Bob Costas

OK, so I get that the guy is a buffoon and that Margie hates him, but I can't figure out why he has become a curse word on the forum.  It seems like Bob Costas is about on par with berkeley here.

I am not a sports fan, so have not listened to him much.  From the little I have seen, he does seem to wander when getting to the point (assuming there is one).  Is it the that, or the massive ego, or....?

Just wanted you to know that every time you read Bob Costas in this post I didn't type Bob Costas.

Bob Costass.

I just wish I knew what word got censored as Bob Costas.

In reply to Mr_Asa :

IIRC it's an inappropriate 5-letter word for, ahem, lady bits. Bob Costas

EDIT: Confirmed.

In reply to z31maniac :

Ahh.  Boobs.  Gotcha, cause he's a boob

Edit: wait

In reply to Mr_Asa :

Aaahaahaaaa!  Thanks

Well E36 M3 GD Hell Berkeley.

E36 M3 Berkeley Bob Costas

OK then.

Edit - I think there should be a Filter Thread so I don't ask stupid questions

Did you type Bob Costas or Bob Costas in the thread title? 

IIRC it started around the time Bob Costas was the newscaster/emotional backstory teller for the Olympics. Board Mom and magazine producer extraordinaire doesn't like him much and posted her thorough opinion on why that was so. Somewhere after that the filter was born. 

When Maryland opened it's football season in prime time on labor day night against Notre Dame in the Meadowlands, It was 3 days after my compound fib tib, achilles, ACL/mcl, and 13 fractures in my left foot. 

I was still laid out in the hospital neck port in, the works. Being a Notre Dame game, NBC had the broadcast. They sent a camera crew to my hospital room and had Bob Costas do a remote interview. Every question he asked was like he was trying to pick a scab off as quickly and directly as possible. I was relatively high as E36 M3 from the neck port/nerve block and morphine drip, but as I recall the interview lasted about three or four questions before I told him to berkeley himself. Needless to say, but don't believe that producers decided to use any of the footage for pregame or halftime. 

Mr_Asa said:

I just wish I knew what word got censored as Bob Costas.

Bob Costascat is my favorite use of the filter. 

Mr_Asa said:

In reply to z31maniac :

Ahh.  Boobs.  Gotcha, cause he's a boob

 

Edit: wait

FANTASTIC! Hahahaha. 

Yup. He's just odious, as is that word. Though I might use it to describe Bob Costas because he seems like a Bob Costas. Cap'nDS, on the other hand, is my new hero.

Margie

CapnDsfht what were you in your former life that BCostas (err.....here kitty kitty) would want to sit with you bedside and CHAT??? Inquiring minds yaknow....

In reply to 759NRNG :

I played safety at Maryland for 2 years and suffered the injury entering my junior year. 

The drugs get a fair credit for the response. Back then you didn't have a rookie salary structure in the NFL so rookies could still make big bank coming out of school. Adulius Thomas and Brian Urlacher had been drafted the previous spring and we're preparing to enter their rookie seasons. Prior to the injury I compared favorably to them with regards to size and straight line speed. Costas made a fairly thinly veiled inquiry regarding the financial ramifications of the injury. It was completely callous as at the time we honestly had no idea as to whether I would even walk again. I'd had two surgeries in the past three days and it would be four more surgeries before I was out of a wheelchair. I literally had a line drawing on my left leg below the knee where they were going to amputate until somebody checked the ID and stated who I was (as I was unconscious, from shock, when found with the injury) That resulted in me being transferred to another hospital where Dr. Matthews performed my surgeries, and many years later he would do Terrell Owens's ankle when he was with the Eagles. 

I was just in shock that I was being asked such a question and found it grossly inappropriate and being under the influence that was my response. 

He also wasn't bedside they had a camera with me and he was in studio but there was a mic and audio for the back and forth. 

In reply to captdownshift (Forum Supporter) :

Okay, that's proof. Marjorie was right. 
 

Seems to me that the code words for Bob Costas and shiny happy person should be reversed.

Boob

Well it isn't a substitute for boob.  I didn't think it was.  

In reply to spitfirebill :

Me neither. I thought it was the colloquialism for kitty.

The dude is an alien. Deer-in-the-headlights stare and he never blinks.

wheelsmithy (Joe-with-an-L) said:

In reply to spitfirebill :

Me neither. I thought it was the colloquialism for kitty.

Yeah. It was a bit confusing when I was talking about somebody's pet cat and that announcer from the Olympics popped up.

In reply to captdownshift (Forum Supporter) :

It sounds like the filter was set to the wrong odious word for lady-bits... Unless it was set the same for the other one too. I guess I've never tried:

Bob Costas vajajay

Edit: If it weren't for all the existing Bob Costas usage, I'd argue that those two should have the filters swapped.