CURIOUS INDEX, 2/19/08
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Terrelle Pryor is still thinking about schools, beating all your asses. Terrelle Pryor still has no idea when he’s going to make up his mind. You can do this when you’re phenomenally physically talented. You can also threaten to go into the crowd at a basketball game when you take particular issue with the taunts, but remember, Terelle: you can only take the crowd so long as they’re rushing away from you. When they surge back, it’s trouble time. Take a cue from the Memphis Tigers: keep the pimp hand strong, and take on fans with a disdainful but stylish slap.
John Adams–the Tennessee columnist, and not the second president of our country, we assume, unless he was a vampire and has been living off the blood of the innocent all these years–comes out and makes the “time to go” column for Phil Fulmer. This prompts Losers With Socks to play Buffy, go down the hellmouth, and put a stake through Adams, who as they pointed out graduated from Louisiana State University, and must therefore after thirty years as a sleeper cell in the heart of Vol country has gone active in attempting to overturn the Fulmer regime. Spies, everywhere! Spies, I tell you! Everett Withers, Minnesota DC, is leaving Tim Brewster’s new operation to join North Carolina, a move way, way up in the football world considering Withers spent last season weeping drops of pure sorrow watching Minnesota’s defense get annihilated. Now he moves on to Butch Davis’ rebuild of North Carolina, a team piling up talent and toys to play with a-plenty. Assume Withers, in a past life, was killed randomly by a meteorite or something; only karma can explain the lucky strike. Bomar’d redux: BCS Frenzy says they’re going to review the entire 2004 Rivals top 100, and we wish them luck with that. The thing reminding you to remind yourself that recruiting is one very large, overhyped back-alley craps game? Rhett Bomar. Don’t do drugs, kids. Because one day you’ll be sitting in an apartment with newspaper and tinfoil on the walls, zonked out of your mind and watching Immortal Beloved, and there will be the scene where Beethoven’s dad flips out and begins beating the daylights out of him, and like all people doing drugs you’ll have music on over the movie, and you’ll forever associate the song with the image of a guy whipping a kid’s ass like a riot cop pouncing on a legless WTO protester. Your reminiscence of “Gainesville, 1996″ is brought to you by a forgotten band of the forgettable decade: Skunk Anansie, and their really frightening lead singer. |
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1
Big & Rich Brooks says:
Nobobdy thursts a pom-pom at me like that!!!!!!!!………….Bitch.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:10 am
2
Johnny Douche says:
The sign has Mempiss misspelled.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:12 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
Would any columnist be whining about the off the field incidents if Tennessee weren’t ten years removed from their last SEC title? I think not. At least be honest about motives for wanting a guy fired.
Also, basketball fans deserve a good ass-beating in many, many cases.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:23 am
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TimyTerryTaterTot says:
It is spelled M-E-M-P-H-I-S. Please don’t forget this next time you make a sign that will be seen nationwide.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:29 am
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ThreenOut says:
People weren’t calling for Mac Brown’s head last year because he was one year removed from a MNC. Texas had something like 10+ arrests in 18 months after the Rose Bowl.
All that counts in this business is winning and losing. And that’s kinda sad.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:30 am
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PW says:
Mempis?
February 19th, 2008 at 9:37 am
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NRBQ says:
That sign could only be better if it said “gurls.”
(or “girlz”)
February 19th, 2008 at 9:43 am
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PW says:
So much going on in that picture.
For example, we see law enforcement turning a blind eye to the violence that young males of the other race are committing against each other.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:44 am
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PW says:
or is the slapper black?
February 19th, 2008 at 9:46 am
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The Conscience of a Nation says:
In addition to poking Vol Nation with a sharp (but green and bendy) stick, Adams attributes the Fulmer Cup to the site that stole your idea. Nice fact checking, there.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:48 am
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Orson Swindle says:
Notice that the guy is wearing what could be an orange prison jumpsuit, too.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:50 am
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jakldawg says:
Here’s a bigger post-slap picture. Countless birds being flipped, a girl with a fake black eye, and a great look on jumpsuit guy.
http://media.commercialappeal.com/mca/content/img/photos/2008/02/17/mwmem12.jpg
February 19th, 2008 at 9:53 am
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NRBQ says:
College team spirit. Catch it!
February 19th, 2008 at 9:57 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
Oh man. That’s so much better. Does the black eye girl’s shirt say, “I dated Bozo?” Also, it’s written in marker. Maybe she’s related to that WVU fan who totally burned Rodriguez.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:57 am
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Orson Swindle says:
That’s a damn work of art right there. Like Bosch meets Hogarth meets Wal Mart.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:58 am
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jakldawg says:
Orson: I believe the gentleman’s original intent was to subtly imply that the Memphis players are all headed for the big house eventually (see also the “I dated Dozier chick”), and the Memphis player then effectively demonstrated what would happen to Wonder Bread if he ever ends up in prison.
February 19th, 2008 at 9:59 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
Ah, now I understand the purpose of all that shit about beating women. Guess it would have helped if I knew anything about Memphis basketball.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:03 am
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OhioDawg says:
I was expecting “because there’ll be fewer for me” after the final headline.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:06 am
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PW says:
Damn. I thought I was the first one to post about the sign misspelling, then Orson pulled the ol’ post numbering shuffle and now I look like a Johnny Come Lately.
Anyway, nice work, Johnny Douche, and thanks for the PSA, TimyTerryTaterTot.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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Chg says:
You can’t reference WTO protesters gettting pummeled without links. Ignorant neo-hippies gots it coming to ‘em.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:16 am
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PW says:
orange jumpsuit guy needs a bottle of rum in his hand and an eyepatch to complete the ARRRRRRR! pirate look
February 19th, 2008 at 10:20 am
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Jerkwheat says:
that pic needs the girl with the “Dorsey’s Girlfriend” shirt and the painted on black-eye
without her, the class of the crowd can not truly be captured.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:22 am
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History_Ant says:
That Loser With Socks post makes like a bunch of Republicans rallying around GW Bush. Not to get too political, but that post was downright creepy in its fascism and [Tennessee] nationalism.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:27 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
Better sign:
Q: What do you tell a woman with two black eyes?
A: Nothing Dozier hasn’t already told her twice.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:29 am
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sb says:
#21…I think they’ve all got a little Captain in ‘em…
February 19th, 2008 at 10:32 am
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Mike says:
Bomar isn’t really a good case for saying recruiting’s all a crap shoot. If it wasn’t for the off-field shenanigans, he’d probably be getting drafted this year somewhere in the first two rounds.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:03 am
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Tater Salad says:
I’m just glad the Commercial Appeal is now uploading pornography to the internet. At least that’s why the office filter service just told me.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:10 am
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Tater Salad says:
Excuse me. That’s *what*
February 19th, 2008 at 11:10 am
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sonofsamford says:
The po-po has a Wanda Sykes thing going in pic #2. That,or a Clay Davis “sheeeeeiiit” look.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:23 am
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etsuVol says:
At the exact same time Adams was on the radio this morning telling a Nick Saban story about how he kicked a starter off his team at LSU one time, a story on Nick’s Alabama team is on the wires about a player being involved in first-degree armed robbery. Credibility, buh bye! With UT at least it’s just a bunch of college kids getting drunk, which apparently only happens in Knoxville, and is entirely the fault of Phillip Fulmer.
February 19th, 2008 at 11:24 am
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Avery says:
Mempis?
February 19th, 2008 at 11:35 am
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sir Walter Scott says:
#30
Apparently there are two things that are unique to UT student athletes:
1. They are the only ones that get drunk and this is a well known fact as you stated.
2. They (or you) don’t understand the terms tongue-in-cheek, farce, satire, irony – which is odd because I sensed you tried to use sarcasism in your comment.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
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Will (the other one) says:
@ #23
I was more disturbed that they quote the band jackal.
The chainsaw guy had to have blackmail material on someone to get that crap band a set at Woodstock ‘96.
February 19th, 2008 at 1:44 pm
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Bama93 says:
I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt on the “Mempis” spelling. I’m guessing this was spelled incorrectly on purpose. Too naive?
Also, the “I dated Dozier” gal just over the shoulder of said Dozier staring right at her is just a classic shot. Those Blazers are a crazy lot!
February 19th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
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citiesaregreat says:
Sarcasism??? Where exactly does sarcasism fall in with tongue-in-cheek, farce, satire and irony. My f*cking Funk and Wagnals doesn’t recognize sarcasism. But then, there’s a lot it doesn’t recognize. Such is life.
February 19th, 2008 at 7:44 pm