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Authored by: jbb on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 02:13 PM EDT |
The
Wikipedia
explains:
A rundown, informally known as a pickle, is a situation
in the game of baseball that occurs when the baserunner is stranded between two
bases and is in jeopardy of being tagged out.
--- Our job
is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 02:27 PM EDT |
The phrase "in a pickle" is hundreds of years
old, and probably didn't originate with baseball ;) [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 13 2012 @ 02:29 PM EDT |
Shakespeare was one of the first to use the phrase "in a pickle", in
The Tempest circa 1610 (or at least, its one of the older surviving written
examples of that phrase)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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