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March 4

What is a two-way?

In the song Girl all the bad guys want, there is a lyric "she wears a two-way, but I'm not quite sure what that means". I don't know what it means, either. What is a two-way? I didn't see anything likely at Two-way. RudolfRed (talk) 03:04, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Just a guess, but I would take that to be a reversible garment.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 12:37, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're a little off the mark there old chap. I would hazard that it's a type of body piercing, perhaps of the navel. Not my cup of tea, but different strokes and all that! Quintessential British Gentleman (talk) 14:07, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Two-way, to me, would be referring to a radio, or sometimes a beeper. Urban Dictionary seems to suggest an article of underwear, however. Not 100% sure that's what they meant, but it seems to fit. ^Avic _ennasis @ 17:28, 10 Adar 5772 / 17:28, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It could also be a two-way street, but most girls don't wear your actual roads and streets, last time I looked. -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 19:07, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

User:Avicennasis found the right Urbandictionary page, but looked at the wrong entry (the undergarment). The second meaning is: Two-way: short for two-way pager- a small electronic device that allows communication in two directions; a more advanced version of the original "pager" which worked by allowing a caller to send a numeric message to the person with the pager. After this message, the person would have to find a telephone to place a return call. A two-way pager allows a message (text) to be returned to the person placing the original page. The usage example that is given is exactly the song line User:RudolfRed is asking about: She wears a two-way but I'm not quite sure what that means. --NorwegianBlue^talk 22:13, 8 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Song lyrics are well known for not making much sense. I would guess that the writer really didn't know what it meant either. (Maybe he misheard toupée).--Shantavira|^{feed me} 08:37, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We don't even need to guess: the writer already says he's "not quite sure what that means", which is a euphemistic way of saying he has no idea what it means at all. It's not meant to be comprehensible. It's just there for the kookiness-for-its-own-sake factor. -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 18:56, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are you sure you're not mishearing toupée? --Dweller (talk) 11:26, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Shantavira already suggested that. -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 11:31, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Oh yes, how embarrassing. --Dweller (talk) 12:22, 7 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Definitive answer - in 2012 University of York student newspaper York Vision published an article^[1] recounting a backstage conversation with Erik Chandler of Bowling For Soup, in which he says, "It’s a pager, it’s a mobile texting device. Before you were texting on your telephones, there were ‘two way’ pagers." --Sbutler (talk) 08:23, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Judge, Alysia (30 March 2012). "Bowling For Soup presents: Erik Chandler and People on Vacation". York Vision. Retrieved 20 May 2019.

Sorts and playing though an illness/injury

Why do today's players still think they can play though their illness/es and/or injury/ies no matter what? What will it take to change and/or stop this practice altogether. In when they are doing more harm then good. Especially, with the concussions (head injuries) and etc.

Concussions (head injuries) and etc

This is still ongoing for a yr now and don’t see it going away anytime soon. Now, its also with hockey coaches as well.

Whats up everyone making a bigger deal out Sidney Crosby's concussion/s and post concussion syndrome as opposed all of the others? Not just the NHL, but other sports as well. I'm still really quite unsure how I really feel about all of etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mybodymyself (talk • contribs) 21:26, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In the NHL at least, no one plays with a concussion anymore. People make a big deal about Crosby because he's more famous than the others. I'm not really sure what else you're asking... Adam Bishop (talk) 22:23, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Of course they do. They just don't inform the coaches and/or medical staff of how they are feeling. If they can hide it well enough, they can keep playing. Not all players do this of course, but I would imagine there are plenty of references to NFL and NHL players admitting to the practice after the fact.

Here is an example of an NFL player discussing the issue from earlier this year. "But it's a common mentality among athletes, they don't want to let their teammates down, their coaches down. There is a warrior mentality." --Onorem ♠Dil 22:48, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Well, true, but if they've been properly diagnosed there's no way they'll be playing, which wasn't the case even just a few years ago. Adam Bishop (talk) 22:55, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for all of your answers to my question here. Sorry, for any confusion that I caused with it because somehow always trouble with the wording of it.--Jessica A Bruno (talk) 23:16, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

By the way, I thought this sounded familiar...you asked this question in September, and last January (I knew I remembered finding a bunch of statistics for the NHL!) Adam Bishop (talk) 23:29, 4 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Judge, Alysia (30 March 2012). "Bowling For Soup presents: Erik Chandler and People on Vacation". York Vision. Retrieved 20 May 2019.

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