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RE: Great show by the MOB - RED DIRT - 11-25-2007 01:42 PM MOB vs conference championships, Elite Eights, and bowl appearances. Which do you choose? Oh, I forgot, a magazine rated you in the top twenty for academics. That will get you a helmet sticker!! RE: Great show by the MOB - Dynamo Owl - 11-25-2007 01:48 PM RED DIRT Wrote:MOB vs conference championships, Elite Eights, and bowl appearances. Which do you choose? Oh, I forgot, a magazine rated you in the top twenty for academics. That will get you a helmet sticker!! I'd choose the academic performance over athletic performance. I don't think you'll find a single person on this board who wouldn't. RE: Great show by the MOB - Bay Area Owl - 11-25-2007 01:49 PM Tulsa's athletic glory in the Missouri Valley conference: $.05 Market value of a Tulsa education: $.10 Expenditure for a 'defensive genius' that gives up 700 yards to Rice: $1.1 million per annum Living anywhere but Tulsa: Priceless RE: Great show by the MOB - wheredidmypantsgo - 11-25-2007 01:50 PM Douchebag U fans over on their rivals board are taking the halftime show pretty hard. One frustrated loser is even citing NCAA bylaws and writing to Rice and complaining. Yeah, have fun with that, tough guy - I wouldn't expect a response. RE: Great show by the MOB - Dynamo Owl - 11-25-2007 01:51 PM wheredidmypantsgo Wrote:Yeah, have fun with that, tough guy - I wouldn't expect a response. Laughter, maybe? RE: Great show by the MOB - OwlJacket - 11-25-2007 02:15 PM RED DIRT Wrote:MOB vs conference championships, Elite Eights, and bowl appearances. Which do you choose? Oh, I forgot, a magazine rated you in the top twenty for academics. That will get you a helmet sticker!! You left off National Championships on the MOB side of that vs. (or at least those that don't have to be vacated later due to major rule infractions). RE: Great show by the MOB - CTRice10 - 11-25-2007 03:02 PM ctt8410 Wrote:CTRice10 Wrote:sarcoog2010 Wrote:Having read a description of the show (and being an english major) the divine comedy stuff sounds very funny. I can really appreciate that kind of humor (tulsa fan seems incapable of this). Doesn't hurt that it was a lil cold and miserable today too... I meant in comparison to Tulsa fans. Oh, and Vincenzo, thanks for clarifying... RE: Great show by the MOB - GreenMississippi - 11-25-2007 06:22 PM I just read the transcript. Funny, very. Appropriate for a football game? Absolutely classless. You may hate Graham, but that was over the line. The unfortunate thing is that Tulsa is a Presbyterian school and their administration probably won't allow them to put on an appropriate response. RE: Great show by the MOB - 75Owl - 11-25-2007 06:34 PM Also, Brown had a chance to go back to his alma mater, Vanderbilt. Jonathan Sadow Wrote:BlazerMatt Wrote:I just want to say, as a UAB fan: Our loss to you at your place was painful, saddening, and depressing. It has now been made even more so because the MOB didn't do anything near this original and funny about Watson during halftime of the game. Shame on you MOB for missing a great opportunity... SHAME ON YOU! RE: Great show by the MOB - Owl 69/70/75 - 11-25-2007 07:10 PM GreenMississippi Wrote:I just read the transcript. Over what line? Where is the line? Where is the division between "over the line" and "not over the line"? RE: Great show by the MOB - gsloth - 11-25-2007 07:25 PM The only thing I might question is using the word douchebag in what is nominally a family setting. Now, the rain probably kept most families away, but still, I would think we'd want to be careful of the language that was used. But that's just me - I now have kids and have to be more sensitive to these things (even though I know they hear things elsewhere). If we want families to feel welcome at games, we do want to be careful. RE: Great show by the MOB - lauramac - 11-25-2007 07:30 PM MOBweb Wrote:I can't say we didn't mean to say what we said. (We did.) However, in light of some of the recent misrepresentation of our statements, and for those of you who missed the show... Hey MOBweb... could y'all include a description of the Jumbotron graphics in the show recap? Not the crowd shots, footage of action on the field, etc., but the stills that accompanied the jokes. E.g., I know that when the "Your Mom suggested we should go lower" line was read, there was a picture of Stifler's Mom up there. "Donkey dung", y'all had a pic of Donkey from Shrek. At the end, of course it said "Welcome to Tulsa"; I think I've forgotten the rest! But those were funny touches, and would make the script recap even better. RE: Great show by the MOB - cthrockmorton - 11-25-2007 07:46 PM gsloth Wrote:The only thing I might question is using the word douchebag in what is nominally a family setting. Now, the rain probably kept most families away, but still, I would think we'd want to be careful of the language that was used. But that's just me - I now have kids and have to be more sensitive to these things (even though I know they hear things elsewhere). If we want families to feel welcome at games, we do want to be careful. The category I use for these phrases is "mild vulgarity." So far this season we've used "flaming bag of poo," "douchebag," and "our Trojans *didn't* break." In my opinion (and that of the parents of impressionable-aged children I have consulted), none is a problem. "Mommy, what is a 'douchebag?' " "It means he's a jerk, dear." "Oh, OK." I do strive to have references in MOB shows be mild enough not to cause an "awkward explanation moment" for parents, or obscure enough to have the children not even know something has happened. If either phrase is *really* a problem, please let me know. There won't ever be a show that is ruined by our not including a "mild vulgarity," and it is worth leaving something out if it will be bad for the kiddos. Thanks, Chuck Throckmorton Director of Bands director@mob.rice.edu RE: Great show by the MOB - MOBweb - 11-25-2007 07:47 PM On my to-do list, Lauramac -- as well as the usual annotations about what music was played, form on the field, etc. Honestly, I've been too busy bouncing between the couple threads here and the... what... 11 now? threads over at Tulsa. (edit) Jumbotron slides are linked in the script. RE: Great show by the MOB - HooCares - 11-25-2007 07:51 PM Personally, I think the last remark detracted from an otherwise clever show. Just sayin'... Not many schools' fans take the lampooning as well as our friends in Austin. I know, I know. That's half the fun. Lauramac's suggestion is a good one. Maybe that would help some people better understand the script -- what is said, and what it didn't. Post the Cliff notes. RE: Great show by the MOB - gsloth - 11-25-2007 07:51 PM cthrockmorton Wrote:gsloth Wrote:The only thing I might question is using the word douchebag in what is nominally a family setting. Now, the rain probably kept most families away, but still, I would think we'd want to be careful of the language that was used. But that's just me - I now have kids and have to be more sensitive to these things (even though I know they hear things elsewhere). If we want families to feel welcome at games, we do want to be careful. I'm with you on the mild vulgarity, but it's one that few younger kids usually actually use (or would know how to use). I can't tell you how often I hear poo (and its variants) used in "humorous" (for them) situations. Douchebag, not so much. I guess the fact that they and their friends don't use it anyways makes it less likely that they'd use it after they hear it. I hope so, anyways. Otherwise, great show! RE: Great show by the MOB - seniorowl - 11-25-2007 08:08 PM Chuck- One hell of a show yesterday, and I really like that we have a drumline that is kicking butt nowadays. I really liked the show, don't worry about the comments, I definitely saw the show at Stanford vs. ASU this year, and it was much more vulgar. Your show was hilarious! RE: Great show by the MOB - goriceowls - 11-25-2007 08:14 PM I'd say the returns are in... and the MOB hit it out of the park. The infamous "Gold" is on their message board crying like a baby. Went to the trouble of writing what seems like a 5000 word essay on his trip to Houston and can't seem to get a complete sentence out without angling towards the "Rice Sucks" commentary. Even tries to convince his congregation that the show had nothing to do with TG but was solely directed at Tulsa Fan and their "hometown". Oh... and lookout - he has done some crackpot detective work and has managed to find the phone number of Rice University... and possibly even some e-mail addesses and is publishing them to his faithful! Absolutely Priceless. RE: Great show by the MOB - 75Owl - 11-25-2007 08:17 PM Maybe the PCUSA should do something about the lack of ethics in the way in which Tulsa hired Todd Graham. That is certainly more important than a band show based loosely upon Dante's Inferno. I am member of a PCUSA church and I did not appreciate what Tulsa and Todd Graham did. GreenMississippi Wrote:I just read the transcript. RE: Great show by the MOB - Barrett - 11-25-2007 08:34 PM Chuck, I say this from the bottom of my heart: after seeing the show in person and now, after having read the script more than twenty-four hours later, I. Wouldn't. Have. Changed. A. Single. Word. of that show. |