Friday, May 01, 2009

Oh, Bother

Because Pooh makes every day a little brighter.
Posted by rob at 9:04 AM

28 comments:

T.J. said...

I'm quite certain robert has a crush on this Andrew Sullivan guy.

11:53 AM, May 01, 2009
rob said...

what's wrong with that?

12:54 PM, May 01, 2009
rob said...

and whit's link to the espn logo site in the last message is awesome.

12:54 PM, May 01, 2009
rob said...

so it would appear that 'blowout' is now the province of the entire w&m campus. figures it would become entirely dorkified:

http://flathatnews.com/content/70996/blowout-09-drinking-game

1:10 PM, May 01, 2009
zman said...

Is this true?

Blowout didn’t always epitomize a day without consequences. Indeed, Blowout started out as a tradition among the seniors. The object was for graduating students to toast their favorite professors in class. It was a public event and it was fairly civilized. It wasn’t long before undergrads privatized the event, taking it into their dorm rooms and attending class drunk.

http://flathatnews.com/content/blowout-basics

1:25 PM, May 01, 2009
rob said...

in my educated opinion (i was a history major, after all), that's a load of revisionist bullshit. the legend of blowout, as most historians will tell you, begins with the annual 8-ball of coke (or 'blow', as it's colloquially known) that served as the centerpiece of a certain fraternity's year-ending party.

and that's one to grow on.

1:28 PM, May 01, 2009
TR said...

We should get to the bottom of this rumor about illegal street drugs in the Greek system.

Where's Lawrence Taylor to comment on the matter?

1:33 PM, May 01, 2009
T.J. said...

Typical Tribe douches...why would anyone waste a good buzz by going to class drunk?

1:34 PM, May 01, 2009
zman said...

Yeah, I thought Blowout was originally about blow, not about toasting profs.

Yet ANOTHER reason for the mascot to take its name from Blow Hall. W&M Blows.

1:40 PM, May 01, 2009
rob said...

simmons brought it today re: celtics/bulls.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090501&sportCat=nba

1:41 PM, May 01, 2009
Marls said...

I thought blowout was the annual rememberance of a a certain wrestler getting his jaw broker by another wrestler.

2:25 PM, May 01, 2009
Marls said...

Or "broken". . .I don't think it could have been more broker.

2:26 PM, May 01, 2009
rob said...

i believe that happened in what's known as the 'modern era', mr. marlin. the ceremonial ingesting of the blow was more in keeping with the cretinaceous, or 'black', period.

2:37 PM, May 01, 2009
T.J. said...

The "blapanese" period?

3:01 PM, May 01, 2009
TR said...

Oh, the jaw breaking was a black issue, Mr. Russell...

3:05 PM, May 01, 2009
zman said...

It was a very multi-cultural event indeed.

3:11 PM, May 01, 2009
rob said...

we may be defining 'black' differently.

3:40 PM, May 01, 2009
Whitney said...

I drank with professors on the day of Blowout. After Liquid Lunch and before Blowout, I attended the end-of-semester gatherings of the dearly departed Prof. Vernon Edmonds in Morton a couple of times. Edmonds was the crazy old coot who'd gotten tenure from the College and begun teaching his Sociology class the way he wanted -- in a way that offended every race, religion, and social class (including his own) without any holds barred. He served Old Crow and Schlitz at his little shindig. I showed up drunk, had a few Schlitzes and a few laughs, and then went back for Blowout.

Good days.

3:40 PM, May 01, 2009
Mark said...

So Rob and I had the same major in college? Fuck, this just keeps getting worse...

3:48 PM, May 01, 2009
rob said...

put the kids to bed, settled in for an evening of bruins hockey. and versus has the western conference game. may i inquire, what the fuck?

8:24 PM, May 01, 2009
Whitney said...

Was it already mentioned in this forum that ESPN is not renewing Stephen A.'s contract?

8:34 PM, May 01, 2009
rob said...

how old is teemu selanne?

and i don't think we mentioned screamin' a. howevah, i could be mistaken.

8:39 PM, May 01, 2009
T.J. said...

D-Wade just destroying the Hawks tonight.

10:24 PM, May 01, 2009
T.J. said...

And Mark, nice start to his NFL career for your boy Harvin.

10:27 PM, May 01, 2009
rob said...

that's not really the start the caps were looking for.

1:20 PM, May 02, 2009
rob said...

have we talked about this ovechkin kid? 'cause he's pretty good.

1:41 PM, May 02, 2009
T.J. said...

Orange Julius is one of the best things in the history of ever.

1:42 PM, May 02, 2009
rob said...

simeon varlamov just gave up one of the softest goals you've ever seen, then made one of the best saves in my memory.

2:39 PM, May 02, 2009

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