# Fat Albert: Buck-Buck champion of the world **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829 "2003-03-12T15:19:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/41 "2003-03-13T19:21:47Z")
“Goddammit, get in here!” “But Dad, I’m Jesus Christ!” ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/42 "2003-03-13T19:35:08Z")
_“I think you flooded it.”_ _ **"How come?"** _ _" 'cause there’s gasoline shooting over your left shoulder."_ _ **"Nah it always does that."** _ _“What is this thing, an airplane engine?”_ _ **"Yeah.** _ _“Well, how do you keep the engine cool?”_ _ **"Oh, you just have to keep movin’."** _ Man, I love that routine. ---
**Author:** ![Greywolf73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d9b06d/32.png) [@Greywolf73](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greywolf73)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/43 "2003-03-13T22:55:12Z")
“Worst beating I ever got was when I finished my mother’s sentence for her. She said, “I’m sick…” and I said, “and TIRED!”” ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2003, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/44 "2003-03-13T23:30:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Greywolf73 \* > \*\ ***JeffOlsen** , my mom had a Jazz album by him too! I’m amazed that it even sold 2 copies. Wasn’t it called “Golden Throat” or something like that? > \*\* It was called [Silver Throat](http://www.hipsurgerymusic.com/Cosby/silver.html) and man, it’s awful. **Noah! This is God!** … **RIGHT!** ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/45 "2003-03-14T00:05:06Z")
“Pick up your brain. Have you lost your mind?” ---
**Author:** ![Ace\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Ace\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace_Face)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/46 "2003-03-14T00:10:27Z")
Regarding the OP, he definitely was a ringer. I don’t recall a number, just an impressive intro… "[low voice] Brrrring on… … … Faaaaaat Albert! [/low voice] Fat Albert was the baddest buck buck player in the world. Fat Albert weighed 2,000 pounds!" ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/47 "2003-03-14T00:31:10Z")
Does anyone else remember the original Fat Albert special, where Fat Albert enters, and the ground shakes and splits before him; and they have a football game and the rest of the team is hanging off Fat Albert’s body as he heads for the endzone? ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/48 "2003-03-14T02:26:41Z")
Yeah! I remember the football game… “OK, so you’re the bottle cap…” “No, no…I wanna be the piece of glass!” “And there was always this fat kid that asked ‘What about me?’ ‘Hey, you go _long_!’” “You go _long_” was a popular insult in my junior high as a result. I remember The Cos’ albums with great joy…gotta listen to them again. ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/49 "2003-03-14T02:49:37Z")
“Now the problem with bathing in the toliet bowl is the water is so cold. That’s where Russell comes in…” “Push harder so your Wallie Wallie’ll come out!” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/50 "2003-03-14T02:58:33Z")
“…and my friends found a statue of Dracula. Well, stole it, really.” ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/51 "2003-03-14T07:44:00Z")
Frankenstein, IIRC. “And they took out all the lights in the hallway. Then they put in a pink one, right next to the statue of the monster.” [sub]And my whole family still uses “Yeah? I’d like to see _whoever_ get a beatin’!” as an expression of “Sounds good, let’s do that.”[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/52 "2003-03-14T13:23:06Z")
I, uh, started out as a child… From the football game: “Arnie, go down ten steps and cut left behind the black Chevy. Filbert, you run down to my house and wait in the living room. Cosby, go down to third street. Catch the ‘J’ bus. Have the driver open the doors at 19th Street. I’ll fake it to ya.” ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829/53 "2003-03-14T16:41:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bryan Ekers \* > \*\*"…and my friends found a statue of Dracula. Well, stole it, really." \*\* **Bryan** , you’re really lucky I didn’t have any liquid in my mouth when I read this, cuz you would have owed me a new keyboard. I’d forgotten that part. Precious memories, how they linger… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fat-albert-buck-buck-champion-of-the-world/160829.md?page=2)