MC Girl wrote:

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I hate to say it.... but.... I'm hopin' Bushwacker Williams gets his eye poked out this season (& I wouldn't complain if it was done on purpose either) he'll never learn & all I can say is TIT for TAT..... & karma's a b!tch.

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So that would make it "an eye for an eye".....ohhh bad joke...i'll go back to being quiet

Nez wrote:

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MC Girl wrote:

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I hate to say it.... but.... I'm hopin' Bushwacker Williams gets his eye poked out this season (& I wouldn't complain if it was done on purpose either) he'll never learn & all I can say is TIT for TAT..... & karma's a b!tch.

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So that would make it "an eye for an eye".....ohhh bad joke...i'll go back to being quiet

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I guess a guy with a  name like Nez would stick his nose in it!  (Another bad joke).

How anyone can step on the ice in this league without eye protection is beyond me. Even with a visor, Koivu still got poked. With guys like Williams around, nobody is safe. As the father of a kid who sustained a serious eye injury while playing street hockey, I know what a life-changing thing such an injury can be. I wish players would wise up and either a) protect themselves completely, or b) make sure guys like Williams can't leave the ice under their own steam.

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                             tit for tat ...anyone know the origins ??

Here's what I found

 

Both tit and tat are archaic words meaning 'a light blow'. The entire expression thus means 'a blow for a blow', like 'an eye for an eye'. Both words were used as verbs, too: a popular song of the late sixteenth century had a refrain, "Come tit me, come tat me,/Come throw a kiss at me."

These words are probably of imitative origin, with a vowel variation found in other words expressing striking such as tip and tap or pit-a-pat. The tit is not related to other tit words, such as the ones (each of independent origin) meaning 'a small bird' (e.g. "titmouse"), 'a breast', or the first element of "tit-bit" (in America usually euphemized to "tid-bit," but not related to the 'breast' word).

The phrase tit for tat is first found in the sixteenth century. It is probably a variant of tip for tap, of similar origin but found a century earlier. The tip in this earlier phrase is the same word as in the baseball expression "a foul tip."