[Ads-l] Heard today in an academic meeting

[Dan Goncharoff]

I once shared an elevator with Macho Man Savage:
https://youtu.be/8C4lK41SX-Q?feature=shared

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 5:56 PM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Ingrid Johnsrude wrote:
> > “Cream rises to the crop”
> >
> > A conflation of "cream rises to the top" and "cream of the crop”
> > I suppose — has anyone else heard this?
>
> Here is an example of a U.S. football coach using the expression in
> 2012. The coach realized that he made an error, and he speculated on
> the genesis of the mistake.
>
> Article; Baltimore Ravens Practice Transcripts 08/11
> Date: Aug 11, 2012 at 05:00 PM
>
> https://www.baltimoreravens.com/news/baltimore-ravens-practice-transcripts-08-11-8066575
>
> RAVENS PRACTICE TRANSCRIPTS
> Head Coach John Harbaugh
>
> [Begin excerpt]
> How good was it to see Bobby Rainey and Deonte Thompson make some
> plays out there? (Jason Butt)
>
> "It was great to see. We were just saying … The guys were joking
> because I meant to say, 'The cream rises to the top,' and I said, 'The
> cream rises to the crop.' The cream of the crop rises to the top, OK,
> something. I told them, 'You know what I meant; go with what I meant,
> not what I said.' But, that's the point. It gets tough. It's a long
> camp, that's why we have the number of reps we do. We play for the
> four preseason games to find out. We give our guys every opportunity.
> We will know by the end of the preseason who our best 53 players are."
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson O'Toole
>
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