Talk:Double-double
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re: Canadian slang??? Every street corner coffee vendor in New York knew what a double double was back in the 70's... these days, the term seems to have fallen out of popular use -- probably a starbucks influence -- who would buy a coffee from a street corner shop anyway!?!?
- You may be right; however, it is still incredibly prevalent north of the border. --OntarioQuizzer 21:04, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Tim Horton's rules in Canada.
I guess Timmy's has got New York beat. Tim Horton's has been around since 1964.
[edit] quadruple double-double
wow really a 40-40 game? is there a reference to that?
- Yes — you can cross reference lists such as those at [1] and [2] which is essentially what I did to discover both games. If you are interested in performing some research on your own, you can try looking at games in which Wilt Chamberlain scored 40-49 points and matching those up against his 40+ rebound games. There may be more quadruple-double-doubles (40-40s) which are not yet known (the trick is to find the list of 40-49 point games — you may be forced to dig through old newspaper box scores, which is what I did to determine that Chamberlain's 55-rebound game was not a quadruple-double-double (before my "research", I had thought there was an outside chance it was a quintuple-double-double)). Just so you know, Bill Russell's regular season career high in points is 37, so he needn't be considered in any search for quadruple-double-doubles. If anyone finds additional quadruple-double-doubles, please let me know by leaving a message on my talk page. I'm interested in these types of trivia and would like to encourage others to pariticpate in such investigations. Myasuda 13:24, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] five-by-five
We have double-double, triple double, quadruple article. Somebody should make one for 'five-by-five'.
