FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[stoutguy]

Well done finsleft. -k to the President for the no - show, but that's right up his alley.

I'm guessing he was watching the Erin Andrews peep show for the 1 millionth time.

Further proof there is a God:

Son of BDB and I have had to endure Fox Sports - Wiscy for years now. The only reliable Twins games we could see were on 29 on Sundays or when they were playing the Brewers..

This past week, our cable system added Fox Sports North!  

God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy.  8)

You know, BDB if you keep quoting country songs to these Minnesota guys, they are going to think we Wisconsin guys are just a bunch of Favre loving country boy hicks.  Now my favorite country song right now is "I gave up smoking, women, and drinking last night and it was the worst 15 minutes of my life."

[BDB]

Man did the Twins piss that game away last night. 1st inning guy on second for the Angels and a base hit to center. "Oh no, Go-Go, throw it to 2nd!" Go-go tries a stupid throw to home that had no chance of getting the runner allowing the guy that hit the single to 2nd who eventually scored and wouldn't have. Twins lose in extra innings. My Babe Ruth team players know better than that.  



Anyway, so we get to the gate before the game and the guy is handing out the Morneau wind up walker toys. We get our tickets scanned and the guy runs out. Gotta go to another gate.

So family BDB and a few other people head out and we find a gate with plenty of inventory. Problem is that now our tickets had already been scanned.

This means they automatically think you are going around trying to collect as many of these damn things as possible by going in and out. I wouldn't give a rip except my 9 and 10 year olds were looking forward to it.

So, I 'm talking with this guy in charge, and he has to verify via some computer system how many times our tickets have been scanned, at what gates and how long ago. Of course after all this my story holds up and we are gifted our 4 Justin Morneau wind up walking toys.

We go through the doors into the concourse and some guy about my age walks right up to my son and hands him another one and says 'here kid have another one." So, where it looked like we would end up with zero we ended up with 5.  

[raiderguy]

I think I may avoid flying into Oshkosh.

Yea but he walked away from it so it must have been a good landing.

I will mention this to Mount before they make their trip to Oshkosh next fall. Probably should take the bus!

[badgerwarhawk]

I think I may avoid flying into Oshkosh.

Is that the same plane that went down in Hudson River?  I'd heard they were going to bring that plane to Oshkosh.

It's really, by EAA standards, nothing.  It seems every year there are crashes with planes that are flying to or from the EAA.  Mark my words, some plane leaving the show will crash somewhere in the US.

[tmerton]

I think I may avoid flying into Oshkosh.

Is that the same plane that went down in Hudson River?  I'd heard they were going to bring that plane to Oshkosh.

It's really, by EAA standards, nothing.  It seems every year there are crashes with planes that are flying to or from the EAA.  Mark my words, some plane leaving the show will crash somewhere in the US.

Much much bigger.  This is the new AirBus jumbo jet - largest passenger plane in the world.  I had no idea it could land at Oshkosh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380

[janesvilleflash]

No problems landing my chopper.

[OzJohnnie]

Eh?  Anyone seen my choppers?

[OzJohnnie]

My first grader brought home an old riddle that will keep the Tommie coeds stumped for hours:

Who can jump higher than a mountain?  Anyone.  Mountains can't jump.

[wildcat11]

Duff,

Here are a couple of pics from GHC's Alaska Trip.  The first one is of the King Salmon he landed (44lbs).  The dude on the left is my buddy who owns the lodge in Alaska (he played at Willamette).  The second one is of GHC and his buddies.  (Click to embiggin)

[finsleft]

You know, BDB if you keep quoting country songs to these Minnesota guys, they are going to think we Wisconsin guys are just a bunch of Favre loving country boy hicks.

I'm sure there must be a country song for this.

"...Krazy Glue to other body parts..."?

Hell hath no fury...

[DuffMan]

WC11,

Very nice!  That salmon is a hoss!  Color me jealous.

[stanbob]

WC11,

Very nice!  That salmon is a hoss!  Color me jealous.

The salmon is nice, halibut are chicken sized though.

[OzJohnnie]

Good news!  Melbourne and Minneapolis can be sister cities!

Today's news...

Federal and state police, armed with search warrants, swooped on members of the suspected terror cell this morning, as they seek to arrest Australian nationals of Somali and Lebanese background in what will be the second-largest counter-terrorism operation in the nation’s history...

Search warrants for at least 19 properties across Melbourne have been prepared to allow authorities to obtain more evidence against the group, which is believed to number about 18, with a smaller, hardcore element.  The suspects include Australians of Somali and Lebanese decent, most of whom are labourers employed in Melbourne’s construction industry, or taxi drivers.

And from December last year...

Dozens of young Somali men in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area have disappeared in recent months, causing community members and U.S. intelligence officials to fear that they are joining jihadist groups in Somalia… A senior American intelligence source confirms that Somalis have vanished in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia, adding that some people from the Caribbean also appear to have left for Somalia. And not all of the people bound for training or jihad in Somalia have a Somali background, the source said.

[Gig Harbor Cat]

Stanbob,
  I agree on the Halibut, but that was what the day produced.  They will work just fine on the BBQ with a cold  beer though.  The guy that hosted me was a former HS player of mine that went on to star for Willamette in the late 90's.  He was a big part of their NAIA run to the finals in 97.
  I know alot of you guys fish your brains out back there, so if you are considering going to Alaska for Kings, check out Alaska Serinity Lodge, David and Katie Richardson, mention the D3 connection and David will take good care of you on rates and such.  First class set up all the way, the lodge sits on a lake with a fly out plane and David is connected to some great guides.

Phone it in

GHC

[tmerton]

Rats.  Just heard from Frank that the Times isn't going to be streaming the Kickoff Luncheon on the internet as they did last year.  Understandable given the way things are these days, especially with newspapers, but still disappointing.   Maybe SJU will record it and put it up on gojohnnies.  Who's going?