- "If you can catch it, you can hit it."
- Said on the frequent occasions when a player is utterly surprised
by a return, fails to strike the ball, yet dextrously (or sinisterly)
catches it with the non-playing hand.
- "That was an 'elluva dig!"
- Used to describe an excellent return, hit low with lots of backspin.
- "More jam than Hartleys"
- Said of any flukey return that clips the net or the edge of the table.
- "To me"
- Said when asking for the ball to serve next,
or to coax the opponent to be more accurate at
returning the ball into the Angles Killing Zone;
also occurring frequently in phrases like "It's six all -- to me.."
- "You've got to spin it to win it"
- Self-explanatory.
- "A little bit of top and a little bit of bottom"
- Angles' fiendishly clever method for generating spin.
- "Get over it!"
- A command to himself either to get his head over the ball while attempting a
return, or possibly just telling himself not to stay upset about it.
- "Me to swerve"
- Self-explanatory.
- "Yes!"
- Uttered any time an Angles return
misses the table by less than about a foot.
- "You've got to be sneaky"
- Uttered a micro-second before serving,
hopefully before his opponent is set.
- "You'd 've got that in shorts, Mike"
- Baggy trousers are no substitute for a PE kit.
- "Nearly's not really."
- A point nearly won is not really won.
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