Best response to "Go Blue" from stranger?
A friend of mine who recently moved to the Bay Area raised an interesting question this week:
Fellow Michigan alums - Is there a standard response to being told "Go Blue!" by a stranger when they see you/your kid/your car in Michigan gear? I feel like there should be some sort of "'peace be with you'...'and also with you'" sort of call-and-answer, but I'm always caught off guard. And it's happening *a lot* since we moved to the Bay Area...
This seemed like the best place for her to get some good answers, so I agreed to post it for her. Until she asked me, I would have said my usual response is to repeat "Go Blue" back to the person in a firmer tone and ever-so-slightly louder voice. But from now on I'm going with alaikum salaam.
A nice hearty "Go Blue!"
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GO BLUE!
"HARBAUGH!" methinks.
Second. In fact I'm going to skip the go blue go just yell Harbaugh at everyone in a block m
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Hopefully the students get rid of the chant they do with Temptation and chant-
HARBAAAAUGGGGH
HARBAAAAUGGGGH
HARBAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGH.
HARBAUGH!
Jim...Jim HARBAUGH
Jim HARBAUGH, Jim HARBAUGH
Jim...Jim HARBAUGH
Jim HARBAUGH, Jim HARBAUGH
Say Go Blue back, is it that hard?
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It actually is, especially when you're caught off guard by the person saying it. It seems awkward to respond with the same thing.
So what do you say when someone tells you "Hello"?
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Role Tide? Does that work?
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How about Roll Tide? Role Tide is some kind of acting job.
Goddamn iPad.
Salute and stand at attention while singing Hail to the Victors.
But I have always just responded in kind.
To you kind sir.
"No I will not make out with you."
Go on with the chlorophyll!
"Hear, Hear!"
I was in DC over spring break with the kids and probably had about 20 "Go Blues" when I was wearing my Michigan sweatshirt. I was usually caught off guard and either failed to respond (joggers go by fast) or gave a "Yeah, you know it" type response. So yeah, some universal etiquette on this would be awesome!
know it!"
HARBAUGH!
Have your family form a pyramid, sing the fight song and shoot offf a fireworks spectacular. Should work...
I don't know, maybe "Hail yes!" works.
in the South, that sounds like an everyday regionalism. Actually, it would go "Aww, hail yeah!"
I actually passed DJ Durkin in the Philly airport on Wednesday and I wanted to give him a "Go Blue" but for some reason I got a case of the yips and chickened out.
You need to learn the secret handshake for when you yip out
Har...
Baugh!
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I feel like I've been seeing <br> a lot on here lately. I don't understand what it means. Some sort of HTML joke? Stop and take a breath?
Please help,
Lost in Pyongyang
the html for "line break."
The subject line doesn't accept html and consequently renders html tags as literals.
I suspect you have to select "plain text editor" to get html tags to work On the other hand, it is difficult to get an html tag such as <br> to show as a literal in the body of the text without switching to "rich text editor"; in plain text mode, this requires a complicated expression the sytax for which I forget.
Ah, thanks.
or if I'm really fired up, I say "Hell yeah!"
Best response I ever got? Well, you're going to have to go back to 1924.
I was walking through a neighborhood in Poughkeepsie - a slum really - and this dame comes up to me, you see? So this dame, she eyeballs the block M bowler hat I got on, and I notice she's got some tasteful block M rhinestone earrings on.
So I sez "Go Blue" and tips my hat. She crosses her legs, looks me straight in the eye, and sez "Go Blue yerrseelf". We laugh, and stroll over to a blind pig I knew about. Ahhh, she had starlight in her eyes, smoke in her hair, and bourbon on her breath. She was perfect.
Well, the bourbon ended up being rotgut, and I ended up in the hospital with kidney stones. So this dame, you see, ends up being admitted to the same hospital, and I see her at the lobby on the way out. She looks down, real ashamed-like, see. And I cough out a little blood, rub it into the floor and say "Go Blue."
And then, the dame sez "I love you." And that's how I met your great-grandmother. Now go to bed!
Good job
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Fuck the Bucks.
that's funny
with your hand in your armpit.
Is the proper response
I got a "Go blue!" in California once and I turned, enthusiastically pumped my fist straight out and gave a hearty, "HAIL!"
...I do not recommend doing this in a crowded urban area.
I've had a few people sort of walk past then turn around when they realized what happened. You get the Go Blue on the flipside.
I've also gotten the blank stare, as if someone either doesn't realize they wore a Michigan shirt that day, or that the M on their hat stood for something other than the letter M.
Got a Go Blue out of a guy at the Dead Sea in Israel, though. I figure anyone wearing a Michigan Basketball shirt in the depths of the tournament drought had to know exactly what they were doing.
"Go Blue" to a guy sitting in a pickup decked out in M bumper stickers. He stared at me blankly.
Finally, I awkwardly explained I was responding to the bumper sticker on his truck. He said, "Oh. This isn't my truck."
I hope you called 911 and reported the stolen truck.
Response
just mix some malonic acid/starch/sulfuric acid/iodate/peroxide and manganous sulfate, stir and enjoy
That is awesome!!
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Hug me 2 days, maybe three after It Happened. I said go Blue! And he said Harbaugh! And hugged me. I hugged him back. It was awesome.
Wow, that is one long hug!
Make it worth it
I got three today in Tallahassee. I can expect one a day usually, but today was a good day. I gave a loud and proud "Go Blue!"
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Probably didn't have to use your AK either. How is the pager?