Ring Lardner was an American writer. He started as a sports journalist in Chicago and followed the Cubs and the White Sox. Then he became a writer of fiction.
He nails that working class American dialect. In "Gullible's Travels", he really gets into the head of a poor bumpkin who tries to go on a fancy upper class vacation with his wife, only to find how expensive the trip is, and how out of place he and his wife are. It's a hilarious contrast of the working class and life on a resort.
In "You Know Me, Al" (which is considered a novel, but I got it in a cheap 300 page story anthology, so I don't know if it actually is or not) you have an idiot pitching prospect trying to make it in the bigs. It's told in letters (the main character, Jack, is writing his good friend back home, Al) and truly sounds like a semi-literate green horn trying to make it in the dead ball era. It's less impressive that that's the time when Lardner covered the Sox, but whatever. Just had that "wow" moment--he covered the Black Sox scandal and became jaded with baseball and sports in general (thought it was all fixed after 1919)--he knew Chicago when it was World Series City.
"Champion" is a third person story told with very clear and concise language about a scumbag's rise to become champ. The public sees a hard working champ, but we see a complete loser and bully sleaze his way to the top.
Lardner was a sarcastic prick who could showcase the folly of his characters without coming across as ridiculing. With a background in sports reporting, his prose is very boom, boom, boom, this is what's happening, this is what's important, this is what you need to know. But unlike Hemingway, or Chandler, or Bukowski, or Fante, it's not stark. He writes more like Raymond Carver, except Lardner fleshes out his stories more completely (in a conventional sense. I am not calling Carver's stories "incomplete").
the best part is, he thought his short stories were stupid, and only wrote them for cash. They are absolute genius. He was so good he's be like "yeah, need to make a few bits, let me write a story" and boom, still read 100 years later.
His angle is like Vonnegut--this is an absurd place, let me show you--except without the zany sci-fi.
Ring Lardner--a writer you should be reading if you haven't.
Iβm taking a college course on Baseball in American Culture and currently our assignment is to write a 4-5 page paper about a baseball book from before 1920. A few more notes, a kids book would be preferable, because our teacher doesnβt want us reading a huge 500 page book for our paper. If it was under 50 that would be dope but any recommendations would be great because Iβm having some trouble coming up with books. Itβs due by Thursday morning as well, but Iβm not too worried about being able to write an essay in that time.
Ring Lardner and George S. Kaufmann's satire on Tin Pan Alley is a must-see for Sondheim fans.
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As the Allies made their way around the globe during World War II, so did the sport of football. Not too unreasonable to picture as many college and NFL players joined the military once the United States entered the war.
While the NFL and college football continued to operate to the best of their abilities, plenty of football-savvy servicemen stationed overseas decided to pass the time by playing games for their posts and units against other installations. In the Pacific, a rather infamous example came on New Year's Day 1946 when Heisman Trophy winner Angelo Bertelli and Bears star Bill Osmanski pitted teams of Marines against each other in the ruins of Nagasaki in the "Atom Bowl", a game that I covered here.
In Europe, many games took place between service members. On New Year's Day 1945, Florence, Italy, was the site of one particular matchup...
This was the First and Last Spaghetti Bowl.
#Origins
January 1, 1945. As the Second World War entered its final year, Allied troops abroad but not in combat were looking for ways to pass the time and ring in the new year. For Americans, what holiday tradition is better than a good old game of football?
It was not uncommon for American servicemen stationed stateside or overseas to organize football games during the war. Besides being a beloved sport, it also kept them in shape should their services be required on the battlefield. Heck, American POW camps even organized a game between German prisoners.
One peaceful December day in Florence, Italy, the 12th Air Force received a surprise delivery: 120 football uniforms with pads, helmets, and cleats. Surprise would be an understatement as well: the men received no explanation on why they were being delivered here nor what to do with them. Well, what else are you supposed to do with 120 perfectly good uniforms?^[1]
The 12th Air Force Special Service, tasked with keeping the men entertained until they could return home, put out a bulletin to the rest of the 12th and the 5th Army, who was also stationed in Florence, asking for any interest in holding a football game.^[1]
#Pro Players
Soldiers and airmen quickly answered the Special Service call, many of whom had high school, college or semi-pro experience. Army Sergeant [Cecil "Dick" Sturgeon](https://i.imgur.com/4J6
... keep reading on reddit β‘I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when itβs raining in Sweden?
Mathematical puns makes me number
Ants donβt even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
The doctor says it terminal.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
