Dear Your Highness the Duke of Fug and the Earl of Gross:
Posted by pittgirl on 06 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: Ben Roethlisberger, Eye rolls, Penguins, Steelers
“They made it further this year than they did last year, and there’s nowhere to go but up from here.”
I’m not sure which field of learning applies to the concept of up/down — maybe architecture, maybe physics, maybe engineering, maybe kindergarten, but let me explain something to you:
When you’re almost at the very tippy top of something, as the Pens are right now, there are boatloads and craploads and shitloads of places OTHER than up to go. In fact, the Pens can either go to a bajillion down places or ONE up place, which is winning the Stanley Cup.
Also, Benny, in case you didn’t learn these in kindergarten either … hold hands, use the buddy system, flush, wash, play nice, don’t eat glue, and learn to get rid of the ball quicker.
KTHXBAI.
(h/t InSewickley)
21 Comments »
on 06 Jun 2008 at 11:04 am 1.Sooska said …
With this post, PittGirl, you are on top of your game too!
on 06 Jun 2008 at 11:29 am 2.Mark said …
What your not suppose to eat that glue teh school gave me? I’m off to the doctor now then.
on 06 Jun 2008 at 11:43 am 3.Allison said …
HA! Awesome.
on 06 Jun 2008 at 12:29 pm 4.C.L. said …
oh benny, but you ARE here for our entertainment….
on 06 Jun 2008 at 12:41 pm 5.Heather said …
Um, does anyone else think that he has a pair of lime-green granny panties on his head? Just me?
on 06 Jun 2008 at 12:56 pm 6.Lauren said …
Um, Ben? Actually you ARE here for our entertainment. You know, the public, the ones who sit in the freeze ass cold seats to watch you throw a football around? The ones who pay ridiculous amounts of money for NFL Sunday ticket to watch you because we don’t live in town anymore? The ones that buy your jerseys and hats and nightmare-causing $10,000 bobbleheads? Yeah, hiya Ben. Now, jump up and down and scratch yourself like a monkey for my entertainment, dammit : )
on 06 Jun 2008 at 1:27 pm 7.Magnus Patris said …
Monkey throw ball; monkey get banana.
on 06 Jun 2008 at 1:58 pm 8.Wait. said …
…Isn’t that a Pink song lyric? I probably shouldn’t know that, but now I can’t un-know it.
Now I figure it’s a Photoshop jobbie, but I don’t care. The accompanying karaoke-style mental image will help to get me to 5 o’clock without going insane.
on 06 Jun 2008 at 2:04 pm 9.Pittsburgh Tom (in NJ) said …
I think that green thing on his head is what they stretch on top of helmets in practice to signify someone who isn’t allowed to be hit. If true, then he has obviously decided to put it on his head without his helmet as a goof. Or else, he forgot his helmet and is hoping nobody notices.
Of course, I could be mistaken about the whole thing.
on 06 Jun 2008 at 2:08 pm 10.NY Luvs Pitts said …
Heather, I was thinking the same thing. Now that’s entertainment. Ha!!!
on 06 Jun 2008 at 2:16 pm 11.MonkeyMan said …
Good thing Ben isn’t black. These ‘monkey’ comments surely would have brought out that Hill District fool.
on 06 Jun 2008 at 2:25 pm 12.Lyon Advocate said …
Yes, because only a fool gets upset about being called a monkey. The racism in this town - speaking as someone who left for a decade plus - is astonishingly brazen.
on 06 Jun 2008 at 3:04 pm 13.Ex-Pat Pittsburgh Girl said …
@Wait — yes it is a Pink lyric. It’s from U and Your Hand… Go figure. As always PittGirl, you hit the nail. Have a great weekend everyone.
on 06 Jun 2008 at 3:08 pm 14.Bram R said …
That shirt is the best on Ben Rothlisburger. Do you think he gets the irony? He’d have to be in on the gag. Right?
on 06 Jun 2008 at 4:30 pm 15.zonie said …
Aw, c’mon, PG, you’re reaching for an excuse to jab at The Duke if you think the green shower cap and shirt are anything other than Ben goofing around. And it’s fairly obvious that El Duque’s comment was intended to encourage the Pens players and make them feel better about coming up short this year.
And as for the monkey comment: there is only one simian QB in the NFL and it’s Monkey Boy Brady. **ducks as Brady flings poo**
on 06 Jun 2008 at 4:36 pm 16.mis said …
Looks like a condom on his head.
Maybe he didn’t share with Jeff Reed.
Hilarious post PG!
on 06 Jun 2008 at 8:12 pm 17.Mrs. Pitsberger said …
I call my self-united husband Max Talbot a monkey, but it’s all in love.
on 06 Jun 2008 at 8:35 pm 18.minion # 77777777 said …
Minions attack pittgirl!
on 07 Jun 2008 at 10:07 am 19.Pensrule said …
Ahh you finally got some ammo. Dukie was being way to awesome lately. Quick! Be as articulate and creative as Pittgirl Benny. NEVA..HAHA!
La U GURL. Just haven atcha.
on 07 Jun 2008 at 6:06 pm 20.missedgehead said …
The point of the post is?
on 07 Jun 2008 at 9:12 pm 21.bucdaddy said …
Dammit, Bennie, if I catch you rummaging through the garbage again instead of dumping it in the truck, you won’t get to drive the truck for a YEAR! I MEAN it!