Guess the Score, Win Stuff: Ohio You
Here in the Midwest we are blessed to have all sorts of great names left over from our pre-Columbian civilizations, for example the Ojibwan word "mishigama" means "great lake" while their word for "dude who speaks normally" (i.e. not French) is "irenwe-wa" which the French wrote down as "illinois" and Sufjan Stevens wrote as "Illinoise."
But lots of Native American names aren't what people called themselves so much as whatever their enemy tribes called them when we asked. Thus a few choice expletives, their meanings now lost to centuries of mouths washed out with soap, remain today as obscure, vowelistic epithets for the modern degenerate inhabitants of those lands. Iowa and Ohio: four-letter words. Q.E.D.
How this works again:
- Wednesdays I put up a winnable prize that consists of a desirable good.
- You guess the final scores of this weekend's designated game (football or hoops, depending on the season), and put it in the comments. First person to post a particular score has it.
- If you got it right, we contact you. If not, go to (5)
- The desirable good arrives at the address you give us.
- Non-winners can acquire the same desirable good by trading currency for it. BONUS THIS WEEK: We donate to Mott if you do so!
- About last week:
The Iowa tribe were Sioux, but they were named that by Dakotas. It's from the Lakota "ayuhwa" which literally means "gray people." Some translate this as "sleepy folk" but tradition has it that it comes from the Iowa peoples covering their faces with ashes while awaiting the drawn out end game of successful, longtime coaches' careers. Indeed Michigan cheated by dastardly not running I-form ISOs all game, allowing the final score to finally meet the expectations of our perpetual optimists. Duval Wolverine took home two t-shirts. Weirdly people chose 41-17 and 43-17 before the actual score. STOP BELIEVING BRIAN HE PREDICTS SCORES IN FACTORS OF PI!
This Week's Game:
"Ohio" comes from the Iroquois word for the place they dumped their sewage. Michigan will travel down there to play something called simply "The Game."
And on the Line…
As Michael once said before he got too weird: Just beat it.
If you can read this you don't need glasses: One entry per user. First user to choose a set of scores wins, determined by the timestamp of your entry (for my ease I prefer if you don't post it as a reply to another person's score--if you do it won't help or hurt you). If nobody gets the score, this week's prize carries over to the following week's. Deadline for entries is 24 hours before the start of the game (since I won't have time to pull them on gamedays). MGoEmployees and Moderators--anyone else with moderator privileges--are exempt from winning because you could change your timestamp. If you choose the score that Brian published in the official preview and it actually ends up the final score, well, that would be pretty amazing because Brian picks scores like 29-11 all the time. We did not invent the algorithm. The algorithm consistently finds Jesus. The algorithm killed Jeeves. The algorithm is banned in China. The algorithm is from Jersey. The algorithm constantly finds Jesus.This is not the algorithm. This is close.
November 21st, 2012 at 11:02 AM ^
Mich 42
Ohio 38
November 21st, 2012 at 11:04 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:07 AM ^
OHIO 31
November 21st, 2012 at 11:07 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:07 AM ^
Mich - 34
tOSU - 20
November 21st, 2012 at 11:07 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:08 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:09 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:09 AM ^
M 27
O 26
November 21st, 2012 at 11:09 AM ^
37 that other team 21
November 21st, 2012 at 11:12 AM ^
Hello Orlando
November 21st, 2012 at 11:13 AM ^
M 22
O 21
Last second touchdown, go for two and the win...
November 21st, 2012 at 11:18 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:20 AM ^
MIchigan: 42
Ohio: 21
November 21st, 2012 at 11:23 AM ^
Ohio - 27, Michigan 23
November 21st, 2012 at 11:21 AM ^
Michigan 38
Ohio 35
November 21st, 2012 at 11:23 AM ^
Michigan 34
ohio 23
November 21st, 2012 at 11:23 AM ^
197 yards rushing
November 21st, 2012 at 11:29 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:31 AM ^
Michigan - 24
Ohio - 13
November 21st, 2012 at 11:31 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:32 AM ^
17-14 Good Guys
November 21st, 2012 at 11:32 AM ^
Filthy dirty-butt scumbags. I hate living around these people.
November 21st, 2012 at 11:33 AM ^
Us 30
Cheating-tatooed-losers 26
November 21st, 2012 at 11:35 AM ^
MICH 23
OHIO 31
Please note I'm predicting this because it's best for the team. If you want to get rich, take the opposite of my pick.
Urban wears tight briefs and prefers missionary. Beat Ohio.
November 21st, 2012 at 11:39 AM ^
What did I win?
November 21st, 2012 at 11:44 AM ^
34-28 Miiiiiiiichigan
November 21st, 2012 at 11:45 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:48 AM ^
Michigan 24, Ohio 17
November 21st, 2012 at 11:48 AM ^
Michigan 27, Ohio State 25.
November 21st, 2012 at 11:49 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:49 AM ^
10-6 Michigan...
November 21st, 2012 at 11:50 AM ^
Braxton is the difference.
November 21st, 2012 at 11:53 AM ^
36-20 M for real.
November 21st, 2012 at 11:54 AM ^
M 26
O 21
November 21st, 2012 at 11:55 AM ^
M - 31
O - 26
GO BLUE!
November 21st, 2012 at 11:56 AM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 11:57 AM ^
23-19 Michigan
November 21st, 2012 at 12:00 PM ^
Michigan: 37
Ohio: 27
November 21st, 2012 at 12:01 PM ^
Mich - 27
cheaters - 24
November 21st, 2012 at 12:04 PM ^
UM pounds their asses.
November 21st, 2012 at 12:08 PM ^
A lot of red zone stops
November 21st, 2012 at 12:08 PM ^
24-23 Michigan
November 21st, 2012 at 12:13 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 12:16 PM ^
Go Blue!
November 21st, 2012 at 12:18 PM ^
Go Blue!
November 21st, 2012 at 12:19 PM ^
Michigan 20-7 Ohio
November 21st, 2012 at 12:20 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 12:20 PM ^
November 21st, 2012 at 12:21 PM ^
SOmeone took mine already, sooo
Michigan 27, Ohio - 14
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