Comments on: High Octane Action Thrillers

By: Edward OP

Edward OP — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:26:51 +0000

I was reading Jack’s comment above about the anti-word “Philward”, scanned through it a little quickly and misread it as “Philwad.”

Philwad.
Philweed.
Phillabrator.

Instead of “Tigerage”, perhaps something like “Woodsy.”

“Banny was feeling pretty Woodsy there to throw that inside pitch to Big Papi.”

By: Dusty

Dusty — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:10:31 +0000

Why not just use ‘clutch’ ?

By: MONARC

MONARC — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:24:14 +0000

It is correct that the US gym team didn’t need Strug’s vault. They thought they needed it to mathematically clinch, but right before her vault the Chinese (or whoever the other contender was) didn’t get the necessary score on their routine to stay in contention. The US didn’t know that though, so the vault was made with the assumption that it was needed. And it makes a better story anyway to ignore that fact.

By: Pop Fisher

Pop Fisher — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:35:33 +0000

In the interest of accuracy … didn’t it turn out that the last Strug vault didn’t matter in terms of the US winning the gold?

By: Matt Cibula

Matt Cibula — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:33:14 +0000

This Onion article is perhaps of note here: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/man_who_used_stick_to_roll

By: sdillehay

sdillehay — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:39:50 +0000

While “balls” is vulgar and sexist, nothing is better to describe what it describes. “Guts” is close, but lacks the impact.

Jeterate seems perfect for its definition (and I am a Yankee fan who will Jeterate often), but Tigerage feels weak.

Also, any futher “Insert name-ate, or age, or what have you” and we will be going down a road as infuriating as “nanny-gate” “travel gate” and every single freakin’ “gate” thing. (I’m waiting for a scandal involving water…)

You are a continual pleasure to read, thank you.

By: ajnrules

ajnrules — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:07:51 +0000

Active player with the least amount of tigerage? Probably Erik Bedard.

I second what GSOAT said about confusing Clemenate with Clemente.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:35:57 +0000

What about Posterisk?

I thought that was the first word you made up on this blog?

Am I missing something?

By: logs

logs — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:42:37 +0000

Clemenate?? Yikes. I just ’schillinged’ in my mouth a little bit.

By: GSOAT

GSOAT — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:42:49 +0000

Clemenate? You might want to reconsider. Upon first seeing that word and reading the definition, I thought that it referred to Roberto Clemente (and I’m 37 years old, so I have seen much more of Clemens). You don’t want to hit Clemente with a stray shot, even in a laudable attempt to take down at Clemens. How about “Clemensate” instead?