Talkin' Mouf: Semantics

Monday, November 15, 2010

Semantics

Is it now appropriate for us to call "fuck-headed laziness" an injury? Check out this snippet from the fantasy spin for Clippers point guard Eric Bledsoe:

"With the news that Baron Davis could miss several weeks with his current injury (lack of conditioning), Bledsoe is a good bet to maintain his surprising production over the long haul this season."
(Source: Bledsoe's player profile on ESPN.com)

Next thing you know we'll see stuff like this on the injured reserve list: "DeMarcus Cousins (lousy attitude)" or "Timofey Mozgov (sucks)" or "Delonte West (took Wyc Grousbeck's wife to see "Wicked" on Broadway)"

1 comment:

UnknownNovember 15, 2010 at 6:02 PM
Lmao! That's hilarious...and very fuckin sad!
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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.