Dan Jenkins, the “venerated” longtime sportswriter for Sports Illustrated and Golf Digest is 80-years-old, so perhaps we should pardon him for not understanding the vagaries and nuances regarding how the world now perceives inappropriate jokes about a person’s ethnicity since, oh, 1970. The modern world must appear very confusing to the man. Jenkins tweeted the equivalent a big platter of Pu Pu when he cracked dumb about Y.E. Yang resembling the man who delivered his Chinese food order the previous evening. Not good Old Man Jenkins. Not good. He also expressed his displeasure for Tiger comparing his comeback to Jenkins’ old friend Ben Hogan’s comeback after a horrible car accident in 1949, saying, “It’s stupid, moronic. Other than that, it’s fine. Hogan nearly died. All Tiger did was damn near get syphilis.” Burn. Rock on with your bad self, Dan Jenkins. Just spare us the Chinese food takeout delivery jokes next time. If you do, we’ll stay off your lawn and everybody wins.
ABOUT LAST NIGHT…
What you missed while going to jail for a delicious convenience store burrito (and Funyuns!)…
* Worst customized hockey jersey referencing bizarre paraphilias from Japan ever.
* By flipping fans the bird, Seattle Mariners outfielder Milton Bradley is already in unstable midseason form.
* Ozzie Guillen couldn’t care less about all the “idiots out there who talk about baseball.” He’s his own man, dangit!
* The Onion Headline of the Day: Area Woman Wants To Be Singer Or Actor Or Whatever
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TODAY IN MARK TRAIL…
Mark Trail refuses to harsh anyone’s mellow and drops some knowledge about the wonders of hemp. Dang hippie.
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- kejji - Apr 11, 2010 at 2:53 PM
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So what??? it was no worse than you making fun of the Chinese with your double entendre pu pu platter joke….the funny thing is you didn’t even catch it.
What a rube.
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- sonjay - Apr 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM
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Hey Kejjl…shut your mouth man. Pu Pu was a funny non-offensive joke and for you to try and brainwash the American Public with your double entendre speak is bogusly lame.
On a different not I must say that the article did make light of Asians with the Pu Pu comment and for that you should be ashamed.
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- Gurdip Khalid - Apr 11, 2010 at 7:45 PM
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All white people are racist, in some way, shape or form. I grew up with a lot of white people, and no, while they might not blatently burn the cross with the white KKK hoods on, all my friends at one point or the other have made some degree of a racist joke, either about some other ethnic minority, or about me. Even a simple “hey, you’re a brown guy, you don’t have to worry about tanning” might seem harmless to them and most people, but it is still racist to me. Again, they are not out there burning the cross, but every white person has a racist bone in them.
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- D - Apr 11, 2010 at 7:49 PM
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Do us all non-Obama supporters a favor and don’t try to help. Just be quite.
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- low IQ - Apr 11, 2010 at 8:11 PM
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- whatever - Apr 11, 2010 at 8:23 PM
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Ever read one of Dan Jenkins’ books? They make those jokes look like nothing…
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- TheWizard - Apr 11, 2010 at 8:58 PM
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PC is getting so ******* old……
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- someone - Apr 11, 2010 at 10:05 PM
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- Jean Guy Levesque - Apr 12, 2010 at 1:16 AM
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Dan Jenkins looks like my redneck neighbour who likes to play the banjo in his underwear and drink moonshine with his inbred family. Vive la Quebec!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- SELFTAUGHTMAN - Apr 12, 2010 at 4:59 PM
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This dialogue is about as “sick” as it gets…
Grow-up and try to communicate as adults…Differing factual comments are normally fun to read issues…F-words and racial comments are demeaning and boring…
