Colgate Freshman Fun

Trotsky · February 08, 2006, 03:32:15 AM

[quote Oat]
we don't quite exactly have the world's most beautiful bunch of academicians here at Cornell[/quote]
We are from Long Island. We buy our looks later. ;-)

(But Colgate students are hardly ones to talk. Quinnipiac, on the other hand...)

DeltaOne81 · February 08, 2006, 08:17:56 AM

[Q]Don't shy away from calling Cornell defenseman Dan Glover "a poor man's Samuel L. Jackson"[/Q]

I have to admit, that's funny ;-)

jtwcornell91 · February 08, 2006, 08:52:54 AM

[quote billhoward]Also, Colgate makes New York State hockey look good. Most weekends. Too bad Syracuse doesn't have a D1 team. Well, there's RIT and who knows ...[/quote]

Well, the winningest team in the history of college hockey is in Upstate New York...

jtwcornell91 · February 08, 2006, 08:53:47 AM

[quote Oat]They also think their fairy school is good enough now to suddenly declare themselves our magical rival.[/quote]

Well, if it's a fairy school, who knows what magical powers it has.

Give My Regards · February 08, 2006, 09:56:24 AM

[quote andyw2100]
And another, from before the game started:

Colgate drunkards...er...students: "We're number one."

Our response (which I started, but which was immediately picked up by the Faithful): "Not much longer."
[/quote]

Aw, c'mon...

"You look like NUMBER TWO!"

It's grade-school enough that they might actually get it.

KeithK · February 08, 2006, 11:46:57 AM

[q]We shouldn't poke too much fun of Colgate: but for a couple questions on the SATs we guessed right on ... [/q]Speak for yourself.

ugarte · February 08, 2006, 12:18:47 PM

[quote KeithK][q]We shouldn't poke too much fun of Colgate: but for a couple questions on the SATs we guessed right on ... [/q]Speak for yourself.[/quote]Seriously. Some of us got lots of skinny envelopes ... and it wasn't SAT related.

billhoward · February 08, 2006, 12:29:02 PM

[quote KeithK][q]We shouldn't poke too much fun of Colgate: but for a couple questions on the SATs we guessed right on ... [/q]Speak for yourself.[/quote]
To this day I suspect my application got caught in a gust of wind when someone momentarily opened a window and it blew off the tall Reject pile, made a neat barrel roll, and fell into the shorter Accept basket. Maybe it wasn't seen, maybe it was and someone on the committee believed in kismet. I'm sure I'm the only person who has that nightmare, along with the one about returning to campus for a game and being asked for an overdue paper. Now I have to worry about the faux pas of wearing a white shirt with red when it's supposed to be a red shirt with white. Or is that why there's Ask Ezra?

A-ron · February 08, 2006, 01:20:30 PM

I remember hearing the "we found Waldo" chant multiple times at away games but never heard us chant back. Any ideas? I was thinking "we found your reading level."

WillR · February 08, 2006, 04:04:27 PM

Good effort. That usher was an utter ass. I am not quite sure what his purpose was other than to look sullen and try to throw one of us out and stay off the dole.

Did you see when one of their drunk fans threw water at our band and hit their rent a cop? She was furious as she headed into the stands and was probably heartbroken when she was told that it wasn't us.

-WillR

andyw2100 · February 08, 2006, 05:38:00 PM

[quote WillR]Good effort. That usher was an utter ass. I am not quite sure what his purpose was other than to look sullen and try to throw one of us out and stay off the dole.
-WillR[/quote]

I'm the guy he tried to throw out. Well, at least I am one of them.

After the sign incident, one of the guys in front of me called the girlfriend of the effeminate schmuck in the first row in the section next to us a whore. The usher immediately warned him that he couldn't do that. I piped in, and asked, "We can't say 'whore', but they can call us douchebags, and worse?" The usher replied that he could not call one person a whore, implying that it was not the word that he found offensive, but the way it was directed at one person. So the next time it was a little quiet, I yelled over to the same woman, something like, "He's sorry. You're --not-- a whore." The usher immediately charged over to me, and said, "Come with me." When I refused, he told me again, to come with him. I continued to refuse. He went and got a pseudo-cop, and explained to the cop that I was "yanking his chain." In fact, I was yanking his chain, because it deserved yanking. You could almost see the smoke coming out of his ears when, after I told the cop what happened, the cop said basically, "watch it", and walked off.

Good times.
Andy W.

Will · February 08, 2006, 05:53:29 PM

[quote andyw2100][quote WillR]Good effort. That usher was an utter ass. I am not quite sure what his purpose was other than to look sullen and try to throw one of us out and stay off the dole.
-WillR[/quote]

I'm the guy he tried to throw out. Well, at least I am one of them.

After the sign incident, one of the guys in front of me called the girlfriend of the effeminate schmuck in the first row in the section next to us a whore. The usher immediately warned him that he couldn't do that. I piped in, and asked, "We can't say 'whore', but they can call us douchebags, and worse?" The usher replied that he could not call one person a whore, implying that it was not the word that he found offensive, but the way it was directed at one person. So the next time it was a little quiet, I yelled over to the same woman, something like, "He's sorry. You're --not-- a whore." The usher immediately charged over to me, and said, "Come with me." When I refused, he told me again, to come with him. I continued to refuse. He went and got a pseudo-cop, and explained to the cop that I was "yanking his chain." In fact, I was yanking his chain, because it deserved yanking. You could almost see the smoke coming out of his ears when, after I told the cop what happened, the cop said basically, "watch it", and walked off.

Good times.
Andy W.[/quote]

Obviously, you chose the wrong course of action.

What you should have done was call everyone in that section a whore. Hey, it's not directed at one person, right? :-P

billhoward · February 08, 2006, 07:44:40 PM

In other words,

For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks - not that you won or lost -
But that you yanked their chain.

nr53 · February 08, 2006, 10:03:55 PM

Dekanich is now posting on Smyth's blog... for a laugh notice that he has to explain to a colgate fan how the travel partner system works ::yark::

http://colgate.blogs.com/studentathletes2/

billhoward · February 08, 2006, 11:18:05 PM

[quote nr53]Dekanich is now posting on Smyth's blog... for a laugh notice that he has to explain to a colgate fan how the travel partner system works ::yark::

http://colgate.blogs.com/studentathletes2/[/quote]
>>> [Dekanich] As for Cornell having an easier schedule than us, we are actually travel partners and I believe that we play the exact same teams for the remainder of the season.

He "believes"?

But give Colgate this: Their players are out and about online. Given the volume and wackiness (wacko-ness occasionally) of eLynah, one can see how Mike Schafer would say not to read what's written about you ... and yet, if you can take a body check in the corners, maybe you could handle seeing what's posted, too.