Any of you bears getting a little tired of "he's a beast"? If my English 1A TA saw how often we used the phrase, he would break his wrist writing "trite" (I received quite a few of those). My dictionary says: beast: noun, large or dangerous four-footed animal but the second definition is: a domestic animal, esp. a bovine farm animal.
I think we should wear out "he's a BRUTE": noun, a savagely violent person or animal. Sort of describes Follett, Butkis, or Tatum, who definitely were not bovine.
Anyway, we are in the doldrums and I am desperate for the season to begin.
I feel better now, thanks for listening.

"Large mammal"?

Orical;528738 said:

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Any of you bears getting a little tired of "he's a beast"? If my English 1A TA saw how often we used the phrase, he would break his wrist writing "trite" (I received quite a few of those). My dictionary says: beast: noun, large or dangerous four-footed animal but the second definition is: a domestic animal, esp. a bovine farm animal.
I think we should wear out "he's a BRUTE": noun, a savagely violent person or animal. Sort of describes Follett, Butkis, or Tatum, who definitely were not bovine.
Anyway, we are in the doldrums and I am desperate for the season to begin.
I feel better now, thanks for listening.

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Brute sounds "old" though....like Brutus and usually just for big lineman type guys...beast has taken on a different meaning then what the dictionary says above....besides, there is at least ONE guy who will always be an exception to your wishes.......

Finally a thread everyone can respond too, whether we understand a thing about it or not.

Anyways, Beast comes under Jargon, so any other rules don't apply.

If I find a hard-hitting prospect I like who the recruitniks haven't already dissected ad nauseum on this board, I promise to use "he's a Grendel." :acclaim:

... the other, warped
in the shape of a man, moves beyond the pale
bigger than any man, an unnatural birth
called Grendel by the country people
in former days.

Not sure how I'll edit the unnatural birth part but I'll think of something for ya :p

liverflukes;528749 said:

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If I find a hard-hitting prospect I like who the recruitniks haven't already dissected ad nauseum on this board, I promise to use "he's a Grendel." :acclaim:

... the other, warped
in the shape of a man, moves beyond the pale
bigger than any man, an unnatural birth
called Grendel by the country people
in former days.

Not sure how I'll edit the unnatural birth part but I'll think of something for ya :p

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Beowulf's Grendel...not [U]your grundle[/U] :p

Quite different things....

GO BEARS!

Meast- noun- half man half beast

Beast mode.

THE Beast

Beasts are plodding and stupid, easily outwitted and eventually killed by smaller, wilier humans. We want demigods not beasts.

You can add the words epic and fail as well. THere are other words that should be on this list that I can't recall. I don't spend time on twitter but you can find 99% of these words there.

"Beast" may be overused,

but I don't think of "Beast Mode" as being overused. That expression only applies to one guy I know of.