Uncle Ezra on Fish

Beeeej · January 31, 2002, 04:41:00 PM

Uncle Ezra has answered a Lynah Faithful member's question about throwing fish at the Hahvahd game, at <http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Dialogs/EZRA/search_ezra.phtml?mode=body&mode2=multip_question_nums&question_num=%&date=2002-01-31>.

Beeeej

ugarte · January 31, 2002, 06:07:31 PM

What a wimpy answer. No effort to distinguish between tossing the fish before the game and tossing the fish after a goal / at players. They won't (can't? shouldn't?) penalize the Red for an early fish toss, just like they don't penalize the Red for the newspaper toss.

Lowell '99 · January 31, 2002, 06:20:00 PM

The mixed messages with regards to fish tossing drive me batty. While athletics says they do not encourage the tossing of fish (which, I suppose, is to be expected as an official answer), I distinctly remember an ad in the Sun a few years back- placed by Athletics- in the shape of a fish. Do whatever you can to get them in- just throw 'em. :-)

Beeeej · February 07, 2002, 03:54:18 PM

Ezra answered another question this week about the fish, with something probably a little closer to the balanced approach we'd have liked to see the first time: <http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Dialogs/EZRA/search_ezra.phtml?mode=body&mode2=multip_question_nums&question_num=%&date=2002-02-07>

Beeeej

CowbellGuy · February 07, 2002, 04:01:31 PM

Don't put anything around URLs. ie, no <>'s

Beeeej · February 07, 2002, 04:09:38 PM

The first time I tried to post a message with a URL and didn't put brackets around it, it came through as non-hot-linked, regular text.

Beeeej

Josh '99 · February 07, 2002, 04:10:00 PM

The recent question directed to Uncle Ezra:

"I was just at the Harvard hockey game, and was wondering why we through fish on the ice."

I personally wonder how people who can't spell get into Cornell. ::rolleyes::

Beeeej · February 07, 2002, 04:11:05 PM

I'm assuming it's the same way people who can't do math get into Cornell. :-D

Beeeej

CowbellGuy · February 07, 2002, 04:16:05 PM

Uh huh. But then I fixed it. ::fight::

Beeeej · February 07, 2002, 04:17:51 PM

What the heck is that supposed to be??

Beeeej

jeh25 · February 07, 2002, 04:18:39 PM

My sister had a friend that worked in admissions. Apparently, they actually had a red pen with which they would circle all the misspellings in your essays...

Jordan 04 · February 07, 2002, 04:28:22 PM

Yeah, they definitely mark grammatical mistakes/typos on applications, not only in essays.

Beeeej · February 07, 2002, 04:33:11 PM

I can't imagine why they wouldn't. The quality of your spelling and grammar - especially in a college application - says a lot about how much you care about detail.

Beeeej

zg88 · February 07, 2002, 05:48:38 PM

Age! Please explain your "tumbling peanut" cartoon (above)!! It's creeping me out!!! ::worry::

jason · February 07, 2002, 06:03:56 PM

I think I've figured out the "tumbling peanut". To the left is a Mac and user (hard to see because the yellow blends in with the background) and on the right is a PC user. The PC crashes and the PC user decides to take it out on the Mac user, and the "peanut" is the cloud of smoke resulting from the brawl. That, or giant legumes are wreaking havic on eLynah.