Melvyn will be #1 with a bullet next year…

[Melvyn Morrow]

Melvyn will be #1 with a bullet next year after he is successful in his attempt to get Woods suspended from participation in The Open said Tim Bert on another thread.

Did I throw my club. Did I swear, did I nearly injure a spectator, no but what Tiger is doing is clearly catching. The whole point of my post was to try to stop violence and people getting hurt. Clearly not that important to the majority of GCA.com Members.

Yet do you know what is most sickening about all this, it’s that not one of you have said anything, commented on Tim post. Congratulations, you deserve each others.

Melvyn

[Joe Hancock]

Melvyn,

First, the whole issue with Tiger is beyond anyone's control, let alone a bunch of architecture freaks. Do you really expect to exert some influence on Tiger with your posting here?

Second...this is a site about golf course architecture, yet it somehow devolves into a site deciding which of our human natures is acceptable or not.

I don't get it.

Joe

[PThomas]

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[Will MacEwen]

Anyone else not seeing anything offensive in Tim's comment? 

[George Pazin]

"#1 with a bullet" is also a cultural reference likely only meaningful to a handful of us 'Muricans.

It's always dangerous to infer motives from those who choose to ignore....

[Mac Plumart]

I've been travelling for a few days and haven't logged in.  What the heck are you all talking about?  Melvyn's going to get Tiger kicked out of the Open?  That won't be a big deal, Tiger has only been playing the Open for the first few days as of late!!!!  Oh baby...that was a good one!!!

And what does #1 with a bullet mean?

[David_Elvins]

Melvyn,

assuming you are serious, here is the logical explanation.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_a_bullet

[Mark Pearce]

It's worth all of us on this site remembering that there are representatives of many different cultures here, some of whom don't have English as their first language and many who have different understandings of the meanings of some words.  Expressions like this may mean something to some but be meaningless to others (I'd never heard that phrase before).  Rather than raecting like Melvyn did here and assuming a phrase means something, or like Joe or Will, why don't we all just apply a little thought (as George did) to potential confusion?

[TEPaul]

"Rather than raecting like Melvyn did here and assuming a phrase means something, or like Joe or Will, why don't we all just apply a little thought (as George did) to potential confusion?"


MarkP:

Good point. And you too GeorgeP. But I have another idea-----we have a 17 page, 590 post thread on Tiger Woods' appalling behavior at the Open last summer. What's that all about on a golf architecture website? Would any of you, including Melyvn Hunter Morrow, be upset if Ran Morrissett or Ben Dewar just deleted the whole God-damned thread and any others like it on here?

[Jay Flemma]

Number 1 with a bullet is a music industry term meaning that a song so exceptionally hot that it's rising fast.  Number 1 with a bullet is the highest rating you can get.  We might have a lost in translation here:)

The opposite is "number 99 with an anchor"...as in dragging it down.

[Mark Pearce]

Tom P,

I wish they would.  Just like I wished they'd pull the Merion thread, though at least that had some arcitectural relevence.

[Tim Bert]

Melvyn will be #1 with a bullet next year after he is successful in his attempt to get Woods suspended from participation in The Open said Tim Bert on another thread.

Did I throw my club. Did I swear, did I nearly injure a spectator, no but what Tiger is doing is clearly catching. The whole point of my post was to try to stop violence and people getting hurt. Clearly not that important to the majority of GCA.com Members.

Yet do you know what is most sickening about all this, it’s that not one of you have said anything, commented on Tim post. Congratulations, you deserve each others.

Melvyn

Melvyn - You and I have voiced differences in opinion in the past, but if you took my above comment as an offensive one, then I clearly miscommunicated in my post.  My singular point was that if you were truly successful in your campaign to have Tiger excluded from the British Open at St. Andrews, then you would indeed be the most powerful person in golf in my opinion.

If it was the "#1 with a bullet" comment that put you off, then I apologize and that was indeed a cultural oversight on my part.  I meant exactly what Jay clarified by that remark and nothing more.

Certainly a misinterpretation of the use of words and not intended to be a sickening remark or threat.

I apologize if my choice of words were interpreted in any other manner.  

[Buck Wolter]

Reminds me of my visit to Edinburgh where an older gentleman was selling postcards on the street. His sign said, "English Spoken, Americans Understood".

[TEPaul]

"Just like I wished they'd pull the Merion thread, though at least that had some arcitectural relevence."


MarkP:

Yes, those endless Merion threads did have some architectural relevence but only for some serious insomniacs----or at least and perhaps more accurately to say, some serious to nigh-on terminal insomniacs!

I have never suffered from insomnia---it's just that I've never needed much sleep. If I ever do suffer from that particular malady, though, I will simply take W.C. Fields' expert advice and just get some sleep.

Jackie Kennedy's mother:
"Jackie, you don't look well.

Jackie:
"Mother, I'm afraid it's Mononucleosis."

Jackie's mother:
"Jackie, how many times have I told you not to associate with those Greeks?"

[PCCraig]

You guys are just now figuring out that Melvyn is out of touch with the rest of society? 

[Tim Bert]

I removed my comment from the other thread due to avoid additional misinterpretation.  I stand by my comments that the intent was completely innocent, and I have no problem with my comments being quoted on this thread as long as folks understand the meaning behind the words. 

[TEPaul]

Timothy Bert, God love you, My Son----and with that last post of yours this thread should be LOCKED! 

[George Pazin]

But I have another idea-----we have a 17 page, 590 post thread on Tiger Woods' appalling behavior at the Open last summer. What's that all about on a golf architecture website? Would any of you, including Melyvn Hunter Morrow, be upset if Ran Morrissett or Ben Dewar just deleted the whole God-damned thread and any others like it on here?

Nope, I'd love to see it go.

[noonan]

Truth be told Melvin, your behavior is more aberrant than Tiger's.

Your picture is next to word zealot in the dictionary.

[Kyle Harris]

Was it George Bernard Shaw or someone who said that the US and England were two countries separated by the same language?

[A.G._Crockett]

Melvyn will be #1 with a bullet next year after he is successful in his attempt to get Woods suspended from participation in The Open said Tim Bert on another thread.

Did I throw my club. Did I swear, did I nearly injure a spectator, no but what Tiger is doing is clearly catching. The whole point of my post was to try to stop violence and people getting hurt. Clearly not that important to the majority of GCA.com Members.

Yet do you know what is most sickening about all this, it’s that not one of you have said anything, commented on Tim post. Congratulations, you deserve each others.

Melvyn

Ready, fire, aim!

[tlavin]

Melvyn will be #1 with a bullet next year after he is successful in his attempt to get Woods suspended from participation in The Open said Tim Bert on another thread.

Did I throw my club. Did I swear, did I nearly injure a spectator, no but what Tiger is doing is clearly catching. The whole point of my post was to try to stop violence and people getting hurt. Clearly not that important to the majority of GCA.com Members.

Yet do you know what is most sickening about all this, it’s that not one of you have said anything, commented on Tim post. Congratulations, you deserve each others.

Melvyn

Cultural or idiosyncratic language differences aside, you, Melvyn, need to get over yourself.  What's becoming increasingly clear is that we don't deserve your narcissistic and pedantic perseverations on manners any longer.

[Brad Swanson]

Melvyn will be #1 with a bullet next year after he is successful in his attempt to get Woods suspended from participation in The Open said Tim Bert on another thread.

Did I throw my club. Did I swear, did I nearly injure a spectator, no but what Tiger is doing is clearly catching. The whole point of my post was to try to stop violence and people getting hurt. Clearly not that important to the majority of GCA.com Members.

Yet do you know what is most sickening about all this, it’s that not one of you have said anything, commented on Tim post. Congratulations, you deserve each others.

Melvyn

Melvyn,
   Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars.

Cheers,
Casey K.

[TEPaul]

"Was it George Bernard Shaw or someone who said that the US and England were two countries separated by the same language?"

Winston Churchill or George Bernard Shaw, Kyle----what's the difference? 

[Bob_Huntley]

Melvyn,

I feel I must defend my good friend Tim Bert. Whatever quotation he used in his illustration it was not meant to be hurtful or threatening. He is one of nature's gentlemen and when you meet, as I hope you will, it will be revealed.

Bob