Word: haplessness
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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There were many of them, these enemies--half the country, at various times. But they--we--lost and Clinton won, so completely and unexpectedly that even now it boggles the mind. Like captive barbarians paraded in a Roman triumph, the vanquished Republican champions pass before us: the hapless Bush the Elder, checking his watch during a debate and fading into the Kennebunkport twilight; the brilliant Gingrich, undone by Clinton's charm and his own erratic temperament; the caustic, unhappy Dole, grimacing as Clinton sailed past his floundering campaign and into a second term. Finally, there was Ken Starr, the rosy...
...about how to play a particular passage, and the forum's participants will descend on it like a pack of wolves, each trying to top the other with the accuracy of their transcriptions, so that often within minutes it will have been stripped bare like the carcass of some hapless buffalo. The tone is supportive and down-homey ("You have ears like a damn dog," ran one appreciative posting recently. "I bet you can hear a mouse pee on cotton"); novices' questions are patiently addressed and everybody knows your name. Make that every Buddy - it seems that the biggest guns...
ASYMMETRY A league with basically equivalent teams--the "on any given Sunday" ethos--is all fine and good, but surely will not result in as much grievous mayhem as will matching a team of hardened professionals against a team of hapless amateurs. Pepper some of your rosters with nonpros--defrocked priests, cashiered New Jersey State Troopers, tubercular sculptors and the like. I'd watch that...
McCulloch perhaps was a little too overzealous and left the game with an unspecified injury. But he certainly made his impression felt on the hapless Brown squad...
...fans, we want teams to test our loyalties. We want them to be as embarrassing and hapless as they are victorious and masterful...