Breakfast at Tiffany's – Because I Do Not Know

The Very Pink of Perfection

An Associated Press report reveals that:

The slackers on the University of Arkansas football team won't be wearing pink.

Players that coach Houston Nutt caught goofing off had been required to wear pink jerseys during practice. But Nutt says he's received some negative reaction, because pink is a color associated with the fight against breast cancer. Breast cancer survivors and their supporters often wear pink ribbons.

Nutt says the last thing he wants to do is to offend a cancer patient. He says the loafing Arkansas players might be wearing burnt orange, the color of rival Texas.

When I heard "someone is upset" about this, my first thought was, "Please, God, don't let it be 'The Gays' (hat tip: The Broken Hearts Club). We have so much more to concentrate on." Three cheers, it wasn't. Instead, the "people-who-should-be-worried-about-bigger-issues" whiners turn out to be ... the breast-cancer crowd. Good Lord, man.

Besides, I think we should demand that the pink-ribbon crowd use another color, since the fad only came along in the '90s. After all, if anyone has the right to claim pink, it would be gay men.

Never forget.

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S BONUS: Explain this post's title and I'll dedicate an upcoming "Cocktail of the Week" to you.

3 comments Jake McCafferty last posted at 6:20 PM
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3 Comments:

I don't think it is from Breakfast at Tiffany's. I thought it was from the beginning of a play i saw a long time ago call 'Stoop and Conquer'. (i think)

I don't remember what that line refers to, but the play is based on a misunderstanding of identities...one that has been used again and again in modern movies, too.

So, there's that, for what it's worth.

By Extra Ordinary Boy, at 11:57 PM

The quote is attributed to the Irish writes Oliver Goldsmith who wrote the afore mentioned "She Stoops to Conquer". I could go on about his history but that would become quite dull very quickly.

By cola boy, at 9:34 AM

Quoting Montgomery Burns: "Eggggggg-cellent ..."

It is from Oliver Goldsmith -- and, of course, he was Irish. A cocktail tribute to you both. Thanks for playing.

By Jake McCafferty, at 1:16 PM