Denard: The Gift that Keeps On Giving

[Diggler Cometh]

Frank Clark suspended for one game for stealing a laptop. Dion Sims suspended for an entire season for receiving a stolen laptop.

Michigan State has reinstated tight end Dion Sims, suspended all of last season for his role in a crime ring that stole more than 100 laptops from the Detroit Public Schools.

Yeahhhhh.... :lmao:

 

[Sbee]

Michigan State has reinstated tight end Dion Sims, suspended all of last season for his role in a crime ring that stole more than 100 laptops from the Detroit Public Schools.

Yeahhhhh.... :lmao:

He was suspended for an entire year for introducing a buyer to the people who stole the laptops. It was a dumb move for sure but he didn't steal anything himself. I think a year suspension was a reasonable punishment for what he did.

 

[Spartanmack]

A whole year for introducing a buyer of one laptop - it's not like he was brokering a deal between major crime syndicates or like he actually trespassed and stole a laptop and only missed a meaningless game.

 

[Spartanmack]

I dont remember a year we havent played them, we need payback for that jobbing last year...

There was a two year break in the mid 90s, then we beat them in 5 straight when the series resumed in '97

 

[byco42]

It is fun - being an obsessed Spartan fan I mean. And the game is this seaon but you would have to divide your loyalty as it is night game and conflicts with uofm at nd - how do you feel about brown paper packages tied up with strings?

I'm not even an obsessed Michigan fan. Maybe that's a prerequisite to being obsessed about a rival?

RE: Question ... depends what's in the bag. And Notre Dame sucks. I'll not miss watching Michigan play them.

 

[Spartanmack]

I'm not even an obsessed Michigan fan. Maybe that's a prerequisite to being obsessed about a rival?

RE: Question ... depends what's in the bag. And Notre Dame sucks. I'll not miss watching Michigan play them.

I'm not really obsessed either, but I've been called that by others like my wife who didn't grow up a sports fan - her folks both went to small Catholic schools in Brooklyn and her brothers were swimmers and water polo players so she was wasn't really even aware of major college sports for the first half of her life.

Don't know what's in the bag - it's supposed to be a surprise. Hopefully, in this case it's a Spartan win over Oregon (maybe a duck impaled on an iron-tipped spear?).

I'll be DVR'ing the mich/nd game and switching over during commercials/halftime. GO STATE! go blue!

 

[tinselwolverine]

I'm not even an obsessed Michigan fan. Maybe that's a prerequisite to being obsessed about a rival?

RE: Question ... depends what's in the bag. And Notre Dame sucks. I'll not miss watching Michigan play them.

The wife hears me singing, and comes into the man cave.

Wife: "What are you doing?"

Me: "I'm counting out the iambic structure of My Favorite Things from the Sound of Music.

"Why?"

"Well, you know...the football season is about to start, and we're talking about it on the football board."

So anyways, I don't think the iambic structure has anything to do with what's in the brown paper packages tied up with strings...

That having been said...interestingly, the first two lines have five and a half iambs each; but the third line, the "brown paper packages tied up with strings" is perfect iambic pentameter; and the fourth line "these are a few of my favorite things" goes back to five and a half iambs.

Again, I don't know that the iambic structure has anything to do with the significance if what are in the bags...

I think it's more about the symbolism.

I think we're not supposed to know "what is in the bag."

I think the anticipation of what might be in the bag is what makes what might be in the bag amongst those things that are amongst our favorite things.


EDIT: Shit...the last line is iambic pentameter....I knew there was a reason that I couldn't fall asleep....

EDIT: Shit...I knew there was a reason I couldn't fall back asleep....

The rhythm is three quarter time...there are no iambs at all.

I feel like such an idiot.

 

[Spartanmack]

You could have left out that last edit - I never would have known. Although I suppose there is the risk that Gulo would read this and catch it - he's a glee club guy too, no? In fact this is the only line about the song that made any sense to me:

"Well, you know...the football season is about to start, and we're talking about it on the football board."

That made me laugh. Oh, and I agree on the bit about how we're not supposed to know what's in the package - it's possible she just likes her things wrapped in brown paper and tied up with strings when she goes shopping but if I had to bet on it, I say she's saying she like surprises.

 

[Gulo Blue]

You could have left out that last edit - I never would have known. Although I suppose there is the risk that Gulo would read this and catch it - he's a glee club guy too, no?

Yeah. The talk of iambs caught my attention. But not as much as the idea of Schrodinger's Brown Paper Packages. I think I've decided the Sound of Music's Brown Paper Packages > Schrodinger's Brown Paper Packages. If you have a number of unopened packages and compare their expected values, the average of the unopened Schrodinger packages will be the average value of opened packages, but the value of unopened Sound of Music packages is greater. There's real world value there. I've seen it in unopened packs of baseball cards.

 

[Gulo Blue]

...and what about Shrodinger's App. St. game? ...currently existing in a state of won, and DOOM? No wonder they can't sell tickets.

 

[tinselwolverine]

Yeah. The talk of iambs caught my attention. But not as much as the idea of Schrodinger's Brown Paper Packages. I think I've decided the Sound of Music's Brown Paper Packages > Schrodinger's Brown Paper Packages. If you have a number of unopened packages and compare their expected values, the average of the unopened Schrodinger packages will be the average value of opened packages, but the value of unopened Sound of Music packages is greater. There's real world value there. I've seen it in unopened packs of baseball cards.

When you watch The Big Bang Theory, do you try to gauge when the theme song will start, based on the comedic sequence and timing of the opening scene, and try to sing "the whole universe" at the same exact moment that the Bare Naked Ladies do?

Because that's what I do.

 

[Gulo Blue]

When you watch The Big Bang Theory, do you try to gauge when the theme song will start, based on the comedic sequence and timing of the opening scene, and try to sing "the whole universe" at the same exact moment that the Bare Naked Ladies do?

Because that's what I do.

I sing along or drum along with lots of themes songs, mostly in an effort to elicit eye rolls from Mrs. Gulo. If she's visibly annoyed by it, sometimes there's a "Let's Go Blue"-style fist pump at "We built the pyramids". You should hear my Game of Thrones.

HO-dor, hodor HO-dor, hodor HO-dor, hodor HO-dor...

 

[Spartanmack]

When you watch The Big Bang Theory

This has never happened.

 

[Michchamp]

Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory seem to be on tv constantly, and my wife watches both of them.

BBT isn't bad. I consider myself lucky she's not into reality tv or any really awful shows

 

[tinselwolverine]

I sing along or drum along with lots of themes songs, mostly in an effort to elicit eye rolls from Mrs. Gulo. If she's visibly annoyed by it, sometimes there's a "Let's Go Blue"-style fist pump at "We built the pyramids".

I'm going start doing this; that's awesome...But do you like...try to time exactly when it's going to start?

Mrs Tinsel rolls her eyes at this...but she laughs also...

 

[Gulo Blue]

I'm going start doing this; that's awesome...But do you like...try to time exactly when it's going to start?

Mrs Tinsel rolls her eyes at this...but she laughs also...

I don't think so. I haven't taken any special notice of the intro timing. The only intro timing I consciously try to get exactly right is when I drum along to the beat of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_wuE-dctX4

...and some of the reason I make the effort is because I consider myself to struggle with rhythm.

 

[Gulo Blue]

No. I don't think I get the BBT intro timing right. ...and I never worried about it until now. Thanks Obama.

 

[tinselwolverine]

No. I don't think I get the BBT intro timing right. ...and I never worried about it until now. Thanks Obama.

The song was actually written and debuted during the Bush Administration.

EDIT: You gave me that one, right? You had to have...it was just too easy.

 

[Gulo Blue]

The song was actually written and debuted during the Bush Administration.

EDIT: You gave me that one, right? You had to have...it was just too easy.

Bush didn't even cross my mind. My 1st instinct was to blame you before I decided to pick a scapegoat.

 

[Spartanmack]

Yeah. The talk of iambs caught my attention. But not as much as the idea of Schrodinger's Brown Paper Packages. I think I've decided the Sound of Music's Brown Paper Packages > Schrodinger's Brown Paper Packages. If you have a number of unopened packages and compare their expected values, the average of the unopened Schrodinger packages will be the average value of opened packages, but the value of unopened Sound of Music packages is greater. There's real world value there. I've seen it in unopened packs of baseball cards.

I'm not familiar with Schrodinger so I'm probably missing something here (and I'm too hungover to read his wikipedia page especially considering the possibility that there may be more than one Shrodinger and I may read the wrong one) but why is the average of the unknown equal to the average of the known - is there a known limit of outcomes for Schrodinger packages?