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We interrupt this eternal North/South war terminology spat... - Redrum - 05-06-2015
...to pause and honor this marvelous construction:
"Rather rich for a war the South fired the first shots over."
That must have been one magnificent artillery piece. Fired a projectile that flew for five years before coming down.
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Nan3cy - 05-06-2015
(05-06-2015, 02:54 PM)CornFed link Wrote:Well, that was pretty predictable! :D What do you think, Nan3cy? Do we have a thread drift record?
If we don't, it ain't for lack of trying... :P
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - jacketree - 05-06-2015
Hey, get those things into orbit and anything can happen....
I think students from The Citadel fire the first Civil War shots, IIRC, trying to prevent the re-supply of Fort Sumter.
And if anyone says they have a simple explanation for the Civil War, which was incidentally between states, I am dubious. I blame Eli Whitney among others.....
I know they hadn't forgotten in Stone Mountain, GA. At least as of 1985. Yikes.......
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - terry - 05-06-2015
(05-06-2015, 03:13 PM)ferrari link Wrote:[quote author=CornFed link=topic=12082.msg117799#msg117799 date=1430949263]
Well, that was pretty predictable! :D What do you think, Nan3cy? Do we have a thread drift record?
Speaking of records, does anyone know who holds the Stanford record for tackles in a single game, season, and career?
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Most tackles in a game -- 27, Dave Wyman, at C'al, 1986
Most tackles in a season -- 196, Gordy Ceresino, 1977
Most tackles in a career -- 571, Gordy Ceresino, 1975-78
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Rally - 05-06-2015
(05-06-2015, 03:34 PM)terry link Wrote:[quote author=ferrari link=topic=12082.msg117803#msg117803 date=1430950383]
[quote author=CornFed link=topic=12082.msg117799#msg117799 date=1430949263]
Well, that was pretty predictable! :D What do you think, Nan3cy? Do we have a thread drift record?
Speaking of records, does anyone know who holds the Stanford record for tackles in a single game, season, and career?
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Most tackles in a game -- 27, Dave Wyman, at C'al, 1986
Most tackles in a season -- 196, Gordy Ceresino, 1977
Most tackles in a career -- 571, Gordy Ceresino, 1975-78
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Beasts! Any clips/details on Wyman and Ceresino? Where are they now? Pro careers? Does Ceresino have sons? There can't possibly be another sports forum even remotely like Cardboard.
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - CornFed - 05-06-2015
BTW, what is the wing speed of an African swallow?
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Hulk01 - 05-06-2015
Crap, I wanted the bonus points for knowing, off the top of my aging head, that Ceresino had the records.
He had 19 in bowl game, iirc.Â
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - terry - 05-06-2015
(05-06-2015, 04:50 PM)Hulk01 link Wrote:Crap, I wanted the bonus points for knowing, off the top of my aging head, that Ceresino had the records.
He had 19 in bowl game, iirc.
Ceresino had 22 tackles against LSU in the Sun Bowl, and 20 tackles against Georgia in the Bluebonnet Bowl.
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Rally - 05-06-2015
(05-06-2015, 04:42 PM)CornFed link Wrote:BTW, what is the wing speed of an African swallow?
Well, Cornfed, the short answer follows. With any luck this will provoke discussions of plagiarism, ease of research these days, and its effect on original critical thinking, but who knows?
http://style.org/unladenswallow/
Quote:Answer:Â Estimating the Airspeed Velocity of an Unladen Swallow
Hashing out the classic question with Strouhal numbers and simplified flight waveforms.
by Jonathan Corum
After spending some time last month trying to develop alternate graphic presentations for kinematic ratios in winged flight, I decided to try to answer one of the timeless questions of science: just what is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
What do you mean, an African or European Swallow?To begin with, I needed basic kinematic data on African and European swallow species.
South African Swallow
(Hirundo spilodera) European Swallow
(Hirundo rustica)
Although 47 of the 74 worldwide swallow species are found in Africa,1 only two species are named after the continent: the West African Swallow (Hirundo domicella) and the South African Swallow (Hirundo spilodera), also known as the South African Cave Swallow.
Since the range of the South African Swallow extends only as far north as Zaire,2 I felt fairly confident that this was the non-migratory African species referred to in previous discussions of the comparative and cooperative weight-bearing capabilities of African and European swallows.3
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Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - BostonCard - 05-06-2015
Raise your hand if you followed the link (sheepishly raising my hand).
BC
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Rally - 05-06-2015
(05-06-2015, 06:57 PM)Boston Card link Wrote:Raise your hand if you followed the link (sheepishly raising my hand).
BC
Too funny. Why do you think people follow links without thinking?
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - BostonCard - 05-06-2015
No, I didn't follow the link without thinking, which probably says more about me (and my geekishness) than if I had thoughtlessly followed the link. Hence, my quote about being sheepish in admitting that I followed the link.
BC
FWIW, if you are a certain type of person, like me, it was a cool link to follow.
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - dabigv13 - 05-06-2015
Excellent
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Rally - 05-06-2015
(05-06-2015, 08:31 PM)Boston Card link Wrote:No, I didn't follow the link without thinking, which probably says more about me (and my geekishness) than if I had thoughtlessly followed the link. Hence, my quote about being sheepish in admitting that I followed the link.
BC
FWIW, if you are a certain type of person, like me, it was a cool link to follow.
For what it's worth I would have followed the link, too, then kicked myself when I realized the poster (me :) had quoted the whole thing already. BC, we may both be nerds, but proud of it. Sometimes I catch myself saying something, adding something arcane to a conversation, or recommending something that elicits "what?" looks. Do you ever feel, in a private, unguarded moment, that you live in an alternate universe? I do. I have one friend, a very old friend, who gets what I mean. We speak rarely. Too frightening, maybe.
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - BostonCard - 05-06-2015
Actually, by the time I got to it, only the beginning was quoted. I assume that was the administrator's doing so as not to run afoul of copyright law.
BC
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - CompSci87 - 05-07-2015
Ah, I was wondering what was wrong with following the link, to the point where I scrolled back and gingerly followed it, expecting to get rickrolled or worse. :o
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Treebound - 05-07-2015
I followed the link with EUTM, as a lover of all things Monty Python! Thank you Ferrari as when I saw the "full Monty" of the the website, "there was much rejoicing!"
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - threepointer - 05-07-2015
What we really need on this thread is The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog to put a bloody end to it.
"Run Away....We better not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit is dynomite."
Better yet, send the link to Shaw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmu5sRIizdw
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - CornFed - 05-07-2015
Yvonne, is there still hope that we will have up arrows sometime? It would be really great if we could up arrow a million times per post. Just hopin', that's all.
Re: We may not get this recruit . . . - Spiny_Norman - 05-08-2015
(05-07-2015, 09:49 PM)threepointer link Wrote:What we really need on this thread is The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog to put a bloody end to it.
"Run Away....We better not risk another frontal assault. That rabbit is dynomite."
Better yet, send the link to Shaw.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmu5sRIizdw
I think the only way to end it is with the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. 'Tis one of the sacred relics Brother Maynard carries. Brother Maynard!
(to be followed by a reading from the Book of Armaments)