CURIOUS INDEX, 9/30/2008

Johnathan Crompton – The Thinking Man’s Michael Henig.

Lebowski!

Notre Dame needs to replace Football Jesus with Football Buddy Christ.

If Shia Lebouf gets off, I can go sit in my goddamn seat.

The worlds largest coke orgy, Notre Dame is not.

Add one more item to the list of reasons why one should not go to the Midwest. I’ll have to put it up near cornfields, meth, and shoulder shrugs.

While I agree that one “should” hate Olive Garden, it really is just a good as any place else. Psychosomaticism people.

Given the current vagaries of the financial sector, perhaps the Pacific Life whale is an appropriate semantic mirror after all.

I thought the point of the Olive Garden ads was to show that even though we only eat with other members of the homogenous core, we’re all equally vacant in our consumption of Italian-ish food product.

What is annoying about the Olive Garden ads is that they try to make the place come off as an Home Cooked Italian sort of place, as opposed to, say, the Italian TGI Fridays. There’s really nothing wrong with the latter, so stop trying to be the former.

And of course there’s really nothing wrong with the Soup and Salad thing at lunch.

/Gainesville is the biggest town I’ve lived in.

VOICE OF A GENERATION:
It’s not “Greg Lunn” who writes “Thoughts from a Fat White Guy,” and gives meaningful insight into fat linemen’s love lives… that would be “ROB” Lunn.

I should know, he’s my (large) little brother.

BBS -

You paint with a broad brush. ND is the outlier in the midwest. Tailgating is great at most Big Ten schools. The gestapo at ND is something that will get fixed when the wrong alum or son/daughter of wrong alum is pinched.

i went to the ND/Mich. game a few weeks back – first time back since i graduated – my wife and i almost got kicked out, in large part b/c i called an usher a douchebag, then explained to him in painstaking detail just how big of a douchebag he was – luckily, his superior agreed with me that this particular usher had crossed the line of acceptable douchebaggery for an ND usher—a high threshold indeed—and thus we didn’t get kicked out – however, prior to being released, the head usher did threaten to have us arrested, and i firmly believe the only reason we were allowed back in is b/c it is generally a bad idea to threaten an attorney with a baseless arrest, especially a drunk redneck attorney not afraid of laying out a full gamut of by-god legal consequences – still, it sucked to have to deal with and just added to my disdain for ND ushers

First Bennigan’s goes under, and now Shakedown Jesus is turning water into fine. Must be tough to be Irish these days. At least Endless Pasta is fo-evarrrr!!!!

Funny. Last year a friend and I went to ND-SC on UGA’s off week — just to do it. We drank without any issues except for when I unknowingly tried to carry an open can of Coors into some sort of no-alcohol-area of campus. The guard person was very polite, but firm; and I was compliant and there was no problems. We had absolutely no issues at the game even as I hollered like a school-boy for a wave from a Song Girl. (They obliged).

From my experience, it’s difficult to fathom that this is going on. (Not saying it isn’t a hassle, etc., just relating my generally positive experience.

And leaving off a closing parenthesis.

Jaybo Shaw sounds like a rally cry from the Orgeron. “JayboShaw! JayboShawanshawemgooda!”

One ofthe biggest problems at ND is the fact that the crackdown is aimed mostly at ND students and alumni, with almost no focus on the opposing fans who may be getting just a drunk and rowdy. This was the case at the UM game this year, where UM students were starting fights and being let go while ND students were pinched for blowing .08 on the breathalyzer and being hauled off to the pokey for 13 hours stays.

The collection of stories that have been coming out of the last 3 home games, coupled with the pig-headed and out of touch responses form the head of ushers are really causing a mini-crisis in the Bend. you all laugh, but the reason ND can never have an atmosphere like in Madison, Columbus, or Baton Rouge is a result of this crackdown. Why do you think we never have night games? NBC would kill to have USC-ND be on at 8 pm, but the administration lives in fear of the prospect of students and alumni drinking until 7 pm. So, for the love of all that is good and holy (namely, the 4th and 21st amendments), help us out this one time.

@ 12

Wow, I can’t believe you WERENT kicked out. Last year at the Swamp I had a friend kicked out after he forgot his ticket at his seat, went to the concession stand, and tried to get back to his seat. He wasn’t even kicked out for not having a ticket, but for sounding a bit frustrated when he told the usher (truthfully) that his ticket was 20 feet away at his seat and that he’d gladly let the usher walk the 20 feet with him to prove it.

“You do the math; I’ll do the Alfredo! Ha ha ha!”

Every time I watch the people at the table pretend to laugh at that, I want to just kill them all with my teeth.

Wooderson,
Well, were a game at 8 PM in BR, and most other schools I have been to, the drinking would not stop at 7PM. Actually the frenetic pace would only increase, and then of course there are the “cokes with lots and lots of ice” one needs to “heat up” when actually in the stadium. All in all I would guess drinking for an 8pm game will stop anywhere between half time and some time Monday morning.

Skinnyphatman,

I say 7 pm, because, thanks to some quirk of government map making, SB gets placed in a different time zone than the rest of indiana, meanign games start an hour early in october on.

But I feel you on the in-stadium drinking. While it’d probably be cause for beheading at ND, and they do use in stadium cams to track down offenders, the folks at the book store were kind enough to stock rugby shirts with tight wrists, which make transporting in 10-12 50mL bottles of brown liquor extremely easy these days. No more pat-downs helps.

How can you hate the deliciousness that is the OG? Two words: fried ravioli.

I prefer my restaurants to just tell me to eat more chikin. And waffle fries. And BBQ sauce. And buttery biscuits with fried chikin in them.

…they do use in stadium cams to track down offenders,…

Cameras in the stadium?

#24, blon

The cameras were originally intended to capture offensive highlights.

#25

I’m just sitting here laughing at the original purpose of the cameras, but I’m not going to post anything sarcastic. I could be crying next weekend. You never know, your team is doing well and then you-know-what happens. What is that saying abut glass houses?

The tailgating situation is far better at the Olive Garden Cooking School, where the wine flows freely on gameday, before, during, and after, though many are unaware that the OGCS has a football team.

Plus, flights to Tuscany are expensive.

But, if you can make it, take a trip to the neighboring Pond’s Institute

blon, my house got its roof caved in in glorious Raycom HD last weekend. I’m building a new one from straw.

Blon-

I’m not referring to the NBC cameras that show the game.

I’m talking about a full CCTV system that is pointed directly at the student section. The head of student discipline sits in a control room during the game looking for people breaking the rules. It’s not uncommon for a student to recieve a summons during the week following the game for innocuous incidents caught on film during the game on saturday.

Think “Big Brother is always watching” and you’ve got an idea of how this works.

Was Bobby Bowden a German infantryman in WW II, or does he just like that particular salute?

Wooderson @ 29 – Was your head of student discipline formerly a British police officer in charge of soccer game hooligan identification and riot control? Total overkill.

Wooderson, I’d watch it. Bill Kerk may also be watching you on the net.

Funny you should point out that the guy in the horse incident is “as harmful as a gun made of marshmallows”.

Marshmallows are not allowed in the stadium, and students caught throwing marshmallows are subject to disciplinary action these days.