bragging rights

[LynahFan]

Re: bragging rights

Grammarians are not logicians.

And you are neither.

Just because X is "essential" for (X Y) does not mean (nor even imply) that X is the most interesting part of the phrase. For that, you DO have to consider the language, and in English, that comes second. "College hockey" is a type of hockey sponsored by colleges. As I would interpret it, "hockey college" could mean two things: either a college that focused primarily on teaching hockey or a college that happened to have a hockey team (e.g. "only 6 of the 8 Ivies are hockey colleges"). Academics would be a more relevant topic for EITHER of those usages than it is for college hockey, since the emphasis is on the school rather than the sport, e.g. "A new report came out today that academics are just fine at hockey colleges."

Or shall we continue to dismiss academics and proclaim they are of little interest or value in college hockey?

Yes. Please?

 

[jcarter7669]

Re: bragging rights

Any suggestions for a DI Bozo team, or a DI bikiniwax team?

I nominate you captain of either team...and I pray it's D1 Bozo, because per NCAA rules you have to be equal with sexes and I don't wish captaining a men's Bikini-wax team even on you...

 

[Osorojo]

Re: bragging rights

And you are neither.

Just because X is "essential" for (X Y) does not mean (nor even imply) that X is the most interesting part of the phrase. For that, you DO have to consider the language, and in English, that comes second. "College hockey" is a type of hockey sponsored by colleges. As I would interpret it, "hockey college" could mean two things: either a college that focused primarily on teaching hockey or a college that happened to have a hockey team (e.g. "only 6 of the 8 Ivies are hockey colleges"). Academics would be a more relevant topic for EITHER of those usages than it is for college hockey, since the emphasis is on the school rather than the sport, e.g. "A new report came out today that academics are just fine at hockey colleges."

Fans of college hockey are free to obsess about shin pads, school spirit, rules, chic fans, venues, nicknames, past, present or predicted future glories - as they do endlessly. No problem. Have fun. But stop the muttonheaded insistence that academics should and do play a minor role in college hockey.
Some fans embrace this quaint belief. I hope their beliefs are inconsequential, but if the student hockey players or the colleges they attend dismiss
academics as boring and inconsequential there's hell to pay.

 

[Nick Papagiorgio]

Re: bragging rights

Fans of college hockey are free to obsess about shin pads, school spirit, rules, chic fans, venues, nicknames, past, present or predicted future glories - as they do endlessly. No problem. Have fun. But stop the muttonheaded insistence that academics should and do play a minor role in college hockey.

This board has existed for many years. There is a reason it is extremely rare that we have posts like yours obsessing about academics. Generally speaking, it's because it doesn't really interest people that much here and it doesn't have much of a place on this board. You seem to think a massive amount of users that post here now and have in the past are stupid because they just don't care about it as much as you do. After all, you're epically special (in a short bus, special ed, special olympics kind of way). Everyone else is the problem and they are all stupid. Sure sure. That's not to say fans are not proud or disappointed in the overall academic achievements of their athletes. We understand that your feeble mind cannot comprehend that this is a hockey forum and not an academic one...never mind the fact that while you just don't see any academics coverage on this website outside of the forum, which should tell you the direction that this site's owners would like to go in and clearly the folks have followed. I'm ok with you being a buffoon. We've already established that you're a mental midget and there's no sense in beating that dead horse (although I hope Lynahfan continues to school you in the future until you hopefully kill yourself or your computer short-circuits from all the drool dripping off your chin into the keyboard).

These kids playing hockey are just like all the other kids at school that are not in a varsity program. The only difference is that they have a monumental time commitment to their athletic program (practice, conditioning training, travel, etc) and a lot of them get some compensation in the form of scholarship money. With that huge time commitment, I think you'll have to excuse us for understanding why these kids are not all pulling 4.0s and applying for Rhodes Scholarships. In the end, no matter what the timeline is for a professional hockey player's career, 99.9% of these kids will enter the normal workforce one day thanks to the education they've received, just like all of us. They'll go on and happily live great, productive lives during and after professional hockey but most of them won't be curing cancer, just like all of us. I don't see why we have to make a production out of it. But if that makes your panties get all bunched up, then so be it.

 

[Happy]

Re: bragging rights

This board has existed for many years. There is a reason it is extremely rare that we have posts like yours obsessing about academics. Generally speaking, it's because it doesn't really interest people that much here and it doesn't have much of a place on this board. You seem to think a massive amount of users that post here now and have in the past are stupid because they just don't care about it as much as you do. After all, you're epically special (in a short bus, special ed, special olympics kind of way). Everyone else is the problem and they are all stupid. Sure sure. That's not to say fans are not proud or disappointed in the overall academic achievements of their athletes. We understand that your feeble mind cannot comprehend that this is a hockey forum and not an academic one...never mind the fact that while you just don't see any academics coverage on this website outside of the forum, which should tell you the direction that this site's owners would like to go in and clearly the folks have followed. I'm ok with you being a buffoon. We've already established that you're a mental midget and there's no sense in beating that dead horse (although I hope Lynahfan continues to school you in the future until you hopefully kill yourself or your computer short-circuits from all the drool dripping off your chin into the keyboard).

These kids playing hockey are just like all the other kids at school that are not in a varsity program. The only difference is that they have a monumental time commitment to their athletic program (practice, conditioning training, travel, etc) and a lot of them get some compensation in the form of scholarship money. With that huge time commitment, I think you'll have to excuse us for understanding why these kids are not all pulling 4.0s and applying for Rhodes Scholarships. In the end, no matter what the timeline is for a professional hockey player's career, 99.9% of these kids will enter the normal workforce one day thanks to the education they've received, just like all of us. They'll go on and happily live great, productive lives during and after professional hockey but most of them won't be curing cancer, just like all of us. I don't see why we have to make a production out of it. But if that makes your panties get all bunched up, then so be it.

He should just go over to a BB forum, they like to talk academics all the time.

 

[Runninwiththedogs]

Re: bragging rights

It appears that recognizing famous people who played college hockey is of little interest, but tautologies continue to fascinate. No surprise here.

Grammarians are not logicians. Parsing a sentence is not the same as understanding it. In the phrase "ice hockey" the word "ice" assumes the presence of water, for without water there's no ice, and consequently no "ice hockey." Water is a necessary condition for ice; therefore water is essential to ice hockey, agreed?
In the phrase "college hockey" the word "college" assumes the presence of academics, for without academics there's no college, and consequently no "college hockey." Academics are a necessary condition for college, therefore academics are essential to college hockey, agreed? Or shall we continue to dismiss academics and proclaim they are of little interest or value in college hockey?
Of course if a clown college or a beautician college sponsored a hockey team the contention that academics played a minor role would gain credibility.
Any suggestions for a DI Bozo team, or a DI bikiniwax team? Think of the poll photos!

You and Nick Papagiorgio need to have a murder-suicide. I don't care who plays what role, but just do it. Christ.

 

[Osorojo]

Re: bragging rights

This board has existed for many years. There is a reason it is extremely rare that we have posts like yours obsessing about academics. Generally speaking, it's because it doesn't really interest people that much here and it doesn't have much of a place on this board. You seem to think a massive amount of users that post here now and have in the past are stupid because they just don't care about it as much as you do. After all, you're epically special (in a short bus, special ed, special olympics kind of way). Everyone else is the problem and they are all stupid. Sure sure. That's not to say fans are not proud or disappointed in the overall academic achievements of their athletes. We understand that your feeble mind cannot comprehend that this is a hockey forum and not an academic one...never mind the fact that while you just don't see any academics coverage on this website outside of the forum, which should tell you the direction that this site's owners would like to go in and clearly the folks have followed. I'm ok with you being a buffoon. We've already established that you're a mental midget and there's no sense in beating that dead horse (although I hope Lynahfan continues to school you in the future until you hopefully kill yourself or your computer short-circuits from all the drool dripping off your chin into the keyboard).

These kids playing hockey are just like all the other kids at school that are not in a varsity program. The only difference is that they have a monumental time commitment to their athletic program (practice, conditioning training, travel, etc) and a lot of them get some compensation in the form of scholarship money. With that huge time commitment, I think you'll have to excuse us for understanding why these kids are not all pulling 4.0s and applying for Rhodes Scholarships. In the end, no matter what the timeline is for a professional hockey player's career, 99.9% of these kids will enter the normal workforce one day thanks to the education they've received, just like all of us. They'll go on and happily live great, productive lives during and after professional hockey but most of them won't be curing cancer, just like all of us. I don't see why we have to make a production out of it. But if that makes your panties get all bunched up, then so be it.

What a charming argument. Let me see if I can summarize its essence:
buffoon
mental midget
feeble minded
drool
kill yourself.
Yup. That's the essence of the argument, all right. You detest my character,
you deride my intelligence, and you belittle my opinions, not necessarily in that order.

However, you apparently sift through a multitude of posts to find one of mine and flock to it like bees to honey. Then you consult your rather limited lexicon of nasty names and insults, about which, with the expenditure of considerable time and effort, you construct what you believe to be an argument.

Why? Why do you labor to find, read, and respond to posts which you claim are the works of a "mental midget buffoon with a feeble mind who drools and should kill himself?" Say, you're not into this to persuade or to prove or to reason or even to discuss, are you? You're in it for the namecalling and the insults, aren't you? Why else would you repeatedly embroil yourself in a discussion you characterize as "feeble minded?" Why else would you compose lengthy harangues dedicated to a person you characterize as being a mental midget? QED

 

[The Rube]

Re: bragging rights

What a charming argument. Let me see if I can summarize its essence:
buffoon
mental midget
feeble minded
drool
kill yourself.
Yup. That's the essence of the argument, all right. You detest my character,
you deride my intelligence, and you belittle my opinions, not necessarily in that order.

However, you apparently sift through a multitude of posts to find one of mine and flock to it like bees to honey. Then you consult your rather limited lexicon of nasty names and insults, about which, with the expenditure of considerable time and effort, you construct what you believe to be an argument.

Why? Why do you labor to find, read, and respond to posts which you claim are the works of a "mental midget buffoon with a feeble mind who drools and should kill himself?" Say, you're not into this to persuade or to prove or to reason or even to discuss, are you? You're in it for the namecalling and the insults, aren't you? Why else would you repeatedly embroil yourself in a discussion you characterize as "feeble minded?" Why else would you compose lengthy harangues dedicated to a person you characterize as being a mental midget? QED

He does it to save us the time of trying to convince you that you are indeed a moron.

 

[Happy]

Re: bragging rights

What a charming argument. Let me see if I can summarize its essence:
buffoon
mental midget
feeble minded
drool
kill yourself.
Yup. That's the essence of the argument, all right. You detest my character,
you deride my intelligence, and you belittle my opinions, not necessarily in that order.

However, you apparently sift through a multitude of posts to find one of mine and flock to it like bees to honey. Then you consult your rather limited lexicon of nasty names and insults, about which, with the expenditure of considerable time and effort, you construct what you believe to be an argument.

Why? Why do you labor to find, read, and respond to posts which you claim are the works of a "mental midget buffoon with a feeble mind who drools and should kill himself?" Say, you're not into this to persuade or to prove or to reason or even to discuss, are you? You're in it for the namecalling and the insults, aren't you? Why else would you repeatedly embroil yourself in a discussion you characterize as "feeble minded?" Why else would you compose lengthy harangues dedicated to a person you characterize as being a mental midget? QED

So, did you go over to a BB forum like I told you. They are waiting for a guy just like you.

 

[wolverineTrumpet]

Re: bragging rights

As much fun as the current thread topic seems, I'm gonna go back to the original one and say:

Mike Comrie - 'cause he's engaged to Hilary Duff

that counts as famous? right?

 

[Hammer]

Re: bragging rights

As much fun as the current thread topic seems, I'm gonna go back to the original one and say:

Mike Comrie - 'cause he's married to Hilary Duff

that counts as famous? right?

Fixed.

 

[jcarter7669]

Re: bragging rights

What a charming argument. Let me see if I can summarize its essence:
buffoon
mental midget
feeble minded
drool
kill yourself.
Yup. That's the essence of the argument, all right. You detest my character,
you deride my intelligence, and you belittle my opinions, not necessarily in that order.

However, you apparently sift through a multitude of posts to find one of mine and flock to it like bees to honey. Then you consult your rather limited lexicon of nasty names and insults, about which, with the expenditure of considerable time and effort, you construct what you believe to be an argument.

Why? Why do you labor to find, read, and respond to posts which you claim are the works of a "mental midget buffoon with a feeble mind who drools and should kill himself?" Say, you're not into this to persuade or to prove or to reason or even to discuss, are you? You're in it for the namecalling and the insults, aren't you? Why else would you repeatedly embroil yourself in a discussion you characterize as "feeble minded?" Why else would you compose lengthy harangues dedicated to a person you characterize as being a mental midget? QED

pot --- kettle
Kettle --- pot

There, lets move on.

 

[wolverineTrumpet]

Re: bragging rights

Fixed.

Sorry, I should be like more women and read People magazine and think that celebrity news is news.

But thanks for fixing that for me.

 

[jcarter7669]

Re: bragging rights

Sorry, I should be like more women and read People magazine and think that celebrity news is news.

Celebrity news is news, they have their own news show and everything...Entertainment Tonight

 

[SCSU Euro]

Re: bragging rights

Bret Hedican, 'cause he's porking Kristi Yamaguchi.