Comments on: Chain Mail!

By: junk science

junk science — Sat, 24 Jun 2006 02:52:27 +0000

It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

I can’t actually find anything to make fun of in that one.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:50:20 +0000

that is, “which I think is actually brilliant …”

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:48:52 +0000

It’s going to be tough not to plagiarize no.21, which I think its actually brilliant in the right context. For example, the description is perfect in an account of the first Barrera/Morales fight (Morales, raised dirt poor in Tijuana, fought with an abandon born of deprivation and wounded pride against the middle-class Mexico City fighter Barrera); or any of Roberto Duran’s early fights. The “hungry” cliche is so common in boxing writing that to use it and then underline its literal applicability would be starkly effective.

By: Nick Kiddle

Nick Kiddle — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 21:21:37 +0000

I’m with plucky punk – 11 could be genuinely creepy with some reworking.

By: jackd

jackd — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 19:40:24 +0000

My college roommate was fond of the ‘steel trap’ simile. All this list needs is another one he used: We functioned like a well-oiled machine, one with a big red sign saying “DO NOT OIL”.

By: kate

kate — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:39:22 +0000

Numbers 4 and 5 have my vote.

By: randomliberal/Robert

randomliberal/Robert — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:24:46 +0000

Dammit, Craig R. beat me to it.

By: randomliberal/Robert

randomliberal/Robert — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:24:22 +0000

I find #6 to be ridiculously funny. But i’m also a sucker for bad puns, so there you are.

#14 was also good.

By: Craig R.

Craig R. — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:19:41 +0000

# 6 is just perfect.

By: JDCasteleiro

JDCasteleiro — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:03:31 +0000

The one about brother-in-law Phil is just too good. Clever, funny . . . PROFESSIONALLY so. And I would definitely want to read a book by that author.