Biggus Chat Room: Who Would Plato’s Ideal Running Back Be?

me: read this sentence
Foster is the platonic ideal of a boom-and-bust running back, who breaks one or two highlight runs a game and then spends the rest of the time leaving his unfortunate quarterback in second-and-9 after second-and-9.
“platonic ideal”?
Biggus: It’s a little, um, pretentious for a football column.
me: as Will just said, “My relationship with first down is strictly platonic”
Biggus: It makes logical sense, but quintessential or “So-and-so epitomizes” would work better.
me: he means Plato?
Biggus: It should be capitalized I guess, but the Platonic ideal is somewhat commonly used phrase.
me: Socrates would have made a great shut down cornerback
What kind of Quarterback would Kant have been?
Biggus: Middle of the pack probably. Bounce around for about a dozen years, put up a couple of solid seasons.
me: honest question
what would a proto-arch-statist president be?
Biggus: Did you read that somewhere?
me: someone replied to me on twitter and I believe he was callling TR that
Biggus: I would say whoever wrote that needs fewer hyphenated prefixes in his diet.
me: I honestly was going to reply, “Now you are just using excessive dashes to confuse me”

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