YELLOW CARD ROLL CALL

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IS THIS ABOUT ME BEATING YOU AT SCRABBLE CUTTY, HUH?!

It made it sound like you gave him the ability to give yellow cards. I was just looking for any opportunity to bring up your defeat.

It's weak.

Curtis Stephens yellow card (DOES THIS EXPLAIN IT WELL ENOUGH PUNK?) remove

See, Curtis?

how does one get a yellow card?

ffff00?
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ROME Francesco Totti, the AS Roma forward now training with Italy's national team in preparation for soccer's European Championship in this month, calls a travel agency to ask how long it takes to fly from Milan to Rome. "Just a second," responds the agent. "Thanks a lot," Totti says and hangs up.
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Totti goes to a courtroom. When the judge asks him for his defense he promptly reels off his teammates' names, "Pellizzoli, Pannucci, Chivu, Candela, Mancini." Then there's the one about Totti not wanting to go out for dinner because he's reading the New Testament and wants to find out how the passion of Christ turns out.
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If America has its dumb blonds Italy now has Francesco Totti to gently poke fun at. From the moment the 27-year-old forward opened his mouth and began speaking in colorful Roman dialect, he quickly substituted the carabinieri, Italy's military police, as the butt of national humor.
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But the soccer star is getting the last laugh. A year ago, prompted by friends and family, he collected the jokes circulating at his expense and published them in a book that became an instant - and surprising - best seller, with more than a million copies sold. Joke: When Totti is asked whether it's true that his book sold a million copies he replies: "That's not possible. I only wrote one."
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A second book, "The New Jokes About Totti, Collected by Me," was published May 11 with a first run of 480,000 copies. Two weeks after its release it was No. 3 on the best-seller list of the Turin newspaper La Stampa.
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If Totti didn't technically write the book, he didn't keep the proceeds either; he is splitting them equally between a project for senior citizens sponsored by the city of Rome, and a Unicef project in the Congo to help street children. "It was an enormous gift for us," said Rossella Del Conte of Unicef Italia, which netted E250,000, about $305,000, from the sales and a lot of publicity. Totti was already a Unicef good-will ambassador before he made the donation.
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The jokes play on a supposed dimwittedness that stems from Totti's strong Roman accent. He's teased that his command of the Italian language has not always been as punctilious as his command of the ball. "He speaks Roman, so he makes some grammatical errors every once in a while; it was easy to criticize him," said Vito Scala, Totti's trainer and closest friend. "But initially he found a lot of the jokes offensive."
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Gabriella Ungarelli, the editor of Varia, the division of the Mondadori publishing house that put out the book, agreed: "He wasn't very happy that these jokes were going around on his behalf, he didn't think it made him look good. But he turned it around and made it his own, and that has made him very simpatico with the public."
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Totti's ability to laugh at himself has made his popularity skyrocket. "He can laugh about himself, he's poking fun at the dumb stereotype," Del Conte said. "It's really changed his image, people look at him differently."
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About 80 percent of the books' jokes were found on the Internet, and the rest were picked up at soccer stadiums during games. "All you had to do is go to the Curva Sud and you'd hear jokes," said Ungarelli, referring to the southern section of the Rome stadium where Roma fans cluster.
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Because the books had to have a broad appeal, especially with children, only G-rated jokes were included. "They couldn't be too dirty," Scala said.
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In an interview last month with Venerdi, the weekly magazine of the Rome newspaper La Repubblica, Totti even confessed to having a favorite joke. There's a front-page headline: "Totti's library burned to the ground, it had two books." Totti is desperate: "Damn it, I hadn't finished coloring in the second one."
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He tells that joke with an aw-shucks delivery in a videocassette that came out this month with the Milan newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport. The video, which sells for E6.90, alternates some of the Roma forward's more spectacular goals with Totti and his friends from the sporting world telling Totti-jokes - like Christian Vieri, the forward for Inter, or Fabio Capello, the Roma coach (who is leaving to coach Juventus). The video is now in its third edition.
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Attempts to speak to the Roma captain were unsuccessful. He and the rest of the national team have been segregated in their training site in Coverciano, near Florence, cut off from reporters save for a nightly press conference.
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Even Totti's wife-to-be, Ilary Blasi, 23, is allowed to visit him only according to a strict schedule. He has said that they plan to marry after the European Championship. Joke: Totti's girlfriend asks him: "Honey do you love me, huh do you love me, huh do you love me?" He answers. "Hey, slow down, one question at a time."
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Totti is now trying to spin his popularity into a television career - he has made a commercial for Pepsi with the film director Gabriele Muccino (which again pokes fun at himself).
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Recently two other Italian soccer superstars have also hit the advertisement airwaves. The Juventus forward Alessandro Del Piero sings a duet with a bird for a brand of mineral water, while the Milan defender Paolo Maldini pokes fun at his own fancy footwork, for a cellular communications company.
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Totti has not decided where the proceeds for the second book will end up. "He hasn't chosen a charity yet, because an emergency could come up and he could devolve it to that," Scala said.
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The one thing Roma fans are not laughing about are the rumors that Totti could be sold to Real Madrid this year to offset the Italian team's dire financial straits.
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"I hope that never happens," said Paolo Altomonte, a retired carabiniere officer and a Roma fan who likened Totti to the idols of the capital's ancient past. "It would be as if they brought the Colosseum to Madrid."
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International Herald Tribune

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OTFM!!

i never got one :(

i have such a yellow card for kingfish

NO MORE BLEACHER REPORT LINKS, BRO

lol! this really made me smile. thanks.

my last one -- about 2 years ago -- was something like YOU ARE A GENTLEMAN AND A SKOLAR, SIR.

this is a step-down, i think.

maybe SON, not SIR.

lol

yours is?

you cant stop the truth

haha.

gotta stop trying to stop the truth tbh, it's a fair cop

You Have Been Yellow Carded By a Moderator: ease off on the vague death wishes on other posters, bucko

really dogg? really?

i think 'alive and posting' was meant just like... 'alive and kicking'

wasn't earnestly wishing death on herman g neuname, just saying he's one of the worst poster's in board history and im surprised he hasn't been sbanned

not a crime

hence "vague"

btw, spending time talking about how other posters are terrible is NAGL

usually id agree

but he maliciously misquoted me on top of everything else

turned

can't believe people get upset about ilxor when this guy is still alive and posting

― ENRRQ (history mayne)

into

can't believe people get upset about ilxor when this guy is still alive
― ENRRQ (history mayne)

but fuck it, i can take a yellow-card

probably because that's where he stopped reading and his blood started boiling; you notice in the thread that I understood what you were saying even though I still thought it was unnecessary

This was certainly a setback for me but I am taking responsibility for my actions and I'm prepared to face the consequences. I am so thankful for the support of my fans, loved ones and immediate family, who understand that i am trying hard, but also that I am a work in progress, just as anyone else. I am keeping my faith, and I am hopeful....Thank you all!!!

almost went with "noodle vague death wishes" but some people around here love to misunderstand things

I WISH TO PROTEST IN THE STRONGEST POSSIBLE TERMS

nothing personal, bucko

okay cool I don't have to sleep in my kevlar PJs tonite then

well no1 is saying thaaaaaaatt

keep ya head up mayne

keep ya head

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talk about vague death wishes

lol

I lol'd

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i love it

yer welcome

i think it makes me look slimmer i dunno?

it's a good look.
btw, i tested this out on myself as well and now i can't get rid of it.

mods, huh