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Another Stupid Tee Box Marker

• golfvader7 1,822 Posts

  Sat, Mar 14 2015 1:04 PM

  The HUGE Shamrock teebox marker is 1/2 the size of the golf bag, 1/3 the size of the avatar, any larger I could hide behind it. But it fits perfectly with the other brilliant choices for tee markers. Nothing like trying to "improve" the golf "look".

  Ridiculous

• alosso 21,072 Posts

  Sat, Mar 14 2015 1:21 PM

  BTW: Is shamrock the same as lucky clover?

• tiger319 1,186 Posts

  Sat, Mar 14 2015 4:59 PM

  golfvader7:

  The HUGE Shamrock teebox marker is 1/2 the size of the golf bag, 1/3 the size of the avatar, any larger I could hide behind it. But it fits perfectly with the other brilliant choices for tee markers. Nothing like trying to "improve" the golf "look".

  Ridiculous

  Agreed!!  I don't give two Sh!ts about the dumb@$$ tee marker's..  At least it's a little better than the dogs and the effin Valentins..  Can't believe WGT wants to program stupid sh!t like this but will not fix the issue's that are really piss!ng the majority of people off!!!

  As a business owner I'm all for a company making money but if I had a blind eye to the issues in my company I would be out of business.... 

  Wake up WGT....

   

• 9,041 Posts

  Sat, Mar 14 2015 7:14 PM

  alosso:

  BTW: Is shamrock the same as lucky clover?

  Ooooo  'can o worms' m8, touchy subject !!

  It's been hotly debated for years Alo......

  In many esteemed places of learning.......

  The consensus of opinion is that 'they'...NEED to Get a fookin Life...!!

  .either that or take up WGT :)

  Andy

   

• CanineSupervisor 1,882 Posts

  Sat, Mar 14 2015 7:35 PM

  alosso:

  BTW: Is shamrock the same as lucky clover?

  No. The shamrock is a 3-leaf white clover chosen by St Patrick to represent the Trinity. The word shamrock comes from the Gaelic word meaning “little clover”.

  The 4-leaf clover is believed to be the "Lucky" one; each leaf representing - faith, hope, love and luck.

• 9,041 Posts

  Sat, Mar 14 2015 8:29 PM

  CanineSupervisor:

  alosso:

  BTW: Is shamrock the same as lucky clover?

  No. The shamrock is a 3-leaf white clover chosen by St Patrick to represent the Trinity. The word shamrock comes from the Gaelic word meaning “little clover”.

  The 4-leaf clover is believed to be the "Lucky" one; each leaf representing - faith, hope, love and luck.

  yeah but.......................doesn't answer Alo's Q ?

  We can all google stuff..

  What about the 4 leaf shamrock, against the 3 leaf clover ? OR..

  The 2 leaf shamrock and the 5 leaf clover you found ? ( HIO lucky ? )

  They the same GENUS ?? ( and neither white ) OR, is one a sub species ?

  Now I'm fookin debating it...... lmao ( already play WGT and lifeless :)))

  Bit of a joke my earlier post BUT, botanists with greater minds than you or I can not agree..

  Which was my answer to Alo ( in a roundabout way )

   

• Jimbog1964 8,378 Posts

  Sat, Mar 14 2015 8:46 PM

  CanineSupervisor:

  No. The shamrock is a 3-leaf white clover chosen by St Patrick to represent the Trinity. The word shamrock comes from the Gaelic word meaning “little clover”.

  Interesting indeed and as Andy says a can o worms:)...........

  Not sure I go with the St Patrick part especially as the trinity thing was arguably really only just gaining foothold - 3rd century idea  taken from elsewhere (more ancient Babylon and Greece practices).  Also not mentioned in any Patrick writings back then.  

  More contemporary times and random politically driven events is more the cause of its adoption IMO, but romanticism then replaces things, and it becomes what it is now:)...JMO

  EDIT: By the time it was ingrained in the psyche Ireland was obviously very much a catholic country, and so easier to see how a three pointed (trinity representation) idea would be adopted.

• CanineSupervisor 1,882 Posts

  Sat, Mar 14 2015 10:55 PM

  alcaucin:

  Bit of a joke my earlier post BUT, botanists with greater minds than you or I can not agree..

  Well, there you go, Andy. I am just a lowly ScD in Comp Sci and all things computer, what the fook do I know about Botany. I missed those classes at MIT. Go figure. What was I thinking when choosing electives? LOL

  What branch of Nerds study botany anyway? Isn't that right up there alongside Phys Ed and Liberal Arts majors?

  Who mentioned a 5-leaf clover? If I did, I must have been smokin' my crack pipe again...I dunno. I can't remember...

  See, if I knew how to Google, I would probably know the answer to the 5-leaf clover conundrum. No doubt it would direct me to a Wiki page full of requests for more information, as their's is mostly flawed .

  I'm so glad Mr. JBog piped in, as well. He's a man that knows how to Google. You go, Jim.

  BTW - Andy, I think I did answer Alosso's question, did I not (rhetorical); hence the reference to the 4-leaf clover.

  Class dismissed. 

  Back to trolling the forums..see ya soon.

• 9,041 Posts

  Sun, Mar 15 2015 12:02 AM

  CanineSupervisor:

  What branch of Nerds study botany anyway? Isn't that right up there alongside Phys Ed and Liberal Arts majors?

  Not a very enlightened statement...

  The Botanists may call you CompSci ppl,   geeks..and prolly do.....

  Makes neither of 'you' RIGHT !!

  CanineSupervisor:

  Who mentioned a 5-leaf clover? If I did, I must have been smokin' my crack pipe again...I dunno. I can't remember...

  Re-read in the morning...all will become clear (context remember )

  CanineSupervisor:

  See, if I knew how to Google, I would probably know the answer to the 5-leaf clover conundrum. No doubt it would direct me to a Wiki page full of requests for more information, as their's is mostly flawed .

  Why I hardly ever google ( to check known facts only ).........however,

  read what you said and it smacked of plagiarism....Googled..............

  And....lo and behold it was near verbatim !!

  CanineSupervisor:

  BTW - Andy, I think I did answer Alosso's question

  No you did not.......did you (rhetorical)

  CanineSupervisor:

  Class dismissed. 

  MIT ? ( morons invite trouble ? )

   

  Andy ( very dim )

   

   

• alosso 21,072 Posts

  Sun, Mar 15 2015 12:09 AM

  Thanks a lot CS, you answered it perfectly. Since this was the only reasonable answer to the ambiguity (sorry Andy, I spotted you tongue-in-cheek), it shows that there should not be a doubt how to use the symbols.

  @Jim: Historic truth is less important to me than the symbolism. It's evident that St.Patrick and Ireland use the shamrock (three leaves), and St.Patrick's Day is coming soon. Wonder if there is any coincidence?

   

  As another coincidence, there's a wasteland of a special shape not far from my place.

  Q: What is the symbol of this city?