[Vision2020] North Carolina takes it all!

[Warren Hayman]

As we used to say in Virginia of any North Carolina school, "They shore 
do a good job of teaching the 3 Rs: readin, ritin, and the road to 
Richmond!"

Warren Hayman

On Tuesday, April 5, 2005, at 11:43  AM, Joan Opyr wrote:

> Dear "Duke" Livingston,
>  
> Ah, yes, Duke . . . the best university money can buy.  Tobacco money, 
> that is.  What I especially like about Duke is how it was designed to 
> look like Oxford University; workmen were paid to sand down the 
> centers of Duke's stone steps so that they'd have that "genuine" 
> medieval feel.  (And you must just adore your most famous alumna, 
> Senator Elizabeth "Liddy" Dole.  She's such a peach!  Ugh!)
>  
> Duke, with its Yankee professors, Yankee students, and Yankee 
> basketball coach.  Duke with its "Harvard: The Duke of the North" 
> T-shirts.  Duke, with that little box on its admissions applications 
> that asks "Would you still be able to attend if you did not receive 
> financial aid?"  I believe that box is in the shape of a garbage can, 
> isn't it?  Fie on Duke!
>  
> When does a proud graduate of NCSU love the Tarheels?  Only when they 
> win the NCAA.  The rest of the time, we Wolfpack fans know that the 
> only classes offered at Chapel Hill are in Marxist Theory and how to 
> roll a nice, tight joint.
>  
> Cracker?  Well, I crack me up, if that's what you mean.  I'm a 
> laughing-on-the-outside kind of clown.
>  
> Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
> www.auntie-establishment.com
>  
> PS: Gonzaga will win the NCAA, Brother Carl, when Bing Crosby rises 
> from his grave to sing a duet of "The Discovery Channel Song" with the 
> Bloodhound Gang.  In a word, nevah!  That NCAA trophy will go on 
> living South of the Mason-Dixon for many years to come.  It must like 
> our sunny weather . . . 
>    
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bruce and Jean Livingston
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 9:50 AM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] North Carolina takes it all!
>  
>
> OK.  That's it.
>  
> The Chapel Hill Gang wins a title and gets Roy Williams his first NCAA 
> Men's Basketball Championship.  They sneak ahead of Duke, by four 
> championships to three, to compound a bad situation.  And then, a 
> Wolfpack alum feels the need to celebrate the UNC title AND denigrate 
> my Blue Devils?!!!
>  
> Joan, Joan, Joan. 
>  
> Have you forgotten that the Tar Heels would smugly refer to themselves 
> as THE University of North Carolina and cheer "if you can't go to 
> college, go to State"?  How many times did you gag over that pitiful, 
> pastel, baby blue, UNC color that overruns the entire state, in 
> t-shirts from the Beach to the mountains and every mall and BBQ joint 
> in between?  Why feed Tar Heel Nation's mistaken sense of 
> superiority?  Have you forgotten that infernal bumper sticker on every 
> other motor vehicle in the state:  "If This Isn't Heaven, Why did God 
> make the Sky Carolina Blue?"
>  
> You cheer a victory for the "Home state," but say a Duke championship 
> would be the "worst" thing?  Are not my Devils the third point in the 
> Triangle (Durham, Raleigh, and Chapel Hill, all within 20 miles or 
> less of each other, for you northwesterners), and also within your 
> "home state"?  Like Jimmy V, we Dukies are just looking for a hug, > too.
>  
> Sure, Duke imported a few Yankees for diversity, "damn Yankees," as my 
> NC-native roomie referred to me on more than one occasion.  SOMEBODY 
> had to compete with the Tar Heels and give them a sense of humility, 
> since the Wolf Pack wouldn't.  Is this unwarranted, spiteful attack on 
> my Devils just a result of pent up frustration from Duke beating NC 
> State like a drum for 20 years? 
>  
> You Cracker.
>  
> Taking the Bait and Swallowing the Hook,
>  
> Bruce Livingston
>
> _____________________________________________________
>  List services made available by First Step Internet,
>  serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994.
>                http://www.fsr.net
>           mailto:Vision2020 at moscow.com
> ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: text/enriched
Size: 4513 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/attachments/20050405/e1bd74ff/attachment.bin