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Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Monday, December 24, 2007
Florida State 42, Wisconsin 13! Yeah!
Ah, Florida--a great place for sailing and football. There's not much sailing news these days, so it seems like a good time for other stuff. The radio is blaring as I type, promoting the benefits of a college football playoff instead of bowl games, probably because so many of the bowls are pathetic jokes. Which one did Wisconsin just lose..? Was it the Carquest Hinder Binder Bowl? It wasn't the Rose Bowl. The fact that anyone even talks about a college football playoff is support for Isaac Asimov's "marching morons theory" which hypothesizes that over time, the human population will become stupider and stupider.
A college playoff is about the dumbest idea since a new Union South. Not only is training football players not the purpose of higher education, but who cares who the "best" college football team is? There's just no need to know, not that a playoff would answer that question anyway. Let us know what you think about college football playoffs or J-22 prerequisites.
(Orig posted: Dec. 27, 2008)
A college playoff is about the dumbest idea since a new Union South. Not only is training football players not the purpose of higher education, but who cares who the "best" college football team is? There's just no need to know, not that a playoff would answer that question anyway. Let us know what you think about college football playoffs or J-22 prerequisites.
(Orig posted: Dec. 27, 2008)
Pumpkin funk
That scary time of the year is here again.... pumpkin disaster, er, regatta! In this event, some suckers, er, racers, agree to sit in large, overripe pumpkins and row around in cold water. Why do they do this..? No one knows, but it may have something to do with pier pressure. :D
The event was started in 2005 and is such a curiosity that, that year, so many people stopped to gawk that the main Hoofer pier collapsed under the load, dumping about 20 people into the cold October water (see story at http://badgerherald.com/news/2005/10/10/pier_collapses_durin.php). Hoofer officials insisted that no one was injured seriously, although it's hard to fathom a pier full of people suddenly being dropped among wooden pier sections and rusty steel trusses without being injured. This year, there were no major incidents. Hurrah!
(Originally: 10/6/08 10:13 PM)
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