SOMEWHERE PHONING IT IN (SP) -- Since its debut in 1998, SportingPress.com has attracted a loyal, if slightly odd, following. As a result, SP message boards and comments sections are among the most entertaining and popular online.
Here are three recent comments received by SportingPress.com:
America's greatest actress of all time, Marilyn Chambers, keels over dead.
How can we go on?
Posted by: Ah What's the Use? | April 15, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Of course most of you have never been to a polo game on account of your financial status. Let’s face it, it’s just us rich folks who get to play or even watch polo.
Anyway, I went to my first polo game down in Florida a few days ago. God it was nice! Talk about Snootsville! There wasn’t anyone there who wasn’t a member of The Elect, not one (well, except for the servants). Everyone drove up in their Jags, Benzs, Bentleys, etc. and when they got out of their cars you shoulda seen the threads they had on! Then everybody got ready for the main event.
Just before the horses came out of the barn, the vet injected poison into each one. So just when the guys were getting ready to mount up the horses started keeling over dead. Most died instantly, but for added excitement a few kicked and thrashed around for a good half hour.
God it was fun! I hope that all of you can make enough money one day to go to a polo game.
Posted by: Polo is one cool game | April 24, 2009 at 05:24 AM
Early this morning a gigantic sky serpent attacked Sporting Press and devoured all of the sportswriters.
Sporting Press issued the following statement: "NOW do you understand why we haven't updated the site in two weeks? For Christ's sake you morons, all of our sportswriters have been eaten by a sky serpent!"
Billy Nesbitt, a typesetter who witnessed the event, said "that sumbitch was huge! He was a good 150' long and 10 feet in diameter in his midsection. Them sportswriters didn't have a chance!"
By coincidence the current issue of "Fortean Times" features sky serpents and the devastation they often wreak on humanity.
Posted by: Sky Serpent Attacks Sporting Press! | April 28, 2009 at 12:52 PM
A sad day. Not sure how we survive this guy's death.
Dom had such dignity.
Kind of like Marilyn Chambers. She could be in a sex scene with 6 or 7 guys or doing live sex acts on stage, and she always, always kept her dignity. She was the very picture of grace.
Man, this has been a rough few days.
Posted by: Dom de Luis belongs to the ages | May 05, 2009 at 12:45 PM
Dom Dimaggio, Joe's little brother.
Two dead Doms in one week has to be a new record.
Brick, you ever heard of two Doms dying in the same week?
Posted by: Another Dom Gone | May 08, 2009 at 07:34 AM
The Dom of the Middle East and South Asia are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group. Some authors relate them to the Domba people of India.
They have a rich oral tradition and express their culture and history through music, poetry and dance. Initially it was considered that they are a branch of the Romani people, but recent studies of the Domari language suggest that they departed earlier from the Indian subcontinent, probably around the 6th century.
The majority of the estimated population of 2.2 million live in Iran, with significant numbers in Iraq, Egypt, Pakistan and India. Smaller populations are found in Turkey, Libya and other countries of the Middle East.
The actual population is unknown as some Dom are excluded from national census and others label themselves in national terms rather than as Dom. Nowadays, they speak the dominant languages of their larger societies, but Domari, their national language, continues to be spoken by more insular communities. Iranians and Afghans called them Gurbati or Kouli which means foreigners.
Posted by: Brick Stephens, SP Ethnologist | May 08, 2009 at 02:02 PM
One reason the Doms declined is that their leadership, the last 3 kings anyway, did not consist of exactly stellar rulers.
King Dom de Idiot, King Dom de Flatulent and King Dom de Profligate drove the Dom people into total disarray and bankruptcy. After their departure no further Dom kings were sworn in. Alas, only a few Doms managed to rise above the societal morass left in the three kings' wake. Dom de Luis and Dom de Maggio were among the pitiful few, but now even they are dead.
Thanks for the enlightenment Brick, but I thought I should add the part about the kings as it is not commonly known.
Posted by: The Dom Kings and Their Part in the Decline of the Doms | May 11, 2009 at 11:08 AM