sig bets are blah. half of us are illiterate anyhow [prominently featured in the mizzou-kansas thread] and can't read them in the first place. therefore, i propose a shirt/avatar bet. when michigan wins you osu hacks have to buy this shirt:
and afterward you must take a picture of yrself - thumbs up, a bright smile - and post it to the board. look pretty, b/c that's yr new avatar.
if something catastrophic happens between now and then - gravity fails, gwb mumbles something remotely coherent, osu wins - then we michigan bandwagoning lowlifes will buy the osu equivalent and do the same.
Also, what about a small monetary donation to the winning school charity? So, if UM wins, I will donate $5/10 to the victors club in my name and vice versa?
Sky wrote:Also, what about a small monetary donation to the winning school charity? So, if UM wins, I will donate $5/10 to the victors club in my name and vice versa?
maybe i could hijack the osu donations and divert them to namibia [imagine]? the pc hiv/aids committee sells calendars every year around this time to raise money for education and prevention programs that current volunteers create for their schools. i used to run the committee and was responsible for handing out the dosh, and 99.5% of money raised [aside from calender costs, and if i remember correctly there's about a 600% markup] was directly applied to the proposals. it's $12 and you'll get a calendar out of the deal, if that's cool.
I'm in for the calendar. It would be nice if all of our hot air actually did something besides reducing our productive hours. So are we saying calendar and tshirt? I'm cool with that but I could see some saying no to $25.
M Club wrote:the pc hiv/aids committee sells calendars every year around this time to raise money for education and prevention programs that current volunteers create for their schools.
BTW, any of you punks going to the game this weekend? I will be in AA early Saturday morning. PM me if any of you want to meet up for a few beers. --Lance
“My dentist, that’s another beauty, my dentist, you kiddin’ me. It cost me five thousand dollars to have all new teeth put in. Now he tells me I need braces!” —Rodney Dangerfield
Sky wrote:I'm in for the calendar. It would be nice if all of our hot air actually did something besides reducing our productive hours. So are we saying calendar and tshirt? I'm cool with that but I could see some saying no to $25.
calendar's actually $11. whoops. and i'm sure you can find someone more than willing to let you borrow a shirt for the photo shoot. i'll even send you my i heart hart shirt if that's what's required for me to dominate your avatar.
Just a wild guess here, but I'm guessing their names are Venus and Serena. Respectively.
“My dentist, that’s another beauty, my dentist, you kiddin’ me. It cost me five thousand dollars to have all new teeth put in. Now he tells me I need braces!” —Rodney Dangerfield
IndyFrisco wrote:
Everyone get in line for Miss January!
it's a namibian calender, so you have to use namibian models.
miss january and her runner up:
miss february:
It may saound racist but they all look the same to me. Seriously...I could not tell the difference between what you posted and what I posted. Yeah, I googled ethiopia to get my pic. I would not have known the difference in the pics though.
M Club wrote:calendar's actually $11. whoops. and i'm sure you can find someone more than willing to let you borrow a shirt for the photo shoot. i'll even send you my i heart hart shirt if that's what's required for me to dominate your avatar.
No, I'm in regardless and I like the idea of buying a shirt. I have a UM shirt believe it or not but I will buy an IHH if he finally beats tOSU.
it sounds racist, but only because we're hyper-sensitive to the accusation, what, all black people look alike? i don't think it's an indicator of racism as much as it's a marker of ignorance. not ignorance like you root for an sec team and justify sex with your sister b/c you're 42 and she's 17, so it's not like you ever lived together; but ignorance like you've never been to africa and become attenuated to the physical differences between tribes. the flip was that many of the ppl i lived near couldn't tell the differences between white folk. i got away with my girlfriend staying in my house so often b/c ppl thought we looked alike and figured she was my sister, even though she was half black. then there are northern asians. it wasn't till i taught esl to families at umich that i was able to peg which country people were from. africans tend to call anyone who looks remotely asian a "china."
No, not that all blacks look alike to me. All tribal folk dressed in the manner in which both you and I posted look alike to me. You probably see differences in hair/jewelry/clothing. I do not.
IndyFrisco wrote:No, not that all blacks look alike to me. All tribal folk dressed in the manner in which both you and I posted look alike to me. You probably see differences in hair/jewelry/clothing. I do not.
maybe i latched onto the black thing, but the phenomenon still exists. and yes, i'm fairly decent at placing general regional differences.
IndyFrisco wrote:No, not that all blacks look alike to me. All tribal folk dressed in the manner in which both you and I posted look alike to me. You probably see differences in hair/jewelry/clothing. I do not.
maybe i latched onto the black thing, but the phenomenon still exists. and yes, i'm fairly decent at placing general regional differences.
Yeah, I agree. It is ignorance. Not proud or ashamed of it. Just indifferent. Impossible to know everything about everything when you aren't from the U&L. ;)
If there is a scUM fan in the house that can read, its practically a lock that they're lying. However, if there is one in here that can stomach a sig bet instead of wearing some bullshit, let me know.
Who is in for the sig bet / calendar purchase? tOSU wins, you UM guys have to buy a calendar and we pick your sig till bowl season is over. UM wins, we run the opposite.
MClub, we'll just do a side bet with the Tshirts and pics.
everyone seems so assured their team will win. you don't actually have to wear the shirt unless your team loses. ergo, it seems i only have to wait for sky to post that pic...
If you want to purchase the Namibia 2008 calendar and you want to mail
them home...it might be easier to just send my mom an email with how
many calendars you want to buy and where you want them sent. The cost
of the calendars in the States is $11, but that includes shipping.
Did I actually sign up for the calendar? I guess I'm a dick if I don't follow through...I'll just donate money, no goofy door prizes for me.
Where's the sigs?
Shoalz,
I took your "im in for the sig bet" from a different thread. You never said yes to the calendar so don't worry about it. You know, what's $11 to a bunch of starved HIV+ no running water kids from Africa. I wouldn't lose any sleep. :wink:
Don't give that me guilt trip shit around the holidays...
Just tell me where to write and I'll scratch a bigger check than $11 for the cause. I need to find places to donate some money...those folks over there need the money more than I do.
Shoalzie wrote:...those folks over there need the money more than I do.
about five other volunteers and i used some of the calendar money to arrange for students to tour the hiv facilities at a local hospital as well as undergo testing. it sounds inconsequential to take 80 random learners on a field trip of sorts, but aside from making it out of the village and into towns to actually get tested, there are a lot of misconceptions about the testing process that these kids were probably able to clear up much more effectively than i was by simply telling them it was a good idea. plus hiv is talked about openly in a hospital setting, whereas in the village no one has aids but a lot of ppl get malaria. we used money for food and transport; the testing is offered free by the namibian government. some photos:
my students and me
getting a tour
waiting for the counseling that precedes the tests
waiting for test results
and none of mine had hiv. phew. results are confidential, but they wore their relief quite openly.
