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"Salty." (Scott McLemee)
"Unvarnished." (Phi Beta Cons)
"Splendidly splenetic." (Culture Industry)
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(Tenured Radical)

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

I’m Not Gonna Seriously Start Worrying
Until One of The Duke Guys is Named
Chaim Cohen…


…because then a couple of Harvard professors will decide the whole lacrosse/strippers thing is part of a plot to control American foreign policy.

Luckily, so far, all the team names are Irish or WASP, by my reckoning. (Can Jews disguise themselves behind non-Jewish names? Don’t ask me.)

So… the latest, from my blogpal Chris, is a just-released email apparently from one of the players, Ryan McFadyen, written That Night:

After tonight’s show, i’ve decided to have some strippers over to edens 2c [McFadyen‘s dorm room]….. i plan on killing the [bitches] as soon as [they] walk in and proceeding to cut their skin off while [ejaculating] in my duke issue spandex.”


Here again UD wonders about prose style… What word did censors take out in order to substitute the already pretty bad “bitches”? Hos? Cunts? The N word?

“Ejaculating” is less of a challenge.

But, as Chris says, what’s with the spandex? Is McFadyen on the swim team too? Here UD revealeth her ignorance of the intricacies of lacrosse, for she thinketh of spandex as swimming suit material…