Another cheer Trotsky will not approve of ...

Drew · March 15, 2006, 01:51:38 PM

On another note, during the National Anthem you guys yell RED! and we yell (K)NIGHT! (I don't yell anything, just the way I was raised.) I don't have a problem with either side putting emphasis on either RED or NIGHT as I think it is clever play on words, but I think adding SUCKS after "knight" during the anthem is a little tasteless. JMO not intended for a flamefest.

Cheers,
Drew

atb9 · March 15, 2006, 01:51:56 PM

[quote billhoward]You mean underage teenage girl?[/quote]

Yeah. I'm now 25 and I go by the "half your age plus 7" rule so any teenage girl (girl is a key word) is pretty much off limits for me. :-P ;-)

Beeeej · March 15, 2006, 02:18:17 PM

[quote Drew]I think adding SUCKS after "knight" during the anthem is a little tasteless.[/quote]

I happen to agree, but the Faithful always seem to need the last word. I feel more strongly about it - excuse me, more strongly - when someone adds the "sucks" after "night" when Clarkson's not even in the house.

Beeeej

CowbellGuy · March 15, 2006, 02:22:18 PM

[quote billhoward]Where does it stop -- will Harvard fans wave "RETARD" signs when David McKee steps on the ice?[/quote]

I'm not even going to bother pointing out that the letters are wrong (or right, as the case may be).

Beeeej · March 15, 2006, 02:27:46 PM

Okay, I'll bite. How are they "wrong"?

Beeeej

atb9 · March 15, 2006, 02:30:23 PM

[quote Beeeej]Okay, I'll bite. How are they "wrong"?

Beeeej[/quote]

The order is correct but the letters should be flipped so that they are facing left, right?

Beeeej · March 15, 2006, 02:31:38 PM

[quote atb9][quote Beeeej]Okay, I'll bite. How are they "wrong"?[/quote]

The order is correct but the letters should be flipped so that they are facing left, right?[/quote]

Then it'd just be a mirror image. Granted, I don't have dyslexia, but that's not how I understand it to work.

Beeeej

redhair34 · March 15, 2006, 02:31:55 PM

[quote CowbellGuy][quote billhoward]Where does it stop -- will Harvard fans wave "RETARD" signs when David McKee steps on the ice?[/quote]

I'm not even going to bother pointing out that the letters are wrong (or right, as the case may be).[/quote]

::laugh:: That's from Cheel this year, right?

nyc94 · March 15, 2006, 02:35:10 PM

[quote redhair34][quote CowbellGuy][quote billhoward]Where does it stop -- will Harvard fans wave "RETARD" signs when David McKee steps on the ice?[/quote]

I'm not even going to bother pointing out that the letters are wrong (or right, as the case may be).[/quote]

::laugh:: That's from Cheel this year, right?[/quote]

Is that supposed to be a dyslexia "joke" or just a way around having the sign confiscated for saying "sucks"?

redhair34 · March 15, 2006, 02:40:44 PM

[quote nyc94]
Is that supposed to be a dyslexia "joke" or just a way around having the sign confiscated for saying "sucks"?[/quote]

I think it was supposed to be a dyslexia joke, but as Beeeej pointed out that is not how it works.

Rosey · March 15, 2006, 02:45:34 PM

[quote redhair34][quote nyc94]
Is that supposed to be a dyslexia "joke" or just a way around having the sign confiscated for saying "sucks"?[/quote]

I think it was supposed to be a dyslexia joke, but as Beeeej pointed out that is not how it works.[/quote]
No, I think Be{4}j was saying the opposite: what they drew was, in fact, closer to what would cause problems with dyslexia than a mirror image would have been.

Kyle

atb9 · March 15, 2006, 02:46:38 PM

[quote Beeeej][quote atb9][quote Beeeej]Okay, I'll bite. How are they "wrong"?[/quote]

The order is correct but the letters should be flipped so that they are facing left, right?[/quote]

Then it'd just be a mirror image. Granted, I don't have dyslexia, but that's not how I understand it to work.[/quote]

The wikipedia entry on dyslexia is a fascinating read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia

Writing and motor skills
* Trouble with writing or copying; pencil grip is unusual; handwriting varies or is illegible.
* Clumsy, uncoordinated, poor at ball or team sports; difficulties with fine and/or gross motor skills and tasks; prone to motion-sickness.
* Can be ambidextrous, and often confuses left/right, over/under.
* May write in "mirror writing" (writing that appears backwards, but can be read when reflected in a mirror)

Beeeej · March 15, 2006, 02:48:10 PM

Thanks for sharing that, atb9 - color me better informed now. :-)

Beeeej

Rosey · March 15, 2006, 02:58:36 PM

[quote Beeeej]Thanks for sharing that, atb9 - color me better informed now. :-)[/quote]
[aol]Me too![/aol]

Kyle

billhoward · March 15, 2006, 03:00:45 PM

QuoteDyslexia is the agnostic insomniac lying awake pondering the existence of Dog.

It varies in intensity and it can be seeing things as mirror images as well as transpositions. It can manifest itself in one or both or neither of problems with fine or gross motor skills; you can't tie your shoes easily yet you can glove a 90mph slapshot.

It's painful for a parent to see a bright kid who cannot grasp what's in a book, yet gets it instantly when the key information is read to him. You can get over it, or at least deal with it and be successful. Mckee is. Charles Schwab did.

One nice thing about so many kids being classified as special needs or differently abled or whatever ... is that there's much less of a stigma compared to a generation ago.