Friday, May 01, 2009

Oh, Bother

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

28 comments:

  1. T.J.11:53 AM, May 01, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  2. rob12:54 PM, May 01, 2009

    what's wrong with that?

    ReplyDelete
  3. rob12:54 PM, May 01, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  4. rob1:10 PM, May 01, 2009

    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

    ReplyDelete
  5. zman1:25 PM, May 01, 2009

    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

    ReplyDelete
  6. rob1:28 PM, May 01, 2009

    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.

    ReplyDelete
  7. TR1:33 PM, May 01, 2009

    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?

    ReplyDelete
  8. T.J.1:34 PM, May 01, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  9. zman1:40 PM, May 01, 2009

    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.

    ReplyDelete
  10. rob1:41 PM, May 01, 2009

    simmons brought it today re: celtics/bulls.

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

    ReplyDelete
  11. Marls2:25 PM, May 01, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  12. Marls2:26 PM, May 01, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  13. rob2:37 PM, May 01, 2009

    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.

    ReplyDelete
  14. T.J.3:01 PM, May 01, 2009

    The "blapanese" period?

    ReplyDelete
  15. TR3:05 PM, May 01, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  16. zman3:11 PM, May 01, 2009

    It was a very multi-cultural event indeed.

    ReplyDelete
  17. rob3:40 PM, May 01, 2009

    we may be defining 'black' differently.

    ReplyDelete
  18. Whitney3:40 PM, May 01, 2009

    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.

    ReplyDelete
  19. Mark3:48 PM, May 01, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  20. rob8:24 PM, May 01, 2009

    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?

    ReplyDelete
  21. Whitney8:34 PM, May 01, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  22. rob8:39 PM, May 01, 2009

    how old is teemu selanne?

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

    ReplyDelete
  23. T.J.10:24 PM, May 01, 2009

    D-Wade just destroying the Hawks tonight.

    ReplyDelete
  24. T.J.10:27 PM, May 01, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  25. rob1:20 PM, May 02, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  26. rob1:41 PM, May 02, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  27. T.J.1:42 PM, May 02, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete
  28. rob2:39 PM, May 02, 2009

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

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)