Bar'kevious Mingo Drops the Apostrophe, Signs with LSU
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Craig B. writes:
C’lay,
With all the hysteria around National Signing Day, has the Claynation missed the fact that a highly ranked member of the CAR Top Five List mysteriously dropped the apostrophe from his name? Apparently Bar’Kevious Mingo is now going by simply Barkevious Mingo. Check out his announcement here. I have checked multiple recruiting sites and they all have his name listed without the glorious apostrophe. WTF! What are your thoughts C’lay on this tragic turn of events with the CAR Rankings? I think that we need to do a ranking of CAR for the new recruits. I am sure there are plenty we have missed.
After doing some more Googling of Barkevious, I stumbled across this little nugget, his brother or cousin is Hughtavious-Deangleo Mingo. WOW. Apparently, Hugh did not get the football gene of the Mingo family tree, apparently he is going after the acting/modeling market. Check out his amateur shots here. I especially like the one of him with the tree.
So his momma pulled the out both the dash and the apostrophe for her children. This woman gets the gold medal if she has another child and their name has some other random mark of punctuation.
Final thought on the word barkevious. Apparently, it means vicious dog in Anglo-Saxon French. You can’t make this stuff up!
Roll Tide!
Where you have you gone Bar'Kevious Mingo, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo woo woo. What's that you say Mrs. Mingo,...
I think you get the feeling. It's a mournful day here. Although, to be fair, I think your assertion that Mrs. Mingo didn't know the Anglo-Saxon French translation for barkevious is patently absurd. Do you think she just randomly put together two words without considering the implications in Brittany? (France, not Spears.)
As for Hughtavious Deangeleo, that tree picture is too good to be true. (It's linked above). Are you telling me that if you were interested in having the funniest modeling picture on earth, that you could do better than this? You're lying. Flat-out lying. That picture is genius.
Photographer: "What we need now is the shadow of leaves on your face in the afternoon sunlight. Okay, perfect, no....wait...something's not right. Unzip the hoodie just a bit, right, yes, like that, perfect, wait...something more, place your hand on the tree, be one with nature, now climb halfway behind the tree branch, perfect, make love to the camera, yes, yes, oh, God yes!"
I'm very tempted to recreate this shot for my book-jacket photo. Labels: barkevious mingo hughtavious-deangeleo mingo lsu football
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