Rebel Roundup - 9/30/09
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Sep 30, 2009 9:15 AM EDT
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PrintEDIT: Milestone of sorts
We just eclipsed the 500 member mark. While perhaps no more than a few dozen folks are dedicated commentators, we have had 509 folks check the little checkbox and click the ok to join RCR. That's pretty neat. I remember when we started doing this, Juco and I thought that if we could just get 500 visits that would be huge. Suffice it to say, we never thought this would become what it has or be nearly as fun. Thanks.
Oh, and for the record, Skip Bayless' Haircut was our 500th member. For the ESPN loud asshole talking head reference and the proper use of the apostrophe alone, you're fine in my book.
Forde Yard Dash | ESPN
I was expecting another lashing from the worldwide leader in Pat Forde's weekly rundown of all things college football, but was surprised to see him only briefly touch on last-week's on-field abortion of a game. I guess after a week where four of the top ten teams fell to "lesser" competition, one can evenly distribute the finger-pointing--excepting Penn State, of course. All hail Joe Pa. [continues to beat an already deceased horse]
Chucky Mullins — 20 years later: What is his legacy? | The Clarion-Ledger
Rick Cleveland, who hates Ole Miss and writes for the Clarion LIAR (/rivalsposter'd), re-tells the Chucky Mullins story in what is the 20th season since his eventually life-ending injury. There is nothing I can say that Rick doesn't, so give it a read and, for the Bama game, break out your #38 button. I know you've got one somewhere.
The SEC West One Month In | Team Speed Kills
Here is a premature look at how we and our Western Division foes are faring thus far. I say "premature" because I'm a bitter Ole Miss Rebel fan who hates the fact that after losing a very close game under very difficult circumstances--the only game of any real consequence we have played thus far--everyone is writing us off. [is still after that poor, poor horse carcass] Actually, Year 2 does a pretty good job here in being neutral and realistic. Quoth the Year 2:
The defense has held up its end of the bargain so far, allowing no more than 14 points in a game, but until Jevan Snead and the offense get back on track, it will be tough to consider the Rebels a true contender to Alabama's throne.
Hard to argue there, blogmigo.
Don't Bet On It! : Week 4 | Dawg Sports
The Mayor (why do people call him that?) says we will beat Vanderbilt. I agree, T. Kyle King.
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Brad Gaines
Is he still going graveside twice a year?
Nevermind!
I should have read the next two pages. He is still a class act.
In regards to Skip's haircut...
He actually would have been correct in his apostrophe use had he placed an extra ‘s’ on after the apostrophe. Both forms are now accepted.
"Both forms are now accepted."
^^Problem with our damn country. Everyone needs a pat on the back, even for downright unabashed ignorance and/or laziness. The incorrect form is “now accepted” because the true grammar Nazis decided that educating the uneduceatable was a waste of [whiskey language] time! I wish they had fought the good fight for what is correct, but I feel their pain too. This is almost as bad as me having to write down the names of at least four of the eleven players on my boys soccer team (“Most Hustle,” “Defense,” “Great Passing,” “Goal Scorers”) after every game for the local paper: everyone’s a winner. NO! They’re not! There’s a standard. Meet or exceed it!
GIVE ME BACK MY GRAMMAR!!
kthxbi
by Role Player on Sep 30, 2009 10:10 AM EDT up reply actions
Fuck that. Accepted by whom?
Neither MLA nor I accept it. Most importantly, my well-worn copy of Strunk and White doesn’t accept it. Only classical and Biblical singular proper nouns are excepted from the requirement of an s after the apostrophe in the possessive. (Jesus’, Moses’, Zeus’, Skip Bayless’s)
While I’m being a grammar dick, I may as well be a math dick too. You can’t ellipse a single mark. You need two foci. (This is, admittedly, a stretch since this is obviously a typo, and elipsed would be as incorrect a spelling of ellipsed as it is of eclipsed.)
by The Unemployed Economist on Sep 30, 2009 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions
'Twas a typo,
dick.
Only classical and Biblical singular proper nouns are excepted from the requirement of an s after the apostrophe in the possessive. (Jesus’, Moses’, Zeus’, Skip Bayless’s)
Really? So you wouldn’t write something like “Jess’ car” or “Thomas’ watch”? Thomas is, of course, Biblical so maybe that’s a bad example.
Red Cup Rebellion - Changing the Culture of Ole Miss Athletics
Take a picture, trick.
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Sep 30, 2009 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions
That's right.
Here’s the best I could find online in the ninety seconds I was willing to commit to it. http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk.html
by The Unemployed Economist on Sep 30, 2009 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions
Well damn.
Red Cup Rebellion - Changing the Culture of Ole Miss Athletics
Take a picture, trick.
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Sep 30, 2009 11:34 AM EDT up reply actions
Rick Cleveland.
“I told him we just didn’t have room for him,” says Brewer, who was fired by Ole Miss in 1993 but sued the school for breach of contract and in 1999 was awarded more than $200,000.
he just had to put that piece of somewhat irrelevant information in there. its an outstanding article but it just jabbed at me that he felt the need to bring up a not so brilliant moment in the history of UM athletics and throw it in his piece.
by the love IS gone... to omaha on Sep 30, 2009 10:13 AM EDT reply actions
The Clarion-Ledger has short, succinct diatribes to attach to most public figures. I too, hate this.
Haley Barbour, former tobacco lobbyist.
Destroying your traditions since [YEAR REDACTED].
by Ivory Tower on Sep 30, 2009 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions
George Washinton, a now-deceased slave owner and President,
Frank Sinatra, reported friend of organized crime,
Jim Hood, known purveyor of the mullet,
Seriously, how many times will Steve McNair get the little “found dead with mistress” added to his name?
Pig Pen this here's Rubber Duck, and I'm about to put the hammer down.
Short version:
A while back, MGoBlog’s Brian Cook, noting that there were a lot of Georgia Bulldogs bloggers (Paul Westerdawg, Doug Gillett, LD, Senator Blutarsky, etc.) and that there were a lot of other college football bloggers based in the Atlanta area (EDSBS, Eagle in Atlanta, Braves & Birds, etc.), christened North Georgia as “The Capital of College Football Blogworld” (or suchlike).
LD, when updating the blogroll at the Corporate Headquarters of the San Antonio Gunslingers, dubbed me “The Mayor of the Capital of College Football Blogworld” (or something along those lines). The nickname “the Mayor” stuck.
As with all real nicknames, it occurred organically and largely unintentionally. (Had I selected a politically-themed nickname for myself, I’d have gone with something like “the President” or “the Senator” or “the Governor” . . . really, almost anything would have been better than “the Mayor,” except perhaps “the City Manager” or “the Health Inspector.”)
Anyway, I hope that answers your question.
Go 'Dawgs!
It does. Thank you.
We’ve only been doing this for a year-and-a-half or so. These things elude us from time to time.
Red Cup Rebellion - Changing the Culture of Ole Miss Athletics
Take a picture, trick.
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Sep 30, 2009 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions
Of course, now your Mayorship oversees the college football hall of fame. Not too shabby.
Destroying your traditions since [YEAR REDACTED].
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