Grass Cutting (kinda OT)

[Scott Kominkiewicz]

When cutting my grass yesterday, I tried to use the overlapping pattern of a zamboni driver to speed up my turns.  I wasn't very successful, though I will keep trying.  

Has any other hockey fan been so bored in July to fantasize that their riding mower was a zamboni?  I can't be the only one.

[Jerseygirl]

A friend of mine was a camp counselor one summer and would give her kids "penalties" instead of time outs.

[Avash]

I was a tennis camp instructor last summer for kids in grades K-5, and on the last day, they were divided into a Red team and a Blue team, and I found it amusing when I got the Red team to continually chant, "Let's Go Red!"



I know; I'm pretty cool. ::help::

[Greg Berge]

If your grass sheet was a solid oval, it might make a difference.

My grass sheet is a big rectangle with a smaller out-of-play rectangle off-center within it.  Add topography, and the most efficient pattern I've found so far is to walk across the yard, wave money at the neighbor's kid, then go to a movie.

[Rob NH]

[Q]Avash '05 Wrote:

 I was a tennis camp instructor last summer for kids in grades K-5, and on the last day, they were divided into a Red team and a Blue team, and I found it amusing when I got the Red team to continually chant, "Let's Go Red!"



I know; I'm pretty cool.  
[/q]
You should have tought them the sieve chant
"uh oh, Bobby missed the ball, you know what that means"
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!"

God I miss hockey...

[billhoward]

[Q]Scott Kominkiewicz Wrote:

When cutting my grass yesterday, I tried to use the overlapping pattern of a zamboni driver to speed up my turns.  I wasn't very successful, though I will keep trying.  Has any other hockey fan been so bored in July to fantasize that their riding mower was a zamboni?  I can't be the only one.[/q]

Scott, you're, um, among the many of us who can't wait for the season to start -- and who should be doing something useful with our lives. Normal people spend the off-season playing golf, seducing their neighbors' wives, going to the beach -- normal stuff.

I was thinking, if this is the fetish you're choosing to pursue, have you figured out a way to mow across the grain and cut in the red line and the blue lines, maybe somehow cut extra low or high to outline a 200 x 85 bounding area, maybe drop extra fertilizer to mark the faceoff circles? Do it at night, don't admit to anything, and next thing you know, the National Enquirer will take an interest.

[Scott Kominkiewicz]

Bill, do you mean something like "mow it and they will come"?

My life is pretty exciting, eh?

[yo mama]

jesus christ. you guys are losers.

[billhoward]

[Q]Scott Kominkiewicz Wrote:

 Bill, do you mean something like "mow it and they will come"? My life is pretty exciting, eh?[/q]

There is no sane reason you, or I, should be rambling on about moving grass the way a Zamboni does it with overlapping cuts. Nor others who are fantasizing the four forward lines for a season that is three-plus months away. (It was nice to see we're mistaking Heinz for Hynes.) But it's a free country.

[Greg Berge]

Who will be the first to plant red flowers in the shape of a "C" on their front lawn (and who will be the first to get away with it without their spouse pulling them up)?

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

If I had a front lawn, I'd be all over that.  I don't think my condo association would go for it though.  However, if anybody would like to volunteer their front lawn and pony up some money for flowers, I'd be happy to try my hand at a C, Cornell, Cornell University or if you have an estate, 'I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study'.  By the way, this 'stunt' of writing on grass has been tried on Libe Slope without much success several times.

[jtwcornell91]

I get the feeling Cornell might try enforcing their trademark if you got too detailed/visible.

[KeithK]

[q]I get the feeling Cornell might try enforcing their trademark if you got too detailed/visible.[/q]Maybe they would.  But why in the world would the university want to stop someone from advertising for it?  At least as long as it's clearly positive for Cornell.  Like I said, I can imagine the school complaining, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't be a stupid thing to do.