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posted by davidt on Wednesday September 03 2003, @08:00AM
Last Night I Tripped writes:

Just thought this was strange. While watching the US Open tennis coverage today the co-host Ted Robinson (a somewhat nerdy sports announcer) said, "Stop Me If You Think You Have Heard This One Before we have another 18 year old Russian. "For those of you who don't know "Stop Me If You Think You Have Heard This One Before" was a very good song by the group THE SMITHS. I am shocked he even knows who the Smiths are! The match was Mauresmo vs Kirilenko.
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  • Just becasue the sports announcer said "stop me if you think you've heard this one before.." doesn't mean he was referring to the Smiths song. It is a pharse used often in the popular vernacular. Davidt - you got to edit these sophmoric efforts (and what's with having to explain "to those of you who don't know"? this is a morrissey site, isn't it?)
    Anonymous -- Wednesday September 03 2003, @08:25AM (#72774)
    • Dumb Ass by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday September 03 2003, @12:14PM
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  • Er... What the hell does the phrase "Stop Me If You Think You Have Heard This One Before we have another 18 year old Russian." have to do with The Smiths?

    "Stop me if you think you've heard this one before" is an everyday phrase, which The Smiths just happened to use in a song once. This is hardly 'news'.
    Stu Walsh -- Wednesday September 03 2003, @08:46AM (#72777)
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  • I presume there should quotation marks after THE SMITHS and that the announcer did refer to the band and not just say the phrase.

    If not, I’d like to be the first to report that I heard several media references to the song “Panic” during the recent power crisis.
    Benton -- Wednesday September 03 2003, @10:49AM (#72800)
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    • Re:Punctuation by punk_lawyer (Score:1) Wednesday September 03 2003, @11:59AM
      • eeirie by Anonymous (Score:0) Wednesday September 03 2003, @03:15PM
        • Re:eeirie by Reeling around the F (Score:1) Saturday September 06 2003, @11:57PM
  • I actually know Ted Robinson. Good guy and a Smiths fan.
    Reeling around the F -- Wednesday September 03 2003, @05:00PM (#72858)
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  • Does anyone know if the bar plans on holding a Smiths/Morrissey night on September 26th or 27th?
    Reeling around the F -- Wednesday September 03 2003, @05:03PM (#72859)
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  • I'm REALLY glad I read that thoroughly.
    hand in glove -- Wednesday September 03 2003, @07:11PM (#72878)
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    "Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together" - Marilyn Monroe

  • Batman (Score:2, Interesting)

    Hearing Smiths references everywhere reminds me of what all I've encountered as of late.

    I don't know if anyone here reads Batman comics (I know; I'm a geek...), but they've had an on-going series now called HUSH and it is a detective/mystery story. Anywho, The Joker (the clown prince of evil) has been inconspicuously singing Smiths tunes since the 7th installment (the most apparent one being "Stop Me"). Another recent Batman comic had the title "The Queen is Dead." I just thought it would be awesome if the Smiths was somehow related to the mystery or to the solving of the mystery. (Either that or the writers over at DC are Smiths fans, which is probably the case.)

    Anyway, I know that it is insignificant and all but I just thought I'd share! ;P
    Anonymous-shnonymous <[email protected]> -- Wednesday September 03 2003, @07:26PM (#72880)
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  • what is going on here
    Anonymous -- Wednesday September 03 2003, @07:59PM (#72882)
  • you might be better off turning your brainwashing television off altogether. yes, you might miss out on stunning dull smiths/morrissey references, but you might also enjoy the benefits of growing a brain. just a thought. maybe you've had one before?
    Anonymous -- Friday September 05 2003, @05:22AM (#72979)
  • Yeah, Andy Roddick wins.

    The Angelic Upstart, the American, the tennis hope of these United States.

    Move over Sampras, Chang, Agassi, there's a new kid in town.

    Major Walter C. Wingfield, an Englishman, may have invented lawn tennis in Wales, but we mastered the sport on all its surfaces.

    Happy. Happy. Happy.

    Yes, our foreign policies are terrible, and most white Americans, especially older ones, are obese, racist, homophobic, meat eating, conservative, ignoramuses, but I can be proud of my nation when we are Champions in sport!!

    Congratulations Andy! And it's great that you are a Smiths fan too...or at least that you were named after their base player. After all, who else could it be, what with all these obvious Smiths connections noted above.
    Anonymous -- Sunday September 07 2003, @04:56PM (#73208)

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