Comments on: CURIOUS INDEX, 12/19/07

By: Jorg� the Bass Player

Jorg� the Bass Player — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:13:51 +0000

“That’s like pouring perfume on a pig.”

By: oc phil

oc phil — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:48:18 +0000

Coop @ 33: Yeah that was my joke, but I didn’t really mean it. A big chunk of the rugby team when I was at USC came from the EX house.

I learned a long time ago that you cant generalize about houses from campus to campus. And people who worry too much about that stuff need to get a life anyway. I never needed to pay money to either make friends or meet women so I never joined any of them.

Kate @ 28: Thanks for the clip. That’s a good movie, though it kind of runs out of gas towards the end.

Techie @18: The funny thing about the long layoff for Big 10 teams is that’s the way it has been for many many years. Everybody used to do it that way but more and more games have been creeping into December and they are now the outlier. So the answer is “because they have not changed”.

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:16:37 +0000

#33
I hear the Tri-Lam’s are interesting lot…
So, how high does the eagle fly?

By: Coop

Coop — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:15:21 +0000

32 – No, he just means that most EX chapters are full of meatheads. In the North, that probably plays better.

In the South, show me a school where the EX chapter is better than the KA, SAE, EN, ATO, KE, etc chapters.

And, North Carolina does not count, given that their best fraternities are basically Yankee houses, Phi Delt, Phi Gam, Beta, etc. with the exception to the rule being DKE.

By: Edsall is God

Edsall is God — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:31:48 +0000

oc phil – depends. The Pitt Sigma Chi’s were a bunch of odd, club-hopping ravers. And usually, the girls that ended up at a party were pretty hot. The Sigma Chi at the Univ. of Arizona was what I envision the Playboy Mansion being like. The girls at WFVU were brutal.

By: oc phil

oc phil — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:21:00 +0000

Edsall: Sounds like a typical Sigma Chi experience to me.

By: Edsall is God

Edsall is God — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:11:19 +0000

29 – I spent a night in Morgantown as a college freshmen on a road trip to visit other Sigma Chi houses. We stopped at Pitt, Penn State and one other place. WFVU was by far the scariest. A bunch of crazy fuckin’ hicks who drank way too much and just liked to fight each other because they were meatheads. And the girls were unattractive but willing to do absolutely anything. I’ll let your mind wander on the last bit…

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:06:39 +0000

Wait…was that Tom Osbourne wearing WV garb before morphing into Saban?
I dont blame RR for leaving…ever been to Morgantown? Straight up factory trash minus the factories…as for women…average talent is a 3.5…if you have ever wondered about what a ticket line for a Bubba Sparxxxx concert looked like….Missing teeth? Try missing chromosomes…everyone listens to Deathmetal with wallets on chains wearing hooded sweatshirts..typical WWE crowd….if Kid Rock + Courtney Love+ Lil Kim had a kid that was retarded and was a Cleveland Browns fan x 5000..you got it..makes walking thru Somolia passing out Pat Buchanan fliers feel like safety…Cant blame ya RR…Jesco White aint mad atcha…

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:02:31 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso

By: Edsall is God

Edsall is God — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:26:52 +0000

They Live was on some Encore channel last night…what a fuckin’ great movie. Though every time I see the fight scene, I want to see the South Park Cripple Fight homage.

By: cjjags

cjjags — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:15:05 +0000

22, my bag of sour skittles i’m currently eating has more concern for the players’ academic standing than the NCAA does.

By: Scalz1

Scalz1 — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:13:43 +0000

I’m a little more partial to:
“Brother, life’s a bitch …. and she’s back in heat”

By: Rex Cramer

Rex Cramer — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:09:13 +0000

Nobody captures the drama of an alien invasion quite like Rowdy Roddy Piper.

The second best quote “Mamma don’t like tattle-tales”.

By: Beergut

Beergut — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:04:48 +0000

I guess if you’re a serial killer, you can be a Big Ten official, but compulsive gambling, sexual assault, being a deadbeat, sexual harassment, general douchebaggery….that’s all fair game.

By: Coop

Coop — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:56:47 +0000

#20 – The best argument for bowl games, before the conference championship games were instituted, was that most college teams’ regular seasons were over the weekend prior to Thanksgiving, with a few the weekend after, meaning the majority of players had 2 weeks of dead time before preparing for exams.

The players could focus on the bowl games after exams, assuming they were on the semester system, and some semblance of academic integrity was salvaged.

Of course now, with the championship games players are playing right into exams, anyway, so that argument is shot for the MAC, SEC, ACC, and Big 12.

Ironically, the only trophies given out in football by the NCAA are handed out during the heart of exam team.

Also, the NCAA soccer Final Fours are during the middle of exams for most kids, too, so you could make the argument that the bowls are more interested in players’ academic standing than the NCAA is.