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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Any father who emasculates his own son by making hime play soccer is a degenrate wuss. I mean, soccer is ok for girls to play. If you research it's origin, it was devised as a way to avoid the use of the hands by male atheletes in Europe. Because nearly every European man, from Eastern Europe to the British Isles, is effeminate to the point of distraction, it was clear that a new game had to be devised that didn't force the participants to embarass themselves by having to catch and toss--especially while running. Watching the French play Rounders, for instance, will usually end before regulation because the umpires and spectators can't stop laughing. I mean, seeing those dandies try to throw something is hysterical. So Bukk, you are insane to condemn you soon to a lifetime of ordering daquiries and not knowing how to fix a flat. You, sir, are insane.
Anyone who sends a death threat based on anything to do with any sporting event should be hung in public. Sick, sick, sick
I'm no Duck fan, but I live in Oregon, and lord do I know that Duck fans can be a bit much, but watching the replay of the game it was striking how much the UO broadcasters were complaining about the officiating throughout the game with, in their view, many questionable calls going against Oregon.
Then of course came the onside kick, which we must remember was only possible because Oklahoma gave up a touchdown. If you're one of the top programs in the country as the people talking about BCS implications seem to be saying, you know you really ought to be able to protect a 13 point lead with 2 minutes to play. But the Sooners didn't. Blown call or not.
But the interesting thing on the onside kick was the camera angle that we saw on the replay clearly showed the ball touching a Duck player at the ten-yard mark, meaning it was legal kick. Of course this also show the subjective nature of the review process. It's amazing how much a camera angle can affect what seems to be ball position. Seeing that review, there was no conclusive evidence to overturn the ruling on the field.
Of course then there was the pass interference call. And that one was totally blown by the refs. The ball was obviously touched in flight, but the call stood and the review booth blew it. But you know what, Sooners, you still have to play defense. Instead, you left the Duck receiver totally uncovered, and touchdown.
And then the Sooners still had a chance to win, but they didn't. That's pretty much the reason why you play the game.
And thanks, King for doing your duty as a citizen. I missed your column, but I'm sure the cause of justice was served!
I know. . . . . I know.
*shame*
Human error is beautiful. Human error gave us fireworks and potato chips and made Lucille Ball and Buster Keaton funny. It gave us the Long Count, the Immaculate Reception and Kansas City's only World Series title.
Human error should be guarded against in the specific but embraced in the general. I'm vigilant against typos, semicolons and other errors, but what could explain my having this job in the first place beyond some kind of cosmic mistake?
I have to call you on this one. You're apparently not so vigilant on commas, as in there should be one between "Reception" and "and".
As a resident of Seattle, WA (Pac-10 country) let me just say I stand firmly with my brethren in Oklahoma. Some months back our beloved NFL Seattle Seahawks got screwed out of the Superbowl (NFL equivalent of BCS championship) by a number of bad calls. When that happened people in Seattle were outraged, as was everyone in Oklahoma. You could read in all the OK newspapers how the game should be nullified.
Well friends in OK, I now stand with you as you stood with us. ... except you didn't.
How is that again? Eagles got more screwed with the visible holding all game. The "non" play that wasn't a down or a penalty, and others. Giants didn't get screwed, just a fluky game.
is the fact that Oregon almost lost the game due to a squib kick.
Oh, and why aren't Oklahoma fans complaining on the non-call on the push-off on the TD pass?
The comma after the second to last item in a list and before the conjunction is called, among other things, a "Times comma" (IIRC from the book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves") because it is required by the copy editors at the New York Times. Or was it the London Times? Anyway, it is optional in general usage, although it should be used or not used consistently within any writing. You are just as correct to write, "I like eggs, ham and orange juice," as you are to write, "I like eggs, ham, and orange juice."
I am an attorney, almost always leave that comma out and find that most other attorneys I deal with do the same (like in this sentence). If you have found that King regularly uses it, maybe his recent spell at jury duty changed him.
Until I became an attorney, I always used it. Now the law has changed me, apparently. Two exceptions that I still make for it are (i) if the list is composed of very long phrases, making it difficult to make sense of otherwise (although I am just as likely to use semi-colons to separate the items in that case), and (ii) where leaving it out would lead to confusion (this is rare; an example is "My wife, my daughter and I ate pancakes, eggs, and ham and cheese, respectively."--without the comma, it's hard to tell whether my daughter had eggs and ham and I had cheese, or my daughter had eggs and I had ham and cheese).
Now back to the regularly scheduled sports programming.
And please pardon any typos I might have made in this post!
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