DAILY DIRT: Calling Yourhighness Morgan … paging Pig Cage … is Dude Person in the house?

Daily Dirt for Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023

They may never make the hall of fame, but they’re a sure-fire bet for the hall of names … Welcome to today’s three thoughts that make up Vol. 694 of The Daily Dirt.

1. Yourhighness Morgan? Boogie Knight?

Yep, those are actual names of actual people. And, yes, I assume your first thought is, “What were their parents thinking?”

The “College Football Only” website has put together a marvelous list of players on what it calls its all-time name team. Here is a sampling:

• Bumper Pool, Arkansas linebacker (2018-22).
• Pig Cage, defensive back for UTSA (2021-present).
• Fudge Van Hooser, wide receiver for Tulane (2012-13).
• Jim Bob Cooter, quarterback at Tennessee (2002-06).
• Dude Person, defensive back at Arkansas (2023-present)
• Wonderful Terrific Monds III (FIU, 2011-13). The third? There were two more of him in preceding years?
• Godspower Offor, defensive lineman at Howard (2011-15).
• Silverberry Mouhon, defensive lineman at Cincinnati (2011-15).
• Lucious Pusey, Eastern Illinois linebacker (2006-08).
• Decoldest Crawford, wide receiver at Louisiana Tech, 2022-present).

And in case you were wondering, Yourhighness Morgan was a linebacker at Florida A&M (2008-10) and Boogie Knight was a wide receiver at ULM (2018-22).

2. Words to live by.

• To measure puns properly, use a sighsmograph.
• Turning vegan would be a missed steak.
• Anti-social vegans avoid the meet.
• Be careful when you eat at Sam & Ella’s Diner.
• I pulled a muscle digging for gold. Just a miner injury.

3. It’s the weekend! Woo-hoo!

Here are some medal-worthy thought on why this time each week is so important to so many:

Gold medal:“Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.”― singer Florence Welch.

Silver medal:“Every day is a gift. But some days are packaged better.” ― writer and life coach Sanhita Baruah.

Bronze medal: “The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.” ― author Chuck Palahniuk.

Steve Thought O’ The Day – Today I pay tribute to the words of Debasish Mridha: “I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend.”

Steve Eighinger writes daily for Muddy River News. His entire life is a weekend.