I’m an old sports writer. That is, I was a newspaper sports writer a long, long time ago. It was fun! I was a young man, and I actually enjoyed it for exactly one year. Then, the seasons began to repeat, and I found myself asking a new cast of teenage athletes the same old questions. Just like that, it wasn’t fun anymore. Soon began an equally brief career in public relations. That wasn’t fun, either, but at least everyone with whom I had to interact was fully clothed. Now, what brought that up? Oh, yeah! I turned on the NCAA men’s basketball championship game last night and watched a bit. It looked like it was going to be a stem-winder between powerhouse North Carolina and underdog Gonzaga, but I’d gotten up early Monday morning, and I went to sleep. I woke up today to the unsurprising news North Carolina had won. However, it seemed half the accounts were about Gonzaga’s disappointment or Gonzaga’s frustration or Gonzaga’s failure to win or (I didn’t see this word actually used, but it was liberally implied.) Gonzaga’s shame. I know how it is to try and make the outcome of yet another athletic contest interesting when it all boils town to one team scoring more than the other, but it’s gotten out of hand. Sure the young men of Gonzaga feel badly, but now the story of Gonzaga basketball becomes one of a struggle for redemption. At the risk of zagging off on a tangent, I can’t resist closing by saying, as an alumni of Auburn University and therefore a titular fan of our basketball program, LMAO!
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B’ugs – sent stuff e-mail for your dad.
OK – has he/she told you its name yet?
Dark Blue = Midnight?
Steely Blue = Remington (Steele) you remember him?
I had the pleasure of spending the weekend in Auburn,AL, reminiscing with my class mates from the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine Class of 1967! We even had two of our old professors talk to us. One was dean for 25 years and is now a Dean Emeritus. 42 members of the class survive and 37 were present. We started out with 77 and graduated 67 in 1967! Social promotion was unheard of back then. There was one female in our class and probably not over five in the entire college of approximately 250. Our female classmate was present. The ratio is almost reversed in the classes of this era. The outing was very enjoyable and I am now a Golden Eagle.
God bless us every one. God bless the USA.
April 6 is the 100 anniversary of the US entry into WWI
A couple of tunes of the period —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0juNp87uAYg&list=PLsMrHKHTLNqlaEMVvgOrtcLQRvdgdtp-v&index=9
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgqVCJpRqWQ
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Then a whole group:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPLS5nNFWTU&list=PLsMrHKHTLNqlaEMVvgOrtcLQRvdgdtp-v
Almost posted multiple links
later
My feet hurt! But that’s OK. We’re visiting my nephews (and their wives, of course) in DC this week. Took the AutoTrain up; we’ve always wanted to do so and this seemed like a good time since our car would be more heavily packed than usual. We brought my dad’s old rolltop desk; my brother had had it when his sons were growing up but their mom dumped it on us after he passed away. (Long story/soap opera there!)
Yesterday we spent the afternoon walking from one monument to another – WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Korea. Circled the Tidal Basin enjoying the cherry blossoms on our way to the Jefferson Memorial. FDR memorial was also interesting. Ended the day at the Blaguard, our nephew’s favorite Irish pub.
More walking today around the Glover Park neighborhood and into Georgetown. Mostly downhill to begin with, too steep to go home the same way so we caught a bus 🙂
Looks like we’ll be going to a Washington Nationals baseball game tomorrow. I hope this nice weather continues!
Thanks Old Bear. I have been sleep deprived lately and saw several magazines about WW1 at the Checkout and laughed, thinking they wee really behind in rotating their stock! I knew better.
Ruth Anne Washington DC is one of my favorite cities in the world.Because of summer schedules, I never took my kids there and regretted it. When my son graduated college, he took a job near Dulles airport, so I was finally able to enjoy the city with my kids, even though my daughter was in college. My son moved back to Michigan in 2011, but his wife’s brother still lives in the area. Maybe when my grandson is older, we can go along with him and explore the city together.
Jimmy:
For the same reason, I never to sports talk radio programs. It’s always the same thing year after year.
LMAO? You left your aardvark outside?
Bookworm: I believe a “welcome back” is in order – both here and over on your blog! If I’m making the correct association, perhaps you should introduce “blackout poetry” to this crowd.
Domaucan — What is “social promotion”?
“Social promotion” is the practice of keeping all students in a class together regardless of their performance. No one fails. Or as Wikipedia puts it, “Advocates of social promotion argue that promotion is done in order not to harm the students’ or their classmates’ self-esteem, to encourage socialization by age (together with their age cohort), to facilitate student involvement in sports teams, or to promote a student who is weak in one subject on the basis of strength in the other areas.”
After all, as we go through life we do so with people our own age, right?
What do they call the student last in class in medical school?
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Doctor
A professor at the UofM engineering school has the reputation of failing
students and once failed almost an entire class – the board called him in
and told him he could not do that.
His answer was,” they get it or they don’t, I don’t want to cross a bridge
of an engineer that cant get his calculations correct”.
Ruth Anne in Winter Park, you must be talking about a different Bookworm. Not a very original handle, but it’s what I came up with back when the Internet was new because the book I was reading was sitting on the desk next to my computer. I’m in the habit now, and still use it unless it’s taken on a given site — and it usually is.
Social promotion actually exists in university-level classes?
I have heard of “a gentleman’s C” being used on extremely rare occasion but never actual social promotion.
If it actually does exist, that explains quite a few college “graduates” I’ve had the displeasure of meeting over the past forty years.
Thinking about Domacain and his remarks, when I enrolled in ag school in early 60s there were NO women before us, only males. They integrated with five brave women. We were so rare that we were never actually in class together.
No one ever cut us any slack except when the president of the University, who had been dean that let me into school, hired me for horticulture department and told me to pass chemistry so I could graduate.
I did. Not sure that wasn’t “social”?
Bookworm: So just “Welcome” then 🙂 Interesting coincidence that your post showed up here on the same day that a post appeared on her long-inactive blog.
April is National Poetry Month which inspired this post from a former (or maybe just lurking?) member of our Village – http://bookladyspeaks.blogspot.com/
Good morning Villagers….
Expecting severe weather here today also. It’s that time of year though.
Yes, Jerry has been unusually quite.
Been busy trying to get my bookmarks back. Remember, Ian ‘dumped’ Windows 10 and downloaded 7. He’s going to go do some housecleaning for a friend of mine today. Yes, Ian does excellent work as a housekeeper.
Been doing some research Jackie, post your email account again. Lost my original one…the only thing different in my gmail account is you ad 01 after my name.
…and where has the music gone????? Need to do some U-tubing….GR 😉 hope you’re feeling better today…miss our ‘music’ sparring.
later…
Today’s TIP BlogSpot: Imogen found in the cave of Belarius. Lost the URL.
Imogen is apparently sleeping off a potion, but they think she’s dead. How original! It’s from Shakespeare’s ‘Cymbeline,’ Act. IV, I think.
Had a long discourse here / social promotion at college level, but it went off into cyberspace. Sum.: in a dispute before I had tenure, BSC acad. dean backed me up. Beginning of an undeserved rep. as a severe teacher, which evolved into rep of a legendary teach w/ high standards. Actually was told, while volunteering at the hospital yrs. after retirement, that I was a legend at BSU. Life is sometimes fair.
Peace,
Here’s something I never thought I’d say: Have y’all heard this by Nickleback? No, not as good as the original, but not awful, either.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh9Q6BGGU50
Ghost will enjoy Trappers post no doubt, I remember he likes that song Jean. No doubt a sharp dressed man?
So here’s another video I discovered just now. Great costuming and production values, correographing . That is a song I had never heard but with millions of views, I am sure others agree?
For Ghost, Sexy Ladies. https://youtu.be/Gcg__eDktgY
Here’s one of my all time country songs covered by my current favorite singer, Raul Malo. If I had two good knees I’d do this but I will get both done so I can. Dance lessons coming up in a year.
Love this. https://youtu.be/iISUdWb-CZQ
No sexy women, good song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttauAt-JfZg