October 15th, 2010 / 8:16 am
Random
Kyle Minor
Random
Possible Literary Origin of Most-Often-Uttered Phrase on ESPN “It is What it is.”
Sentence One of V.S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River:
“The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.”
Tags: a bend in the river, ESPN, it is what it is, v.s. naipaul
I don’t watch much ESPN, but I’m sick sick sick of his phrase in daily life. Makes sense that it would become a sports cliche. Isn’t Naipaul supposed to be a major prick, especially to women?
butters cotch
‘no idea’ is not the same as ‘the wrong idea’ or ‘a confused idea’ or ‘an incomplete picture’. everything perceptible causes cognition. even unintelligible things, when they mark the mind, become entwined in, by definition, drastically limited cognition. of what can be seen or heard, of what is said, there is no ‘no idea’ to have.
there might be one thing you have ‘no idea’ of – ‘no idea’ itself. i have only a nanoquantitative idea of how to say ‘i have no idea of no idea’ and not have the expression collapse to ‘no idea’ itself:
poof
Yeah, I also heard he wasn’t friendly.
Tautological resignation is hateful – a way of making personal suffocation into a smothering contagion.
A similarly toxic dismissal: “I have no idea . . .” (Unless it’s true literally.)
you are not allowed to oppose the invasion of iraq unless you have an alternative plan that convinces me
or the removal of troops. “do you know what i am saying?” —butters
Ahh… to be nothing.
Yeah, I’ll bet Naipaul is highly popular in the towel-snapping men’s locker room known as ESPN.
convinces you that it is a plan or convinces you that it is a good plan or convinces you that it is an essentially ‘alternative’ plan or convinces you that it is a better plan than which ‘invasion of iraq’?
butters cotch
‘no idea’ is not the same as ‘the wrong idea’ or ‘a confused idea’ or ‘an incomplete picture’. everything perceptible causes cognition. even unintelligible things, when they mark the mind, become entwined in, by definition, drastically limited cognition. of what can be seen or heard, of what is said, there is no ‘no idea’ to have.
there might be one thing you have ‘no idea’ of – ‘no idea’ itself. i have only a nanoquantitative idea of how to say ‘i have no idea of no idea’ and not have the expression collapse to ‘no idea’ itself:
poof
Actually, I think “Our backs are against the wall” is uttered more.
. . . they really came to play . . . it was gut-check time . . . they left it all on the field . . .