The Thursday Eudemon

So, my fourteen-year-old jock nephew Dan Scheske enters a July Fourth three-on-three basketball tournament in Topeka, Indiana, a podunk town with a lot of Amish people, situated about thirty minutes from my house. He gets there and sees a bunch of Amish boys warming up, playing in their button down shirts and long pants (but Nike shoes). He and his jock teammates snicker . . . then go out and get beaten by two different Amish teams. It turns out that the Amish play a little baseball, a little volleyball, and a lot of basketball. They're strong from working in the fields, and their communities know the fundamentals of the game. Another nephew (who played at the collegiate level) wasn't surprised. He said, "Don't mess with the Amish. They're tough on the court." If you learn nothing else today, you can at least take that nugget of information with you to the bar tonight. I was floored . . . and quite bemused. Whenever I play basketball with my nephew from now on, I'm gonna trash talk him with, "I's gonna go Jebediah all over yo' ____." __________ Movie ratings for blogs. It's interesting, but I'm kinda disappointed that I snagged a mere "PG" rating. I thought I'd register at least PG-13. The site appears to key-in on words, not actual content. Since I try to use more discrete terms ("vent" instead of a more vulgar term for the posterior is an urbanity I learned from Samuel Johnson's dictionary last week), maybe I've escaped with the more kid-friendly rating. __________ This is a shocker. Gay Pride parade in Madrid turns anti-Catholic. __________ That's it for today. Firework festivities kept me up late, and now I'm scrambling.

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5 Responses to “The Thursday Eudemon”

1. MikeL Says:
   July 6th, 2007 at 7:56 am

   “‘I’s gonna go Jebediah all over yo’ ____.’”

   – That made my day!

2. Johnny McGee Says:
   July 24th, 2007 at 3:26 am

   This was linked on some random thing on ESPN rigurgkjrdsfs,mfsalkfse

3. Eric Says:
   July 24th, 2007 at 8:41 pm

   Yup, True Hoops at ESPN picked it up following a TDE reader’s tip.

4. The Spokesrider » Garver again Says:
   September 1st, 2007 at 10:48 pm

   [...] On the way I saw this Amish ballfield.  At least I presume it’s Amish.  There were some Amish homes right next to it.  (The farm in the background of the photo is not one of them.)  And Amish people sometimes play baseball.  (What was new to me this year was seeing several basketball courts in Amish schoolyards.  But I later discovered from this blog entry that maybe it was new only to me.) [...]

5. thynccify Says:
   December 19th, 2008 at 2:23 am

   Hi

   As a fresh http://www.ericscheske.com user i only wanted to say hello to everyone else who uses this site

 

 

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