Cornell 1 Clarkson 3

[ugarte]

[quote Rich S]Delta,
I don't normally miss sarcasm, really.  In this case, I think it's you that missed it.  My comments on the "lovely worded" ones were dripping with it.
[/quote]OK, here's the thing. You don't know what sarcasm means.

"His 'lovely worded' comments were anything but" isn't sarcastic. It is true. It reflects your actual state of mind and expresses exactly what you wanted to express without resort to your intentions.

[ebilmes]

^^^ Listen to him; he's a comedian.

[Rich S]

Oh okay.  If you say so, it must be.  If you think I don't know sarcasm, check some other posts.

It must be great to be a know-it-all.  ::rolleyes::

Spare me the lessons in the future, ok?

[ugarte]

[quote Rich S]Oh okay.  If you say so, it must be.  If you think I don't know sarcasm, check some other posts.

It must be great to be a know-it-all.  ::rolleyes::

Spare me the lessons in the future, ok?[/quote]One last lesson.

I know when you are being sarcastic. You mark it thusly:  ::rolleyes:: That appears to be why when other people don't, you don't get it.

[Rich S]

I get it plenty.  I suppose your claiming I don't get it makes you feel better about yourself.

But here, You just aren't getting it.  I asked you to cease and desist with the lessons.  But you insist on demonstrating how smart you are.

Rather, how smart you THINK you are.

There's no smilie here, so you'll have to work a bit harder this time.

[Lauren '06]

[quote daredevilcu]Fair enough, Jim.  You have a good point that you did complain long before the game was over.

[Q]I'd rather you just admit, as you sort of did, that you get away with it, it's illegal, but you'll do it till you get called about it.[/Q]

Um... all right, but I figured that went without saying.  I'm a junior, I can only remember getting warned once at Cheel for the drums, so we didn't use them.  Just as you guys "take your warning" and then don't throw anything else on the ice, we will play until we "take our warning" and then stop.  There are specific regulations on decibel levels for what can be played during play, I believe.  I haven't ever looked it up.

If your drummers (just your drummers) played during play and during your "Let's Go Red" chants, two things would probably happen.  One, your cheer would have better rhythm, which I saw a lot of people complaining about a few threads down, and two, you'd probably get away with it at home, but nowhere else, provided the referee can tell which band is playing.  When we're at Lynah, Appleton, Houston, Starr, or Achilles, we very rarely play anything during play because we know we can't get away with it there.[/quote]
The unwritten rule about playing instruments/beating drums during game play is that the ref has to complain about it before any action is taken against the offender.  I feel like this is not a great way to police this stuff because, honestly, the ref ought to be paying attention to the ice, and not the stands.  I guess you could say the same for the fish toss, though, so I'm happy to call that even.

In light of said evenness, then, I wasn't bothered by in-game drumming NEARLY as much as I was bothered by half the Clarkson band parading over to the Cornell band and playing over us behind our section, ostensibly to throw us off our song.  That's ugly.  Gopher band level ugly (they paraded around their rink in circles at the regional last year the way they do for all their home games, despite the fact that it's supposed to be a neutral location--f'ing ridiculous).  Particularly when the Clarkson rink manager (last year, at least) insisted that the bands never play over each other for the sake of the older alumni in attendance who might be bothered by the noise... nevermind that you have a HUGE FREAKING TRAIN WHISTLE. :-D

[marty]

[quote Section A Banshee]... nevermind that you have a HUGE FREAKING TRAIN WHISTLE. :-D[/quote]

Is their fog horn worse than RIP's?  Must be an engineer thing.  Maybe it harkens back to the days when there were few women in engineering.  A mating call of sorts.

[marty]

[quote octopusguy]marte and Rich S, I don't know how many indians games you've been to, but you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.  yes he does play before and after every pitch, mostly to get the crowd going but he has never once played his drum during play.  he will stop before every wind-up, with never a mistake.[/quote]

OK, I apologize, the drum thing at the Jake is pure genius. ::stupid:: I wish there was a drum at every sporting event including Little League.  It adds so much to the atmosphere of the game.  Gives rhythm to my thoughts, etc.....

[billhoward]

Can something be done about the Clarkson train whistle? I mean, if it was CalTech playing Clarkson, you know for sure the whistle wouldn't work after the opening puck was dropped.

[billhoward]

This is so bizarre, seeing Friday night's Clarkson thread popping to the top of the forum more than Saturday night's thread. But, okay, the forum is open to all who can type, including our friends from the north country.

[Drew]

For Bill :-D

[Trotsky]

[quote billhoward]Can something be done about the Clarkson train whistle? I mean, if it was CalTech playing Clarkson, you know for sure the whistle wouldn't work after the opening puck was dropped.[/quote]
IIRC, some expeditions have been mounted to "enhance" the whistle over the years, but they have all been unsuccessful.  If you want details, PM me.  I don't know anything more, but I like getting personal messages.

[Rich S]

Hopefully the "would-be" enhancers were excused from the (k)night's proceedings.