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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35
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.
Comment by citiesaregreat — February 19, 2008 @ 7:44 pm
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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!
Comment by Bama93 — February 19, 2008 @ 2:43 pm
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@ #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.
Comment by Will (the other one) — February 19, 2008 @ 1:44 pm
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#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.
Comment by sir Walter Scott — February 19, 2008 @ 12:49 pm
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Mempis?
Comment by Avery — February 19, 2008 @ 11:35 am
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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.
Comment by etsuVol — February 19, 2008 @ 11:24 am
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The po-po has a Wanda Sykes thing going in pic #2. That,or a Clay Davis “sheeeeeiiit” look.
Comment by sonofsamford — February 19, 2008 @ 11:23 am
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Excuse me. That’s *what*
Comment by Tater Salad — February 19, 2008 @ 11:10 am
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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.
Comment by Tater Salad — February 19, 2008 @ 11:10 am
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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.
Comment by Mike — February 19, 2008 @ 11:03 am