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General Category => Hockey => Topic started by: ebilmes on October 31, 2006, 01:44:35 PM

Title: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: ebilmes on October 31, 2006, 01:44:35 PM
The Sun broke the story today:
http://cornelldailysun.com/node/19365

QuoteThe forum's at eLynah were already buzzing with speculation over who will fill Davenports place in the net.

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Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: Rosey on October 31, 2006, 02:04:35 PM
It's bad enough we have to deal with this shit once a year (April 1).  Do they really need another day to act juvenile? ::rolleyes::

Kyle
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: Tub(a) on October 31, 2006, 03:11:15 PM
[quote krose]It's bad enough we have to deal with this shit once a year (April 1).  Do they really need another day to act juvenile? ::rolleyes::

Kyle[/quote]

Fake news only works well when the newspaper isn't a joke the other 363 days of the year ;)
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: Lowell '99 on October 31, 2006, 03:17:33 PM
Not to hop on the Sun-bashing bandwagon (because I don't mean to), but while an April Fool's issue makes sense, fake articles on Halloween do not.  Go write for The Onion.
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: ugarte on October 31, 2006, 03:19:40 PM
[quote Lowell '99]Not to hop on the Sun-bashing bandwagon (because I don't mean to), but while an April Fool's issue makes sense, fake articles on Halloween do not.  Go write for The Onion.[/quote]I don't know. Losing another goalie? SCAAAAAARY!
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: Winnabago on October 31, 2006, 03:33:36 PM
[quote ebilmes]The Sun broke the story today:
http://cornelldailysun.com/node/19365

QuoteThe forum's at eLynah were already buzzing with speculation over who will fill Davenports place in the net.

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Looks like it was so funny that they took their entire server offline.  Joke's on us.
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: Rosey on October 31, 2006, 03:47:50 PM
[quote Tub(a)]Fake news only works well when the newspaper isn't a joke the other 363 days of the year ;)[/quote]
LOL.  zzzzzzzzZING! :)

Kyle
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: Josh '99 on October 31, 2006, 05:33:22 PM
[quote Lowell '99]Not to hop on the Sun-bashing bandwagon (because I don't mean to), but while an April Fool's issue makes sense, fake articles on Halloween do not.  Go write for The Onion.[/quote]But please, if you're going to go write for the Onion, try to actually be funny first.
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: ftyuv on October 31, 2006, 07:09:30 PM
Call me biased, but I thought the fake stories were funny. :)  And I like having joke article days besides April 1 -- makes it a bit more of a surprise.
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: KeithK on October 31, 2006, 07:13:55 PM
[quote ftyuv]Call me biased, but I thought the fake stories were funny. :)  And I like having joke article days besides April 1 -- makes it a bit more of a surprise.[/quote]You are horribly biased!

I don't necessarily have a problem in principle with fake stories on another day than April Fool's but I'd never heard of anyone, let alone the Sun, doing it.  Not sure they were funny, but that's a different question.

You're still horribly biased!!!
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: ftyuv on October 31, 2006, 07:27:38 PM
The Sun almost definitely does jokes for more than just April Fool's.  I think they usually pick one or two days a semester.  It's been so long, I forget.  I think they used to do even more, actually.
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: dbilmes on November 01, 2006, 07:52:57 PM
Back in the old days, the Sun used to run fake stories every Fall Weekend. I remember my freshman year, the lead story was that the Arts and Science School was going to become a state school. There were a lot of worried freshman in my dormitory that day!
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: French Rage on November 01, 2006, 08:14:27 PM
[quote dbilmes]Back in the old days, the Sun used to run fake stories every Fall Weekend. I remember my freshman year, the lead story was that the Arts and Science School was going to become a state school. There were a lot of worried freshman in my dormitory that day![/quote]

What worried them, the huge drop in price? :-P
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: dbilmes on November 01, 2006, 08:22:12 PM
/quote]

What worried them, the huge drop in price? :-P[/quote]

It was more the loss of prestige
Title: Re: Davenport Leaves for NHL
Post by: Rosey on November 01, 2006, 09:55:08 PM
[quote dbilmes]
QuoteWhat worried them, the huge drop in price? :-P
It was more the loss of prestige[/quote]
I concur with this reference to the stupidity of undergraduates.  That's what you meant, right? ;)

Simply do a search for "Kyle Rose" on Google groups, and you'll find lots of dirty laundry from my foolish days on the hill.  I actually apologized to Hank Dullea this past weekend for some the ridiculous complaining I did to him on various unimportant topics.  Perspective is a wonderful, and sometimes embarrassing, thing. :)

Kyle