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 Post subject: What an Angle!
PostPosted: Thu Jul 26, 2007 8:03 pm 
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Here's a story about people named Barry Bonds. It's easily the stupidest thing I've seen all week.


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from nyt:

Bonds also talked about his fascination with his family tree, which is filled with star athletes. Besides his father, the former major leaguer Bobby Bonds, Bonds said he had a grandfather who boxed, an uncle who played football and another uncle who trained wolves.

Trained wolves? For what, I'd like to know.

He complained that he had never taken a vacation because he was always hard at work.

Unlikely.


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Wow! Thanks for digging that up, Phil. I thought I read stupid stories all week, but that put them all to shame in a big way.

I share my rather unusual name with a minor league hockey goalie and a minor-league baseball umpire. Calls for a first-person column!


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Let's just hope that nobody thinks of following this up with a piece on everyone named "Homer Simpson."


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