Wash: You want a slinky dress? I can buy you a slinky dress. Captain, can I have money for a slinky dress? Jayne: I'll chip in. Zoe: I can hurt you.

'Shindig'


Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Nutty - Feb 04, 2005 9:30:54 am PST #4041 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

JOSE CANSECO!!! Corleone should hire him!

Dude. This is the guy who had a ball he was trying to field bounce off his head and into the stands for a home run. I don't want him bodyguarding anybody.

it would make baseball a more interesting game if it was full contact, although I suspect that the players' careers would be a lot shorter.

How quickly we forget the July 24 brawl game! N.b. I don't actually approve of fighting in baseball, but if you're an AL East fan, you have no shortage of full-contact.


§ ita § - Feb 04, 2005 9:33:08 am PST #4042 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This is the guy who had a ball he was trying to field bounce off his head and into the stands for a home run. I don't want him bodyguarding anybody.

One ball bouncing off his head versus volunteering for repeated pounding to the face? Who would you want as a bodyguard?


Gus - Feb 04, 2005 9:33:57 am PST #4043 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

Sparky1, thanks.

Porn for nerds.


DavidS - Feb 04, 2005 9:37:07 am PST #4044 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Dude, she's got some life experience backing up her judgments. How many American judges have worked in sweatshops?

As a twelve-year-old, she accompanied her mother to a hearing for a man accused of assaulting her mother. That she and her mother had no idea how to find their way around the courthouse and that there seemed to be no information available to those who did not speak English left a lasting impression on her.

In high school, Ling-Cohan worked part time as a seamstress and a threadcutter in the sewing factories of Chinatown. Supporting herself, she studied psychology at Brooklyn College and received her degree summa cum laude in 1976. She went on to New York University School of Law on a full scholarship, graduating in 1979.


Sparky1 - Feb 04, 2005 9:37:30 am PST #4045 of 10002
Librarian Warlord

Gus, she may not be blonde, but she might have inherited a wicked good matzoh-ball soup recipie from her MiL.


DavidS - Feb 04, 2005 9:39:04 am PST #4046 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Gus, she may not be blonde, but she might have inherited a wicked good matzoh-ball soup recipie from her MiL.

Cohan = Irish
Cohen = Jewish

No?


Frankenbuddha - Feb 04, 2005 9:39:28 am PST #4047 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

How quickly we forget the July 24 brawl game! N.b. I don't actually approve of fighting in baseball, but if you're an AL East fan, you have no shortage of full-contact.

Hence my use of the word "ostensibly". Ty Cobb sliding in cleats up certainly puts a lie to baseball never being a contact sport. As does the picture they used on the cover of the King/O'Nan book. I LOVE that picture - only Jeter would have been a worthier glove-to-smug-face target (if only the catcher had figured out a way to get a cream pie in his glove beforehand).


Nutty - Feb 04, 2005 9:39:35 am PST #4048 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

One ball bouncing off his head versus volunteering for repeated pounding to the face? Who would you want as a bodyguard?

No, I mean, Jose Canseco's coordination is so crappy that, with his arms up over his head, he can't catch a ball that subsequently hits him on the head. Both hands, and he totally whiffed the ball.

Now, maybe boxers are suckers, but at least they can usually perceive an object coming towards them well enough to, like, duck.


DavidS - Feb 04, 2005 9:41:49 am PST #4049 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

No, I mean, Jose Canseco's coordination is so crappy that, with his arms up over his head, he can't catch a ball that subsequently hits him on the head. Both hands, and he totally whiffed the ball.

Hmph. I know this is the enduring image of Canseco in the outfield, but having watched him play regularly from his second season until he left the A's, I need to note that he was a thoroughly competent, even better-than-average fielder when he came up. There was some talk of moving him from right field to centerfield for a while, even. He had a strong and accurate arm, also.


Gus - Feb 04, 2005 9:42:42 am PST #4050 of 10002
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

My heroine list:

  • Doris Ling-Cohan
  • ita
  • Zoe

OK, you could flip those last two. Call it a tie.

eta: (Cohan ==Irish, Cohen==Jewish) Sure. Not that they are mutually exclusive.