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boo heat, yay cold and snow! i dreamed i was an eskimo (and all that).

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:33 (twenty-three years ago)

The best possible way to listen to Bill Evans play piano is if it's snowing.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

my girlfriend

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Higher insurance costs! Yay!

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)

We won the war! *high five*

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)

buffalo wings, seriously.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Our sports teams are better.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Coney Island

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

The zoos have penguins.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Ally, are you serious? (sports accusation)

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

The Mall of America!!

I'm dead serious about the sports accusation.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:38 (twenty-three years ago)

is it grim?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

aurora borealis.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Gareth is always here.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheeseheads.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

YAY MILWAUKEE

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:42 (twenty-three years ago)

SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW SNOW OMG IT IS SNOW.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:42 (twenty-three years ago)

vermont and maine are the best american states of them all ... if only there were real jobs up there!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

big-ass warm sweaters!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Mulled wine and snowball fights!

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

siberia gavareet po russki

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Pizza
Delis
less racists
Nascar stories don't lead the nightly newscasts
when the girlies wear revealing clothes on the first warm day of the year

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:44 (twenty-three years ago)

closer to Canada than to Mexico

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:45 (twenty-three years ago)

less racists

my ass.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

actually, being closer to canada than mexico is NOT an advantage of the north

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Heavy beer and windburns!

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

nearly all the good techno comes from Yankee country

hstencil OTM

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)

hehehe "closer to Canada than to Mexico" is an interesting juxtaposition with the "less racists" thing but anyway.

Fall foliage way better up here.

Apples.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

(i mean, i like canada well enough but mexico is SO much better and cooler)

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

some of the most racist people i've ever known were from northern NJ and south philly. both of which are, last i checked, north of mason-dixon.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah it's more than disingenuous to see someone from Boston (or thereabouts) claim there's less racists in the North.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Apples and PUMPKIN FARMS! HAYRIDES!

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Super Troopers = Vermont
Pootie Tang = Chicago
Wet Hot American Summer = NY/PA

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:48 (twenty-three years ago)

The Hudson Valley.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

The White (ahem!) Mountains.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Can we not get into this debate? There are racists everywhere. SHOCKAH.

Motown.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Fall foliage way better up here.

Oh, yeah. The North has four actual seasons, rather than 9 months of summer and three months of blah.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

whatever, racist.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

whoops, that was for Ally.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

fall foliage rocks ... esp. if one can get to go WAY north (like upstate NY or VT) to see it. it's also one of my fave times here, when the leaves start to turn.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone knows who the racist is here, hstencil! I'm talking to the man in the mirror--YOUR MIRROR.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

hmm, okay, back to the topic...

Edmonton has Anthony Easton, so there's another high point.

― hstencil, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

hehehe "closer to Canada than to Mexico" is an interesting juxtaposition with the "less racists" thing but anyway.

how so? that's assuming one's dislike of Mexico has something to do with race.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Get it right. The NORTH has RACISTS. The SOUTH has BIGOTS. Because not only do we hate all black people, we hate fags and jews too.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Whatever, Farrakhan.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:55 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh Ben & Jerry.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

the south has jews?

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

jimmy bob rosenstein

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Only in the cities.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

"Black people drive like THIS"

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

and running all the banks too, yes?

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 01:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know about that.

Some of my favorite high school friends were JAPs from the ritzy part of Houston.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK that's more than enough guys.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:02 (twenty-three years ago)

NO NO it's STILL FUNNY

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

White Christmas
Ny Steak
New England Chowder
New York Pizza
Italian Ices
None of that southern hospitality bullshit!

― Micheline Gros-Jean (Micheline), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Canada is as north as you can get.
And we're good people. Honestly. If you can see past the toques, beer and back bacon, understand who we really are inside, you will love us.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:03 (twenty-three years ago)

oy gevalt, y'all!

― Tad Rabinowitz (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The Space Needle.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Canada was right about one thing. Maple syrup rocks.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Maple syrup is from Canada?

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:05 (twenty-three years ago)

We export the maple syrup rocks all over the world. Then processing plants in other countries distill the syrup.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i've always wanted to visit newfoundland ... esp. the labrador. the labrador always fascinated me, last frontier and all and colder than a motherfucker!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Maine lobster

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:07 (twenty-three years ago)

LL Bean

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Maple syrup comes from rocks?

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:08 (twenty-three years ago)

We only sell WISCONSIN maple syrup at the bakery where i work. But Wisconsin is pretty close to Canada.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

oh yeah, we don't talk funny up here.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Or is it converted into rocks before transportation? If so, maple syrup rocks rock.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Hampshire College.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

columbia university

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't talk funny. Someone from Canada once told me I sound Canadian, and I kicked his ass.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)

shit, the entire ivy league is up here.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Niagara Falls is pretty, what with all that cascading water and the fancy lights.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I always thought many of us Canadians have a rather neutral accent. That whole "aboot" thing is a myth. I don't know anybody who pronounces about that way.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Cape Cod

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:13 (twenty-three years ago)

The majestic Rocky Mountains.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:13 (twenty-three years ago)

it isn't a myth! i've known canadians who say "aboot"!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I was told I sound Canadian based on my pronunciations of "mom" and "bagel". I don't say "aboot."

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:14 (twenty-three years ago)

they were just playing to the stereotype.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:14 (twenty-three years ago)

shit, the entire ivy league is up here.

haha Tad "NICE things abt the North"

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

birthplace of hip hop, Michael Jordan, and hot dogs.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:15 (twenty-three years ago)

hockey.
ann arbor(until about 1997).
Delilah's (in chicago).

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course, when referring to footwear, I have said a boot.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:16 (twenty-three years ago)

it's nice to laugh at the ivy leagues, esp. knowing that if ivy league sports teams were to ever play "shitty" state schools they'd get their asses kicked hard!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:16 (twenty-three years ago)

shit, the entire ivy league is up here.
haha Tad "NICE things abt the North"

Ahem.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:17 (twenty-three years ago)

a u. mich. alum told me that they have this chant for the mich. state fans during u. mich. v. mich. state games -- "it's alright, it's ok, you will work for us one day!"

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)

i mean, the worst thing about rutgers is that we don't play princeton any more. if we did, then we'd be guaranteed at least ONE win a year.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

cool-ass blackouts

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think that's a mich. state chant. People used to do that chant at my high school.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Seriously, I need to reiterate the supremecy of buffalo wings yet again.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:20 (twenty-three years ago)

the u. mich. students chanted that to taunt mich. state students.

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Fireplaces

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:22 (twenty-three years ago)

you southerners can take boston ... please!

― Tad (llamasfur), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Mucklucks.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Moose, elk, polar bears, roving packs of wild dogs, beaver, et al.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Hipsters

MIT

NYC Fleet Week

West Point

BUFFALO WINGS HELLO????

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Man, do I ever like buffalo wings.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe no one's mentioned Buffalo wings.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I got nothing nice to say about the north

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:28 (twenty-three years ago)

We gots mad fresh water up here, yo.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

ivy leaguers and hockey hair - burn it all to hell

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to post something relevant here, but now all I can think of is buffalo who can no longer fly. The cruelty.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:33 (twenty-three years ago)

I always forget about the poor now-flightless buffalo when I bite into one of them tasty wings. I feel terrible.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:37 (twenty-three years ago)

And I don't call it hockey hair; I call it shorty long-back.
Which reminds me, I need to get mine trimmed.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Ape Drape all the way!

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 02:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I had no idea that buffalo had wings. Or that maple syrup came from rocks. I am learning so much from this thread.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Manacled to the city, manacled to the city
All estate agents alive yell down nights in hysterical breath
There's no lights so pretty
Those big big big wide streets
Those useless mps
Savages...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and pizza.

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The Red Sox, Moxie, and apple cider (even if there are fewer and fewer places where you can get the real thing).

(See, I found nice things to say.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:22 (twenty-three years ago)

In the back third eye psyche, the reflected mirror of delirium,
Eastender and victorian lager, the induced call, mysterious,
Comes forth - hit the north ...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:26 (twenty-three years ago)

its inuit

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I intuited it was inuit

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew you'd intuit it was inuit, becuase you had it in you, innit.

― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:41 (twenty-three years ago)

"Eskimo"

(from Heathers)

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

And I sure just like the word "Iditarod" ... granted, it first caught my eye as a hypothetical hybrid insult, one part "Idiot" and one part "Gayrod" ... but I digress ...

― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Gayrod?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 05:02 (twenty-three years ago)

From the "Dickweed" family of 7th-grade insults ...

― jackson anderville, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 06:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I know where it's from. I'm just baffled it's a word anyone holds in any esteem.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 06:18 (twenty-three years ago)

"esteem" ??? I just think it's funny ...

― jackson anderville, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 06:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it was from the "Fuckwad" family. You know, the Connecticut Fuckwads. Oh whatever, who really cares?

― nonthings (nonthings), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 06:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it was from the "Fuckwad" family. You know, the Connecticut Fuckwads. Oh whatever, who really cares?

Face it ... you're a racist.

― jackson anderville, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 06:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Guilty as charged.

― nonthings (nonthings), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 06:57 (twenty-three years ago)

brattleboro, vt

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 08:17 (twenty-three years ago)

It's Grim Up North

(I thought it was Scottish people who said 'aboot'. But Canadians are very into wearing kilts and all that.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 11:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I feel that I love the North.

But some might say that this is because I have never lived in it.

― the northfox, Tuesday, 19 August 2003 11:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I live there!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 11:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I live in the North. Yet another reason to flock to Lancashire in droves.

― Matt (Matt), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 11:48 (twenty-three years ago)

the american north. why are Americans so (i dont mean everyone) so God bless america i cant go one step before a white asshole say something ugly about canada and say god bless america ( i dont mean this litterly)

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Bob Probert

― Larcole (Nicole), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like this thread. I like how the northerners all went and said nice things about the south and this isn't even remotely true vice versa, except for like two people. Southern hospitality at work.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

the north has leeds and manchester and sheffield and newcastle. the south has only london, but london is better than the others. it is a score draw, but the north is a team player, while the south has a a star striker

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:34 (twenty-three years ago)

Alaska is pretty.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Ever Been to Svalbard?

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Haha I like how we've just decided to take the whole northern hemisphere in yet the definition was so strict in the other thread!! Seriously though, Turbonegro, wtf.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:43 (twenty-three years ago)

actully its um øøøøøøøøh eeeeeeh wich contries Turbo(..sensur...) From

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Philly cheesesteak!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Better public transit.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

HÆ?

― Christian Vasbotn Braaten (Christian Vasbotn Braaten), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Atlantic City

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 12:59 (twenty-three years ago)

"Everything dies, baby that's a fact..."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Better public transit.

Yes! What do we have down here? Some shitty busses that are less transit than stigma.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Everything that dies might someday come back.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 13:05 (twenty-three years ago)

It's home.
Hey Nicole, have you seen Probert's house in Windsor? FUCK!

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

CCR

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 19 August 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

BAGELS.
Bialys (Bialies?).
Friendly's, and proper frappes.
Bertucci's.
Major-league baseball.
The first few crocuses and robins of spring.
Apple orchards.
Sugar maples, maple syrup, maple sugar, &c.
Cider donuts from Atkins' Farms in Amherst, MA.
Many fine ILX0rz.
Very nice brick buildings and Colonial homes.
Pizza.
The Pixies.
Steak sandwiches/subs/whatever you'd like to call em.
Molasses floods.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 18:39 (twenty-three years ago)

better architecture, overall
pretty winters

wow, ally is way off on the sports thing, though. unless you completely take college basketball out of sports.(UK, DUKE, UNC, etc.)and college football (UT, Florida, etc.)

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

nanook

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I have no interest in college sports.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but in the north, college sports aren't really sports.

xp Ally

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Exactly.

I think the general sentiment a lot of us have is that, yeah, well, that's nice and all, but I'm not exactly interested in college theatre or college mock-trials either, so fuck off with your sports.

Sorry. I know it's lame.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but in the north, college sports aren't really sports.

yer obviously not a Penn State or Ohio State alumni.

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

yer obviously not a Penn State or Ohio State alumni.

I don't think of Ohio as being in the north, I'm from New England :) Anything past PA or maybe even Jersey is "middle." Fair point on Penn, but it's still not as big a deal as in the South. (Unless the northwest is different.)

Honestly, I was like 23 or 24 before I realized anyone, anywhere, paid attention to college sports aside from people currently attending that college and their parents. It still seems odd to me, especially given the rampant scandals and problems in the programs.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I was 19 when I realized anyone gave a shit about college sports. I dunno, I mean in Arizona people seemed to really care but not like actively, it was more like an excuse to be drunk, they didn't care if anything good was actually happening.

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:29 (twenty-three years ago)

rutgers sports teams always sucked, so there wasn't any point in getting all worked up about it. except freshman year '88, when RU beat Penn State for the first time since World War I (!) to be fair, rutgers had to compete with NYC and Philly sports teams -- who needs the shitty Scarlet Knights when you can watch the Giants or the Eagles?

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:33 (twenty-three years ago)

the most touching/pathetic sports fetishism i know of is Villanova -- i spent a year there during l-school, and they still have the 1985 NAACP championship memorabilia everywhere more than decade after the fact!

― Tad (llamasfur), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a sweatshirt that says "HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Undefeated Since 1972," which got me some looks in the South.

(Hampshire has never had a football team, see.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I think we've stumbled upon the real difference between the North and the South. It's not that faux self-aggrandizing "Southerners are nicer" thing (as I said on the other thread, there are dickheads everywhere and nice people everywhere and there are so many nice things about the South that lying seems silly), it's not, like, the weather. It's that they go to Duke games, we go to Eagles games.

I think this is really important! Someone should figure out a way to bridge this cultural schism, perhaps by allowing the entire UT football team kick the shit out of Jason Sehorn?

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:40 (twenty-three years ago)

that ally girl is not exactly the voice of diplomacy. "fuck off with your sports" she certainly doesn't give me pause for thought to contemplate the friendliness of the north.

― llula (Emilymv), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Must...resist...urge...to...post...sarcastic...joke...

― Ally (mlescaut), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)

we have at least one Voice of Diplomacy, isn't that enough?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

It's not that faux self-aggrandizing "Southerners are nicer" thing (as I said on the other thread, there are dickheads everywhere and nice people everywhere and there are so many nice things about the South that lying seems silly)

Maybe this belongs on the other thread, but: it isn't that they're nicer, it's that they're friendlier/more polite/more civil. They smile when they tell you to fuck off, instead of telling you to fuck off when they mean "howdy!"

(But yeah, the ratio of dickhead-to-head-that-is-something-other-than-dick seems equal to me.)

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:07 (twenty-three years ago)

college sports?????????/

this is a joke right?

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck it. Who cares.

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

like I said, ivy leaguers and hockey hair : burn it to hell

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 23:10 (twenty-three years ago)

nnnh oh oh...i like your style. Playa, play on...

― Spinktor the Unmerciful (mawill5), Wednesday, 20 August 2003 23:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm picturing all these poor fuckers with smouldering heads, trying to douse the flames while asking God why their beautiful mullets are aflame.

― Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Thursday, 21 August 2003 02:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Better football, better accents, friendlier people. (North of England, obviously)

― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 21 August 2003 10:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Maple candy is a forgotten but vital part of the maple spectrum.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 21 August 2003 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Not forgotten! You can even get fake maple candy (like, made with regular sugar in addition to the maple sugar) at Cracker Barrel. It's nothing like the real stuff, though.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 21 August 2003 13:58 (twenty-three years ago)

My parents brought us back a box of maple candy from Vermont, and we ate it all in like 2 days. It was so fucking good.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 21 August 2003 14:17 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to get two pieces, or one medium-sized piece, every Christmas. It was like ... Christmas in my mouth. The best thing about it is you can tell it comes from a tree, and you don't mind.

― Tep (ktepi), Thursday, 21 August 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

this all pertains to newfoundland, but:
vikings
car-smashed-by-moose warning signs
icebergs offshore in the summer
people who say "m'son" and "m'love" to everyone, including strangers

― Maria (Maria), Friday, 22 August 2003 04:07 (twenty-three years ago)

nine months pass...

Bosko Balaban Stats For Season

Name Bosko Balaban
Team Aston Villa
Total Appearances 0
Starts 0
Substituted 0
Total Minutes Played 0
Avg Minutes Played Per Start 0
Goals 0
Avg Goal Mins When Starting 0.0
Avg Mins Played/Goal Scored 0
Goals Scored As Sub 0
Number of Bookings 0
Total Booking Minutes 0
Avg Bookings Per Start 0
Number of Red Cards 0
Total Red Card Minutes 0
Avg Red Cards Per Start 0
Avg Booking Minutes When Starting 0.0

― bosko, Monday, 14 June 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

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