Gloom

[jhetley]

Gray day, not raining at the moment, just damp and dank and drear. And nothing worth *bleep* on TV this afternoon -- whatever happened to baseball as a major consumer of TV time? Yeah, it can be boring. But as boring as _golf_????

Meanwhile, back at the transdimensional portal, Beowulf just tasted the water leaking out of a native petroglyph of concentric circles. It _seems_ to be seawater, and they're standing twenty or thirty feet above high tide. The old witch tells him that they stand above tide in _this_ world....

Probably no bike ride tomorrow. Tidings of more rain spread by the prophets.

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[wcg.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, TV golf. Did you ever hear Bill Cosby's shtick about watching golf on TV? Your mention just reminded me of that. It's very funny, and has the delightful after-effect of making me smile every time I happen across golf on TV.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think I've heard that one. Probably nothing more current than "Why is there air?" Which we heard live in Ann Arbor, something more than 35 years ago. No wonder he looks a bit . . . old.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I can't find it using Google, but it was probably contemporaneous with your seeing him live. It went something like this...

So you're watching the TV, and there's this bunch of guys dressed up in goofy clothes like your grandmother used to make you wear on Sunday afternoon, walking around the golf course. And you hear the voices of these two guys who you never see... "Well Bill it's par bird bird par 4 with the 9 iron off the green..."

And then one of the guys steps up to the ball, and hits it as hard as he can with the golf club. The TV camera pans up into the sky following it... a little white ball in a big white sky, and of course nobody can see the ball at all. Then the camera pans back down and you see the ball hit the grass and roll to a stop a hundred yards away from the guy who hit the ball. Does someone pick it up and throw it back? NO! He just walks after it. Hit the ball as hard as you can and WALK AFTER IT. At least in baseball there's somebody out there in the outfield to CATCH the ball and throw it back.