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[Russdawg]

9 more days until kickoff. Single digits, YA GOTTA LOVE IT!

• #9 VERNON BUTLER, Bulldog senior defensive end from Summit, Ms. Has 120 tackles in his career, 59 solo and 61 assisted. For 2015 Vernon is on the 2015 Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List, 2015 Outland Trophy Award Watch List, and is on the 2015 Preseason All-Conference USA. Here a couple of Vernon's stops while wearing number 45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_AgCMy7A0
• #9 DREW BREES, Saints SUPER BOWL-winning quarterback.
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• #9 TED WILLIAMS, Major League baseball legend, last player to hit over .400 for the season.:
• Williams played his entire career with the Red Sox, all 19 seasons spanning the years 1939 to 1960. During that time period, Ted Williams also took time out from baseball to serve his country in both WWII and the Korean War. Amazing. His statistics at the plate are quite overwhelming too. He was a .344 career hitter, also becoming the last player in MLB to ever hit over .400, as of 2008. (He batted .407 in 1953).
• 521 career homers
• 525 career doubles
• 2,654 career hits in 7,706 at-bats
• 1,839 RBI
• 5 time MLB player of the year
• 2 time AL MVP (1946 and 1949)
• 2 time Triple Crown winner (1946 and 1947)
• 6 time AL Batting champ
• 17 time All-Star

[70TECHGRAD]

One week and two days til GAME DAY!!! It is coming down to the wire now!!

[OLDBLUE]

Don't forget Phil Robertson.

Wish I could get to "the Hit" video!

John M. Leonard

(Errr, sorry, a day late#10)

[Dwayne From Minden]

9 more days until kickoff. Single digits, YA GOTTA LOVE IT!

• #9 VERNON BUTLER, Bulldog senior defensive end from Summit, Ms. Has 120 tackles in his career, 59 solo and 61 assisted. For 2015 Vernon is on the 2015 Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List, 2015 Outland Trophy Award Watch List, and is on the 2015 Preseason All-Conference USA. Here a couple of Vernon's stops while wearing number 45: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A_AgCMy7A0
• #9 DREW BREES, Saints SUPER BOWL-winning quarterback.
• 
• #9 TED WILLIAMS, Major League baseball legend, last player to hit over .400 for the season.:
• Williams played his entire career with the Red Sox, all 19 seasons spanning the years 1939 to 1960. During that time period, Ted Williams also took time out from baseball to serve his country in both WWII and the Korean War. Amazing. His statistics at the plate are quite overwhelming too. He was a .344 career hitter, also becoming the last player in MLB to ever hit over .400, as of 2008. (He batted .407 in 1953).
• 521 career homers
• 525 career doubles
• 2,654 career hits in 7,706 at-bats
• 1,839 RBI
• 5 time MLB player of the year
• 2 time AL MVP (1946 and 1949)
• 2 time Triple Crown winner (1946 and 1947)
• 6 time AL Batting champ
• 17 time All-Star

John Simon

[ChipDog]

Very sad. An elderly woman is being threatened by people with what seems to be an Indian accent and she has sent them money out of fear. They finally called from a phone number (408) 915-5290 and said they were from the FBI and we're coming to get her and take her to India to jail.

[Russdawg]

John Simon

Excellent!! Thank you very much.

8 more days until kickoff. Can you feel it in the air? BULLDOG FOOTBALL!

• #8 VONRARRIUS DORA, Bulldog senior defensive end from West Point, MS. Dora has 99 tackles for our Bulldogs, 33 solo and 66 assists, and is on the Rotary Lombardi Award Watch List, joining teammate Vernon Butler.
• #8 JOHN SIMON, 1998-2001 Bulldog all-purpose star. Simon gained 4,852 all-purpose yards and started all four years. After three years in the NFL (Titans, Redskins) John coach here and is currently the running backs coach at USM. Some Tech stats:
• receiving: 262 catches for 2,596 yards and 10 touchdowns
• rushing: 213 carries for 1,121 yards and 5 touchdowns
• return: 38 punt returns for a 7.6 yd average; 35 kickoff returns for a 21.3 average
• 2001 WAC championship team
• #8 YOGI BERRA is one of the icons of baseball and America. Berra played almost his entire career with the Yankees. He played with the Bombers between 1946 and 1963, and then had a few games with the Mets in 1965. His first full season as a Yank came in 1948 when he split the season between the outfield and catcher positions. That year he batted .305 with 14 homers and 98 RBI. Some Yogi stats:
  
  358 career homers
  • 2,150 career hits
  • .285 career batting average
• • 10 time World Series champion
  • 3 time AL MVP (1951, 1954 and 1955)
  • 1972 Baseball Hall of Fame inductee
  • Jersey Number 8 retired by the Yankees
• SOME YOGI QUOTES FOR YOUR ENJOYMENT:
• “It ain’t over ’til it’s over”“It’s deja vu all over again”“When you come to a fork in the road … take it”“I usually take a two hour nap from one to four”“Never answer an anonymous letter”“I didn’t really say everything I said”“I want to thank you for making this day necessary”“We made too many wrong mistakes”“You can observe a lot by watching”“The future ain’t what it used to be”“It gets late early out here”“If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be”“If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark,
  nobody’s going to stop them”“Pair up in threes”“Why buy good luggage, you only use it when you travel”

[Houston Techsan]

Russ, thanks for the Yogi quotes.

[70TECHGRAD]

I just received this and found it to be very informative:

HELL EXPLAINED

The following is an actual question given on a University of Arizona chemistry midterm, and an actual answer turned in by a student.

The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving, which is unlikely. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:



1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct..... ...leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God.'

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

[Russdawg]

Russ, thanks for the Yogi quotes.

You're welcome. Thanks for the inspiration on this thread: already working on ideas for next year's countdown! And ya gotta love Yogi, #8. Still alive at age 90. A couple of additional Yogi-isms to add to those above:

*As a general comment on baseball: "90% of the game is half-mental."
*On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
*"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours."

[Russdawg]

7 more days until kickoff from Saturday. Seven days without football makes one weak.

• #7 MR. XAVIER WOODS, Bulldog junior safety from West Monroe.

• 2014: Set a school record with 230 interception return yards on six interceptions (two for touchdowns) while he was second on the team with 71 total tackles (52 solo, 19 assisted), 3.5 tackles for a loss of 13 yards including a solo sack for a loss of nine yards, seven pass brak-ups, three forced fumbles, one QB hurry and a blocked kick.
• 2013: Played in all 12 games, starting in 10, recording 61 total tackles (32 solo, 29 assisted) with three tackles for a loss of five yards and was credited with two pass break-ups
• More: 2015 Bronko Nagurski Award Watch List
  2015 Jim Thorpe Award Watch List
  2015 Preseason All-Conference USA
  2014 Conference USA All-Academic Team
  2014 All-Conference USA First Team
  2014 All-Louisiana Second Team
• Get excited: Xavier's 2014 highlight film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz725CTtzYQ
• #7 MICKEY MANTLE, major league baseball star:
• All-Star: 1952-1965, 1967-1968
• MVP, 1956-1957, 1962
• Twelve-time pennant winner
• Seven-time World Series winner
• World Series record-holder for: home runs (18,) RBI (40,) runs (42,) walks (43,) extra-base hits (26,) and total bases (123.)
• Mickey was the first switch-hitter to reach 500 career home runs?

[OLDBLUE]

I just received this and found it to be very informative:

HELL EXPLAINED

The following is an actual question given on a University of Arizona chemistry midterm, and an actual answer turned in by a student.

The answer by one student was so 'profound' that the professor shared it with colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now have the pleasure of enjoying it as well :

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law (gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.
One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving, which is unlikely. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today.

Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell. Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:



1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.

2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?

If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, 'It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you,' and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct..... ...leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting 'Oh my God.'

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+.

I got a problem with that - "using Boyle's Law" to prove it??? Boyle's Law states that AT CONSTANT TEMPERATURE and constant # of moles (soles entering n not = constant), Pressure and volume are inverse. I'd give him a 50%. Hell may freeze over, given his rationale, but it'd have to freeze at a very high temperature.

[OLDBLUE]

7 more days until kickoff from Saturday. Seven days without football makes one weak.

• #7 MR. XAVIER WOODS, Bulldog junior safety from West Monroe.

• 2014: Set a school record with 230 interception return yards on six interceptions (two for touchdowns) while he was second on the team with 71 total tackles (52 solo, 19 assisted), 3.5 tackles for a loss of 13 yards including a solo sack for a loss of nine yards, seven pass brak-ups, three forced fumbles, one QB hurry and a blocked kick.
• 2013: Played in all 12 games, starting in 10, recording 61 total tackles (32 solo, 29 assisted) with three tackles for a loss of five yards and was credited with two pass break-ups
• More: 2015 Bronko Nagurski Award Watch List
  2015 Jim Thorpe Award Watch List
  2015 Preseason All-Conference USA
  2014 Conference USA All-Academic Team
  2014 All-Conference USA First Team
  2014 All-Louisiana Second Team
• Get excited: Xavier's 2014 highlight film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yz725CTtzYQ
• #7 MICKEY MANTLE, major league baseball star:
• All-Star: 1952-1965, 1967-1968
• MVP, 1956-1957, 1962
• Twelve-time pennant winner
• Seven-time World Series winner
• World Series record-holder for: home runs (18,) RBI (40,) runs (42,) walks (43,) extra-base hits (26,) and total bases (123.)
• Mickey was the first switch-hitter to reach 500 career home runs?

The other Mickey's Rookie year in Denver????

[70TECHGRAD]

I got a problem with that - "using Boyle's Law" to prove it??? Boyle's Law states that AT CONSTANT TEMPERATURE and constant # of moles (soles entering n not = constant), Pressure and volume are inverse. I'd give him a 50%. Hell may freeze over, given his rationale, but it'd have to freeze at a very high temperature.

But....his ladyfriend said.....and then she said....

[OLDBLUE]

Sorry, souls.

[70TECHGRAD]

Sorry, souls.

They will definitely be sorry souls if they go to Hell!