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May 19, 2009

THE BACKENING: HOW IT HAPPENED.

Filed under: freekery by Orson Swindle

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34 Responses to “THE BACKENING: HOW IT HAPPENED.”

1

THETexasStateUniversity says:

The first thing I wondered when I heard about our Dear Leader’s injury is if he was wearing a leotard.

May 19th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
2

Counter Trap says:

Fuscia leotard, Texas St., fuscia leotard.

May 19th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
3

Crabapple Buck says:

LSUfreek never disappoints.

May 19th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
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WorstFan says:

Probably just the algorithm and all, but I’m still really enjoying the fact that Assurant Health Insurance was the ad that showed up on the comments page for me.

May 19th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
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EufaulaPete says:

Orson is a petite little thing, ain’t he?

May 19th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
6

pic6bamr says:

I thought it was a daggering-related incident

May 19th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
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haveagreatday says:

Get well soon, Orson – these not quite due discovery requests are trying to make eye contact with me.

I have a serious question for you journos on here. It’s a little off topic, but hey, it’s May and the footage of Orson flailing around got me thinking. At what point during some catastrophe that you’re covering do journalistic ethics dictate that you remove your journo hat and put on your helping hand hat? Reason I ask is American Experience had a thing on the Kennedys last night, and when RFK was killed, there was a news camera rolling and you can hear the producer yelling to keep rolling. Or maybe the guy that won the Pulitzer for the photo of the vulture and the kid and killed himself soon thereafter.

May 19th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
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Luv4Gators says:

Play “him” off keyboard cat!

Feel better Orson! The freak is awesome.

May 19th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
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Kenny says:

–haveagreatday

That’s never really discussed. You could site many, many instances of news were the coverage continued. Of course there are probably instances where more humanitarian instincts take over, we would just never know about it; no one would be photographing it or taping it after all.

May 19th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
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etsuVol says:

Ohh and we have a Piper doon, I repeat a Piper is doon.

May 19th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
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vegas_buckeye says:

Having LSUFreek’s personal touch is way better than any get well card I would be able to find at Hallmark.

speaking of which – Freek needs to start his own line of greeting cards. They don’t have to be animated, just have the ability to slip in a picture of someone’s face in a previously photographed socially awkward situation. I’d start with the Brittany Spears and Pals “Exiting Cars Collection.”

… I demand royalties. or scotch.

May 19th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
12

jd says:

orson-
man up and admit that the cause was a freak accident involving lard, wooden flooring, and a reanactment of a scene in “risky business”.

May 19th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
13

General Disarray says:

I’m still favoring the barstool/martini theory at this point.

Hope you feel better soon Orson, enjoy your prescription happy time!!

May 19th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
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Marshall Rothman says:

I am a Gator Chiropractor and a friend of Shawn Schrager. Give me a call, 678-643-1313 cell. I will fix you up quickly.

May 19th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
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Holly says:

Stuck the landing.

May 19th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
16

This Guy says:

It’s only the truest kind of friend that can make fun of you for a ridiculously painful, just-this-side-of-paraplegia injury.

May 19th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
17

Tim says:

I thought for sure it was from a blogging incident.

May 19th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
18

ALGator says:

I just keep imaging him lying in the back yard on his hammock with the Aflac Duck bringing him a pitcher of iced tea.

May 19th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
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sb says:

haveagreatday @ #6…not being a journo, but having played one while at Florida, I must note that I do not have a journo hat, but rather a drinking hat, which can provide an inebriated level of helping hand…hope that helps. The drinking hat also seems to attract a greater level of other contributory helping-hand hats, along with the expected ridicule-the-falling-down-drunk hats…

Watched the kennedy special last night also…my sister recently brought out her LATimes “Bobby Assasinated” special edition; immensely graphic and illustrated a different time and level of public acceptance of blood and gore.

Hope you’re “back at it soon” O. (sorry) I’ll mix a fine dirty martini in your honor this evening.

May 19th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
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Biggus Rickus says:

Man, I miss the days of political assassinations. Kept things interesting. We haven’t even had a decent attempt in nearly 30 years. I mean, the closest thing lately has been someone throwing a fucking shoe. And who does that? Really?

May 19th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
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Biggus Rickus says:

Oh, and get well soon, Orson.

May 19th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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andrew says:

there is no more sincere, heartfelt way for a man to say get well soon than to create an exquisite video mockery of the precipitating circumstances. the Freek speeks for us all. Get well soon.

May 19th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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Red and Black says:

Anyone notice that the injury happened right after a not so flattering piece on Mark Richt?

Conspiracy theorists unite!

But seriously, get better soon! I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t have highly inappropriate NSFW updates to read on my lunch break.

May 19th, 2009 at 8:39 pm
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Kerwin4two says:

I figure Orson was bushwhacked by Evil Richt after his last posting from yesterdayl. Did Evil Richt hit you with a pillow O?

May 19th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
25

NRBQ says:

Kerwin nailed it.

You’ve been Richt-karma-ed.

Get better, O, but don’t tempt the Evil One.

May 19th, 2009 at 11:29 pm
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WarChiziken says:

can’t believe no one has said it yet…

rub some fukkin dirt on it Orson and get your ass back to blogging!!!!

hope you feel better soon… back pains are the worst

May 20th, 2009 at 12:28 am
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Running Joe Rides Again says:

Shoudn’t Jesus, I mean Tebow, be able to heal Orson at his command.?

But anyways, good work as always Freek.

May 20th, 2009 at 1:01 am
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robert says:

Dear Sir:

On behalf of procrastinating grad students everywhere, I say:
Get well soon.

May 20th, 2009 at 1:35 am
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DawgApologist says:

@haveagreatday:

In many cases — certainly not all, but many — the journo does intervene after the photos are taken and the footage in the can. The photog who snapped the kid/vulture pic, for instance, tried to shoo the bird away right after he got the shot.

Brant Sanderlin, a wonderful shooter for the AJC in his own right, did a great first-person piece shortly after the start of Gulf War II about putting the camera down and helping try to save the life of a wounded soldier in the unit with which he was embedded. Would be difficult to try to find now, I imagine, if you could find on the travesty the paper tries to pass off as a website.

May 20th, 2009 at 3:18 am
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Innocent Bystander says:

Excellent freekery as usual, but does anyone else have an interest in a follow-up to that graphic? Like, what the hell actually happened to that girl? Did they have to take her out back and shoot her?

May 20th, 2009 at 4:39 am
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Adam West's chauffeur says:

Mary Lou Retton thinks this is bullshit.

May 20th, 2009 at 10:43 am
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Mr. Pelican Pants says:

This is how Orson really hurt his back…running from the Bham PD:
http://videos.al.com/birmingham-news/2009/05/birmingham_police_beating_vide.html

May 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am
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'SotaVol says:

Many wishes for a speedy recovery, Orson. I do hope, however, that you will reflect deeply on this, and invoke Cthulhu’s name on your Facebook site no more.

May 20th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
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TideDruid says:

The negative: Orson hurt his back

The positive: Orson gets to grow up to become that old man who shakes his cane at the kids too close to his tulips

May 20th, 2009 at 7:44 pm