Tlachtli is an ancient form of a ballgame played by various cultures although it is generally associated with the Aztecs. The exact pronounciation is as it's spelled but because of the basic translation of native languages to Spanish during the Inquisition it's not how it originally was pronounced.
Anyways, tlachtli was overall a brutal sport, rugby and American football have little on this sport. The game was played with a hard rubber ball (came right off of rubber tress) which became as hard as rock when temperatures dropped. Weighing anywhere from 5 to 10 pounds 2-5 players per team had to hit the ball with their elbows, hips or legs through a stone ring that was placed above the court typically several feet high.
The walls of the court it was played in were slanted So that the ball could make a feable attempt at bouncing off and helped the odds of getting the ball into the stone ring. The court was set up like modern volleyball, one team on one side and the other team on the other side. In some cases the game would go on for days with no break until one team got the ball through the ring to score a point.
The cultural importance of the game was huge to the Ancient Central American people because they would use the game for both weather predictions and as a form of human sacrifice. Priests and fortune tellers would study the path of the ball and they would create primitive forms of almanacs out of their predictions. Also at the end of the game either the winning team (the team that got the ball through the hoops the most) or the losing team would be offered to the ancient gods as sacrifice (the team to be sacrificed likely depended on the tribe such as Aztecs, Incas, ect).
Some modern artifacts remain from the ball courts. In fact a near completely-intact court remains today at Chichen Itza.
Anyways, tlachtli was overall a brutal sport, rugby and American football have little on this sport. The game was played with a hard rubber ball (came right off of rubber tress) which became as hard as rock when temperatures dropped. Weighing anywhere from 5 to 10 pounds 2-5 players per team had to hit the ball with their elbows, hips or legs through a stone ring that was placed above the court typically several feet high.
The walls of the court it was played in were slanted So that the ball could make a feable attempt at bouncing off and helped the odds of getting the ball into the stone ring. The court was set up like modern volleyball, one team on one side and the other team on the other side. In some cases the game would go on for days with no break until one team got the ball through the ring to score a point.
The cultural importance of the game was huge to the Ancient Central American people because they would use the game for both weather predictions and as a form of human sacrifice. Priests and fortune tellers would study the path of the ball and they would create primitive forms of almanacs out of their predictions. Also at the end of the game either the winning team (the team that got the ball through the hoops the most) or the losing team would be offered to the ancient gods as sacrifice (the team to be sacrificed likely depended on the tribe such as Aztecs, Incas, ect).
Some modern artifacts remain from the ball courts. In fact a near completely-intact court remains today at Chichen Itza.
We played our own form of tlachtli on Saturday and it was brutal! Our ankles killed like crazy and we'd only scored a few points.
by Sid Barrett February 13, 2008
1.
Boy: (waking his mom up) Mommy?
Mom: What is it?
Boy: There's a monster in my closet.
Mom: I thought you already got over your fear of monsters in the closet.
Boy: Yeah, but this one's wearing a mankini.
2. Oh, don't mind that guy, it's just Borat in his mankini.
Boy: (waking his mom up) Mommy?
Mom: What is it?
Boy: There's a monster in my closet.
Mom: I thought you already got over your fear of monsters in the closet.
Boy: Yeah, but this one's wearing a mankini.
2. Oh, don't mind that guy, it's just Borat in his mankini.
by Sid Barrett March 17, 2008
Emola is a highly infectious disease that spreads rapidly through humans and causes severe injury to those infected or even death.
Emola spreads quickly through humans although it strangely has a higher transmition rate in those aged 13 to 24. Anyone can come down with the disease but the elderly and young infants to toddlers rarely come down with it.
Emola is spread through shared needles, most bodily fluids including tears and in some rare cases emails or other forms of electronic communication such as MySpace, FaceBook, web sites promoting rock bands or online dictionaries that define terms in pop culture.
Symptoms of emola include uncontrollable crying, tendency to complain, tendency to inflict personal harm, tendency to cause property damage, addiction to social networking sites, addiction to the color black, addiction to rock music with high-pitched vocal ranges and heavy use of power chords, uncontrollable harsh criticism of anything for no apparent reason and may possibly lead oneself to committ suicide. Treatment includes many different options but mostly includes sitting in a nearly deserted room with no sharp objects colored with bright colors with a smiling psychologist from some big-name university or college sitting in front of you with just a table in between the 2 of you with a "mirror" on one wall and hidden cameras placed everywhere in the room.
There is no known prevention for emola at this time except staying away from people who have contracted the disease and cutting off all forms of communication with them.
Emola spreads quickly through humans although it strangely has a higher transmition rate in those aged 13 to 24. Anyone can come down with the disease but the elderly and young infants to toddlers rarely come down with it.
Emola is spread through shared needles, most bodily fluids including tears and in some rare cases emails or other forms of electronic communication such as MySpace, FaceBook, web sites promoting rock bands or online dictionaries that define terms in pop culture.
Symptoms of emola include uncontrollable crying, tendency to complain, tendency to inflict personal harm, tendency to cause property damage, addiction to social networking sites, addiction to the color black, addiction to rock music with high-pitched vocal ranges and heavy use of power chords, uncontrollable harsh criticism of anything for no apparent reason and may possibly lead oneself to committ suicide. Treatment includes many different options but mostly includes sitting in a nearly deserted room with no sharp objects colored with bright colors with a smiling psychologist from some big-name university or college sitting in front of you with just a table in between the 2 of you with a "mirror" on one wall and hidden cameras placed everywhere in the room.
There is no known prevention for emola at this time except staying away from people who have contracted the disease and cutting off all forms of communication with them.
I really hope Susan gets over her case of emola , she screamed at me last weekend because I wasn't wearing black and I didn't bring my pocketknife for her.
by Sid Barrett December 25, 2007
#1: A song by Don McLean. It's a vague history of Rock starting with the death of Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper and some other person I can't remember right now and ending with the introduction of the Rolling Stones (Mick Jagger is known as Satan in the song, "...And Satan on the sideline in a cast" refers to an injury Mick had). It is believed that the name of the song came from the airplane that crashed but in reality the plane could only be identified by it's aircraft pin number, it had no name and never was named. The title of the song is therefore truely unknown.
#2: A movie about teenagers who want to loose their virginity. It is a very quotable movie, for example "I did my fair share of... masturbating in my days, I used to call it stroking the salami. You know your Uncle Herman used to pet the one-eyed snake five, six times a day." Even the weird guy gets laid in the end but he does it with someone's mom, hence the playing of Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" as the scene cuts out to the next person.
#2: A movie about teenagers who want to loose their virginity. It is a very quotable movie, for example "I did my fair share of... masturbating in my days, I used to call it stroking the salami. You know your Uncle Herman used to pet the one-eyed snake five, six times a day." Even the weird guy gets laid in the end but he does it with someone's mom, hence the playing of Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" as the scene cuts out to the next person.
1. American Pie is as easy to sing as pie.
2. We should pull an American Pie one of these days and see who's the last person left out of the bed.
2. We should pull an American Pie one of these days and see who's the last person left out of the bed.
by Sid Barrett July 06, 2007
1. (noun) A discount on a purchase given typically to a very attractive person even when they don't work there.
2. (noun) A discount given to employees just to keep the money there and not have it go to competitors.
2. (noun) A discount given to employees just to keep the money there and not have it go to competitors.
1. Cashier: "What do you think? 15% or 20%?"
Friend: "I'd say 20%."
2. Cashier: "You work over there and you're not using your employee discount from them?"
-Competition worker: "No, even with the discount it's still cheaper here."
Friend: "I'd say 20%."
2. Cashier: "You work over there and you're not using your employee discount from them?"
-Competition worker: "No, even with the discount it's still cheaper here."
by Sid Barrett August 24, 2008
The Grey Screen of Death is another term for the "Disk Read Error" message on PS2}'s. This screen more or less means you have to return it to the store and get a new one or you can disassemble it yourself and do something to it but I've never seen it done personally, I had this on my first PS2 but I returned it and they threw it in this big pile they had of PS2's affected by the Grey Screen of Death.
Not the Grey Screen of Death! Great! First my XBox 360 gets the Red Ring of Death, then my Windows 95 computer gets the Blue Screen of Death, and THEN my iPod gets the White Screen of Death and now THIS!!
by Sid Barrett August 23, 2007
The Rent is a nickname for Rentschler Field, a stadium in East Hartford, CT.
The Rent is home to the UConn Huskies football team. During the summer the stadium holds concerts which are typically sold out. Famous acts who have performed at the Rent include The Rolling Stones, The Police and Bruce Springsteen. The stadium has also hosts major soccer matches but these matches have always been simply qualifying matches, not championship matches.
The stadium sits on and old Pratt & Whitney airfield strip and still has the original runway in place. Parking for the Rent goes up and down the runway and in some cases fans have to walk literally miles to get to the stadium. In 2007 Cabela's, an outdoor supplies company, opened up on the same P&W property.
The Rent is home to the UConn Huskies football team. During the summer the stadium holds concerts which are typically sold out. Famous acts who have performed at the Rent include The Rolling Stones, The Police and Bruce Springsteen. The stadium has also hosts major soccer matches but these matches have always been simply qualifying matches, not championship matches.
The stadium sits on and old Pratt & Whitney airfield strip and still has the original runway in place. Parking for the Rent goes up and down the runway and in some cases fans have to walk literally miles to get to the stadium. In 2007 Cabela's, an outdoor supplies company, opened up on the same P&W property.
Football fan: Hey, want to go the the UConn / Rutgers game this Saturday at the Rent?
Other fan: Sure, but that UConn / USF game 2 weeks ago was brutal! We walked the whole runway in a downpour!
Other fan: Sure, but that UConn / USF game 2 weeks ago was brutal! We walked the whole runway in a downpour!
by Sid Barrett February 23, 2008