RIP Bobby Knight

[YMCA B-Baller]

"I am sick and forking tired of losing to polio!"

Well, shirt. Great minds, etc.

 

[Hermes]

there was a high school kid in Fairbanks, Alaska who recently doped out a way to heat a room at half the cost.
That guy is a genius, not Bob forkin Knight.

Look up the definition of genius, genius.

very great and rare natural ability or skill, especially in a particular area

Special emphasis on "in a particular area."

 

[poindexter]

I remember reading about this years ago. The time Knight tried to bully the IU wrestling coach.

 

[Hermes]

The lower the weight class, the crazier the wrestler. Jim Jordan was a 134-pounder, for reference.

My dad, who is mildly schizophrenic, wrestled 98 pounds.

"Will bite off your ankles" comes to mind.

 

[playthrough]

Before YouTube, the Bob Knight Indiana golf show profanity outtakes video was a VHS bootleg that probably 10,000 people had yet thought no one else did. First time I saw it was in Florida long ago, our bureau editor was from Illinois and had a copy.

The co-host was IU's golf coach, as mild-mannered a guy as you'd ever find. In one of the outtakes Knight says something like "Sam, can I ever get out of the forkin' bunker?" and Sam says "fork no you can't." That cracked Knight up pretty good.

 

[Hermes]

There's a great double feature to watch with the Winnebago Man video.

 

[Octave]

Look up the definition of genius, genius.

very great and rare natural ability or skill, especially in a particular area

Special emphasis on "in a particular area."

You're a passive-aggressive little twit on these forums, aren't you. Take your grief out on someone else.

 

[Hermes]

You're a passive-aggressive little twit on these forums, aren't you. Take your grief out on someone else.

Good idea. We've suffered enough reading each other. At least I know I have.Have a good one.

[Squeaky gavel]

I've almost gotten all the assholes off my feed. I just need to stop hitting the button that lets me see them.

 

[franticscribe]

I remember reading about this years ago. The time Knight tried to bully the IU wrestling coach.

I loved Doug Blubaugh. I used to go to his Top of the World Wrestling Camp in the summers when I was in middle school and high school. It was basically a barn on top of a hill (hence the name) with a wrestling room. He kept his gold medal in there and I was mesmerized by it. He was an incredibly kind and funny man, and so that story of him putting Knight in his place has always made me smile.

 

[Octave]

Oh, no, not the ignore button. I am mortally wounded. You were barely coherent to begin with.

 

[Hermes]

Five minutes ago:

"Why did you make a face like that?"

"I'm arguing with a person named Three Octave Fart on the internet about Bobby Knight."

"Well, maybe you could go stop your son from writing all over his face with a marker."

 

[matt_garth]