CURIOUS INDEX, 6/30/2008

A&M doesn’t bury their mascots at Kyle Field? I find that hard to believe.

Scroll down to #6 on the page. Can someone confirm this? The must be at least one Aggie reading this blog…

http://blacktable.com/ference040318.htm

Re: UGA VI

Orson, you forgot “and trying to lick his own testicles.”

/preemptive self-deprecation

Hey, we live in ATL. That means we’ll die the same way, but with a high school degree.

Wow Orson, for a guy who is (a) a rival, (b) a fellow SECer, © a semi-open/semi-closeted Larry Munson fan, and (d) more clever than a sassy robot your Uga post was pretty damn good. Kudos on mixing the hate with the love. As an avid reader and Dawgs fan, I was looking forward to your take and you did not disappoint.

Actually, if you live in the ATL you also have to insert “while waiting in line at Panera”.

@1

No, but word has it they bury their coaches there…

The dog lived in Savannah, though.

@Morning – + a cocktail to you.

Also, I let my three-year-old son listen to ‘99 Problems’ this weekend, accidentally. Does that make me “BET’s Father of the Year”?

Reason number 4,847 Larry Munson rules:

Listen to his take on UGA VI and especially his hope for UGA VII this fall
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe18z5uZd2M

With waaaaay too much attention on the program already, it’s difficult for me not to see UGA’s passing as a bad sign.

The link to Fanhouse makes me even more appreciative of Swindle’s writing.

I know aTm has been buried at Kyle field by a few teams, I guess the dog has too.

I guess I need to block out September 14 thru January 20 for hiding from a terrorist attack. I thought I was safe here on the golf courses of pastural North Fulton county. If Obama doesn’t win in November, I guess I can come out of hiding earlier.

I guess a lot.

I need to find the link between Terry Hoeppner and Hayden Fry. Once I do that, I think I might be the only person with an Erdos-Bacon-Fry number (though the definition is a bit on the relaxed side).

Rest in peace, UGA VI. I’ll rest my nuts on a bag of ice in your honor.

Then there was “Lucy,” who claimed to be a Maltese from North Port, Fla.

“Arf, arf, old friend,” she wrote.

Sign of respect or not, that just made me laugh.

There’s a new college football metric: your Hayden Fry number.

Hayden Fry is helping Arizona lose games? Bravissimo!

@14… Mmmmm… Bacon fries… aaaarrgggllhhh….

And Orson, Hayden’s not dead yet, unless you know something we don’t.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen bacon fries marketed, #19, but there’s definitely bacon salt.

bacon amateurs…what you really want is the bacon-of-the-month club, which is further proof that we live in the greatest country in human history. Where else can you get a pound or two of great bacon delivered to your office?

http://gratefulpalate.com/

1. - which course?

In regards to UGA, don’t bad things happen in 3’s? If UGA’s passing is the first strike against the dawgs, what will the other two be? Always one to speculate, I’m going with:

1) Verne Lundquist falls while drunk on appletini’s down a flight of stairs and lands on Knowshon and 3 co-eds, immediately breaking Knowshon’s legs and impregnating two of said three
2) God comes back down to earth to claim his other son, Mark Richt

from Larry Munson:
“…hoping he’s got a big ballsack… and ready to hunker down.”

UGA VII’s got some high expectations ahead of him.

@ #21:

I was listening to NPR while driving around town yesterday, and they had a feature on people who had just become US citizens here in Charlottesville. They interviewed a Moroccan woman who left to escape religious persecution and a Salvadoran teen whose parents sent him up here alone to get away from gang violence. Those people talked about how America was free and safe. And I have to admit, I didn’t really understand it—having grown up here, of course, I don’t really know what it’s like elsewhere, and thus can’t really appreciate it.

But after learning of the bacon-of-the-month club, I finally understand. This is what it means to be an American.

A preemptive July 4th cocktail to you, sir.

Snake @#22 – I just hope UGA meets their apocalypse on CBS come Sept 13.

#7, You beat Me to the punch, I was going to use that line for South Carolina! Damnit! Orson was right, a dog will never owe You money, they have no place to put a wallet. A dog will also still love You when You are broke, unshaven, and coming off a three day drunk, unlike a Woman.

Stay away from Bacon Salt – shit made me sick.

How was Jay-Z doing a straight cover (terrible, but straight) of an Oasis song a diss to Oasis? Gee, the crowd’s really going wild for…an Oasis song. It just shows how much better they are as musicians –– since they can actually, like, play their instruments.

Not that I’m an Oasis fan, but compare Wonderwall or Champagne Supernova to whatever Jay-Z’s grunting about, and I know which video I’m about to look up on YouTube.

MSU also has the original bully buried at the 50 behind the home bench, and one of the more recent ones buried by the flagpole.
and R.I.P. UGA. May your Elysian Fields be full of Auburn players to snap at.

Snake @ 22:

His death is just the beginning of the end for ole Georgie:

The third element is Tech coming in to Athens and beatin’ the mutts down and ending the streak! ;-)

No real loss. I know some folks who used to breed bulldogs. One was so stupid it laid down in the sweltering TN heat, foregoing readily available shade, and stayed there until it died of a heatstroke.

http://cbs2chicago.com/slideshows/smartest.dumbest.dogs.20.696673.html?rid=14

I’m sorry, but the mention of the word “Hayden” has me thinking about that “Heroes” Hayden chick……and I think she has more superpowers than we know…..

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=6873208&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

how bout them gators

Erdos? Making me go back to college math to remember Erdos? Someone follow up tomorrow and tell us how many Wikipedia hits he gets today.

(Disclaimers: My Erdos number is large but finite, and I am part of the small set of persons attending one of his lectures while still attending high school.)

I think the Jay-Z cover of “Wonderwall” is a slam on Oasis because you’re never supposed to cover a song of a band you open for. The audience gets their fill of your version, and are less excited when the real version is played.

Also, I think in Jay-Z’s mind covering that song was telling Noel Gallagher that ANYONE will cheer for Wonderwall and that he’s not that special.

@35: Despite Orson’s comment in the post, Jay-Z wasn’t opening for Oasis — Oasis didn’t perform at Glastonbury this year (and Jay-Z was headlining Saturday night, if I read the website right).

#1, A&M buries Reveille outside Kyle. The endzone where they’re buried used to be open, but was recently bowled in. However, they did put a scoreboard on the outside of the stadium, facing Reveille, so that she’d always know the score.

1. Larry Munson hospitalized and still recovering.

2. Diamond Dawgs drop the last two CWS games.

3. Uga VI’s passing.

I’m not sure if I can count to three on one paw, but I can on two.

Sorry Gamecookies and Techmites.

Thanks UgasTexas – it was at least worth a hope anyway. Thanks for ruining Fourth of July week for me. I hope someone pees on your bag of fireworks.

Did AC/DC piss off Jay-Z too causing him to crap on their song as well?

#37

Thanks for the update on Reveille’s tomb. I knew y’all had to bury her some place close to Kyle. A scoreboard just so your dead mascot knows the score? That seems like a waste of money, but hey, it is your dollar.

A lot of my income goes straight back to A&M vets so I do appreciate the school. I have a breed of dog that has a lot in common with the bulldog: breathing problems and requires artificial insemination to be bred.

I think the other thing about Jay-Z there is that he went from Wonderwall into 99 Problems which has lyrics slamming critics and generally saying at least he’s not a b!tch. I, myself, thought it was pretty funny.

the nut of Gallagher’s problem with Jay-Z was that Glastonbury is a “guitar” festival where hip hop didn’t fit in. By playing Oasis’ song (badly) and then going into 99 Problems (with its Back in Black ACDC guitar riff) he was spitting right at Gallagher.

I thought it was well played

You can’t spell crap without rap in it.

At least one of SMU’s 7 Peruna mascots was buried inside Ownby stadium. When it was torn down to make room for Ford Stadium (opened in 2000) they recovered the remains of Peruna VI (the only remains they could actually find) reburied them at Peruna Plaza, just outside the stadium.

The ashes of Peruna VII will be placed in Heritage Hall, which is actually inside the building that houses the football offices attached to the stadium.

1. - Hilarious!

I think Hugh Hewitt doesn’t realize that the reason Trojan fans won’t give him their tickets is because his life savings of $11.05 and his “gently used” ‘85 Ford Ranger isn’t really enough to count as a “fair price” for USC-tOSU tickets.

I guess I’m glad this Hugh Hewitt bozo was below my radar and I had to google him to figure out who he is.

What an idiot. He lives and works right here in Orange County yet he can’t figure out how to buy tickets? Is he hoping some “fan” is just gonna give some to him?

Yep, #43… mockingly butchering another band’s song (as Jay-Z did in the clip), particularly on such a big stage, is essentially considered the ultimate “fuck you” in the world of rock.

I like some of Oasis’ stuff, but they are world-class douchebags, and Jay-Z’s response was well deserved.

oc phil,

Let Hugh Hewitt stay way below your radar. You will be a better man for it.

For the person saying bad comes in 3s, hopefully its over now:

1) UGA baseball loses CWS title game
2) Leading returning basketball player dismissed from team after alcohol offense
3) Uga VI passes

Good for Noel Gallagher then. Jay-Z sucks and that crap is why ticket sales for Glastonbury were way down this year.

I liked Jay-Z’s response, however, both Jay-Z and Oasis blow.

Texas Dawg @ 52 – sure, because the parlous state of the economy and Battle of the Somme field and tent conditions of the last several years couldn’t possibly have had anything to do with it.

Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed Oasis’ first two albums because of their very un-English failure to be apologetic about wanting to be rock stars, but it’s been one prolonged whinge from the brothers Gallagher since then.

( Further proof of the Dr Rockso Theorem, which is that the decline of an artist is in direct correlation to the decrease in their usage of Bolivian marching powder. )