When I saw my friend’s alam mater getting its head handed to it in football (UofM playing WVa), I decided to yank his chain.
ME> Terps or twerps football? Hung over from bball loss to Jaspers? {SHORT MESSAGE} {NO REPLY REQUIRED}
HIM> Yup..told (his son) we would be lucky to score against WV
But then he decided to get out of the subject line and get personal!
HIM> Reply was necessary…and regarding the Jaspers, hell froze over, never to happen again! lol
So of course, now I had unlimber the “big guns”!
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Yeah, yeah, and the reason the professional team, representing the UofM, could not beat a bunch of true student-athletes, from a Mid Major, barely NCAA-grade competition, was?
(a) Coach was defeatist with his Krappy attitude before the game (If I can’t be in the real tourney, then why should I be in any? Oh yeah, I signed a contract. Can you say “going thru the motions”?)
(b) Students didn’t come out to cheer on their pros. (It’s not about doing your best at all times; it’s not about exceeding your personal best for its own reward; it’s about bragging rights!)
(c) Gubamint edukation always fails. (Axiomatic! Immoral, ineffective, inefficient, and just plain wrong.)
(d) Greece can beat the NBA Amerikan team. (“I think I can” always trumps a “Swelled Head”!)
(e) Alums, who can’t do, invest themselves in an illusion that they have some role in another doing what they can’t or couldn’t or wouldn’t do. (Doing anything you value is infinitely better than watching some one else doing what they value! Technically, Quadrant 1 activity is much more important than a Quadrant 4 one. On the important / urgent scale.)
(f) All of the above. (Pontificating ain’t changing!)
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I’m still pontificating. And, he got a good laugh out of my “umbrage”.
And, while I will kill some time watch the pros, millionaires play for billionaires, I have no illusions that I am accomplishing anything, except wasting presious time on the way to the finish line.
;-(
I shouldda stayed in bed!
But instead I’ll blog about it.
Reinke Faces Life 