Students need to police themselves

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Come on Esard, I love today's students, other than:

1)  Doing the ripped off chant from USU
2)  The announcer saying "the best sixth man in the country" while the spot lights circle a completely empty upper deck (maybe they should chnage the spot lights to just show the bottom deck some nights - or stop the saying all together)
3)  Big Heads that only students would know (Kind of tired of the big head thing all together).

1) I think it sounds pretty cool. We should definitely do something at the beginning. If you can come up with something original, I'm sure they would listen.
2) Every announcer says that about their student section. It's a requirement.
3) Didn't we start the big heads? It would be a disaster to stop those.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

3) Didn't we start the big heads? It would be a disaster to stop those.

To be honest even students dont like the big heads. Theyre more annoying and bothersome then anything. They take up space, if someone actually decides to hold one up (nobody really does) the people behing them cant see the game and theyre just awkward and bulky. They were coll for like the first 3 games I went to freshman year but now im not too fond of them.

[keefe]

the people behing them cant see the game

Nothing worse than going to a concert and having the hippie chick in front of you doing the Dead Dance all night long.

[Coleman]

Keefe, are these pics from your personal collection?

[keefe]

Keefe, are these pics from your personal collection?

I'm the Dead Head in the yellow tie dye. Peyote Tea, A warm summer's day, and Franklin's Tower...

[Coleman]

I'm the Dead Head in the yellow tie dye. Peyote Tea, A warm summer's day, and Franklin's Tower...

Nice hair!

[swoopem]

I'm the Dead Head in the yellow tie dye. Peyote Tea, A warm summer's day, and Franklin's Tower...

Nice, was that a Help On the Way>Slipknot>Franklin's Tower or just a Franklin's?

[keefe]

Nice, was that a Help On the Way>Slipknot>Franklin's Tower or just a Franklin's?

I have seen it both ways. But Help on the Way>Slipknot>Franklin's at Winterland June '77 was definitive. We road tripped down to SF for 2 shows in that stand. Slept in a Chevy van.

You realize, of course, that isn't me in that photo? 

[ZiggysFryBoy]

I have seen it both ways. But Help on the Way>Slipknot>Franklin's at Winterland June '77 was definitive. We road tripped down to SF for 2 shows in that stand. Slept in a Chevy van.

You realize, of course, that isn't me in that photo? 

sher it ain't.  Your old lady is the one in the purple with her dress fallin down. 

Imagine that unshorn box.   

[swoopem]

I have seen it both ways. But Help on the Way>Slipknot>Franklin's at Winterland June '77 was definitive. We road tripped down to SF for 2 shows in that stand. Slept in a Chevy van.

You realize, of course, that isn't me in that photo? 

Yeah I know it ain't you. '77 is my favorite Dead year by far. It just sucks I wasn't alive to witness it

[keefe]

Sorry Keefe, I disagree. My only regret was when I was a kid and had a thimbleful of talent, I didn't work on it, improve my throwing arm and/or my hitting skills and become that second baseman.

Frankly, the Seattle Mariners had to do something. That team was awful last year. I went to a Mariners game while I was in Seattle on business and Safeco was becoming Ghostco, so few people were there. The Mariners were becoming the Seattle equivalent of UM-M or something.

By the way, are you stationed at Joint base McChord? Or are you retired?

The M's try to do something every winter. The key is doing something that actually works!

I was stationed at JBLM to support I Corps. TACP's are embedded with Ranger teams so our operational alignment is with an Army Corps. Most of my work was with III Corps at Ft Hood but I got up here as my wife was a long-time Softie overseas who went to Redmond when I went back into the USAF.

After 2 Iraqs and 4 A Stans I finally caught one outside J Bad so I was medically discharged. Free Medical care for life and every month the Eagle flies over my house and craps out an $9,000 egg which I actually give to charity.

Funny thing is that when you are there you think about here and when you are here you think about there. 

[rocky_warrior]

Yes. Night HALO from 30 on supplemental oxygen with a 1.8 AGL. We can simulate the TACP Combat load-out by carrying 120 pounds of dead weight.

If you are serious I can set it up. I have the gear and I know guys who will fly us. The only change I might suggest is to use T-11's unless you have experience with blades. A further caveat is that we would jump with 300+ pounds so you need to be confident with that much weight. And the offer stands: If you beat me I will buy you a car. You need to figure out what I get if you beat me?

What people need to realize is that age is a state of mind. I went through Jump School at Bragg and Yuma past age 40 and it kicked my ass. But success in anything requiring physical skill and strength is not limited by age. I know a lot of Seals, Rangers, and TACPs in their 40's who are beasts. 

Now, since you are taking the piss out me I am curious what you are saying to Hards Alumni for making his petulant comment about age? Justice is applied equally or it is actually not being applied.

But if you are serious I can set the jump and I know the perfect C Course we can do this on. The 10k has about 3.5k' elevation gain. If you are jumper then you know - all the world's a drop zone.

Well I would have accepted a simple "yes" to the question, but I'll respond a bit.   

Not "taking the piss out of you", I just thought it sounded like fun!  To Hard's I would stay "Stop harassing old farts!", for which you need to know I'm in your mindset - you're as old as you want to be - but you do have to recognize that 'those damn kids' see you as an old fart.

I have no interest in carrying out a bet, especially for a car (I've got 3 paid off, and no space for any more).  I would need to get certified for solo skydiving (which I'm willing to do), but after that it sounds like a fun competition.  Though I'd also have to back down on the weight carried a bit, I don't need to risk any unnecessary damage to my already bad knees (no, they don't keep me from running, skiing, climbing, or anything else fun, I just need to baby them a bit).

Anyhow, if you really want to do this someday (just for kicks), shoot me a PM.  If I get to the point they let me jump out of a plane all alone, we'll be good to go.  Or we could just do the 10k, but that's not nearly as fun.

[keefe]

sher it ain't.  Your old lady is the one in the purple with her dress fallin down. 

Imagine that unshorn box.   

Dedicated Dead Head chicks keep the downstairs freshly mown because of all the road time and lack of access to showers. It's the pits that are lush, untamed ecosystems hosting a variety of life forms.

[keefe]

Yeah I know it ain't you. '77 is my favorite Dead year by far. It just sucks I wasn't alive to witness it

We saw 2 shows at Winterland in June '77. From what I remember it was incredible.

[keefe]

Well I would have accepted a simple "yes" to the question, but I'll respond a bit.   

Not "taking the piss out of you", I just thought it sounded like fun!  To Hard's I would stay "Stop harassing old farts!", for which you need to know I'm in your mindset - you're as old as you want to be - but you do have to recognize that 'those damn kids' see you as an old fart.

I have no interest in carrying out a bet, especially for a car (I've got 3 paid off, and no space for any more).  I would need to get certified for solo skydiving (which I'm willing to do), but after that it sounds like a fun competition.  Though I'd also have to back down on the weight carried a bit, I don't need to risk any unnecessary damage to my already bad knees (no, they don't keep me from running, skiing, climbing, or anything else fun, I just need to baby them a bit).

Anyhow, if you really want to do this someday (just for kicks), shoot me a PM.  If I get to the point they let me jump out of a plane all alone, we'll be good to go.  Or we could just do the 10k, but that's not nearly as fun.

Get your jump qual and we can talk. Blades require a fairly extensive amount of experience as does night jumping so we would have to use T 11's during the day. HALOs are a kick in the pants because you free fall 20k+. There are some C and Q courses on this coast that are superb for adventure jumping and I know enough guys who would take us up. You're in SoCal, right? If so, I can get us into the Yuma range which is perfect for this sort of fun.

[NCMUFan]

Ok bright MUers.  Lets figure this out. 
http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/voice-level-d_938.html
So at 1 foot, shouting is about 88 dB.
If we do the -6 dB per doubling of distance by the time we get to 16 feet from the shouter we are down to 64 dB.  The ambient noise in the Bradley center is probably around 64 dB.  Hence if you were over 20 feet from the buffoons you probably never heard anything.