This also meant that the club winning the match would have bragging rights as the best club in Northern Norway.

* Saginaw Spirit: The Spirit are another major rival of the Whalers, due to both proximity and the fact that Saginaw is the other Michigan-based OHL team, making games between the two a battle for state bragging rights.

The matches between the two clubs are said to have bragging rights at stake and banter between the fans of both clubs is commonplace.

He also criticized Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's " bragging " of Norway having the lowest unemployment figures in Europe after the financial crisis, which Hagen saw as obvious, given Norway's oil wealth.

He is also a very capable fighter, and despite his bragging nature, he becomes highly selfless and direct in dangerous circumstances.

Whereas the woman previously had “ the brunt of husband ’ s bragging and insults ,” seeing the “ absolute farce ” of his claims in the forest inspires her to become a “ hard, driving force that will not only teach him a lesson but also will annihilate him in position as leader in the household ”.

Officially, control over minor funding and decision-making on campus life was at stake but the positions also gave bragging rights and prestige.

This also serves as a " grass roots " recruitment ground, as many who start by running their road vehicle on the track for bragging rights often progress to the next level and become competitors in National Events after obtaining a licence from the official sanctioning body MSA.

For example, critics allege William Dembski gratuitously invokes his laurels by boasting of his correspondence with a Nobel laureate, bragging that one of his books was published in a series whose editors include a Nobel laureate, and exulting that the publisher of the intelligent design book The Mystery of Life's Origin, Philosophical Library Inc., also published books by eight Nobel laureates.

He also hacked corporate PBX systems in the United States and said he was selling the access codes at $ 200 a pop, bragging that “ every PBX is an open door to me .”

Simpson, against the # 1 ranked Bruins and Beban -— also a Heisman Trophy candidate -— with both the AAWU and national championships, to say nothing of hometown bragging rights, on the line.

Sable also annoyed Luna with bragging about being promised the Women's Championship, a goal that had hitherto eluded the veteran Canadian.

The winning team also receives small trophies, a large trophy for their high school's trophy case, and the bragging rights of being the best team in the Lehigh Valley.

Typically men talk of the Speewah when they are faced with hard labour as a means of making their jobs mentally easier, though it can also be seen as a way of legitimising their bragging.

Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.

He is accused of sleeping with other men's wives and bragging about it, killing for mere amusement, deliberately wasting money on his bridge, causing starvation, and wanting a statue of himself erected in the Temple of Jerusalem for his worship.

Along with these hits, his other " signature song " was " I've Been Everywhere ," in which he portrayed himself as a hitchhiker bragging about all the towns he'd been through.

While a practical notion, Christmas letters meet with a mixed reception ; recipients may take it as boring minutiae, bragging, or a combination of the two, whereas other people appreciate Christmas letters as more personal than mass produced cards with a generic missive and an opportunity to " catch up " with the lives of family and friends who are rarely seen or communicated with.

In a spirited contest at the other end of the bracket, the USA defeated Australia for bragging rights.

Although boastful by nature, he learns to be more modest as his bragging causes the other children to become irritated.

Reading's first official baseball team, the Reading Athletic Club, formed in November 1858 and, for the next 15 years, played other local teams for unofficial championships and bragging rights.

In the meantime, Garth boasts about his incredible career as a starship captain, bragging that he has charted more planets and catalogued more star systems than any other man in history.

Thirdly, the Cartannese seem to like nothing better than killing each other for bragging rights, and Wedge is expected to join in — especially since they try to kill him for bragging rights too.

If there are multiple players, the second bonus stage will have the players spar with each other for the glory of the emperor, gaining massive bonus points and bragging rights in the arcade.

He tries to keep his bravado up among the other inmates by bragging about what a famous performer he once was.

Some jokes make fun of the " Rebbe miracle stories " and involve different hasidim bragging about their teachers ' miraculous abilities:

Another unique bragging right the park has is that the famous North Country Trail passes through it.

The origin of the term is the implication that a crew member was around when the ship was being built and commissioned, and therefore has bragging rights to the " ownership " of one of the planks in the main deck.

The STS carries on the Magnetic Ride Control suspension, which has bragging rights as being the ' fastest reacting suspension ever ,' before it was ever utilized on newer Corvettes and Ferraris.

Tony relates to Ziva David the meaning of challenge coins, explaining that they are a form of bragging rights for who has " rubbed elbows " with the biggest brass.

The dorm that wins has bragging rights for the next year.

Sally makes a misstep by bragging about the harbour project, nearly defaulting on a progress advance in the process-she has to be bailed out by a much larger bank, making the original deal totally unprofitable.

Other stock characters in Menander's plays were the senex iratus, or " angry old man ", the domineering parent who tries to thwart his son or daughter from achieving wedded happiness, and who is often led into the same vices and follies for which he has reproved his children, the bragging soldier who talked about the number of enemies he killed and how well they'll treat their woman and the kind shrewd prostitute who hid her heart behind a facade of fierce commercialism.

Its software is used by over 250 computer magazines and has been equally successful within the gaming community ; high scores in its 3DMark benchmarks are considered as bragging rights among computer gamers who use it as a way to gauge their computer's performance relative to that of others '.

The figures concerning the Ottoman losses vary from 8, 000 to a bragging and vainglorious 20, 000, as legend has it, which contrasts sharply with one author ’ s statement that there was only a total of 12, 000 Ottoman regional troops involved who faced 5, 000 Croats reinforced by forces from Styria and Carniola.

He has never revealed the whereabouts of the money, bragging to fellow inmates that he will be a millionaire by the time he is released.

Uncomfortable, Buffy initially keeps quiet to avoid bragging, but from Buffy's conversation with Riley afterward, the viewer can infer that Buffy is forced to admit that she has killed hundreds of vampires and saved the world multiple times.

In this episode, Bulk and Skull were shown having a conversation about the early days of Power Rangers-in particular, Bulk is bragging to Skull about how he once met Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa.

Hyacinth Bucket ( Patricia Routledge )— who insists her surname is pronounced Bouquet — is a social-climbing snob who passes her time visiting stately homes, hosting " executive-style " candlelight suppers ( with her Royal Worcester double-glazed Avignon china and Royal Doulton china with " the hand-painted periwinkles "), bragging of her " white slimline telephone with automatic redial ", and maintaining the integrity of her woodblock floor, wallpaper, and status in the community, name-dropping at any hint of an opportunity.

" Although management considered the campaign a success, Braniff's core customers were outraged by the grandiose behavior and perceived " bragging ", causing many corporate accounts to leave Braniff.

The Sicilian adjective mafiusu ( in Italian: mafioso ) may derive from the slang Arabic mahyas ( مهياص ), meaning " aggressive boasting, bragging ", or marfud ( مرفوض ) meaning " rejected ".

An extension of the theme from the group's # 1 hit " My Girl ", which had been released the previous December, " My Baby " features The Temptations, with David Ruffin on lead, bragging about the qualities of a special lady.

* Thank Gordon for Little Girls – Gordon invents an all-purpose object named the " Shumwidget ", but Augie and her scout troupe end up with the bragging rights.