IDEA: bring red balloons to the IU game UPDATE: Never mind!
I'm 54 and worked in sales & marketing my adult life so I know my way around a bad idea. I've had them - sold them - been told to implement them and gotten yelled at and even fired when I was unable to successfully execute them.
Take it from an expert -this is a bad idea.
How about we all eat soap and fart bubbles when they lose?
Probably still does newspaper advertising.
Now he thinks the future needs a human touch (he doesn't trust robots or sky net): sign twirlers dressed as coney hot dogs.
BOOM.
Leads.
this is something that would fly back in the 70's or 80's but would get overreacted to nowadays.
Maybe just inflate the balloons and let the air back out of them?
The sound of a thousand ballons deflating all at the same time (bluh-bluh-bluh-bluh....) would be an aswesome, hilarious sound. And way less dicey than "pop pop pop..."
I just can't stand Tom Crean.
Can you tell us why it is such a bad idea?
I think the tweek of popping throughout the game would be hillarious.
IU missed jumper {pop}
Stauskas 3 {pop}
Morgan offensive rebound {pop}
That would be pretty funny. However, I feel that ushers would try to put an end to it pretty soon, yes?
We don't need to pop balloons, we should just let that program die on its own. We did enough to destroy it already, according to Mr. Crean.
But only if there are exactly 99.
Awesome stretch there my friend (and I know from the 1986 thread your not even old enough to remember.....NENA)
Or just one (French cinema edition).
I remember having to watch that movie in school EVERY year from kindergarten to third grade.
We must have had the same teachers.
Did you watch Paddle to the Sea every year too?
but we had to make fake diaries as if we were that stupid boat as a sentient being, and then we had to make our own versions. to float down the little creek on campus.
But then I have to be overcome by existential despair when my ballon dies. Le bummer.
The Red Balloon Restaurant? Used to go to one in the northwest suburbs of Chicago (I see there used to be Red Balloons in at least Niles and Des Plaines). Great strawberry shortcake is the main thing I remember (plus scenes from the movie in the decor).
...Tom Crean, you RUINED your own basketball program.
How about sIgns of Tom Crean yelling this at himself
IDEA!
yikes.
German, always German.
I vaguely remember liking that song as a kid. I also remember one side of the single being in English and one side in German, which sucked. I thought I had long ago burned through those brain cells. Now, I'll be having flashbacks at 3:00 am. The horror!
German versions were all the rage (for 5 minutes). Lest we forget Falco's "Der Kommisar".
the German version of "Rock Me Amadeus"
Whenever I see "IDEA" in cap's, my brain thinks IKEA. I was expecting red home furnishings.
Unfortunately, 99% of the viewing audience won't get the joke. They'll think you're an IU fan.
Just stick to maize and blue.
Nothing to laugh at about an IU program that handed us the previous game & we handed it right back. I'm still sick about it.
That would be awesome, especially if it is seen on television. Please do that if you're going to the game.
Loved the idea someone else had of the student section serenading Stauskas with "Oh Canada"
EDIT: idea from Naked Bootlegger in the Stauskas Effect diary post
Yup. Student section should be all over this one. Learn the words, students. Sing your hearts out in honour of Canada's native son. I think it would be the perfect antidote to the USA chants he's endured.
....especially since this could very well be his last home game. Maybe..
Still too soon for that
I've got a better IDEA: no fucking way.
Maybe we can put a giant noodle outside too, and then fly a plane over IU's campus dragging a banner that says "Suck It Losers #GoBlue #NotRed #LOLOLOL"
That is a totally farfetched idea.
Hash tags can't be monetized, so that part of it would never happen.
Well the Maize Rage isn't allowed to pick a "scrub of the game" anymore on their info cards, because apparently that violates sportsmanship regulations.
Imagine how much something like this would hurt Indiana's feelings - how could you be so cruel?
We could all wear IU shirts, and then kill ourselves. I'm just thinking out loud here.
Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species1. To this end, I hold M&M duels.
Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the “loser,” and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.
I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world. Greens are set aside in a Brandy Snifter, both in homage to rockers of old2, and for small amounts of self indulgence3 as the championship is underway.
Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.
When I reach the end of the pack, I am left with one M&M, the strongest of the herd. Since it would make no sense to eat this one as well, I pack it neatly in an envelope and send it to M&M Mars, A Division of Mars, Inc., Hackettstown, NJ 17840-1503 U.S.A., along with a 3×5 card reading, “Please use this M&M for breeding purposes.”
This week they wrote back to thank me, and sent me a coupon for a free 1/2 pound bag of plain M&Ms. I consider this “grant money.” I have set aside the weekend for a grand tournament. From a field of hundreds, we will discover the True Champion.
There can be only one.
What did I just read?
This is how I met my first wife4. Her head was misshapen in a manner that I had not anticipated being advantageous to the species, but I was surprised and taken aback by its robustness. My subsequent wife has a rounder head and, to my knowledge, it does not contain a peanut, but it has proven superior.
Please make sure your envelopes are sufficiently padded.
This is so funny and has nothing to do with the discussion
This might be my favorite mgoblog comment of all time.
Funny, but I think I've read it somewhere else before.
It's from "Best of Craigslist" back in 2007
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/tpa/409930561.html
busted! Nice find
You're drunk.
Cite your sources, please. (Inc.)
Only 31,998,389 more upvotes to go before you're back in the black!!!
what in the world did you say to get negative gajillion points??
And now you're trying to get back on our good side with M & M stories?? You're an evil genius. Evil.