Last promotion, tonight, 8:30 PM at Gary Clark's South Beach Restaurant in Bethesda. Really fun show because of the fun elements involved with the fun-ness and funality...
Last night, my special lady friend made the following remark:
"You smell like comedy."
I knew exactly what she meant. Here is the breakdown of this unique odor:
1) Smoke. (Cannot wait until January). How anyone can purposefully inhale something that sticks to the fiber of cloth and hair like some kind of mutant parasite is beyond me. This is the first ingredient and the most prominent and it is gross.
2) Sweat. For those that know me, you know I'm about 2-2.8 degrees warmer than the average human. And to that end, I will get a lather going when others are comfortable. Further, add a stage light, some ADD outbursts, movement, nervous energy, and gesticulations and...watch the gentle layer of nature's cruel game killer appear.
3) Fried Foods: There is an air of grease, deep frying, and overall 'unhealth' at comedy venues. That smell sticks to you. It smells like poor choices and disregard for the body. It smells like giving in...
4) Dankness: there is an inherent seediness to comedy. Comedy is humid...it is moist. It is dark and kind of hidden. Comedy thrives in a mossy environment.
Those are the elements of a typical comedy smell. And since you cannot smell fear, insecurity, angst, pain, frustration, depression, inability to focus, need for approval, or a crying inner child, these 4 things are what you get.
Who is the best natural athlete of all time? No wrong answer I don't think; well there are some wrong answers. Like, it isn't Larry Poon for example. That dude had to work for everything he got. It is also important how you define the discussion. To me, here are the elements:
Athleticism, Aptitude, Performance.
Here are my top guys:
3) Jackie Robinson (look it up, 4 sports at UCLA)
2) Michael Jordan (best athlete ever, but not natural athlete as defined above)
1) Bo Jackson (that dude could have done anything at a pro level. Big, strong, fast, explosive, coordinated. Set the Alabama long jump record in HS without ever practicing. Showed up at the state meet and beat it.)
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Many people close to 50's and 60's Football, would say Jim Brown. Not only because he was also considered by many to be the greatest lacrosse player ever, but mostly, at 6'2" and 225 lbs, he could have played nearly any position in the NFL. In his day O and D linemen were 230-270 lbs. The man was a freak.-Mike
great one. Put him at #2 on my new list
Someone beat me to it, but it is irresponsible to not include Jim Brown. The only man in the world considered to be the greatest player in the world in two sports.
First time he picked up a set of golf clubs he shot an 80.
Played D-1, football, Basketball, track and Lacrosse.
Please amend your list.
- Joe
First time he picked up a set of golf clubs he shot an 80. Gimme a break. Where do people hear this crap? Where do people hear this crap and then believe it?
Irresponsible, like he had any responsibility to put up the list in the first place.
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