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Our beaver pelt trader of the week is LSU softball player Tayl'r Hollis. Our knowledge of her apostrophized greatness arrives via reader Corbitt.
This will be further discussed in the mailbag below, but first a ClayNation column update. We've listened to your e-mails and we now have an RSS feed set up for the column. Click here, scroll all the way down to the bottom and, voila! the column arrives on your desktop. I've verified that it does, in fact, work.
Now on to All That and a Bag of Mail.
Brian Carroll writes:
"I may have found a new official bird of the Mailbag: the Great Tit. Apparently, England's native Great Tit has weathered global warming quite well."
May have found? Of course you've found it. I'm in awe that there's a bird called the Great Tit. Of course I'm not surprised that it's located in England. My homeland.
I couldn't resist looking up the Great Tit's wikipedia page. They probably have to keep a wikipedia editor stationed on this page all day long given the variety of damage that eighth-graders and lawyers can do to the page otherwise. Even still, there are some great lines on this page. Including, the lead of the second paragraph, "Great Tits are easy to recognize," and the lead in the third paragraph, "Great Tits come in many races." Indeed. Truer words were never writ, wikipedia. Never writ.
If states and countries have official birds, certainly we need one as well for the ClayNation column. From the curvaceous slopes of California to Lookout Mountain, Tenn., from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado to every hill and molehill of Mississippi, let there be no doubt, Great Tits are always welcome here.
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| Phil's fiancee shows off the ClayNation hand sign. Oh yeah, there's that whole ring thing, too. (Provided to CBSSports.com) |
"A couple of weekends ago, I proposed to my now fiancée and when we were drunk that night I went to take a picture of her and she threw up the ClayNation hand sign (the ring hand) without hesitation (see picture attached). How awesome is that? "Also, as a diehard Gamecock fan, I have to let you know about what Clemson Head Coach "Tammy" Bowden said about one of his players recently: "On freshman Kyle Parker, who is having a really good season with the baseball team:
'I've watched him practice and I've watched him play (baseball). He's really good looking. If I was a girl, I'd be very interested in him. He wears those tight pants. When you wear loose stuff, you can't tell the definition of a guy's body. In baseball, everything's tight and you can tell he's very well put together.'"
First of all I've been meaning to link this e-mail for about a month and not just because of Bowden's hysterical quote. As a general rule, whenever I'm on the record with a journalist I never begin a sentence, "If I was a girl," because that's a recipe for disaster.
Second, enjoy the picture and it's awesome. I'm happy that ClayNation readers now include me in their pre-marriage celebrations. Although, to reiterate, index finger, middle finger, and thumb only. (Although that would have made flashing the ring finger difficult in this instance, so an exception is allowed.)
