Originally Posted by Adder (Post 408664)

I think you might want to be careful with the use of "us" on this one.

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 408665)

How does fooling around equal a bit of passion in one's life?

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 408651)

Maybe he gets a different but equally good image. Instead of being some golfing stiff with generic plastic fantastic arm candy, suddenly it seems there's a bit of passion in his life.

Tiger has always seemed dull dull dull.

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 408590)

She's a buck-ten dripping wet. He can bench 300lbs and hit a ball 320 yards, routinely. If she had a gun, I'd be frightened for his life. But as things stand, this sounds like a couple having the mother of all arguments after his mistress accidentally called to wish him a happy Thanksgiving on the main home number.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408648)

Image tarnished. After everyone knows he has a crazy wife who smashes cars with golf clubs and hits him when she's angry, he just another schmoe with a lot of money.

I didn't say he would crash to Earth.

TM

Originally Posted by Fugee (Post 408659)

Do you think you'd get the same work (or would have back when you were a baby lawyer and people didn't know your work product) if you spoke in a stereotypical "black" way at work? My guess would be that you wouldn't.

But that could just be my inner class-ist coming out.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408644)

Okay. And I understand and appreciate the joke. But people (and I don't mean you particularly, because this applies to everyone, including black people) need to understand that black people are black because of the color of their skin. Because he doesn't speak with what people think of as "black vernacular" is irrelevant. In some cases it may be evidence of someone who is black who doesn't want to identify with other black people and isn't interested in their heritage or history. But the fact that speaking with a voice with less bass or using proper grammar, etc. enables so many to place him in the "not-really-black" category, starts to get offensive.

I hear this shit sometimes. Hell, a certain amount of education at all subjects you to this kind of garbage. "You don't talk black." "Thurgreed isn't really black." Yeah. All good fun until I want to fuck your lilly-white daughter. Then I get black again real quick, don't I? Cabbies don't care about grammar. Cops don't give a shit how you talk if you're in the wrong neighborhood. Partners don't assign work based on whether or not you speak well. And racists sure as hell don't care about any of that (please see treatment of Obama or do a google image search for Michelle Obama).

Anyway, not to get all serious, because I appreciate the joke, like it and sometimes use it myself. Just want to make sure that people don't get too comfortable with it.*

TM

*And this is one of the reasons why I love Chappelle so much. He walked away from $50 million dollars, at least partly, because of this.

Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 408663)

I understand, and I guess my point wasn't that he "sounds white", but more that he sounds like a nerd. Because Murphy's impression is that of a nerdy white guy.

Or do all of us sound like that to black people?

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408679)

I'm not arguing he should keep his image. I am saying he will view it as tarnished.

And Tiger is dull in how he approaches the press, but he is a monster on the course and his personality, when it comes to golf is anything but dull. He wants to crush everyone in his path, expects to, and makes it apparent. That was the most exciting and controversial thing in golf when he first arrived. And his attitude (not just his skill) completely changed the sport.

TM

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 408523)

Were there purple cows at your school?

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 408527)

Fixed that for you.

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 408528)

I assume you mean for the book itself.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408684)

No. But you do all look like this:

http://patdollard.com/wp-content/upl...-whiteface.jpg

TM

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller (Post 408686)

But of course. Tho it gives them an opportunity to seek a "hot breakfast" endowment.

Originally Posted by ltl/fb (Post 408538)

Someone nicely got me slippers with heatable inserts that go in the bottoms but my mom does not like me to walk in them. Do there exist slippers that won't slide off (so ankles fasten or are like the tops of socks) that the sle of the foot has a heater?

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 408681)

while tiger is black to most, I do think his main breakthrough was young/old. he was the one who broke golf away from being an old man's game*. I took my dad to the Masters for practice rounds the first two year he was there- the first year the crowd was mixed white and black, but mostly old. that year Tiger broke out- the next year the masters' crowd was still racially mixed but much much younger.

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408682)

Someone else help me out. How could anyone get to wherever Fugee is in the above post based on what I wrote and its context?

TM