1st Scoop Meme Tournament Championship game - How did we get here?

[Lennys Tap]

What a terrible final
Count these letters up
Who gives a crap?

when it comes to art
devotees of statistics
just don't understand

[keefe]

Kais. I think the school is only maybe 20 years old. I'll ask them about St Mary's. I am very proud of them - taking the road less traveled and stretching oneself is rewarding but initially a little daunting. We've been over there twice, the last time we took the whole family. Fascinating, indeed.

That's a newer school I am thinking. It's scary but I haven't lived in Tokyo in a dozen years now.

More power to your kids. I love to see young Americans getting out and experiencing the world. There is no better way to improve our image as a people than to have our best and brightest represent us on a daily basis in simple yet profound ways. And to bring those insights back to these shores only makes us a more intelligent, accepting, and discerning people.

[keefe]

What a terrible final
Count these letters up
Who gives a crap?

a poet sees grace
the accountant sees numbers
statistics are blind

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Summertime on Scoop
Meme Tournament to pass time
Soon Marquette Madness

[Lennys Tap]

That's a newer school I am thinking. It's scary but I haven't lived in Tokyo in a dozen years now.

More power to your kids. I love to see young Americans getting out and experiencing the world. There is no better way to improve our image as a people than to have our best and brightest represent us on a daily basis in simple yet profound ways. And to bring those insights back to these shores only makes us a more intelligent, accepting, and discerning people.

Amen, brother Keefe.

[Henry Sugar]

It is entirely appropriate to compare these two finalists to a UW vs ND game. I'm not even voting. However, regardless of what I think of the two finalists, I'd like to thank mu03eng for pulling this entire tournament together.



It's not too late to pull a FIFA and have Mbakwe declared the winner.

[77ncaachamps]

Haikus about Tanned Tommy?!

A TIE!

[mu03eng]

It's not too late to pull a FIFA and have Mbakwe declared the winner.

I'm considering accusing Tanned Tommy and Haikus of Luis Suarez'ing each other and having Mbakwe coming in to settle it.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Uh, no.

Doesn't mean really?  Or isn't hontou, but honto?


I'm 99.999% sure it means "really", though my Japanese is rusty.   I was taught hontou, not honto.   

Hontou desu ka　本当ですか

[ChicosBailBonds]

Beautiful Redskin
Honor Your Fantastic
Stronger Ever Nickname

[ChicosBailBonds]

Somnolent buzzard
squirmy in victory
chicken so bizarre

[chapman]

This thread shifts the tide
Creepy tan guy going down
Let the match begin!

[keefe]

Doesn't mean really?  Or isn't hontou, but honto?


I'm 99.999% sure it means "really", though my Japanese is rusty.   I was taught hontou, not honto.   

Hontou desu ka　本当ですか

You were correct on Honto meaning really, though it is idiomatic and can be used to express surprise, emphasis, doubt, suspicion, or pleasure. It is a milder form of the idiom, "Ara" which is more similar to our "WTF?/!/..."

My comment was on adding the oo ending to which makes it a statement of fact rather than an idiom. No big deal. I sometimes forget silly words in Japanese as I don't use it daily. It was nice when my wife was around as we actually spoke it daily.

[keefe]

meme tournament
not bad for a navy puke
one for the ages

[Lennys Tap]

Beautiful Redskin
Honor Your Fantastic
Stronger Ever Nickname

a racist nickname
celebrated by a fool
beyond pathetic

[ChicosBailBonds]

a racist nickname
celebrated by a fool
beyond pathetic

Calling all those Native Americans racist and fools for supporting the nickname that they do.  Now, that is truly pathetic.  Especially since you don't have a single drop of Native American blood in you.  Calling them dumb, foolish, racist.  Not surprising.

And your Haiku doesn't conform properly, which makes it even funnier....and pathetic.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Merciful lawsuit
assault your coverup
buzzard ever shameful

[Lennys Tap]

And your Haiku doesn't conform properly, which makes it even funnier....and pathetic.

Still can't count?

[Lennys Tap]

Merciful lawsuit
assault your coverup
buzzard ever shameful

5-6-6?

Still can't count? It's 5-7-5. As dumb as you are unfunny. LOL.

[wadesworld]

a poet sees grace
the accountant sees numbers
statistics are blind

What does the poetic accountant see?

Or the English major working as an accountant?

At any rate, if haikus had been as good in the regular season as they have been in the NCAA Tourney there may not be as much controversy surrounding their selection into the tourney and their deep tourney run that followed. Is their point guard starving?

[Lennys Tap]

Beautiful Redskin
Honor Your Fantastic
Stronger Ever Nickname

5-6-6

Wrong again. This is fun.

[wadesworld]

5-6-6

Wrong again.

Lenny's obsession
Chicos hide the wife and kids
He may be outside

[ChicosBailBonds]

Still can't count?

I can count fine, the problem is that you are assuming it is tied to syllables, when a traditional haiku is not.  Part of the westernization of the haiku.  It is based using ons, which doesn't always translate to syllables.  For example, 17 ons equals roughly 12 syllables.  It's cool, we're all violating it.  You learn this in Japanese literature like I did in graduate school at KU.

Now please stop calling Native Americans racist, dumb, stupid, foolish for supporting that nickname.  It's not becoming of you.

[Lennys Tap]

Calling all those Native Americans racist and fools for supporting the nickname that they do.  Now, that is truly pathetic.  Especially since you don't have a single drop of Native American blood in you.  Calling them dumb, foolish, racist.  Not surprising.

all words have meanings
read any dictionary
the truth trumps all polls

5-7-5, see?

I can't speak for the Native Americans. I don't know what questions were asked in the poll and whether those asked are aware that redskin is by definition a racial slur.

But I do know that the word is a racial slur. And you do too. So I won't celebrate it. You will. There's a name for that, and hiding behind a poll doesn't change it.

[Lennys Tap]

I can count fine, the problem is that you are assuming it is tied to syllables, when a traditional haiku is not.  Part of the westernization of the haiku.  

LOL. Westernized versions? Maybe you should write yours in Japanese. Couldn't be less clever.