I don't usually comment on basketball...

But something about the spat between Kenyon Martin and Tim Thomas is funny. Thomas called Martin a "Fugazy"- a term I had never heard, and apparently means pretend tough guy.

Then Martin says, "I'm not like Pandora's box -- you open it up and don't know what you're going to get. That's him."

This all leads me to believe that either Kenyon Martin or I has no idea what Pandora's Box is. I thought it meant that once you open it, the stuff inside can never be put back, more like the cat is out of the bag, than unknown quantity. Obviously I could look this up, but I feel like going on memory. Based on that, it was Pandora who couldn't resist opening the box to find out what is inside like - another cat proverb simile - curiousity killed the cat, which says more about Pandora than the box.

My example of Pandora's box would be nuclear technology. Humans were just too curious (or insane) and had to go an invent a nuclear bomb. Now that shit is out there, it's never going back in the box, and it's only a matter of time before one goes off (again).

There are possible exceptions that do end up back in the box, like small pox, polio, and, dare I say, SARS. Two things about this. One, although I think there were some disease elements in the original Pandora's box, they are just a metaphor, and humans weren't really the Pandora that unleashed those things on the world. Two, it remains to be seen how long they stay in the, literal in the case of smallpox, box.

So to reply to Kenyon Martin, "That's true, you are not like Pandora's Box, you are like Pandora"
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