Rebel Roundup - 11/11/09 - Veterans/Armistice Day

by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Nov 11, 2009 12:09 PM EST Comment 9 comments

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Remember our Vets
In that picture, I see my generation's Gradfathers; men who spent years away from their homes in a living hell just so their grandchildren could, one day, argue over the internet about what should and shouldn't be screamed at university football games. Snark aside, the United States and the Western World as we know it today would hardly exist without the actions taken by our servicemen and -women over the last several centuries. The title of today's post also alludes to the European counterpart of our Veterans Day: Armistice Day, a day celebrated to mark the end of the First World War. To the two or three European Cup fans out there, happy Armistice Day.

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Why Role Player, our usual emissary to communist sporting events, didn't mention this I don't know, but the No. 25 Ole Miss women's soccer team was announced as a part of the field of 64 for the NCAA Championships. The Rebels are be headed to Portland, Oregon where they will face the Washington Huskies in the first round this Friday.

Tennessee Volunteers at Ole Miss Rebels: game preview | Rocky Top Talk
Rival blogguer Joel has written the preview of this weekend's matchup over on the patriarch of SEC blogs, Rocky Top Talk (somewhere, Kleph from Roll Bama Roll is pissed). Read it. It's well done.

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Lane Kiffin and his Volunteers are starting to learn that Dexter McCluster isn't exactly something which is easy to prepare for. He's got the shiftiness of an elite NFL back and the route running skills of a solid slot receiver. He's tiny which, oftentimes, benefits him with his escapability. But, if I were Kiffykins I wouldn't worry too much; we tend not to use him when we should because our coaches still trust Jevan Snead to score points 'n' shit.

Dungy shares wisdom with Rebels | Victoria Advocate
Tony Dungy, the Super Bowl winning once-coach of the Indianapolis Colts, recently traveled to Oxford to meet and exchange words of football wisdom with our Rebel football team. He did this at the request of Houston Nutt himself. Do you think Dungy would have done that for Mullen, Petrino, or Miles? Hell no he wouldn't have, because those guys are turds ha lol.

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How is this quote for topical:

Armistice Day has become Veterans’ Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans’ Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans’ Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don’t want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is.

-Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

by David. on Nov 11, 2009 12:20 PM EST reply actions

I thought about using that exact quote today.

Thank you very, very much for that. I love me some Vonnegut.

Red Cup Rebellion - Changing the Culture of Ole Miss Athletics
Take a picture, trick.

by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Nov 11, 2009 12:50 PM EST up reply actions

My grandfather was a World War I veteran . . .

. . . so he didn’t care much for it when Armistice Day became Veterans Day.

That said, I have never ever ever understood Kurt Vonnegut. I just don’t get it. The man’s work does absolutely nothing for me. Aside from his cameo in “Back to School,” his entire career is a complete bafflement to me.

Good luck this weekend, though.

Go 'Dawgs!

by T Kyle King on Nov 11, 2009 11:30 PM EST up reply actions

As with a lot of 20th Century writers,

he’s very hit-or-miss with people. Half of the folks who have read him are with you, Mr. Mayor, and the other half love the guy. I’m firmly within the latter.

Red Cup Rebellion - Changing the Culture of Ole Miss Athletics
Take a picture, trick.

by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Nov 12, 2009 8:29 AM EST up reply actions

I think one problem...

Is that he is very hard to quote. If you have not read that entire novel, then the above stated quote might actually come off as minutely offensive.

Vonnegut’s writing style offers the appearance that every sentence he pens can be used as an individual quote. But the novel as a whole tends to make a statement, not a paragraph about the different uses for the noun “beaver”.

by David. on Nov 12, 2009 2:23 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks to my Uncle James "Tut" Campbell...

…who died in North Africa during World War II.

I never got to meet this most loved Campbell man from Pontotoc, Mississippi. Yet I owe to him and his Brothers in Arms my freedoms of which I do NOT take for granted.

I also lovingly thank my dear, late daddy, Dr. John Campbell for his service in the South Pacific. He came back home and contributed positively to society. [Some might suggest he vanquished anything positive he had done when he spawned me…and they MIGHT be right…but I can’t help that.]

Thank you all, Veterans. We appreciate your service.

"Happiness is riches, complaint is poverty, and the worst I ever had was wonderful." Brother Dave Gardner

by tlcreb17 on Nov 11, 2009 2:55 PM EST reply actions

Don't ask, don't tell, don't lie.

Happy Veterans Day, especially to gay vets that sacrifice their own love & identity for a country that doesn’t recognize them as equal.

Ole Miss football 2009. I shaved my balls for this?

by BimBamOleMissByDamn on Nov 11, 2009 4:50 PM EST reply actions

Especially or equally?

Because you can’t have both.

Lee Corso: How would you describe tailgating at Alabama?
Kirk Herbstreit: Barbecue and Ralph Lauren

by animalcracker on Nov 11, 2009 8:56 PM EST up reply actions

Thanks to all my fellow vets

On this Veteran’s Day I hope every Rebel fan remembers our boy Tony Fein, a warrior and Rebel legend (at least in my mind) who died way too early. Rest in peace, Troop.

by warrior possum on Nov 11, 2009 5:41 PM EST reply actions