FB: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[57Johnnie]

I reckon that a week from now the JOHNNIES will be 1-0 

[frankrickard]

Working on Saturdays is going to be the bane to my existence

[frankrickard]

Looks like Hoag was cut by the Jags.  I think the 50 yard TD that troy williamson actually caught sealed the deal.  I would have to think that the window is all but closed for him.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/08/30/jaguars-down-to-53/#comments

Horace Gant was also cut by the Redskins.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/08/30/redskins-down-to-53/

[stanbob]

Was just wondering, when I move back to Minnesota next month, can I keep my bumper sticker that reads  " Alaska:  Coolest State, Hottest Governor"?

[Mr. Ypsi]

Was just wondering, when I move back to Minnesota next month, can I keep my bumper sticker that reads  " Alaska:  Coolest State, Hottest Governor"?

We may have to have a beauty-pageant showdown between Sarah Palin and Jennifer Granholm!   Besides, Juneau's a lot warmer than much of Minnesota or North Dakota.

[repete]

Was just wondering, when I move back to Minnesota next month, can I keep my bumper sticker that reads  " Alaska:  Coolest State, Hottest Governor"?

We may have to have a beauty-pageant showdown between Sarah Palin and Jennifer Granholm!   Besides, Juneau's a lot warmer than much of Minnesota or North Dakota.

Only in the winter, Ypsi. If only ol' Bob Atwood had succeeded in getting the capital moves to fabulous Wasilla (which already was the strip mall capital.)

Had to laugh when the Time.com story on Palin said she'd hit the winning free throw to beat "Anchorage" in the state final, like there was one HS there. Get ready for all kinds of stupid Outsider stuff like that that Stanbob, when you move out.

I guess I missed her TV sports gig when I lived there. I was stuck with John Hernandez and Ken Garland, whose signature  call was "sliding into second with a stand-up double."

[Mr. Ypsi]

You mean Anchorage has more than one HS?  We didn't know ALASKA had more than one HS!

Just kidding.  I thought the proposed capital move was to Willow, not Wasilla.  Or perhaps there was a whole flurry of proposals?

[Ralph Turner]

Was just wondering, when I move back to Minnesota next month, can I keep my bumper sticker that reads  " Alaska:  Coolest State, Hottest Governor"?

We may have to have a beauty-pageant showdown between Sarah Palin and Jennifer Granholm!   Besides, Juneau's a lot warmer than much of Minnesota or North Dakota.

Craig Ferguson already has his Naughty Alaskan Librarian routine down.
I actually liked the photo of Gov Palin holding the fish on Drudge Report page on Friday.

Hmmm.... I wonder if we can occasionally discuss fishing and beautiful women on these boards or does that have to go the "other" boards?     

[Mr. Ypsi]

Was just wondering, when I move back to Minnesota next month, can I keep my bumper sticker that reads  " Alaska:  Coolest State, Hottest Governor"?

We may have to have a beauty-pageant showdown between Sarah Palin and Jennifer Granholm!   Besides, Juneau's a lot warmer than much of Minnesota or North Dakota.

Craig Ferguson already has his Naughty Alaskan Librarian routine down.
I actually liked the photo of Gov Palin holding the fish on Drudge Report page on Friday.

Hmmm.... I wonder if we can occasionally discuss fishing and beautiful women on these boards or does that have to go the "other" boards?     

Especially while it is still the off season, I'll assume they're OK, as long as they don't get TOO political!  

Now, of course, if you had contended that Palin's fish was obviously bigger than Biden's fish ...

[Mr. Ypsi]

Was just wondering, when I move back to Minnesota next month, can I keep my bumper sticker that reads  " Alaska:  Coolest State, Hottest Governor"?

We may have to have a beauty-pageant showdown between Sarah Palin and Jennifer Granholm!   Besides, Juneau's a lot warmer than much of Minnesota or North Dakota.

Only in the winter, Ypsi.

Just checked 'Weatherbase.com":

Average temperature for the year: Juneau, 41; International Falls, 37.

(I.F. is warmer in the summer, but MUCH colder in the winter.)

[OzJohnnie]

Was just wondering, when I move back to Minnesota next month, can I keep my bumper sticker that reads  " Alaska:  Coolest State, Hottest Governor"?

If you like, but this is the Lt. Governor...



(Welcome back, repete.  Give us a report.)

(EDIT: I probably should have separated my 'welcome back' from the pic of Palin's replacement in Alaska.  I didn't mean to imply I was exposing your winning smile, repete, although as far as I know I may have been.)

[repete]

Willow was a compromise. Atwood wanted Anchorage where he owned more land and preferred Wasilla to Willow, although he had landowner buddies in both areas. Early resolutions named Willow but the last (in '94 -- three years before he died) named Wasilla.

It's that ave. July high --78 vs. 64 -- that makes all the difference. I'll take colder and whiter in a Falls winter over gray, freezing rain in Juneau ... plus to inject FB -- you also got  to watch Falls run a fairly cool double wing.

[repete]

Thanks, Oz. Still severe jetlagging. Because of using FF miles, Repete jr. (just turned 16, who was there for a month) and Mrs. Repete (the last week) and I all flew different airlines home. Mrs. Repete had the roughest trip of 28 hours while I had the 12.5-hour dulles nonstop (and somehow talked my way into biz). Pay back is hell ... and underway.

China was hours of frustration punctuated by awesome moments. Lost of great food and cheap beer. Got out to see some track and hoops. I'd been to most of the tourist sites before, but it was more fun with the family. Air sucked most of the time.

A highlight: friend set up a place for dinner and mentioned it was near my hotel so I could just meet the rest of the crew there. Of course, directions left me lost and I started asking folks about finding this place. got even more lost.

At some point, two sweet young things come up on their bikes and offer help. They know the place .. well turns out they don't. SO we try another place, nope. Next thing we know we're in a long alley that gets darker and narrower and I'm waiting for the worst to happen. But there's a restaurant ... just not the right one.

So the younger one takes off on her bike to check things out. After a while, the other asks if I can ride a bike. Down the alley we go with young thing hanging on the back. Out into the wacky Beijing traffic and weaving through taxis. Sure enough we eventually see her cousin. It's a bit of a downer, but the happy ending was .... finding the restaurant.

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That Alaska photo isn't all that far off.

As they tell women looking for men there: "The odds are good but the goods are odd."

[OzJohnnie]

Times, they are a changin'.  I don't know if you all caught this, but the Johnnies have a new 'fight' anthem.  An article about it is here at the SC Times, and they have a link to a bit of it here.

It rocks a bit and I think it will grow on me pretty easily.

[Knightstalker]

Was just wondering, when I move back to Minnesota next month, can I keep my bumper sticker that reads  " Alaska:  Coolest State, Hottest Governor"?

We may have to have a beauty-pageant showdown between Sarah Palin and Jennifer Granholm!   Besides, Juneau's a lot warmer than much of Minnesota or North Dakota.

Craig Ferguson already has his Naughty Alaskan Librarian routine down.
I actually liked the photo of Gov Palin holding the fish on Drudge Report page on Friday.

Hmmm.... I wonder if we can occasionally discuss fishing and beautiful women on these boards or does that have to go the "other" boards?     

Are you kidding Ralph, if fishing and beautiful women weren't allowed the LLPP and MIACPP would only have about a quarter of the pages they do.  Also allowed are discussions of hunting, beer, whiskey, old school music, old tv shows, professional wrestling, TDT Steel Cage Death Match with Pat, racing, hot women, beer, whiskey.

Did I miss anything?