOmdQ&result=3&isAdvanced=false (accessed February 15, 2011).
- ^London at table; or, How, when, and where to dine and order a dinner. 1851.
- ^Pycroft, J. (1862). The cricket-field. By J. Pycroft.
- ^ abcCavallini, R. (2005). The Wanderers - Five Times F.A. Cup Winners. Dog N Duck. ISBN9780955049606.
- ^Colby, F.M.; Sandeman, G. (1913). Nelson's Encyclopaedia: Everybody's Book of Reference ... Thomas Nelson.
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