OBSESSION, FOR MEN: PERFUME BY SMQ

by Orson on Mar 18, 2008 1:00 PM EDT

SMQ's already on the long march toward the season with his extremely premature assessment of Ball State. Did you know that both David Letterman and Jim Davis both graduated from Ball State? (Garfield Without Garfield, btw, really is better than the strip ever was, even to seven year old eyes.) Or that the founder of Papa John's pizza bought the naming rights to Louisville's Stadium, but is REALLY A BALL STATE ALUM?!?!?!?!

This and actual football-like content, all in one package. Oh, and one more fun fact: David Letterman's private charity is named The American Foundation for Courtesy and Grooming. This and the 80 ton hydraulic press skit are enough to merit canonization for America's gaptoothed saint.

Thanks, Dave. You're the reason our student loans are twice what they should be. In all fairness, though, it was pretty sweet convincing Citibank to pay for an International Affairs Masters and our own 80 ton hydraulic press.

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I actually used to know someone who went to Ball State just to take art classes from Bob “Happy Trees” Ross. He died her freshman year before she could get into one of his classes. Some say it was the proclivity towards drugs, but I say her downward spiral was a result of the loss of Bob Ross.

by AllWhoYonder on Mar 18, 2008 1:17 PM EDT reply actions

For more Garfield hilarity see the YouTubes, search word: lasagnacat. Not to be missed. Example below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TGrep3PDAs

by SuperNova on Mar 18, 2008 1:19 PM EDT reply actions

The Garfield minus Garfield person has to be the most brilliant or the craziest person on the whole wide ’web.

Or maybe he’s both.

I made it through 3 pages, laughed, then cried, and could go no longer.

by CardsFan922 on Mar 18, 2008 2:06 PM EDT reply actions

I rather enjoyed the crushing of the squash. I think the newspaper one was a ripoff tho.

by Brian on Mar 18, 2008 2:27 PM EDT reply actions

I don’t think I’ve laughed as hard at a comic strip as I did when looking at Garfield Minus Garfield. Absolutely brilliant stuff. Less is more indeed.

by AllWhoYonder on Mar 18, 2008 2:31 PM EDT reply actions

Is this where they filmed the final scene from the movie “The Fly”? The press was a little bigger; squashiness the same.

by Sundawg on Mar 18, 2008 2:53 PM EDT reply actions

That was a pretty thoughtful piece on my alma mater from SMQ (particularly the observation about how we dined out on our fat and happy turnover margin this year despite giving up gobs of yards, something that will surely bite us in the ass next season absent a shoring up of the defense).

However, he clearly omitted the most famous BSU alum of them all: Joyce DeWitt, a.k.a. Janet on “Three’s Company.”

Re: John Schnatter… he’s a Louisville native and founded his pizza empire there after graduation, so I think that was more of a case of “local corporate headquarters slaps their name on new stadium in town” rather than a specific dissing of the school three hours or so up the road where he got his diploma. He’s donated a crapload of money to the business school at Ball State, from what I understand.

(Of course, that hasn’t stopped the urban legend from circulating for nearly a decade that Schnatter offered the money PJ’s gave to Louisville to BSU first, but he was turned down by our completely clueless AD at the time. I don’t buy it for a host of reasons, but a good number of our fans still do…)

by Papa Lou BSU on Mar 18, 2008 4:42 PM EDT reply actions