Shankapotomus gifts
What is the craze? Shankapotomus? E-Trade makes a commercial with a toddler using his cell phone to check and buy stocks and the world goes nuts. The golf theme commercial starts with this toddler, who’s name is Nigel, complaining that the the old guy in the background of the set refuses to pay him for losing a golf bet in a skins game. Skins is a golf match where each hole in an 18 hole round is for a “skin” or an amount of money. The person in the game scoring the lowest score on that hole wins the skin. At the end of the match they would offset the skins to determine who owes who money and how much. Frank obviously lost. So Frank refuses to pay Nigel and Nigel tell the camera that Frank should have used Etrade to manage his stock portfolio so he would have the money to pay him. Frank’s response? He tells the toddler that he cheated because he MOVED his ball (during a hole). This would be a penalty in a golf match. Usually a one stroke penalty. Nigels pipes back at Frank telling him that his ball was on the cart path. If your ball comes to rest on the cart path or near the cart path to where you must stand on the cart path to take your next shot, you receive a “drop”, meaning you get to pick up your ball and drop it in play, no closer to the hole but off the cart path, with no penalty. Nigel throws in an apparent insult calling Frank, Shankapotomus. As a golfer this would suggest that Frank shanks the ball quite a bit. The term Shankapotomus stuck. Now I hear it all the time. On the golf course and off. It is wild how well that phrase from some commercial writer stuck in the minds of so many.
Do you like the Shankapotomus term? Here are some sites where you can get Shankapotomus shirts and other Shankapotomus Gifts that I think are hilarious and would make awesome gifts for golfers.
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