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Let's see. I learned advanced grammar as an 8th grader in junior high. My father didn't pay a cent for my knowledge of the English language.
He paid for a more nuanced study of Rhetoric at SMU: literature, argument analysis & creation, compelling research, etc. Nice to know that UH is making sure their graduates come up to speed on remedial grammar, especially since these sports forums are so known and so require exceptional syntax, spelling, and easy to understand vernacular.

C'mon, let's keep this on task: SMU vs. Houston-Football-November 11, 2006.

SMU will win. I'll concede UH has a good team; however, to say that UH is better at every position is not only not true, it is so ridiculous a comment that I shouldn't have to write what I am about to write, but I will anyway.

Prove UH is better at each position, Skippy. Don't say that we will see about all that this weekend. Prove it now. Otherwise, shut up and sit down.

OC Mustang wrote:I'll concede UH has a good team; however, to say that UH is better at every position is not only not true, it is so ridiculous a comment that I shouldn't have to write what I am about to write, but I will anyway.

Prove UH is better at each position, Skippy. Don't say that we will see about all that this weekend. Prove it now. Otherwise, shut up and sit down.

Unfortunately that's not the way it works....

OC Mustang wrote:Let's see. I learned advanced grammar as an 8th grader in junior high. My father didn't pay a cent for my knowledge of the English language.
He paid for a more nuanced study of Rhetoric at SMU: literature, argument analysis & creation, compelling research, etc. Nice to know that UH is making sure their graduates come up to speed on remedial grammar, especially since these sports forums are so known and so require exceptional syntax, spelling, and easy to understand vernacular.

C'mon, let's keep this on task: SMU vs. Houston-Football-November 11, 2006.

SMU will win. I'll concede UH has a good team; however, to say that UH is better at every position is not only not true, it is so ridiculous a comment that I shouldn't have to write what I am about to write, but I will anyway.

Prove UH is better at each position, Skippy. Don't say that we will see about all that this weekend. Prove it now. Otherwise, shut up and sit down.

Well, they didn't teach us rhetoric, literature, or argument analysis and creation at the Cullen College of Engineering, but I doubt we're better at each position than SMU.

For one, we've lost three Offensive Tackles (two starters and a backup that would have been starting in their absence) for the season. You may or may not be better at that position.

I hear your DL is pretty stout. We've got a good one in Marquay Love, and some young talent in Cody Pree and Ell Ash, but I don't know how we stack up against SMU's DL.

Personally, I think we have the finest WR corps in CUSA. Many Coogs say this is the best WR corps we've EVER had at UH (including former 2-time All-American WR/current WR coach Jason Phillips, who was here in the R&S glory years). I would be inclined to agree.

We do have speed. If you want numbers, we've got WR/RB Anthony Alridge, who's got a (wind-aided) 10.07 100m dash under his belt. There's a running argument over whether or not he's the fastest player on the team. The other contenders are WR Donnie Avery and WR Vincent Marshall (who's also a star on the UH T&F team).

Thank you so much for coming back on task. Good report. Yes, UH has god-awful amounts of speed. That is certainly a concern. SMU will still win.

BTW, I said so on another thread, but CoogCheese has to have about the coolest emoticon I have seen in awhile (I don't get out much, what with the family and all, but it is funny nonetheless).

Gotta get me one of those!!!!

Speak for yourself Timmy.

You don't really want to compare the Southwestern Review to our English Deparment do you Biff? Do Don Bartheleme and Edward Albee ring a bell? If they don't, then this conversation is over.

As far as Saturday, One cornerback has about 20 passes defensed. Part of that is because they throw at him all day because nobody will throw to the other side. That corner has 5 passes defensed in six attempts all year. The key is our DL. If they can force Willis to make quick decisions, we'll be in good shape. They do have a tendency to let a QB sit there and go through every read twice, but they've stepped it up the last three games. They turned Palmer's blood to s---, but that ain't setting the bar that high to tell you the truth.

In all seriousness, if we come out on all cylinders we will kill y'all. But we have the potential run up 500 yards on you and just score 25 points. But this ain't last year's team.

I'm not a Biff, smartass, and congrats to you for being well-read in modern writers/playwrights. But I take your football comments more to heart, as this is a FOOTBALL forum, not a little boys' peeing contest as to who is smarter.

Oh what a wangled teb we weave. Wounds, children, wounds. Learn from it. Without wounds, what are you?

Well you all are about to find out.



Man, I love this emoticon!!!!

gardbarns wrote:Speak for yourself Timmy.

I was! As an engineering student, I never took classes from Donald Barthelme OR Edward Albee...although we did read both in one of my English classes. In fact, I enjoyed both of them immensely! Much better than the Thucydides we had to read in the Honors College...

I somehow missed the engineering reference there Timmy, my bad. If you read Barthelme your English skills are way ahead of my math abilities.

As for you Muffie: Macbeth 5.5.26-28.

Of course by Saturday, you'll need to google Macbeth 5.5.13.

Now if you will excuse me, I've got to go find my mop.

gardbarns wrote:I somehow missed the engineering reference there Timmy, my bad. If you read Barthelme your English skills are way ahead of my math abilities.

As for you Muffie: Macbeth 5.5.26-28.

Of course by Saturday, you'll need to google Macbeth 5.5.13.

Now if you will excuse me, I've got to go find my mop.

If you want to play this game. Macbeth 5.5.1-7.

Hang out our banners on the outward walls.
The cry is still "They come!" Our castle's strength
Will laugh a siege to scorn. Here let them lie
Till famine and the ague eat them up.
Were they not forced with those that should be ours,
We might have met them dareful, beard to beard,
And beat them backward home.

That my friend is how Saturday shall be.

Well played peruna.

How'd that work out for Macbeth.

gardbarns wrote:Well played peruna.

How'd that work out for Macbeth.

Sadly, not so well. Good thing we aren't Macbeth. But it was a nice quote.


(Question marks are good to add to the end of questions.)

Dukie wrote:

OC Mustang wrote:I know nada about Houston except that they are talented at QB and gave UMiami (FL) fits before dropping one to them.

That would be the same UMiami (btw the "FL" is not needed, the other school is MiamiU) that barely held on for a heart-stopping, clock-runs-out-while-the-other-team-has-the-ball-inside-Miami's-10 win over ... Duke.

UMiami 2006 is not UMiami of prior years, especially against opponents they care nothing about (like Houston, or Duke).

Yea, actually it would be "that Miami"...the same Miami that for the past thirteen years has possessed one of the deepest and most talented top-to-bottom rosters in modern college athletics.

And we played them to a one-point game in their convict-filled stadium, in the middle of their crime-ridden city, on national TV.

Miami brought it on every play. Trust me. Had SMU played Miami the clock wouldn't have run out with SMU inside their ten. It might, however, have run out with SMU inside their CAT scan machine.

gardbarns wrote:I somehow missed the engineering reference there Timmy, my bad. If you read Barthelme your English skills are way ahead of my math abilities.

As for you Muffie: Macbeth 5.5.26-28.

Of course by Saturday, you'll need to google Macbeth 5.5.13.

Now if you will excuse me, I've got to go find my mop.

Muffie???!!!

To quote Al Pacino as Lt. Colonel Frank Slade in "Scent of A Woman" as his character is addressing Chris O'Connell's Headmaster at 'The Baird School"...And you too !!

(okay, I am getting max usage of this emoticon before moderator tells me to cool it!)

OC Mustang wrote:(okay, I am getting max usage of this emoticon before moderator tells me to cool it!)

Here's a tip. Stop saying that as it detracts from the effectiveness of its use.

Watch out for Raplh if you keep tlaking about Muffie.