Best go back and look it up. 
Tim, Tim, Benzedrine!
Hash! Boo! Valvoline!
Clean! Clean! Clean for Gene!
First, second, neutral, park,
Hie thee hence, you leafy narc!
Damn, now I have the book out, I’ma gonna have to read it. Again. 
Does no one want Mazola? :eek:
Yes, I had forgotten Clean for Gene. I even remember whose slogan it was. Jeeze, I’m getting old.
It struck me long ago that this doesn’t leave much of Hashberry to love.
Unless, of course, she’s very good at . . . oh, never mind.
Don’t reach for your walker just yet, gramps. I’m twenty, I read BoTR last year, and I think it’s the funniest thing ever. My signature on another message board is a Bored quote: “Fear not, for our army is strong and courageous” “Just hope they don’t sober up before we get there”.
Back to the OP…
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... Okay, I can't think of any BoTR characters I'd like to be in the sme room with.Yes, Malleus, but did you get WHY the ballhog had the cruel runes written across his chest?
Undoubtedly it had something to do with the fagot he was brandishing.
I found that part extra ironic, since I read it while I was in college at Villanova, and at the time, the biggest ball-hog in the NCAA was at our arch-rival Georgetown.
Oh, hell, you’se a YOUNG 'un.
This is not my fault. This is Anaamika’s fault. I never meant things to go this far.
Often heard at the Nuremberg Trials as I recall.
Something to do with basketball jerseys?
The bit that got me to read Bored of the Rings BEFORE I ever read Tolkein’s work…
Well, it was WHICH runes he had that made the joke.
But be not afraid! I want to make peas with you.
As alluded to in my previous remark, the cruel runes read “Villanova”.
Was there some particular 'Nova player at the time that was written that inspired the gag?
None in particular. They all were too damned good for being Catholic. And, as usual, their basketball team was better than Harvard’s.
I wouldn’t read too much into the choice of the name. Beard and Kenney wrote too fast to invest too much in a particular gag.