Drew McDermott

Here Come The Terrible Twos

So, That Happened, Again: Despite being felled by numerous physical ailments this year, I've managed to keep my on-line presence running to its second birthday. A little too much digging through the archival negatives to find new material for my taste due to the extended periods where I was kept out of action by my knee injury and my bout with the flu/bronchitis. Hopefully I'll be able to get out and shoot a little more during this coming year. I've flirted with the mp3 blog thing before, but it's become a little more of a regular feature lately; one that I think I will keep up, at least on a semi-regular basis.

On Curious Soccer Terms: As I've been starting to run again, it's finally starting to seem realistic to me that I might be able to see some time on the soccer field as early as February or March. Talking to a co-worker today, we got sidetracked by the provenance of the nutmeg, a soccer move where you play the ball through the legs of another player, thereby retaining possession and thoroughly humiliating them at the same time. But where did the term come from? Our assumption was that it had something to do with the male anatomy, but it turns out the likely source is Victorian slang that means "to be tricked or deceived, especially in a manner which makes the victim look foolish." There's an equivalent term for nutmeg (as it pertains to soccer) in a slew of foreign languages, but for the most part they're a little more straightforward.