Ford Word

Cairo-ed Away

Or
The End and The End

Or
Moving into the Valley of the Dead
(Accolades for Craig)
Naguib Mahfouz, author of The Seventh Heaven, has gone on a Fact-Finding Mission, succumbing to injuries suffered in a fall at the age of 94. Mahfouz was the first Arab writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature, taking home the 1988 award. He had the dubious distinction of being the Middle East’s greatest writer as well as another victim of Islam’s tendency to take two steps back for every step forward, having been stabbed in 1994 by an Islamic militant because a novel he had written more than 30 years prior had depicted Mohammed, a no-no in the humorless religion. He survived the attack, but suffered nerve damage that hindered his ability to write. Mahfouz also pissed off his bearded brethren by supporting Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s Camp David peace treaty with Israel.
(With assistance from Mark)

Two of us weren’t Egypt on this one, as Craig continues his charge, leaping to 4th despite being in 33rd just two weeks ago, while Joe Wright takes 13th.

Have you buried a Ford, Lately?
(Props to Michelle Haus)

Or
The Burial of Eddie’s Father
(An epitaphany shared with Mark, more or less)

Or
Ford – Not Built to Last
(Kudos to Monty)

Or
The Big Heat Loss
(More Merits for Mark)
Glenn Ford, leading man for more than 20 years, hopes heaven does not have a barbed wire fence having died at the age of 90. He may be best remembered as Pa Kent, impotent Kansas farmer who finds Kal El in a ditch and raises him to be Superman before the ungrateful little bastard triggers a heart attack by challenging him to a race. Among his many roles, a pacifist rancher looking for a little grass for his sheep and little… loving for himself but getting thwarted by cattle baron Leslie Nielsen on both fronts in The Sheepman. He tried bringing learning to young Sidney Poitier and Jamie Farr in The Blackboard Jungle. He romanced Rita Hayworth in Gilda, although she slapped him hard enough to break a couple teeth (below). In a rare heavy role in 3:10 to Yuma, he played Ben Wade, a captured outlaw being transported to the aforementioned train for delivery to prison by a down-on-his luck farmer while his gang tries to free him. Paired with High Noon, this genre speaks to an obsession with the precision of train travel rivaling Benito Mussolini’s.



Glenn’s death affords two Poolers 10 points each, as Jessica Nowak moves into 13th and Monty’s nisnomered Dead? No, Acting brilliantly moves into 25th.

The revised leaderboard, rife with the Michigan Militia of two residents, one former resident and two frequent visitors to Wolverinetown:
1st Mike – Team One 3 hits, 60 points
2nd Me – International House of Death 3 hits, 31.66666667 points
3rd Greg – Team Quincy 3 hits, 26.85714286 points
4th Craig – Seriously, Why Don’t You Just Die? 3 hits, 19.52380956 points
5th Mark – Beltway Boneyard III: Filibustering the Grim Reaper 3 hits, 17.85714286 points