National Champions

[Michael Palmer]

You all would appreciate this. The University of Vermont...I went to school there, 25 miles down the road...just won the National Championship in football...soccer over here.
An unseeded teem beat #2. #3, #7, and #13 to win the championship. They won so many matches in the run-up and playoffs
where they were behind by one goal and scored in the 80th minute to tie it up. Then to win the match in an overtime or penalty kicks.
What an awesome team...family. Little Vermont blows them all away. People were calling them the underdogs.
The coach said, "Just call us the Dogs'.
https://www.wcax.com/video/2024/12/17/uvm-mens-soccer-captures-national-championship/

 

[Erichalfbee]

Will you be wearing the T shirt to show the bees in the Spring?

 

[boywonder]

Hi Michael (and from me, humble to be conversing with a Beekeeping legend) ... but I feel that post is wasted on here.

In the UK, most Beekeepers are weird.

I'm sure that I am the only Beekeeper in the UK, who follows football/soccer. (Picture the incredulity when, during the World Cup, you rock-up to an apiary training session, whilst having the live-scores come through on your phone).

That said, possibly not all UK Beekeepers have woodpeckers living in their beards (though a beard-spotting competition I had with my son at a trade event might have suggested otherwise. Women included).

The reason I feel compelled to post is not only to let you know there is at least one of us interested in the University of Vermont's success.... But also because of your coaches comment.

It reminded me of the late 80s/early 90s, when (started by Manchester City - who, for some reason which eludes me, had a fanbase who adopted the banana), fans around the country started turning up in their droves with inflatables. Picture e.g. a terrace full of waving inflatable bananas (Man City) vs a terrace of waving inflatable Pink Panthers (Stoke)...

Well, one of the former managers of my club (Jimmy Frizzell) referred to us in a news interview as the "Yard-dogs" .... And the die was cast.

We (Oldham) were a relatively big club back then ... and out onto the terraces came inflatable dogs, in their hundreds, if not thousands.

Mostly forgotten now, but some recall - e.g.

Hoping to see you instigate a similar craze in Vermont. Maybe we can get a business going in inflatable dogs DM me.

Have a great Christmas

 

[Erichalfbee]

I'm sure that I am the only Beekeeper in the UK, who follows football/soccer. (Picture the incredulity when, during the World Cup, you rock-up to an apiary training session, whilst having the live-scores come through on your phone).

One of Stan’s granddaughters is in Everton’s academy. You are not alone. His passion is worse. He watches girls play football!

 

[Penninetrader]

You all would appreciate this. The University of Vermont...I went to school there, 25 miles down the road...just won the National Championship in football...soccer over here.
An unseeded teem beat #2. #3, #7, and #13 to win the championship. They won so many matches in the run-up and playoffs
where they were behind by one goal and scored in the 80th minute to tie it up. Then to win the match in an overtime or penalty kicks.
What an awesome team...family. Little Vermont blows them all away. People were calling them the underdogs.
The coach said, "Just call us the Dogs'.
https://www.wcax.com/video/2024/12/17/uvm-mens-soccer-captures-national-championship/

The dogs is a term we use here to describe something which is top notch or the best of the best. The full phrase being cockney slang "the dogs bollocks" or to be polite in polite company abbreviated to "the dogs" I am another Beek who is a full on footie fan. Whenever I hear your name my thoughts conjure up breathing chimneys passing through the deep snow....oh, and your look of disdain for us Brits thinking we have difficulty overwintering our girls :}

 

[JamezF]

The dogs is a term we use here to describe something which is top notch or the best of the best.

But as is not uncommon with (British?) English, we also have the phrase "going to the dogs" which means quite the opposite

I wasn't aware that "the dog's bollocks" had a Cockney origin though. If it's rhyming slang, I have to admit that I'm at something of a loss as to what it rhymes with.

James

 

[Penninetrader]

Not rhyming slang just slang, it does surprise me that you have not come across this term. They have products with it on the label or have had. It is used mostly in the Sarf of course.Just had a quick check and Evostick make a product called The Dogs

 

[JamezF]

Not rhyming slang just slang, it does surprise me that you have not come across this term. They have products with it on the label or have had. It is used mostly in the Sarf of course.Just had a quick check and Evostick make a product called The Dogs

Oh, I'm familiar with the term, just not the origin. It was frequently used by Viz in the 80's for example and Wychwood Brewery even produced a beer called "The Dogs Bollocks", though I'm not sure if they still do after being bought out by Carlsberg Marston's who closed the brewery a year ago last month and just seem to want to "monetise" the "Hobgoblin" name and brand.

James

 

[Penninetrader]

Oh, I'm familiar with the term, just not the origin. It was frequently used by Viz in the 80's for example and Wychwood Brewery even produced a beer called "The Dogs Bollocks", though I'm not sure if they still do after being bought out by Carlsberg Marston's who closed the brewery a year ago last month and just seem to want to "monetise" the "Hobgoblin" name and brand.

James

I first came across the term when I started to have regular dealings with lads from parts of London that still had working class Londoners. It is not a term we use here in the norf. We are quickly losing our localised connections with the past. The invisible glues that bond our culture and identity.

 

[NickM]

I heard once (maybe on QI?) that the early Meccano sets used to come in two level of quality, the Box Standard and the Box Deluxe.

Hence Bog Standard and Dogs Bollocks

 

[pargyle]

The dogs is a term we use here to describe something which is top notch or the best of the best. The full phrase being cockney slang "the dogs bollocks" or to be polite in polite company abbreviated to "the dogs" I am another Beek who is a full on footie fan. Whenever I hear your name my thoughts conjure up breathing chimneys passing through the deep snow....oh, and your look of disdain for us Brits thinking we have difficulty overwintering our girls :}

The Dog's B's expression was not cockney slang ... it was printers slang for :- when typesetting ... I don't really think anyone knows why it came to be known as a descriptive for something top notch ... another expression whose origin is lost - could be several sources.

 

[Penninetrader]

The Dog's B's expression was not cockney slang ... it was printers slang for :- when typesetting ... I don't really think anyone knows why it came to be known as a descriptive for something top notch ... another expression whose origin is lost - could be several sources.

Solved it........John Bull

 

[pargyle]

Solved it........John Bull

Most people of my age would have had a John Bull printing set at some point in their youth.

There is some suggestion that the Dog's B's expression was just a further derivative of the the Cat's Whiskers or the Bee's Knees ...both phrases describing the best of something and whose origins are also lost in time - but thought to have started in the 1920's in the USA.

 

[Penninetrader]

Most people of my age would have had a John Bull printing set at some point in their youth.

There is some suggestion that the Dog's B's expression was just a further derivative of the the Cat's Whiskers or the Bee's Knees ...both phrases describing the best of something and whose origins are also lost in time - but thought to have started in the 1920's in the USA.

Yep had one, I also had a van in the 70's that was sign written with John Bull on the sides, have no idea why and besides which it was most deffo not the dogs

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

There is some suggestion that the Dog's B's expression was just a further derivative of the the Cat's Whiskers or the Bee's Knees

or the pig's t!ts

 

[Jules59]

Oh, I'm familiar with the term, just not the origin. It was frequently used by Viz in the 80's for example and Wychwood Brewery even produced a beer called "The Dogs Bollocks", though I'm not sure if they still do after being bought out by Carlsberg Marston's who closed the brewery a year ago last month and just seem to want to "monetise" the "Hobgoblin" name and brand.

James

I really dislike the new labels created for the Hobgloblin brand so much so I avoid buying the beer altogether these days.

 

[Erichalfbee]

On the doggie theme this pub used to be our
local when we lived outside Kendal

 

[JamezF]

On the doggie theme this pub used to be our
local when we lived outside Kendal

Nice. I do like labels that show a bit of imagination and a sense of fun.

James

 

[Murox]

I really dislike the new labels created for the Hobgloblin brand so much so I avoid buying the beer altogether these days.

Deeply sad that the Carlsberg Marston Brewing Company do what they always do after buying up a smaller good brewery. They have a history of course eg Charles Wells, Young’s beers and I think some others.