FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Kilted Rat]

If the MIACPP wants me to, I will keep everyone in tune with the oil world.

I'd appreciate it. Des Moines stations didn't bump today, but I'm sure they will have by tomorrow. We still get news via horseback messengers down here.



Regarding TDT's post earlier about security at liquor stores... umm.. Fins, how long is the Statue of Limitations for petty theft of value approximately $30 tops?


During freshman and sophomore years I had a penchant for "borrowing" the big beer signs from various Stearns County, Kandiyohi county, and Ohio liquor stores such as "Welcome Hunters," "Welcome Fishermen," "Welcome Freshmen" etc.


All total, I collected approx 25 signs in those 2 years. along the lines of the following:
3 "Welcome Fishermen"
3 "Welcome Hunters" 1 Deer, 1 Duck, 1 Pheasant
2 "Welcome Ice Fishermen"
2 "Welcome Snowmobilers"
1 "Happy Halloween"
1 "Welcome Freshmen"
1 "Your wife called and said to bring home a case of Mich Golden" My personal favorite
1 "Welcome Race Fans"
2 "Welcome College Students"
3 with random prices included "Party Balls $29.99"
1 "Merry Christmas"
1 "Happy 4th of July"
2 "Welcome Boaters"
and 2 others I can't remember anymore.

I sold all but 2 senior year to underclassmen for an average profit of $20 each, this largely financed my drinking senior year drinking.

We used one of the Halloween ones for a "quote board" senior year.

[Kilted Rat]

TDT, see above post.

Anybody notice that this guy has a Hamm's Bear lapel pin?

And the guy behind him is wearing a Hamm's Bear sportcoat?

We gotta party with these dudes!  8)

Agreed, they look awesome!

[Kilted Rat]

And with that, I'm signing off for the weekend to drive to South Bend for a wedding at Notre Dame tomorrow.


Tmerton, I'll give you a full report of the state of your alma mater and the people there over the summer months as well as the ability for a foreigner to give a self-guided tour.

[kubiack78]

BDB-- thanks for the tip on gas prices...I filled up about 1130 today and got lucky at 2.81... the same station is now asking 2.99...saw a couple at 3.05 & one at 3.13

mm, glad it worked out for you.

It's a weird world in the fuel retail biz these days. Used to be the only time I would go out and take the numbers down from the price sign was to clean the bugs off.

Same numbers went back up.

Not anymore. Right now, any disruption in flow of product may create lines at the pumps. We are that close.

If the MIACPP wants me to, I will keep everyone in tune with the oil world.

It's what I do 365.

And yet over here in the middle east prices are dirt cheap (as you would expect them to be)  it's 60 fils a liter over here in Kuwait or about 22 cents a liter.  Not great on the liter to gallon conversion

[Pat Coleman]

22 cents a liter would be about 87 cents a gallon. It's like 3.975 liters to the gallon.

[tmerton]

BDB-- thanks for the tip on gas prices...I filled up about 1130 today and got lucky at 2.81... the same station is now asking 2.99...saw a couple at 3.05 & one at 3.13

mm, glad it worked out for you.

It's a weird world in the fuel retail biz these days. Used to be the only time I would go out and take the numbers down from the price sign was to clean the bugs off.

Same numbers went back up.

Not anymore. Right now, any disruption in flow of product may create lines at the pumps. We are that close.

If the MIACPP wants me to, I will keep everyone in tune with the oil world.

It's what I do 365.

And yet over here in the middle east prices are dirt cheap (as you would expect them to be)  it's 60 fils a liter over here in Kuwait or about 22 cents a liter.  Not great on the liter to gallon conversion

It's a discount you've earned, so go wild and crazy. 

I remember gas wars growing up in Oklahoma - gas for 7 cents a gallon and even less.  My cousin once bought a dime's worth of gas (this was before self-serve and they attendant was not amused).

[DuffMan]

1 gallon = 3.7854 liters

Sorry, Pat, that's the scientist in me.

At $0.83 per gallon, I could fill up for $12.  That'd be nice.  Enjoy those prices, Kubiak!  That's probably one of the only things that being there has going for it.

On another note, DuffMan will be on vacation for the next week, so don't worry, I'm not dead.

[Johnnie Red]

Are there any Johnnies out there who would like to assist me this coming season with helping get out invitation letters for some of the Stiftungsfestivities that we are doing that have special themes, i.e. Sept. 9 with River Falls: honoring media celebs; Sept. 30 with Carleton: honoring politicans and wannabe politicans in the memory of Eugene McCarthy and Paul Wellstone; October 21 with Hamline: honoring past and present RATS and Pipers. Let me know. Thanks.

[frankrickard]

Wonka just discovered the glory that is Halo in his new roomies XBox collection. Including yesterday, he currently has 5 of the next 6 days off of work. What are the chances he goes crosseyed from this ultra addicting game during that time? Well, about the same as he would from watching porn over that same time but, as my girl Lucy used to say, "If it's not one ting it's another."

Frank - Where were you to inform me about the greatness of this game? I'm disappointed.

Wonka has also been trolling ebay for redic costume ideas for 12/21 at Lambeau. It's going to be a good day.

I'm pretty sure I told you of it's awesomeness...it's the only reason that I got an xbox and the reason that I will get an xbox 360 eventually...I think I'm going to go beat down on some 12 year olds in halo 2 on xbox live

[tmerton]

On another note, DuffMan will be on vacation for the next week, so don't worry, I'm not dead.

Going back south of the border?

[piperinsider]

Are there any Johnnies out there who would like to assist me this coming season with helping get out invitation letters for some of the Stiftungsfestivities that we are doing that have special themes, i.e. Sept. 9 with River Falls: honoring media celebs; Sept. 30 with Carleton: honoring politicans and wannabe politicans in the memory of Eugene McCarthy and Paul Wellstone; October 21 with Hamline: honoring past and present RATS and Pipers. Let me know. Thanks.

You know I'll help in any way JR for the 21st. Let me know how I can be of any service in getting people to come out and enjoy some burgers and a butt-whooping.

[Pat Coleman]

1 gallon = 3.7854 liters

Sorry, Pat, that's the scientist in me.

That's OK, the world needs scientists.

[frankrickard]

Not sure what to think of this...http://youtube.com/watch?v=TsfC-PGysEQ&search=rocky

[Kilted Rat]

Things I learned this weekend:


1. Notre Dame and St. Mary's have amazingly beautiful campuses and the buildings we were in were ridiculously amazing.
2.  Mojito's taste great and you don't even realize you're drinking booze until it's too late.
3.  A table of 9 people aged 18-26 (5 of which were siblings) can finish off 6 bottles of wine in the amount of time a table of 10 "adults" can finish off their first 2.
4.  Free beer, wine, and mojitos all night is probably about an hour too long.
5.  The Bartender at Linebacker's bar by Notre Dame campus doesn't care if you're catholic and a lifelong ND fan, you still have to pay for beer.
6.  The large black man checking ID's at the entrance to Linebacker's is NOT a linebacker for ND, in fact he never went to college, but his name is Shaun and he can throw a 150lb kid trying to get in with a blatant fake ID 8 feet in the air.
7.  Drinking until 3 AM when you have to drive 7 hours back to Iowa the next day is not a good idea.
8.  8AM is not a great time to wake up when you just stopped drinking 5 hours before.
9.  You can drink a 32 oz gatorade before breakfast, a 20 oz water with breakfast, another 20 oz water after breakfast after a good night of drinking and still not need to pee for 4 hours.
10.  Driving from anywhere, especially a lake in MN or Notre Dame, back to Iowa is very depressing. 





BDB,
I am pretty sure that Kubiak is a private contractor working over there, but I still agree his karma should be well above it's current sub-zero level, so I'll chip in.

[BDB]

KR, as expected quite a report on your trip.   

Glad you negotiated all the roads ok.

Thanks for the help on kubiak. One way or another, he's not drinking Hamm's in Minnesota.