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From: jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Football
Message-ID: <256@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9-Oct-85 23:43:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  9 23:43:33 1985
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Reply-To: jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist)
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Summary: 

Tongue in cheek, I said:
>In case you hadn't heard, Northwestern
>is currently 2-2 on the season, including an upset
>against Missouri.
>
>Jonathan E. Quist		N.U. '82
>
>P.S.  Our S.A.T.'s are higher.   :')

In article <328@ihnp1.UUCP> frear@ihnp1.UUCP (L. Frear) writes:
>To the person from Northwestern and the person from Waterloo:
>I'm from U of M and think we should all call it the BIG 9 and give
>the poor people from northwestern a break.  Besides, SAT's are high
>school stuff.  I'm not really flaming.  Honest.  

And, Matt Crawford writes:

>Arrggghhh!!!  Don't say "on the season", that's just a piece of
>broadcastese whose use, I gratefully note, seems to be diminishing.
>
>If you kids from Northwestern and Waterloo want to improve your
>records, go on the road and play Caltech.
>
>P.S.  The median math S.A.T. score of Caltech students is 800.  No joke.
>However, the football team some years has fewer than 22 players.

(Kids?  Personally, I haven't heard that one for a decade or so.)

Didn't you folks see the smiley face?  I can't believe _anyone_
would take my S.A.T. comment seriously!  (``Our S.A.T.'s are
higher'' is a much overused phrase that someone in the N.U.
Marching Band (NUMB) came up with 10 or 12 years ago when
the football program began its downward plummet.)
Yes, Lori, I agree!  S.A.T.'s don't mean anything beyond high school.
I didn't think they meant anything _during_ high school.

Matt:  To paraphrase a famous physician:
	``Dammit Jim!  I'm an Engineer, not a Linguist!''

Big 9?  It didn't take long to find a 10th after U of C dropped out.
Besides, if we DID call it the Big 9, where would the
Wolverines go to play?  (By the way, how Michigan's women's
basketball team this year?)

And for the record, I'm quite pleased with N.U.'s record this year,
last year, and the year before that.  Prior to that,
well....  (I was at all those games...)

Isn't this net.jokes afterall?  Isn't this the one
place on the net where one can assume sarcasm without
benefit of seeing/hearing the speaker?

Yes.  I do sometimes get over-sensitive about N.U. football jokes.

But then, I've always preferred wit to cheap laughs.

Jonathan E. Quist
ihnp4!laidbak!jeq

``If Northwestern was meant to play in the Big 10,
	they'd hire themselves some professional atheletes, too.''
		(overheard at OSU, October, 1978)