Word: socks
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...music is actually a carefully constructed computer simulation. It may be a huge shock, so encourage them to watch the films through first with the commentary by Cornel West turned on. Regardless, the rave scene in The Matrix Reloaded will time warp Grandpa straight back to the sock-hop in 1959 where he caught your dad petting with the Marilyn Monroe look-alike...
...layman’s eye, my room looks like a tornado hit it. But I know exactly where each vitally important item is. For example, my overdue library books are in the sock drawer...
...ankle tendon sewn in place to keep it from wobbling out of its torn sheath. He pinned down the Yankees in the sixth game, a 4-2 win in the House That Ruth Built. As Schilling worked the Yankee lineup, blood leached from the wound, turning his sock red. Holy metaphor! Then Lowe, who won the clinching game in all three postseason rounds, threw nothing but worm balls as the Sox won 10-3 in the decider. With that kind of momentum, did the Cards stand a chance...
Even these performances couldn’t match the play of Curt Schilling. While a specially-made ankle boot was expected to aid the ailing Schilling in Game 6 of the ALCS, the blood soaking through Schilling’s sock as he threw told a different story. In an unprecedented procedure, his doctors stitched his skin to his bone—keeping the tendon in his ankle in place. Amazingly, Schilling performed his usual magic in pain, and he remarkably repeated this feat during Game 2 against St. Louis...
...Yankee Stadium mound for Game 6. He permitted just one run in seven innings, silencing New York studs like Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Gary Sheffield and Hideki Matsui. It was a masterful job--and a heroic one, with TV cameras focused on the blood seeping through his sock. It was so gory, it might have been an episode of CSI: Curt Schilling's Incision. After the game, though, someone discarded Schilling's blood-red sock, potentially the most treasured relic since Veronica's veil. It could have netted a bundle on eBay...