FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[BDB]

Oooh, Duffman. That's a big fish! 

[Rico 21]

...with two big eyes, long legs and arms...     must be prehistoric!

[DuffMan]

Duff, where did you find the frozen water? 

Everything is wide open around here, or at least thin enough to stay off of.

There's some sketchy ice in the cities, but you don't have to wander very far north to find decent ice.  I was on 11-12 inches (guess how I measured that ).

[sjusection105]

Duff, where did you find the frozen water? 

Everything is wide open around here, or at least thin enough to stay off of.

There's some sketchy ice in the cities, but you don't have to wander very far north to find decent ice.  I was on 11-12 inches (guess how I measured that ).

I would suspect you called somebody with the right equipment to help you

[sumander]

They are driving on all the lakes up in this neck of the woods! Only heard of one vehicle going through. That's about normal for this time of year!

Karma snipers were out last night I see!

[TC]

Duff, where did you find the frozen water? 

Everything is wide open around here, or at least thin enough to stay off of.

There's some sketchy ice in the cities, but you don't have to wander very far north to find decent ice.  I was on 11-12 inches (guess how I measured that ).

Ummm... Ice scoop and a good guess?

[DuffMan]

Ummm... Ice scoop and a good guess?

Close.  My ice scoop has a ruler on it.   

[finsleft]

Nice fish, Duff! Fishin's been pretty good here, too. Won't drive a Suburban on the ice, but no problem with an ATV getting to my house, which weighs about as much as a small car. I did pull it off last Saturday when it rained an inch and a half. WTF?? Raining on December 30th?
But Fins, Jr. was out with a couple of SJU pals last night and reported the crappie and northern action to still be steady.
Let me know when you want to come out. Bite starts at dusk. I'll even stock some GBP for ya. 

[tmerton]

Wonka - I don't talk about the Irish here when they're winning so I'm clearly not going to use this board to fret about a loss.   (And since I gave the points and took LSU in all 3 bowl pools I entered, it was neither unexpected nor did it lead to a financial loss.)  Anyway, enjoy it while you can.  It may get worse before it gets better but it will get better.  Even the basketball team is finally coming back around.

KR - You're from Ohio; you can't help it.  8)

Peace.  Out.

[Whoa Nelly]

You can't spell Monkey Stomp without L-S-U, right TMerts? 

As I've said hundreds of times before, ND is a middle-of-the-pack squad in any major conference this year. You can only begin to imagine how big my smile was when Robert Smith said the Irish have been badly overrated thus contributing to their bowl ineptitude following the 41-14 debacle on national TV tonight.

They haven't defeated a top 10 team since pre-Bob Davie and they have lost 9 (and counting) straight bowl games - but it is in the be$t intere$t of the NCAA that Notre Dame be showcased.  

[finsleft]

Food for thought...

This text is from a county emergency manager out in the central part of Colorado after (today's) snowstorm.

WEATHER BULLETIN

Up here, in the Northern Plains, we just recovered from a Historic
event---
May I even say a "Weather Event" of "Biblical Proportions" --- with a
historic blizzard of up to 44" inches of snow and winds to 90 MPH that
broke trees in half, knocked down utility poles, stranded hundreds of
motorists in lethal snow banks, closed ALL roads, isolated scores of
communities and cut power to 10's of thousands.

FYI:

George Bush did not come.

FEMA did nothing.

No one howled for the government.

No one blamed the government.

No one even uttered an expletive on TV .

Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton did not visit.

Our Mayor did not blame Bush or anyone else.

Our Governor did not blame Bush or anyone else, either.

CNN, ABC, CBS, FOX or NBC did not visit - or report on this category 5
snowstorm. Nobody demanded $2,000 debit cards.

No one asked for a FEMA Trailer House.

No one looted.

Nobody  - I mean Nobody demanded the government do something.

Nobody expected the government to do anything, either.

No Larry King, No Bill O'Rielly, No Oprah, No Chris Mathews and No Geraldo Rivera.

No Shaun Penn, No Barbara Striesand, No Hollywood types to be  found. Nope, we just melted the snow for water.

Sent out caravans of SUV's to pluck people out of snow engulfed cars.

The truck drivers pulled people out of snow banks and didn't ask for a penny.

Local restaurants made food and the police and fire departments delivered it to the snowbound families.

Families took in the stranded people - total strangers.

We fired up wood stoves, broke out coal oil lanterns or Coleman lanterns.

We put on extra layers of clothes because up here it is "Work or Die".

We did not wait for some affirmative action government to get us out of a mess created by being immobilized by a welfare program that trades votes for 'sittin at home' checks.

Even though a Category "5"  blizzard of this scale has never fallen this early, we know it can  happen and how to deal with it ourselves.

"In my many travels, I have noticed that once one gets north of about 48 degrees North  Latitude, 90% of the world's social problems evaporate."

It does seem that way, at least to me.

[Kilted Rat]

For the Fishing fans there.  I got Jeff Foxworthy's Redneck dictionary for Christmas


Su-shi  n. and pron.  Concerning the actions or response of a female in regard to one named Susan


"We were gonna get married, but after i told her about sushi changed her mind."


One for our resident DR here goes one for you KR

su-ture v. and n.  to invite another to do as he or she pleases.  " he said he didn't what  no anesthetic, and I said suture self". 

Outstanding. I'm going to have to use that one tomorrow!

Duff, where did you find the frozen water? 

Everything is wide open around here, or at least thin enough to stay off of.

There's some sketchy ice in the cities, but you don't have to wander very far north to find decent ice.  I was on 11-12 inches (guess how I measured that ).

MY bet is it involved a guess and a multiplication by a factor of 3 



Fins,
Great post! +k to all including tmerts, after last night, he needs it!








PS. I think Fins will like this video quite possibly more than anyone else.

[tmerton]

My college roommate ran for Student Body President of his high school against (ahem) a girl!  On voting day, both candidtes were allowed to address the student body.  His opponent closed her presentation by urging the students to put their votes "in my box."  Now this was a long time ago (early 60s) but we weren't that stupid back then.  She won hands down.

[frank uible]

I'm glad her candidacy didn't peter out.

[WAHOO3]

Not that the conversations that are going on aren't interesting, although they're not, I thought I would chime in with some football.

I work with at least one former MIAC football player from the top 5 MIAC football programs and we were having a discussion today about which MIAC coach would be the best fit for the Gopher position (noting that we realize that would never happen, it was a way to not do work).

In the end we all settled on Terry Horan. If you've had a chance to meet him, you know he has charisma and a leadership style that players migrate to. He has done a great job in bringing volume and quality recruits into a city way up North on the plains. He has shown an ability to scheme towards his strengths and be consistent. Of all the coaches in the MIAC, I think he is best suited to create a program at the U that would be respected and steadily improve. Just our take.