Who Is This Guy - 9/17

by Ivory Tower on Sep 17, 2009 10:30 AM EDT

Said in a manner totally not meant to ruffle anyone's feathers or solicit laughter, let me just open with an admittedly moot point of reality - Southeastern Louisiana is off to one of the best starts in the program's history. There. Now was that so hard? No, it wasn't. (Of course, Southeastern only started playing football - again - in 2003.) And neither will it be hard to tame the lions (Ivory 1, Credibility 0).

It's been pointed out once or twice by a contributing commenter that the Tangipahoa County Tabbies have won their first two contests convincingly - specifically, racking up sixty-nine points on Union (Ky.) College last Thursday night in what was, no doubt, the highest rated program in Hammond Public Access history and beating Texas A & M - Corpus Christie (abbreviated, interestingly, "AMC") 41-7 at Strawberry Stadium.

The fun thing about this feature when the Rebels are playing no-name patsies is that I get to feature the best player on the team, since most of you are unlikely to know much about individual players on terrible teams. So, click that jump if you need way too much information about the Southeastern Louisiana Lions, and I'll tell you who is this guy:

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via www.lionsports.net

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the pride of the pride - quarterback Brian Babin.

Now in his third season as the Lions signal-caller, Babin eclipsed the 5,000 yard career mark in their season-opener against AMC (see infra), and in the Lions two games has only improved his career touchdown-interception ratio to 45-13. In one quarter of work against an obviously over-matched group from Union, Babin connected on 16 of 19 for 286 yards and five touchdowns. In. One. Quarter.

That's how you earn that scholarship, baby.

My petition:

Dear great football gods in the sky,

Now I lay me down to sleep

I pray that Jevan's arm you'll keep.

And if he's benched in the first quarter, please,

I pray it's 'cause he has five TD's.

Amen.

XOXO,

Ivory

He missed the Lions 2008 tussle with Mississippi State, to which I shall attribute without any evidence their loss in Starkville. And SELA is, for all time, 0-10 against FBS schools. So the heroics of Babin, if existent, are likely all for naught. However, against our break-but-don't-lose secondary, Babin might make a few highlights that he can tell his strawberry-pickin' grandkids about.

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That's because it was Texas A&M Commerce

Tartar!

by Role Player on Sep 17, 2009 10:37 AM EDT reply actions

He also misspelled Corpus Christi

and called a “Parrish” a “County.”

Sloppy, I say.

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by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Sep 17, 2009 11:07 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions

I thought about begging for literary license ...

… on the theory that Tangipahoa County Tabbies flowed better than Tangipahoa Parish Tabbies, but the alliterative properties of the latter are, in fact, superior. Meaning, had I correctly identified the form of local governance, my prose would have been slightly improved.

But having parrishes is weak, and I hope some cajun gets his dirty underwear in a wad about it.

Destroying your traditions since [YEAR REDACTED].

by Ivory Tower on Sep 17, 2009 11:28 AM EDT up reply actions

Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong....wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!

The “alliterative properties” are actually equal since “c” and “p” are both “not T.”

You might be alluding to assonance, anus!

by Role Player on Sep 17, 2009 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions

Ah, we are both wrote

the "T"s at the beginning of Tangi- and Tabby are alliterative. The "P"s of “-pahoa” and “Parrish” are examples of mere consonance, the more broad of the categories of repeating consonant sounds. Per Wikipedia:

"Alliteration is a special case of consonance where the repeated consonant sound is at the beginning of each word, as in “few flocked to the fight”. Alliteration is usually distinguished from other types of consonance in poetic analysis, and is claimed to have different uses and effect."

Destroying your traditions since [YEAR REDACTED].

by Ivory Tower on Sep 17, 2009 2:50 PM EDT up reply actions

Yes, you are, in fact, both wrong (not wrote)

I really wished I had caught this earlier so I could have gotten in on the debate. Its rare that I get to debate the differences between assonance, consonance, and alliteration (mostly because they don’t matter much… and because most people assume they are all “alliteration”).

by Mitch Planey on Sep 17, 2009 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Nope

by Role Player on Sep 17, 2009 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions

Both wrote?!?

No, we are not both wrong, nor are we both right, Liberal Yankee Sympathizer.

I am right and you are wrong as my comment concerned your claim that:

the alliterative properties of the latter [Tangipahoa Parish Tabbies] are, in fact, superior [to Tangipahoa County Tabbies].

You brought up the idea of alliteration, which deals with consonant sounds at the beginning of a word – as your definition clearly explains. You brought up consonance for a reason unknown – other than maybe, that is what you meant to say: “the consonantal(?) properties…”

I brought up assonance because it deals with a “refrain of vowel sounds” and it might clarify whatever you were trying to creatively and pithily express. Next time, I will just call you out and offer you no aid.

Kisses.

by Role Player on Sep 17, 2009 4:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Wrong, actually

You suggested that he was looking for assonance in Tangipahoa Parish Tabbies, and while there is a pleasing assonance of the “a” sound (for lack of a better way to express the phoneme) Ivory was referring to the also pleasing consonance of the “p” sound (pahoa and parish). Now Ivory did mistake consonance for alliteration, which is wrong, but you wrongly suggested that Ivory meant assonance, when in fact he was not dealing with vowel sounds at all.

by Mitch Planey on Sep 17, 2009 4:27 PM EDT up reply actions

You don't get it...

-I contested that his idea of superior alliteration was incorrect, which it was.
-I offered assonance as an option for what he meant to say, which you showed was possible.
-I never brought up consonance.

Go back to butt-fishing – or wordsmithing, that’s what you call it, right?

by Role Player on Sep 17, 2009 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions

I'm sorry ...

maybe you can come on as the Cup’s special Southland Conference Correspondent. Jerk.

Destroying your traditions since [YEAR REDACTED].

by Ivory Tower on Sep 17, 2009 11:30 AM EDT up reply actions

lmao!

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats. - H. L. Mencken

by BimBamOleMissByDamn on Sep 17, 2009 11:37 AM EDT up reply actions

Sure

If that means all I have to do is click on the links that you provide and read the first sentence of the article to which I am directed, I’ll do it. Not that difficult, really.

by Role Player on Sep 17, 2009 5:51 PM EDT up reply actions

Union College

was the first football opponent that Ole Miss ever played. We beat them by triple digits. Because of the transitive property, we know that we will beat SELA.

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by Juco All-American on Sep 17, 2009 10:46 AM EDT reply actions

Mr. Babin

has played his two home games this season against NAIA opponents [SELA vs NAIA = Ole Miss vs 1-AA] before avg crowd of 4980 screaming parishioners. Let’s make him feel welcome, but not at home.

The Rebels will not only endure, they will prevail.

by sutpens100 on Sep 17, 2009 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions

Transitive property...

Thank you for bringing this up juco, we have too many dumbasses forget how this works (ie appy state beat Michigan, then wofford beat appy state= wofford would wipe the floor with
michigan)…..from what I’ve heard: Lions (SELA) eat elephants(bama), elephants trample alligators(fla), but alligators eat bulldogs(uga/msu), and bulldogs hump the legs of Mississippi plantation owners(WEHBULS!!!1)….THUS I am predicting a score of eleventy to pine cone this weekend. Hotty toddy boys!

i herd u liek mudkipz?

by smeargle on Sep 17, 2009 2:37 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

Wow!

by Role Player on Sep 17, 2009 4:22 PM EDT up reply actions

What about the distributive property?

Take two cases from last year. Ole Miss beat Florida. Ole Miss beat LSU. Now (to complicate the mathematics) we remember that LSU were the defending nat’l champs, and Florida were the soon to be nat’l champs.Thus Ole Miss last year should have recieved two national championships. At least I think thats how the math works out.
I looks something like this:

Ole MIss ( Florida) + Ole Miss (LSU) = Ole Miss (Florida + LSU) = Ole Miss (Nat’l Champ + Nat’l Champ) = Ole Miss (2 Nat’l Champs)

by Mitch Planey on Sep 17, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Three Nat'l Championships?

We get an extra one for beating Texas Tech, which had beaten then No.1 Texas, the only other team with a plausible claim to be playing for the BCS Championship opposite Florida, having beaten Oklahoma, which went on to lose to the team Ole Miss had already beaten.

Rebelkind will not only endure, it will prevail.

by sutpens100 on Sep 17, 2009 5:01 PM EDT up reply actions