Thought we were addressing boorish behavior by some of the student section, nothing more, nothing less, but now we're into rants about collapsed welfare states, an enslaved citizenry, and (God forbid!) Ayn Rand.
As for the always tiresome comments on Redmen vs. Red Storm, just look at fkaSJU's avatar and you'll see one reason why the university couldn't defend the Redmen name by suggesting it had to do with shirts, not skin.
It goes without saying that the world would be a better place if every message on all of the internets chat boards were about a subject that you found personally interesting, because you seem fascinating. There would be no more boring off topic posts about civilization swirling down the toilet and no more tiresome commentary about giant sports puppets. Although I am sometimes guilty myself of wandering off the reserva - scratch that - of participating in thread drift, rest assured that I too long for the days when every post was about Betel juice and nowadays wish that we, in which we I include myself, could confine ourselves to discussions of whether it was better to man to man than zone and if to zone which zone the one three one versus one two two one versus two three versus match up versus or whether some gimmick defense such as the triangle and two or pentagram and none might be a viable alternative. Because that never gets tired.
I am however constrained to point out the ancient proverb: for want of a shoe the whore was lost. The proverb does not tell us what happened to the strumpet after she lost her way, but I assume it was gruesome, as that sort of life rarely leads to a happy ending. On a deeper level I think the adage cautions all women that not every fetching pair of shoes will lead her to her prince, as did Cinderella's glass slipper lead her to hers.
Due to a mistranslation of Moliere's Richard III, the proverb has come down to us slightly altered: for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and so its meaning changed to illustrate the situation where a mere pinprick in the social prophylactic gives birth to cataclysmic consequences. And indeed history is replete with situations where this is so; interestingly, many of these are related to allegedly friendly japes and monkeyshines. For example, after conquering the known world Alexander (the Great) was brought to his knees by the Hindu thugees (from whence our thugs), who mocked him mercilessly as a catamite, whereupon he took to his bed with the vapors and expired, and along with him the Macedonian empire. Similarly were the Greeks brought low by the Visigoths and VisiEmos, whose cruel mockery caused Socrates to commit suicide by hanging himself from the branches of a hemlock tree, dooming the cradle of western civilization. And we all know the story of Nero fiddling while Rome burned, but according to the Roman historian Herodotus Nero's incredible cruelty was only engendered by his predecessor Caligula's harping on Nero's Onanism, leading the Roman senate in cruel chants of Nero Nero, boy what a Queer-o.
Closer to our own age, the French monarchy was overthrown after the peasantry misheard Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake" as let them eat c**k, that is, as advising them to sodomize each other if they were unhappy with the monarchy, which led directly to the terrors of the Jacobin. And we all know that Hitler's depravities were fueled when he was imprisoned after a failed attempt at becoming a sports mascot for the Vienna Sausages of the Hungarian soccer league - it seems that the unfortunate shape of the costume he wore lent itself to various unfortunate metaphors, the wurst of which I could not repeat in mixed company.
Anyway, I did want to apologize for my off topic posts in this thread and I promise that I'll try and confine my rants to basketball related matters in the future, should there be a future.
