ATTENTION, WEST VA: YOU DONE BEEN CHALLENGED

They don’t want none! When they can play guitar while sitting on a burning couch, then they can talk.

There are a lot of things we (Isla Vista) aren’t good at: math, not-not-not getting drunk, morals, math… but couch burning is not in that category.

IV will bow to no one in couch burning per capita.

Nice site though.

God Bless America,
Land that I love.
Stand beside her, and guide her
Thru the night with a light from a couch.

This will all end in tears. We want pix.

UCSB does not even have a football team, thus couch burning has become a year round sport.

That place is heaven

I think if Ralph Wiggum went to college, he’d go to UCSB.

http://members.cox.net/sciatica/images/ralph.jpg
“That’s where I saw the Leprchaun. He tells me to burn things!”

UCSB is undefeated in football since 1991, correct.

If heaven was in fact a place filled with half naked, tanned surfer girls and a keg and house band at every address, then it might live up to Isla Vista. As I documented earlier, we just got an upgrade at Google images:

Walk off? Walk off?! Walk off!

No football team! Never gets cold! You guys are fucking crazy!

Are you kidding me with this?

I am not going to get on here with a “WTF” rant about how couch burning is stupid (b/c it is) and how it’s not exactly what one wants to brag about (unless your other rep is for being redneck hillbillies – then you embrace the lesser of the evils).

When you walk through IV for the first time, you’ll realize why: there are old couches, mattresses, chairs and sundry furniture lying randomly thoughout the town from approximately August to November (a month before and two months after move-in) and from May to July (a month before and a month after move-out).

Sounds like a dump to me.

Fine. Burn your trash. Take the title. At WVU you get arrested/expelled for it anyway. And since they don’t have a football team, I say we give them this, a hollow victory.

As the fire engulfed the couch and slowly started to die, the crowd began chanting, “Burn more shit.”

Awesome.

Come on CBG, don’t give up so quick! All I’m saying is I’ve been to a worlds fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and burning couches without a football team or cold weather is the craziest thing I’ve ever heard of.

And when you are out of couches, there is always fireball.

CBG has been planning for this moment her entire life.

Excelsior, madam. Excelsior.

I agree CBG that Isla Vista at times appears to be a dump. A glorious, glorious dump. That’s what happens when you cram 16,000 17-24 year olds into two square miles. We have a population density of 3,340.9/km² (8,635.2/mi²). If you assume that there’s a couch for every four students, that’s at least 4,000 couches! And 3,990 of them smell like malt liquor! Dems burnin’ numbers to me.

Isla Vista residents are also susceptible to arrest and possible expulsion, it’s just that we long ago perfected the art of scurrying away when the police show up – very much like roaches faced with kitchen lights.

Though there are also plenty who throw even more lighter fluid onto the couches when the cops show up. Those are the guys and girls who make a $4000 security deposit de rigeur in our glorious village.

For those of you lucky enough to live in Isla Vista, add 60 pounds of burrito fat to each one of those women, and then you’ll be able to imagine what it is like to live in San Antonio.

I’m now going to burn my couch in protest of fat chicks that sweat.

Rome, would you want a fat woman who didn’t sweat? That’s just plain alien.

All I’m saying is that this is the first I’ve heard of this massive furniture bonfire that took place slightly off the campus of UCSB.

And that this fall when we beat someone and decide to set a couch on fire, we’ll get a blurb on CNN.

On a side note, when we beat Texas Tech last year to go to the elite 8, we got a car. Ironically enough, it was a Sunfire. There’s video of it on collegehumor somewhere… give me a few minutes.

Depends on how much I’ve had to drink.

If anyone cares, here you go – the Sweet 16 aftermath.

Isla Vista is a wondrous place. My parents were completely on board with my going to school in South Central but they would have cracked had I attempted to go to UCSB — I’d probably still be there.

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Check HRB for the only appropriate answer to what has now become know as “The Video”…

Couch burning sans football team?

…that’s almost as cool as rioting after your women’s basketball team wins a championship.

-signed,

Maryland

cool.

DC Trojan: We have that in common. When I was getting recruited out of high school I took my dad up on a visit up to UCSB and his response was “no way you are going here, you’ll be on the beach all day and never graduate”. The opposite happened when my mom went with me to USC, they know how to recruit parents.

Luckily for me my brother came with me on my trip, though you would’ve thought my mom would suspect something given that I had a shit eating grin for the next six months.

California College Insight Dept:

For Californians applying to the University of California system, UCSB is usually their third choice, if it is not possible to gain admissions to Berkeley (#1), or UCLA (#2).

If they end up there, their rationale is, at least UCSB is next to the beach.

Having been there once, it was amazing to see how many pretty chicks there were all over the place. Maybe they could lend some of these to the Domers for their next big ND Tailgate Party!

Chris Berman at UCSB:

“You’re with me BIKINI.”

Bikini to Berman, “Try my grandma, she is pushing 60!”

Maybe they could lend some of these to the Domers for their next big ND Tailgate Party!

Rule #1: The worm only works if your cool.

Rule #2: Notre Dame tailgates are apparently not cool.

Rule #3: You can always use the tequila affiliated worm to lure them.

Sub in “you’re” for “your” in Rule #1, by the way.

SKLM, it’s pretty well accepted that UCSB is behind UCLA and Berkeley as far as the UC system goes, but there are plenty of people who had Santa Barbara as their first choice (me included). UCLA was too close to home, Berkeley was a pretty close choice, but once I toured the campus and IV my decision was already made for me. I doubt I’d get in into any of the three now, but back in 2001 apparently the admissions were a bit lax up in Hippieville and down in Westwood.

Here are some more IV pictures, this time from the Inter-Sorority Volleyball Tournament (held usually in Santa Barbara or San Diego)… (And yes, it’s as awesome as it sounds. I have a scar on my right eyebrow from that day.) (That was meant to be reassuring.)

http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~spurvis/pics/4-30-05/photos/photo19.html

SKLM, that’s not too far off on the selection front. My UC list had only two entries — Cal and UC Santa Cruz — but I just couldn’t resist the bright (anti-theft) lights of South Central.

I bet SKLM could not even get into the local junior college.

Is there anything as declasse as a juco in Santa Barbara? I think you might have to head south to Ventura City College.

san diego is behind LA and berkeley on most lists, followed by some grouping of davis, sb, and irvine. but yes they can burn couches with anyone in the country in IV. wonderful place

Since we’re talking about Notre Lame and couch burning…I have a quick story (other ND grads can fill in details).

One year, power went out all over campus due to an explosion at the campus power plant. It took me a little while to find out because my dorm was one of only two buildings on campus with power, but the rumor quickly spread through the dorm that there was a riot going on outside. We quickly went outside to check out the “riot”…sure enough, it was a ND riot. A couple of hundred white kids standing around in a circle, watching a couch burn. A single cop was on hand to take care of the unruly mob. As the fire trucks show up to douse the flames, a rumor would spread that there was another couch on fire on another part of campus and so the hundreds of people would wander over there. The lone cop would tag along, make sure nothing got out of hand, and the same fire fighters would move to the next fire. This went on for about an hour.

Ah, nothing like an ND riot. But look, even we burn couches when the power goes out, so what’s the big deal?

I think the consensus is that WVU is the authority on couch burning.

I apologize for throwing in the towel so early yesterday. In hindsight, it was foolish of me, and done in a moment of weakness when I actually thought I needed to get some work done. My bad.

Sorry, UCSB. I applaud the effort to clean up your streets, but you gotta use your “keg couch” (b/c that’s sacrifice), and you gotta win something for it to mean anything. Otherwise, you’re no better than the MBA students at Notre Dame.

CBG, you just had to go straight for the nutsack didn’t you?

I think from now on, comparing anyone to the MBA students at Notre Dame should be equivalent to Godwin’s Law.

UCSB may not make too many waves in terms of athletics, but when we do we go nuts. In 2005 our men’s soccer team advanced to the finals and when we hosted and beat Duke (or maybe it was Virginia Commonwealth for that game), the Gauchos stormed the field, picked up the goals and carried them about a mile to the campus lagoon where we promptly added them in. Then we burned stuff.

However, I do not think the consensus is that WVU is the authority on couch burning. Mountaineers think WVU is the authority on couch burning. I, too, can come up with a consensus statement.

I think the consensus is that Roger Ebert is the authority on SEC football.

See? Anyway, as I mentioned on another WVU site, UCSB and WVU need not be couch burning rivals. Rather, I say, we ought to be allies in our World Peace Via Ottoman Ignition initiative.

Beautiful, just beautiful. [wiping away tear…]

Thanks for giving me an excuse to post a link to the song ‘Burning Down the Couch.’

Ain’t it beautiful Orson! Here’s a Hankie.

Coming out of high school I visited one school and stopped looking after that. My choice, the land of beatuful people and burning couches: UCSB. I have never been to WVU but I can’t believe that anyone can burn more couches than they do in IV. Our football team has not lost a game in over a decade and we get to throw stuff into a scenic lagoon that smells like ass. Does this not sound like the greatest place on all the earth?

I have to agree with Jon though, couch burning should be a uniting force in our lives and we should celebrate as we light our beloved couches from sea to shining . . . well, whatever there is in West Virginia.

Former UCSB star QB John Barnes transfered to UCLA after cfb was axed, whereupon he led the Bruins to a miraculous victory over my beloved Trojans. The two years I spent in SB, DUI aside, where among the best of my life. Viva La Superica!

Rhapsode, you’d be flinging the couches into small rivers and creeks clogged with the debris from blowing up mountains to get into the lovely coal within… because digging tunnels is labor intensive and doesn’t go BOOM!