Comments on: LIVE FROM THE RED COCKTOBER, T. BOONE PICKENS

By: Kecalf Bailey

Kecalf Bailey — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:53:11 +0000

# 12

NOT Classics.

That is unless you want to teach classics.

I don’t.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:48:41 +0000

@18 OSU and OU bickering about who’s the better school is like a bum and drunk fighting over the last can of steel reserve.

By: TIGERinATL

TIGERinATL — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:48:29 +0000

Hopefully this just makes CMG’s salary unsustainable and AU can pick him up on the cheap.

By: Heywood Boren Blowme

Heywood Boren Blowme — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:41:10 +0000

Laugh all you want, land thieving Pokes wannabe’s. You’re stuck in Norman freakin Oklahoma. The home of the Motor Mile and 3rd rate tittie bars and nothing else. Oh I suppose you could also add the Domino’s Pizza Delivery Driver Academy, or whatever the name of that school down South is… While we bask in the glory of all that is Stilly. Home of beautiful, slender, intelligent coeds: ( With all their original teeth!) A school that actually has degrees that can’t be used as proof that you’re eligible for government cheese allocations, and T BOONE MUTHERFUCKIN PICKENS!!!

Dream on Fuckers… Dream on. See you Thanksgiving weekend in BPS!

By: DLB

DLB — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:53:25 +0000

Brian,

That should allow Okie State’s endowment to cash in on all of those life insurance policies, thereby settling this issue of lack of funds.

By: Them Oklahoma

Them Oklahoma — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:53:06 +0000

This is what happens when Oklahoma State tries to overturn the will of the college football gods. Ok. State will always be a 2nd tier program. At best, they are the Va. Tech of the midwest/southwest (really, we in Oklahoma have no singular geographical affiliation. Could be south, southwest, or midwest depending on your opinion). At worst, they are Baylor without the education. When you trifle with fate, you get your face melted like the nazis. You want to know why the market has tanked/is tanking? T.Boone’s orange aggie folly. Remember, the last time Oklahoma State tried to surpass OU? They thought all was well, and then the tech stocks crashed. OU goes back on top, and the economy is all good. Ok State gets its mega-donation, and a short while later this happens. Never put faith in an aggie.

By: Mr.Pelican Pants

Mr.Pelican Pants — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:45:19 +0000

Next stop, T.Boone Pickens Hotel and Casino…..
Now where does the money go? I find it hard to believe that he did not have a stop loss on it, and would let it disappear like Keyser S�ze….poof, it was gone…
You see kids, this is why margin calls are bad bad bad…let this be a $300 million dollar lesson to you.
Its like a casino, when you are up, and you know you are up, leave…the longer you stay, odds are you will go broke….trust me, I have lost tens of dollars, I know what I am talking about….

By: FRAT STUD

FRAT STUD — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:29:48 +0000

@1 – Guys from my high school used to spit coffee on their computer monitors all the time. It was no big deal.

By: yoyofutbawl

yoyofutbawl — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:01:17 +0000

All T. Boone needs is to be sitting in some modern chair, wearing a Nehru-type jacket with a white Persian cat in his lap to complete the picture.

By: shawnoc

shawnoc — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:01:15 +0000

@ Mr. Bailey (#10)

Which degrees are the useful ones?
Not any from one of them fancy football playing universities, I can guarantee you that.
I have a tig-welding certification that’ll show a college boy how useful that piece of paper is!

P.S. T. Boone didn’t need no degree to send a platinum (plated) rocket into orbit!

By: Kecalf Bailey

Kecalf Bailey — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:54:12 +0000

Most interesting BOONE fact from Wiki:
Pickens lobbied for the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (HR 503) which would prohibit the slaughter for human consumption and the trade and transport of horseflesh and live horses intended for human consumption.

Saban loves horseflesh

By: Kecalf Bailey

Kecalf Bailey — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:42:56 +0000

It’s a great time to invest!

At least thats what all my friends with useful degrees say.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:39:31 +0000

Really the thing is the only one you’d think this affects is T Boone. He seems like a shifty wheeler dealer, but probably an upstanding guy to Okie State. My thought is that he will just donate the required funds, and not try to out game the Oklahoma State University endowment, which, because it is a university and thus has an infinite investment time horizon, would probably not have taken this aggressive investment route leading to the loss of the “donation.”

The only reason OK State would have to be scurred is if T Boone did this with the rest of his money too.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:32:43 +0000

Wind turbines on the stadium should solve this problem easily. That is until one of them throws a blade and takes out the band.

By: poguemahone

poguemahone — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:27:16 +0000

Does the Two Minutes Hate revolve around the chick that wrote the column that inspired the Gundyfest?