New Cy-Hawk Trophy Unveiled And... Oh God, Just Make It Stop
by RossWB on Aug 19, 2011 11:32 AM CDT
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PrintAfter the previous, widely-reviled Cy-Hawk Trophy was relegated to the trashbin of history last month, there was one overriding thought regarding the new Cy-Hawk Trophy that would replace it: "Surely it can't be worse than the old one, right?" Well, the new Cy-Hawk Trophy was unveiled this morning at the Iowa State Fair:
(H/T to @cbschroeder)
And a bigger version of the top of the trophy, courtesy of Todd Brommelkamp:
In case you can't tell what the hell the new trophy is, here's the official description:
The trophy shows a family talking after a long day of work.
"The scene of a family talking after a day’s work is representative of our state," ISU athletic director Jamie Pollard said.
From a certain aesthetic sense, the new trophy is a step up from the previous version: it no longer looks like something a badly hungover shop teacher cobbled together in fifteen minutes. Unfortunately, it also now looks like something that belongs at one of the arts and crafts booths at the Iowa State Fair. Wait, did they just... nah. It also features the Cyclones' current "I-State" logo, which will surely be out of date within 18 months. But, hell, let's take another look and, say, I wonder what sort of track record Iowa Corn has with designing things:
... oh, for fuck's sake, this whole enterprise was doomed from the start.
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oopsie
forgot to tell you, whoever loses the game has to keep the trophy in the front window of their athletic department.
Anyone here old enough to remember DB? A real old school baseball coach...
by two_niner_was_old_school on Aug 19, 2011 2:43 PM CDT up reply actions
Even funnier, Iowa LOST the old trophy and has no idea where it is!!!
They carried an empty cabinet to the sideline at the last couple games hoping ISU wouldn’t know the difference!!! ROTFLMFAO
It doesn’t get any better than THIS!!!
Anyone here old enough to remember DB? A real old school baseball coach...
by two_niner_was_old_school on Aug 19, 2011 2:53 PM CDT up reply actions
my bad
overzealous reading of a satirical hawkeye web site got me. it’s not true…
Anyone here old enough to remember DB? A real old school baseball coach...
by two_niner_was_old_school on Aug 20, 2011 8:47 AM CDT up reply actions
Please send complaints to...
Iowa Corn Growers Association
5505 Northwest 88th Street #100
Johnston, Iowa 50131
by Clint Barton on Aug 19, 2011 10:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Nah, that's the same as the top image in this post.
I’m sure there will be a close-up on the trophy itself at some point.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I'm missing something, right?
Ross, you know I don’t speak Spanish. In English, please.
by The Mexican't on Aug 19, 2011 11:43 AM CDT up reply actions
Yo hablo ingles!
The image at the top of the thread in HN that that link goes to is the same as the first image in my post.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Is the image I posted not showing for you?
Further down that thread is the close-up. Which I thought I put in my comment. Since I posted the link I’m able to see the image, so if others aren’t then I’m just the crazy Mexican talking to myself.
by The Mexican't on Aug 19, 2011 11:49 AM CDT up reply actions
Apologies.
Follow the thread a bit to TheJumper5’s comment and the close-up is there. Someone can save it and re-post from there.
by The Mexican't on Aug 19, 2011 11:50 AM CDT up reply actions
I see no pix, my crazy Mexican amigo.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Now that link is all busted for me, too.
It’s a conspiracy.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I HATE YOU ALL.
(I’ll save and repost from home in 20 minutes.)
by The Mexican't on Aug 19, 2011 11:53 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, I went over to the HPP link I put in the fanshot to get the closeup they'd posted
but it doesn’t seem to be tehre any longer.
(Oh, I see it’s been found.)
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 11:52 AM CDT up reply actions
That corn is HUGE!
BTW, what year is it? Who picks corn in a galvanized steel tub anymore?
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 11:53 AM CDT up reply actions
They should be competed for a giant lead statue of a threshing machine
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
I have an old bushel basket like the one in the trophy.
It’s actually kind of cool, my old antiquey bushel basket that is. I rescued it from a dilapidated barn building at my wife’s family farm along with a modern aluminum bushel basket that is a lot lighter but not near as cool as the old antuey bushel basket.
by Stay thirsty, my friends. on Aug 19, 2011 2:17 PM CDT up reply actions
That on it's own would've made a nice trophy
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 2:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes, you said the words old, antiquey and dilapidated.
Nothing about that trophy topper says modern farmer.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 3:50 PM CDT up reply actions
SHIT MAN, THAT'S IT!
Seriously, if it’s gotta be about corn, we could just play for THE BUSHEL! The team runs over and picks up THE BUSHEL after a win (with or without corn inside) and hoist it above their heads in victory. Big. Metallic. Heavy.
/tear
I can’t believe no one thought of this when insisting this thing be about corn.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 9:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Shit.
That’s a great idea (if the trophy must be corn-themed).
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 19, 2011 9:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I like it.
It’s simple and topical. Probably doesn’t need a 100 word explanation like this new incarnation.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 21, 2011 1:49 PM CDT up reply actions
I'll donate my old zinc plated bushel basket with the rusty riveted base as a trophy.
They can stick that statue trophy in the cool old antique bushel basket and bury it in corn (the combined stuff).
by Stay thirsty, my friends. on Aug 22, 2011 9:01 AM CDT up reply actions
Oh come on
Jim Delany’s in that corn superhero outfit, right?
Greyshirted No More
Black Shoe Diaries
@runthedive
Bah...
They should just compete for a bronzed corn cob face, that thing is freaky. As in freaky-in-awesome!
Is it just me, or does No. 5 have really long arms?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 11:42 AM CDT up reply actions
Or does the ref have a arm-shaped dong?
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
by ninerhawk on Aug 19, 2011 11:48 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
His German girlfriend hopes so.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:32 PM CDT up reply actions
Jim Molini lives!!!
this was the most awesome day after picture in the Big Peach on Sunday morning.
Nothing could have been finer than to open my bloodshot eyes and see this picture big as life.
awesome.
Anyone here old enough to remember DB? A real old school baseball coach...
by two_niner_was_old_school on Aug 19, 2011 2:38 PM CDT up reply actions
And this year's TCAP Trophy goes to ...
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 11:38 AM CDT reply actions
Legends, Leaders, Heroes, and now this...
It’s been a shitty year for creativity.
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 19, 2011 11:39 AM CDT reply actions
Hollywood would like a...
aw, dammit.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 11:53 AM CDT up reply actions
I believe this was the inspiration behind Corn.
Bloggin' at JoePasDoghouse.com
by J.Schnauzer on Aug 19, 2011 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions
A friend sent me this.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Hmm, I was afraid of that... let me try again.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Um, I mean... Wow...
I’m sure that the Heroes trophy will also suck, but this is bad. Shouldn’t a trophy for the Cy-Hawk game have something to do with, you know, Cyclones and Hawkeyes? How about maybe having something with football? I mean, I’ve got lots of questions here. (note, I’m still not used to every game needing something to take home when you win, so maybe I’m naive. However, this seems like a bit of a reach. I still think you should have the two mascots emblazoned in bronze, and doing the conan the barbarian reach together with a football. That would be awesome.)
Always check the words with the red squiggly line. They mean you probably screwed up.
I think this whole thing would have been a little bit better
if there was a damn football on it, but this is just atrocious.
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
This is my idea for the heroes trophy
It goes to the first team to get 300 yards of offense.
Trophies to the winner are just so cliche
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Sir, I represent the Iowa and Iowa State Athletic Departments, and that kind of breathaking creativity cannot go unrewarded.
We’d like to hire you for our marketing office.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
i first saw this on my iPhone
and I thought it was a guy having sex with a pig.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
Twitter!
cornnation@gmail.com
That's Ames!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 11:54 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm sure all Iowa residents were happy for this quote
This trophy, “is representative of our state.” What exactly does this represent? I know a lot of farmers, and I promise this scene never has and never will happen.
Always check the words with the red squiggly line. They mean you probably screwed up.
by KennardHusker on Aug 19, 2011 12:01 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't even have any bothers!
What about my farm people?!?
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 12:35 PM CDT up reply actions
You just don't have a care in the world, do you?
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I care about a lot of thing.
For instance, what about my farm people? I care about them.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 12:43 PM CDT up reply actions
You just said you didn't have any bothers!
You should change your username to Carefreeno’s Way.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
by RossWB on Aug 19, 2011 12:44 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Bahahaha, I meant bRothers.
Typing is SOOO hard.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 12:45 PM CDT up reply actions
I just wanted to make a bad joke.
I’m satisfied now.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I like Carefreeno's Way.
That was clever.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 12:51 PM CDT up reply actions
it looks like the guy is perform an obscene act on that woman an child from my perspective.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
Is your perspective that of an ESL student?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:16 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Wrong.
That’s the trophy for Nebraska-Iowa State.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Since they weren't going to use my idea
of Herky flushing Cy’s head down a toilet, I was hoping they would just forget the whole thing.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
... and MSU and PSU fans breathe a sigh of relief.
PP-TPW.
The Only Colors
by LVS on Aug 19, 2011 11:50 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Much much worse than the land-grant
Congrats Iowa/ISU we now have the worst trophy in CFB
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
When I GIS'd to find the image I used above....
well, you just can make this shit up
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
by Flakbait on Aug 19, 2011 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions 13 recs
Google search. Easy rec.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions
So glorious.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:13 PM CDT up reply actions
This trophy has as much to do with the Hawk-Cy Series as that one up there
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 11:51 AM CDT reply actions
Is that cake?
I’d play for cake.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 11:55 AM CDT up reply actions
Yep. Looks tasty, too.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 11:56 AM CDT up reply actions
MMM FUCKIN' CAKE
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
You're thinking of pie
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Even if this weren't in response to the last comment
this would be a good guess with Ross.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:06 PM CDT up reply actions
I prefer cake, sir.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Are you going to the Purdue game?
Cause if you are, and I have some cake, I want to make sure you don’t get anywhere near it.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
At this rate nobody is going.
Seriously, is there no interest in this game?!?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions
I would go if I still lived within driving distance of Chicago or W. Lafayette
Not that that does you any good…
Seriously people, where’s the hate?
Am I the only one that signed up?
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 12:51 PM CDT up reply actions
It's you and a few others
but not nearly the number that expressed interest initially.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:56 PM CDT up reply actions
That sucks.
C’mon people, it’l be fun.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 19, 2011 12:56 PM CDT up reply actions
so with the numbers we have now
we are still going to meet up at the staduim and be sitting together right?
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 1:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Sitting together I can do
but this will get complicated without more attendees.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 1:33 PM CDT up reply actions
I am going to the game
whether we get a discount or not, so please keep me in the loop, because if you are going to go as well, would like to be around some one I know.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 1:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Actuallly, Cake would be fucking awesome for a rivalry game!
Can you picture the winning team running to the sidelines, hoisting up a cake, smashing pieces of cake in each others’ facemasks and earholes, diving headfirst into a 6 foot long sheetcake (yellow and chocolate pleaz!)?
I want somebody to make this happen. Cake frosting stained uniforms would lokk so…so..so much like a Presidential intern’s dress.
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Aug 19, 2011 1:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Chris Hassel summed it up well.
It’s essentially an Isabel Bloom.
by The Mexican't on Aug 19, 2011 11:52 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs
In that case
I wish they had gone with the “walrus” design.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
I was trying to think what it reminded me of. Yes! It is an Isabel Bloom!!! My daughter received about 5 of those as gifts …… when she was between 5 and 9, from her grandmother (my mom). Soooo, the winner will be awarded a trophy, modeled after something pre-teen girls get as gifts, from their grandmothers, that even THEY don’t want. Good lord, this is embarassing.
Isabel Blooms are generally middle-aged women gifts.
But the point remains.
by The Mexican't on Aug 19, 2011 1:22 PM CDT up reply actions
We received one as a wedding present
I was 31, neither middle-aged nor preteen
& I totally agree, that’s exactly what it looks like
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 1:46 PM CDT up reply actions
I got one
from my cousin when my Grandma died. Don’t even ask.
Anyway, I have to not only hang onto it, but if my cousin ever comes over, I have to display it somewhere so that she knows I didn’t just chuck it or her feelings would be hurt.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Luckily ours came from friends of my parents
We don’t live anywhere near them
OMG I just realized it’s actually displayed in a glass cabinet in my kitchen. When did I do that?
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 1:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Perhaps you were drunk
and it was dark.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
My sister unpacked most of my kitchen
I’ll just blame her.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 2:03 PM CDT up reply actions
One of the ones I saw was a little kid doing a somersault with his/her ass sticking up in the air and its head on the ground. My fervent hope is that’s the one you’re inadvertently displaying.
I prefer the art from the Schrute series
“chicken on goat” is my mom’s favorite.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Sorry to disappoint
We have a rotund woman, eyes lifted to the heavens, hands cradling a bowl that’s really a candle holder. However, there is no candle because I think the one it came with melted. It’s freaking heavy, too.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 2:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh for the love of all that is holy
that is awful.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 3:51 PM CDT up reply actions
& yet it is displayed in my kitchen
It appears I really am that hard up for items to fill up empty spaces.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 6:07 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm not going to make the joke
but goddamn is that joke right there to be made
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Set it right up there on the tee for ya
It’s how I earn my keep in BHGPLand
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 21, 2011 7:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Thank goodness for my grandfather.
He’s gonna give me a gun. That’s the way you give stuff to males, folks.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 2:52 PM CDT up reply actions
A family friend
gave me a 22/.410 over under and a 30.06. Sadly I have neither of them now. And I can blame a woman for that.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Probably gonna get a .270.
He also taught me to shoot with a .22 he owns, but, while it’s in decent shape, he doesn’t want to give it away because his brother left it sit in a damp garage and then tried to scrape away the rust.
I’m the smart one in my family!
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions
I’m the smart one in my family!
The 717 is like a post-apocalyptic hellscape isn’t it?
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Can you grow non-radioactive apples in a post-apocalyptic hellscape?
I think not.
Seriously, you farm boys would find yourselves somewhat at home here. The only large differences are the accents, the hills, and the predominance of fruit farms in some areas (Adams County has half of the state’s apple production while Franklin, Cumberland, York, and others are more or less dairy, beef, and pork raisers).
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes, you quite probably would.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 3:06 PM CDT up reply actions
but I would miss the historic aspect of Iowa and its culture
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
/glances south toward battlefield, listens to thunderstorm, thinks back on how there was a thunderstorm the day after the great battle
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions
We have hills,apples and peaches on my parents farm
which used to be in the 515.
What would you do if they changed your area code? You would lose your identity.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 3:52 PM CDT up reply actions
No, I wouldn't.
I can still go to up black folks in the city, and say, “SOUTH-CENTRAL REPRESENT! SOUTH-CENTRAL UP IN HERE!”
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 5:27 PM CDT up reply actions
If "a woman" is your wife
you can tell her “I told you so” when you have to fend off the invaders with a pewter statuette instead of a firearm.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Whoops!
Not to be a stickler, Rambler, but you wrote “males” where you meant to write “Amish separatists”.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Amish Separatists are demanding the right to build round barns
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
My parents live near a round barn.
That and the “mushroom tree” tell me when I should turn on our gravel road.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 6:28 PM CDT up reply actions
There are no Amish in Adams County.
We are an island of “English” in a sea of plowmen.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 5:28 PM CDT up reply actions
My grandfather had a few rifles and a BB gun,
and when he passed a year and a half ago, my uncle took all the guns and did God-knows-what with them.
And so, I’m defending my home with a collection of baseball bats.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:17 PM CDT up reply actions
That will work
if your attackers are hydrophobic aliens
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
I see what you did there.
And I do usually have a mostly-full glass of water on my dresser or nightstand.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:23 PM CDT up reply actions
It looks like an aborted Hummel Figurine
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
by C.I.owA on Aug 19, 2011 1:22 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Is that a bushel basket of his replacement knees?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:17 PM CDT up reply actions
HE LIVES!
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Been a long week.
But I am alive. If you listen closely, you can hear the Keystone Light cans cracking open right now.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:22 PM CDT up reply actions
And if you'd just guess
you’d hear the hissing of a freshly opened growler of snobby, expensive beer on my end. And, yes, my pinky finger is extended whilst raising it to my lips.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:25 PM CDT up reply actions
That reminds me, I need to make a run to Half Acre.
New Double Daisy released today.
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 19, 2011 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Just bought two growlers.
Hope you like waiting in the heat, I was in line for 45 minutes (and work wasn’t out for most normal people yet).
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:28 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh, and it's fantastic.
Want to come over for some?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:28 PM CDT up reply actions
We're heading out of town here in a bit.
Otherwise, yeah, totally. And I’ll just grab some bombers (assuming they release it for retail like that (hope hope)).
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 19, 2011 4:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes, bought a bomber, too.
Just in case they sold out…so I can gouge a motherfucker.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Ok, good.
They should have bombers left, and hopefully available in stores. I guess I could bust open that Captain Fantasy saison…
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 19, 2011 4:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Jean Marc XO for me
That’s some jNW level snob shit. But damn is it good. Best vodka ever.
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
It is damn good.
Yes it is. I bought a wonderful bottle of that a while ago. It was lovely.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 19, 2011 6:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Good, I was beginning to worry about you.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes.
I haven’t done much twitterin’ this week, either.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions
God, if the word "twitter" has ever sounded like a euphemism...
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions
The question everyone is ignoring:
Why is evil Winter Sports Herky there for the announcement of a football trophy and not Football Herky?
Cheering for inconsistent, undisciplined teams [Twins, Wild, Packers, Hawkeyes] since 1989. "False Hope is better than No Hope"
Because Football Herky is too goddamn embarrassed to be anywhere near that thing.
Winter Sports Herky has spent the last five years around the basketball team. He’s used to things that suck.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Second try.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
by RossWB on Aug 19, 2011 11:54 AM CDT reply actions 11 recs
So whitebread . . .
I can’t believe they gave the mom boobs.
"I always like it better when the clowns seem to try to be happy."
by MarcMorehouse on Aug 20, 2011 5:59 PM CDT up reply actions
"...do the Humpty Hump, do the Humpty Hump."
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 11:55 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
This really looks
like a rip-off Thomas Kincaide figurine or maybe a very poor man’s Norman Rockwell figurine, but only worse than that even.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions
Not anymore.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions
What would give you that idea?
It’s for corn supremacy damn it!
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions
Well, we know their AG Dept is better than ours, so they can keep it.
Just let me know when the football trophy is unveiled.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 12:00 PM CDT up reply actions
The mom has a nice rack.
The kid looks like he’s contemplating how he’s going to get out of the state, and away from his family. They all have soul-less eyes.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions
It’s modeled after young Dick Whitman plotting his escape from his step mom and his dad.
by txhawkeye on Aug 19, 2011 1:21 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I wish there was a caption on this trophy:
“…and that, Billy, is why your momma and I can’t be together anymore.”
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:03 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Look what she did to these kernels, Billy!
Look at them!
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Hello little boy
Do you like corn? I’ve got lots of corn. You can have some if you’d like. It’s right over here in my van…..
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
by Flakbait on Aug 19, 2011 12:03 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
If anyone can find me this pic w/o the caption, drop me a link.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
They looked back upon Sioux City and were turned into stone!
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
No. That's Decorah.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh yeah I remember that Bible story
Sodam and Decorah.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 12:37 PM CDT up reply actions 6 recs
How is it that I've never heard this before?
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Aug 19, 2011 1:24 PM CDT up reply actions
You didn't go to sunday school?
or you were a sleep during sunday school?
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 1:25 PM CDT up reply actions
I meant the Decorah version...
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Aug 19, 2011 1:51 PM CDT up reply actions
oh
then I don’t know why.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 1:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Yep. Sodom and Decorah. Pontus Pirate. All them.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 2:05 PM CDT up reply actions
LOL
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 2:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Dewar-onomy?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:26 PM CDT up reply actions
As a resident of Decorah and an advocate of our supremacy
I can only interpret this to mean Decorah is cool with the gays, which is true and good.
by Third Generation Hawk on Aug 19, 2011 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Wrong
it means that if you are a traveling stranger do not go through Decorah unless you are up for some gang rape
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Ahhhhh
I see. I guess that’s why the Wartburg football players/fans never stick around then.
by Third Generation Hawk on Aug 19, 2011 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Nope
they just take their victory and head back to Waverly for beer and vagina.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 19, 2011 3:01 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
Huh, didn't know about that. Crazy Lutherans.
The Lutherans around here are all old and boring.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 3:03 PM CDT up reply actions
I knew mit was a word!
Ha! Take that WordFeud.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 3:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Words With Friends didn't recognize "arsed" as a word.
I was very annoyed.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I don't know what dictionary these games use but it is certainly not the one that popular culture does.
I’m still steamed about VAG and I’m not going to let it go.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 4:27 PM CDT up reply actions
I’m still steamed about VAG and I’m not going to let it go.
Normally, I’d say TWHS, but CWay is a woman, so I guess TWSS?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:28 PM CDT up reply actions
Sometimes I really need to play that word.
I like it was a triple word score or something like that.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 6:29 PM CDT up reply actions
The idea that Waverly is better than literally anywhere on this earth, much less Decorah, is so ridiculous as to not be worthy of commentary.
by NorseHawk on Aug 19, 2011 3:27 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
I WIN!
Decorah is a den of Norwegian infidels.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 19, 2011 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Given the Wartburg education I'm surprised you spelled "infidels" correctly
by NorseHawk on Aug 19, 2011 3:30 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
Given your Luther education, I am surprised you aren’t sharing that computer with the 50 other people that live on your collective farm.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 19, 2011 4:02 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
Oh, NorseHawk!
There’s some lovely filth over here!
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 5:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Is this a serious comment?
Given the student population of Luther & Wartburg, I’d certainly say that a Wartburg student would be more likely to get drunk and bang his sister before a demo derby than any Luther student taking up residence on a farm. Now if you were talking about the NICC campus student body in Calmar, you may have a valid argument…but who throws stones at CC’s?
Is this a serious comment?
Of course it is. Because of Wartburg education I am incapable of humor.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
This is true.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 21, 2011 12:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Lycurgus
You’re a Wartburg grad? Why did I not know that?
Please note that the internet does not, as of yet, have a sarcasm font.
Not a grad
I graduated from Beloit College. I spent my freshman year at Wartburg, but transferred because they didn’t have an archaeology program. I got to Beloit and promptly didn’t study archaeology. Still, it was enough to develop a dislike of Lutherians.
My dad graduated from Wartburg in the early 70’s. The shit that went on there then makes animal house look like an episode of the muppets. Outfly used to be an all campus brawl. Also, Reece Morgan threw my dad over the top of a car once.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Go Bucs!
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 20, 2011 2:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Nah, local to the area.
I considered going there (was recruited for football), but I had my heart set on going somewhere else. Kinda wish I’d gone there, though.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 20, 2011 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions
It is a pretty cool little school that doesn’t quite fit in with town. It was a fun place.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
They should put that on the brochure, because I think you nailed it.
It is a pretty cool little school that doesn’t quite fit in with town.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 20, 2011 3:33 PM CDT up reply actions
But this is worth a rec
You got no fear of the underdog; That's why you will not survive!
by YouCanPutYourEddsInIt on Aug 19, 2011 4:25 PM CDT up reply actions
That boy is totally masturbating.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
“Son, please, we can’t afford new pants. Use the corn next time.”
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Why am I laughing so hard at this?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Dad – “look son, the cob isn’t that big. Just turn around, drop your pants and lean forward – it will only pinch for a second.”
Son – “But Dad, I said I didn’t want to go to Iowa State.”
"Sometimes the truth gets in the way of a good story" - KF
by The Bacon Explosion on Aug 19, 2011 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Pocket pool, it was called in my home
As in, “Son, stop playing pocket pool. It’s a nice day, go outside.”
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions
"...and play pocket pool"
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:22 PM CDT up reply actions
It's not my fault the girl next door changed clothes right in front of the window
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Also, that is definitely not Farmer Cy's first wife.
He clearly cast her aside when she refused to tolerate his corncob fetish and replaced her with this new model, who appears to be a fresh graduate of the veterinary sciences program at Iowa State.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
The sculptor went to the trouble to put the plaid lines on Farmer Cy's shirt, but he didn't bother to make the hat a mesh-back?
FAIL.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Seed corn hats have mesh backs as well.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Well, FINE.
My dad used to work at the feed store and the KENT hats were awesome!
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 19, 2011 3:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Yep.
Had a “DeKalb” one I got from my grandpa.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:28 PM CDT up reply actions
Unless you wore one of those winter ones
with the ear flaps that fold up and down.
My gramps had a veritable trove of NK, Pride, and Pioneer apparel.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:33 PM CDT up reply actions
OH, I'VE GOT IT
The kid is Anthony Fremont and the “father” is offering him a corn sacrifice to appease him!
And this is obviously a better trophy:
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:21 PM CDT up reply actions
I've seen that episode.
The drunk guy was right. Someone should of brained that kid.
by Stay thirsty, my friends. on Aug 19, 2011 3:30 PM CDT up reply actions
You are showing your age and/or addiction to TZ/OL type shows.
"Mom, just get me a Pepsi! Please, all I want is a Pepsi!" And she wouldn't give it to me! All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me! Just a Pepsi!
by The Bird Cult on Aug 19, 2011 4:30 PM CDT up reply actions
This trophy was designed by the Reamer Club.
It’s just the latest salvo in our never-ending war with P****e.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
If your school was still in the AAU
you might understand the concept of irony.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Talking to Nebraska fans is one of the few times we get to know what it is like to attend jNW.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
I already knew what it's like to be Asian.
Well, half anyway.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:13 PM CDT up reply actions
Persons from the Indian subcontinent are, anthropologically-speaking, caucasian.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Which is, of course
further evidence that white people are stupid.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Not… all… are you sure? My shame spiral is entering the inescapable phase.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Don't worry, Texas is beyond reproach.
At least that’s what Texans believe.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Your schedule sucked in '94 and your coach ran up the score on Prairie State or whoever you guys played in your joke of league.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 5:31 PM CDT up reply actions
You guys should feel good about yourselves.
You’ve put a starving artist to work creating that abomination.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 19, 2011 11:55 AM CDT reply actions
Sometimes people just need to starve.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
by RossWB on Aug 19, 2011 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions 10 recs
This is an Irishman's impression of England in one sentence.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:15 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
You should work for UNICEF.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:34 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I applied. They said my worldview was a little too Darwinian for their liking.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Poor Darwin
always getting associated with Malthusians
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 19, 2011 12:41 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Kill 'em all!
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Poor Malthus, always getting confused for Ivo Shandor
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:43 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't have a problem with the sculptor. It's a quality bit of sculpting, it just has nothing to do with a football game.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 11:58 AM CDT up reply actions
I personally don't care if it has anything to do with a football game
I just think it sucks for being totally uninteresting.
Now Fat David, that’s interesting.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
If the nether regions are an indication
Iowa coeds likely did little “sitting” for him.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:12 PM CDT up reply actions
I thought that was me until I looked closer at the haircut.
Yes, the one on top of the skull.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Okay, here's the deal,
I’m going to the Fair tomorrow and if that thing is still there I’m willing to do what has to be done to put this thing out of our misery. I just need to make sure you guys will cover my bail.
/Shapiro’d, I’m not afraid to name names.
I will too.
This is almost as bad an embarrassment as those statues at the Texas Co-op bookstore.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Drop it into an industrial fryer.
Someone will eat it.
by The Mexican't on Aug 19, 2011 11:59 AM CDT up reply actions
No go on the Twitter link, either.
This is what I get:
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I was using Chrome at work.
Google must have cached the link I saw this morning and made it available for me. I’m slightly annoyed, because it seems to have come from a twitpic but I’ve no idea who posted it.
by The Mexican't on Aug 19, 2011 12:11 PM CDT up reply actions
That's what they should have done.
As a nod to the Iowa State Fair they could have just made a different trophy out of butter each year. It would eventually melt away in the winner’s trophy cabinet and they could start all over the next season.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Or saved the drippings for Brennan Cougill's twice daily glass of butter
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Are you insinuating
that he doesn’t finnish every drop?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions
He saves a bit for second breakfast and elevensies
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:19 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Hey, what did Finland ever do to get involved here?
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Ah, fuck.
You know what? I stand by it. I’m sure Cougs eats Scandinavian breakfasts.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:23 PM CDT up reply actions
If he hasn't yet, I'm sure he will now that he's at UW-Green Bay.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Double entendre?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:51 PM CDT up reply actions
No, since one kind of sausage is found in relative abundance throughout the country
The other is in a wider variety and greater quality in areas like Wisconsin
Aw shit. I think I've been triple reverse entendte'd
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 2:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Heavy on the grains, fatty meats and alcohol
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions
I should have been born in Sweden...
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:25 PM CDT up reply actions
You know that I'll throw in.
If I was paying $20 for the J Robinson attack, I guess I better be in for $50 for the shitty statue theft.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Needs more shelves.
Bloggin' at JoePasDoghouse.com
by J.Schnauzer on Aug 19, 2011 11:59 AM CDT reply actions 15 recs
George Perles stole J.Schnauzer's password!
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Can we send this thread to the Iowa Corn Producers (or whatever)?
I think people who make these kinds of decisions should see the feedback resulting from their “hard work.”
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 12:05 PM CDT reply actions
The PR director of Iowa Corn is on Twitter: @iowa_corn
She’s already getting bombed with negative feedback.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I almost feel bad for her
I know they tried, and they meant well and all. But really,
There is this thing called the internet. Perhaps they could have asked for ideas and maybe had a vote or something.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
If they were volunteers I'd feel bad.
These people are being paid a lot of money to make bad decisions.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 12:09 PM CDT up reply actions
Like I said
I ALMOST feel bad
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Good.
Maybe in the future companies will start posting the conceptual drawings. I mean, there will always be haters, but a reaction like this would have told them to go in another direction.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 12:08 PM CDT up reply actions
Incidentally, NIU and Ball State play for a corn-based trophy, The Bronze Stalk Trophy.
It looks far better than the new Cy-Hawk Trophy.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Those soldiers look like they'd rather be in Tikrit.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:05 PM CDT up reply actions
Guy on the left:“… goddammit.”
Guy on the right: “What the fuck is that?”
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Maybe they're worried Charlie is hiding is the brush behind it.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:08 PM CDT up reply actions
And what is he doing behind that brush?
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
by Flakbait on Aug 19, 2011 12:11 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Let me make this green for ya.
"West Texas seems to be full of fake boobs providing a comfortable shade for well-developed pot bellies" - Lycurgus (06/24/2011)
by BStylin Hawkye on Aug 19, 2011 1:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh, he's so great! I wish someone would honor his family...
…oh, someone already did. I can’t believe my state is corrupt and bankrupt.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Back in the good old Blago days,
the Sheen family would have had to pay good money for that type of honor.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions
In the good new days
I’m paying for it. Yay, me.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 6:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Illinois continues to lead the way
In stupefying decisions. Go, Illinois!!!
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 6:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Chicago casinos coming soon!
Can we make this city its own state?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 6:28 PM CDT up reply actions
My boss in college told me about a time he was down south when he told someone he was from Iowa, the guy my boss was talking to asked if Iowa was near the state of Chicago.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 6:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Yep, that sounds about right
From what I hear about southern ed-u-ca-shun.
Rahm gives me some faint hope but that doesn’t do much for me, being in the ’burbs.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 6:57 PM CDT up reply actions
TRADE!
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 12:06 PM CDT up reply actions
WHAT. THE. HELL?!
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but…can we have our old POS trophy back?
So, basically, if I wrote down the lyrics to Workin’ Man Blues, taped it to a cupboard, and shipped it out to Iowa, the respective universities would accept it as the new trophy. Ok then. I’ll make sure to use fancy penmanship.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:12 PM CDT reply actions
Use cursive, please.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Via Twitter Hlas:
“Rumor: Iowa-Nebraska football trophy will be of two guys on a street corner waiting for a bus.”
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:26 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
Iowa-Oklahoma State trophy will be of Dan Gable scowling at a picture of jackass.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
but it will look nothing like Dan Gable
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 19, 2011 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
it's been a bad year for Iowa sculpting
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 19, 2011 12:39 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I hope they can get the hat trick with the Heroes Game trophy.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
The butter sculpting lady dies
the Dan Gable trophy is unveiled and is terrible
and now this
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Wait, the butter sculpting lady died?
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Ya, truly sad.
But don’t worry she had apprentices, we can all get our butter sculpting fixes
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
They always come in threes.
Only this year depending on the Heroes Trophy it could be more than three.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 12:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe we'll get lucky and "Gable" will look like Brands or someone.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:41 PM CDT up reply actions
I would like a trophy of Dan Gable shoving a corncob up some Okie State person's ass.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Would you settle for a Russian instead?
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 19, 2011 12:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Sure. I'm not picky.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
John Smith?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 12:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Again, I'm not picky.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
They already have the photo and the title ready.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions
You know what would be cool actually
Having Kinnick and “Insert Nebraska Legend” sitting on a park bench talking.
"Your spelling and grammar errors belie a seriously skilled thought process"- therealCatnuts
by justsomehawkeyefan on Aug 19, 2011 12:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Nile: “So, where are you from?”
Nebraska legend: “I kan reed an I kan spell! [unintelligible chattering about Tom Osborne, the greatest coach in history]”
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:36 PM CDT up reply actions
FIVE NASHUNAL CHAMPEENSHIPS!
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Jesus is finally right on something...
by iowaChemE on Aug 19, 2011 12:44 PM CDT reply actions 11 recs
Who's he drawing?
Looks like Charles Bronson standing in front of a boat. Not bad.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:45 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
So does this mean that Iowa State doesn't have any heroes?
In the deed, the glory.
Corn Nation!
Follow @Aaron_Musfeldt
by Aaron Musfeldt on Aug 19, 2011 12:47 PM CDT reply actions
They have one
Minnesota killed him. They won’t let it go
by PackerHawk on Aug 19, 2011 12:47 PM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
I liked it, too.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Not our fault.
Nobody forced him to go back in the game after his collarbone broke. Blame his common sense that was undoubtedly enhanced by his Iowa State education.
Buckle up for the bullet train to hell.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 19, 2011 12:53 PM CDT up reply actions
But you will admit that Minnesota is evil, right?
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:53 PM CDT up reply actions
What? No.
Not everyone likes lutefisk. And the Iowa and Wiscosnin fans move here. So it appears that Minnesota itself is not evil, it just seems to draw evil
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 19, 2011 12:55 PM CDT up reply actions
You're just trying to blame Norway for your evil.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 12:56 PM CDT up reply actions
Norway is the source of a great deal of evil my friend
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Death metal.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Racist.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions
I love the idea of "reverse" racism
It’s easily one of my favorite concepts.
by The Mexican't on Aug 19, 2011 4:54 PM CDT up reply actions
That's so lazy, you just let somebody else come up with it.
Figures.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:55 PM CDT up reply actions
I just like that someone thinks that racism by non-whites has to be considered a different type of racism.
Or that racism against white people is the reverse of racism. However they choose to define it.
by The Mexican't on Aug 19, 2011 4:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh hell exists
and its name is Texas or an insurance seminar. I have been to both and believe me it is hell
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 1:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Wha? Wha?
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions
I insult it all the time!
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
So do you. Truth.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 2:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Texans or pseudo-Texans have rights that non-Texans do not. We are imbued, by the ghosts of Davy Crockett and Sam Houston, with certain un-alien rights to proclaim our superiority over everyone else and continue to insist, even though the State of Alaska has existed for 50 years, that everything is bigger in Texas.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
OMG
They’ve turned you. You sound just like… an actual Texan.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions
Muahahahahahaha
Oil… varmints… pig huntin’… high school footbaw… eye ballin’ mexicans… these are a few of my favorite things.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Fuck. I thought of anyone here, you would get that. Rick “Sesesh” Perry was doing an interview with a tv dude a couple years ago, and after he was done and the reporter was walking away, the moron forgot he was still miked up, and said, “Adios, mofo”. Sports radio replays it all the time here when they’re doing drops.
I feel bad for ruining your joke
I was probably living in Alaska then. If you had any Palin related jokes, I would have gotten them.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Txhawkeye
was just setting you up with a gotcha question.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:50 PM CDT up reply actions
He's not really a secesher.
Which I find hilarious since a good deal of people down there want him so badly to be a secesher.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 2:49 PM CDT up reply actions
I thought I saw on the news that Perry was going to independentize Texas from the Union. Of course he is back-peddling from that now.
Sorry mods, not trying to be political that is why I made up a word.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 3:59 PM CDT up reply actions
He just said
that they could make it on their own if they really wanted to, or something like that.
It’s only a very small percentage that actually wants to seceed. It’s mostly just talk. Like Texans tend to do. Blah blah blah.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
When I lived in Houston in 1999 I was told by more than one person that Texas should leave the Union. This is not a joke. They really think that.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm told this all the time by people who live in the other 49 states.
Why can’t we get all these folks on the same page?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:17 PM CDT up reply actions
WHO ARE YOU & WHAT DID YOU DO WITH LYCURGUS?!
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 2:51 PM CDT up reply actions
Frontal lobotomy can make the transition almost pleasant
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Hmm.
Let’s test you:
A man cuts in front of you in traffic. Do you…
A) Shoot out his tires, pull him out of the car, and hang him from the nearest tree or pole until he is dead.
B) Cuss and then move on with your life.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 2:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh, heavens
You’ve…uhh…..you’re one of them. My God.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 3:04 PM CDT up reply actions
See?!
We never should’ve let the 2 of you divorce.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 3:11 PM CDT up reply actions
I found a new love and her name is yeller rose of Texas
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
BARF
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 3:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Let's try another one:
A star tailback at the local high school is considering, among other programs, your alma mater. Do you…
A) Talk about the great experiences you had at your alma mater, experiences that prepared you to contribute to society.
B) Talk about the women and easy classes at your alma mater and offer the recruit both money and livestock if he signs with your alma mater.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 3:06 PM CDT up reply actions
How much livestock
if he wants my good fuckin’ sheep, then only if he makes all-american
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 19, 2011 3:07 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
So B.
This is not going well.
Let’s try another one.
The best kind of party is:
A) A party with your close friends and/or relatives.
B) A party where you meet and make new friends.
C) A party that involves a noose, a tree, and a man who may or may not have committed a crime but isn’t about to talk to the damn court system, no, sir.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 3:09 PM CDT up reply actions
All my parties end in draggin’s, but I always enjoy meetin’ new folks before I drag ’em
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
This is a tragic day for America.
I hope you awake from this awful stupor.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 3:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Sad panda
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions
You suddenly find wrestling distasteful and too expensive.
Don’t you?
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions
Texans would not be happy with you for trying to throw in with them fake-Texan.
You better watch yerself this weekend. If they catch wind you could be in mighty big trouble.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 3:56 PM CDT up reply actions
In world of blind men, the one-eyed man is king. With my scintilla of intelligence, I am like an emperor to these people.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Unfortunately, they their lack of intelligence leads them to rise up and eat you out of fear instead of worship at your feet.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions
What's gross about cannibalism?
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 5:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I married a Texan.
I go out of my way to insult it.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Guns up, ya’ll.
[I hate this place]
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 19, 2011 4:18 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Gig 'em!
Hook ’em!
Fuck ’em!
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:19 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I drive by tech practice every day on the way into work. Not even tempted to watch. I have absolutely no interest in TTU football. I don’t know if that is weird or not.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Considering folks in Lubbock didn't before Leach.
Not really.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Just wait until you have to go to an insurance seminar in Texas.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:49 PM CDT up reply actions
that would be double hell
I don’t want double hell.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 4:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Nobody forced the Gophers to take cheap shots at him and trample him along the sidelines, either.
I have the same fashion sense as Tom Arnold.
They do have
George Washington Carver, but his accomplishments were peanuts compared to Jack Trice
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 19, 2011 2:05 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Do you mean Lincoln Butter?
/obscured
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Todd Blythe thinks he's some kind of hero.
Just ask him. He’ll tweet you about it.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 4:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe the point is that this game should not be played
anymore.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
by StoopsMyAss on Aug 19, 2011 12:53 PM CDT reply actions 7 recs
A voice of reason.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 12:58 PM CDT up reply actions
Although, Iowa State is going to a MAC type conference in a couple of years
once the Big 12 dissolves, which means maybe we should be playing them.
This trophy will make more sense then too. Because it looks like the kind of trophy that would come from a yearly contest against some random Directional State Polytechnical Institute.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
If Cal Tech still played football
This is the type of trophy you’d expect to see if they played MIT.
"Mom, just get me a Pepsi! Please, all I want is a Pepsi!" And she wouldn't give it to me! All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me! Just a Pepsi!
by The Bird Cult on Aug 19, 2011 4:48 PM CDT up reply actions
I would hope there'd be something more original
Along the lines of this:
Or a TARDIS, or that cannon from Cal Tech’s campus.
"As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part."
Dumbfounded... see new cy-hawk trophy
My expectations for the Hero’s game just committed suicide.
by Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo on Aug 19, 2011 12:54 PM CDT reply actions
Rec'd for your profile name.
You should consider changing your profile picture to this:
Word on the street is you're a jerk, Mitchell.
Aw, Homer, that's the worst name I ever heard
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 2:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Joey Jo Jo was no
Guy Incognito.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Since when are trophies designed by the "Family Circus" guy?
by HawkeyeRecon on Aug 19, 2011 12:55 PM CDT reply actions 6 recs
The people on top of the trophy are not true Iowa fans
because they did not attend the University of Iowa
by hawk6894 on Aug 19, 2011 12:57 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
ZOMG TAVERN HAWKS ON THE CY-HAWK TROPHY!
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Iowa Corn Grower's Association Cy-Hawk Trophy, you are my best friend:
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
by ninerhawk on Aug 19, 2011 12:57 PM CDT reply actions 13 recs
I would have to have seen 'Joe Dirt'
to know what the Hell is going on there.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 1:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Joe Dirt found a "Meteor"
ate off of it, kissed it, and a few other things (my memory is a bit hazy). Turns out an airplane unloaded all of it’s human waste mid-flight, froze, and landed in a solid state.
We're gonna go America all over their asses!
I wish that were our trophy.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 1:11 PM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
stupid flippin trophy
I think the next cy-hawk trophy should be a statue of the honorable fan who destroys this trophy. Lets hope its a hawkeye fan
by Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo on Aug 19, 2011 1:04 PM CDT reply actions
New Stadium Intro
If the trophy is still in existence next year, the semi should drive through the trophy. Or a montage of Hawkeyes taking the trophy to Mordor.
by MSA_Hawk on Aug 19, 2011 1:09 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Are you saying this trophy is The One Trophy to rule them all?
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 1:49 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm telling yas.
Spring for my bail and that lucky fan is me.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 1:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Sorry Son
Hey son, corn stops progeria. You should have had some more in your diet. While it’s too late for this boy, it’s not too late for your family.
This public service message brought to you by Iowa Corn.
by MSA_Hawk on Aug 19, 2011 1:07 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
And now for the unveiling of the "Heroes Game" trophy . . .
by Torbee on Aug 19, 2011 1:09 PM CDT reply actions 12 recs
That's Art with a capital "A" right there.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Do you have any idea how hard it is . . .
To make a Tigerhawk with Microsoft Paint’s airbrush feature?
Really hard!
Yeah, I've tried.
It ain’t easy.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
bad taste
lets stop playing for trophies period
by Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo on Aug 19, 2011 1:11 PM CDT reply actions
I wish we played for territory, make it a real "battle" trophy
then if we beat the Cyclones we should be awarded part of their campus. Then we could sell it to Drake.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
They should have just made a statue
of the American Gothic Painting. At least that has a pitchfork, a tool that can kill someone.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 1:24 PM CDT reply actions
Uh oh, David, you just went Chazz on us.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 1:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Speaking of
where has Chazz been? Did school start again already up in The Loo? (Just started yesterday for public schools in Iowa City, but hasn’t started in a lot of places.)
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 1:45 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes, this past Wednesday for me.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 5:01 PM CDT up reply actions
I am not sure what you mean?
Does Chazz like American Gothic?
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 1:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Chazz likes to reference things we're all familiar with
and then post a picture of whatever iconic thing he’s referenced just in case we were raised on Mars.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:15 PM CDT up reply actions
As do I.
It’s just his thing.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:19 PM CDT up reply actions
For reference
"Oh, glorious cheeseburger, we bow to thee. The secrets of the Universe are between the buns."
by Bucketochicken on Aug 19, 2011 4:20 PM CDT up reply actions 4 recs
Yup, that's a proper Chazzing.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Kyle just gets pissed
because he’s still using a 1998 Gateway to do his BHGP’ing.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 5:03 PM CDT up reply actions
You're clearly not one of my children.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 5:08 PM CDT up reply actions
God, I need to shut my windows when I masturbate.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 5:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Close the windows. Damn.
That is why I have been getting weird looks around the apartment complex. That and I usually whack it to “A Bridge Too Far”.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Wow.
This sounds like me.
The scene where Frost tells his subordinate to tell the Germans they don’t enough room to take them all prisoner…wow….wow.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 5:36 PM CDT up reply actions
I always pictured you as more of a "Kwai" guy.
“Be happy in your work” never sounded so apt.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 5:58 PM CDT up reply actions
GUINNESS
Great movie, not as great as The Ladykillers (THE REAL ONE).
“Mrs. Wilberforce? I hear you have rrrrrrrooooms to rent.”
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 7:36 PM CDT up reply actions
He's great in everything.
‘Murder By Death’ is a hugely under-appreciated film.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 8:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Is Alec’s best performances—all NINE of them.
The original Ladykillers is, um, killer. Kwai is great, of course—I had the pleasure of once interviewing a veteran of one of the Kwai prison camps. Really harrowing stuff, worse than any film could depict.
As for “Bridge,” the book is much better than the film, which turned out—to my mind—to be too high-minded and serious. Also, it has an absolutely disastrous musical soundtrack, really awful, that almost ruins the film all by itself. But Hopkins as Frost is admittedly perfect, as good as Gene Hackman is terrible as the Pole Paratrooper (too lazy to look up how to spell “Sowsabowski” or whatever).
Anyway, I always get into these threads too late, anyway, but maybe at least Reading will read my comment and care.
"Apparently, riding Joe Paterno like a small horse is FROWNED UPON IN THIS ESTABLISHMENT!"
by The Director on Aug 19, 2011 10:10 PM CDT up reply actions
As "Bride On the River Kwai" has been a favorite of mine
since I was 8, I very much care. You’ve given me a good deal of research/reading to do. Thanks!
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 20, 2011 1:11 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, that missing "g" kinda changes the sound of that.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 20, 2011 11:44 AM CDT up reply actions
Ugh, Hackman as Sowsabowski is terrible.
Especially since the good General really was a tremendous character, like most of the brave Poles.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 21, 2011 12:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh
And there is nothing – nothing – more intrinsically funny to me than the scene from Kind Hearts and Coronets where Guinness, in drag, busts up shop windows with a walking stick.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 21, 2011 12:14 PM CDT up reply actions
Um, 2003 iBook.
Hello?!?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 5:08 PM CDT up reply actions
I thought they were Libertarian.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh I see about the Chazz reference now
but i wanted to show you something that you already knew. Actually I was posting for the awesome pitchfork. Tell me that wouldn’t be a great trophy.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 5:01 PM CDT up reply actions
my thoughts exactly
although the bitch on the new trophy
seems to have nice firm boobies
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
Whoa, OhioHawk you know I love you but why exactly is she a bitch?
Did I miss the dog?
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 4:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Her boobs aren't that great.
If she really were a farm girl they might be better.
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
This thing looks almost exactly like a doorstop my grandmother had in her living room.
I’m not even kidding. I always thought it was the coolest thing when I was little. Now I hate it.
After we win this year...
we need to make this happen:
I will practice spanish for the next month in hopes of this happening.
Infact, someone could video the bus running it over, and voila, we also have a new intro video (instead of the semi truck, prior to Back In Black).
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 1:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Why
are all of the words in the body of posts being bolded?
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 1:43 PM CDT up reply actions
At least they didn't go with their first choice
Cow brains — also an important Iowa export.
by Horace E. Cow on Aug 19, 2011 1:42 PM CDT reply actions 6 recs
That's actually the trophy for the game with Penn St., isn't it?
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 19, 2011 1:43 PM CDT up reply actions
No, it would be pig stomach lining in that case.
God bless the Pennsylvania Dutch.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 1:54 PM CDT up reply actions
The boy's expression makes more sense this way.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 19, 2011 1:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Great. Now I'm hungry
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
"I would have fell to those aphrodisiacs that he was throwing around." ~ Michael Irvin
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 19, 2011 1:46 PM CDT up reply actions
That's nothing
now I’m horny.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Jesus, Kyle.
Cow brains do that for you? Remind me never to bring cow brains to you.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 19, 2011 6:53 PM CDT up reply actions
If I have to remind you not to do that
then you have bigger problems than I do.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 21, 2011 9:44 AM CDT up reply actions
Maybe it's just me
but the faces on the woman and the girl she’s holding look like they’re going through rough times. Maybe trying to represent the meth problem? Perhaps she’s trying to trade the girl for that bucket of corn.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
I just had a mental image
of an Iowa Pimp:
Pimp: “Bitch do you get me my corn?”
Bitch: “I am so sorry Daddy, but you can my daughter.”
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 2:01 PM CDT up reply actions
*can have*
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 2:02 PM CDT up reply actions
I'd like to personally thank the Iowa Corn folks
For completely distracting me from my job today. My sides hurt from laughing. Between this, the Cubs finally zipping Hendry, and the loss of the creepy Burger King guy, this has been an outstanding Friday.
Which one of you idiots left a bold tag open?
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
Fixed now, I think.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Appears to be
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 1:56 PM CDT up reply actions
I love the comment system here
but there are still a few kinks to work out…..
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Oh for fuck's sake
I didn’t think it was possible to downgrade from the old one, but here we are. Bring back the bowling trophy.
I am so goddamned sick of worshiping at the alter of the largely nonexistent poor family farmer.
Like was it really that hard to just make it a golden stalk of corn or something?
It would have still paid tribute to the Almighty Corn. Must we make it as lame as possible.
Or what happened to the bronzed livestock theme we had going? Who hated that? We could have had sheep and chicken to go along with our pig and cow, but, no, we have this mess and whatever the fuck the hero’s game trophy will be (and god help us on that one). I want the trophy case to look like Old McDonald’s crib.
by NorseHawk on Aug 19, 2011 2:13 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
I would have donated my Fischer Price barn. It still MOOS.
My cousin’s kids would be disappointed but this is bigger than them. The state of Iowa needs it.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 4:04 PM CDT up reply actions
"The cow says..."
That actually is an amazing idea.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:37 PM CDT up reply actions
We must include
that cardboard with the giant plastic cap that pops off.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 5:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Cardboard silo
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 5:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Hey...
Since Michigan State and PSU don’t play every year anymore, maybe we can have the Land Grant trophy instead?
by 99FormationsButFourWideAin'tOne on Aug 19, 2011 2:20 PM CDT reply actions
This goes to the loser, right?
Can you imagine the sorrow in having to haul that piece of shit off the field and looking at it for a year? That’s some motivation for winning.
by GaryDolphinSafeTuna on Aug 19, 2011 2:24 PM CDT via mobile reply actions 1 recs
Why can't we have the corn version of the Idaho Potato Bowl logo?
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
Iowa Corn has responded.
We think it is a good trophy and we are proud of it. Worked with ISU and U of I the whole way.
hahahahahahahahahahaha
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Yeah, Lycurgus, Iowa corn is so much smarter than Pennsylvania corn.
You know what? At least Pennsylvania corn doesn’t write stupid stuff on the internet. No, it just sits around and waits for some German or Scottish guy to cut it.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
Damn the luck
there is no arguing this one.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions
I have a theory
That Iowa State were the sole designers of this trophy and they designed it with full knowledge that they would almost never win it.
by 99FormationsButFourWideAin'tOne on Aug 19, 2011 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions
I just read the link about the disappearance of the original trophy
It did state that the trophy would be designed by IOWA STATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS who be granted 10 points I’d extra credit for participating.
So, it was either a big set up by ISU to make a trophy we’d hate but inevitably own or their abilities really are that atrocious. (I kinda hate option 2, since my dad did his postgrad work there but still…)
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 6:25 PM CDT up reply actions
A) UI, not U of I. So I know they are lying.
B) Umm, no.
C) As I responded to them on Twitter, they didn’t work with the fans.
How hard would it have been to put something on a website and have people vote? One guy on twitters drawings were a shitton better than this. I really liked the ones where the ear of corn looked like a football. Hello, easy tie in. What’s up marketing?
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions
It isn't that hard
Look, make a football with kernals on it and put both school’s logos on that sombitch and we’re done.
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
we should have partnered with Iowa Soybean
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 5:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Iowa Corn is stupid
Whoever from ISU/U of I that greenlighted this is stupid.
And most of all, the trophy is stupid. Shut up @Iowa_Corn
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Shortly before unveiling
I have the same fashion sense as Tom Arnold.
by CyHawk on Aug 19, 2011 2:29 PM CDT reply actions 4 recs
It looks like everyone knows what happens next
That picture is just sad (photoshopping aside). They all have this look of, “this won’t turn out well.” Especially the second guy from the right. He looks especially depressed.
Always check the words with the red squiggly line. They mean you probably screwed up.
by KennardHusker on Aug 19, 2011 2:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Damn it, I should have scrolled up before posting. Well played.
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Aug 19, 2011 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions
After Iowa wins the game this year, the trophy mysteriously disappears.
Just vanishes into thin air. There is no trophy required for this game. In the future if ISU wins they get a ticker tape parade thrown in their honor while the Hawks get sprayed down with a firehose and ran out of town. If ISU loses they have to buy the Hawkeyes a keg of beer. That seems about right.
Plan B: Replace all the figurines on top with bronzed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Think my mom might still have some of mine around the house somewhere.
I thought that's what happened to the last Cy-Hawk trophy?
by 99FormationsButFourWideAin'tOne on Aug 19, 2011 2:56 PM CDT up reply actions
Exactly.
No trophy required. It obviously doesn’t matter enough to Iowa to actually keep track of it…keg of beer is better. At least that’s something the kids can enjoy. And not good beer either. Something the college kids will appreciate, like Keystone or Natty.
The trophy could be
Ray Liotta dressed as Joe Jackson and smiling trollishly
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Oh God, I have no hope for the "Heroes" trophy
So, we have a “tigerhawk”, or whatever the Hawkeyes mascot is (sorry for being ig’nant), that actually looks like he could kick someone’s ass…and relish in it. That’s ok. But then there’s a cardinal who looks happy to be picking up his minimum wage check at the ISF (he has all his teeth, so his meth addiction isn’t that far along yet), and a piece of corn that….looks like he and his pal Cucumber have a date with a special lady for the evening.
Iowa, you make me sad. Angry Hawkeye, redeem your state in the eyes of the nation (or at least a few bloggers, same thing) by winning this trophy in a few weeks, and promptly destroying it!
Herky is the mean-looking Iowa mascot.
The tigerhawk is just the logo on the football helmets (and many, many other things, of course).
But, yes, if you had any hope beforehand for the “Heroes” trophy: ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I hope it's a bronze of the cast of the show "Heroes".
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:39 PM CDT up reply actions
"This is literally a work of art representing the people and characteristics that are uniquely Iowan." said Craig Floss, CEO for Iowa Corn.
Literally a work of art, folks. Literally.
PP-TPW.
The Only Colors
If that was their goal, then then should have just bronzed an effing pork tenderloin sandwhich
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 19, 2011 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
that would have been great
they could sell tenderloin sandwiches at the concession, have a huge day of it.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 5:08 PM CDT up reply actions
I miss
tenderloin sandwhiches
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Indiana tries to make them right
but still not the same.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 5:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Literally, that is true
Only in the figurative sense is it a pile of puke.
by Brock Sampson on Aug 19, 2011 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Uniquely Iowan?
No other state has a family that grows corn?
As an Omahan that gets pissed at the constant portrayal of Nebraska as nothing but ranch and farm land, even I’m offended by that.
Nebraska is nothing but an empty wasteland of burned high schools, ranchland, farmland, and football stadiums.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 5:37 PM CDT up reply actions
I read that as “This is literally a work of art repressing the people.” I think somebody is projecting.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions
U MAD
Before you respond, let me remind you: Brian Cook called me smug, which makes me the Obama of smugness. I'm basically Smugbama.
by Patrick Vint on Aug 19, 2011 2:39 PM CDT reply actions 4 recs
Trollanasaurus Rec's
I have the same fashion sense as Tom Arnold.
by CyHawk on Aug 19, 2011 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I have been looking for an excuse to post this for a while now
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
by rockyh on Aug 19, 2011 5:14 PM CDT up reply actions 12 recs
I am going to use this so, so often.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 5:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Man, this HAS to be used again on some team we punk this year
I will haunt your dreams and eat your children.
Done.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 2:57 PM CDT up reply actions
The only thing I hate more than Iowa State, is that trophy
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
Roasted red pepper with goat cheese dip from Whole Foods is pretty good
Battles are won with a hammer, wars are won with a scalpel
Pureed and poured over bacon-wrapped dates?
There’s nothing finer.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 6:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I tried this
my date wouldn’t hold still to let me wrap the bacon around her.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Then you can do so much better.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 20, 2011 11:45 AM CDT up reply actions
Try to make a bacon-jacket in advance
and then you can just ask her to slide it on.
I think of everything. You’re welcome.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 21, 2011 1:47 AM CDT up reply actions
"Slide on the bacon jacket"
Well, I’ve now hear the worst euphemism for sex ever.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 21, 2011 9:46 AM CDT up reply actions
"heard"
/shoots self in face
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 21, 2011 9:46 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm in as well.
This trophy is going down son!
"West Texas seems to be full of fake boobs providing a comfortable shade for well-developed pot bellies" - Lycurgus (06/24/2011)
by BStylin Hawkye on Aug 19, 2011 3:31 PM CDT up reply actions
Can you imagine the comments from the focus groups involved with this project?
Bunch of middle aged ladies sitting around a conference room drinking boiled coffee:
“Hmm, it’s sponsored by Iowa Corn right? Better make it corny as possible.”
“You know who I really like? Thomas Kincade. Can we get him involved? No? Well, Franklin Mint, then.”
“Nothing says Iowa like a nice quilt. How about quilt for a trophy? We can make it all black-gold-and-red, plus whatever other scraps we have sitting around…”
So...
Our trophy is a scene from a depression era bread line? Disappointed but not surprised.
Everything in moderation. Including moderation.
by CaptainMorganHawkeye on Aug 19, 2011 3:12 PM CDT reply actions
To me it looks like a family huddling around a trashcan fire for warmth
Presumably after being evicted from their foreclosed-upon home. Yay for Iowa!
by Brock Sampson on Aug 19, 2011 3:17 PM CDT up reply actions
So it's a rivalry trophy for the Detroit-Youngstown football series?
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 3:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Here's what I'm really dreading.
The clock is winding down in the football game. FSN’s cameras repeatedly pan over to the brand new trophy about to be claimed by the victorious team. The announcers try to make some PC comments (without breaking into laughter) about the heated rivalry and how much this trophy means to both teams. But it’s obvious that everyone is thinking the same thing: that trophy is ridiculous.
Finally Iowa finishes administering the beat-down. Some underclassmen benchwarmers are dispatched to retrieve the trophy. They half-heartedly raise it up in the air “triumphantly”…before hawking it for a few bucks at the pawn shop on the way out of town.
Bq. Before hawking it for stew bucks at the pawn shop on the way out of town.
Good God man, we’re not Ohio State!
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 5:45 PM CDT up reply actions
Quote fail.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 5:46 PM CDT up reply actions
And green for you as well.
Can we throw some magnesium flares in there too?
"West Texas seems to be full of fake boobs providing a comfortable shade for well-developed pot bellies" - Lycurgus (06/24/2011)
by BStylin Hawkye on Aug 19, 2011 3:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Per DKJ on Twitter
Ummmmm that New Cy-Hawk Trophy is NOT the business.
by iowaChemE on Aug 19, 2011 3:33 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
He runs a sage-house.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Nor is that trophy with the program
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 5:11 PM CDT up reply actions
So I did a GIS
for “No Pride”, wondering if there was something pertinent and funny in there.
ummmmm, do not GIS for “No Pride” at work.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
This should really be filed under Batshit Insanity.
I seriously would have bought it as a joke.
This trophy….I just can’t believe this trophy is the best thing that “we” could come up with.
Floyd obviously has history, which is what makes it a pretty cool trophy. The heartland trophy at least depicts toughness, or at least a pretty cool-looking bull. Isn’t there any interesting history between Iowa and ISU that can be pointed to and make a trophy out of that? Something unique? And if not, if there is no story behind the state then isn’t there more creativity to be materialized in the trophy? Something involving the two mascots? Or the actual sport of football?
I’m probably overreacting, but I wouldn’t be surprized if this hurts recruiting. No one want to run over to the bench to pick up a turd.
by bornofclay on Aug 19, 2011 3:44 PM CDT via mobile reply actions
Kirk: So here’s our trophy room, that’s from the Orange Bowl there.
Recruit: Wow
Kirk: This is Floyd, he’s pretty famous.
Recruit: Everybody knows Floyd, awesome!
Kirk: Over here….
Recruit: Hey, what’s that?
Kirk: What’s what?
Recruit: That case there, with the light burned out.
Kirk: Uhhhh,
Recruit: No, wait, it looks like somebody painted the inside of the glass black.
Kirk: Really , we’ll, uh, have to get the janitor to take a look at that one… over here
Recruit: The sign says it’s for the Iowa – Iowa State game
Kirk: Yeah, yeah, that’s what should be there… wanna see the
Recruit: I didn’t even know Iowa State had a football team!
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I didn’t even know Iowa State had a football team.
Yeah. They have uniforms and everything. It’s pretty great!
/Major League’d
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 19, 2011 5:50 PM CDT up reply actions
But do they really have uniforms?
Aren’t they just renting USC’s extras?
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
What a fucking joke.
I am sick to death of this meaningless, corporate-sponsored, groupthink vomit.
If I am ever within arms reach of that thing, I am picking it up, spiking it on the ground until it shatters, and yelling at whoever is carrying it that there is no honor or glory in winning a piece of feces.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
by rockyh on Aug 19, 2011 3:47 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
You Like Twitter? Me too! Awesome Fun Time K Thanks Bye! @storminspank
by storminspank on Aug 19, 2011 4:01 PM CDT reply actions 30 recs
Oh, that's a rec.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 19, 2011 4:07 PM CDT up reply actions
AHAHAHAHAHA!
Favorite thing on the internet ever. EVER! I would caulk a wagon, despite the obvious risk, to see this post.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Brilliant.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I still like my Iowa-Iowa State rivalry trophy idea
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
I used to be really into Baal, but then I got tired of child meat and moved on.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Iowa gets this if you beat us at the dual this year.
If we win, we get the Golden Brands. Which is a golden trophy of a cow branded with the grim, intense visage of Tom Brands.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 5:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Sadly, this is undoubtedly beyond my photoshop capabilies.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 21, 2011 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Some writer's wife (can't remember who) had a much better idea
A football that peels away to be an ear of corn. Or corn that peels away to be a football, or…well, it’s a helluva lot better than this new shit
Think that was HFMR's better half
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 6:51 PM CDT up reply actions
Hmmmm.
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"Mom, just get me a Pepsi! Please, all I want is a Pepsi!" And she wouldn't give it to me! All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me! Just a Pepsi!
by The Bird Cult on Aug 19, 2011 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions
crap. fail.
"Mom, just get me a Pepsi! Please, all I want is a Pepsi!" And she wouldn't give it to me! All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me! Just a Pepsi!
by The Bird Cult on Aug 19, 2011 4:40 PM CDT up reply actions
# 2
"Mom, just get me a Pepsi! Please, all I want is a Pepsi!" And she wouldn't give it to me! All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me! Just a Pepsi!
by The Bird Cult on Aug 19, 2011 4:41 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
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by storminspank on Aug 19, 2011 4:16 PM CDT reply actions 6 recs
You can almost feel the catharsis radiating from this thread.
Lycurgus and Rambler are posting IN BROAD DAYLIGHT! Hamsterdam be damned!
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
Is that all we are to you?
Off topic dilettantes, here for the amusement of a precious few who have been so victimized by traumas of life in an uncaring world of well-adjusted conversation and humor, that they find Rambler and I even the least bit palatable. Is that what we are?
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
No, you're the reasons that the moderators of one of SBN's most-read blogs
had to create a safe-room on their own site as not to kill their creation. But, if it’s any consolation, it’s been a blast.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:52 PM CDT up reply actions
Really? Because that's not what Jacobi said in the first Hamsterdamn post.
In fact, I don’t remember him calling Ly and Rambler out at all.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 19, 2011 6:45 PM CDT up reply actions
It is okay CW
I, for one, am glad that BHGP has been rescued from the evil clutches of Rambler and I, so that it can once again be a place free for the airing of smug superiority. I am personally grateful for threads detailing, ad nauseam, the mean-spirited recriminations of veteran posters as if this were some interminable celebration of festivus. Additionally, and I mean this with all sincerity, I am so happy that, having disagreed with these veterans on any number of topics, a poster can now be informed of his/her own profound ignorance and incompatibility with this site. BHGP is forevermore a possession of the free world.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 20, 2011 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
You make my head hurt.
I and want to hug you.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 20, 2011 11:46 AM CDT up reply actions
The Airing of Grievances has been done.
Now you must wrestle Lycurgus for the Feats of Strength. Rambler is to be guest referee.
"They're not people, James Ingram. They're Jimmy Buffett fans."
by SomeJerkPoster on Aug 20, 2011 2:27 PM CDT up reply actions
It is generally unwise to give Rambler a position of power
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
Wouldn't matter.
I fight dirty and would be DQ’d almost immediately.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 20, 2011 3:08 PM CDT up reply actions
I will remember that, though I think Rambler might preemptively DQ me, just as a matter of form, for living in the confederacy.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
But you would agree, sir, that this action is fair, would you not?
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 21, 2011 12:19 PM CDT up reply actions
I wasn't even trying to complain.
Rambler, Lycurgus and, yes, even Chazz are some of my favorite commenters. Doesn’t mean we can’t lovingly point out truths. I have an Adam Dunn posting style: swing big, miss often and occasionally go yard. We all have our faults.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 20, 2011 3:08 PM CDT up reply actions
"Hugging" is just a euphemism for "wrestling"
Be warned.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 21, 2011 12:28 PM CDT up reply actions
Say what you will about cat nuts,
But he seems to have actually vanished. And I have noticed some co mentors that I don’t remember from before.
I guess this hamsterdam plan really did work. Which means the higher-ups (what is the sbnation equivalent of Baltimore police commish?) will be closing it down shortly.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 20, 2011 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions
Co mentors = commentors
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 20, 2011 12:30 PM CDT up reply actions
How far does this analogy extend?
Do people view Rambler and I as two junkies, so heinously addicted to historical reference, that we sit in squalid row houses giving out handies and blowjobs in exchange for anecdotes about Charlemagne, the Danewerk, and Leuctra? Because if that is the common belief then those people are stunningly incorrect. We do most of our “business” behind barns in hollers.
Parsimony methods are the easiest ones to explain - Felsenstein
by Lycurgus on Aug 20, 2011 1:41 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Of course you are mostly right.
However, I ply my trade in exchange for Merle Haggard CDs, and anecdotes about Scotch-Irish settlers of Pennsylvania (Did you know that it’s called Jack’s Narrows because a Delaware in debt to Jack Armstrong murdered him there when Armstrong confiscated the Delaware’s horse?), the Civil War, and, of course, the United States Marine Corps, bulwark of manhood.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 21, 2011 12:22 PM CDT up reply actions
I think of Ly and RR
as mcnulty and freamon as they continue to frame a non-existent serial killer of the homeless. Your guy’s discussions on history are as entertaining and also bound for disaster.
CWay is definitely Greggs, she’s hot but she can kick your ass.
I’m probably the fat homicide lieutenant who’s also busy eating lunch or looking at, um, pictorial magazines.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 21, 2011 12:51 PM CDT up reply actions
I will take that as a compliment, I guess, since I have never seen The Wire.
I almost bought a couple seasons at the Borders store closing near my place today, but then I was distracted by a Sex and the City box set and I guess I forgot about it. Instead I bought $80 worth of books but not the original one I was looking for.
by Carfino'sWay on Aug 21, 2011 1:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Whatever the reason
I’ve quite enjoyed all my visits to the ’dam.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 19, 2011 6:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Them are some fancy words.
I like ’em.
"Faith requires no sources or proof, only a large amount of words." - unionblue, Civil War Talk
by ReadingRambler on Aug 19, 2011 5:42 PM CDT up reply actions
I so want to do a photoshop with a giant turd in it
But I don’t know if that would violate the board rules on SFW.
"Mom, just get me a Pepsi! Please, all I want is a Pepsi!" And she wouldn't give it to me! All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me! Just a Pepsi!
Speaking of poop
this is totally worth your time.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 19, 2011 4:53 PM CDT up reply actions
...
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
by rockyh on Aug 19, 2011 5:07 PM CDT reply actions 4 recs
I found one that is worse
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
Hey I thought
they were not supposed to tell or ask.
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 5:19 PM CDT up reply actions
damnit hit the return key too soon
and now they are giving out trophies for asking or telling?
All my good friends at BHGP helpled pick this most awesome name!
TOUCHDOWN IOWA! TOUCHDOWN IOWA! - Gary Dolphin
I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! I LOVE IT! - Jim Zabel
by Bloodpunch's Barbasol on Aug 19, 2011 5:19 PM CDT up reply actions
I think I'd rather have that, tbh
At least there are no children involved in the possibly-sexual imagery.
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
I'm just going to pretend this day hasn't happened
close my eyes and mutter about wanting the old crappy trophy back.
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
Overhead this morning...
Cyclone Fan 1: “Shit, we forgot to get the new trophy! What are we going to do?”. Cyclone Fan 2: “It’s ok, this happened with my grandmothers birthday, I know just what to do. You go to the nearest Hallmark store and buy the first figurine that speaks to you.”. Cyclone Fan 1: “Like the talking wall mounted fish?”. Cyclone Fan 2: “No you fool! Speaks to your heart!” Cyclone Fan 1: “Brilliant!”
by FlyingDutchman1 on Aug 19, 2011 8:21 PM CDT reply actions
It'd be better than this thing
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 20, 2011 10:35 AM CDT up reply actions
The more I think about this . . .
The more this pisses me off as an Iowan.
I want to put this trophy in a submission hold and not stop when it taps out.
"I always like it better when the clowns seem to try to be happy."
This is the direction of most college football decisions...
money rules. Clearly this trophy is in no way about the football game. The football game sold the trophy rights. End stop. It’s now about Iowa corn growers trying to remind the collective Iowa consciousness (on game day at least) to say, “Corn is your roots.”
If this game goes bye bye in the next 5 years, I’m fine with it. It’s lost it’s relevance. Iowa owns recruitment in the state, Iowa can only be hurt by this game. Now that Nebraska is on the schedule, this game is a nuisance.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
by StoopsMyAss on Aug 21, 2011 8:13 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
True.
There is no more lose-lose game for any other BCS player currently in existence. Iowa doesn’t get a conference victory for winning, they don’t convince anyone to come who otherwise would have (but they certainly can lose them), they impress exactly zero voters with a win and damn themselves with a loss, they sacrifice another home game every other year by playing two BCS teams OOC and, if anything, do more to prop up Iowa State as a “major team” by playing them. If Iowa were to drop them they would completely cease to exist in the consciousness of voters when the Big XII falls apart.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 21, 2011 9:53 AM CDT up reply actions 3 recs
I was never in favor of canceling this series
until this trophy came along. Now? Flush it.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 21, 2011 12:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Maybe this trophy
is simply a ruse to bring about that scenario. First step, make a trophy that is a complete travesty so that no fan/player gives a whit about winning it. Slowly, that lack of care will creep into the view of the game and voila! we no longer play ISU
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
At least the worst trophy ever...
….comes with the best thread ever. That said, this thing must die.
Maybe there is a way to spin this in a good way...
This could be the first rivalry trophy game in which the winner goes home empty handed and the loser must hang their heads in shame as they drag this thing home.
I'VE GOT IT!
I finally figured out what this trophy reminds me of.
There’s a scene in William Faulkner’s Sanctuary…
"If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull." - W.C. Fields
Hayden has spoken:
It’s a nice-looking trophy. And the farmer, family and corn is all wonderful, but I don’t really get the relationship to a football game.
per Hawkcentral
Oh and Branstad hates it too.
Also, DM Register Poll: Do you like the new Cy-Hawk Trophy?
94.32% NO
5.68% Oops, I hit the wrong button
(as of the time of this post)
by DJK's bongwater on Aug 22, 2011 3:36 PM CDT reply actions
I was so tempted to lock this thread at 666 comments.
It just felt so perfect.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
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