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Mellow - beautiful......Wish I were headed that way instead of toward the right coast.

Have a great day all.

Kathy Albers

Nice, Mellow!
We've been getting visit Nebraska ads on tv here. For real!

Bama, what a hilarious link you sent me. I had no idea. There was heavy heavy gossip around here a few years back that she was going to go to school here and had bought a house the next county over.....so much so that some margquees had Welcome Britney on them. I don't know what happened but she never showed. Maybe because there were alot of 'Britney jokes' going around too??

Good for Mr Sg and his brother!

Subject: SEC Football Facts



SEC Football

Planning for the fall football season in the South is radically different
than up North. For those who are planning a football trip South, here are
some helpful hints.


Women's Accessories:
NORTH: Chap Stick in back pocket and a $20 bill in the front pocket.
SOUTH: Louis Vuitton duffel with two lipsticks, waterproof mascara, and a
fifth of bourbon. Money not necessary - that's what dates are for.

Stadium Size:
NORTH: College football stadiums hold 20,000 people.
SOUTH: High school football stadiums hold 20,000 people.

Fathers:
NORTH: Expect their daughters to understand Sylvia Plath.
SOUTH: Expect their daughters to understand pass interference.

Campus Decor:
NORTH: Statues of founding fathers.
SOUTH: Statues of Heisman trophy winners.

Homecoming Queen:
NORTH: Also a physics major.
SOUTH: Also Miss America.

Heroes:
NORTH: Rudy Giuliani
SOUTH: Herschel Walker & Peyton Manning

Getting Tickets:
NORTH: 5 days before the game you walk into the ticket office on campus.
SOUTH: 5 months before the game you walk into the ticket office on campus,
make a large financial contribution and put name on a waiting list for
tickets.

Friday Classes After a Thursday Night Game:
NORTH: Students and teachers not sure they're going to the game, because
they have classes on Friday.
SOUTH: Teachers cancel Friday classes because they don't want to see the few
hung over students that might actually make it to class.

Parking:
NORTH: An hour before game time, the University opens the campus for game
parking.
SOUTH: RVs sporting their school flags begin arriving on Wednesday for the
weekend festivities. The really faithful arrive on Tuesday.

Game Day:
NORTH: A few students party in the dorm and watch ESPN on TV.
SOUTH: Every student wakes up, has a beer for breakfast, and rushes over to
where ESPN is broadcasting "Game Day Live" to get on camera and wave to the
idiots up north who wonder why "Game Day Live" is never Broadcast from their
campus.

Tailgating:
NORTH: Raw meat on a grill, beer with lime in it, listening to local radio
station with truck tailgate down.
SOUTH: 30-foot custom pig-shaped smoker fires up at dawn. Cooking
accompanied by live performance from the Dave Matthews Band,... who come
over during breaks and ask for a hit off bottle of bourbon.

Getting to the Stadium:
NORTH: You ask "Where's the stadium?" When you find it, you walk right in.
SOUTH: When you're near it, you'll hear it. On game day it is the state's
third largest city.

Concessions:
NORTH: Drinks served in a paper cup, filled to the top with soda.
SOUTH: Drinks served in a plastic cup, with the home team's mascot on it,
filled less than half way with soda, to ensure enough room for bourbon.

When National Anthem is Played:
NORTH: Stands are less than half full, and less than half of them stand up.
SOUTH: 100,000 fans, all standing, sing along in perfect four-part harmony.

The Smell in the Air After the First Score:
NORTH: Nothing changes.
SOUTH: Fireworks, with a touch of bourbon.

Commentary (Male):
NORTH: "Nice play."
SOUTH: "Dammit, you slow sumbitch - tackle him and break his legs."

Commentary (Female):
NORTH: "My, this certainly is a violent sport."
SOUTH: "Dammit, you slow sumbitch - tackle him and break his legs."

Announcers:
NORTH: Neutral and paid.
SOUTH: Announcer harmonizes with the crowd in the fight song, with a tear in
his eye because he is so proud of his team.

After the Game:
NORTH: The stadium is empty way before the game ends.
SOUTH: Another rack of ribs goes on the smoker, while somebody goes to the
nearest package store for more bourbon, and planning begins for next week's
game.

Nothing else in the universe comes even halfway close to the glories of
Southern football!

'Bama, I hate to differ with you, but...all us here in the Midwest know that the 'N' on the Nebraska football helmet stands for Nowledge.

My sister finally quit going to football games because she admitted she no longer enjoyed the 12-hour bouts of drinking, often in a fall rain/drizzle - getting up at 5 to avoid as much game traffic as possible, staking out adequate parking spaces for cars and barbecue grills, drinking breakfast, passing time till the game by drinking, drinking through the game, having another barbecue (& drinks) while the traffic cleared out, and getting home at midnight.

I think the part of the Mason-Dixon line that measures football just 'hitched' itself up a lil' bit. Gimme some sweetea, wuldja, honey?

Julia,

The TIDE DYED and TRUE fans the likes of me eschew drinking on football days. It costs a whole heck of a lot of money to attend these games. I fail to see why one who wants to zone themselve out or work themselves into a fighting mood would want to pay that sort of money and invest that amount of time.....They could just go to a sports bar. I sit far, far away from the students and in my section there is seldom drinking. I LOVE IT.

There is a time and a place for just about everything.

Also, chunk out a big enough amount of change, and one doesn't have to get wet. We are next to the press box and stay nice and dry. We were at one game (in the old Legion Field, when the electricity failed) Mr. BamaMama said it might be the only football game he had ever attended that was called on account of darkness.

We have yet to see the National Park sites in Nebraska. Last year on the way to the Arkansas game we stopped by Kansas and saw most of that state. (don't even try to understand the geography of getting to Arkansas from NorAl by way of Kansas.) Next year, we are going to take more time and see Nebraska. IF THERE IS A NEXT TIME!!!

Kathy

Yep, you're in agreement with my sister on that one.

Me, I must admit - I'd probably pay good money NOT to go to a game. Fortunately that's never been necessary <grin>. But then as Rick and Steve say, gotta have some vanilla, gotta have some chocolate.

(But that always makes me ask - what about the "swirl" - a little of both?) :Devil:

Link please.

it was on WBBM, my local AM radio. between court hearings, I will dig up something on the InterTubes.

Ah. Well. "Organizing" is what caught my eye. Considering how many Civil Rights org's have marched there in the past week, it just seemed highly unlikely that the Mayor would "organize" the KKK. Too many bright lights on him.

See what you can find. I think maybe your talk-station was talking from where the sun don't shine.

Los Angeles Times

Not organizing, just "appreciating."