04-07-2015, 11:58 AM
Thesaurus fight!!
My mansplanation (albeit using my mother's dictionary - which was printed in 1961 to coincide with a run of Stanford football mediocrity) is that most of us understand mediocre to mean not that good and not that bad. Average seems pretty close. In 1961 mediocre meant "of but moderate excellence; ordinary." Sounds pretty damn average to me. And I think we know mediocre when we see it. To say that Stanford has not accepted mediocre results over the years in any number of sports is not correct in my mediocre opinion, with "accept" meaning "not immediately firing the coach." Stanford is not always excellence in all things. I ate the food there once.
My mansplanation (albeit using my mother's dictionary - which was printed in 1961 to coincide with a run of Stanford football mediocrity) is that most of us understand mediocre to mean not that good and not that bad. Average seems pretty close. In 1961 mediocre meant "of but moderate excellence; ordinary." Sounds pretty damn average to me. And I think we know mediocre when we see it. To say that Stanford has not accepted mediocre results over the years in any number of sports is not correct in my mediocre opinion, with "accept" meaning "not immediately firing the coach." Stanford is not always excellence in all things. I ate the food there once.
Yeah, I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working .I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. Peter Gibbons