The Great Zucchini

[sirvaliantbrown]

Have you all read this (old-ish) story?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/18/AR2006011801434.html

Amazing amazing. Long, but superly worthwhile.

 

[Satchel Pooch]

Weingarten is without a doubt one of my favorite newspaper writers. Google Weingarten and "Josh Bell" for one of the great features of the past year. He's one of my humor-writing idols.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Wow. Awesome.

This needs to be made into a movie.

 

[housejd]

It was one of the first stories a former sports editors at my college paper made me read. It is just incredible.

 

[FishHack76]

Thanks for sharing. That was unbelievably great.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

"(Emboldened by a glass or three of party beaujolais, moms have been known to playfully inquire of the Great Zucchini whether there is any particular reason he merits that nickname.)"

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What I would do to have hot moms ask me that....