arranging to be emotionally tortured for four years by basketball loving escapees from the Silmarillion.
As failures go, attempting to recall the past is like trying to grasp
the meaning of existence. Both make one feel like a baby clutching at
a basketball: one's palms keep sliding off.
-- Joseph Brodsky
Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and
is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.
-- Carolyn Jones
"You can't teach seven foot."
-- Frank Layton, Utah Jazz basketball coach, when asked why he had recruited
a seven-foot tall auto mechanic
I suppose some of the variation between Boston drivers and the rest of the
country is due to the progressive Massachusetts Driver Education Manual which
I happen to have in my top desk drawer. Some of the Tips for Better Driving
are worth considering, to wit:
[110.13]:
"When traveling on a one-way street, stay to the right, so as not
to interfere with oncoming traffic."
[22.17b]:
"Learning to change lanes takes time and patience. The best
recommendation that can be made is to go to a Celtics [basketball]
game; study the fast break and then go out and practice it
on the highway."
[41.16]:
"Never bump a baby carriage out of a crosswalk unless the kid's really
asking for it."
Bizoos, n.:
The millions of tiny individual bumps that make up a basketball.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"