CLUNKY WATCH 2024

[graveyard johnny]

well you know them summer fayres where you have to guess how many jelly beans are in the jar? 

well with more televised games than ever- will 2023s catchword "clunky" be used as much?

the prize for getting the nearest is a SL greatest tries video (VHS ) and a bag of Maltesers 

one guess only - cc matches - bbc - sky - ourleague - whatever premier sports calls its self these days  ALL count 

my opening gambit is CLUNKY  said 84 times 

[HawkMan]

13 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

well you know them summer fayres where you have to guess how many jelly beans are in the jar? 

well with more televised games than ever- will 2023s catchword "clunky" be used as much?

the prize for getting the nearest is a SL greatest tries video (VHS ) and a bag of Maltesers 

one guess only - cc matches - bbc - sky - ourleague - whatever premier sports calls its self these days  ALL count 

my opening gambit is CLUNKY  said 84 times 

Who'll adjudicate this ? Watching every TV game ! Someone with not much else to do..who? ...oh right I see, good luck GJ.

[graveyard johnny]

2 minutes ago, HawkMan said:

Who'll adjudicate this ? Watching every TV game ! Someone with not much else to do..who? ...oh right I see, good luck GJ.

theres always a statto somewhere - someone with a big nose who knows

[graveyard johnny]

not as hard as might think - not counting NRL - MOST trl members are watching a televised game -just say the game - the number of CLUNKYS and it goes in the count - easy

[Whippet13]

I've had my own version of this for the last couple of years but based on FRUSTRATED, it lasts all season long. 

Edited January 9 by Whippet13

[graveyard johnny]

37 minutes ago, Whippet13 said:

I've had my own version of this for the last couple of years but based on FRUSTRATED, it lasts all season long. 

put a bid in

[Gomersall]

Make it a bag of Minstrels and I’m in.

[Gomersall]

2 hours ago, HawkMan said:

Who'll adjudicate this ? Watching every TV game ! Someone with not much else to do..who? ...oh right I see, good luck GJ.

Chris Packham?

[unapologetic pedant]

"Clunky" succinctly describes a faltering attacking performance. 

Incumbent on those who object to its use to suggest alternatives.

[RBKnight]

The real wild card would be the post-match interviews (perhaps a tie-break question?),  where a coach can claim that they were "a little bit clunky all game" ad nauseum 

[Farmduck]

If memory serves me well, "clunky" originated in the 1960s TV show My Three Sons.

[Farmduck]

That was just from my own memory but it is corroborated by the Oxford English dictionary  https://www.oed.com/dictionary/clunky_adj?tl=true

[gingerjon]

4 minutes ago, Farmduck said:

If memory serves me well, "clunky" originated in the 1960s TV show My Three Sons.

Can you paste the details as it's saying I have to register for those?

Love a bit of, "this word you think has existed forever, actually came into being about the time of the moon landings ..."

[Farmduck]

 

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Where does the adjective clunky come from?

Earliest known use

1960s

The earliest known use of the adjective clunky is in the 1960s.

OED's earliest evidence for clunky is from 1965, in My Three Sons.

 

 

[Ovenden Grunt]

There'll be a new word out before long, and some clowns will hang on to it and repeat it.

[fighting irish]

I heard it twice in the Mr Bates v The Post Office dramatisation does that count? 

[Sports Prophet]

Eyes up footy

[Dunbar]

23 hours ago, Farmduck said:

Where does the adjective clunky come from?

Earliest known use

1960s

The earliest known use of the adjective clunky is in the 1960s.

OED's earliest evidence for clunky is from 1965, in My Three Sons.

For anyone who hasn't seen it, the three sons were Clunky, Sticky and Moist.

It was very surreal, written by the same team behind The Mighty Boosh.

[daz39]

134 clunks

[northamptoncougar]

286 Clunks

how big the bag of maltesers? 

[graveyard johnny]

On 11/01/2024 at 19:40, northamptoncougar said:

286 Clunks

how big the bag of maltesers? 

erm - I might have already opened them mmmmmmmmmm!

[Gomersall]

24 minutes ago, graveyard johnny said:

erm - I might have already opened them mmmmmmmmmm!

No. Looks like you opened the M & Ms by mistake.

[Harry Stottle]

On 09/01/2024 at 17:39, HawkMan said:

Who'll adjudicate this ? Watching every TV game ! Someone with not much else to do..who? ...oh right I see, good luck GJ.

Have a look at the televised games thread Hawkers, I suspect many will be watching every game, those with not much else to do!

[tiffers]

I counted 4 in the Leeds Salford game.

Didn't hear any last night, mind. 

[Sports Prophet]

I’m changing mine to “mitigation”