MBB: Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association

[Mr. Ypsi]

BTW - nice job correctly using "pre-season"!!  No Sager retaliation on that one

Don't bet on it!!

Why should I retaliate? FDF is right; you used the term correctly. If italicizing it was your way of baiting me, all I can say is that you need to put better worms on the hook.

If you want an example of a worm Greg is unable to resist, check out 2008 MLB World Series in the Anything That's Not Politics section of Anything Goes.

[Gregory Sager]

BTW - nice job correctly using "pre-season"!!  No Sager retaliation on that one

Don't bet on it!!

Why should I retaliate? FDF is right; you used the term correctly. If italicizing it was your way of baiting me, all I can say is that you need to put better worms on the hook.

At the risk of taking the worm.... a) you responded, so the bait seems to have worked, and b) it's bolded, not italicized

Nuh-uh!

I responded two posts after the following slice o' snark from northb that was supposed to goad me into retaliation:

Ouch!  Where is the love, FDF?  So early in the pre-season to get the digs in!

... and one of those two intervening posts between the one quoted above and my response directly mentioned my name. That's not taking the bait, that's waiting for the worm to drop off the hook.

Secondly, as you can see from that quote, it was italicized, not bolded. I was responding to northb (aka Mr. Italic), not to FDF (aka Mr. Bold).

G'head, try to pick nits with me. I'm tanned, rested, and ready.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

... and one of those two intervening posts between the one quoted above and my response directly mentioned my name. That's not taking the bait, that's waiting for the worm to drop off the hook.

I guess that's all a matter of perspective.  If the intention was to get you to respond about pre-season vs pre-conference, then you're right.  What if the intention was to simply get you to respond?  In that case, you took it hook, line, and sinker.   

[NW Hope Fan]

As Greg lurks like Jiminy Cricket, all you have to do to get him to appear is, give a little whistle... 

[Civic Minded]

Well, at least it's finally October.  Only a few more weeks and we'll all have something decent to trash talk about...   8)

As for you, Sager, I guess I'll have to bide my time until you're pale, weak, and done in by another Michigan winter...then I'll try to pick nits with you again.   

[Gregory Sager]

I guess that's all a matter of perspective.  If the intention was to get you to respond about pre-season vs pre-conference, then you're right.  What if the intention was to simply get you to respond?  In that case, you took it hook, line, and sinker.   

Well, you see, it's not a matter of perspective, because I didn't respond to his attempt to goad me. Again, two more posts flew by before I stepped in and said anything. And when I did, I responded to two things: 1) your invoking my name; and 2) the metanarrative upon which this whole thing is based, which is that using the word "preseason" to describe the current state of D3 basketball is valid up until opening night in the middle of November, and invalid afterwards. And in that respect I was simply backing up your assertion that northb had used it properly and didn't require correction from me or anybody else. I did not respond to northb's initial post. Isn't that clear enough yet?

Well, at least it's finally October.  Only a few more weeks and we'll all have something decent to trash talk about...   8)

I'm all set:

As for you, Sager, I guess I'll have to bide my time until you're pale, weak, and done in by another Michigan winter...then I'll try to pick nits with you again.  

I haven't set foot in Michigan during wintertime in well over a decade. But Chicago winters ought to be more than sufficient for you to find an opening once my will to live has been sapped by a few January weeks of subzero wind chills.

[sac]

I'm not a fisherman, but this line of conversation has me wondering if a fisherman has ever caught a fish and then had a philosophical discussion with the fish about whether the fish was really caught or if the fish flung himself onto the hook when his real intention was just to jump in the boat.



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You would think that in all of human history (and fish history(fishtory?)) somewhere along the way an intelligent human would have caught an even more intelligent fish and had a very deep minded discussion about such matters.  But then I guess you have to ask that if a fish could really talk, could he possibly be more intelligent than the human, after all he did get caught.....whether intentional or not, he's in the boat.  I'm sure that was not in the fishs' plans when he had fish breakfast that morning.

If I were fishing and caught a fish that could talk, I wonder what I would ask it or what it would ask me.  I would think at some point the fish might say something snarky like "I don't pee in your air so don't.....ya know" or "hey, whats with all the crap"..........

Who am I kidding, I'd freak out and either throw the smartest fish in evolutional history (oh no, not that topic) back into the lake/pond/river/ from whence it came, or I'd beat it with the oar, or whatever other blunt object I could come up with.  If you were with your buddies you'd certainly make a pact to never speak of it again, and probably finish off the cooler of beer which would likely mean you wouldn't remember it, or if you did you swear to never buy that brand of beer again.

I could imagine that if there were a species of deep thinking philosophical talking fish, they would have no chance when they met a human (intentionally or not).  After all, wouldn't all of us beat the fish to death or at least throw it back, run and never speak of it again.  Certainly no one would believe you........."Honey, I had this great conversation with a fish today"......."Thats great dear, how many beers did you have?"

But then maybe the fish just play dumb with us, they do kind of stare into the distance, opening and closing their mouths kind of makes them look less philosophically intelligent. 

Maybe we have found a species of deep philosophical thinking fish, obviously they look like Don Knotts



Perhaps there is a species of deep thinking philosophical fish out there, that thrive within our waters.  Its possible, I mean again, if a scientist found one, who would believe them.  More likely the evolutional chain (oh no) of that species ended many years ago, when the first humans beat the philosophically deep thinking fish to death and ate them. 

Another question, if you ate a philosphically deep thinking fish, would it make you smarter?   and, would it taste like chicken?






The mind wonders.

[Gregory Sager]

Duuude! Don't bogart that joint, man. And pass that bag of Cheetos over here, too.

[devossed]

If only my mind wasn't wondering (or wandering) enough for me to go surfing at 4am today, I never would've caught that glorious treatise on the state of maritime inhabitants. I confess, at one point my mind did wander (or wonder), and I let it entertain one thought in bright Times-Squareian fashion:

*******

Mr. Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

*******

But then I got ahold of myself, and said, "Self -- That was actually brilliant!" Then I read it over again. And again. And again. And 4 more times. And suddenly it's 6am and I'm late for a meeting...

You had me at Don Knotts!  +K for you!

[calvin_grad]

Please just make it stop!!  The last 2 pages of this board read like a root canal.     

[Knightmare]

Please just make it stop!!  The last 2 pages of this board read like a root canal.     

Amen to that!  I'm wondering if the quote from Billy Madison would apply, "We are all dumber for having listened...." 

Bring on the bball season minus the frigid winter.

[Flying Dutch Fan]

sac - +K for that, and for teaching me once again to never read posting up at work - the loud roaring laughter draws a crowd and few funny looks.

A couple of additional thoughts - should you ever catch this intelligent fish (or even hallucinate one) can you please ask him/her/it what term he/she/it uses to describe the games played prior to the beginning of the league season? 

Oh, and while you're at it, see if he/she/it has any suggestions about condiments..



Have we left the expired equine behind, and moved on to this?

[sac]

Doesn't look like a very deep thinker to me......................or is he?


I've seen plenty of fish out of water wandering our fine beaches, lakes and streams..........and I confess the first thought that pops into my head is not to ask the fish if he meant to do that.

[NW Hope Fan]

As we tread water in the deep of fish stories and Billy Madison, et cetera...

I'm surprised the Pat hasn't swum by to remind us all that this is indeed a Men's Basketball board, and such shenanigans are hardly tolerated!!!

My how lax the rules are in the pre-pre-league-season.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Doesn't look like a very deep thinker to me......................or is he?


I've seen plenty of fish out of water wandering our fine beaches, lakes and streams..........and I confess the first thought that pops into my head is not to ask the fish if he meant to do that.

I dunno - the resemblance to Greg is uncanny (and he's a dead-ringer for Don Knotts, too).

[Sorry, Greg, the devil made me do it. :-[]