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asativum commented on the word comball
Anyone know what this means, or more to the point, where it comes from? Here's the context, from the Tampa Bay Times (nee St. Pete Times), drawing on ESPN or wire service accounts:
"ESPN has suspended First Take commentator Rob Parker indefinitely for racially charged comments he made about Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III. "Is he a 'brother,' or is he a comball 'brother'?" Parker, who is black, said on Thursday's show. 'He is kind of black, but he's not really like the guy you'd want to hang out with. ... He has a white fiancée, people talking about that he's a Republican.' ESPN is 'conducting a full review,' spokesman Josh Krulewitz said."
December 15, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word comball
I hope ESPN finds out whether or not he's a red-publican.
As for comball, perhaps "a word as cunningly hidden in its maze of confused drapery as a fieldmouse in a nest of coloured ribbons" --Finnegans Wake
December 15, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word comball
Urban Dictionary doesn't seem to be any help. I don't suppose it's a bad kerning of cornball.*
*Normally I'd blame that sort of comment on the apparent flaw in my nature that causes me to assume people are generally kind-hearted, but in this particular instance we should probably blame it on the fact that I live in a part of the world where many of the ads on the evening news have to do with contolling grub worms and increasing yields.
December 15, 2012
bilby commented on the word comball
Send not to know for whom the grub worm contolls...
December 16, 2012
ruzuzu commented on the word comball
Thank you for your kind comment.
December 16, 2012
ry commented on the word comball
Could it be an ocrtifacts-type corruption of cornball?
December 16, 2012
bilby commented on the word comball
Perhaps it's a hair style:
"Dear Rob Parker... If you have a comb-over that looks like a bird's eye view of Florida, you don't get to talk about blackness or cornballs
letsgetfree13"
December 17, 2012
pterodactyl commented on the word comball
Ruzuzu -- I read this as "cornball" at first, too. I had to read it over several times before I could see the actual spelling.
December 18, 2012
hernesheir commented on the word comball
The word may have been spelled as it sounded to the transcriber. I suggest reviewing the spoken record before speculating further. Perhaps the *comb* part was pronounced as in the words combined, combinatorial, etc.
December 18, 2012