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Shut 'em up with shut-down lines

By Ralph Wiley
Page 2 columnist

Friday, February 6, 2004

Sick of the endless streams of trash talk? Tired of all the chest-bumping, upper-torso wiggling, smack-talk bragging that seems to accompany every ordinary eight-yard first-down catch, every simple leg tackle, every measly breakaway dunk, every wide-open three, and every office-pool or home-video-game win reeking with luck? Me, too. Make 40 plays. Win a big one. Then talk trash. In the meantime, since such overkill is unlikely to go away, do you need suitable retorts? Do you need comebacks f ...

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