Musberger is the racist, if I recall the '68 olympics. Marv Albert is the pervert. But I don't know if "facial" started with either one. I alway thought it was a derivative of "in your face!" which was a 7th grade kind of thing.
But it does have porn undertones. Does the Gayattolah (I know, I spelled it wrong) deliver a facial?
Two things remembered fondly from my childhood, both Marv: "He shoots, he scores!" and "Kick save, and a beauty..."
Baa, baa, baa -
You are, of course, right, ogged. Marv's the perv. And I personally credit him with the now somewhat ubiquitous use of "czar" (as in "czar of the telestrator") in referencing top jobs.
That's Tim's way of saying that was him at #3. You got a cookie problem, Tim? That keeps happening to you.
Maybe he keeps on posting as someone else.
Ogged -
No, I'm just a bit of a moron. I obsessively clean my caches with one of those washer programs; it's just a tick I can't stop.
As a pansy-ass non-sports fan, I only pick up porn overtones when I hear someone intone, synopatedly or otherwise, "delivers the... facial."
It permeated life... "In your face (with a hand in the face)... FACIAL!"
Here's a Kripkean puzzle. Clearly, I *was* refering to "the guy who announced the Knicks" with the rigid designator "Brent Musberger." Should we conclude from this that we can rehabillitate descriptivism, or just that I'm an doofus?
Speaker meaning vs. semantic meaning, dood. (Shit, I can't remember if "semantic meaning" is the contrast there.)
I think some folks are trying to rehabilitate descriptivism, but I'm on vacation so I'm not going to try to remember who.)
Scott Soames and Mike Thau I believe are two.
Soames, Finisher of Kripke's Semantic Agenda? No shit. I've really got to read that book.