It can be scary in the dark,
I imagine those popular mud
I imagine those popular mud brick-making lectures need light from somewhere.
Brick. House.
She's mighty mighty.
"You know, for a bartender/bookie, you're pretty judgmental."
For the night is dark
and full of terrors...
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ATTN NBA Dads and Siblings: Have brothers / sons on the hoops come-up?
Michigan = NBA Family U
I can't stop watching
But what the hell is that about?
Mom, MGrad and life long fan living in So Cal
oh dear god. i also don't
oh dear god. i also don't get it. but i'm 34 and not a mom. i'm worried for myself.
combination of lakers
combination of lakers douchebag / bro gif
and the black kid "oh snap" gif
ATTN NBA Dads and Siblings: Have brothers / sons on the hoops come-up?
Michigan = NBA Family U
so
awesome
WTF?
That is disturbing and I forgot what this post was about.
Just
No chance.If Michigan takes
No chance.
If Michigan takes down Izzo this weekend, East Lansing is going to look like a weenie roast at Art Vans.
heh.
I, for one, am sad they took down the Riot Status page on their servers...let you know easily where the couches stood.
If the haters don't hate you then you're doing something wrong. - David Cone
Seriously?
They took it down? This is so disappointing. Although they never changed it (probably as a PR move), it always made me smile that they even had that page made in the first place.
Amazingly this "coalition"
Amazingly this "coalition" seems to have been founded almost explicitly with the purpose of stopping the couch burnings. 14 years later and the problem still exists. Sparty No!
http://news.jrn.msu.edu/entirelyeastlansing/2012/05/01/coalition-does-more-than-keep-the-peace/
An excerpt from the link above:
Cohabitation and cooperation
A community initiative to address issues of student behavior and neighborhood relations was sparked by student riots after the 1999 Final Four basketball tournament. Then-president M. Peter McPherson formed a task force with multiple initiatives addressing town and gown relations. The Community Relations Coalition is one of those initiatives, said Olivia Seifert, the coalition’s intern coordinator.
The swag is back.
The initiative was "sparked" by student riots?
Tee hee
Burn on Sparty, burn on.
Burn on Sparty, burn on.
'Try growing up in Texas a Michigan WOLVERINE'.
It's kind of surprising to me
It's kind of surprising to me that nobody has yet identified the foolproof way to get Sparty to stop burning couches: spread a false rumor that couch-burning originated in Ann Arbor.
"We've beaten Michigan the last four years. So where's the threat?"
- Mark Dantonio
Blogging the Virginia Cavaliers at http://fromoldvirginia.blogspot.com/<
Maybe someone already started
Maybe someone already started the rumor that couches originated in Ann Arbor and that's why they have this problem in the first place?
Completely agree
Its almost as if they're saying to themselves, "Whatever they can do, we can do better."
But like my dad always told me (a '47 UM grad), if you're gonna be a ditch digger (couch burner), be the best one that you can be.
The Team, The Team, The Team
Is your dad...
Herm?
Can somebody with a more
Can somebody with a more in-depth knowledge of all things Spartan please explain to me the facination with setting furniture on fire? I'm 53 and for as many of those 53 years as I can remember I've been a Michigan fan and have lived through a lot of joy and an equal amount of pain supporting the Wolverines and I've NEVER even felt the tiniest desire to set fire to mine or anyone else's couch because of a game.
B1G AD's screw Michigan out of a Rose Bowl in 73? No couch on fire.
Mike Lantry's field goal to win the 74 OSU game ruled wide when it went down the middle? No couch on fire.
Lost to Indiana in 76 in the finals of the NCAA Tourny? No couch on fire.
Lost to USC in the 79 Rose Bowl when Charles White was given a TD even though he fumbled on the 3 yard line? No couch on fire
Lost to USC in the 90 Rose Bowl when holding was called on a player not in the game wiping out a fake punt for 60 yards that would've given Bo his farewell Rose Bowl victory? No coach on fire.
Lost to NC in the 93 BBAll finals when Chris Webber called a TO he shouldn't have? No couch on fire
I could go on but you get the point. What in the fuck is wrong with them anyways?
Thanks for bringing up all
Thanks for bringing up all those bad memories. It's enough to make someone burn something. I just can't out my finger on what would be best to burn in this scenario...
Well I didn't burn anything, but
if it hadn't been for my wife, the old Zenith color tube TV almost was smashed in '93. That sucker still works though - up over my bar fridge in the basement.
1989
Actually, there was some victory rioting on South University after the 1989 National Championship - cars overturned, street signs uprooted, glass-breaking. But yeah, no burning couches.
Although quite honestly, if I was in college during the '93 timeout, I probably would have set a couch on fire or something similar.
Well
in everyone's defense that was in the area (you can't prove anything!), that was also hash bash weekend, and the grateful dead were in town. So FWIW, the crowd was a combination of students and out-of-town visitors.
I remember someone
Lighting a couch or similar piece of furniture on fire on East Jefferson circa 2007. Some guys I knew roasted some hot dogs and a marshmallow or two. Nothing crazy.
I have a Fandom Endurance III merit badge
While we were smoking pot
While we were smoking pot they were huffing glue.
Maybe Ann Arbor's anti-porch
Maybe Ann Arbor's anti-porch couch ordinance is that effective? It retroactively went back in time and protected all of those poor couches. Maybe it's the color green and white but I don't recall any couch burnings in Ypsilanti (and if anyone had a reason to burn stuff it would be Normalite/Huron/Eagle fans). I dunno.
After the Indiana loss last week...
I found this article to be quite funny. Included pictures and the reports that were made.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketbal...
Somewhere in the Red Cedar community
Someone printed out 25 copies of this and currently has them soaking in kerosene to use as kindling for their next couch fire.
I love this
If it is actual Sparty work, it's even better than anything a Michigan fan could possibly do to troll them.
I was skeptical at first, but
I was skeptical at first, but this MSU Community Relations Coalition is an actual thing. For Sparty, by Sparty. And all the couch-burning that entails.
Well
MSU's just catching up with WVU.
They just couldn't figure out how to record with their iPhones.
Why hasn't there been a burn off?
If MSU and WVU got together for some massive blaze off to see, once and for all, which school is the best at couch burning, I think you would be able to see the amount of smoke from space.
Vince McMahon, Donald Trump or someone needs to make this happen.
It only ends once. Anything that happens before that, is just progress.
That might
That might give an unfair advantage to Dantonio's recruiting efforts...
The Lingering Problem...
Even if something like this effort perhaps becomes a thing, it still may take years to get all the combustion by-products of the polyurethane foam and various flame retardants used in upholstery down to trace levels in East Lansing, not the least of which would be hydrogen cyanide gas, ammonia and carbon monoxide. It would have to be interesting to do a ground water study in the Red Cedar neighborhood.
"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."
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Sparty should kick this
habbit now. Because when they graduate in 7 years, mom and dad will not see this as appreciation for free room and board in the basement.
" Listen... do you smell that? "
- Dr. Ray Stantz / Ghostbusters
So...they're finally joining
So...they're finally joining SOFA
Society
Opposed to
Furniture
Arson
If you're gonna set a sofa on
If you're gonna set a sofa on fire, make sure it is a sofa king! Sofa King flammable!
That is Sofa King smooth.
That is Sofa King smooth.
The Team, The Team, The Team
It can be scary in the dark, maybe they're burning the couches for light purposes.
I am this close to going all Dark Blue in here.