CURIOUS INDEX, 7/24/09

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SPUCK FURRIER

The media swag bag apparently contained a razor. And various colors of the same shirt as pic6bamr noted.

Measuring stick of “yes, you are a legend”: Everyone is giggling over Spurrier not voting for Tebow. If it had been Kiffer, Kenneth Mars would have rounded up the villagers for the “a riot is an ugly thing and it’s about time we had one” moment.

Dude, I just think you could ask a better question than that. Seriously, you’re bright and creative. You are in the door. Ask an incisive question.

I think we just learned Tebow’s secret.

Tallahassee must send its most irresistible and willing to him at once!

Do it for all of us! YOU CAN TAKE THE POWER!

(Also, if quarterbacking ability is inverse to how much sex you have, does that mean that John Parker Wilson was getting laid every three hours the last two seasons?)

I guess the guy interviewing you, Swindle, is just an intern of some sort, but you make him look like a kindergartener interviewing a CEO of a fortune 500 company.

I see TV in your future, SON!

Also, if quarterbacking ability is inverse to how much sex you have, does that mean that John Parker Wilson was getting laid every three hours the last two seasons?

The next two exits on that highway are Jonathan Crompton as Caligula and the Auburn situation as the entire John Holmes film catalog.

@ 4

Precisely.

Unless the goal is to play into the lame blogger stereotype, “we are not mainstream media and that is not our angle and we are just trying to get laughs of the low hanging fruit variety blah blah blah,” which really is incorrect if you read EDSBS or, ironically, Travis’ work and others like it, it was a stupid question in that arena and on its’ face, in general.

Also, certain people need to work on their Spurrier voice. Mannerisms are great, though.

Please mark out “we,” in the quote, and insert, the word, “they.” Also, “our,” with, “their,”

“Al.com’s Dennis Pillion interview we’s truly…”?!? Where’d you learn to conjugate, son? If you’re going for the first-person plural possessive (instead of the second-person plural possessive ‘yours’), it would be “ours truly”. (Also, unless Dennis is plural and the interview is happening presently, shouldn’t it be “interviewed”?) And you have an English degree??? From UF, though? Oh, that explains it. Carry on.

Couldn’t be an ironic misconjugation of the words. Nope.

Also, in all seriousness, nothing happens here. Nothing.

@Orson:

Unless you’re just saying that because something IS happening there…

I mean, there are SO MANY MALLS, how could there not be… ?!

No, that’s about right. I mean, until Kiffykins free-rappels down from the ceiling here in an hour or so and gets tangled in his harness and has to be extricated by the Birmingham Fire & Rescue Squad.

4 and 8

I concur. I want to live in an EDSBS world, not a deadspin one.

Barnhardt is correct, and as much as I disagree with Dodd’s perspective on things, he, too, is correct.

I know he’s a kid and apparently lots of fun, but Clay needs to apologize for the self-serving douchebag question.

The Tebow comment becomes extra fun when you factor it together with Chris Leak’s vow to not acquire a girlfriend until he won a national championship.

I take it Rex Grossman had no such declarations.

#10: 100% lame.

Holly,

Galleria is in Hoover, the soon to be “Space Avail-O-Dome” will be in the Ham..

In the words of Elvis Presley: “I love you like a sister… but different!”

I love the attempt to qualify Clay Travis quizzing Tebow on his sex life. “He asked it in an olde English accent and curtseyed afterward, so it was OK.” Nah, unless you are related to Travis, you’d have to admit that it was a bush league move. Didn’t do much for the argument that bloggers / faux media types should be allowed access to Media Days.

In Spurrier’s defense, Tebow is no Danny Wuerffel.

@4- Neither Orson nor anyone associated with EDSBS asked the question.

I don’t get the furor though. People guffaw all the team with wink-wink, nudge-nudge jokes about college football players and coeds. Most teams have multiple players with kids out of wedlock. Clay almost certainly grew up knowing people with the same beliefs as Tebow, and I take Clay at his word when he claims he asked because he expected that response. If that is the case, he was just giving Tebow the opportunity to make his dedication to chastity known.

Now Finebaum has earned LSU’s wrath. How dare he say Ole Miss is #1 in throwing whiskey bottles!!! Harrumph!!!

The SEC coverage is a given, but no nod to Comic Con? Youtube has posted some suggested viewing.

If he is genuinely a virgin, it is a terrible waste.

@ 19

I am fairly confident that #4 was just writing in the passive voice. Both the text and the video clearly state who asked the question that has created the discussion. That was a pathetic beginning to your pathetic defense.

Anyway, let’s play a game of, “which one is not like the others?” Everyone else asks questions with some, at the minimum, tangential connection to the upcoming season, and then the blogger asks, “have you hit it, yet?” You can clean it up however you want, but you are asking the same thing.

So, is it appropriate to ask your boy Mr. Whitlock about all his illegitimate kids? Is it appropriate to ask my boy Mr. Spiller about his? If they bring it up, I suppose. However, in this context, not in effect, but again in this context, this question was akin to what Stern’s guys ask celebrities.

His intent is irrelevant. It came off as he was looking for a cheap laugh, nothing more.

What sucks is that guy is an outstanding writer, and he could have easily asked a more thought provoking and superior quesiton than almost anybody in that room.

I am fairly certain that the ONLY thing SOS makes sure to fill out accurately is his [golf]scorecard.

Great prediction on Spurrier, Orson: opening statement includes what # Media Days this is for him.

Sidebar: Your spell-check does not recognize the name “Spurrier.” No, I don’t mean to type “spurring” or “spurred” dadgummit. This is unacceptable.

Orson,

Since you are having such a grand time at the SEC media festival, should I and the other Big Ten afficianados you have attracted await your reports from the Big Ten’s event that takes place this Monday-Tuesday? Chicago is quite pleasant in the summer you know.

Coop, thanks for using your amazing telepathic powers to gauge the intent of poster #4 and calling out my own pathetic lack of telepathy. Having seen one or two people make mistakes on the internet before, I was forced to resort to a polite clarification. Next time, I’ll just ask you to give a little Professor X insight.

CT did not ask, ‘Have you hit it yet?’

Keeping in mind the adage about wrestling with a pig, that’s all I have to say to you.

For the record and dropping the first person plural: I though it was a fair question, but that Clay asked it in the wrong forum and strictly for shock value. I told him this last night as he was getting emails from Finebaum listeners who were telling him to “kill himself” on his phone. You write your own checks.

Fearless Leader speaks true. I was there. The word “stunt” was bandied about quite liberally over beers last night.

As TO’s ex-publicist would say: Clay Travis has millions (page hits) of reasons to ask that question.

Seriously, I like Clay’s writing but it was a bullshit questions with no downside for him and plenty of downside for Tebow had he not coolly diffused it. Because of the way Tebow handled the situation it makes him look even more superawesomecopacetic, but Clay will never convince me that was his intent unless he set up the question with Timmy ahead of time (which of course he didn’t).

- Tebow admits that he’s not a virgin – national media piling on begins “What a hypocrite” “See I knew he was too good to be true” “Is it all an act?” etc. National scandal broken by who: Clay Travis

- Tebow answers that he is a virgin – Everyone talks about the inappropriate question asked by who? Clay Travis and message boards explode with Tebow is gay jokes or Tebow is passing up the opportunity of a lifetime sentiments. Not a bad outcome but not ideal, unless your name is Clay Travis.

- Tebow answers that it’s none of his business – Months of hyper speculation ensue, interview requests for the blogger who asked the question explode (Clay Travis), Tebow is a fraud/is gay becomes the unofficial SEC cheer for 2009.

Seriously, Travis is too talented to resort to this, and I hope his web traffic suffers because of it (although I’m sure it won’t). Just remember who taunted God’s other son Tim when the Vols go 4-8 this season.

The fact that Tebow had 11 votes and ‘Duke’ had one vote should have given Spurrier away…

@16

great Sexy Rexy story. A girl I’ve known since kindergarden name Susan lived across the street from Rex our freshman year (Rex’s junior, and name redacted’s first). At a party at his house she went back to use the bathroom and got in line behind 3 girls. After 5 minutes she asked one of the girls if the line was for the bathroom, to which the other girl responded, “no this is the line to Rex’s room.” So basically he was the anti Tebow when it comes to the ladies.