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[billhoward]

[quote BMac]They are being absolutely nasty about swearing. There was an usher between A and B the entire game spending 2 minutes per row, and cycling up and down. When there was a penalty, they were blatantly staring at my lips for the "asshole." So I blatantly turned to all my friends and pointed her out, telling them not to swear. She actually liked that, I think; she told me to make sure I didn't swear and to pass it down the line.

Later, in the second, I very loudly called out "Logan Bittle, you suck. I hate you." The other usher told me to be careful and not to call them out by name. Apparently they (the ushers) got REALLY chewed out after the York game about the student sections. She told me that if I said "name, you sucK" again she would have to kick me out. She was actually apologetic, though. I think she realized my crew and I don't swear at all, support the team, and lead in cheering. However, she was very emphatic. I asked who it was who was mad, and she didn't say. Then I asked, "is it Nighman?" A nod, yes.

NIIIIIGHMAN. SUCKS! NIGGGHMAN! SUCKS! NIIIIIIGHMAN! SUCKS! LET'S GO RED!

We later garnered that "suck" was more of a problem than anything. Calling out by name is discouraged, but they'll "let is slide." My part of Section A did a little brainstorming, and soon we were thinking of telling the "goaltender in blue" that he was awful, the gentleman wearing number 8 that we thoroughly enjoyed his performance, and our "esteemed opponents" that we highly disliked them. But the whole thing really deflated me; I think they're really trying to drive us out.[/quote]

It still beats the old (ancient old) days. Count your luck. At least you're in Ithaca and able to get to the games. If this was the '40s and you were Jewish, you probably wouldn't have gotten in. (There's still a quota, the joke goes, but now it's 60%.) If this was the '50s, your girlfriend would have been locked in Balch at 11 or thereabouts on weeknights. (Or your girlfriend could have been Janet Reno.) You wouldn't have cared much either way because there was no Lynah, and when there was, there was no team or coach to speak of until the mid 1960s. OK, say the next couple decades were okay in terms of the ushers being easygoing, okay except for no hockey championships the last 36 years. The one constant through all those years was Mike Teeter.

Think of something that sounds rude but isn't obscene and use that: ulcerative or carnivorous. How can they kick you out for saying, "Nickerson, you ulcerative pox." There must be some imaginative Cockey rhyming slang you could invoke, and isn't half of that scatalogical? At which point the ushers will think -- they'll know -- you're another Ivy League wiseass, and they'll be right. But enjoy.

[bandrews37]

He's right. Perhaps the lesson is that you can be insulting and in favor of your team without feeling it necessary to throw F-bombs around all night....

[jtwcornell91]

[quote bandrews37]He's right. Perhaps the lesson is that you can be insulting and in favor of your team without feeling it necessary to throw F-bombs around all night....[/quote]

None of us want to throw F-bombs.  The problem is that they're now apparently cracking down on S-bombs (and not the real S-word), which is already not obscene in today's language.

Although I do like the cockney rhyming slang.  Among most Brits, "berk", short for "Berkshire hunt" is already a synonym for the C-word.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[quote jtwcornell91][quote bandrews37]He's right. Perhaps the lesson is that you can be insulting and in favor of your team without feeling it necessary to throw F-bombs around all night....[/quote]

None of us want to throw F-bombs.  The problem is that they're now apparently cracking down on S-bombs (and not the real S-word), which is already not obscene in today's language.

Although I do like the cockney rhyming slang.  Among most Brits, "berk", short for "Berkshire hunt" is already a synonym for the C-word.[/quote]

Although apparently to Brits I work with, the C-word is not quite as offensive over there as it is here.

My personal favorite though is "Merchant Banker" as a synonym for wanker (that's jerk-off for the non-Brit-literate).

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82][quote jtwcornell91]
Although I do like the cockney rhyming slang.  Among most Brits, "berk", short for "Berkshire hunt" is already a synonym for the C-word.[/quote]

Although apparently to Brits I work with, the C-word is not quite as offensive over there as it is here.[/quote]

That's also my understanding from my British and Irish colleagues.

[quote Jeff Hopkins '82]My personal favorite though is "Merchant Banker" as a synonym for wanker (that's jerk-off for the non-Brit-literate).[/quote]

Is it abbreviated to "merch"?

[ftyuv]

Even if it makes sense to us, I'm just not sure the goalie will be very shaken up if we call him a Merchant Banker.