I kno rite, and last Friday he had a dream about cats and enormous rabbits in a barn. Did he uncover the mysteries of aviation? Did he lay bare the underlying meaning of his mundane dream?

Dude's life is crazy.~

R.I.P. Manute Bol ("Inventor of the phrase 'My Bad'")

I met him on an Amtrak to Hartford once. He was a nice guy and laughed when I asked if he was you know Manute Bol. haha.

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Bol was known for some things other than basketball, too. Most importantly, he used a majority of his earnings from his basketball career to raise money for Sudanese refugees and youth. He is also the only known NBA player who once killed a lion with a spear. He was once fined $25K for missing two exhibition games because he was busy with peace talks with Sudanese rebel leaders in Washington DC. Some also speculate that he may have invented — or at least popularized — the phrase "my bad." In 2005, a UPenn language blog (found via the Washington Post) concluded that:

 

[a friend] emailed me to say that he heard the phrase was first used by the Sudanese immigrant basketball player Manute Bol, believed to have been a native speaker of Dinka (a very interesting and thoroughly un-Indo-Europeanlike language of the Nilo-Saharan superfamily). Says Arneson, "I first heard the phrase here in the Bay Area when Bol joined the Golden State Warriors in 1988, when several Warriors players started using the phrase." And Ben Zimmer's rummaging in the newspaper files down in the basement of Language Log Plaza produced a couple of early 1989 quotes that confirm this convincingly:

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 10, 1989: When he [Manute Bol] throws a bad pass, he'll say, "My bad" instead of "My fault," and now all the other players say the same thing.

USA Today, Jan. 27, 1989: After making a bad pass, instead of saying "my fault," Manute Bol says, "my bad." Now all the other Warriors say it too.

So all of this is compatible with a date of origin for the phrase in the early 1980s

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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/21/manute-bols-legacy-d.html

dude was great, look at this length..

why are the bullets playing the spurs at MSG in that photo?

Daba's so dumb. Are you Manute Bol? Bwahahaha

Kurt Texeira:

http://www.walkoffwalk.com/2010/06/mark-teixeira-idolized-kurt-co.html

i know it was retarded. but i didn't ask him "are you Manute Bol?" it was more like, holy crap you're....

and then with a straight face he was like no. then smiled. he also had like a warriors duffle bag that looked like it was 10 years old. ha

he did get in a fight. it was wonky.

i'll try and find it.

10 hour tennis match?? insanity.

Isner and Mahut deadlocked at 59-59 in historic Wimbledon tilt