Cornell to play two @ North Dakota

Josh '99

Trotsky
A map of Cornell's home and away games, by site, rs and ps, for existing D-1 teams, through last this weekend.

The consensus among RichH, JDeafv, KateWithThe8 and myself here in Minneapolis is that Providence College should not be abbreviated "PRN".

If only someone could make up unique two-letter abbreviations for all the Division I hockey schools...

mnagowski
Speaking of which, Providence College is west of Brown, no?

For that matter, shouldn't Providence be PRO rather than PRN? Or else Princeton should be something other than PRN.

jtwcornell91

Josh '99

Trotsky
A map of Cornell's home and away games, by site, rs and ps, for existing D-1 teams, through last this weekend.

The consensus among RichH, JDeafv, KateWithThe8 and myself here in Minneapolis is that Providence College should not be abbreviated "PRN".

If only someone could make up unique two-letter abbreviations for all the Division I hockey schools...

I don't like yours. Not to put too fine a point on it.


I am open to geographical suggestions and changes in the abbrev's, though (even from John). Providence was a mistake, it should be PRV (PC would probably be even better, thinking about it). Mercyhurst has the Merrimack problem. The general philosophy is from the Shea Stadium out of town scoreboard abbreviations from the mid 70's (e.g., PGH not PIT, MTL not MON). That's why PRN not PRI, HVD not HAR.

Trotsky
A map of Cornell's home and away games, by site, rs and ps, for existing D-1 teams, through last this weekend.

A stupid question, but how come Alaska-Anchorage is not on there?

Trotsky
The general philosophy is from the Shea Stadium out of town scoreboard abbreviations from the mid 70's (e.g., PGH not PIT, MTL not MON). That's why PRN not PRI, HVD not HAR.

Ah. Now I begin to understand where you went wrong...

HeafDog

Trotsky
A map of Cornell's home and away games, by site, rs and ps, for existing D-1 teams, through last this weekend.

A stupid question, but how come Alaska-Anchorage is not on there?

Because Fairbanks isn't either?

Didn't we split a series against Vladivostock Polytechnikyscht Institutsky in the mid-fifties?

HeafDog

Trotsky
A map of Cornell's home and away games, by site, rs and ps, for existing D-1 teams, through last this weekend.

A stupid question, but how come Alaska-Anchorage is not on there?

It's not a stupid question. I just forgot them (though I did get UAH).

HeafDog

Trotsky
A map of Cornell's home and away games, by site, rs and ps, for existing D-1 teams, through last this weekend.

A stupid question, but how come Alaska-Anchorage is not on there?

Because it's in Russia.

Swampy
A stupid question, but how come Alaska-Anchorage is not on there?

Because it's in Russia. [/quote]

So if Cornell played at UAA and brought a significant number of fans, could we then say that Cornell brought a large cadre of supporters to a game held where you can see Vladivostok from the rink's porch?

KeithK
For that matter, shouldn't Providence be PRO rather than PRN? Or else Princeton should be something other than PRN.

How about PVD -- that's the nearest major airport anyway.

crodger1

KeithK
For that matter, shouldn't Providence be PRO rather than PRN? Or else Princeton should be something other than PRN.

How about PVD -- that's the nearest major airport anyway.

PVD would probably fit better with Greg's bizarre, Shea-inspired ways.

DeltaOne81

Swampy
A stupid question, but how come Alaska-Anchorage is not on there?

Because it's in Russia.

So if Cornell played at UAA and brought a significant number of fans, could we then say that Cornell brought a large cadre of supporters to a game held where you can see Vladivostok from the rink's porch?[/quote]

Who knows? Vladimir Putin might even rear his head. But then he's no longer red, but we still are!

KeithK

crodger1

KeithK
For that matter, shouldn't Providence be PRO rather than PRN? Or else Princeton should be something other than PRN.

How about PVD -- that's the nearest major airport anyway.

PVD would probably fit better with Greg's bizarre, Shea-inspired ways.

PVD would work perfectly for {PROVICED.

For those of you that enjoyed the pregame show in grand forks:

Jacob '06
For those of you that enjoyed the pregame show in grand forks:

Thanks, even my daughter and her friend laughed.

Jim Hyla

Jacob '06
For those of you that enjoyed the pregame show in grand forks:

Thanks, even my daughter and her friend laughed.

I guess I'm dense and missing something.. but what does a gorilla (or Phil Collins for that matter) have to do with Cadbury Chocolate? This does not make me want to run out and buy a Cadbury bar (even if I had bought a couple earlier today).

Sorry for the thread drift, I'm just confused.

Jacob '06
For those of you that enjoyed the pregame show in grand forks:

YES! WHEN THE DRUMS COME IN THEY JUST GET ME SO PUMPED! UP! YEEEEAHHHHH!

Rita

Jim Hyla

Jacob '06
For those of you that enjoyed the pregame show in grand forks:

Thanks, even my daughter and her friend laughed.

I guess I'm dense and missing something.. but what does a gorilla (or Phil Collins for that matter) have to do with Cadbury Chocolate? This does not make me want to run out and buy a Cadbury bar (even if I had bought a couple earlier today).

Sorry for the thread drift, I'm just confused.

The same thing that a cockney gecko has to do with car insurance. It just works!!

North Dakota was named the most corrupt state in the country by USA Today. Their analysis is a little questionable.

[www.usatoday.com]

Don Morrison, executive director of the non-partisan North Dakota Center for the Public Good, said it may be that North Dakotans are better at rooting out corruption when it occurs.

"Being a sparsely populated state, people know each other," he said. "We know our elected officials and so certainly to do what the governor of Illinois did is much more difficult here."

ebilmes
North Dakota was named the most corrupt state in the country by USA Today.

Eh. They're too busy buying cars and enjoying their flourishing economy to care.

As it happens, one of the state’s biggest worries right now is precisely the reverse of most other states: North Dakota has about 13,000 unfilled jobs and is struggling to find people to take them.

<snip>

“Our problem is that everybody thinks that it’s a cold, miserable place to live,” said Bob Stenehjem, a Republican and the State Senate’s majority leader. “They’re wrong, of course. But North Dakota is a pretty well-kept secret.”

Of course.

Having just been to North Dakota, I didn't see anything to disprove my impression that it would be a cold, miserable place to live.

I'm amused by the thing Elie posted, though, which basically seems to say "we're corrupt BECAUSE of our integrity."