What are you wearing to pick up HBP?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Mike the Goad (typo, but I kept it) wrote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the_old_crowd/message/1910 :

<< Oh - and while I'm rambling about things that really count: it's
GREAT to hear that Penny understands about foo'ball (Texan
pronounciation). I haven't seen the movie yet - but I've read about
it, and it sounds pretty sad. There *is* point where sports turn
stupid, instead of crazy. >> 

I have never read the book nor seen the movie, but I recall a review
of the movie which complained that it was all prettied up and
romanticised from the book, which suggests that the book was pretty
sad indeed. Unless the reviewer was an idiot, which has been known to
happen.