Why does coach hiring have to be the four day pain in the posterior gauntlet, when it should be just a one day and done part of the game?

Is eeyore talking about the Brady Hoke hire at Michigan? Didn't that take six days?

eeyore knows Michigan messed up a hire again.  Does MikeT23 know how many people turned Michigan down?

Older and gayer. 

Yes, you'd be lying.  My cellulite is fit and trim.

It only HAS to be a 4 day pain in the *** if you let it.  Coach hiring is painless for me because I don't sweat between a getting a 75 or settling for a 71.

I don't think he is.   I'm not sure how long it took.   I don't worry about 2nd division colleges.

I know Harbaugh and Miles turned them down.  So I'm pretty sure it's two.

Are you surprised that chuck's son is the only one applying for MG?
Have you finally scared enough people from applying that only one, lone soul will take the abuse to get in?

And why isn't he getting abuse? That's half the fun.

"Classic rockers upset over ban on Dire Straits song
Tony King
1/13/2011


A Calgary DJ calls it politically correct craziness. Twenty-five years after its release, the Dire Straits song "Money for Nothing" has been deemed unfit for Canadian radio.

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council yesterday ruled the song violates human rights clauses in the broadcasters code of ethics. The council says the song can still be played, if radio stations edit out a lyric that's been deemed discriminatory to gays.

Terry DiMonte, morning show host on our classic rock sister station q-107, compares it to last week's controversy over the Mark Twain novel Huckleberry Finn. DiMonte says rock songs are also art and should be presented as the artist intended.

The issue arose following a complaint from a listener in St. John's, Newfoundland last year."

Can your bureaucrats beat that one?

DIAH's question reminded me of a thought that I had the other day.

During the Mark Twain/Huck Finn controversy last week, I read an article online that was discussing that particular issue.  There were a number of references to the "n-word" in the article, but nowhere did it actually spell out the word.

Have we, as a society, become way too uptight about certain words such that even when having a serious, supposedly intellectual discussion about a particular word, we are reluctant, or possibly even afraid, to even say it or spell it out?

Whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me"?

Academically speaking, how do Auburn and Alabama compare?

How come "honky" never caught on?

Posted by deathinahole on 1/13/2011 10:29:00 AM (view original):
How come "honky" never caught on?

What kind of jive turkey would ask a question like that?

I'm sure our bureaucrats beat it every day.  The PC police are on call 24/7.

I'm pretty much a "words can only hurt you if you let them" kind of guy.   However, there are "key" words that bring about great emotion when uttered to the wrong group.  Women hate the c-word.  Blacks hate the n-word.  It's just better to not use them even if you mean no harm even in intellectual discussion.  As a white male, I can't think of a single word that would incite immediate anger from me.   But, being a white male, I've been part of "the man" since birth.  Perhaps we don't fully comprehend how hurtful words can be.   Or maybe we're just not sensitive wusses.

I'm not sure anyone at Alabama or Auburn could articulate the differences.   I know I can't because I didn't realize those redneck held classes.

Please see my response to tec's question.  If a what is meant as a derogatory term isn't deemed insulting, it's irrelevant.

A canuckian jt. 

I'm from Alabama and I assure you their business school is one of the nation's best. AuBARN is an ag school. In fact, it used to be the Alabama Polytechnical Institute (API). Coach Bryant used to call it the cow college. Nothing but pasture and trailer parks in that town (which most believe is located in Georgia).

That is not a question.   But I know an AL alum.   He says the same thing.  I'm sure an Auburn alum would be equally derogatory about 'bama.

LOL, someone reported my comment for review.