Happy 80th Beano Cook!

Smasher_Sloan · Sep 2, 2011

Pete Wevurski said:

That ESPN release wrapped up with Beano's greatest quote. My other all-time favorite Beano line takes a while to set up:

One summer day shortly before training camp opened while he was SID at Pitt, Beano answers his office phone. The female caller asks for a copy of the Panthers football roster.
"Sure," Beano says. "What's your name, affiliation, address?"
"My affiiliation?"
"Yeah, you know, your newspaper, magazine or ... "
"Oh, I'm not a reporter or anything like that."
"But," answers Beano, "we don't usually give rosters out to the general public. Why would you want one?"
"Well, you see, I've already had all the available pro athletes in town. It's time to (screw) my way through the college jocks."
"I see," says Beano. "You seem to be an enterprising young lady; I'm going to send you a roster. But, you know, delivery of U.S. Mail being as slow as it is these days, why don't I give you the first four or five players' names right now over the phone?"
"Oh, that'd be great!"
"OK, then, got a pen? Here we go:
"No. 55, Cook, Beano, guard, 5-10, 230 ..."
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These lines are suffering from the wordy re-tells.

The story is this:

Woman calls the sports information office and says, "I want to screw the entire Pitt football team. Can I get a roster?"

"Sure. Cook, Beano, guard...."

jr/shotglass · Sep 2, 2011

Good lord, I'm glad that's straightened away.

Smasher_Sloan · Sep 3, 2011

Aha! I knew a hack wouldn't understand the subtle difference.

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