Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
And LSU beat Bama. All-in-all, a good Saturday
I’d bet VX agrees.
Damn right, QM. And the Air Force wrapped up the CinC Trophy by beating Army (having already bested Navy-GLOAT
) Only disappointment was my Fighting Illini’s 67-65 triple OT loss to the Wolverines at An Arbor. Ole Miss beating my USL 43-21 and Tulane losing to So. Miss 46-30 were both sadly expected. Although my Eastern Illinois Panthers beat Tenn. State in OT 31-28 to salvage the day at an even .500
TSU started playing Tenn Tech while I was still in Engineering School. I liked their Marching Band. They played Football fairly well too.
I don’t follow College Football anymore, but I thought the attitude around Columbus was funny towards Michigan. About like my Uncles, alumni of Vanderbilt, who cheered for Vandy and and who ever was playing Tennessee. Ironically, almost none of Tennessee’s squad would have been able to get into Vandy as the athletes had to enter under the same standard as everyone else.
Is that really true about Vandy, QM? I know that Rice, the Texas equivalent of Vandy, used to have a special program for footballers nonetheless. Perhaps they no longer do–which my explain why they are no longer a national powerhouse like the were in the 50s thru mid-60s. Tulane falls somewhere in between with a more or less informal,, unwritten, relaxation “fudge” factor for admissions for athletes. (‘ceptin’ us’n tennis players–brainy snots that we is–didn’t need no stinkin’ lowered standards–’course at LSU that hardly mattered, did it?
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from guys we’ll doubtless see in the supply corps, if ever. worked for a good one and with a good one, rest were junk. seriously bad news.
Navy has a long history of besting pirates. East Carolina should have seen it coming….
How bad was the day for North Carolina?
Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, set the record for a bad day by a Pirate when he was beheaded by men under the command of Lt. Robert Maynard of Her Majesty’s Royal Navy on Nov. 22, 1778.
It wasn’t that bad.
Found a great poster on how the US Navy usually deal with Pirates.
The caption reads:
” Not only will they shoot you dead from the fantail of a Destroyer while you’re in a liferaft in choppy seas, they will do it at night….on Easter Sunday.”
http://usnavyjeep.blogspot.com/2010/11/us-navy-takes-pirates-out-on-gridiron.html
Awesome stuff – GO MIDS – GO NAVY !
“At first I took this for a basketball score…”
C’mon, Lex. Has the Navy EVER scored 76 in a Bball game???
I had a playfully snarky comment, but you took the wind out of my sails
Dammit! You beat me to it. Well played sir!
Not much that anyone cares, Lex? I do! Navy is my football team of choice – if I had to pick one and only one football game to watch, it’d be that one the second week of December. My IU Hoosiers only demand my attention while on the hardwood from November through (hopefully) March.
You mean you don’t follow that football powerhouse down in Bloomington?
Of course in the SEC–once a notorious football dominate conference–and still is to an extent–it’s just the reverse. Back in the early 60s Ole Miss (just coming off a National Championship in 61 and at the time an SEC and national powerhouse) put out a press release that the Head basketball coach had been “promoted” to Asst. football coach. LOL! I kid you not!
In the SEC Basketball is still something you play when you need to rest the Football team.
BEAT ARMY!!
I actually felt bad for ECU during the second half. It seemed like they couldn’t win for losing. It was almost funny when the MASN sportscasters (obviously ECU biased) were lamenting the fact that they still had the first string in the game, risking injury in a hopeless effort. Between the blowout and the rain, by the end of the game the only people left in the stands were the Midshipmen and part of the ECU band.
I watched the last quarter with a group of friends, one of who is an ECU grad. Poor guy. I actually felt bad until he said he wasn’t even depressed anymore, that he’d resigned himself to the thorough beating they were taking. I said, “Oh. Well in that case, I’d LOVE to see Navy score 100 points! Woot!” We were mimicking the ESU players the last nine seconds of the game, “ooooo! Ooo! oooo! Put me in coach! I can get those last 42 points we need to win!!”
Who cares who wins a G*ddamned football game? ( I am also the guy who bitches about there being nearly 200 golf curses in this county, without any anti-personnel mines planted in any of them. That just ain’t right.)