We have just discovered a writer over on Sports Illustrated's website named Peter King. Peter writes about the NFL, and interjects fascinating events and discoveries he comes across in his life and travels. Mixing the football, life and advice into a column which one can use to essentially live by.
In his columns this week, the 50ish year old pop culture maven shared these unique discoveries:
"One of the best discoveries of midlife: St. Patrick's Day. Never thought I'd love Guinness, but it's pretty close to the perfect beer."
We aren't Irish, so we don't know these things. Who would have thought: the world's most popular and well known Irish beer...on St. Patrick's Day! Thanks for letting us in on that before we hit midlife, Mr. King. You saved us years of missteps.
"Just discovering the iPod, one of the great inventions of all time, and my one recent find was Norah Jones. What an incredible voice. "
iPad? iPed? iPud? What is this thing of which Mr. King speaks? And we have heard of a Norah Jones that won a few grammies back in 2005. Obviously, THIS must be a different Norah Jones that Mr. King is sharing with the world.
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KSK had a very similar post(http://kissmesuzy.blogspot.com/2007/03/dear-peter-king-please-stop-baiting-us.html). Did they steal from you? Would that be like when Elvis stole stylings and songs from black artists?
Sir, sometimes great minds simply think alike.
We normally don't read the columns of bloated, suburban white writers...but in perusing cnnsi.com today, we were drawn to his journalistic stylings an indepth analysis. His column was quite a find, and we are thankful that we could introduce him to a broader audience.
So let me get this straight. Out of a FIVE PAGE article from Peter King, are you expecting us to believe that it is merely coincidence that you and KSK picked the TWO EXACT SAME points to mock? When we all know there are far more than that available.
I thought you were a condescending, racist, militant prick. But I didnt realize you were just stealing that shtick from the guys at Kiss Me Suzy.
"But I didnt realize you were just stealing that shtick from the guys at Kiss Me Suzy"
Sir, you caught us redhanded. Everything we do is lifted from that blog. Well done.
I'm sure if you look at Withleather, deadspin and thebiglead...you will NEVER, EVER find an overlapping of references to the same topics or pointing out similar points. EVER.
And, the only reason we are condescending, is because YOU are beneath us.
Overlapping of references?
I'd call that more than overlapping of references. But whatever makes you feel better.
I've finally figured out your identity. You're Jayson Blair.
"You're Jayson Blair."
Sir, nope. I am Stephen Glass.
You have me curious, tho. If you have the time, can you sort throught the rest of our posts and point out the other areas that we have pilfered from KSK?
I, mean, that's where we get ALL our ideas, right?
It's where you got this one, correct?
"It's where you got this one, correct?"
Sir, negative.
We got it from Peter King's column. But thank you for trying your best to make us look like we spend our days ripping off other blogs. As we requested, please show us other instances. Thank you.
So in order to show your guilt, I have to prove it to be epidemic?
There's no way to prove that it was stolen, but the coincidences are astounding.
Sir, you can make your own assumption.
I just noticed that we made a post about Tony Dungy and his gay marriage comments.
There is also one on deadspin.
Are we now ripping them off?
You know as well as I that these are two different things.
One, The Dungy situation, is front page news about a high profile individual. I would guess that any sports blog would be discussing that.
The other, Peter King, is a much more obscure individual and does not get much "air time" on many rival sports websites or the sports blogs out there. However, the day following the article on KSK ridiculing him it happens to show up here. Not some outlandish statement he made about gays, or anything "front page worthy". But rather, two obscure passages from an otherwise lenghty article.
Like I said, no way for it to be proven but the coincidences are eery.
"The other, Peter King, is a much more obscure individual and does not get much "air time" on many rival sports websites or the sports blogs out there"
Sir, we will let you in on a little secret.
One of our contributors used to do a weekly post on Peter King on his own blog.
And, we would contest the notion that Peter doesn't get a lot of play on blogs. He has been blog fodder for his innane and outdated pop culture references for a long time.
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(Mills) 11:06 AM
"Sir, we will let you in on a little secret.
One of our contributors used to do a weekly post on Peter King on his own blog."
I thought you said you just discovered him....
Sir, if you read Peter's column, he used the word "discover" when he mentions some things we are all well aware of; ie, guiness and iPods. We did the same....jeezus. Are you THAT dense that you take everything we write on this blog LITERALLY?
Did it to all your comments, Mills...sorry.
(Mills)
Why is "Steve Glass" speaking in "we" terms.
"Sir, nope. I am Stephen Glass.
You have me curious, tho. If you have the time, can you sort throught the rest of our posts and point out the other areas that we have pilfered from KSK?"
Mills doesn't like this conjugation.
Sir, I said "I am Stephen Glass." With me, so far? Then, since there is more than "I" that post here, I asked that he sort thru the rest of "our" posts and point out where "we" pilfered.
Follow?
NOIS doesn't like Mills' lack of reading comprehension.
and last one from Mills...
(Mills)
show em whats up WC. we got your back.
Sir, we have no doubt that you take every opportunity to get at WC's back.
don't stress about it, man. Just because most people are too oblivious to know irony when they see it doesn't mean that we all are. Clearly, the "Just Discovered" thing in the title was a riff on how King writes.
I've got to say, I really wonder whether this entire format is just a shtick for some very clever, very non-NOI person. The concept itself is high comedy, and holds a deep vein of material for jokes.
I enjoyed your post on Michael Vick, too. I can't believe how many people didn't get that. (I go to law school with a girl who was a star athlete at VT during his time there - a soccer player, black - who knew Vick and says that he is a "digusting, horrible person.")
The Falcons traded Matt Schaub to the Texans for a 2nd round pick.
"The Falcons traded Matt Schaub to the Texans for a 2nd round pick."
Sir, we saw this coming, hence our reference the other day to DJ Shockley being the next best QB on the roster.
We are not only righteous, we are also omniscient.
Praise be!
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