Previously, our crack guess-tigation team has looked at how senate candidate Tom “Tom” Leppert uses his paws during his campaign ads. Today, we look at how he puts them to use out among his potential constituency.
Conservative Tom Leppert released another conservative campaign ad for his conservative run for the U.S. Senate as a conservative. And with it, he’s debuted a new package of hand gestures. We’ve had our team in the lab all morning breaking down game tape. Here are their findings.
It took him four chalkboards and the back of an IHOP placemat, but he’s (finally) got a workable theory. A friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of an enemy of mine managed to get a look, and — while I, yes, had to fill in a few blanks myself, thanks to the shaky iPhone photo I received — here is what I can share. UPDATE: Now with an octopus.
I was wondering about this last night, while watching Jeff Van Gundy (pictured, hanging on for dear life) go in on the Mavericks at every opportunity, whether it was questioning Dirk’s bona fides or arguing against the refs on the Heat’s behalf or just generally being insane. And then I remembered.
Six years ago, the Mavericks lost the first two games of their opening round series against the Van Gundy-coached Houston Rockets. At home, no less. Including a game that featured one of the most embarrassing dunks ever dunked on Shawn Bradley, which, as you know, is saying quite a bit. Anyway, the Mavs came back and won the series in seven games, the final game a 40-point walkover which should still shame everyone involved to this day. So that’s why JVG is such a jerk. Probably.
Two Blue-Throated Macaws, to be exact. Bruno and Deluca flew the coop during a performance in the zoo’s bird show, “Soar.” Or so they say. I have my own theory.
Nine days after their last game, Your Dallas Mavericks will return to the court tomorrow night, against the Oklahoma City Thunder, in the first game of the Western Conference Finals. The extra rest will come in handy, probably, since the schedule for this I-35 series calls for games every other day. A few questions, before it gets going.
First I noticed them in one of David Kunkle’s low-budge black-and-white yard signs on Gaston: two big holes on either side of the “FOR” in “KUNKLE FOR MAYOR” that looked like eyes. Then I noticed another Kunkle sign, this one on Mockingbird, had the same kind of holes. Then I saw one of city council candidate James Nowlin’s blue yard signs had two triangles sort of haphazardly cut out of them. This puzzled me for a time, and then during a bike ride, while I was almost being knocked over by the wind, I realized — that’s what the holes were for. To keep the signs from being blown over. I asked Tim about it. He confirmed my guess with his own guess.
Dear FrontBurnervians, already running out the shot clock on another gray day, are we right? (About this, at least. Don’t take that question too broadly. Tim is generally wrong, and I am hesitant to be painted with the same brush just because we sit near each other and I happened to include him in this post, when I could have easily lied and said I was talking about this with, I don’t know, Krista, I guess, or I could have just sort of glossed over the whole thing and said “a co-worker” or just left out that part entirely. I mean, it’s not like it is germane to the rest of the post. I included him because that’s how this all went down.)