Word: jock
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...Thailand's other hit radio program doesn't do much to help its listeners at all. Instead, shock jock Veera Theerapat spends most of his on-air time ridiculing callers foolish enough to try to parry with Thailand's Howard Stern. At first, Bangkok denizens took offense at Veera's brassy attitude; this is, after all, a country where reserve and politeness are practically national characteristics. Newspapers chided Veera for bringing the worst of the West to the East. But Veera's direct approach soon caught on. "He always says just what he thinks," says engineer Chartchai Kaewsung, who tunes...
...highlights? Sinatra's affair with then underage Natalie Wood; third wife Mia Farrow's annoying him by talking to her deaf cat Malcolm in sign language; J.F.K.'s snorting coke with Peter Lawford; and the Chairman's donning special underwear--"a cross between a panty girdle and a jock strap"--to restrain his massive, uh, endowment. Guess there's such a thing as being too Frank...
What draws intellectual types to the sport? There's something about the mere act of punishing a ball with a stick that brings about a truce in the eternal struggle between jock and nerd, and lures such luminaries as John Updike, Richard Ford, George Plimpton and the late Stephen Jay Gould to take their cuts. Are they slumming for street cred, trying to show that, like good postmodernists, they can switch-hit: both high-and lowbrow...
...Later on Tuesday, the comedy night gets whiter still with "Rock Me Baby," with Dan Cortese as a shock jock forced into maturity by fatherhood. And at 9:30, it gets as white as humanly possible with "The Mullets," the name of which alone inspired the biggest laughs of anything so far this upfront. From two ex-"Simpsons" producers, it's about two brothers with a roofing business, huge poofy mullet haircuts and half a brain between them. Unfortunately, the clips themselves didn't incite the laughs the title did, but that won't keep me from checking...
Playground bullies make great blockmates, at least if you ask “Jim,” the jock who guaranteed his place in a blocking group by slamming a “spindly boy scout lawyer-to-be” up against a wall. This blocking melodrama comes from an anonymous source in Fifteen Minutes’ (FM) “Blocking Confessions!” Astute enough to align with the Neanderthal in this petty scuffle, the unnamed confessor demonstrates the social savvy of a fifth-grader still bowing down to the class bully—and actually...