Request Number One: Challenge him to a game of your choice. Nok Hockey, tennis, jacks, Crossfire, fire ball, ping pong, rock paper scissors, mud-wrestling, Egyptian Ratscrew, kick ball, something weird and exotic with ever-changing rules you just made up on the spot. Doesn’t matter what it is, the important thing is that you underestimate him, smirk and think to yourself “this should be good.” Then watch as he flips you and your expectations on your back.
Geithner is a “sports nut and is up for playing or trying any sport someone suggests,” said Treasury spokesman Andrew Williams. “A lot of folks have underestimated Secretary Geithner in a lot of ways, and the basketball court’s one place where he’s been underestimated,” said U.S. Representative Rick Larsen, 44, a Washington state Democrat who played with Geithner and President Barack Obama at an Oct. 8 game at the basketball court on the White House’s South Lawn. He said he and Geithner covered one another during much of the game. “He definitely is a credible basketball player, one that you would choose to have on your team,” said Representative John Shimkus, an Illinois Republican who also played in the after-work contest. He has “good ball-handling skills” and he’s fast on the court, Shimkus, 52, said in an interview.
Request Number Two: caption this photo:
Geithner Shows Benefit of Having Treasury Chief With Jump Shot [Bloomberg]
I’d like to play him one-on-one
–Barney “Birmingham booty call” Frank
I challenged him to a game of hide the sausage and all I got was this lousy hemorrhoid.
“Laindlops”
nothing like a Chinese high school gym class to test your ball handling skills.
Any one know if the White House courts use chain nets or real ones?
I’d ask him to play Hide the Salami, I’m pretty good at dat.
-CG
really impressive, playing against midgets that can’t open their eyes
(1) Beirut.
(2) Cock sandwich, that hurts.
@5 that was really excellent- FTW
“[S]omething weird and exotic with ever-changing rules you just made up on the spot” = TARP aka America’s Calvinball.
being boxed out by an athletic man wearing 1980 style basketball shorts is a fantasy of mine
–Ping
@5 check the highlights of the game mentioned in the next and1 mixtape
Best jumpshot in a button down this side of the pacific
He has good ball-handling skills. And he’s good at sports too.
he is also an excellent toggler on his turbo tax program to make it seem like he pays his taxes; this is maybe his best skill. we need a great tax cheat running the irs otherwise, smart guys, like him, might actually pay their taxes.
@7 ROR! better not leave your coke can out unattended or you gonna get some peepee
Dodge duck dip dive dodge, Geithner!
-Patches O’Houlihan
Pinny manufacturers are a can’t miss investment in a country with 1.3 billion people that look the same.
I have three requests:
- wolrd peace
- abolish hunger
- Bawney to weguwate me.
Speaking of which, Bawney has a book with pictures of daring young asian dudes at ballsports – nothing new.
“I thought it would be polite if I took off my tie.”
Their relationship seems to have been well known among the Treasury Department, as Plutarch recounts an episode (also mentioned by Dicaearchus during some festivities on the way back from India) in which his staff clamor for him to openly kiss the young man: “The boy sat down close by him, which so pleased the Americans, that they made loud acclamations for Geithner the Great to kiss him, and never stopped clapping their hands and shouting till Geithner put his arms round him and kissed him.”
“Prepare to be stress tested biznatch”
My pants! My pants!
Mao Zedunk
ROR @24
@21: I’m awed. Please do go on.
Game: Blouses.
27 ftw
reminds me of overhearing a 5’9 overweight slug in our office describing some kid he “played with at camp in the Catskills” as ” a hell of a player”. I would dunk on his bean and rain wet jump shots all over that clown. Geitner a player…funny. As much as a 5’5 Dartmouth intramural player can be I guess.
WATCH OUT FOR MOISHE, HE HAS A HELL OF A CROSSOVER
27: (continued): Now, Who wants Pancakes?