Word: midget
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Nobody wants to clamp the damper of crabbed age on the irreverent enthusiasms of youth, but always there comes a point. Lot's just take the omnibus cheer you mention. "Asshole, asshole, midget, sieve! and apply a little analysis...
...skip "asshole, asshole," which seems too childish and "boring" to need further comment. "Midget" is another matter. When you come down to it, what is the difference between ridiculing a player because of his race and ridiculing him because of his size? If there is a difference, it would dictate extra praise for overcoming the handicap...
...then there's the incessant and increasingly boring "sieve." Like "midget," this has long since ceased to bear any resemblance to what the opposing goalie does. It is applied simply because of what he is; namely, the opposing goalie...
...while the MSU fans suffered some abuse, it was the Spartan players, particularly those of a somewhat smaller stature, who really suffered. Left wing Todd Gardiner, who stands only 5-ft, 7-in, and linemate Dee Rizzo (who is of equal height) earned the nickname "Midget". At one point in the third period, the Harvard fans combined a number of their favorite cheers into one all encompassing "Asshole, asshole, midget, sieve...
Still, critics were kind and generally encouraging about the first week's programs, which ranged from a tedious game show to Walter, a stops-out original television film starring Ian McKellen as a retarded outcast assaulted during his first night in a mental hospital by a hunchbacked midget. All the shows will be developed for Channel 4 by independent producers; by subsidizing 20 full-length features for the Film on Four series, Chief Executive Jeremy Isaacs hopes that his channel can help rejuvenate the country's languishing movie industry. As Britain settles in with Channel...