The Garden of One Single Beaten Down, Barren, Well-Trodden Path

Steve:
Ah, you know, anothah day, anothah Globe staffah caught in a plagiarism scandal

 

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Mike:
I've always found it suitably ironic that Borges the sportswritah shares the same surname with Borges the South American literary mastah.

 

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Steve:
Same last name and both are writers, but the comparison pretty much ends stops cold right there.

 

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Mike:
Maybe the Ron version can use his two month suspension to focus on writing a work worthy of the Borges name.

 

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Steve:
Hah, can't you just picture the Ron Borges trying to birth a masterpiece like The Garden of Forking Paths?

 

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Mike:
Yeah, but instead of a story that describes a world where all possible outcomes of an event occur simultaneously, each one itself leading to further proliferations of possibilities …

 

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Mike:
The Ron version would describe a world with only one possible outcome for every event: Bledsoe is awesome, Tom Brady is way overrated, and Bill Belichick is a stoopid n00b with bad mannahs. And, oh yeah, the Patriots are teh suck!

 

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Comments

[Bob]

One of Victor Borge's (playing fast and lose with the name here, I know)most famous quotes was, "I only know two pieces, one is 'Claire de Lune', the other one isn't."

He could be describing Ron Borges' columns about the Patriots.

[Bob]

Well, at least I noticed your bonus strip, H.B.

[h.b.]

I like the bonus strip so much more than the other strip today, but, truthfully, I know it's a day late in timing.

I need to betch slap my muse. Shetbag.

[soxdownunder]

I noticed too - hard not to with the big black sign post. I thought US Grant said "I only know two tunes - one is 'Dixie' [or was it 'yankee doodle'?] and the other isn't'? Perhaps both Borgeses are borrowers (plagiarist is such an ugly word). It seems really sad that a bloke with 24 years in the business can't bring himself just to attribute the quote - it's not like he stumbled upon A Portrait of a Lady or Ullyses or the script to Fargo or something worth stealing.

[buckner was framed]

'the script to Fargo....'
just wondering, SDU, what's the Aussie equivalent to "you betcha"?

[soxdownunder]

BWF,
Could be - 'bloody oath'or 'fair dinkum' but in this context even an Aussie might borrow from the mid-western lex. and say "'You're darn tootin'"
SDU

[louclinton]

Bjorn Borges was a better tennis player.

Typical Globe whitewash. Suspending a football writer in March and April is like telling SMBL he can't play in the Series. No time lost.

lc

[soxdownunder]

surly, lovable and ... funny!