MDMD(5): Some Things Incomprehens'ble

Kato du Bois funkyrubber at hotmail.com
Fri Oct 12 09:19:11 CDT 2001


> >> 4. (60.34) 'narrative rubbish-tip of this Arm-chair commando': I simply
> >> don't understand that.

In American football parlance, an "Arm-chair quarterback" is a fan, sitting 
in front of the TV, second guessing his team's performance, as if his 
fat-ass could do any better ...

... part of the emerging pattern of cross-era references, I assumed.

K d B


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