Talking points: "a really horrendous day" edition
Happy Good Friday to everyone. After the Talking Points, I have a question for you.
- Oh, yay. Lane Kiffin called Thursday "a really horrendous day" for the quarterbacks. Jonathan Crompton, B.J. Coleman, and Nick Stephens threw at least four interceptions (two others were thrown after sacks had been credited) among them. Two were thrown under pressure rather than taking sacks. So woo. Not only that, but the trio repeated mistakes multiple times. Yeehaw. Safety Prentiss Waggner had at least two INTs, and Derrick Furlow and Dennis Rogan each had one.
- Aluminum foil lining. Offensive coordinator Jim Chaney says that the offense was trying to do several things for the first time (what, like breaking the NCAA interception record for a season in a single scrimmage -- rimshot!) and that pass protection stinks. So maybe it's all just defensive end Chris Walker's fault. Yeah, that's gotta be it. Hooray.
- Here's some actual good news: Daniel Lincoln (I think, maybe it's "the kickers") were 29-30 on their kicks. They missed the last one. I'm hoping it wasn't a game-winning scenario.
- We want scores of thousands to come and see nothing next week! The scrimmage today will likely be more interesting than the Orange and White Game next week because the rabble with be there with cameras next week and today's scrimmage is all top-double-secret hush-hush stuff.
Off topic: What is the big sin about asking for french fries with Filet Mignon? I spent Sunday through Wednesday at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in D.C., where Cokes were $2.50 and everywhere you turned you had to hand somebody a Lincoln. It was cold outside, and so on the last day I just decided to eat in the hotel and get back to work, and of course they have nothing but Fancy Food with Foreign Names, most of which I abhor. So I order the Filet for $36, and what do I want with those? French fries.
They just don't understand fries or anything that involves slicing and deep frying, I guess. No, they have to go and find the finest potato -- cultivated in Idaho, exported to France and re-imported back to America -- slice it into a grand total of four brick-sized wedges, and rather than just dunk it in trans fat, they trot out the basting brush to coat it with the finest oil from the finest olive from the finest tree in the shadow of an ancient sepulchre in the Middle East. Stick it under a heat lamp for thirty seconds and you have fries, apparently.
The meat was decent. But I could have used a chocolate shake to wash it down. When I get rich I'm putting a Sonic in the lobby of every Five-Star Hotel I can worm my way into.
Happy Easter.
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Fries?
Frites my friend, they are called frites. It makes them sound more fancy and they usually have more of a crunch.
And they are like Idaho potatoes and were probably basted in truffle oil. (and my metro-sexual tendencies are coming out)
by BeantownVol on Apr 10, 2009 9:17 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
LOL
“exported to France, and reimported back to America”
That’s comedy gold.
by rblakeh on Apr 10, 2009 9:52 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Hahaha... this story just made my day
Gold Jerry… pure gold… please tell me the states aren’t becoming like Europe… I have to listen to their Euro BS all day… a Sonic or Krystal in every hotel would be a dream come true…
by ExpatVol on Apr 10, 2009 11:14 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
A simple fix: When they balk at the suggestion of fries, simply tell them
fries or ketchup. Their call.
by Hooper on Apr 10, 2009 11:36 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The Hyatt?
Great line about the re-importation from France, but when a Hyatt is too frou frou for you, the country-mouse-in-the-city idea is really reinforced.
by rtr on Apr 10, 2009 12:31 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
But did you ask for your Filet well done?
Official MCM Hater!
by gramsey712 on Apr 10, 2009 1:09 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Wait, you were up here?
For more than a few days? What gives?
by Graysnail on Apr 10, 2009 1:17 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
This also probably explains why I didn't think the prices you said were nuts.
I love me some $7 beer.
by Graysnail on Apr 10, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
It should be noted that the Cokes at Calhoun's of Knoxville
are $2.95.
by Will on Apr 10, 2009 1:28 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
But the BBQ is top notch
Living in Beantown you miss the fulmerized out of that stuff
by BeantownVol on Apr 10, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Completely agree
That’s the first place on my list to go whenever I’m back in town from VA…they also have the best hamburger on earth in my humble opinion.
by Will on Apr 10, 2009 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

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