Something that really bugs me

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SLCIRISH said:
What I am tired of, is others correcting grammar, how anal is that?

But what gets me the most upset is when somebody predicts something great for ND this season, and others not just disagree, but bash them, there are alot of people on this website, I wish werent ND fans, because all they do is insult and play dictators. I will consider ND elite, and not just because of football, but because of the name. ANy one who doesnt consider the Irish elite are morons.
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Amen, this is why it's fun to be on campus gameday so many great fans that do believe..
 
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NeuteredDoomer said:
That is very anal of you to think that way.

a lot

weren't

Any

doesn't

I can't help it. It is one of my jobs. Good thing is, on many tests, we are told to grade "holistically." Shall I define that for you, or can you google it?
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I really dont care what that means, I talk ND sports, and grammar is meaningless in this forum.
 
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DillonHall said:
Do you care to identify some of these people you wish weren't ND fans? I like the disagreement and discussion but hate it when people resort to name-calling.
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I have already been banned due to the "dictators", so I will just generally call all who think that "My Fighting Irish" arent elite, morons. And I am not calling names, just describing others and their thinkin errors.
 
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Courtesy of 247:

"Over the last 17 years, Notre Dame is a pedestrian 122-84-1 (.592 winning percentage), has finished in the AP Top 10 only once (No. 9 in 2005), has failed to win a major bowl game (2-9 overall), and has lost at least five games in 10 of those 17 years. During that time, it never lost fewer than three games per year."

These are the facts. It's not my problem anymore if you choose to ignore them.
 
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DillonHall said:
So even though we haven't won a national championship 22 years, we're still elite because of what we did in the past? We have an elite past, an elite tradition, and an elite brand name but NOT a currently elite program.
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Check out how long Texas and Alabama went between national championships, yet were still considered elite.
 
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Great video. It encompasses the predominant football tradition at Notre Dame and the ascendant presence of all sports programs, particularly those of the women.

Go Irish!
 
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Oh for the love of Mike...just because we haven't won a NC in 22 yrs and we're not in the top 10 every season, doesn't mean we can't be again.

This is the ebb and flow of college football. Come on. All I have to say is if you don't think ND is going to or has the potential to win a NC in 2012, then ya better keep your feet fresh for when you have to gnaw on it from putting it in your mouth.
 
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k1ssme1m1r1sh said:
Oh for the love of Mike...just because we haven't won a NC in 22 yrs and we're not in the top 10 every season, doesn't mean we can't be again.

This is the ebb and flow of college football. Come on. All I have to say is if you don't think ND is going to or has the potential to win a NC in 2012, then ya better keep your feet fresh for when you have to gnaw on it from putting it in your mouth.
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I would optimistically call the 2012 schedule, "a little challenging, even by Notre Dame standards." Realistically, that schedule is BRUTAL. To expect ND to vie for a championship in 2012 is extraordinarily optimistic, especially given the questions circling the program about this year. I would think that a little restraint is called for concerning prognostications about 2012. At the very least we should be waiting to see who the quarterback is this year, and if that person can keep the job all year long.

As for the elite/not elite argument fluttering through this thread. Notre Dame is an elite name. Notre Dame has an elite athletic department. Notre Dame has an elite fencing squad. For Notre Dame to have an elite football team, the team would need to exhibit sustained superior performance, and it appears that the team is working on this.

Grammar and spelling issues:
I find spelling errors annoying, but I understand that they happen. My biggest pet peeve is the use of "prolly". I can't even type, the use of the word "prolly", because it isn't a damn word. Is it really that difficult to make the two extra key strokes and type "probably"?
 
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Something else that really bugs me. When you go into a store to buy a really insignificant item and they want to know your whole life history. Like the time I went into Radio Shack to buy a 2 foot long extension cord for something like .99 cents. The guy wants to know my last name, so I told him "Blow." And then he asks me my first name, and I tell him "Joe" Then, he asks me my address, so I tell him "1010 Main Street, Kokomo." Then he stands there with a dumb look on his face, and I say "Yeah, I'm Joe Blow from Kokomo, haven't you ever heard of me?" Just take my dollar and sell me the damned extension cord, will ya?

That really bugged me.
 
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NankerPhelge said:
Its a massge bord. its intertainment. intit?
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Cheeky (Conservative) Bastage, you! How dare you catch on???

In my decades of dealing with Radio Shack to acquire adaptors, cables and miscellaneous doohickies I've found that I usually know much more than the average clerk. I've also found that a simple "ring up the damn purchase" speeds up the process.

Maybe I should consider running a Radio Shack in my unaffordable retirement.
 
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NankerPhelge said:
Something else that really bugs me. When you go into a store to buy a really insignificant item and they want to know your whole life history. Like the time I went into Radio Shack to buy a 2 foot long extension cord for something like .99 cents. The guy wants to know my last name, so I told him "Blow." And then he asks me my first name, and I tell him "Joe" Then, he asks me my address, so I tell him "1010 Main Street, Kokomo." Then he stands there with a dumb look on his face, and I say "Yeah, I'm Joe Blow from Kokomo, haven't you ever heard of me?" Just take my dollar and sell me the damned extension cord, will ya?

That really bugged me.
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I might have paid a dollar myself to see such an event unfold.
 
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NankerPhelge said:
Something else that really bugs me. When you go into a store to buy a really insignificant item and they want to know your whole life history. Like the time I went into Radio Shack to buy a 2 foot long extension cord for something like .99 cents. The guy wants to know my last name, so I told him "Blow." And then he asks me my first name, and I tell him "Joe" Then, he asks me my address, so I tell him "1010 Main Street, Kokomo." Then he stands there with a dumb look on his face, and I say "Yeah, I'm Joe Blow from Kokomo, haven't you ever heard of me?" Just take my dollar and sell me the damned extension cord, will ya?

That really bugged me.
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Too damn funny.

I made an insignificant purchase at a KMart one time. Cashier was snooty as hell. The exit was right next to the register. As I started to walk out, the buzzer went off. I looked back, and snooty cashier was using her pointer finger to demand I walk back to her. I told her "I don't phucking answer to fingers, and you are the idiot who set the damn buzzer thing off.." She then faked a smile, apologized, and ....well...we made out.

OK, I made up that last part, but I will not answer to fingers.
 
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NeuteredDoomer said:
Too damn funny.

I made an insignificant purchase at a KMart one time. Cashier was snooty as hell. The exit was right next to the register, as I started to walk out, the buzzer went off. I looked back, and snooty cashier was using her pointer fingers to demand I walk back to her. I told her "I don't phucking answer to fingers, and you are the idiot who set the damn buzzer thing off.." She then faked a smile, apologized, and ....well...we made out.

OK, I made up that last part, but I will not answer to fingers.
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Obviously. The hell kind of woman makes out with a deer?
 
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Riddickulous said:
Obviously. The hell kind of woman makes out with a deer?
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Female deers. She was a deer.

OK, I made that up too. But today I met a really pretty human female.

She had nice boobies, but I really really liked her personality better than her pretty face and outstanding pooper.

OK, I made that up too.
 
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NankerPhelge said:
People who drive 40 m.p.h. in a 55 zone for no ****ing reason at all, on a two-lane highly travelled road so you can't pass and you and 50 other cars end up following the inconsiderate son-of-a-bitch all the way across the county at 15 m.p.h. under the speed limit and worse yet the oblivious bastard doesn't even act like he notices that he is leading a whole damned parade of people who actually are trying to get somewhere because they have something better to do other than driving around aimlessly getting in other people's ways...
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Run-on sentence. Among other issues. Icehole.
 
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Hey Neutered,

I just noticed, I have 10% of the posts, you do, and you have never had to correct my grammar! Holistically speaking.
 
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Bogtrotter07 said:
Hey Neutered,

I just noticed, I have 10% of the posts, you do, and you have never had to correct my grammar! Holistically speaking.
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That's because I consider you holichit.

Of course, that opinion could change by tomorrow. Wait, not tomorrow, it is already changing. I'll report later.
 
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Getting back to the original point of this thread:

I think that there are many people (myself included) who are trying to keep our expectations realistic, from season to season. Just because I think that ND is, at best, a 10 win team(and that will require alot of breaks going their way), this season; that's not the same as saying that this team sucks, or that ND can never be elite again. The bottom line is that this team appears to be a good team, that is on it's way up. But elite? Not by a long shot. I wonder if some of the younger folks here really understand what us old(er) codgers mean, when we say elite?

In 1987, LB Ned Bolcar was named a 2nd team All-American. In 1988, he was not even a starter. Wes Pritchett and Michael Stonebreaker had beaten him out as the starters. Both Pritchett and Stonebreaker were named All Americans that year. Bolcar came back to start in 1989, and made All American again.

In 1990, we had Rodney Culver, Jerome Bettis, Ricky Watters, and Tony Brooks in the backfield.

In 1991, our TBs consisted of Rodney Culver, Tony Brooks, Reggie Brooks, and Lee Becton. And Jerome Bettis was the starting FB.

From 1987 to 1993, ND had 37 All Americans.

1987 = 4
1988 = 6
1989 = 7
1990 = 5
1991 = 4
1992 = 6
1993 = 5

We have 2 legitimate "probably will be" All Americans, on this year's squad: Manti Teo and Michael Floyd.

Having said that, we have some good players who probably will not even sniff All American status: Harrison Smith, Tyler Eifert, Robert Blanton, maybe TJ Jones and Cierre Wood. It looks like Aaron Lynch might fit into this category as well.

But being the best player that ND has had, in a long time, at a particular position does not make you elite. It doesn't mean that you are not a good player, but being elite means that you are one of the top 2,3,4,5 guys, in the country, at your position.

8-5 is just not elite, folks. Going 8-5, and finishing the way ND did, could very well mean that you are getting close to elite but it's just not elite.
 
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Ya wanna know what bugs me? Probably not, but I feel like I should join the circle.

I hate when some jackace pulls right out in front of me and then decides to turn 2 feet from the spot where he pulled out from. You didn't see me coming?

Also, when I ride in the car with you, you can sing all you want, but if you imitate any instrument in the song, or beat box a song that has no beat boxing in it, I do really want to punch you in the junk. That chit is annoying.
 
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KissyFace:

I'll stay out of your car if you'll stay out of mine.

My "junk" don't need no more abuse!
 
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k1ssme1m1r1sh said:
Ya wanna know what bugs me? Probably not, but I feel like I should join the circle.

I hate when some jackace pulls right out in front of me and then decides to turn 2 feet from the spot where he pulled out from. You didn't see me coming?

Also, when I ride in the car with you, you can sing all you want, but if you imitate any instrument in the song, or beat box a song that has no beat boxing in it, I do really want to punch you in the junk. That chit is annoying.
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Play Mozart, and this will never be a problem
 
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