bomtr wrote:And Karl Rove was 'everybody's brain.'
I'd say he was a different part of mammalian anatomy.
nlw44 wrote:To be fair to Kareem, I think he did know that yom meant day but misspoke. The others, not so much.
I'm sure he knew; in the early 1970's, when Lew Alcindor of the Milwaukee Bucks converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, there were no Muslim butchers in the city selling meat prepared according to Islamic Halal dietary laws could be purchased, so he became a regular customer of Milwaukee's Kosher markets. If you eat kosher food long enough, you've got to know what days of the year those stores are going to be closed, and why.
What Alex hasn't mentioned (big surprise!) is that Constitution Hall, where the show taped, is rather infamous for its proprietors, the Daughters of the American Revolution, having denied the great African-American opera singer, Marian Anderson, the opportunity to give a concert at the venue in 1939, prompting First lady Eleanor Roosevelt to convince the National Parks Service to offer the front steps of the Lincoln Memorial to Anderson. There she sang, the press's cameras clicked, and the DAR has had egg on its face ever since.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if Kareem is the first African-American to ever appear on stage there.
MarkBarrett wrote:If someone had said voice for Billy Joel's main musical instrument that would have been ruled incorrect?
All singers sing with their voices; part of what distinguishes one from the other is the instruments that they use to accompany them.
Bamaman wrote:For someone who has been in the public eye for almost 50 years and played a grueling position in a professional sport, Kareem has very little charisma. I've seen him in a few acting jobs and he was boring in all of them (sorry Rex).
You just don't like movies with gladiators in them.