Word: lungingly
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While Jonas turned in a solid performance for the Crimson, making 37 saves, Lombard struggled in his first game back from a punctured lung and cracked rib. The Yale netminder allowed five goals despite facing only 26 shots...
While Jonas turned in a solid performance for the Crimson, making 37 saves, Lombard struggled in his first game back from a punctured lung and cracked rib. The Yale netminder allowed five goals despite facing only 26 shots...
When Steve Moore scored the go-ahead goal, the place looked like a mosh pit. Chants rained down, attacking everything from Yale goaltender Dan Lombard's punctured lung, referee Dan Murphy's inane officiating (more on that later) and the pathetic offerings from both the Yale and Harvard bands. (Note to the band: When Harvard students are chanting, don't try and drown them out with that Irish jig). The chant of the series was "H-U-P-D" when the cops busted some pugnacious Eli supporters who went after the uncle of assistant captain Chris Bala...
...lore has it that bypass people are a little crazier than most, that the "cabbage" (coronary artery bypass) activates a wild hair. I am beginning to think there's truth in the theory that bypass surgery savages the memory (something to do with oxygen deprivation while on the heart-lung machine). My memory was once photographic. Now I have to work harder sometimes to fetch a name. The other day, for some reason, I wanted to retrieve the name of... you know, the "Gonzo journalist" of "Fear and Loathing" fame... Rolling Stone... you know... but the once perfectly familiar words...
...Practitioners often begin, for example, by uttering a generality: "I sense an older father figure here," eliciting a response that leads him to the next question. "I'm getting that his death resulted from a problem in his chest" is a statistically sound guess that could cover everything from lung cancer and emphysema to a heart attack. Should the subject answer no, the cold reader will often say, "Well, we'll get back to that," and quickly change tack. It's a sophisticated form of the game Twenty Questions, during which the subject, anxious to hear from the dead, seldom...