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patentparanyc · 10-26-2007, 10:26 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
A few weeks ago, a talk radio station here went all sports. I would listen to the old station on my way home, so it is a habit to leave it on.

there is a show with two writers talking about local sports. one of them is also on the TV news sometimes, so i recognize him. Yesterday the two guys had a fight. some college football players were caught doing something. One guy felt they should play until convicted, the other guy felt they should get kicked off the team. People called in and yelled at the "kick off" guy.

most days they talk about the Lions, the Lions should do this or that. these guys do this for four hours a day.

Last night we go to dinner and end up at the bar to wait for our table. the "kick off" guy is next to us, with his wife. He notices that I noticed him, and a look of "oh crap" flashes across his eyes, like he probably gets guys giving him shit all the time, and yesterday he's get shit for wanting kids kicked off a team.

but what I really wanted to say is that I do not get how anyone can listen to his show, or any sports talk show. the Lions have not been to a Championship game in 50 years. they won 3 games last year. How can anyone talk about them for hours every week, and worse what numbskulls could listen.

even with a good team, how can there be anything to talk about "I think the Pistons should play this one guy more and this other guy less, blah blah." how is that something to listen?

I wanted to ask him "how can you go in and do that every day?" It is flat out being paid to masturbate, but without any ending.

do any of you people listen to sports talk.

When you refuse to use capital letters, the effect is similar to my globby, run-on hard to read posts.

They don't make sense and are hard to read. Pot. Kettle.

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-26-2007, 10:55 AM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
She is adorable, and she could do better, dog-wise.

You can put me in the anti-Sarah Silverman camp. I don't see what the big deal is. Is it the fact that she's not a completely unattractive woman who does skits you could find on The Man Show? What else is there?

TM

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-26-2007, 10:58 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You can put me in the anti-Sarah Silverman camp. I don't see what the big deal is. Is it the fact that she's not a completely unattractive woman who does skits you could find on The Man Show? What else is there?

TM

2. I don't get it. Is a chick with a filthy mouth inherently hot and funny? methinks not.

patentparanyc · 10-26-2007, 11:00 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You can put me in the anti-Sarah Silverman camp. I don't see what the big deal is. Is it the fact that she's not a completely unattractive woman who does skits you could find on The Man Show? What else is there?

TM

2.

She's not hot enough to truly transcend the average and instead the potty-mouth routine gets old kind of like the Larry David schtick does as well. you've heard it once you've heard it all.

How many times can you watch him fake-brawl with the gas attendant? I mean really.

It isn't like it is Petra Nemcova up there swearing like a sailor in a thong.

Atticus Grinch · 10-26-2007, 11:02 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
A few weeks ago, a talk radio station here went all sports. I would listen to the old station on my way home, so it is a habit to leave it on.

there is a show with two writers talking about local sports. one of them is also on the TV news sometimes, so i recognize him. Yesterday the two guys had a fight. some college football players were caught doing something. One guy felt they should play until convicted, the other guy felt they should get kicked off the team. People called in and yelled at the "kick off" guy.

most days they talk about the Lions, the Lions should do this or that. these guys do this for four hours a day.

Last night we go to dinner and end up at the bar to wait for our table. the "kick off" guy is next to us, with his wife. He notices that I noticed him, and a look of "oh crap" flashes across his eyes, like he probably gets guys giving him shit all the time, and yesterday he's get shit for wanting kids kicked off a team.

but what I really wanted to say is that I do not get how anyone can listen to his show, or any sports talk show. the Lions have not been to a Championship game in 50 years. they won 3 games last year. How can anyone talk about them for hours every week, and worse what numbskulls could listen.

even with a good team, how can there be anything to talk about "I think the Pistons should play this one guy more and this other guy less, blah blah." how is that something to listen?

I wanted to ask him "how can you go in and do that every day?" It is flat out being paid to masturbate, but without any ending.

do any of you people listen to sports talk.

Translation: McCormick & Schmick's just doesn't offer the type of Detroit local color I've come to expect.

Hank Chinaski · 10-26-2007, 11:09 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You can put me in the anti-Sarah Silverman camp. I don't see what the big deal is. Is it the fact that she's not a completely unattractive woman who does skits you could find on The Man Show? What else is there?

TM

in looks, or humor? she isn't stunning, sure, but she can be pretty funny (although I don't like the TV show). and she is the best looking funny woman, or if you add looks and humor (with some minimum humor level to get to the table) she wins.

10-26-2007, 11:11 AM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
You can put me in the anti-Sarah Silverman camp. I don't see what the big deal is. Is it the fact that she's not a completely unattractive woman who does skits you could find on The Man Show? What else is there?

TM

Nice face, but she should be on Friday Night Lights with those linebacker shoulders. They make her head appear freakishly small.

Her cameo in The Aristocrats was outrageous enough - in a movie full of comics trying to outdo themselves - that I watched her standup show and a couple of episodes of her series (most recently the blackface one) on the strength of it. But the whole triple-reverse-ironic-racist stuff I don't find particularly funny.

Atticus Grinch · 10-26-2007, 11:11 AM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

Is a chick with a filthy mouth inherently hot and funny? methinks not.

If we were talking about Lisa Lampanelli, I would agree with your proposition in a heartbeat. And I know all to well that it's a waste of everyone's time to argue about whether something is funny or not. But my statement was that Silverman is adorable, and that pretty much stands unrefuted.

patentparanyc · 10-26-2007, 11:13 AM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
If we were talking about Lisa Lampanelli, I would agree with your proposition in a heartbeat. And I know all to well that it's a waste of everyone's time to argue about whether something is funny or not. But my statement was that Silverman is adorable, and that pretty much stands unrefuted.

adorable, how? In that Gap ad she looks weird.

Even Tina Fey is better looking in that Amex commercial.

10-26-2007, 11:13 AM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Every plot synopsis I've read of "Michael Clayton"* includes the same basic sentence: "Clayton (George Clooney) is a 'fixer' at a big New York law firm . . . ." I never worked for a big New York law firm, so I ask you --- is this a real job, or is this some kind of made up bullshit to sound legalistic, like B-movie movie titles like "Presumption of Danger" and "Cause of Mitigation" and "Malicious Possession II"?

I'd be happy if our firm's "fixer" could get papers filed in the Appellate Division, on time and on the first try.

10-26-2007, 11:14 AM

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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
If we were talking about Lisa Lampanelli, I would agree with your proposition in a heartbeat. And I know all to well that it's a waste of everyone's time to argue about whether something is funny or not. But my statement was that Silverman is adorable, and that pretty much stands unrefuted.

Dissent. Shoulders.

Hank Chinaski · 10-26-2007, 11:15 AM

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Originally posted by ironweed
Dissent. Shoulders.

translation: I need a woman I can smack around a bit.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 10-26-2007, 11:17 AM

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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
One helluva punk rawk line up in Chicago next month.

We can all crash at Coltrane's, right?

7 Seconds at last year's festival.

Everyone is welcome to crash in the dojo*.

*my basement

10-26-2007, 11:17 AM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
translation: I need a woman I can smack around a bit.

True. But I also need a woman who can open jars and help me lift heavy stuff. Is this a dilemma or a conundrum?

greatwhitenorthchick · 10-26-2007, 11:19 AM

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Originally posted by ironweed
True. But I also need a woman who can open jars and help me lift heavy stuff. Is this a dilemma or a conundrum?

Get two women. Problem solved!!

Bonus - FMF.