26 Replies to “Overheard at the checkout stand, Dick’s Sports, 2:37 PM”

1. Robert says:

   May 4, 2007 at 3:53 pm

   Camo shorts? Sounds like overcompensating, if you ask me.  Which I know you didn’t, Jeff.

2. a4g says:

   May 4, 2007 at 4:08 pm

   Ouch, Jeff.  Just… ouch.

3. happyfeet says:

   May 4, 2007 at 4:14 pm

   yang:  did you catch the debates last night?

   yang:  well, yeah.

   yang:  me too.

4. McGehee says:

   May 4, 2007 at 4:29 pm

   If he wanted to be totally gay they would’ve been camo speedos.

   Which, I think that would even creep out Michael Jackson.

5. me says:

   May 4, 2007 at 4:38 pm

   tall guy in camo shorts = guy in Rockies cap?

6. Pablo says:

   May 4, 2007 at 4:54 pm

   I’ve seen that fucker before.

   But sometimes, I think Jeff is just making this shit up.

7. guinsPen says:

   May 4, 2007 at 5:07 pm

   Me too.

   To distract us from no ‘dillo.

8. Diana says:

   May 4, 2007 at 5:20 pm

   To distract us from no ‘dillo.

   I warned y’all.  That baby’s been stuffed and mounted.

9. Blackjack says:

   May 4, 2007 at 5:48 pm

   Yeah, he can’t have anybody thinking he’s gay when he’s shopping at Dick’s.  What, was Felcher’s closed for renovations?

10. red state moron says:

    May 4, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    Like the Reds could get any worse…

11. Carin says:

    May 4, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    But sometimes, I think Jeff is just making this shit up.

    I’ve had that thought before, but I don’t think Jeff would lead us astray like that. His coverage of the conventions … it was like I was THERE.

12. no one you know says:

    May 4, 2007 at 7:02 pm

    Hope there weren’t any kids around.  Or ladies.  Or older people.  Or prudes (yah, they’re people too).  MAJOR pet peeve: those who use foul language in general public places. 

    I don’t swear in stores cause I’m too busy being not totally fucking RUDE!! 

    Man. That felt good.

13. Aldo says:

    May 4, 2007 at 8:13 pm

    It turns out that not being totally gay led to the war in Iraq, according to this Op-Ed in today’s Los Angeles Times.  (Actual quote, not a parody):

    The trouble with manhood, American-style, is that it’s maintained by frantically repressing every man’s feminine side and demonizing the feminine and the gay wherever we see them. In his book, “The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity,” clinical psychologist Stephen Ducat calls this state of mind “femiphobia” — a pathological masculinity founded on the subconscious belief that “the most important thing about being a man is not being a woman.”

    OK, so maybe I’m overstepping the bounds of my Learning Annex degree in pop psychology. But the hidden costs of our overcompensatory hypermachismo are far worse than a few politicians slimed by pundits. The horror in Iraq has been protracted past the point of lunacy by George W.’s bring-it-on braggadocio, He-Ra unilateralism and damn-the-facts refusal to acknowledge mistakes — all hallmarks of a pathological masculinity that confuses diplomacy with weakness and arrogant rigidity with strength. It is founded not on a self-assured sense of what it is but on a neurotic loathing of what it secretly fears it may be: wussy. And it will go to the grave insisting on battering-ram stiffness (stay the course! don’t pull out!) as the truest mark of manhood.
    

    I’m not looking forward to the effects89 of this latest form of political correctness to emerge from the Left-wing intelligentsia.

14. hit and run says:

    May 4, 2007 at 8:19 pm

    tall guy in camo shorts: “Nah.  I was too busy being not totally fucking gay.”

    guy in Reds cap: “Gotcha.  Hey, ya know what I like?  Dicks.”

    tall guy in camo shorts: “Yeah.  Can’t get enough Dicks.  I really like the big ones.”

15. B Moe says:

    May 4, 2007 at 8:24 pm

    …a pathological masculinity founded on the subconscious belief that “the most important thing about being a man is not being a woman.”

    I would go so far as to boldly state that is the very definition of a man:  “not a woman”. 

    How do you get a job getting paid to notice the profoundly obvious?

16. Dave says:

    May 4, 2007 at 8:28 pm

    After the white parachute pants, I’m not sure where gay ends and hopelessly bad taste begins. Thanks, Jeff. You’re made me reconsider the time I spend at Gander Mountain.

17. happyfeet says:

    May 4, 2007 at 8:29 pm

    Not to go too OT, but that Dery stuff has a kind of resonance with NPR’s fey Spiderman 3 review:

    Now, there are some real-world parallels for a super-powerful American (with black goo possibly coloring his thinking) who imagines he can take on the world’s bad guys all by himself — especially when you throw in a revenge motive centered on a father figure, people falling from pulverized skyscrapers and enough swirling sand to suggest a Middle Eastern desert. I’m not sure these parallels have actually occurred to Raimi, but when Spidey finally decides he needs “allies” to fight the evildoers, he does put on his red-and-blue suit and swing in front of an American flag. Isn’t comic-book-land refreshing?

    You have to listen to get the feyness in all its fey glory.

18. Dave says:

    May 4, 2007 at 8:37 pm

    I would go so far as to boldly state that is the very definition of a man:  “not a woman”.

    Under the new vagi-politico-Marcottisc regime, a man is just a misguided woman with an freakishly large clitoris.

    Sorry, Jeff. Ban me if you must.

19. Karl says:

    May 4, 2007 at 8:45 pm

    Shorter Los Angeles Times Op-Ed:

    …because of the HYPER-MASCULINITY!!!!

20. RiverCocytus says:

    May 4, 2007 at 9:24 pm

    Jeff, I think you have a case of Bob-troll-itis…

    That is, the trolls that always use fake names and don’t even pretend they want a real conversation.

    Its like.. troll 2.0.

21. serr8d says:

    May 4, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    I think the ‘gay’ aspect of Jeff’s post’s been overblown, some, by some commenters.

    The point was, was it not, that a very, very miniscule percentage of Americans sat and watched the thing?

    More people, the ‘CamoBoys’, would condemn the ones who did watch.

    That’s commentary on the commenters as well as on ‘CamoBoy’…

22. happyfeet says:

    May 4, 2007 at 11:07 pm

    yang: whatever, dude

23. His Frogness says:

    May 5, 2007 at 12:16 am

    Chicks are for fags.

24. rjvtx says:

    May 5, 2007 at 6:15 am

    happyfeet, I heard that review on NPR too.  Bob Mondello increasing sounds like that guy who used to do the “Let’s come out at the movies” segment on Comedy Central.

25. MarkD says:

    May 5, 2007 at 7:43 am

    I’ll be two years older by the next election.  It’s way too early.  At this rate we’ll be electing people to run for office and they’ll never do any of the things we pay them to do.

    Which could be a good thing.

26. Swen Swenson says:

    May 5, 2007 at 6:16 pm

    The point was, was it not, that a very, very miniscule percentage of Americans sat and watched the thing?

    Yep, only 13% of Californians watched, according to this Survey USA poll. Didn’t stop them from drawing sweeping conclusions based on quizzing that 13%, although the real conclusion should have been that this early campaign shit is a major yawn.

    Say.. Isn’t about 13% of the population gay? Coincidence? I think not.

    At this rate we’ll be electing people to run for office and they’ll never do any of the things we pay them to do.

    Hmm, yes, more time spent campaigning is less time spent legislating. And we can ignore the campaigning, we often can’t ignore their meddlesome legislation. It’s not a bad deal when you think about it.

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