Friday POSBANG - Hoosier Daddy Version

Submitted by GoWings2008 on October 7th, 2022 at 3:14 AM

Looking forward to a great weekend of some real fall weather, some good ol cider and donuts, Mike Hart's first time back to Indiana since joining Michigan's staff, and especially looking forward to a big win over a historically pesky opponent. 

Go Blue! 

MGoBoard

Blue Vet

October 7th, 2022 at 6:16 AM ^

It's now almost impossible to hear "Hoosier" and not think, as GoWings2008 did, "Hoosier Daddy."

Which brings us to a history lesson:

Around the same time in the 1800s that people from Indiana started being called "Hoosiers," people from Illinois were then being called "Suckers." 

 

[EDIT: Written by a former Sucker]

Joined: 05/08/2012

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MGoGrendel

October 7th, 2022 at 9:12 AM ^

The further away from Chicago you get, the more you see Midwest values.  

For example, I met someone here in Atlanta this week that was "from Chicago".  Actually, she was from Frankfort, IL, which is closer to Kankakee then downtown Chicago -- both in distance and Midwest values.

Joined: 01/21/2013

MGoPoints: 70282

Wendyk5

October 7th, 2022 at 1:31 PM ^

I'm a 4th generation Chicagoan. My great grandfather came from Russia in the late 1800's to Chicago when he was 16, alone and with nothing. He built a business that lasted through 3 generations, one that helped to build the automobile industry in Detroit. He was a salt-of-the-earth self-made man through and through, and he was a Chicagoan. Not a Kankakee man (my mother is from Kankakee) or a down stater. 100% Chicago. Even though he was an immigrant, he had what I would call midwestern values. Hard worker, pillar of the community and his place of worship, family man. We all still have those values. 

Joined: 11/20/2008

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Blue Vet

October 7th, 2022 at 1:37 PM ^

Carl Sandburg, "Chicago"

...

Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.

Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;

Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,

   Bareheaded,

   Shoveling,

   Wrecking,

   Planning,

   Building, breaking, rebuilding,

...

Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.

Joined: 05/08/2012

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XM - Mt 1822

October 7th, 2022 at 6:35 AM ^

football day, playing hooky from work.  on the road at noon for a double-header of games this afternoon/evening with the twins, including son #1 showing up to watch his younger brothers play.  then to son #2's college for his game tomorrow with three of the boys in tow.  

 

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Kermits Blue Key

October 7th, 2022 at 6:44 AM ^

Finally feels like fall in the Carolina’s. Pickleball in morning and spiced toddies in the afternoon. We play the Indiana Hoosiers at noon - should be a pushover. Makings of a great weekend.

Go Blue!

 

 

Joined: 09/04/2010

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