Brilliant Thread https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/t11322 Runboard| Brilliant Thread en-us Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:17:43 +0000 Fri, 29 Mar 2024 06:17:43 +0000 https://www.runboard.com/ rssfeeds_managingeditor@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds managing editor) rssfeeds_webmaster@runboard.com (Runboard.com RSS feeds webmaster) akBBS 60 Re: Brilliant Threadhttps://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381152,from=rss#post381152https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381152,from=rss#post381152Here's Texas' equivalent of art in the least likely of places (along the lines of a Yankees Ode To Great Literature found by Bong). I can see Irish being fond of the second one down: http://www.dailybuzzer.com/dust-artnondisclosed_email@example.com (Lionel Mandrake)Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:19:14 +0000 Re: Brilliant Threadhttps://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381150,from=rss#post381150https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381150,from=rss#post381150http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWqGLVaITsknondisclosed_email@example.com (Weill)Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:10:08 +0000 https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381148,from=rss#post381148https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381148,from=rss#post381148No Steinbeck??? Somebody's gotta step up here... nondisclosed_email@example.com (merkin)Sat, 21 Oct 2006 13:02:47 +0000 https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381141,from=rss#post381141https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381141,from=rss#post381141Our Budbone did that? Even JK Toole would approve. #43 is a parody of Ring Lardner's classic "You Know Me Al" baseball shorts.nondisclosed_email@example.com (hrhbalzac)Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:56:55 +0000 Re: Brilliant Threadhttps://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381138,from=rss#post381138https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381138,from=rss#post38113825. Kafka, Metamorphosis 36. Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea 45. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby 47. Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker 51. Joyce, Finnegan's Wake 54. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye 55. Jackson, "The Lottery" 59. Frost, "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" 60. Hemingway, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" 63. cummings, "Buffalo Bill" 64/68. Burgess, A Clockwork Orange 65. Carroll, "Jabberwocky" 67/72. Poe, "The Raven" 69. Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow 70. Marquez, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings 71. Willis, Rock over London, Rock on Chicago 73. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas 74. Heller, Catch-22 75. Kipling, The White Man's Burden 76. Nabokov, Lolita 77. Seuss, "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" 78. Austen, Sense and Sensibility 81. Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude 83. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 84. Corso "The Mad Yak" 86. Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five 87. Lawrence, Lady Chatterly's Lover 88 Hemingway, "For Sale. Baby shoes. Never worn" 89. Eliot, "The Waste Land" 91. Beowulf 92. Melville, Moby-Dick 100. Whitman, "O Captain! My Captain" 103/108. Yeats, "The Second Coming" 109. Shakespeare, Richard II 110. Monty Python, "The Lumberjack Song" 111. Joyce, Ulysses 114. Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being 116. Barth, Giles Goat-Boy 118. Siegel/Shuster, Superman 120. Frank, The Diary of Anne Frank 121. Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 123. Heller, Catch-22 124. Gilbert & Sullivan, "When I Was a Lad" 125. Longfellow, "The Village Blacksmith" 126. Shelley, "Ozymandias" 128. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings 131. Shakespeare, MacBeth 132. Camus, The Stranger 133. Beckett, Waiting for Godot 134. Sartre, No Exit 141. Orwell, 1984 144. O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds 145. Proust, Swann's Way 146. Bernstein, "Come Out Tonight" 151. The Lord thy God, The Bible, Genesis 152. Stoppard, "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" 156. Stoppard, "Travesties" 157. Borges, "Ficciones" 158. ? (tried Gibbons, I Claudius, Asimov and Russell) 159. Barre, Peter Pan 160. Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 161. Dickinson, "I Never Lost as Much but Twice" 162. Voltaire, Candide 163. McInery, Bright Lights Big City 164/165. Dostyevsky, The Brothers Kamarazov 166. Coleridge, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 167. Marx/Engles, "The Communist Manifesto" 171. Tennyson, "Ulysses" 172. Shelly, "Ozymandius" 173. Coulton, "Kennesaw Mountain Landis" 174. Heller, Catch-22 175/178. Keats, "Ode to a Grecian Urn" 177. Stone, Unites States v. Corlene Products 180. O'Hara, The Day the Lady Died 181. Longfellow, "Song of Hiawatha" 182. Townes, Derek Jeter (Repoz can't play anymore. He's too obscure). 183. Dafoe, Robinson Crusoe 184/185. Nietsche, Beyond Good and Evil 186. Thayer, "Casey at Bat" 187. Hemingway, "In Another Country" 188. Eliot, "Love Ballad of J. Alfred Prufrock" 189. Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" 190. ? 193. Morton/Barry/Greenwhich, "Leader of the Pack" 194. Adams, "Baseballs Sad Lexicon" 195. Shakespeare, "Macbeth" 196. ? 199. Baker, The Fermata 200. Hartley, The Go-Between All I can say is Balz, here's one from our man Bud: A blue Yankee batting helmet squeezed the top of the bald balloon of a head. The blue earflaps, full of large ears and unchecked ego and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full, purple lips protruded beneath the wispy black liphair and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. In the shadow under the Yankee blue visor of the cap Alexius J. Rodelly’s supercilious blue and yellow eyes looked down upon the other people waiting under the clock at the Barney’s department store, studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress. Several of the outfits, Alexius noted, were new enough and expensive enough to be properly considered offenses against taste and decency. Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person’s lack of theology and clutchness; it could even cast doubts upon one’s soul. nondisclosed_email@example.com (billabong2)Sat, 21 Oct 2006 11:46:56 +0000 Re: Brilliant Threadhttps://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381132,from=rss#post381132https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381132,from=rss#post381132Wow. New respect for Yankee fans.nondisclosed_email@example.com (Lionel Mandrake)Sat, 21 Oct 2006 09:58:12 +0000 https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381079,from=rss#post381079https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381079,from=rss#post381079Thx..... helped amuse me this evening =)nondisclosed_email@example.com (merkin)Fri, 20 Oct 2006 22:14:11 +0000 Brilliant Threadhttps://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381075,from=rss#post381075https://boardsfgiantsfans.runboard.com/p381075,from=rss#post381075A cap tip to the posters over at BP: http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/newsstand/discussion/the_death_of_derek_jeter/ Taking a steaming pile of an article and turning it to pure gold. Bravo! It is a long thread, but once Guapo fires off #25 it rolls along like a freight train.nondisclosed_email@example.com (billabong2)Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:45:07 +0000