BU outlaws swearing in stands

[marty]

Topic driftttttt......

[Beeeej]

On his MSNBC show "Countdown" tonight, Keith Olbermann '79 reported on the ban, then commented that "This will thankfully have no effect on the students at Cornell University, for whom the traditional insult to shout at the opposing team - no matter who they are - is Screw BU."

(The show will reair at midnight.)

[Trotsky]

[quote Jerseygirl]By the way, I can't believe no one has anything to say about the DiPietro deal. Seriously? Islanders want to lock him up until he's 40? For $4.5 million a year? Although I guess after hiring your backup goalie as your GM, anything makes sense...[/quote]

As a long-suffering Islander fan who doesn't allow his children piercings and doesn't care what other parents let theirs do, nothing the Isles do could possibly surprise me.  They make good moves, they make rotten moves, they have ADD moments where they can't keep the same lineup or coaching staff together for ten minutes, they lapse into season-long comas.

There is no Plan.  There is no Aim.  There is only The Moment.  Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

[Jerseygirl]

[quote Trotsky]
As a long-suffering Islander fan who doesn't allow his children piercings and doesn't care what other parents let theirs do...

There is no Plan.  There is no Aim.  There is only The Moment.  Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...[/quote]

Good. They can wait until they're 18 and pay for it themselves.

Your last line would make a great ad campaign. If the Isles were into self parody.

A friend of mine used to play with/against DiPietro and thinks he's a real prick...apparently enough so that he's unwilling to concede the possibility that time may have mellowed or matured him. I can't wait to get his take on the contract business.

[Josh '99]

[quote RichH][quote Jerseygirl]
Speaking of BU[/quote]

Screw them.[/quote]Penn sucks.

(What?  It's football season.)

[Josh '99]

[quote Jerseygirl]By the way, I can't believe no one has anything to say about the DiPietro deal. Seriously? Islanders want to lock him up until he's 40? For $4.5 million a year? Although I guess after hiring your backup goalie as your GM, anything makes sense...[/quote]I would've said something, but I've been laughing too hard to type for the past 48 hours.

[ebilmes]

Rick Reilly addresses the issue in this weeks' Sports Illustrated. He decribes the
"Fuck 'em up, fuck 'em up, go CU" cheer used by Colorado fans and also the twelve-part Michigan hockey penalty cheer. He seems to support the anti-swearing move.

[RichH]

[quote ebilmes]Rick Reilly addresses the issue in this weeks' Sports Illustrated. He decribes the
"Fuck 'em up, fuck 'em up, go CU" cheer used by Colorado fans and also the twelve-part Michigan hockey penalty cheer. He seems to support the anti-swearing move.[/quote]

Bah...BU and Michigan hockey cracking down on fan/student obsenity cheering make headlines.  The same thing happens to Cornell what...10 and 5 years ago, and nary a blip.  [/inferiority complex]

[Trotsky]

[quote RichH]The same thing happens to Cornell what...10 and 5 years ago[/quote]

And 15 years ago.  And 20 years ago.  An administration cracks down on fan obsenity like a politician warns of "our crumbling infrastructure" and a program manager deploys a "reorganization."  It's a thing you do periodically to hint you're awake, with no expectation of actual change.

[ugarte]

[quote Trotsky] It's a thing you do periodically to hint you're awake, with no expectation of actual change.[/quote]
An interesting theory but given all the complaints here about being ejected by the redcoats, I think Cornell took the pledge a little more seriously than most.

[Trotsky]

[quote ugarte]
An interesting theory but given all the complaints here about being ejected by the redcoats, I think Cornell took the pledge a little more seriously than most.[/quote]

Oh, there are certainly short term consequences of the Great Leap Forward.  In the reorg, you change your whole work breakdown structure and waste man-years with "matrix management" training.  If you're really into it, you rebid your contract with the new model (and lose).  But the ostensible end -- be it a more profitable organization or a more civil athmosphere -- is a mirage.  Those things are achieved bottom-up, or by blind chance, if ever.

[DL]

And here I was thinking this thread was about outlaws from BU who were swearing in the stands.:-P

[billhoward]

[quote Darren Leung]And here I was thinking this thread was about outlaws from BU who were swearing in the stands.:-P[/quote]

You'd perhaps have trouble with headlines such as "Prostitutes Appeal to Pontiff."

[DL]

[quote billhoward][quote Darren Leung]And here I was thinking this thread was about outlaws from BU who were swearing in the stands.:-P[/quote]

You'd perhaps have trouble with headlines such as "Prostitutes Appeal to Pontiff."[/quote]

 ::laugh::
Nope.  No trouble at all.

[RatushnyFan]

Note that they qualified that it only applies to swearing in the stands.  Small loophole that enables Parker to continue to f-bomb away.