FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[sju56321]

Found this picture of TDT trying to leave Florida or perhaps looking for a ride in Finsleft RV.

[Retired Old Rat]

56321, are you ceding to ritz72?  I was hoping we could stage a cage match in honor of the late, great "The Crusher" to settle this dispute. 8)

[sju56321]

Done-I found it.

[Willy Wonka]

Anyone see the Strib today? See the picture of the guy with the life jacket on and a beer in hand at the Vikes game? He's a Gustie. That's how we roll in St. Pete

[Kilted Rat]

ROR,

Nice avatar.

I thought the pic including the python was a bit more nostalgic. 8)


In one article it said he was working out up until the last days, not bad for 79!

TDT was 20 when he gave up exercising!

[ritz72]

AUG88---

Please..... I dont care who your wide receiver is.....it just dont matter if you are only gettting 1-2 seconds to set up before the "Dumo's Day" defense-led line is gutting your QB....

I am predicting a Double Monkey Stomp in this one......49-0.  Mail it in

Proof is in the Pudding

[ritz72]

Now that Monkey Stompingtm

is a topic....

was looking at the 93 team I played on....

For the season:::

2 monkey stomps
5 double monkey stomps
2 TRIPLE monkey stomps

and sadly....1 double monkey stomp received (MUC in the semis)

That is a season!!!

[sju56321]

I was there for that game-wet and miserable. But the hotel the night before was fun, talking football with Gagliardi.

[57Johnnie]

ROR
Monkey Stomp Squared was a joint venture
redtackle/57Johnnie last week
57

[Freebird]

So watching MNF has me thinking maybe Olaf is like the Bengals this year.  They are a good team who has surprised some people and put up some good numbers.  Then they run into the defending conference champs, the Steelers, and get a beat down.  Looks like SJU will win this weekend 27-13

[Pat Coleman]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/words/prepositions.html

The myth that ending a sentence with a preposition is wrong appears to have started with an influential book by an eighteenth-century Bishop of London, Robert Lowth, according to Bill Bryson's The Penguin Dictionary of Troublesome Words. In Lowth's Short Introduction to English Grammar, the "gentleman grammarian" urged his readers to be polite by avoiding prepositions at the end of their sentences if they possibly could. To Lowth, for example, writing "this is something you should go to" was less appealing than "this is something to which you should go."

...

If you believe a sentence looks or sounds better with a preposition at the end, write it that way. Grammarians won't quarrel. In fact many will applaud.

Not only is it harmless to put a preposition at the end, it's also natural ... Consider the following sentences:

"She refused to come in."

"What's the world coming to?"

[Retired Old Rat]

ROR
Monkey Stomp Squared was a joint venture
redtackle/57Johnnie last week
57

57, I thought you had a hand in that.  The rules have been updated.

[Pat Coleman]

http://www.grammarphobia.com/grammar.html

MYTH It's wrong to end a sentence with a preposition.

R.I.P. We can blame an 18th-century English clergyman named Robert Lowth for this one. He wrote the first grammar book saying a preposition (a positioning word, like at, by, for, into, off, on, out, over, to, under, up, with) shouldn't go at the end of a sentence. This idea caught on, even though great literature from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Milton is bristling with sentences ending with prepositions. Nobody knows just why the notion stuck—possibly because it's closer to Latin grammar, or perhaps because the word "preposition" means "position before," which seemed to mean that a preposition can't come last.

At any rate, this is a rule that modern grammarians have long tried to get us out from under.

[Pat Coleman]

http://www.theslot.com/rules.html

MYTH:  Never end a sentence with a preposition.  Winston Churchill allegedly said, "That is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put," or something like that. It's not unusual that a sentence-ending preposition does sound funny. The company of which he was the president is probably better than the company he was president of. But the "rule" isn't a rule. If Dance with the partner you came with sounds better than Dance with the partner with whom you came, then that's what you should write.

[Knightstalker]

Remember Bugs Bunny wrestled "Da Crusha" in one cartoon.  The crushers original opponent was Ravishing Ronald, a great spoof on Gorgeous George another memorable old time rassler.

I can't get Hamms in NJ, I will drink a Pabst to him instead.