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[pg04]

TGHIJGSTO!!!

(Edit: Sorry I had to say it at least once )

[mailsy]

This is seriouposly the best thread of 2016. Ditto pg04! 

[Greek Tragedy]

In his excellent summary of the story of "TGHIJGSTO," Gregory Sager mentioned:

...
That was a great moment in d3boards.com history, right up there with the best of the D3 Championship Belt^TM thread and the time that the board regulars decided to build a quote pyramid in one of the multi-regional rooms.

In case anyone wants to revisit the quote pyramid, you can see it HERE. (In fact, it was in this multi-regional room. Finding it was much easier than I thought it might be, once I recalled that at some point someone had described it as a "ziggurat." It turns out that someone was none other than Gregory Sager.)

At least we can take comfort in the fact that the quote pyramid won't re-surface on social media to accuse us of racism.

Actually, it's RACISIM.   

[Mr. Ypsi]

Re: the quote pyramid.  Towards the end Greg nailed it perfectly - it is not a ziggurat, it is a Mayan pyramid (and the entire thing, top to bottom, is a Mayan pyramid with another Mayan pyramid plopped on top upside down).  Geez, if magicman was indeed the sacrifice, once that other pyramid got plopped it may have done in two or three of his reincarnations!

[magicman]

In his excellent summary of the story of "TGHIJGSTO," Gregory Sager mentioned:

...
That was a great moment in d3boards.com history, right up there with the best of the D3 Championship Belt^TM thread and the time that the board regulars decided to build a quote pyramid in one of the multi-regional rooms.

In case anyone wants to revisit the quote pyramid, you can see it HERE. (In fact, it was in this multi-regional room. Finding it was much easier than I thought it might be, once I recalled that at some point someone had described it as a "ziggurat." It turns out that someone was none other than Gregory Sager.)

At least we can take comfort in the fact that the quote pyramid won't re-surface on social media to accuse us of racism.

Thanks for bringing that link back, Darryl. I was, unknowingly, at the time, the person that started the quote pyramid. Of course, without Sager, it would never have amounted to much more than a hill of beans, instead of the lofty heights it attained.

[magicman]

Those wondering where our NJAC "friend" went to... he found another way to harass me: https://twitter.com/jimw4lefts

Sorry to see that this troll is still causing a problem for you Dave. He sounds worse than ever. I'd call the police, just so it's on the record.

[Greek Tragedy]

So completely off topic:

A Hilbert (Wisconsin) high school girls basketball player was suspended for FIVE games for tweeting "Eat sh!t WIAA" (Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association). This was a response to the WIAA's crackdown on student chants. Among chants no longer tolerated:

-Air ball
-You can't do that
-fundamentals
-there's a net there
-sieve
-we can't hear you
-scoreboard
-your season's over

Give me a break. We, as parents, are forced to raise the biggest wusses. It reminds me of that commerical when the parent questions to himself why everyone gets a participation trophy and crosses out "participant" and writes "champ".

By the time by 4-year old is in high school we won't even be able to cheer because we'll hurt the other teams' feelings or worse yet, we'll be forced to cheer for the other team! Grow some, toughen up, etc.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/2016/01/09/teen-athlete-tweets-wisconsin-incident-highlights-need-for-adults-to-stop-overreacting/

[David Collinge]

How does one chant "sieve" anyway? Wouldn't "strainer" or "colander" be better choices? Or "kit-chen u-ten-sil to strain out im-pur-i-ties"? Oh, burn!

[ronk]

So completely off topic:

A Hilbert (Wisconsin) high school girls basketball player was suspended for FIVE games for tweeting "Eat sh!t WIAA" (Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association). This was a response to the WIAA's crackdown on student chants. Among chants no longer tolerated:

-Air ball
-You can't do that
-fundamentals
-there's a net there
-sieve
-we can't hear you
-scoreboard
-your season's over

Give me a break. We, as parents, are forced to raise the biggest wusses. It reminds me of that commerical when the parent questions to himself why everyone gets a participation trophy and crosses out "participant" and writes "champ".

By the time by 4-year old is in high school we won't even be able to cheer because we'll hurt the other teams' feelings or worse yet, we'll be forced to cheer for the other team! Grow some, toughen up, etc.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/2016/01/09/teen-athlete-tweets-wisconsin-incident-highlights-need-for-adults-to-stop-overreacting/

Such outrageous behavior may fall under secondary criteria for Pool C berths and hosting deliberations

[Just Bill]

So completely off topic:

A Hilbert (Wisconsin) high school girls basketball player was suspended for FIVE games for tweeting "Eat sh!t WIAA" (Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association). This was a response to the WIAA's crackdown on student chants. Among chants no longer tolerated:

-Air ball
-You can't do that
-fundamentals
-there's a net there
-sieve
-we can't hear you
-scoreboard
-your season's over

Give me a break. We, as parents, are forced to raise the biggest wusses. It reminds me of that commerical when the parent questions to himself why everyone gets a participation trophy and crosses out "participant" and writes "champ".

By the time by 4-year old is in high school we won't even be able to cheer because we'll hurt the other teams' feelings or worse yet, we'll be forced to cheer for the other team! Grow some, toughen up, etc.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/2016/01/09/teen-athlete-tweets-wisconsin-incident-highlights-need-for-adults-to-stop-overreacting/

How about we focus on parent and adult behavior at these games first?

I only recall once that I went to a high school game and thought the students' chants/cheers really went over the line. But I can recall several incidents of parents and adults behaving like absolute a**holes.

[Greek Tragedy]

Alternate  acceptable chants?

-airball - you missed the hoop completely
-you can't do that - that's not accepted
-fundamentals - elementary skills
-there's a net there -you're supposed to aim that way
-sieve - colander
-we can't hear you - we're hard of hearing
-scoreboard - score tracker
-your season's over - we're moving on

[scottiedawg]

Biggest vote gainers:
Roanoke, 108
Tufts, 91
Elmhurst, 65
UW-Whitewater, 62
Chicago, 62
F&M, 43
Mt. Union, 41
Benedictine, 30
Lancaster Bible, 28
Hiram, 27
Marietta, 24
Susquehanna, 21
Cortland State, 20
WPI, 19
Whitman, 19


Biggest vote losers:
UWSP, -101
Augustana, -68
Oswego St., -65
Brooklyn, -62
Pacific Lutheran, -50
Trine, -44
VA Wesleyan, -41
Scranton, -37
NYU, -35
WashU, -33
Albertus Magnus, -29
St. John's, -28
E. Texas Baptist, -28
Trinity (CT), -24
Colby, -16
William Paterson, -15
Wesleyan, -14
Stockton, -10
E. Nazarene, -10

[Just Bill]

How does one chant "sieve" anyway? Wouldn't "strainer" or "colander" be better choices? Or "kit-chen u-ten-sil to strain out im-pur-i-ties"? Oh, burn!

The Sieve chant is a Wisconsin Badgers hockey staple. Here's a sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-M9tPqA75I (Back when the Kohl Center was full. Rough times there.)

[sac]

I believe Cornell is the originators of the college hockey 'sieve' cheer.  Its been stolen by many other schools, including Michigan's own version:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8e2tBmYwjM

and Cornell, starts at around 40 seconds  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVkVL9wQ7Io

Michigan stole it from Cornell around 1991 and I happen to know that because I was in Ann Arbor during a weekend NCAA tournament series against Cornell and witnessed the theft by Michigan's students first hand.  Its a weekend Michigan fans still talk about today.

I'm pretty sure every good hockey cheer has been stolen from Cornell.


Michigan students used to cheer "ugly parents" when the opponent scored a goal and the small band of fans in the corner stood to cheer.  Maybe the Wisconsin high school kids should try that one.

[Dave 'd-mac' McHugh]

So completely off topic:

A Hilbert (Wisconsin) high school girls basketball player was suspended for FIVE games for tweeting "Eat sh!t WIAA" (Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association). This was a response to the WIAA's crackdown on student chants. Among chants no longer tolerated:

-Air ball
-You can't do that
-fundamentals
-there's a net there
-sieve
-we can't hear you
-scoreboard
-your season's over

Give me a break. We, as parents, are forced to raise the biggest wusses. It reminds me of that commerical when the parent questions to himself why everyone gets a participation trophy and crosses out "participant" and writes "champ".

By the time by 4-year old is in high school we won't even be able to cheer because we'll hurt the other teams' feelings or worse yet, we'll be forced to cheer for the other team! Grow some, toughen up, etc.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/2016/01/09/teen-athlete-tweets-wisconsin-incident-highlights-need-for-adults-to-stop-overreacting/

How about we focus on parent and adult behavior at these games first?

I only recall once that I went to a high school game and thought the students' chants/cheers really went over the line. But I can recall several incidents of parents and adults behaving like absolute a**holes.

At a recent game I was working, a visiting parent was so bad in the opening minutes of the game he actually yelled at the home coach... and the coach responded! He turned around and said, "I'm not talking to you." At that point an event staff member was parked at the front of the bleachers were the parent was sitting and he got the message real quick. But not before yelling and screaming about 3 seconds violation on the home team. That prompted this tweet from me:

"You are being too aggressive a fan if you are worrying about the opponent's possible 3-second violation in a game your team leads 17-0."