Dead (or Zombie) Cheers

[CowbellGuy]

Grant MacIntyre '05 wrote:
Unless the band suddenly starts liking it, or hundreds of fans flood the conductors' inboxes, it will likely not be played.

What if one fan floods the conductors' inboxes hundreds of times?

Well, here's another vote for doing it. If the cheer died, it's only because the band stopped playing it. I think the students can handle learning 3 words in fairly short order if it becomes more routine. And since Chris hasn't said anything about it, I'll throw it out in a public forum. I think the Molson Anthem (I Am Canadian) would be cool...

http://www.hockey.cornell.edu/mp3/molson.mp3

[jtwcornell91]

Considering that "Fight, Maim, Kill" has been printed on buttons and banners over the years, it'd be a shame to see it go away as part of Cornell Hockey Fandom.

[Greg Berge]

> People talking about the band on elynah make me sick.

LOL.  Because the band is a vital issue important to the future of mankind and it should not be tampered with?  Um, yeah... I see.

Look, the band is cute (although a helluva lot less cute now that a certain redhead drummer has moved on) and it helps coordinate crowd action, but it's an appendage to Lynah, Lynah is not an appendage to it.  If the band is doing (or not doing) stuff according to the crowd's wishes, then that's a problem for the band, not the crowd.  Hundred of people go to road games when the band isn't there.  Nobody goes to watch the band practice when the team isn't there.  I love bandies and am glad they do their thing, but when they start talking as if they have meaning or value to us independent of directly assisting the Lynah experience, they're reality challenged.  Shut up and play your instrument.

[rhovorka]

Greg wrote:

I love bandies and am glad they do their thing, but when they start talking as if they have meaning or value to us independent of directly assisting the Lynah experience, they're reality challenged. Shut up and play your instrument.

I really don't think that's what the anonymous person was saying, Greg.  I think s/he is more upset about fans outside the band telling the band what it should/shouldn't do.  I really don't think anyone in the band thinks they're bigger than Lynah.

[JordanCS]

Here's another vote for increased "Fight, Maim, Kill."  I love hearing that, especially when there's a lot of participation...it just echoes and is a very, very strong statement from the crowd.

[Tub(a)]

[q]I really don't think that's what the anonymous person was saying, Greg. I think s/he is more upset about fans outside the band telling the band what it should/shouldn't do. I really don't think anyone in the band thinks they're bigger than Lynah.[/q]

Rich is correct. I don't know who this "god" person is. Please don't judge the band on this person's comments, because the comments are stupid. No one that I know in the band feels that way.

[Greg Berge]

I'm not meaning to judge all bandies by the one dumb poster's comments.  Hopefully nobody will judge all cantankerous fans by my dumb comments.  ;-)

And as I said, I love bandies.  In the end, they can choose any repertoire (too lazy to look up the correct spelling) they want, as I think "Macho Man" is ample testament.   ::help::

[judy]

"Mary Had a Little Lamb"

does anyone else out there get confused when they hear Mary Had a Little Lamb out in Lynah? I know "Fight Maim Kill" only has the words "fight", "maim", and "kill" in it but then there's also:
JR* is a great big sieve, great big sieve, great big sieve.
JR is a great big sieve, he let the pucks go by...X** times!
* first goalie to pop into my head
** fill in your own number

and this is sung to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb...and is what pops into my head if I'm at Lynah and hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.
and if for some ungodly reason, you're in the bathroom when one of these is going on, it gets a little confusing cuz of the muffle.

and I guess my personal preference that differs the others but "fight maim kill" just doesn't seem to have the energy as some of the other cheers, but maybe it's cuz the cheer has gone downhill in the last 6(?) years and I missed the hey day?

[Robb]

Yeah - but I think it's pretty cool that we have two cheers to MHALL.  Just part of the culture - you have to be an insider to know that when the trumpets play, it's FMK, but when the crowd starts it, it's Great Big Sieve time.  A couple other folks and I made a (large) Fight Maim Kill banner for Lake Placid in '96, but it apparently got some negative feedback from other teams' fans (imagine that), so we never did it again.  I'm definitely a fan of FMK, in case you couldn't tell....  

Of course, I hope that no player ever gets maimed in the course of playing hockey, but I never really want Schafer to kill anyone either.  Somehow the "maim" aspect of the cheer seems the most brutal to me - "killing" is so overused (think of the list of things that can be killed - kegs, volleyballs, momentum, etc) that "maim" just seems to catch people's attention more.

[jtwcornell91]

Robb Newman wrote:
when the crowd starts it, it's Great Big Sieve time.

Is that like Big Red Touchdown Time?  :-D

[Mike Steinfeld]

You know what cheer I miss most of all?

Davy in 3. -sigh-

[God]

As usual, the words of God are misunderstood.

I was just saying that My groan can be heard across the heavens when someone says "the band should play Drive me McCrae-zy, or this or that or the other thing", or "I dont like when they play make me smile, because hockey shouldnt be about smiling".. whats next, lighting candles for Chabot?

Greg, no heaven for you. And no Boyd, either. Please try and think before you attempt to rant. "Shut up and play your instrument" is quite inflammatory for the band members, who, last I checked, are also allowed to be fans, and if you want to stay in My good graces, I suggest you treat them like other members of the faithful, not like some appendage.

And from now on, stop playing with yourself.

[Robb]

Wow, it IS God..... ::laugh::

[CowbellGuy]

Mike Steinfeld wrote:

You know what cheer I miss most of all?

Davy in 3. -sigh-

Amen :`(

[Jeff Hopkins \'82]

Why am I picturing the scene in "Real Genius" where they wire the voice of God through the guy's braces....

Only this time it's probably coming out the bell end of a trumpet!

JH