CD has always had the world at his fingertips, preferably via his Apple manufactured iPhone. At age 20 he owned his first house and at age 23 he will probably have his second. The financial world is his for the taking, not to mention the scores of women he has already used and abused. A backhand from Burrows is a priceless compliment for any belle in Dublin. Too many times I’ve heard the Baby in some high-end Dublin bar exclaiming, “Stop it don’t make me hurt you!”
So I already know what you’re thinking – the life of Christopher David Burrows is one to be very envious of, and in many ways, yes it is. Despite our daily struggles though, we should all remember that at least we have our health. This is something Burr will never have. Perhaps his blood-stained urine is why he is always so insistent on using the stall…
[flickr-photo:id=2514260104,size=-] Burr cells: Irregularly shaped cells occurring in uraemia.
Next academic year will see the first ever Burr Dances On Ice Hockey Series with seven of us fighting it out (literally!) for the Burrowsley Cup – the winner being he whose team gets furthest in the playoffs. In the last two nights we found out the Western Conference and Eastern Conference champs who will play each other in this year’s Stanley Cup. Playoffs are a seven game series format.
Detroit Red Wings 4 Dallas Stars 2
Pittsburgh Penguins 4 Philadelphia Flyers 1
Guys, I think we should be worried. At the moment it looks like the early years of the Burrowsley Cup could be a Chan dynasty.
So you’ve heard about bebo, facebook, perhaps even digg.com and last.fm (because you’re cool like that). Well there is one web 2.0 property that many of you are still missing out on.
MM readers, with intent I point your browsers to twitter.com (I’ll pass on the suggestion that I am trying to bump the Gaylord post – I am).
Perhaps there is a good reason you keen MM readers are passing on twitter – it’s a tough sell.
Loosely sold to The Real Chris Porter as Facebook status updates on steroids, twitter surpasses the relatively passive status update. What twitter is, is a hotdog sized bun filled with a facebook style deli sausage meat, flooded with an IM mustard sauce and dipped in a sweet chili side of awesome. (On a somewhat related note, watch out for summer updates from the USA!)
Beyond the very loose suggestion that Twitter is a weird adaptation of the North Carolina Hot Dog, I’d like you to begin to understand what Twitter proposes.
Currently advertisement free, immature and prone to down time, Twitter is trying to connect your once IM and Facebook groups to your pocket. The true sell of twitter, readers, is that your mobile phone (that you were once so addicted to) becomes the mobile platform.
Readers, I urge you to play with twitter. If you too become a twitter guy/gal you can stay up to date on all things ‘us’ (between blog posts, of course) by following Philip (@chanstheorem), The Real Chris Porter (@sirchristo) and I (@cdburrows) on twitter.com.
For a little more on the what goes on in the twitter world… Check out ‘Twitter in Plain English’:
That’s right. In 1977 the world’s two greatest players went tooth-and-nail on the scenic links of Turnberry that overlooks Ailsa Craig on the west coast of Scotland. At the time Jack Nicklaus was still the greatest player ever to have made a divot on the hallowed turf of the British course whereas Tom Watson was the young pretender set to take on Nicklaus’ mantle. Drama and excitement were inevitable.
Things looked good for Watson, who had already captured his first Open Championship in 1975. Nicklaus hadn’t won the event since 1970 but the Golden Bear was far from finished with major titles.
At the end of four enthralling days in Scotland, Watson had blown away the rest of the field by 11 shots, but it had taken a magnificent birdie on the last to beat his playing partner of the weekend, Nicklaus, by a single shot. This particular championship became known ever-after as the ‘Duel in the Sun.’
Tom Watson -12 Jack Nicklaus -11 Hubert Green -1 Lee Trevino E
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Nicklaus and Watson may have stolen the headlines but on Saturday afternoon one young American would mount a small charge of his own at the title. This was little known Gaylord Burrows, a native of Monroe, Louisianna. Burrows may not have won the Open, but he certainly won our hearts.
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I like to think there is (or has been) a little bit of Gaylord in our very own Burrows.
*Jack Nicklaus went on to win a record total of 18 major championships, a record he still holds by 5 over Tiger Woods.
Tom Watson dominated golf over the next decade winning 5 Opens in total.
Gaylord Burrows never played in another major but developed an impressive portfolio nontheless.
