Sunday, January 18, 2009

Wake Forest Stands Alone

You'd think I'd like to go on and on about how we're the last undefeated team in the nation and how if we're not rated #1 in both polls tomorrow morning I will set multiple buildings on fire, but the truth is I'm such a nervous wreck about all this success I'd rather just twiddle my thumbs and give you some more highly important thoughts.

All these commercials with some Lincoln impersonator got me thinking: how long after a famous and admired political figure is assassinated does it become acceptable to make parodies of him? 100 years? When no one is still alive that can remember the assassination? I mean, when do I get to see commercials featuring comedic Kennedy brothers and MLKs? Is 2050 the over/under?

I've only attended two classes of Employment Discrimination, and I'm already tired of typing out "discriminate" and all its variants. I'm thinking about using the word "diss" instead. This way, I can just type "disser," "dissation," "dissatory," etc.

I miss the Sprint Trench Coat Guy. And now so do you.

Last year, we had an AFC Championship game featuring a New England team that won all 16 regular season games. This year, the NFC Championship features two teams that won a combined 18 regular season games.

This might be the greatest Garfield Minus Garfield yet.

I really, really want Arizona to win this game, and it's only because I am so sick of watching Eagle games. Well, that and I'm still floored that McNabb didn't know a fundamental overtime rule of the game he's paid millions to play.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I AM going to burn something if Wake isn't #1. But the real prize is over two months away, so it's not really a big deal.

As to your over-under, definitely after the lifetime of all the people who remember the assassination. I can't think of anyone who was assassinated in the late 1800's or early 1900's who could have just passed that barrier...

Just use "D" to stand for "discriminate". I'm in employment law, and I'm probably going to fill my notes with "E'er" and "E'ee".

You gotta love the NFL playoffs. It's a billion times better than the BCS. If the BCS ran pro sports, we'd probably have Tennessee play Carolina in the SuperBowl, neither of which won a single game in the playoffs. Settle it on the field.

G - G is very weird, but it works. Probably some kind of commentary though.

Tom said...

Well, McKinley was assassinated in 1901. He's gotta be fair game by now.

Anonymous said...

Chris Paul's second cousin plays for Mizzou. His name is Miguel. So his nickname would be... MP3!!!