jimb@ISM780B.UUCP (11/09/85)
>Obviously this poor deluded fool would prefer to antagonize than to be >informative. As I read and write to this notesfile for a purpose, let's >shatter some myths: Hmmm. Quite an amazing display of projecting one's delusions on another. Doubtless an ego-defense that keeps the organism, allegedly a higher life form, from imploding into a heap of shriveled sausage-casing and dessicated manure. And the statement of purpose is extraordinary for something that semantic analysis indicates is close to brain-death. >The Big Ten last won the Rose Bowl in the mid seventies (I don't remember >the exact year), so it hasn't been all that long. Too, despite the last few >years of a consecutive Pac 10 streak, the Big Ten still leads in career >victories in the Rose Bowl. NOW Who's Zooming Who? Too, the records of the >Pac 10 rep in the Rose Bowl has been worse than the record of the Big Ten >rep for the last five years! Are we discussing ancient history or current events? As regards to the records, both the Big Ten and the Big Eight (collectively henceforth referred to as the buggers, er, biggers) are more like the Big Two-and-a-half each. Actually, this might be a banner year for the Big Ten -- make them the Big Three-and-a-half. >The Big Ten team goes in expecting it to be easy, and it hasn't been. Once >reason is home field advantage. For the last five years, the Pac 10 rep in >the Rose Bowl has been USC or UCLA, both really close to the Rose Bowl site. Gee, when didn't the PAC-10 team have the home advantage, being West Coast teams in any event? >And since that d*mn stadium is like an echo chamber, crowd noise is a big >factor. If the Pac 10 fans would be good sportsman and let the teams >themselves battle the game, perhaps the Pac 10 would not have enjoyed its >"dynasty" of Rose Bowl victories in the last few years. At least the Big >Ten can say that they had huge streaks of consecutive victories at the Rose >Bowl when good and proper sportsmanship was in vogue, so the Big Ten team >beat the Pac 10'er fair and square. I doubt the same thing can be said of >the Pac 10 presently. >Robert A. Ekblaw Aw, duh-boo, duh-boo, duh-boo. The Rose Bowl is NOTHING of a noise chamber compared to a lot of other stadia. And the crowd, I blush to admit, is still sometimes too California-laid-back for my tastes (ex-Chicago kid). Compared to the Big 10 stadia, or even Washington or Arizona, the Rose Bowl is moderately quiet. Maybe the Big Ten's losing streak has more to do with their elephant-on-roller-skates approach to passing -- you don't expect them to do it well, it's just amazing that they do it at all. I do hope that Mr. Ekblaw has access to some sort of therapy, I mean, besides primal scream. While it's true that his view of reality might entitle him to a job writing for Spielberg's AMAZING STORIES on TV, I could stand his blatant thick-headedness if it weren't so petulant and tantrum-like. He has evoked in me a deep concern for health care legislation, i.e., he makes me sick, and I worry about the effect of such a mobile hemorrhaging rectal orifice on society. -- from the bewildered musings of Jim Brunet decvax!cca!ima!jimb ucbvax!ucla-cs!ism780!jimb ihnp4!vortex!ism780!jimb
ekblaw@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU (11/22/85)
Shall I have this poor fool arrested for practicising medicine without a license? Nah, it's been a nice day here. Why spoil it? Robert A. Ekblaw