What is Figjam?

[I@n S]

During the Carlton game I saw a tattoo of a magpie on someones arm and under that it said FIGJAM... Just a question that i'll proberly get beaten up for asking is. What is Figjam?



Go Mighty Magpies

[London Dave]

It's eiter a preserve made from figs, or an acronym of Fink I'm Good Just Ask Me, a name which is given to people who don't lack any belief in their abilities, justified or otherwise.

[LondonPIE]

As apposed to on a Carlton supporters arm - FIGJAMM
Fink I'm Good Just Ask My Mum.......

Audre est Facere!!
Life is all Black and White

[magpie1983]

i thought it stands for **** Im good just as me

[THE POSSUM PIES]

London Dave has it!!!

But how about this one...
F#%K I'M GOOD, JUST A MAGPIE!!!

[Joel]

LD has it except there is another one, '****' I'm good, just ask me.

JDF

"We've never quit, and we won't."

[This message has been edited by Joel (edited 28 February 2003).]

[stik35]

That's the one Joel.
Apparently it was Bucks nickname when he was in SA.

If you bleed black and white you'll never walk alone.

[cobood]

Yea Joel is right... thats what it stands for...

say FIGJAM and everyone knows its our Bucks....

I think its a bit derogatory myself and I know Bucks doesnt like it... but someone labelled him that and it has stuck...


BE LOUD...BE PROUD
(2003...onwards to glory!)

[I@n S]

Well that's a weird nick name. No wonder bucks hates it. I would too

Go Mighty Magpies

[Northern Pie]

Actually Assasin I think you will find it was that fat boy Brownless who threw to Bucks saying "what do you reakon figjam"

Anyways.....He may have earnt that title a bit when he had sub standard players around him because he was always frustrated and went off a little bit during the game..I actually love the way he plays the game now, very relaxed, very poised and mostly in total control.....he is a much better player now that he is surrounded by class.

Cheers

"NEVER LEAVE, NEVER GIVE UP ON THEM AND ALWAYS BE THERE AT THE END TO CLAP THEM OFF THE GROUND. WE ARE COLLINGWOOD SUPPORTERS SON, EVEN IF THEY BEAT US, WE ARE STILL BETTER THAN THEM!"(quote from my mum when I was 8 years old)

[Foreverpies]

Bucks got the label FIGJAM when he was at Brisbane, because they knew he never wanted to be there and said he never tried and claimed he thought he was a class above the rest....HOW RIGHT THEY WERE!

I find it very amusing especially the fact that Brisbane players labelled him that, I think Akka should get it tattooed on his forehead....however I think he would be the only one agreeing with himself!

[Dale61]

Sam Newman put a new spin on FIGJAM when it was shown at half time of tonight's match. His version could relate to ALL collingwood listed players - 'Flip I'm Good, Just Ask McGuire.'

"Racetracks are for racing, roads are for getting there."

[joffa_the_man_in_gold]

Figs are a luscious fruit and i love fig jam on toast

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100,000 GOLD WIGS and a million shining eyes
This our country's one true game
And the footy ground's on fire
And collingwood's sons and daughter's, under wide Australian skies
Win or lose we're back again to claim the winner's prize.....

Go Pies you bloody beauties !! 'Caaarm Ornnn' kill the Bloody Bastards.


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[Lorelei]

Ohohoh - I just have to share this recipe then - from the last episode of Nigella... if you are a fig lover you will love this dish! Enjoy!

FIGS FOR 1001 NIGHTS

This is so simple - scarcely a recipe really - but so good. Unless you get figs straight from the tree they sometimes need the blistering heat of an oven or grill to bring out all their honeyed sweetness. The cinnamon is emphatic, certainly, but it doesn’t overwhelm the whole; it, rather, infuses the fruit, along with the kitchen you’re cooking it in, with mellow spiciness. This is the pudding to end a slow-grazing, long-picking dinner eaten outside on a warm, balmy night.
If you haven’t got any vanilla sugar, just use ordinary caster sugar and add a drop of pure vanilla extract along with the flower waters. A Middle-Eastern store of some kind will stock packets of slivered pistacchios, vividly green and splintered into little boat-shaped shards. But if you can’t get them, just buy shelled pistacchios from a health shop or supermarket and chop them roughly with a knife or mezzaluna yourself.

Ingredients:

12 black figs
50g unsalted butter
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
1 and a half teaspoons rosewater
1 and a half teaspoons orange flower water
500g tub mascarpone cheese
100g slivered pistacchios
Instructions:

Preheat a grill or oven to the fiercest it will go. Quarter the figs, taking care not to cut all the way through to the bottom, so that they open like flowers, or young birds squawking to be fed worms by their mummy, and sit them, thus opened, in a heatproof dish into which they fit snugly.
Melt the butter in a small saucepan, then add the cinnamon, sugar and flower waters. Stir to combine and pour into the figs.
Blister under the hot grill or bake in the oven for a few minutes and then serve; it’s that quick. Just give each person a couple of figs on a side-plate. Splodge alongside some mascarpone over which you drizzle some of the conker-dark syrup, then sprinkle over some of those green, green shards of pistacchio.

Serves 6.



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Floreat Pica
BRING BACK NED!

(political comments edited)

[joffa_the_man_in_gold]

Your making me hungry jen i love eating figs straight from the tree

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100,000 GOLD WIGS and a million shining eyes
This our country's one true game
And the footy ground's on fire
And collingwood's sons and daughter's, under wide Australian skies
Win or lose we're back again to claim the winner's prize.....

Go Pies you bloody beauties !! 'Caaarm Ornnn' kill the Bloody Bastards.


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email..joffa@magpies.net