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  2. 2.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    Most of my high school classmates (not necessarily friends) are almost all now teatards. I went to HS in WV, most of them still live in WV. I’m not shocked by any of this.

    College friends are people I’m still close with and yes, FB has enabled us to keep up a bit more on month-to-month stuff instead of spending 1 day every two years catching up.

  3. 3.

    schrodinger's cat

    From the last open thread. My orange Tunchesque kitteh is well and has actually lost four pounds. Thanks to all BJers who gave me helpful suggestions when she was ailing.

    Kitteh Update

    BTW where is Tunch? He has not graced the FP since forever.

  4. 4.

    Certified Mutant Enemy

    Lacrosse? ā€˜Oh, I say, we are grand, arenā€™t we? Oh, oh, no more buttered scones for me, mater. Iā€™m off to play the grand piano. Pardon me while I play Lacrosse.ā€™ ;)

  6. 6.

    ronin122

    Perpetually single, played Lacrosse….now things all make sense to me. [kidding]

  7. 7.

    Amir Khalid

    I know of lacrosse only as the sport of English boarding-school girls in children’s books by Enid Blyton. Which books I haven’t read in nearly 40 years. But yeah, that’s a righteous-looking bunch of bros.

  8. 8.

    Comrade Mary

    I’m reading that shirt on #6 as “Best Virgin” and ain’t nobody talking me out of it.

    Congratulations on your and your team mates doing such justice to Canada’s national game. (Lacrosse, not virginity.)

  16. 16.

    raven

    I had a good pal who was a fullback at Illinois, had a try-out with the Falcons but the blown out knee wouldn’t hold. He played lacrosse and said it was way tougher.

  17. 17.

    geg6

    I agree about FB. Everybody bitches about it but I have reconnected with so many of my old friends on it that I just love it. Elementary and high school friends, friends from college and grad school, friends from my wild 20s, it’s great to see and hear from them again. The best has been building a real and close relationship with my cousin Marilyn. We had never been close because there was a huge age difference (she’s about 15 years older). She’s a Lutheran minister in Minnesota and a raving liberal who totally gets me, even my atheism. I just love her to death and this never would have happened without FB.

  19. 19.

    raven

    @geg6: I have a “friend” from high school who lives in Charleston, SC and is a HUGE liberal. It’s so refreshing to communicate with him because, by and large, the class of 67 is pigs!

  21. 21.

    jl

    Tough looking hombres, Cole.

    But was the team named Mountaineers or Alpinistes?

    Hyall, from way Cale tawk he so rough, ah faygure hay’d be on th’ fitin taym. Some kin o’ fitin, I dunno which.

  25. 25.

    geg6

    @raven:

    My cousin really surprised me. Her dad was a Goldwater fan and her brother David is a huge Teabagger. I always thought that her being a Lutheran minister would mean she wasn’t much different. But she just been great and funny and supportive and everything you could wish a cousin would be. I’m not much fond of Mark Zuckerberg but I owe him thanks for bringing Marilyn into my life.

  27. 27.

    Butch

    We got a Facebook account for business purposes only but ended up accepting a few friends. Most of the stuff that gets posted there is just really odd.

  28. 28.

    geg6

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Well, it’s not for everyone, I guess, but I have really liked it. And I didn’t even mention how many of my former students have contacted me through FB to let me know what they are up to and to thank me for my help over the years. I love that. I won’t let current students friend me, but I’m happy to hear from the former ones.

  30. 30.

    lamh36

    FB and at the early time Myspace was the easiest and cheapest way for me to stay in touch with my family, particularly the ones who were displaced thanks to Katrina.
    Now I use it to keep in touch with fam & old friends from high school & college

  33. 33.

    beltane

    @scav: The ‘nationalist website’ in question appears to be a (very) slightly more genteel version of Stormfront.

  36. 36.

    raven

    I can’t wait to post a team shot of the 107th Signal Company, RI National Guard at the 45th Reunion tomorrow!

  38. 38.

    johnny aquitard

    I see #26 was already sporting the official B-J Morans headgear. Dude was ahead of his time.

  39. 39.

    eemom

    My son plays lax and football, and after all my freaking out about the dangers of those, he got a concussion yesterday playing freaking volleyball in the school gym.

    He’s fine, thank God….but omg, it is scary as shit being a mother.

  40. 40.

    raven

    @eemom: Jeff George, Purdue, Illinois, Falcons and other NFL teams QB got hurt in a high school playoff game in the Indy Dome and his mommy ran on the field!

  42. 42.

    scav

    @johnny aquitard: Couple of them could very have been those “some kind of turban” wearing figures crossing the border that Sen. John Cornyn (R) was going on and on about. Turban-like! Flee!

  43. 43.

    Xenos

    I know those fields at Clemson — they are grass parking lots for the football stadium, and are used for fields for secondary sports. Played rugby on that field, or the one next to it, in 1988. There were not as many beer bottle caps embedded in the soil as I had feared. Beat the Clemson B-side and went to a very dull frat party. I don’t think they would have let us into one of the good ones.

  44. 44.

    Jonathan

    what position did you play? That’s not your typical middie physique, not quite D, so I’m going with attack?

  45. 45.

    raven

    @Xenos: In “My Losing Season” about his senior year playing hoop at the Citadel, Pat Conroy writes about playing at Clemson and being burned by fans with cigarettes as he inbounded the ball. I ordered tickets for our opener up there but I think I’ll sell them and cash in.

  46. 46.

    flukebucket

    Boy that is a damn rugged looking bunch. Looks like every one of you came out of a prison.

  48. 48.

    burnspbesq

    @Certified Mutant Enemy:

    ā€˜Oh, I say, we are grand, arenā€™t we?

    Oh fuck off. Lacrosse is the greatest game there is. We are so lucky that the Creator chose to share it with the Haudenosaunee people, and that they chose to share it with us wonder-bread folk.

  49. 49.

    gelfling545

    @geg6: Being that your cousin is a she, that means ELCA Lutheran – waaaay more liberal than the other Lutherans (Missouri & Wisconsin Synods who have been known to refer to ELCA as “that women’s church”& won’t take communion with ELCA or even participate in joint services).

    It’s where I went when I couldn’t tolerate the RC Church anymore but wasn’t ready to give up entirely. They’re a good group, on the whole.

  51. 51.

    Redshift

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Does Harvard not have any standards? Who was his thesis advisor?

    Via a commenter on TPM:

    His advisor was “Dr.” Jorge (legally changed to George) Borjas, a Cuban fascist immigrant who has argued long against Hispanic immigration and regularly publishes in the National Review.

    The rot goes deep.

  53. 53.

    Redshift

    I agree; finding old friends (or more often, being found by them) is the only thing Facebook is really good for.

  56. 56.

    David Koch

    That is one white photograph

    Do blacks people play lacrosse? It’s just a rumor, but supposedly there are a few blacks who are athletic. Maybe a couple of them could have helped you win the title.

  59. 59.

    lamh35

    hm, so the White House is having a “Mother’s Day Tea” for kids and mothers hosted by Michelle Obama and Jill Biden and special guest Prince Harry.

    ETA: And it’s over. so link deleted. I fully expect some more FLOTUS hate from RWNJ

  60. 60.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Redshift: Harvard needs VW bus for its clown posse’.

    Alesina, Rogoff, Rienhart, Ferguson and now Borjas.

    Note: I am only counting the faculty members not students or alumni.

    ETA: Am I missing any one?

  63. 63.

    geg6

    @gelfling545:

    Ah, I did not know that. Don’t know much about Lutheranism other than the ones who were around here were anti-Catholic bigots. And my dad had some distant cousins in Cleveland who were Lutheran and who, when we’d drive up on a Sunday for a visit, would only serve cold cuts because they didn’t believe in cooking on a Sunday. Which scandalized my Irish Catholic mom for whom Sunday dinner was a major culinary event. She considered them heathens, more about the Sunday dinner thing than their Lutheranism.

  64. 64.

    joes527

    @Tone in DC: It was a real eye opener when my son started playing lacrosse. Sitting in the stands watching other parents jump up and shout: “hit him with a stick!” as a means to encourage their sons was a bit unexpected.

    I actually preferred when he played rugby. Less gear, and an interesting game once you get your bearings. (not to mention there was more of a tradition of beer for the dads as we prepared the after-game meal) But he didn’t care for it.

  65. 65.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    You’re not nearly as hot as yer sister. But yer prolly just as much fun drunk.

  66. 66.

    Spiffy McBang

    15 guys on a lacrosse team? Aren’t 10 out there at any given time? Seems like an awfully thin bench.

  67. 67.

    Southern Beale

    In Texas, a utility company is collecting federal taxes from customers — to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars — when it doesn’t owe a penny of taxes in the first place. Graft? Fraud? Nope, perfectly legal.

    This is the kind of crap Rick Perry is calling “a model” for the rest of the country. Don’t think so, bud.

  69. 69.

    Roger Moore

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Except Cubans, I guess.

    I wouldn’t necessarily assume this. There are plenty of people who believe in pulling up the ladder/closing and locking the door behind them. It’s the most obnoxious school of conservatism, and that’s saying something.

  73. 73.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Roger Moore: He is quoted approvingly by Center for Immigration Studies, and NumbersUSA, two anti immigration groups/think tanks, that are against all immigration, even US citizens marrying foreign nationals (biggest source of green cards, nearly half).

  74. 74.

    David Koch

    Speaking of sports: Maxim posts hawt photo of Manti Te’o’s girlfriend Check it out – there isn’t an once of fat on her!

  80. 80.

    Kevin

    Re. black people playing lacrosse, I’ve read that the great Jim Brown was an even better lacrosse player than he was a football immortal playing for Syracuse in the 1950’s; for what it’s worth.

  83. 83.

    FlipYrWhig

    @David Koch: A few years ago lacrosse started to make inroads into white suburbia. I graduated from an overwhelmingly white suburban high school in 1988 (as long as you count Jews as white) and we didn’t even have a team. My hunch (and I have no evidence to back this up at all) is that the Latino influx since then has had a lot to do with pushing more white families from soccer into lax.

  87. 87.

    David Koch

    @FlipYrWhig: I can understand that. As Don Young says, it’s bad enough that we had to play with jews and the irish, but wetbacks, that’s a bridge too far.

  94. 94.

    Amir Khalid

    @beltane:

    I am of the opinion that everyone entering the US should be wearing a pink feather boa

    Sounds reasonable to me.

  97. 97.

    burnspbesq

    @David Koch:

    Do blacks people play lacrosse?

    Ever heard of Jim Brown? People who saw him play say he was the best player of all time. There’s a great historical story about the Ten Bears, the all-black Morgan State team of the mid-1970s. Kyle Harrison, the son of one of the Ten Bears, won the Teewaaraton award (college lax’s Heisman) in 2005. The top recruits in 2007 were Shamel and Rhamel Bratton, twins from Long Island. John Walker, son of former Jets wide receiver, Wesley Walker, was an all-American at Army. Taylor Thornton from Dallas, who plays on the Northwestern women’s team, is a three-time Teewaaraton nominee. Duke has an outstanding freshman midfielder named Myles Jones, who has a combination of size and athleticism that is going to cause fits for opposing defenses for the next few years.

    Earlier this year, we saw the first game ever between two HBCUs (a women’s game between Howard and Delaware State).

    There’s a huge youth program in Harlem, funded and run by former college players who work in NYC.

    So, yeah, as the game’s geographic and socio-economic footprint grows, more and more African-American kids are playing.

  98. 98.

    burnspbesq

    The first round of the NCAA D1 men’s lax tournament is this weekend. There will be four games on Saturday and four more on Sunday, all on the ESPN family of networks. If you’re unfamiliar with the game and only want to watch one, I would recommend Denver vs. Albany, at 7:30 p.m. Saturday on ESPNU. Albany features the Thompsons on offense, two Onondaga brothers and their Mohawk cousin, who are just absurdly skilled. Lyle Thompson needs seven points to break the all-time single-season scoring record, and against Denver’s suspect defense, he could get it done by halftime.

  99. 99.

    David Koch

    @burnspbesq: gawd, you’re dumb. that’s the point. blacks do play lax, so there’s no excuse for having a team photo that looks like the parking lot of a “Dukes of Hazard” convention.

  100. 100.

    John Cole

    @David Koch:

    gawd, youā€™re dumb. thatā€™s the point. blacks do play lax, so thereā€™s no excuse for having a team photo that looks like the parking lot of a ā€œDukes of Hazardā€ convention.

    Actually, you are the one being dumb here. This was a club lacrosse team- anyone who wanted to join could and many who had never played the game before did join. The fact that there are no black players in this pictures is not because we’re a bunch of racist moonshine running hillbillies, but because no black people wanted to play.

    Asshole.

  101. 101.

    MattR

    @burnspbesq: Unfortunately, you know why lacrosse is dead to me for the rest of the year :(

    I was also very disappointed to tune in at the very end of a Jim Brown interview during a recent Syracuse game. Would have like to hear what he had to say.

  102. 102.

    JoyfulA

    @geg6: My 15-years-younger cousin contacted me on Facebook; she’s turned out to be an abominations-style fundamentalist preacher these days and one of many reasons I left Facebook a couple of years ago.

  104. 104.

    David Koch

    @John Cole:

    The fact that there are no black players in this pictures is not because weā€™re a bunch of racist moonshine running hillbillies,

    yeah, that would be totally uncharacteristic of west Virginia. that’s why Keith Judd, who is serving a 17 1/2-year federal prison sentence took 41 percent of the vote in West Virginiaā€™s Democratic primary one year ago, today. totally uncharacteristic.

  105. 105.

    lojasmo

    @Amir Khalid:

    I think we will be 12. Senate votes Monday. Expected to pass quite easily. Mark (dayton) has pledged to sign it.

    I may play hookie and go up for the vote on Monday.

    So excited for my state.

  106. 106.

    burnspbesq

    @MattR:

    Unfortunately, you know why lacrosse is dead to me for the rest of the year

    Not enough strength of schedule, and only one signature win. In retrospect, the loss to Albany (that was a great game, BTW, if you didn’t see it) really hurt.

    I was also very disappointed to tune in at the very end of a Jim Brown interview during a recent Syracuse game. Would have like to hear what he had to say.

    You didn’t miss much. Brown is now a minority investor in the New York MLL franchise, and it was mostly a MLL promo, although there were some reminiscences mixed in.

  107. 107.

    SFAW

    @Comrade Mary:

    By law, hockey is the winter national sport and lacrosse is the summer national sport.

    I’m old enough that I remember when it was only lax. Then those hockey candy-asses started whining, and got that idiotic law passed.

  108. 108.

    SFAW

    @Roger Moore:

    There is at least one black lacrosse player of note.

    If my memory is correct (and if the info I was told by a friend was correct), he and my mother (before she married my father) lived about 100 yards from each other. Of course, in those days, he was away at ‘Cuse, and she would have had no idea who he was. She might not even have known what football was. (I KNOW she didn’t know what lacrosse was, until I started playing.)

  109. 109.

    SFAW

    @burnspbesq:

    Thanks for the reminder. I gotta set the DVR.

    I love watching good lax. Or even almost-good lax. Bad lax makes me cringe, however.

  110. 110.

    MattR

    @burnspbesq: I missed the Albany game but you are right about strenght of schedule. We used to play 8-10 games against top 15 teams (though in our defense a bit, it used to be that something like 8 of the top 12 were the same every year). I wonder if joining a conference will be the eventual answer. It is always nice to know you can always win your tournament to make it to the big one. (I assume the ACC will be getting the Big East’s automatic berth when Syracuse and Notre Dame joing. I had always thought the ACC was the conference Hopkins lacrosse belonged in if we chose to join one.)

    The other problem is that our offense needs a major overhaul. I am no expert, but it seems like the system and not the players. Whenever we run into a good defensive team, the offense really struggles to make anything happen. Someone beats a defender one on one, the defense slides and after one or two passes the ball ends up with an open man behind the net who is no position to threaten the goal before the defense is able to recover

  111. 111.

    MattR

    @SFAW:

    Iā€™m old enough that I remember when it was only lax. Then those hockey candy-asses started whining, and got that idiotic law passed.

    That got me in trouble a while ago because I didn’t realize they had passed a new law. Used to be a great trivia question.

  112. 112.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    You’re #6? But who is the new #2?

    /Obscure Prisoner reference/

  113. 113.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @Amir Khalid: Lacrosse is the US (or at least East Coast) contact sport for guys who aren’t hefty enough for football. My physical son loved it. Both parts: checking the other guys and getting decked himself.

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