CURIOUS INDEX, 6/22/09

Oh, this would be beautiful, especially with Notre Dame fans coming to Tuscaloosa and wondering what all the yelling was about during the game.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Foley is sitting in his office wondering what the big deal about playing non-conference games outside your own home state is.

Best drum sequence ever.

GO JACKETS! FIGHT! WIN! DRINK!

Spend a few hours on the Tech campus among their students, and even the triple option won’t be enough to make you root for the Ramblin’ Wreck. They’re simply unamerican. There was a page 2 article about one of their Thursday night games a while back where a bunch of their students had rigged up their computers to watch the game in the library (which, iirc, is literally next door to the stadium) while they studied. Real college football fans should have a serious problem with that sort of behavior.

Oh, btw…

ARP! NERDS!!!

Ah the genius of Kornfeld. Let me pour one out for CPA-ONE before I jump in the Nite Ridah and head back to Midstate Office Supply…

When Georgia Tech actually features drinking, gambling, and coed enrollment like every other self-respecting Southern football school, then I’ll respect them. Until then, I say good day, sir.

Ahem. Arp. Nerds. Etc.

Also, “Saban,” “recruiting,” and “integrity” in one article, but no mention of oversigning eleventybillion players? Those darn recruiting services! I bet they actually keep track of how many schollies teams have to actually offer. They should just understand that the numbers will work themselves out.

@2 It goes GO JACKETS! FIGHT! WIN! DRINK! GET NAKED! (Although, I’ll grant you that at Tech the ratio often makes the last item unwanted)

@3 The only “Library” UGA students even knows exists is on E. Clayton Street.

/Oh Look! Roddy Jones just scored again
/Piss on em

“I think Texas is one of the great athletic programs in the country. Not just now, but for many years. I’m a huge fan of the program, their coaches, and (athletic director) DeLoss (Dodds) is one of the giants of our industry. So, if we can figure out how to play Texas at some point, we would love to do it.”

Hmm, looks like Saban is eyeing the next school that he’ll promise he’ll never leave…

Philip,
That quote was from the ND athletic director, not Saban.

I always found it ironic that U(sic)GA’s fight song was to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Yeah, a REAL Southern School there.

O R G I N I Z A T I O N O F L I E R S ! ! ! ! 1 !

Techie, I’m willing to bet you live in NC.

#10, Ooh, boy, a history moment at EDSBS! The tune to Battle Hymn of the Republic was played widely in the mid 19th century. Georgia is not the only southern school that uses it. According to Wikipedia, Auburn also plays it after extra points.

The tune is great, and frankly I wouldn’t trust anyone who didn’t appreciate the lyrics to either the Battle Hymn or John Brown’s Body….

“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.”

Ramblin’ Wreck was the only American song Nikita Krushchev knew and he sang it with Richard Nixon to show their unity. Therefore the Ramblin’ Wreck played a role in Cold War resolution.

And just so everybody’s aware, UGA isn’t the only place that boosted someone else’s melody for their fight song, either. Observe:

http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiSONGAMB;ttSONGAMB.html

Extra bonus EDSBS history pedanticism: the John Brown of the song “John Brown’s Body Lies A-Moulderin’ In The Grave” (the tune to the Battle Hymn) is not the John Brown of American antislavery fame, but Sergeant John Brown of the Second Battalion, Boston Light Infantry Volunteer Militia, a Boston based unit.

And to push it even further, the “John Brown” tune is actually that of an older song, “Say Brothers, Will You Meet Us?”, a camp meeting tune from 1858.

Now the question I’ve always had is why does Texas use “I’ve Been Workin’ On The Railroad” as it’s state song?

“3) The only "Library" UGA students even knows exists is on E. Clayton Street.”

I’ll give you a couple of minutes to ponder the irony of your sentence there…..ARP! NERD!!!!

In Poland they tell Tech jokes.

I thought Mr Kornfeld bought the farm several years ago.

@14

‘Texas, Our Texas’ is the state song. ‘The Eyes of Texas’ (sung to the tune of I’ve Been Working on the Railroad) is the school song for The University of Texas.

Hook ’Em.

An ’eer: On Texas, your answer is “WTF are you talking about?”

The state song of Texas is “Texas, Our Texas” not, as commonly thought among foreigners, “The Eyes of Texas.” I’ll leave it to a resident T-sipper (with all due respect) to explain UT’s school song. To UT’s credit, at least it isn’t another reworked version of “Alma Mater.”

Ah. Yes. Arp. The tired old “academic” argument from North Avenue. Catch the M-Train, brother! And as far as The University’s “southerness” (I mean, really? How could this be in doubt?): AG SCHOOL. Now, run along and finish your calculus homework. Arp. Nerd. Etc., etc.

begonyc, you hit entered as I typed.

Stoopid teckies.

Its a great song…unfortunately sung by GT engineering geeks without any hot women in the stands.

It’s not that we don’t have hot women, but our outsourcing budget took a hit in the latest economic projections.

white lightning + engineers = Titanic

what? too soon?

I always though Yech’s fight song went like this:

“Rooty toot toot!

Rooty toot toot!

We are the boys from the institute!

We don’t drink,

and we don’t chew,

and we don’t hang out with the boys that do!"

I do have to admit, their off season locker room renovations are going to help them out in the long run. Wireless routers have been installed to allow the players to access their World of Warcraft accounts directly after practice.

45-42

Arp nerd arp all ya want.

Every single time I went over to Athens and did not leave a bar without taking some leghumpers girlfriend. I told them stories of a strange fun land called Atlanta and of a phenomenon called a career.

WORKED. EVERY. TIME.

I’ll take Atlanta and city life over jaded views of farms and old R.E.M. talk anyday.

To Hell With Georgia.
45-42… arp arp.

I go to Ga Tech. I think that someone I play Warcraft with online cast a spell on me that prevents me from kissing a girl for the first time.

Go Tech! Ra1 Ra! Ra!

The website at the end of that video is the most honest assessment of GT I’ve ever seen from any Yellow Jacket.

You dawg fans realize that calling somone a nerd is admitting you are an idiot and dumber than us. I never understood why someone would make such a stupid comment, but then again you are a dumb dawg fan. Also, who cares how many good loking girls were at GT when we went there? If you are over 30 and dating a college girl, it might matter or iof you are a dawg fan trolling the high schools and elementary for small children, but to adults it does not matter. By the way, shouldn’t you dawg fans get back to work at Mcdonald’s and yes, I will super size my order.

Speaking of that rickety old car…I drive it! Orson, let me know if you’re interested in a ride in it.

I hate GT. NFL teams are now teaching me remedial tackling. I have nightmares about Roddy Jones and Jonathan Dwyer. Why do Tech fans call me toast?

GT has more national title than UGA or Flordia.

So go fuck yourselves rednecks.

Post that or you’re a pussy.