The 2010 MGoWar Holiday MGoArmistice
Hello Comrades,
I am writing to you today to make a plea for the laying down of our armed keyboards and missle delivering mice. I made a post a day or two ago that may have been buried in a long thread.
The RR/JH debate has spiraled into recruiting fights, anger at the cloak wearing Dave Brandon, the Michigan Robot scandal, and all around ultra-sensitivity to threads gone awry. I wish to share it again and hope that this holiday season and thread brings compliments, praises, Michigan football photos, strategies to beat the evil Bulldogs from Favrissiippi, remembering why we are all here in a place where maize and blue drip from every hyperlink, and being thankful to the wonderful forum in which we can allow ourselves to escape the harsh realities of work and society. Intellects do your things, MGoComedians do your thing.
The time? Four days before Christmas 2010. The place? MGoBoard. It has been months of the most devastating warfare in Michigan blog history. New posts were used with sarcasm, vitriol, nuclear warfare, and facepalms.The negging and bombing was horrendous and yet there was a call between RR, JH, and Hoke supporters to cease fire and they crawled out from behind their computers to peacefully celebrate the Gator Bowl. They sang Hail to The Victors, exchanged lol catz, posbanged each other's posts, posted funny pics, and buried their hatchets. This peace would last through New Year's Day. In the following weeks, hundreds would be negged in to Bolivian until a new leader was crowned. The next year, they would be united against the enemies of good once again.
A man can dream, a man can dream.
December 21st, 2010 at 3:49 PM ^
I for one am ready for the bowl game so that maybe some of this crap goes away. But then again, no matter what happens, people will still complain and ask for someone's head. I for one appreciate the thought of stopping some of this, at least for a while. But you will always have someone that brings it up and starts a war.
Jhackney, I am with you and I'm sure some others are too, but this may be a failed operation.
December 21st, 2010 at 3:55 PM ^
I am 100% it wouldn't work if I didn't post it at all.
December 21st, 2010 at 3:57 PM ^
Oh agreed for sure. It is worth a try, there is no doubt in that.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:38 PM ^
You're like a blogging Wayne Gretzky, just switch shots in for posts:
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
December 21st, 2010 at 4:59 PM ^
December 21st, 2010 at 6:01 PM ^
i think it was Michael Scott
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:10 AM ^
it was Wayne Gretzky's dad.
but the M. Scott quote is best...
December 22nd, 2010 at 12:30 PM ^
Not trying to be argumentative - could you cite that, please? Every source in the 5 or so minutes I've spent googling this quote has led to Wayne Gretzky as the original.
Not being a dick, I just like to know I'm saying/quoting the right things. Thanks.
December 21st, 2010 at 5:00 PM ^
I don't know how you do it, but you got talent! Hoke flees to Holland...priceless.
December 21st, 2010 at 6:33 PM ^
"Hoke Flees to Holland"?
What did us Hollanders ever do to you?
December 21st, 2010 at 10:47 PM ^
All you did was hand over NYC (you didn't have a choice, really, and you didn't hand it over to us but to our then Colonial rulers). But hey--we're not talking history here! tot ziens--
December 21st, 2010 at 3:57 PM ^
The war will be over, one way or another, the week of Jan. 3.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:00 PM ^
Yes, but you will still have people not happy with any decision made. No matter if it's RR, JH, or Hoke (really? come on, no offense but really?). At least some of the fighting may quiet down a little bit around that time.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:25 PM ^
Then it will be argument about something that has happened instead of speculative arguing. I find that to be the worst. I mean, either way someone will be happy and someone won't. At least (hopefully) DB will give some insight into his decisions and we can discuss the future/ criticize his reasoning. Not just criticize decisions he hasn't made and/or speculate as to what his thinking is.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:36 PM ^
Too bad there's no MGoFortuneTeller in the MGoCommunity. It sure would save a lot of heartache and typing . . .
December 21st, 2010 at 7:12 PM ^
Damn temporal anomaly.
December 22nd, 2010 at 8:38 AM ^
The MGoReconstruction.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:37 PM ^
we win by 300 points in the Gator Bowl, people might stop calling for other's heads.
December 21st, 2010 at 5:04 PM ^
December 21st, 2010 at 3:51 PM ^
Consider me MGoMohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi.
(Is that Santa sitting next to Gandhi??)
December 21st, 2010 at 3:53 PM ^
Either that or Father Time. But it is Christmas time, so I'll go with Santa.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:36 PM ^
I think it's Joseph "Blue" Pulaski. He's my boy. And in need of a haircut.
December 21st, 2010 at 3:49 PM ^
BUT I AM ANGAR. HOW EXPRESS IN ARMIS-THING?
December 21st, 2010 at 3:56 PM ^
I hope this truce goes better than the Korean War Armistise.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:28 PM ^
The Harbaugh people are the North and Rodriguez folks are the south. Better jump on the wagon now because there are a lot of years of prosperity ahead.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:56 PM ^
Ah, but the Koreans I know still see it as one country: Korea. It's just that the North has worse leadership. Wait, that would make the RR people the North, right? :) Hah, peace and smiles.
December 21st, 2010 at 5:16 PM ^
Just different visions of the future. But I think the South has had poor leadership, especially the Defense Minister that was recently fired for not responding to the shelling from the North last month. He must have been playing with GERG's Beaver or trying to run the 3-3-5 or something.
December 21st, 2010 at 10:50 PM ^
But the armistice is still in place. Pretty hard to beat that record in the modern world. Not that anyone would want to.
December 21st, 2010 at 3:56 PM ^
My strategy is to try to be as apathetic as possible about the administration aspects of the program 352 days of the year. I get frustrated about it if it affects the product on the field. When they're not playing, I support them unless they're hurting the student athletes.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:03 PM ^
WHY GOD????? WHY??????
December 21st, 2010 at 4:08 PM ^
They can eat a wheelbarrow full of schlongs.
December 21st, 2010 at 10:24 PM ^
You mean there are some? Seriously?
December 21st, 2010 at 4:10 PM ^
PERCENT OF CC THREADS
DAYS AFTER OSU GAME
December 21st, 2010 at 4:18 PM ^
I want to see Dudeness and Magnus cyber hug it out as a Christmas Truce.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:50 PM ^
They beat the crap out of each other on Christmas Day, but then...
December 21st, 2010 at 5:03 PM ^
I saw Fidel Castro at 2:08. Glad he could make it out.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:58 PM ^
"Its the first quarter of the big game and you want to toss up a Hail Mary. I'd like to be pimps from Oakland or cowboys from Arizona . . . Grow up, Peter Pan."
December 21st, 2010 at 4:58 PM ^
Seriously. This is my other home.
December 21st, 2010 at 5:15 PM ^
No doubt man. This board is theraputic for me in many ways. I do enough fighting in the real world. Maybe I should change careers from a prize fighting boxer, but I need to put food on the table.
December 21st, 2010 at 4:59 PM ^
I am heading to London on Christmas day with my family and won't be back in country until about 5:00pm on January 1st. Yes trip booked WAY before football season even started.
So I'm going to have to leave you guys to win the bowl game and settle this whole CC crap on your own next week. So you can count me in on the truce Hackney.....I won't be here to fight!
December 21st, 2010 at 5:17 PM ^
Have fun! Make sure to stop in the Hackney boro! I and others will keep up the good fight if the Armistice is broken!
December 21st, 2010 at 6:07 PM ^
I'm flying back on New Year's day on one of the new 777's I think. I've heard they have live TV on board and if so I plan to have my own intercontinental Gator Bowl party somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean that day. I'm going to pack my Michigan gear and wear it in London so we'll see how many fellow Wolverines I encounter in the bars....errr....I mean "tourist areas" that week.
December 21st, 2010 at 5:26 PM ^
I'm heading out of town this weekend and am going to do my best to be unplugged all next week. Keep fighting the good fight, jHackney. I'll be with you in spirit (and in actuality until I leave).
December 21st, 2010 at 5:05 PM ^
Well said, Rodney. I'm in. I hereby lay down my negs.
December 21st, 2010 at 9:45 PM ^
It is the best thing to hit television at holiday time. My dad and I used to joke about it years ago and now that its on in HD its a mainstay in the profitgoblue household. +1 for the reminder.