A Great Line

[CajunCenturion]

I was just reading this article (

http://www.pgatour.com/2010/tournaments/r027/08/25/furyk-dq/index.html)

about Jim Furyk's disqualification from The Barlays and you got to love this line:

"I'm kicking myself," Furyk told the AP. "I have a way of climbing into situations that are all my fault."

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[kwbMitel]

Is the use of the word climbing a colloqualism. The sentence sounds perfectly normal to me if I substitute getting for climbing.

Is there something else unusual about the sentence that I am not getting? (or is that climbing?)

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[FredWagner]

Actually 'climbing' into the situation implies that it would be difficult or awkward to exit, more so than the connotation of 'getting' into the situation would. A creative extension/expansion of the language, IMHO.

Fred Wagner

 

[jsteph]

kwb,
I think the gist is that if Furyk is doing the climbing into (or getting into or whatever), then of course it's his fault.

 

[kwbMitel]

So this is a Yogi Berra kinda thing then?

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[KenCunningham]

Smarter than the average bear!

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[tcsbiz]

Yogi didn't want to be the Berra of bad tidings.

 

[2ffat]

Yogi Berra -- isn't that an exercise program you do turn yourself into a human pretzel while in the nude? [small] Sorry, I couldn't help myself.[/small]

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[BadBigBen]

2ffat,

you forgot to say, while doing that you have to grumble or growl like a bear...

and while you are at Jellystone, don't feed the Berra's...

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