Colgate Freshman Fun

[Rosey]

[quote billhoward]>>> [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"?[/quote]
Well, if he isn't keeping too close track of the schedule, he might believe there are NC games in addition to the remaining ECAC schedule.  I think you should cut him a little slack on this.

Kyle

[French Rage]

It's because of this bright question: "Cornell seems to have an easier schedule from here on out".

Haha, so funny you dont even have to respond.

[Rich S]

And grade school enough that you thought of it.  :-D

[Hirz89]

Siv? surely he must have known it was sieve?  ::screwy::

[min]

[quote Trotsky][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...)[/quote]

I believe that the University of Chicago has the ugliest people. ::nut::

http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2006/01/13/collegecutenesscom_f.php

[Trotsky]

[quote jtwcornell91][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.[/quote]:-D

Post of the year. :-} ::laugh:: :-D :-)

[Trotsky]

[quote min]the University of Chicago has the ugliest people. ::nut::

http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2006/01/13/collegecutenesscom_f.php[/quote]

Only ten schools and 350 students (no males) are compared: http://collegecuteness.com/schools/index.php

From most to least cute:

Albion (not the one in London)
MSU
U Oregon
Vandy
Michigan
Princeton
UCLA
Stanford
Puget Sound
Chicago

I have every confidence, particlarly if they included males, that we could "beat" any of those schools.  ;-)

Of course, another way to have done this would be to simply reverse-order the schools' entrance requirements...

[Give My Regards]

[quote Rich S]And grade school enough that you thought of it.  :-D[/quote]

Hey, I have a couple of grade-school-aged kids.  I hear stuff like this all the time.  And of course, they think they invented it :-)

[ugarte]

[quote Trotsky]Of course, another way to have done this would be to simply reverse-order the schools' entrance requirements...[/quote]That is a hell of a lot of respect for Puget Sound.

[KeithK]

[quote French Rage]It's because of this bright question: "Cornell seems to have an easier schedule from here on out".

Haha, so funny you dont even have to respond.[/quote]Clearly his belief that Cornell will have an easier schedule the rest of the way refers to non-ECAC games and means that he believes Cornell will play lower ranked opponents in the playoffs because we will finish in first place.

[billhoward]

[quote Trotsky][quote min]the University of Chicago has the ugliest people. ::nut::
http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2006/01/13/collegecutenesscom_f.php[/quote]
Only ten schools and 350 students (no males) are compared: http://collegecuteness.com/schools/index.php
From most to least cute:
Albion (not the one in London)
MSU
U Oregon
Vandy
Michigan
Princeton
UCLA
Stanford
Puget Sound
Chicago

I have every confidence, particlarly if they included males, that we could "beat" any of those schools.  ;-)
Of course, another way to have done this would be to simply reverse-order the schools' entrance requirements...[/quote]
When he wrote a column for Fortune, Daniel Seligman opined that the best looking women went to a) Harvard or b) UCLA. The theory: Good looking women married rich men and their children had a better than average chance of being cute and smart and ending up in Cambridge. Or: For the last century, good looking men and women gravitated to Los Angeles in hopes of being in the films. Even those who didn't make the silver screen wound up staying, resulting in a hot hot hot gene pool whose offspring helped populate UCLA and USC.

It's a very likeable theory. Who knows if it's right. Could an Uma Thurman lookalike breed the ugly-with-a-capital-U out of a CalTech geek?

[edit]In a 2005 column (he's now writing for Forbes), Seligman touches on how the Rotschilds started out rich and ugly, or ugly then rich, and through careful or fortunate marriages to attractive women (an ugly poor man is ugly, an ugly rich man is rich) http://www.forbes.com/archive/forbes/2005/0815/096.html;jsessionid=ulY-zGWRgwdFtmHr?token=MTAgRmViIDIwMDYgMDE6MTM6MDkgKzAwMDA%3D wound up good looking ... "The family founders, in 18th-century Frankfurt, were supremely ugly, but several generations later, after successive marriages to supremely beautiful women, the men in the family were indistinguishable from movie stars. The Rothschild effect, as you could call it, is well established in sociology research: Men everywhere want to marry beautiful women, and women everywhere want socially dominant (i.e., intelligent) husbands. When competent men marry pretty women, the couple tends to have children above average in both competence and looks.}"

[Trotsky]

[quote billhoward]Could an Uma Thurman lookalike breed the ugly-with-a-capital-U out of a CalTech geek?[/quote]
Terrible example, as Uma Thurman would only exacerbate it.

[LynahFaithfulS]

[quote Hirz89]Siv? surely he must have known it was sieve?  ::screwy::[/quote]
i am shocked by the number of people who have asked me what a sieve is. these are college student people. prior to ever hearing it in the context of cornell hockey, my little brother (i'm talking middle school here) knew what a sieve was...

[LynahFaithfulS]

[quote min]
I believe that the University of Chicago has the ugliest people. ::nut::
http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2006/01/13/collegecutenesscom_f.php[/quote]

wow. that is an unbelievably offensive article. i understand what they are trying to get at, but honestly...

(BTW, this is not directed to anyone here...i am just talking about the article)

[imafrshmn]

[quote LynahFaithfulS][quote Hirz89]Siv? surely he must have known it was sieve?  ::screwy::[/quote]
i am shocked by the number of people who have asked me what a sieve is. these are college student people. prior to ever hearing it in the context of cornell hockey, my little brother (i'm talking middle school here) knew what a sieve was...[/quote]

I'll be honest with you, I needed a bit of a refresher on the word myself when I first heard it at games this year.  When you don't spend much of your life baking food in the kitchen, it's not necessarily something that's part of your vocabulary.