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 | Your proposition may be good But let's have one thing understood Whatever it is, I'm against it! And even when you've changed it or condensed it I'm against it! --Groucho Marx in Horse Feathers [1] |
The Refdesk Barnstar Thanks for your inordinate contribution to answering my query; it was quite helpful and intellectually stimulating. DRosenbach (Talk |
The headline says it all. What has Wknight94 got to do with the Mets?--Johnny Spasm (talk) 23:55, 25 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Well, I'll give ya a hint... His signature would probably also work if he was a fan of the Fighting Illini and/or the Chicago Bears. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:14, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
Florida Gators too. I didn't realize he was talking about the colors; I was trying to figure out what the hell "Wknight94" had to do with the Mets.--Johnny Spasm (talk) 00:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- I'll admit he was a little vague about that. But now that you know, you could change your drab, boring signature likewise, if you were so inclined. :) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 00:30, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- In self-defense, I did say "signature", not "username". Wknight94 talk 01:42, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- AHA! Beware of inspiring ideas. >:) ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
Greetings ... I was looking through the list of potential adoptees when I encountered this user's entry. I read through the talk page and the number of blocks, but all that said I concur that the user could use some supervision at least for a while. I'd be willing to offer my services and adopt the user, but I wanted to get your opinion first before I left the offer on the talk page. Thanks. --McDoobAU93 (talk) 19:14, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- For a hot second I thought you were going to ask me to adopt. I wouldn't be much of a mentor. My concern in his case is his "I'll think about it" response to my comment that he needs to provide sources, which suggests he doesn't grasp the issue. So he's going to be a challenge. I also don't know anything about your own history here. But if you're level-headed and willing to help, I don't see why not. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 19:40, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Brief synopsis ... over 3 years editing. Started out with similar edits (fanboy-like, no citations). Have gotten into a few edit wars over the years. Never been blocked. Developed into someone who prefers to find viable sources for the material, but also takes a no-nonsense approach to vandalism and broken promises. Do consider myself "level-headed" and up for a challenge, if someone is truly willing to learn and improve. --McDoobAU93 (talk) 19:56, 26 January 2010 (UTC) (PS Yes, on second read-through, I can see how you read it that way.)Reply
- Gopher it. What could it hurt? The worst he can do is either (1) say no; or (2) not pay attention to you. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:23, 27 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Brief synopsis ... over 3 years editing. Started out with similar edits (fanboy-like, no citations). Have gotten into a few edit wars over the years. Never been blocked. Developed into someone who prefers to find viable sources for the material, but also takes a no-nonsense approach to vandalism and broken promises. Do consider myself "level-headed" and up for a challenge, if someone is truly willing to learn and improve. --McDoobAU93 (talk) 19:56, 26 January 2010 (UTC) (PS Yes, on second read-through, I can see how you read it that way.)Reply
Your mention of League Park pointed me to House of David. I'm not sure which is funnier — Satchel Paige in a fake beard or the founder being celibate, except for those thirteen girls. PhGustaf (talk) 19:55, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- It's safe to say Ol' Satch was not celibate. As for the group's founder... well, King David had many wives too, right? So its founder was just doing his religious duty. Until they caught him at it. Here's a metaphorically related clip on the latter subject, starting at about the 3:30 mark:[2] ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:03, 26 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- A little more clicking finds the 1932 Pittsburgh_Crawfords. What a team. It was run by a crook, of course, but a far lesser crook than, say, Charles Comiskey. PhGustaf (talk)
- That article and the one about Greenlee himself tell me at least 2 things: (1) It's likely a reasonable picture of the kind of organization the Negro Leagues were, and why it's hard to take the leagues (though not the good players) very seriously; and (2) If a white equivalent to Greenlee, perhaps Bugsy Moran or Al Capone, had bought the Cubs instead of William Wrigley, history might have turned out differently. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:34, 27 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- They might have won a World Series or two. PhGustaf (talk) 07:29, 27 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Even just one would have been good. Can't get too greedy. I'm suddenly reminded of a National Lampoon (I wonder what I ever did with them) in which they speculated in a satirical way, what might have happened had JFK not been killed and instead served out his term and then stuck around D.C. The one thing I remember is that with all the Kennedy money available, JFK invested in the Washington Senators, acquiring all the top players of that era and turning the Senators into a perpetual champion, supplanting the Yankees. Money doesn't guarantee success, but it improves the odds. Although the Cubs' World Series losing ways defied all attempts at investments since 1908, and since 1945 they can't even buy a pennant. We'll see how this new owner goes about doing things. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:02, 27 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Somewhere around here I have the National Lampoon Sunday newspaper parody. It's a stew of cross-references to their earlier yearbook parody, and doesn't fail to discuss Faun Laurel Rosenberg's several husbands. Too bad they stopped being funny. PhGustaf (talk) 01:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Yeh, I have both the newspaper parody and the yearbook parody somewhere. Classic. There's a joke in the yearbook parody that I still like to quote, from their parody-within-a-parody excerpt from an ersatz U.S. History book. Something about how George Washington wore wooden false teeth (true) which "he had whittled from cherrywood after his father punched his teeth out", which probably has the same truth value as the "real" story. NatLamp once ran a Mad parody with Alfred saying, "What? Me funny?" But guess which publication is still in business. Mad may be as subtle and refined as the Three Stooges, but it's been a model of consistency over the decades. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:17, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- The newspaper parody was frighteningly close to the truth for the paper from the city I lived in at the time. One thing I recall is a report that some guy's house, listing the street address of course, had been burglarized twice but that they had missed some valuables, and of course reported exactly what and where those valuables were in the house. Then there were the filler blurbs on a couple of separate pages, one saying the earth is warming up, the other that it's cooling down. Now I'm going to have to go looking for those issues. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:22, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- I think there were a couple or three characters from the yearbook that found their way into Animal House. Like Amanda "Fridge"-something. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:24, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Amanda "Fridge" Pepperidge. And the parody yearbook was the property of Larry Kroeger, who was an innocent bystander in the movie. PhGustaf (talk) 01:37, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Yes, Larry, who is apparently the alter ego of Doug Kenney or one of the other writers. I think there was also an Emily May "Preggers" Praeger, whose name (without the "Preggers") appears somewhere in the film credits also. Either she was fictitious, or was a real member of the staff whose name they used in the yearbook and the film. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:57, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Amanda "Fridge" Pepperidge. And the parody yearbook was the property of Larry Kroeger, who was an innocent bystander in the movie. PhGustaf (talk) 01:37, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- I think there were a couple or three characters from the yearbook that found their way into Animal House. Like Amanda "Fridge"-something. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:24, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- The newspaper parody was frighteningly close to the truth for the paper from the city I lived in at the time. One thing I recall is a report that some guy's house, listing the street address of course, had been burglarized twice but that they had missed some valuables, and of course reported exactly what and where those valuables were in the house. Then there were the filler blurbs on a couple of separate pages, one saying the earth is warming up, the other that it's cooling down. Now I'm going to have to go looking for those issues. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:22, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Yeh, I have both the newspaper parody and the yearbook parody somewhere. Classic. There's a joke in the yearbook parody that I still like to quote, from their parody-within-a-parody excerpt from an ersatz U.S. History book. Something about how George Washington wore wooden false teeth (true) which "he had whittled from cherrywood after his father punched his teeth out", which probably has the same truth value as the "real" story. NatLamp once ran a Mad parody with Alfred saying, "What? Me funny?" But guess which publication is still in business. Mad may be as subtle and refined as the Three Stooges, but it's been a model of consistency over the decades. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:17, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Somewhere around here I have the National Lampoon Sunday newspaper parody. It's a stew of cross-references to their earlier yearbook parody, and doesn't fail to discuss Faun Laurel Rosenberg's several husbands. Too bad they stopped being funny. PhGustaf (talk) 01:00, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- Even just one would have been good. Can't get too greedy. I'm suddenly reminded of a National Lampoon (I wonder what I ever did with them) in which they speculated in a satirical way, what might have happened had JFK not been killed and instead served out his term and then stuck around D.C. The one thing I remember is that with all the Kennedy money available, JFK invested in the Washington Senators, acquiring all the top players of that era and turning the Senators into a perpetual champion, supplanting the Yankees. Money doesn't guarantee success, but it improves the odds. Although the Cubs' World Series losing ways defied all attempts at investments since 1908, and since 1945 they can't even buy a pennant. We'll see how this new owner goes about doing things. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 08:02, 27 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- They might have won a World Series or two. PhGustaf (talk) 07:29, 27 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- That article and the one about Greenlee himself tell me at least 2 things: (1) It's likely a reasonable picture of the kind of organization the Negro Leagues were, and why it's hard to take the leagues (though not the good players) very seriously; and (2) If a white equivalent to Greenlee, perhaps Bugsy Moran or Al Capone, had bought the Cubs instead of William Wrigley, history might have turned out differently. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 06:34, 27 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
- A little more clicking finds the 1932 Pittsburgh_Crawfords. What a team. It was run by a crook, of course, but a far lesser crook than, say, Charles Comiskey. PhGustaf (talk)
Emily Prager has her own wikipedia page. She's written for SNL and has novels to her credit. Quite a few NatLamp staff appeared in the Yearbook, in drag sometimes. Laura Singer was majorly hot back then; no idea what happened to her. PhGustaf (talk) 08:59, 28 January 2010 (UTC)Reply
I have just discovered that you have accused me of sock puppetry during my block (well, during what I thought was my block period, actually it was much shorter). Retract your unfounded accusations of sock puppetry. --Belchman (talk) 04:01, 29 January 2010 (UTC)Reply