ericpoole1
Eric Poole
ericpoole1

There were three rugby matches to kick off the Guinness Six Nations on Super Bowl weekend.

Fuck the police chief. Lean on the local or state prosecutor’s office to have the suspects charged as adults. Then the whole thing becomes a public record.

In fairness, don’cha think we white people ruined America LAST year?

Speaking as a middle-aged white guy from the North, I’ve never heard 1, 3 or 4.

I’m aware of #2 because it made the jump to the white people lexicon through, I want to say, “The Jerry Springer Show.”

I know about “What had happened was ...” only because of VSB’s reporting a few weeks ago on Tiffany Haddish’s monologue

Car radio: “dah-dah-dah. Dah-dah-dah. Dah-dah-dah-dah.”

Re, that 1905 Wales-New Zealand match: In 1994, when I was on rugby tour with the Pittsburgh Harlequins, we got a guided tour of Cardiff Arms. The tour guide pointed out the spot where New Zealand claimed to have scored a try, but the referee declined to award the points.

There’s no reason Shank had to crap on the greatest movie ever made. That “petty thief” had a name! He was Senor Ugarte, dammit! And he brought the MacGuffin into “Casablanca!”

And they say things like, “Men are more visually oriented (Actually, they usually mispronounce it as ‘orientated’) than women” to justify their entitlement to a woman who is more attractive, relatively speaking, than they are.

There’s the problem, Zlatum. Your premise - that the meme implies that all men will kill women if the woman rejects the man - is fatally flawed.

The meme SAYS circumstances (Elliot Rodger, George Sodini, this O’Kroley character, the woman killed last month in Pittsburgh for refusing an advance in a bar, ad infinitum,

Alternate replacement for “political correctness”: “Treatment that used to be known as common respect until people other than white, heterosexual cismale Christians started demanding it.

I once played two-thirds of a rugby match with a concussion and a 10-stitch cut in my face (this being before rugby adopted its version of the “Magic Johnson” rule). When I had my leg broken and my foot torn out of the socket in another match, I laid in the mud and told jokes until the ambulance came.

But I couldn’t

That was - sniff! - beautiful, man! Just beautiful!

Assuming that the reports of Tebow's new throwing form are accurate - and that's not by any means a certainty - you've still got to wonder if he still reads defenses at a sixth-grade level. Yeah, Tebow is still probably a serviceable backup - the only problem is, the first time your starter throws an interception,

"I know you guys aren't food stylists, but you're the Gray Lady; do you not employ photojournalists any more?"

This anecdote comes from my upcoming book "Company of Heroes" (2015, Osprey Publishing). In 1970, a U.S. soldier serving in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division fired into the trees of a triple-canopy jungle and hit a bonobo. The dead primate's body had scarcely hit the ground before another bonobo descended to

Commas are important, says the wordslinger.

In the copy editing community - from whence I was ejected for gross incompetence - the "Some Fucker" story is legend. Once upon a time - and I've seen a photocopy of this picture, so I know it exists - a sports desk copy editor was preparing a photo of a youth basketball team for newspaper publication when he realized

Please spoil. My work computer has no sound.

Yeah, but the Moon Landing Truthers have given us the second-most awesome thing Buzz Aldrin has ever done.

Not as crazy as you might think. UCLA once supposedly did a study linking sexual activity to enhanced athletic performance (I read about this study in the pre-pre-internet days, when we had these things called magazines, printed on paper. So, sadly, no link).

However, according to "The Complete Book of the Olympics,"