Talkin' Mouf: Thread Lexicon: Thread

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Thread Lexicon: Thread

"thread"

The thread is a massive e-mail chain started with the sole purpose of talking about NBA Basketball during both the season and off-season. It began during the 2008 NBA Playoffs, after which we were informed that indeed, "anything is possible." Including Kevin Garnett and Joakim Noah going out on an ice cream date.

I don't know the exact number, but surely the thread has surpassed 100,000 messages, based on Gmail's 100 message limit per conversation (before it begins a new one with the same subject line). It's even got me marked as a spammer, occasionally preventing me from sending e-mails from my main account for 24 hours.

The thread is responsible for thread lexicon: lames, fuck Bogut, fake ass king, and various player nicknames. We'll get to them in the coming millenia. Just search for or click on the label "thread lexicon" for all, er, thread lexicon.

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What is Talkin' Mouf?

"Talkin' Mouf" is a phrase coined by an old high school classmate, Christopher Smalls. During a heated tournament game of hoops on the hard concrete at the Rucker--ok, it was actually a friendly pickup game during gym class at Stuyvesant High School--someone was having a particularly good game and engaged in some benevolent smack talk. "Ooooh, he talkin' MOUF!" exclaimed Smalls. And thus, the universe's best and most popular (not really) catchphrase was born.

Trailblazing hack writer, who's still not really a writer, MrCHUPON (that's me) took this phrase and used it as a name for a hoops-focused page of his pathetic NYU student website. The page was almost entirely done up in the style of SLAM Magazine's "Hype" and HoopsTV's "Smack Talk" (I think it was called that). He even had a line or two periodically submitted to "Smack Talk" (it had to do with Vin Baker getting a double double less often than he had double chins).

He then went on to write for the NYU men's basketball team, the Violets (yeah motherfucker, that was our team name, get off my back), for the school paper, the Washington Square News where he was given a column by sports editor and roommate Lawrence Chan, which he named--what else?--"Talkin' Mouf." Which, of course, the NON-sports copy editors quickly renamed "The Talkin' Mouf", before proceeding to check his articles for "spelling errors" such as "Shaquille O'Neal" (which they corrected to "O'Neill"--really? REALLY??).

Alas, those columns are old news, and his NYU homepage has been since taken down, but thanks to the mysteries of the internet, "Talkin' Mouf" is newly revived and ready for--well, not a damn thing. This page is unintentionally unprofessional, lazy, and mean.