comickal: planning the right crimes

[iainpj]

All I need is someone with the right fingerprints...

I ... really don't think having one of these talk would be helpful, exactly.

Man, this takes me back to the days of auld...

Hey, someone found a purpose for New Coke. (Granted, a somewhat anachronistic purpose.)

Not a web comic, but may I just say: EEEEUUUUWWWW! Some things are just wrong!

And in conclusion: It's actually not the fact that he managed to get the Machine on national television -- although that's pretty impressive. It's not that, despite the fact that this is clearly planned, Jay Leno still manages to be thoroughly nonplussed by the whole thing.

No, honestly, it's the thing with the shoes. The fact that he calculated so very carefully just the right way to completely piss off the MLB hierarchy while still remaining barely within the letter of the rules. You have to appreciate someone like that.

Though the beard thing is a little weird. Seriously, I wonder if that actually works?

Comments

Weird Beard

[profrobert.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a real beard look so completely fake. The fans in the stands with the souvenire beards looks about as real as Wilson did.

Do you think he dyes the beard? My wife and I were trying to look at it closely on the HDTV, and it looks like the roots are lighter.

Re: Weird Beard

[iainpj.livejournal.com]

At one point, I'd heard that he said that he dyed it that because the black beard is more intimidating to opponents. Kind of doubt that, myself. More distracting, I might grant. Any road, he's backtracked, if he ever did say that; now he says that the beard is just "really tan" (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Brian-Wilson-denies-beard-enhancing-dye-says-it?urn=mlb-280147) because they play a lot of day games.