posters

ok. anyone know if there is a place in worcester to hang posters w/o blocking people's view. i trashed all the LP posters and was wondering if it was worth the effort to make another banner (like the Dunbars one - it is ... IF we can put it up).

If there is a place, does anyone have any ideas for a sign they'd like to see but that they themselves don't have the time to make? my creativity is lacking - i am still trying to catch up on sleep from LP and working overtime has made that impossible - but i can always make time for sign making (isn't that the purpose of thurs must see TV? it's always on but rarely watched....go figure)

Does anyone know if there's a Canadian flag in the Centrum?

Pretty safe bet there is neither a Canadian nor a Swedish flag at the Centrum.

I'd be willing to bet they don't have a BIG RED Country sign. . .or one that says WELCOME CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

damn. i don't know what i love more ... cornell hockey or the fanatical cornell fans....

so i am guessing that all the "regular" (read: cool signs that have been coming on the road for big games .... and my personal fav - the canadian flag) will be travelling again this week-end too. glad to hear it. but are you certain you will have a place to hang them?

Most bigger buildings like the WC have fairly high walls leading away from the entrances between the levels. At the Rose Garden (which is somewhat similar to the WC), fans hang banners from the upper level balcony rail and they don't block anything (they are basically wall rugs).

I'm sure the players love the homemade, one-off "inside story" banners, and even if you can't hang them at the rink, you can always hang them outside the hotel room for the "we are everywhere" effect.

we WILL find a place to hang them. . .

greg - do you want to have us sleeping on the streets?


y'all are right. will make a new sign. now must come up with an idea.

Rumor has it that some of the crazy Swedes (most notably one of the guys with one of the bigger Swedish flags) will be in attendance. And someobody going is bound to have a Canadian flag, so that should be taken care of.

how about "the puck stops here" and hang it by underhill?
just a thought- if i wasn't writing this philosophy essay now, i might be able to come up with something better

also, someone who is more clever than me might be able to think up some funny acronym using the letters U N and H

-mike

also, i was just thinking-- how about a big sign that says
"Let's Go, Shades of Red!" and than ECAC on the bottom
or something like that, with respect to representing the ECAC with red & crimson

however, BU is also some disgusting combination of brown and red (though they are the home team with a higher seat, so they'll wear the white, so i guess no harm done)
-mike

yeah. was thinking of singling out Undy with something similar (his name inserted in the stop sign with either the phrase the puck stops here or BIG RED stop sign ... but didn't know if there was a place to hang it behind him. maybe i'll make it and take the chance.

BU wears red and white--no brown.

Maybe you're thinking of SLU?

Ok. So it isn't original but a UNH = University of No Hardware sign might be appropriate.

Or a "You can't spell XYZ without UNH" sign (of course, that requires something clever for XYZ

Or if someone wants to play with New Hampshire anagrams, you could try this online anagram generator.
[www.mbhs.edu]

That doesn't really work. They just won the Hockey East, and we didn't win the ECAC.

National Titles, not conference titles.

C'mon, Al, it's Scarlet and White.

Mike:

The only Red, White and Brown unis in college hockey that I know of are SLU and Brown.

Scarlett was a pushy southern broad. Fiddledee-dee.

i meant that bu's red was a dirty shade representing brown or maroon

I think you'll find it an almost perfect match for Cornell's red.

Yup. . .defiantly almost the same color as us and their jerseys look just like the Detroit Red Wings. . .yuck!!!

OK, but that's not "no hardware." And of course they don't have a national title, they just won their first conference title. Considering that our last one was 32 years ago, it's not like we have really dominated since then either. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just giving you a hard time. I don't think the UNH fans would really get that you mean no national titles by saying "no hardware." But what's all this talk about banners anyway, we still have to beat Quinnipiac on Sat, as someone so nicely reminded me this morning. (as if I would forget, of all people.)

I wonder if Crayola has ever produced Scarlet or Carnelian crayons?

Bob Norton continually referred to us as wearing "Cornellian" red. Granted, it might have been his horrible accent, but I think he was just being typically dense.

> Fiddledee-dee.

As God is ma' witness, ay'll nevah be shorthanded again!

I think the most precise specification (in terms of reproducibility) is Cornell's official color for the university logo (at least in print) - Pantone 186. An interesting article in the Jan/Feb Cornell Magazine discussed precisely the topic of "What color is carnelian, anyway?" In the article, it was stated that "the shade of carnelian has varied over the years...from maroon to scarlet and almost every shade in between (except crimson)."

[cornell-magazine.cornell.edu]

Thanks, Tom - I'd forgotten about that article.

Yet another way that Ned left his mark on our lives...

Ken '71

Leave it to you, Tom, to lurk for months, then swoop in and post a single item about the Pantone scale. )

Beeeej

Ken,

Are you going to be joining us in W'stah? If we've met at all I think it was with Arthur about 13 years ago.

-- Greg

I'll be screaming at the TV here at home. I'm handcuffed to my job - it's a good thing I like my work.

Arthur and I have been friends since our sophomore year - '68-69, but I'm nowhere near the hockey fan/scholar that he is.

Have a great weekend - LET'S GO RED! (Pantone 186)

Ken '71

> Pantone 186

If we were RISD, that'd be a helluva cheer.

I thought the early game was for making posters [conjures up an image of Judy coloring in the "DOV IS A SIV" sign during the consy]

JTW, you are forgetting the better side! Damn. Wish I hadn't trashed that! All that effort for nothing!

DO ME DOV!

(excuse me as I go throw up in the Harvard bench)

what? judy, are you saying that you weren't serious???? i know that I was!!!

yeah... eew.

Sometime in the '60s, Cornell began to edge toward a shade with more yellow. Some give credit to legendary hockey and lacrosse coach Ned Harkness, who came to the Hill in 1963. He changed the color of the hockey uniforms to bright red (perhaps because that was what he was accustomed to, after eighteen years at RPI); other Cornell sports teams followed suit.

So Harkness did indeed steal RPI's uniforms when he left RPI, as I heard when I was a Freshman there in 64-65.

Wait a minute, Harkness was coach at the 'Tute from 49-50 through 62-63. Sounds like fourteen years. I wonder what he was doing there the previous four years.

Melissa wrote:

JTW, you are forgetting the better side! Damn. Wish I hadn't trashed that! All that effort for nothing!

Just think, you could have used it to cheer for him in Worcester. (Hmm, wonder if the original "DO ME DOV" girls will be there.)