Devil Gordon of Newsweak, Your new nickname is Turd-Gobbler!
Whadda Turd Blossom.
Just...”wow”. A raging case of BDS.
This could be a failed attempt at satire on the part of the author, but it’s hard to tell. The problem with the written word is that, unlike the spoken word, you cannot see the person’s facial expressions or hear the inflection in their voice to detect the context of what they are saying.
So this guy puts this stuff down in writing and you can’t tell if he’s serious or not. If it is supposed to be satire, he doesn’t do a very good job at it. You can tell good satire by a columnist who really knows how to write.
Besides, this guy must have a lot of time on his hands to be venting about something as frivolous as people’s nicknames. Is he trying to make this the issue du jour now?
Since NEWSWEEK Man is already taken and the author doesn’t seem to care for it anyway, I’ll dub him Devin “Nimrod” Gordon. He actually had a decent idea for an article but derailed it. A lot of nicknames are really bad, but they come from some of the more philistine elements of the culture. And they came from there long before most people knew who George W. Bush was. I’ll bet the average person has no idea that the President likes to nickname people, so how could he have any influence there?
Don't seat the nickname stuff, Devlin...or should we just say "Big Dick"?
Devil Gordon of Newsweak, Your new nickname is Turd-Gobbler!
Devin Gordon, another talentless hack that Newsweek hired in their quest for youth. If I used his "writings" to line my parrot's cage, the ASPCA would be on me like ticks.
Sportswriting has just really gone south terribly in the last few years. I’m not sure where they keep digging up these little twits but it’s clear that most of them are gelded east-coast nancy-boys that rarely, if ever, put on a helmet, grabbed a bat, or strapped on skates.
Anti-bush article?
Really a stretch don't you think?
The article has almost nothing to do with bush, until it references his habit of making up nicknames for people. The article is really about how we as a society have become too lazy to think through the application of a nick-name on someone, nothing more and nothing less.
It’s called “humor” folks...even when poorly executed, it is still humor.
I can’t believe the author stopped at nicknames!
What about the ongoing decline in metaphors and great puns?
Bush! Is there anything he can’t ruin?
Gordon doesn't seem to know his baseball history on another point either, when he says that he doesn't like the nickname . . .
. . . I-Rod, which is what some folks insist on calling Detroit Tigers catcher Ivan Rodriguez even though he already has a perfectly great nickname—Pudge.
The reason I don't like "Pudge" for Ivan Rodriguez is that it was used more originally for another great catcher, Carlton Fisk. I don't like stealing a "patented" nickname from an earlier athlete. That's why I never liked calling Dwight Gooden "Doc," simply because of some perceived resemblance to Julius Erving.
I got a nickname for this pitcher. How about “The Beast from the Far East”
What a Clymer.
dice-k is an appropriate nickname. if you follow baseball, k equals strikeout. hes third in the league in strikeouts. expect him to live up to it during the next five years.
i have a new nickname for newsweek, however: parade magazine