CURIOUS INDEX, 9/23/09

i have always wondered what the innoculation policy is for CFB teams. Typically, this is early for flu season and swine flu is a recent phenomena. Since the Bucks played in Cleveland last week, I worry more about MRSA, since the Browns seem to have that market covered.

Brian forgets one thing about Tress that has nothing to do with Bo. He actually won 5 bowl games in a row before the latest 3 game streak. Something Bo would only be familiar with in reverse. Without looking it up, I believe Bo lost his first 7 bowl games. He was lucky there were no interwebs and tubes back then. All tOSU needs is another favorable bowl matchup with ND to cure what ails us.

Vegas obviously thinks the Cocks/Rebels will be interesting. Ole Miss is only a 3 1/2 pt favorite.

I was a server at a steakhouse in Tuscaloosa while during my junior year there and I can say first hand, that Alabamians are in fact the worst tippers ever. The Germans were the second worst.

And all that jive about not judging a book by it’s cover is BS: 9 times out of 10, you could guess within 5% what your tip was going to be.

Tuscaloosa, the German capital of the south

hb@3: I’m not sure “Ryan’s” counts as a steakhouse…

hmm… I always tip at least 20%, so at least this one thing isn’t my fault. My cow-orkers, on the other hand, are tight fisted mofos WRT tipping, and I can’t seem to shame them into correcting that.

RE being able to tell how someone’s going to tip based on appearance, my bartender friends at the tooth would disagree with you, I’m afraid; well dressed guys with huge tabs are apparently very poor tippers when it comes to sportsbars.

It does indeed smell bad on the tuba bus, but not for the reason most think. You see, the tubas and Gatorettes (the ones with the batons) always ride the same bus out of long standing tradition. The Gatorettes unleash about 5 metric tons of hairspray as the bus approaches a stadium, making the air practically unbreathable.

I tip 20% usually, even when I sit at the bar to eat. If you interact with with everyone then you’ll be treated well by me.

Crabapple is correct. Bo lost his first 7 bowl games, which included 5 Rose, 1 Orange, and 1 Gator bowls. He finished his last 10 bowls with 5 wins and 5 losses. (2-3 Rose, 0-1 Sugar, 1-0 Fiesta, 1-0 Bluebonnet, 1-0 Hall of Fame, and 0-1 Holiday). But at least Bo was trending upward (another 2-3 decades and who knows what would have happened?).

Brian also seems to forget that Tressel has actually won a Championship (that wasn’t just the Big televen). Lloyed at least has 1/2 of a championship, which I guess is sort of close to what Tressel has done.

Hit up Bottega (lunch or dinner) next time you’re in town, O. You won’t be disappointed.

Also, Ole Miss is going to cover Thursday night. Spurrier’s visor is going to come off.

I actually used a similar method to sneak my best friend onto the field for Gator Growl. I had on my uniform and she carried the garment bag, hat and my piccolo. We had injured reserve members sitting out during the show so no one noticed her sitting there…and then we had front row “seats” on the field for Jerry Seinfeld and fireworks.

Yea band!

As for tipping…I hate being out with former servers…they would generally just like me to sign over my paycheck as the tip at the end of the meal…and they want to stack all the dishes on the table after the meal. LET IT GO PEOPLE!

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Correct me if I am wrong, but Bo Shembecler also coached in a Big 10 where, if you did not go to the Rose Bowl, you did not go to a bowl game, until 1975.

This is sort of like when you had to win your conference tournament in basketball to get into the NCAA Tournament. Who is to say that Maryland would not have beaten State in ’74 in Greensboro, in a Final Four rematch?

Point being, had Shembecler not been under that stupid Big 10 rule, he probably would have won a bowl game earlier, it is safe to say.

The bus is nothing. My favorite was the old trombone tradition of throwing a band hat onto a hot chick in the crowd and smuggling her into the band section at the Swamp.

Also, Year2, I never understood the Tuba-Gatorette tradition, but I appreciated it the year the Bones managed to get a bus all to ourselves. 23 people and 5 gallons of Punch on a bus ride to Atlanta gets… forgetful.

The only job in a food joint I’ve had was bussing at Harry’s during college. And no, we neeeeeever ate left over buffalo shrimps. /fidgetsmakingnoeyecontactwhilstwhistling. And, no, I have not forgiven you, Mr. Manager, for not promoting me to server after promising you would for washing dishes one night….ya bum.

orson-

i read this blog everyday, usually checking in a few times a day – as such, through advertising revenue, i make you literally pennies a year

however, all that will stop if my demand is not met – it is wednesday, and mustache wednesday has yet to be dedicated to the man who now possesses not only OU’s single game passing TD record (6 vs. Tulsa last weekend), but also the most molestery of molester staches, landry jones

it is a stache so powerful that no less of an authority than the chairman of the american mustache institute said landry “is a shining beacon of freedom for all the young people out there who wear mustaches.”
http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsextra/OU/article.aspx?subjectid=92&articleid=20090918_92_B4_Oklaho153994

no landry for mustache wednesday = no more ad revenue earned off me – ask yourself if can really afford to maintain your gilded blogger lifestyle without all that copper laying around – i think not – choose wisely

YOU WANT A TIP?

I GOT A TIP FOR YOU.

DON’T PUT YOUR FILTHY HANDS ON MY TEA GLASS WHEN YOU FILL IT!

ANDKEEPITFULLALLTHETIMEYOUWORTHLESSTURD!!!!!

JEEZ!

CAN WE GET SOMEONE TO WORK AROUND HERE WITH THE DESIRE TO OPERATE WITHIN THE SYSTEM?!

HUH?

I DON’T ASK FOR MUCH…JUST EVERYTHING!

I WISH I’D NEVER LEFT THE LAST SIX PLACES I LEFT!

Nick Saban’s tips often involves his foot, up your ass

Coop,

During 1972 to 1974, Michigan was 30-2-1 (0-2-1 versus OSU) and did not go to a bowl game (they also did not go in 1970 after a 9-1 season). In 1975, the Big Ten dropped the Rose-Bowl-only rule, and that was the year Michigan lost to Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. Most Michigan fans are familiar with stories of Bo’s reaction to the 1973 vote, which sent OSU to the game instead of UM.

But even if Michigan would have won a bowl game all four of those years, 9-12 is still not a good bowl record.

Urban Meyer only eats at your establishment if you have raised a monolithic statue in homage to his team.

(He frequents Ballyhoos, the restaurant with the Tebow carved from an oak tree)

As a former busboy and dishwasher at the now defunct Sizzler my world view of tipping was quite different. Working at a chain sucks for everyone. Servers have to deal with tightwads and surly patrons. While we had to deal with surly servers and we were leaving at two in morning after having cleaned everything. It made for a difficult eight in the morning music theory class.

As a trombone player I am grateful that I mainly played in orchestra, jazz band, and wind ensemble. The best I ever did was drive Phil Woods and his quintet and Don Menza when they were guest artists.

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we do not negotiate with terrorists. particularly terrorists from states we know only by how the look out the window of an airplane.

"You got to get suppuration with the tongs. Stapler cut it, then express up the tide line. The tide line, dammit! That’s how you detroit the scree fence!"

I was not aware heat+fever = Emmit Smith

I learned something new today.

Tressel isn’t Schembechler. Tressel has actually won National Championships. You sure as hell can’t say that about Schembechler.

I know it still hurts to remember Masked, but that vote in 1973 did two things. 1st is that it was the straw that broke the camel’s back and finally got the Big Ten to allow more than the champion to go to a bowl. 2nd it allowed tOSU to beat USC or we would have had to hear about not beating them since 1/1/69 vs. 1/1/74.

First, tipping in Tuscaloosa:

My daughter was the first waitress hired at the defunct Arman’s Coyote Corner, and she always got good tips. However, that asshole Arman made the staff pool tips, so she got screwed. Her good customers understood this & gave her cash, which is just as good as money, on the side. She did work at Harvey’s in the late 90s before Coyote and the tips there were HORRIBLE.

Second, I liestened to Mark Packer interview GIGGETY!!! for an 10-15 minutes, and the Oxfart docs must have given him a double does of Xanax, because he was lucid & understandable. Or I was drunk, not sure.

Now we know why Jimmy Johns was dealing coke outside the athletic center – he wasn’t really a football player (well, not much once Saban came to town) – he was a waiter in Tuscaloosa and had to sell the dope to make ends meet…

As long as we’re overgeneralizing large groups of people, Native Americans don’t tip. Ever. Like exact change don’t tip. I worked at a Ruby Tuesday in Phoenix less than five miles from the reservation and we used to draw straws to see who would get them when a group came in. maybe that’s just Navajo waay, but that’s my experience. FSU and Tennessee filled up the bucket after the 1998 NCG though, so thanks for that.

If Tiders tipped, how could they afford recruiting championship t-shirts, extravagant tattoos, and back-window decals of Calvin pissing on, well, whatever. It’s a question of economics, Orson. Do you want the tips for yourself, or do you want the value of those tips invested in publicly entertaining fashion choices?

Drinking with a client who was a former bartender resulted in leaving a tip larger than the tab… after several martinis his rationale made sense…just can’t remember how.

Screw you, Swindle. Every Tide fan I know tips 20 percent. And in the event that doesn’t happen, their friends shit-talk them mercilessly.

1. - I’ll have to ask you to pipe down.

As a Tide fan, I can’t say for the rest but I always tip 20%. Heck my husband taught me the fine art of even tipping the servers at Sonic (heck, they have to come to your car out in the elements, right?). The most I’ve ever tipped on a bill in Tuscaloosa was 100%…the waitress was a Katrina evacuee from N.O., she had just lost everything she left behind and went as far up I-59 as she could, and the guy who owned Cancun had mercy on her and hired her on the spot.

As an Oxford native, I am begging all visiting SEC fans to tip generously at the bars and restaurants; and that goes for fans of the home team too, eh-hem. (And for your Sunday hangover try the “With Signs Following” sandwich at Big Bad Breakfast…egg over-medium, homemade sausage, cheddar, lettuce and tomato on toast with Tabasco mayo.)

I actually got into a college football field merely by wearing a nice polo with the team logo and khakis. A just walked down the tunnel like I had a purpose and no one said a word. Wandered up and down both sides of the field throughout the game and then left, worked out well enough.

Ivory Tower, Mississippians shouldn’t pigeonhole, but whatever. Once Bama rapes your horses and rides off on your women on Oct 10, tipping will be the least of your concerns. And so it begins!

oh we tip well in B’ham

we just want opposing fans workforce to starve to death, thus weakening them in the coming years

Greg Hardy has also been referring to himself in the third person again. Stephen Garcia is fucked.

Am I the only one who thinks:

"Our weekend was definitely busier than most Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) weekends," a waiter from Old Venice said.

is of dubious authenticity? I can’t picture anyone saying the FCS acronym in everyday conversation, let alone the full name. Seems like an obvious (and thus, badly) doctored quote.

I can’t understand why print media is in decline.

Can we just get a dress for Greg Hardy already? He is more of a “injury diva” than Whitney Houston.

Alabama fans tips usually have bricks tied to them. After they crash thru the window in the front of the establishment.

Nick Saban wont tip for his own Lil Debbie cakes he snuck in himself. You will pour his Coke and not make eye contact. You must keep moving or you will upset him. Do not speak unless spoken to, or he will have you fired, and only after he has poured the glass of Coke on your head.

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I had the same thought. No way in hell some waiter actually said “football championship subdivision weekends”. No effing way. The entire article was poorly written.

In re: Bama fans being poor tippers, there is a simple explanation.

Most if not all Bama fans are still living in the 60s and 70s, and have failed to adjust for inflation.

Trust me, you don’t know just HOW EXPENSIVE Saban’s salary really is…

Bill Braksy, now that man was a good tipper. Once at a hawker center in Vientiane, his tip was greater than the country’s GDP. All commerce ceased, villagers flocked to the city and the entire nation rejoiced.