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After 20+ years, the Celtics CRUSHED the Lakers in the NBA final...something they haven''t done in a VERY long time. HUGE victory for Boston (New England really).Date: 6/18/2008 10:11:40 AM
Author: diamondseeker2006
Congratulations! (I don''t follow pro-basketball, though, so I don''t even know what they won!)
Wish I were home to celebrate w/ my peeps...
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It was fantastic... A Boston team has not won series clinching game in Boston since 1984...Date: 6/18/2008 11:10:10 AM
Author: Bia
After 20+ years, the Celtics CRUSHED the Lakers in the NBA final...something they haven''t done in a VERY long time. HUGE victory for Boston (New England really).Date: 6/18/2008 10:11:40 AM
Author: diamondseeker2006
Congratulations! (I don''t follow pro-basketball, though, so I don''t even know what they won!)
Wish I were home to celebrate w/ my peeps...
Greatest atmosphere for a sporting event I have ever been to. Couldn''t imagine anything could possibly top that (unless the Sox had been home in ''04).
About 40 minutes before the start of the game when the Celts came out for introductions the crowd was already packed and rocking. ""Beat LA and "Let''s Go Celtics" was louder during lay up lines than any chant I have ever heard at a stadium I have ever been to during the actual game (although the "No Means No" chants for Kobe were amusing). There was not a single person not chanting - people that have never said a peep before at a sporting event were screaming at the top of their lungs. In the first quarter when the Celts were LOSING, they went to a timeout and the whole place was cheering and screaming throughout the timeout like we were up by 20. It was absotuletly rocking. However, my favorite part was tons of people lighting up stogies in the 4th quarter in the stadium. Nobody cared. They even showed people on the big screen smoking them and they showed Wyc Grousbeck (Celtics owner) with a stogie in his mouth on the big screen (not sure if his was actually lit). The place smelled like crap, but what a great atmosphere. Afterwards we walked around for an hour or so. Definitely a huge force of cops in riot gear - some were cool and some were aggressive... Saw a couple of windows smashed, but nothing too crazy. Did go to Red'' Auerbachs statue in Fanueil Hall, where people had lit some candles around him and put a Celts cap on his head. Everyone was kissing his forehead and putting a lighter up to his bronze cigar. I felt like he was going to come to life at any second and start puffing away.
Unbelievable night! Not sure a sporting event will ever be the same after experiencing that.
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hahahaha! Even as a Lakers fanDate: 6/18/2008 11:53:11 AM
Author: sna77
Date: 6/18/2008 11:10:10 AM
Author: Bia
After 20+ years, the Celtics CRUSHED the Lakers in the NBA final...something they haven''t done in a VERY long time. HUGE victory for Boston (New England really).Date: 6/18/2008 10:11:40 AM
Author: diamondseeker2006
Congratulations! (I don''t follow pro-basketball, though, so I don''t even know what they won!)
Wish I were home to celebrate w/ my peeps...
It was fantastic... A Boston team has not won series clinching game in Boston since 1984...
Greatest atmosphere for a sporting event I have ever been to. Couldn''t imagine anything could possibly top that (unless the Sox had been home in ''04).
About 40 minutes before the start of the game when the Celts came out for introductions the crowd was already packed and rocking. ''''Beat LA and ''Let''s Go Celtics'' was louder during lay up lines than any chant I have ever heard at a stadium I have ever been to during the actual game (although the ''No Means No'' chants for Kobe were amusing). There was not a single person not chanting - people that have never said a peep before at a sporting event were screaming at the top of their lungs. In the first quarter when the Celts were LOSING, they went to a timeout and the whole place was cheering and screaming throughout the timeout like we were up by 20. It was absotuletly rocking. However, my favorite part was tons of people lighting up stogies in the 4th quarter in the stadium. Nobody cared. They even showed people on the big screen smoking them and they showed Wyc Grousbeck (Celtics owner) with a stogie in his mouth on the big screen (not sure if his was actually lit). The place smelled like crap, but what a great atmosphere. Afterwards we walked around for an hour or so. Definitely a huge force of cops in riot gear - some were cool and some were aggressive... Saw a couple of windows smashed, but nothing too crazy. Did go to Red'' Auerbachs statue in Fanueil Hall, where people had lit some candles around him and put a Celts cap on his head. Everyone was kissing his forehead and putting a lighter up to his bronze cigar. I felt like he was going to come to life at any second and start puffing away.
Unbelievable night! Not sure a sporting event will ever be the same after experiencing that.
Glad to hear you had a great time!
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Lucky you!
It was pretty quiet; Brookline
. We''d been at the public house, and the place was empty, I guess everyone else was watching at home. I didn''t even hear the helicopters we alway get for Sox events-maybe because it was downtown?
The two most raucous wins I recall were both the year I lived in Allston; the year Brazil won the world cup there was honking/hooting/ hollering at like 7 am! And the first time the Pats won, there was a fire on Comm Ave that blocked traffic; some kids had gone to Marty''s, gotten a keg and were pushing it in a shopping cart up and down Comm between the cars dispensing beer directly into the mouths of the drivers!
Fun stuff.
It''s been a great couple of years to live here!
It was pretty quiet; Brookline
The two most raucous wins I recall were both the year I lived in Allston; the year Brazil won the world cup there was honking/hooting/ hollering at like 7 am! And the first time the Pats won, there was a fire on Comm Ave that blocked traffic; some kids had gone to Marty''s, gotten a keg and were pushing it in a shopping cart up and down Comm between the cars dispensing beer directly into the mouths of the drivers!
Fun stuff.
It''s been a great couple of years to live here!
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Date: 6/18/2008 1:56:16 PM
Author: mercoledi
Lucky you!
It was pretty quiet; Brookline. We''d been at the public house, and the place was empty, I guess everyone else was watching at home. I didn''t even hear the helicopters we alway get for Sox events-maybe because it was downtown?
The two most raucous wins I recall were both the year I lived in Allston; the year Brazil won the world cup there was honking/hooting/ hollering at like 7 am! And the first time the Pats won, there was a fire on Comm Ave that blocked traffic; some kids had gone to Marty''s, gotten a keg and were pushing it in a shopping cart up and down Comm between the cars dispensing beer directly into the mouths of the drivers!
Fun stuff.
It''s been a great couple of years to live here!
Funny... We tried to watch Game 5 (in LA) at Public House, and Washington Sq Tavern, and neither would turn the TVs on with sound. Oyy. Its the flipping finals! They havent been there in 21 years. Seriously, why even bother having TVs if you arent''t going to turn them on for a possible once-in-a-lifetime event....
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I have absoluetley no idea...
Edit: Google search: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Boston-Celtics-301/pronunciation-Celtics.htm
The word "Celts" is derived from ancient Greek "Keltoi" which meant to define the barbarian tribes living between the Danube and the Rhone rivers. The Romans took the word as "Celtae" (pronounced Keltae) and later suffered a semantic phenomenon called "palatalization": the K became a C and in english was pronounced like an european S (confront with latin "kellarium" - german "keller" but english "cell"; or latin "Kaesar" - german "Kaiser" but english "Caesar"). So, to me, both Keltic and Celtic are ok. It is just a matter of what kind of.... word you decide to use: the arcaic form, or the "current" one. "Keltic" may be more historically accurate, but languages are never idle, they keep changing each and every day.....
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Harriet I''ve sometimes wondered that myself! Another example is Notre Dame. That''s pronounced entirely differently in the States to how the French would pronounce it...
Anyway, on the ''Kelt/Selt'' thing, there''s a famous soccer club in Glasgow called the Celtic FC, pronounced with an S sound. There''s also a newspaper in Ireland called the Anglo Celt, again pronounced with the S sound. But the Celts meaning the ancient tribes who terrified the Romans by charging into battle naked - they always get the K sound
Anyway, on the ''Kelt/Selt'' thing, there''s a famous soccer club in Glasgow called the Celtic FC, pronounced with an S sound. There''s also a newspaper in Ireland called the Anglo Celt, again pronounced with the S sound. But the Celts meaning the ancient tribes who terrified the Romans by charging into battle naked - they always get the K sound
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Actually, I know the answer, and it is correct according to American English pronunciation. When a "c" is followed by e, i, or y, it generally has the /s/ sound.Date: 6/19/2008 11:07:28 AM
Author: purrfectpear
Because we Americans mispronounce almost every foreign word
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