Comments on: Fumbles http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:32:34 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mommybrain http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356522 Mommybrain Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:18:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356522 <p><em>But most of all, Lombardi coached the football team Michael, not the cheerleaders.</em></p> <p>tou-fvcking-che, Attaturk. I want this printed on a roll of TP, with each leaf a different idiot-pundit’s name.</p> But most of all, Lombardi coached the football team Michael, not the cheerleaders.

tou-fvcking-che, Attaturk. I want this printed on a roll of TP, with each leaf a different idiot-pundit’s name.

]]> By: Attaturk http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356379 Attaturk Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:42:22 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356379 <p>No I meant what I said.</p> <p>Dick Butkus playing for the Bears was the Packers opposition.</p> <p>Moqtada Al-Sadr functions somewhat as the opposition to what the Vince Lombardi’s of Iraq want.</p> No I meant what I said.

Dick Butkus playing for the Bears was the Packers opposition.

Moqtada Al-Sadr functions somewhat as the opposition to what the Vince Lombardi’s of Iraq want.

]]> By: whitebeard http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356366 whitebeard Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:07:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356366 <p>“But more than that, the silly and habitual uses of sports analogies. Besides, I always thought Lombardi’s strategy involved more than running out the clock, throwing money on the field and leaving the problem for the next coach to clean up. I certainly don’t remember any of the 1960s Packers being killed or leaving limbs on the gridiron. And I certainly don’t think of Moqtada Al-Sadr as the Dick Butkus of Iraq.”</p> <p>One needs to be careful of their sports metaphors as well. Dick Butkus was not a Green Bay Packer, he was a Chicago Bear. Perhaps you were thinking of Ray Nitschke?</p> “But more than that, the silly and habitual uses of sports analogies. Besides, I always thought Lombardi’s strategy involved more than running out the clock, throwing money on the field and leaving the problem for the next coach to clean up. I certainly don’t remember any of the 1960s Packers being killed or leaving limbs on the gridiron. And I certainly don’t think of Moqtada Al-Sadr as the Dick Butkus of Iraq.”

One needs to be careful of their sports metaphors as well. Dick Butkus was not a Green Bay Packer, he was a Chicago Bear. Perhaps you were thinking of Ray Nitschke?

]]> By: BlueStateRedHead http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356339 BlueStateRedHead Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:21:50 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356339 <p>Just waking up metaphorically and really, after some middle of the night writing.<br /> Knew he was everywhere as per below, but why there? After Tuzla, and on opening day of baseball in Japan, where poems are snipers’ bullets and the national pastime is not at home, I am willing to believe the world is upside down and backwards, but tell me why I need to think this one, please, as I struggle toward the coffee. how is he an adviser to Hil? </p> <p><a href="http://www.democracyarsenal.org/2008/03/ohanlon-and-the.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.democracyarsenal.or.....d-the.html</a></p> Just waking up metaphorically and really, after some middle of the night writing.
Knew he was everywhere as per below, but why there? After Tuzla, and on opening day of baseball in Japan, where poems are snipers’ bullets and the national pastime is not at home, I am willing to believe the world is upside down and backwards, but tell me why I need to think this one, please, as I struggle toward the coffee. how is he an adviser to Hil?

http://www.democracyarsenal.or…..d-the.html

]]> By: nomolos http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356296 nomolos Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:24:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356296 <blockquote><p>You think that is bad, it’s opening day for Major League Baseball, in JAPAN!</p></blockquote> <p>And they had football in London. I tell you the world has gone to hell in a hand basket. What is next basketball in baghdad?</p>

You think that is bad, it’s opening day for Major League Baseball, in JAPAN!

And they had football in London. I tell you the world has gone to hell in a hand basket. What is next basketball in baghdad?

]]> By: Raven http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356295 Raven Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:21:48 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356295 <p>You think that is bad, it’s opening day for Major League Baseball, in JAPAN!</p> You think that is bad, it’s opening day for Major League Baseball, in JAPAN!

]]> By: nomolos http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356292 nomolos Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:19:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356292 <blockquote><p>Actually I am fine, I am being sarcastic.</p></blockquote> <p>No…..!</p>

Actually I am fine, I am being sarcastic.

No…..!

]]> By: Raven http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356287 Raven Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:17:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356287 <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5t1sXINlqM" rel="nofollow">Gulf Coast Highway</a></p> <p>The only place on earth<br /> Bluebonnets grow</p> Gulf Coast Highway

The only place on earth
Bluebonnets grow

]]> By: Raven http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356284 Raven Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:16:05 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356284 <p>I love that Naci Griffith song, Gulf Coast Highway.</p> I love that Naci Griffith song, Gulf Coast Highway.

]]> By: Raven http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356282 Raven Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:14:23 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/03/25/fumbles/#comment-1356282 <p>Actually I am fine, I am being sarcastic.</p> Actually I am fine, I am being sarcastic.

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