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strangeguitar
2008-07-04 2:57:54 PM  
He said he coined the phrase 2 years before his sports telecast in 1978. I could almost swear that I'd heard it before that.
 
skink
2008-07-04 5:47:24 PM  
I thought that was a Yogi Berra nugget.

Hmmmph.

Goodnight, ink-stained wretchy man!
 
kilgorn
2008-07-04 6:24:20 PM  
Thank God, I thought Yogi died
 
NYIslander
2008-07-04 6:41:33 PM  
Meanwhile, A lot of people will start to celebrate until they re-read the article and see it's Dan Cook who died.
 
Mentat [TotalFark]
2008-07-04 6:44:44 PM  
Someone should throw that phrase under a bus that's jumping the shark.
 
Hilarity_N_Sues
2008-07-04 7:03:47 PM  
Anyone else see the Freep tag and think Aretha Franklin had died?
 
Dirty Hot Linker
2008-07-04 7:16:24 PM  
Why isn't this on the main page?
 
Dirty Hot Linker
2008-07-04 8:04:25 PM  
NYIslanderMeanwhile, A lot of people will start to celebrate until they re-read the article and see it's Dan Cook who died.

What? With Comedy gold like this (new window), I don't see how people could celebrate his death.

/Sarcasm
 
xadrian
2008-07-04 8:33:47 PM  
Dirty Hot Linker:Why isn't this on the main page?

Not big enough. Wondering why my local news in Austin link I submitted wasn't green'd but a Detroit article was. Neat!

Rest easy, caller of sports.
 
don't understand
2008-07-04 8:42:55 PM  
I live in Los Angeles. Right after the Northridge quake in '94 I went for ride on my bike around the neighborhood, just to survey the damage. There was one particular apt. bldg. that was just leveled. A 3-story affair with the parking lot under the bldg. All you could see after the quake was crushed cars under the weight of the bldg.

On the side of the bldg. someone had spray-painted "The fat lady has sung." Even under the circumstances of the time, that made me giggle.

/just thought I'd share
 
Dirty Hot Linker
2008-07-04 9:12:21 PM  
xadrianNot big enough.

This made the CNN ticker; however, it IS July 4th AND it IS CNN. O

Wondering why my local news in Austin link I submitted wasn't green'd but a Detroit article was. Neat!

B/c you don't have img.fark.net at the end of your login name. AMRITE?
 
Dirty Hot Linker
2008-07-04 9:14:48 PM  
oops, AMIRITE

/Alcohol is not my fark friend
 
gnasche
2008-07-04 9:49:48 PM  
Grew up watching Dan Cook on KENS. He was a great throwback to the sports reporters of old (although more in his writing than they let him get away with on TV).

He regularly threw out metaphors and allusions such as the "fat lady" quote. That's just the one that stuck.
 
memphisheel
2008-07-04 11:32:43 PM  
kilgorn:Thank God, I thought Yogi died

Glad I wasn't the only one...
 
jaylectricity [TotalFark]
2008-07-05 12:02:18 AM  
Dirty Hot Linker:Why isn't this on the main page?

Not as good as, "Time to pry it."
 
Christian Bale
2008-07-05 3:34:46 AM  
That phrase is only 30 years old??? I thought that was from WAY earlier, probably the 1920s. interesting.
 
From_The_Year_2000
2008-07-05 3:52:02 AM  
Christian Bale:That phrase is only 30 years old??? I thought that was from WAY earlier, probably the 1920s. interesting.

that's exactly what I came here to say. That makes the saying 100 times better, to me
 
amoricanCrowe
2008-07-05 9:47:50 AM  
Dick Motta most famously coined the phrase during the 1977-78 NBA finals when the Washington Bullets Wizards fell behind 3 games to 2 against the Seattle Oklahoma City Super Sonics.

'Fat Lady' Sings Victorious Tune for Bullets (new window)
 
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