I was relieved to give my sister the good news: “Your boy is straight, and he can ball.”
Well, I can see where that would . . . um . . . be . . . a, uh . . . relief.
I was relieved to give my sister the good news: “Your boy is straight, and he can ball.”
Well, I can see where that would . . . um . . . be . . . a, uh . . . relief.
Craig Robinson attests to being the first person to actually non-vet O!…
Who knew that a pickup game of basketball could be such an insightful window into the soul, character, and integrity of a person…
Sounds like a feel good episode of the Harlem Globetrotters cartoon to me though…One where I guess Robinson is Curly Neal and O! is Meadowlark Lemmon..
I denounce myself in advance…
This idea that Baracky can play ball is laughable. He shoots from his hip. Wee Man could block his shot.
How does Barry keep all that slobber off him?
Well that’s gotta disappoint Chris Matthews.
Heather – Chrissy still gets a tingle up his leg. Don’t kid yourself. He would switch teams for Baracky.
That was a nice article from his brother-in-law.
Bob – how a person handles a game is an indication into his character. Playing fields of Eaton, and all that.
I agree with Mikey on that one. You can learn all sorts of things about someone by playing a round of golf with them, especially on a tough course.
Why, oh why are the weekly news magazines failing?
Hmm… absolutely no idea.
You can learn all sorts of things about someone by playing a round of golf with them, especially on a tough course.
I carry seven clubs and usually start out with at least two dozen balls. What does that say about me, JD?
You traded the weight of the other seven clubs for extra golfballs? Jeez man, get a pull cart and you can have ’em both!
BMoe – That is the sign of someone that knows that they do not have a very good swing, as they have prolly broken the other 7 clubs and need the balls to make it through a round ;-)
I don’t have a swing at all, lol. The only person I know who will be seen on a course with me said I reminded him of a story he read about Bobby Jones golfing with his father. His dad was having a rough day, and he took a couple of practice swings and asked Bobby in frustration, “Now what was wrong with those swings?” and Jones said, “Nothing. You should try and use them sometime.”
I can take nice, calm practice swings all day, then every time I get over the ball I about come out of my damn shoes trying to kill the thing. I really, really suck at golf.
BMoe – Unlike on here, where I have absolutely no patience whatsoever, in real life, I am pretty calm, quiet, and incredibly patient, and very hard to fluster. Yet golf manages to fluster me. Except on the greens. I can putt.
I broke 65 last time I went out.
That’s a lot of clubs, huh?
Expensive habit there, Pablo. Might want to stick to the meth ;-)
I can putt okay sometimes but I am usually too demoralized by the time I get to the green. I would say going fly fishing with me would be a better way to judge my character.
One’s character is tested when you drive the ball into the fairway for the first time in a round on #14, and the ball comes to rest in a sandy divot in the fairway, and nobody is close enough to tell if you roll it a couple inches.
I tend to hit better out of crappy lies, I don’t feel the need to hit a 5 iron 700 yards from a horrible lie.
I have never seen a 5-iron go 700 yards. I saw Tiger pure a 3-wood once, and am not fully convinced that the ball ever landed.
Nor have I, but my subconscious seems convinced it can happen if I just swing harder.
just swing harder
Those 3 simple words have killed many a good round of golf.
After years of putting the fratboys in charge, it should be no surprise that a basketball game is seen as a way to measure a man. Maybe Obama should clear some brush on a vanity ranch?
just swing harder…Those 3 simple words have killed many a good round of golf.
Also a lot of marriages.
Meya, you mean that vanity ranch that has a smaller carbon footprint than the Goracle mansion?
Ironic that you compare clearing brush (an actual needed TASK to prevent fires) from playing games, and that the actual work receives your derision.
Whateve.
“Meya, you mean that vanity ranch that has a smaller carbon footprint than the Goracle mansion? ”
Too bad he’s moving out.
“Ironic that you compare clearing brush (an actual needed TASK to prevent fires) from playing games, and that the actual work receives your derision.”
See we agree here. It would be better for Obama to clear brush than to play ball and hang out with some friends and have a smoke.
“Meya, you mean that vanity ranch that has a smaller carbon footprint than the Goracle mansion? â€Â
Too bad he’s moving out.
Yet, he’s leaving the environmentally friendly stuff IN the ranch, no?
You can learn all sorts of things about someone by playing a round of golf with them, especially on a tough course.
Be nice JD. We had a gentleman’s agreement.
“Yet, he’s leaving the environmentally friendly stuff IN the ranch, no?”
I don’t really know what he plans to take to his new home in the suburbs. Maybe a large screen tv? A dude room with a keg fridge? That’s what I would have in the burbs.
Meya, you can snipe all you want, but the fact remains that the Goracle uses far more of Gaia’s precious resources than Bush. I know, Goracle pays (himself) offsets for his crimes against the environment.
“Meya, you can snipe all you want, but the fact remains that the Goracle uses far more of Gaia’s precious resources than Bush. I know, Goracle pays (himself) offsets for his crimes against the environment.”
Yes I understand the concept of offsetting your carbon usage. I don’t know how much Dubya will do it in his new suburban dudedom.
Maybe a large screen tv? A dude room with a keg fridge? That’s what I would have in the burbs.
Do you live in your car meya?
Lots of impoverished people whose civil liberties have been violated by being loaned money that they cannot afford to pay back have big-screens. Obama’s voter base killed a guy to get to the big screens at Walmart on Black Friday. What do you want to say about big televisions and their place in society?
Obama will give everyone a stimulus check and some will buy big screens and others will save or pay down debt. I doubt you could guess who is who.
In his rural one, he took the inconceivable step of being a non-resource hog, thereby not having to buy carbon indulgences from algore to assuage a Gaia killing conscience.
No he isn’t.
it should be no surprise that a basketball game is seen as a way to measure a man.
Yes, meya. You should take your complaints up with Baracky’s brother-in-law, as he was the one doing the measuring.
As for the rest of your insipid blathering …
alppuccino – You are a gentleman and a scholar. Beyond that, I shall refuse comment.
Beyond that, I shall refuse comment.
We have an accord.
I would demand a stripper pole in my dude room, for the chirren!
Meya, you mean that vanity ranch that has a smaller carbon footprint than the Goracle mansion?
The Nanticoke Generating Station has a smaller carbon footprint than the Goracle mansion.
I’ll note the USS Gore, his houseboat, is larger than my house.
I won’t even pretend to pay attention to his blathering until he does a better job of faking his concern. I have standards, base as they may be.
Re: SB&P’s #38,
Huh. Imagine that. Oh, and George Smitherman? In the pocket of Big Coal.