My Only Gripe: Zero Sightings of Tonya Harding

I have to admit I have to give props for the ingenuity of the “fleur de bee” logo

[quote comment=”285586″]Does anyone else feel that MIN having ‘Wolves’ on their unis intstead of Timberwolves is the first step to offically changing their name to The Minnesota Wolves? Almost like they are using it as a feeler gauge to see if people like it. Doesn’t have the right flow if you ask me.

As for NO unis, is there a different material for the inner legs of the shorts? By the pic there seems to be no pinstripes, wondering if it’s a different material, or if they are just lazy and didn’t put stripes on them. Also, don’t like how they made the purple line up on the shorts and the top, going to look like hell once the players start moving around, not going to line up anymore…[/quote]

I kinda doubt they’re thinking of shortening the nickname. “‘Wolves” is part of the verbal shorthand around here (sorta like “‘Wings” in Detroit). I imagine it’s something akin to when Cleveland had “CAVS” on their unis for a while.

I just noticed, make that Wolves silhouette on the left solid black, add cowboy boots and you get, um…Dale Evans.

oh, never mind, don’t get me started.

—Ricko

I actually like the rear neckline logos on some teams, but the ones on the shorts are unacceptable. At the risk of sounding sexist, printing/branding on the ass belongs on Victoria’s Secret shorts, not men’s basketball uniforms.

[quote comment=”285587″][quote comment=”285586″]Does anyone else feel that MIN having ‘Wolves’ on their unis intstead of Timberwolves is the first step to offically changing their name to The Minnesota Wolves? Almost like they are using it as a feeler gauge to see if people like it. Doesn’t have the right flow if you ask me.

As for NO unis, is there a different material for the inner legs of the shorts? By the pic there seems to be no pinstripes, wondering if it’s a different material, or if they are just lazy and didn’t put stripes on them. Also, don’t like how they made the purple line up on the shorts and the top, going to look like hell once the players start moving around, not going to line up anymore…[/quote]

I kinda doubt they’re thinking of shortening the nickname. “‘Wolves” is part of the verbal shorthand around here (sorta like “‘Wings” in Detroit). I imagine it’s something akin to when Cleveland had “CAVS” on their unis for a while.

—Ricko[/quote]

Or “Sonics” for the Sea… oh wait.

Why did they put New Orleans on the home uniforms as well?

I sure hope No. 08, Mr. Abcdefg, has a good season…

Anyone know a date for when the Oklahoma City TBDs are going to announce their official name, logo, jerseys, etc…?

[quote comment=”285592″]Re: Hornets uniforms.

I’m sorry to see that classic three-stripe of purple/gold/green go. The Jazz had it for years. (Notre Dame had a similiar version, only with blue/gold/green, in the 1970s. It looks good.) Not long after Katrina, I saw a pro-New Orleans bumper sticker that had a purple/gold/green stripe combination and realized that that was New Orleans, in a nutshell. Sorry to see it go on the unis.[/quote]

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[quote comment=”285598″]I love the new Minnesota uniforms, the neckline bugs me a little but not as much as the one in New Orleans. I especially like the tree on the side of the shorts. My only suggestion would be that for the tree on the jersey side that they would have started the green at the bottom of the jersey and brought it up further towards the armpit. Not all the way, though. Probably about 3 or 4 inches short of where it comes to now. My only real problem with the uniforms is ditching “Timberwolves” in favor of “Wolves.” link was always my favorite Minn. uniform.

In New Orleans I hate the pinstripe stemming from the weird v-neckline. Looks awkward.[/quote]

By the way, can I just tell you that it puts the biggest smile on my face every time I google for images of Kevin Garnett and the majority of them are him in a link.

I love the pop/coke/soda map. I spent way too much time studying it. I had no idea that the St. Louis and Chicago areas were soda people.

Will the Hornets still have a yellow alt?

New logo for Champions League Hockey has just been presented.

[quote comment=”285601″]I love the pop/coke/soda map. I spent way too much time studying it. I had no idea that the St. Louis and Chicago areas were soda people.[/quote]

St. Louis is, but Chicago most definitely is not.

Cook county Illinois (Chicago):

3420 respondants – 2613 Pop, 140 Coke, 617 Soda, 50 Other

[quote comment=”285607″][quote comment=”285601″]I love the pop/coke/soda map. I spent way too much time studying it. I had no idea that the St. Louis and Chicago areas were soda people.[/quote]

St. Louis is, but Chicago most definitely is not.

Cook county Illinois (Chicago):

3420 respondants – 2613 Pop, 140 Coke, 617 Soda, 50 Other[/quote]

Word, I did a speech on this my first semester of college and used that same map, awesome stuff. BTW, I’ve always understood soda, but Coke? That doesn’t make any sense, I’ll never be able to understand why someone would refer to a 7-Up, for instance, as coke, just weird.

The New NO uni’s are an absolute disaster IMO. Tehy had a very underated uni to begin with, see old Devil Rays, and ruined it. Why try to copy the old, terrible Charlotte unis. I’m so dissappointed with this all around. Only redeeming quality is use of the logo.

[quote comment=”285605″]New logo for Champions League Hockey has just been presented.[/quote]

Looks like SHITake(shiitake) mushrooms

[quote comment=”285612″][quote comment=”285607″][quote comment=”285601″]I love the pop/coke/soda map. I spent way too much time studying it. I had no idea that the St. Louis and Chicago areas were soda people.[/quote]

St. Louis is, but Chicago most definitely is not.

Cook county Illinois (Chicago):

3420 respondants – 2613 Pop, 140 Coke, 617 Soda, 50 Other[/quote]

You’re right. I just glanced at the area, and it is Wisconsin that has the soda people. Still odd, though.[/quote]

It’s accurate for where I live in MI. People do say ‘Pop’ around here…

[quote comment=”285601″]I love the pop/coke/soda map. I spent way too much time studying it. I had no idea that the St. Louis and Chicago areas were soda people.[/quote]
I grew up in St. Louis, and it is most assuredly a soda city. I now live in Kansas City, and its weird hearing everyone call it pop.
I went to a small Missouri college that was mostly equidistant from St. Louis and Kansas City, and each city has about 40% of the student body. The soda/pop debate was so evenly split that you could use it to divide any group of students into two equal(ish) sized groups. Need to split a class in two for some kind of debate? Use soda/pop. Need to determine teams for a pickup basketball game? Use soda/pop. Its quite strange how often that worked. . . .

And teal is NOT green. I must agree.

purple “teal” and gold do not shout New Orleans

O.K., the teals have it. It’s not green. But two questions:

1. Why would you change uniforms after the most successful season in franchise history (spanning two cities)?

2. Why not get rid of the Charlotte-era teal and just go with a true New Orleans look — green, gold, and purple?

[quote comment=”285623″][quote comment=”285609″][quote comment=”285607″][quote comment=”285601″]I love the pop/coke/soda map. I spent way too much time studying it. I had no idea that the St. Louis and Chicago areas were soda people.[/quote]

St. Louis is, but Chicago most definitely is not.

Cook county Illinois (Chicago):

3420 respondants – 2613 Pop, 140 Coke, 617 Soda, 50 Other[/quote]

Word, I did a speech on this my first semester of college and used that same map, awesome stuff. BTW, I’ve always understood soda, but Coke? That doesn’t make any sense, I’ll never be able to understand why someone would refer to a 7-Up, for instance, as coke, just weird.[/quote]

In college, I worked with a guy from New Mexico. He’d ask, “you wanna Coke?” I love Coke, so I said, “Sure.” He responded, “what kind?”[/quote]

AMEN. I live in Indiana, and I always have this discussion. We (I) call all of the flavored non alcoholic carbonated beverages COKE. Then you have to designate what “COKE” you want. Rather it be the original, cherry, or perhaps your are feeling feisty and a sprite is what you are looking for. but it is all categorized under the name “COKE”. I’m glad they made note of it in the graph, usually people think I’m crazy when I tell them that it is all referred to as COKE

[quote comment=”285586″]Does anyone else feel that MIN having ‘Wolves’ on their unis intstead of Timberwolves is the first step to offically changing their name to The Minnesota Wolves? Almost like they are using it as a feeler gauge to see if people like it. Doesn’t have the right flow if you ask me.

As for NO unis, is there a different material for the inner legs of the shorts? By the pic there seems to be no pinstripes, wondering if it’s a different material, or if they are just lazy and didn’t put stripes on them. Also, don’t like how they made the purple line up on the shorts and the top, going to look like hell once the players start moving around, not going to line up anymore…[/quote]

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The Timberwolves’ original road uniforms said “WOLVES” too.

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I loved their old logo.

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I also really like the new Hornets uniforms, overall.

Typical southern conversation:

-You want anything to drink?

+Yeah, I’ll have a Coke.

-What kind?

+Dr. Pepper.

I’ll never be able to understand why someone would refer to a 7-Up, for instance, as coke, just weird.

Ha-ha. That is funny you say that. I live in Arkansas and people call every kind of soda coke. Whether it is Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, PEPSI! Doesn’t matter. It annoys me to no end. As a matter of fact, when I was in college I waited tables and when people would say they wanted a “Coke” I would bring them a Coca-Cola. I had one guy tell say to me that I didn’t ask him what kind of “Coke” he wanted. Turns out the “Coke” he wanted was, in fact, a Dr. Pepper. Sigh.

[quote comment=”285630″]I’ll never be able to understand why someone would refer to a 7-Up, for instance, as coke, just weird.

Ha-ha. That is funny you say that. I live in Arkansas and people call every kind of soda coke. Whether it is Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, PEPSI! Doesn’t matter. It annoys me to no end. As a matter of fact, when I was in college I waited tables and when people would say they wanted a “Coke” I would bring them a Coca-Cola. I had one guy tell say to me that I didn’t ask him what kind of “Coke” he wanted. Turns out the “Coke” he wanted was, in fact, a Dr. Pepper. Sigh.[/quote]

And for the record, I call carbonated beverages “soda”. People around here think I’m strange.

Quote: The primary logo has been tweaked as well, going from this to this. I miss the white gloves, but otherwise this looks like a clear upgrade for both the illo and the typography.

I’m surprised you aren’t missing the honeycomb pattern on the bottom of the sneakers as well – definitely should have been kept in my opinion…

[quote comment=”285634″]Quote: The primary logo has been tweaked as well, going from this to this. I miss the white gloves, but otherwise this looks like a clear upgrade for both the illo and the typography.

I’m surprised you aren’t missing the honeycomb pattern on the bottom of the sneakers as well – definitely should have been kept in my opinion…[/quote]
I totally agree.

[quote comment=”285629″]”coke” is coke (coca-cola)

not diet coke, cherry coke, vanilla coke, lemon coke, vomit coke, sprite, rootbeer…and definitely not friggin pepsi…they’ll even correct you in a restaurant here if you say “i want a coke” they’ll say “all we have is pepsi” and you tell them to fck off

generally speaking, carbonated beverages are “sodas”

“pop” is your old man, the potency of a alcoholic beverage or something you go out for (“a pop”) after softball…and it aint for a cosmo either[/quote]

Depends on what part of the country you’re standing in, I’m afraid. Not sure there are rights and wrongs when discussing local colloquialisms.

Been around long enough, and in the south, you’d have heard people say, “Bring me an RC Coke.”

Now, let me ask this: How many times have any of said, “I need a kleenex” or “I’ll xerox it so I have a copy” ?

Been around even longer and you remember the “Fridge” (for Frigidaire, not refrigerator) or “Get the hoover and clean up this carpet” or, even stranger, “I’ll be there as soon as I finish hoovering the living room.”

And this one (not heard so much these days), here in Minnesota we used to call rubber bands “rubberbinders”. Anyone heard that one anywhere else?

[quote comment=”285638″][quote comment=”285629″]”coke” is coke (coca-cola)

not diet coke, cherry coke, vanilla coke, lemon coke, vomit coke, sprite, rootbeer…and definitely not friggin pepsi…they’ll even correct you in a restaurant here if you say “i want a coke” they’ll say “all we have is pepsi” and you tell them to fck off

generally speaking, carbonated beverages are “sodas”

“pop” is your old man, the potency of a alcoholic beverage or something you go out for (“a pop”) after softball…and it aint for a cosmo either[/quote]

Depends on what part of the country you’re standing in, I’m afraid. Not sure there are rights and wrongs when discussing local colloquialisms.

Been around long enough, and in the south, you’d have heard people say, “Bring me an RC Coke.”

Now, let me ask this: How many times have any of said, “I need a kleenex” or “I’ll xerox it so I have a copy” ?

Been around even longer and you remember the “Fridge” (for Frigidaire, not refrigerator) or “Get the hoover and clean up this carpet” or, even stranger, “I’ll be there as soon as I finish hoovering the living room.”

And this one (not heard so much these days), here in Minnesota we used to call rubber bands “rubberbinders”. Anyone heard that one anywhere else?[/quote]

Right on. People here also call margarine “butter”. It’s like, “hey, go get me some butter.”
If you return with butter, they say, “no! I meant margarine!”
Geez, say what you mean, you turd.

[quote comment=”285639″][quote comment=”285637″]
Vomit coke?!?

What the hell kind of stuff they sell in NY?[/quote]

you’ve never had link?[/quote]

Wow, wish they’d had that back when I was on the Bacon & Jolt!Cola Diet.

Kept me sharp. Sort of a precursor to energy drinks.

(rolls eyes)

[quote comment=”285639″][quote comment=”285637″]
Vomit coke?!?

What the hell kind of stuff they sell in NY?[/quote]

you’ve never had link?[/quote]

Oh. My. God. Is that real?

[quote comment=”285630″]I’ll never be able to understand why someone would refer to a 7-Up, for instance, as coke, just weird.

Ha-ha. That is funny you say that. I live in Arkansas and people call every kind of soda coke. Whether it is Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, PEPSI! Doesn’t matter. It annoys me to no end. As a matter of fact, when I was in college I waited tables and when people would say they wanted a “Coke” I would bring them a Coca-Cola. I had one guy tell say to me that I didn’t ask him what kind of “Coke” he wanted. Turns out the “Coke” he wanted was, in fact, a Dr. Pepper. Sigh.[/quote]
As a fellow Arkansawyer (who grew up in St. Louis), I quickly learned that if’n one wanted a Coca-Cola, one asked for a “Co-Cola”… since my native-Arkansawyer bride and I actually prefer Coke, no problem!

“Ya got Co-Cola?” “Naw, just Pepsi…”

Arkansas State University is beginning their first season as the link, after the NCAA mandated “no more Indians (unless your school makes enough $$$); but the long-time link logo is prominent on the team’s football uniforms. We’ll see if the wolf head shows up on the basketball unis later!

[quote comment=”285645″][quote comment=”285630″]I’ll never be able to understand why someone would refer to a 7-Up, for instance, as coke, just weird.

Ha-ha. That is funny you say that. I live in Arkansas and people call every kind of soda coke. Whether it is Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, PEPSI! Doesn’t matter. It annoys me to no end. As a matter of fact, when I was in college I waited tables and when people would say they wanted a “Coke” I would bring them a Coca-Cola. I had one guy tell say to me that I didn’t ask him what kind of “Coke” he wanted. Turns out the “Coke” he wanted was, in fact, a Dr. Pepper. Sigh.[/quote]

Coke is like Kleenex. Do you say facial tissue? Nope — Kleenex. Just like the person who told me she loved her Nike iPod. Ummm … what? “My Nike iPod.” It was a Philips/Nike-branded mp3 player. Nice.[/quote]

Here in MI, never heard anyone call anything else but ‘Coke’ Coke. Pepsi is Pepsi, and 7-up is 7-up.

[quote comment=”285638″]And this one (not heard so much these days), here in Minnesota we used to call rubber bands “rubberbinders”. Anyone heard that one anywhere else?[/quote]

In Pittsburgh, they are “gumbands.”

[quote comment=”285643″][quote]Now, let me ask this: How many times have any of said, “I need a kleenex” or “I’ll xerox it so I have a copy” ?[/quote]

i generally say “i’ll xerox it” (the so i have a copy part is usually implied)…

lets keep this to coke, tho…not the ‘band aid’, ‘vaseline,’ ‘kleenex’ stuff (you know…the brand names that are synonymous with the overall genre of the product)[/quote]

Agreed. LOL. Was just sayin’ kinda understand how the coke one could happen.

When I’m travelling I try to listen for what’s used locally (soda or pop) so I don’t look like a dork when ordering. Blend in. Like a spy. (looks furtively to either side; tries to remember if changed battery in shoe phone).

[quote comment=”285591″][quote comment=”285587″][quote comment=”285586″]Does anyone else feel that MIN having ‘Wolves’ on their unis intstead of Timberwolves is the first step to offically changing their name to The Minnesota Wolves? Almost like they are using it as a feeler gauge to see if people like it. Doesn’t have the right flow if you ask me.

As for NO unis, is there a different material for the inner legs of the shorts? By the pic there seems to be no pinstripes, wondering if it’s a different material, or if they are just lazy and didn’t put stripes on them. Also, don’t like how they made the purple line up on the shorts and the top, going to look like hell once the players start moving around, not going to line up anymore…[/quote]

I kinda doubt they’re thinking of shortening the nickname. “‘Wolves” is part of the verbal shorthand around here (sorta like “‘Wings” in Detroit). I imagine it’s something akin to when Cleveland had “CAVS” on their unis for a while.

—Ricko[/quote]

Or “Sonics” for the Sea… oh wait.

Why did they put New Orleans on the home uniforms as well?[/quote]
It’s nothing new for them to put New Orleans on the front of the jerseys. They’ve been doing it for at least a few years.

[quote comment=”285654″]Seeing the T’wolves shorts
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made me think of this alternate classic
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Therefore, the verdict in my book: WINNER![/quote]

Awww geez. That PHX uni was probably one of the worst of all time. Didn’t even like their normal home/away at that time. Fugly is the word that comes to mind. LOVE LOVE LOVE their new ones. PHX going to the new ones was one of the rare times I thought a team upgraded their look when they change their logo/colors. Doesn’t happan to often. Of course when your uni is rock bottom, there is no where to go but up…

[quote comment=”285649″]
As a fellow Arkansawyer (who grew up in St. Louis), I quickly learned that if’n one wanted a Coca-Cola, one asked for a “Co-Cola”… since my native-Arkansawyer bride and I actually prefer Coke, no problem![/quote]

link Did he just say blindness?
link Yeah, blah. He also said “if’n”.

Classic obscure comedy from Greg The Bunny… another hilarious show canceled by the jerk-asses who run the Fox Network. If any of you saw the Paintball episode, you know what I’m talking about.

No one? Dammit.

[quote comment=”285662″][quote comment=”285649″]
As a fellow Arkansawyer (who grew up in St. Louis), I quickly learned that if’n one wanted a Coca-Cola, one asked for a “Co-Cola”… since my native-Arkansawyer bride and I actually prefer Coke, no problem![/quote]

link Did he just say blindness?
link Yeah, blah. He also said “if’n”.

Classic obscure comedy from Greg The Bunny… another hilarious show canceled by the jerk-asses who run the Fox Network. If any of you saw the Paintball episode, you know what I’m talking about.

No one? Dammit.[/quote]

Sorry Teebz – more of a Family Guy man myself. And we say “soda” here in upstate NY (75 miles north of NYC – because everyone assumes NY means NYC, and if you’re anywhere but NYC, you’re “upstate”, whether that means Poughkeepsie or Rochester.)

Not a basketball fan – but I like the Fleur de Bee – always loved the Quebec Nordiques jerseys because of the fleur de lis on the bottom.

[quote comment=”285643″][quote]Now, let me ask this: How many times have any of said, “I need a kleenex” or “I’ll xerox it so I have a copy” ?[/quote]

i generally say “i’ll xerox it” (the so i have a copy part is usually implied)…

lets keep this to coke, tho…not the ‘band aid’, ‘vaseline,’ ‘kleenex’ stuff (you know…the brand names that are synonymous with the overall genre of the product)[/quote]

Other examples include:

1. Crescent Wrench:
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Crescent is the most popular brand of “adjustable pliers

2. Vise Grips:
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Vise is the most popular brand of “Locking Pliers”.

oh…and teebz…

is link not the best thing to come out of canuckistan since bryan adams or what?

[quote comment=”285667″][quote comment=”285662″][quote comment=”285649″]
As a fellow Arkansawyer (who grew up in St. Louis), I quickly learned that if’n one wanted a Coca-Cola, one asked for a “Co-Cola”… since my native-Arkansawyer bride and I actually prefer Coke, no problem![/quote]

link Did he just say blindness?
link Yeah, blah. He also said “if’n”.

Classic obscure comedy from Greg The Bunny… another hilarious show canceled by the jerk-asses who run the Fox Network. If any of you saw the Paintball episode, you know what I’m talking about.

No one? Dammit.[/quote]

yet another reason i like ya teebz :o)…

back before greg the bunny was even ON tv…a guy i worked with got preview (VHS back then) tapes of the first six episodes of that show…fell in f’n love with it then…and still think it was one of the best shows never to gain any mass audience…prolly because the mass audience didn’t Get It (TM) …

that had seth green and that sarah silverman chick…and the dad from american pie, yes?

…just did a quick search and found the complete series is on dvd…may have to pick that up

…not quite in the same comedy genre, but as funny as “arrested development”…another hilarious show no one seemed to watch[/quote]

Another example is “Freaks and Geeks.” That show was awesome, but it never got any respect. Now that the whole Judd Apatow explosion is going on, people are buying the DVD.
Too bad that show was only on for one season. It had so much potential.

[quote comment=”285649″][quote comment=”285630″]I’ll never be able to understand why someone would refer to a 7-Up, for instance, as coke, just weird.

Ha-ha. That is funny you say that. I live in Arkansas and people call every kind of soda coke. Whether it is Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, PEPSI! Doesn’t matter. It annoys me to no end. As a matter of fact, when I was in college I waited tables and when people would say they wanted a “Coke” I would bring them a Coca-Cola. I had one guy tell say to me that I didn’t ask him what kind of “Coke” he wanted. Turns out the “Coke” he wanted was, in fact, a Dr. Pepper. Sigh.[/quote]
As a fellow Arkansawyer (who grew up in St. Louis), I quickly learned that if’n one wanted a Coca-Cola, one asked for a “Co-Cola”… since my native-Arkansawyer bride and I actually prefer Coke, no problem!

“Ya got Co-Cola?” “Naw, just Pepsi…”

Arkansas State University is beginning their first season as the link, after the NCAA mandated “no more Indians (unless your school makes enough $$$); but the long-time link logo is prominent on the team’s football uniforms. We’ll see if the wolf head shows up on the basketball unis later![/quote]

My wife’s family are all Arkies…from Forrest City and Wynne. They drink Dr. Pepper like it’s their job, and if they could have fried that, along with everything else they ate, they would have.

Me being a native New Yorker, 20 minutes north of Manhattan, was in for some culture shock when, In Arkansas, all 13 of us went out to an all-you-can eat buffet.

We ate like absolute royalty and with tax, the bill was 103 dollars! At 8$ per person, we could have bread and water back in New York!

Amazing that the NY Times mention that this was the first time that Germany used “Deutschland” on their jerseys. Last time I checked, their hockey team did that for the last couple of Winter Olympics.

[quote comment=”285675″][quote comment=”285601″]I love the pop/coke/soda map. I spent way too much time studying it. I had no idea that the St. Louis and Chicago areas were soda people.[/quote]

Where is ths map?[/quote]

was mentioned in the ticker

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[quote comment=”285673″][quote comment=”285671″]In Mass, the old people call it tonic but everyone else calls it soda.[/quote]

I still can’t get used to submarine sandwiches being called heroes, hoagies, and in Mass., grinders![/quote]

To put two posts in perspective, when Phil mentioned thsi “they’ll even correct you in a restaurant here if you say “i want a coke” they’ll say “all we have is pepsi” and you tell them to fck off” and now you mentioned the alternate names for a sub, I remembered this gem from my youth.

My family was visiting relatives in Philly and went to a SUBway. I went up to order and the girl says this, “What kind of hoagie do ya want?” I am at a F’n Subway and they’re calling them hoagies for crying out loud! Then they keep the pop machine behind the counter and I’m all of about 5 years old and I can’t see what kind they have, so I say, “What kind of pop do you have?” And the girl gives the blankest stare I’ve ever seen, and says, “We’ve got soda.” To which I respond, yeah, that’s the same thing.” And again she stares blankly. Now I understand that its called different things geographically, but seriously, how had this girl never heard it called pop before? It blew my 5 year old mind. And to my amazment the hoagie and soada I got tasted similar to the sub and pop I was used to.

[quote comment=\”285645\”][quote comment=\”285630\”]I\’ll never be able to understand why someone would refer to a 7-Up, for instance, as coke, just weird.

Ha-ha. That is funny you say that. I live in Arkansas and people call every kind of soda coke. Whether it is Mountain Dew, Dr. Pepper, PEPSI! Doesn\’t matter. It annoys me to no end. As a matter of fact, when I was in college I waited tables and when people would say they wanted a \”Coke\” I would bring them a Coca-Cola. I had one guy tell say to me that I didn\’t ask him what kind of \”Coke\” he wanted. Turns out the \”Coke\” he wanted was, in fact, a Dr. Pepper. Sigh.[/quote]

Coke is like Kleenex. Do you say facial tissue? Nope — Kleenex. Just like the person who told me she loved her Nike iPod. Ummm … what? \”My Nike iPod.\” It was a Philips/Nike-branded mp3 player. Nice.[/quote]

I seriously doubt Coke would like to hear that you lot have determined them a genericized trademark. They are no way near the status of Xerox, Kleenex or Jell-o and, no doubt, would like to keep it that way.

SB

question for all you foreigners and world travelers…(i notice this every time im abroad…which is somewhat rare, but it has occurred)…

is the US the only nation that actually puts ice (or more than say, one or two cubes) in a cold beverage?

i was in…get this…a mickey d’s on the champs eleyses…(just had to, ya know??) and not only was my ‘supersize’ order smaller than a regular one here (back in about 1999…when they still had “supersize”)…there was NO ICE in my iced tea…WTF???

noticed this in england and canada too

is ice that much of an anathema elsewhere? is it ‘too expensive’? this one i just don’t get

and the foreigners here are the same way…was in $tarbux the other day and some british chick ordered some iced coffee drink with “light ice” (and it was about half full of cubes)…to which she, quite snarkily i might said, “that’s NOT light ice…light ice is one or two cubes”…(of course, it didn’t help that the counter teen even more attitudinally replied…”it does here in AMERIKA”)

(i would have told the british chick to check for spit in her ‘new, light-iced’ beverage…but well…she kind of deserved it)

[quote comment=”285677″]I’ve never understood the basketball uniform phenomenon of logos/wordmarks on the fanny. To me, it looks too much like those shorts that girls wear with idiotic ilttle words and phrases on the back (such as “juicy,” “hot,” etc.). Those short shorts might as well say “skanky ho” on the back. Why any team (HS, college, and especially pro) would want to replicate that is beyond me.[/quote]
I don’t much care for the logo on the back of those shorts but there’s a big difference that small logo and having words on both cheeks as with those girl shorts. The NOLA logo is actually closer to the waistband.

I’m just saying.

Either way, the logo is not needed.

[quote comment=”285682″]question for all you foreigners and world travelers…(i notice this every time im abroad…which is somewhat rare, but it has occurred)…

is the US the only nation that actually puts ice (or more than say, one or two cubes) in a cold beverage?

i was in…get this…a mickey d’s on the champs eleyses…(just had to, ya know??) and not only was my ‘supersize’ order smaller than a regular one here (back in about 1999…when they still had “supersize”)…there was NO ICE in my iced tea…WTF???

noticed this in england and canada too

is ice that much of an anathema elsewhere? is it ‘too expensive’? this one i just don’t get

and the foreigners here are the same way…was in $tarbux the other day and some british chick ordered some iced coffee drink with “light ice” (and it was about half full of cubes)…to which she, quite snarkily i might said, “that’s NOT light ice…light ice is one or two cubes”…(of course, it didn’t help that the counter teen even more attitudinally replied…”it does here in AMERIKA”)

(i would have told the british chick to check for spit in her ‘new, light-iced’ beverage…but well…she kind of deserved it)[/quote]

Not to be a Subway supporter too much here, as its actually not one of my favorite places to go by a long shot. But, during my stays in England and Scotland it was the only place I could find that always had ice in their beverage machines, and during the summer you just need ice. Oh, and room temperature beer is disgusting Britain!

BTW, Rockford, IL still has super size on the McDonalds menu. They use us as a testing site for different ideas, that was the reason I was given when I asked, even though it doesn’t make any sense.

Forgot the link.

Here’s the official announcement from TSA complete with photos of the new unis.

I’m a personal fan of the velcro action shot.

Enjoy.

link

[quote comment=”285682″]question for all you foreigners and world travelers…(i notice this every time im abroad…which is somewhat rare, but it has occurred)…

is the US the only nation that actually puts ice (or more than say, one or two cubes) in a cold beverage?

i was in…get this…a mickey d’s on the champs eleyses…(just had to, ya know??) and not only was my ‘supersize’ order smaller than a regular one here (back in about 1999…when they still had “supersize”)…there was NO ICE in my iced tea…WTF???

noticed this in england and canada too

is ice that much of an anathema elsewhere? is it ‘too expensive’? this one i just don’t get

and the foreigners here are the same way…was in $tarbux the other day and some british chick ordered some iced coffee drink with “light ice” (and it was about half full of cubes)…to which she, quite snarkily i might said, “that’s NOT light ice…light ice is one or two cubes”…(of course, it didn’t help that the counter teen even more attitudinally replied…”it does here in AMERIKA”)

(i would have told the british chick to check for spit in her ‘new, light-iced’ beverage…but well…she kind of deserved it)[/quote]

Well, I grew up in Saskatchewan, and now live in Alberta, and most places I go to put ice in drinks. When I worked at both Wendy’s and Arby’s, we filled the cups half way with ice before adding the drink. The only place that doesn’t is A&W, and I just noticed recently they have a little notice printed on their cups. They say they don’t use ice because the drink is supposed to come out of the fountain at the appropriate temperature, and ice just waters it down.

Speaking of localized expressions, the big one for Saskatchewan is “bunnyhug”. As far as I know, we’re the only place in the world that calls a hoodie a bunnyhug. To me, bunnyhug is completely natural and hoodie sounds wrong.

The other one is runners, for sneakers. I think this is a Western Canadaian expression.

Awesome full NOB: Steve Johnson of the Bills ( link)

[quote]When I’m travelling I try to listen for what’s used locally (soda or pop) so I don’t look like a dork when ordering. Blend in. Like a spy. (looks furtively to either side; tries to remember if changed battery in shoe phone).[/quote]
Ah, heck with that. I grew up in “pop” country (NW Indiana), but now live in LA, which is definitely a “soda” area. Been here 15 years, but still call it pop, and still get weird looks from people when I do. I refuse to change, mostly because I know I’m right. :)

Shortly after I’d first moved here, though, I did have one co-worker mishear me and think I’d asked where the “pot machine” was…that was an amusing experience.

That could still be gold in between the black and teal stripes, but it’s really really hard to tell.

link

[quote comment=”285691″]If you want a real soda/pop/coke/whatever debate, spend some time in Washington, DC. I lived in DC for a few years while my now-wife was in med school at G-Town. DC is a town of transplants and emigrants and is the biggest hodge-podge of cultures outside of NYC. I’m a NorCal (soda) kid and had friends from Pittsburgh (pop), Atlanta (coke, of course), Washington state (pop), Sri Lanka (soda), and South Africa (tonic!). This debate came up every time we went out to lunch. Clearly the only correct term is soda, but this mish-mash would never admit it.[/quote]

In Ghana if you want a soda/pop/Coke you’ve got to order a “mineral.”

[quote comment=”285695″][quote comment=”285689″][quote comment=”285629″]”coke” is coke (coca-cola)

not diet coke, cherry coke, vanilla coke, lemon coke, vomit coke, sprite, rootbeer…and definitely not friggin pepsi…they’ll even correct you in a restaurant here if you say “i want a coke” they’ll say “all we have is pepsi” and you tell them to fck off

generally speaking, carbonated beverages are “sodas”

“pop” is your old man, the potency of a alcoholic beverage or something you go out for (“a pop”) after softball…and it aint for a cosmo either[/quote]
Soda is a carbonated water. Pop is shortened for Soda Pop. Pop makes more sense.[/quote]

Soda is NaCO3, the chemical compound that makes Akla-Seltzer fizzy (I don’t think they still use to carbonate modern bubbly drinks, but could be mistaken). What does pop have to do with carbonated beverages?[/quote]

So if someone orders “Scotch & Soda”, what does he get?

We won’t change things here—that’s for sure—and there probably truly isn’t a right or wrong in this…but post #102 does offer a certain logic, iif we incoporate both the chemical and “cocktail” definitions of Soda as a dual benchmark.

What’s right is what’s used wherever you’re standing at the time.

(As a side observation…ever notice how TV shows and movies avoid the “pop-soda” thing altogether? It’s like writers know no matter what dialogue they write, half the country will think it’s wrong.)

A local c-store is using link as a promotion. Yes, the store name is hilarious.

I’m surprised no one has said that they call it “soft drink.”

And I think the Jags pants have gold on either side of the black stripe. But, that’s just me.

kinda surprised no one mentioned (even though i think the article did) that black (night sky?) surrounding the new trees in the wolves unis link

not a big fan of the uni (for all the reasons already mentioned)…but i do actually like that particular aspect

/now back to why ‘pop’ is not soda

Hell yeah we say bubbler. I’ll even take drinking fountain. But never water fountain.

A water fountain is Cupid spouting water in the courtyard.

The water bubbles out – it’s descriptive. If you have a problem with that, I think you have to have a problem with water fountain for it’s inaccuracies.

[quote]A tissue is a tissue; a carbonated beverage is a pop; a copier is a copier. Besides, there are not several flavors of tissue, so it matters little if they are called Kleenex.[/quote]
I’d bet it matters to all the non-Kleenex makers of facial tissues. And to Kleenex, also, since it’s devaluing their trademark.

[quote comment=”285706″]kinda surprised no one mentioned (even though i think the article did) that black (night sky?) surrounding the new trees in the wolves unis link

not a big fan of the uni (for all the reasons already mentioned)…but i do actually like that particular aspect

/now back to why ‘pop’ is not soda[/quote]

Heyyyy…you’re right, LI Phil. When they’re below the knee they aren’t “shorts” anymore. They’re “pants”.

And so, in the history of uni-geekdom, this is a momentous day, this August 21, 2008. On this day, basketball shorts, as we knew them, officially ceased to exist.

Leave us all bow our heads in a moment of silent sartorial sadness.

(And then we’ll start debating what’s shorts and what’s pants).

2) Another sprinter (400m hurdles, perhaps?) wearing an outfit that would best be described as a “Swiss Smurf”. I’m assuming she was of an indian decent requiring she cover up, but she did so with looked like a white hoodie holding a bundle of hair above and behind her, and red tights. It was quite a sight to see.

She’s Muslim and therefore must cover her hair. This was mentioned on the broadcast.

As for the Hornets new unis … will Air Jordans be standard issue as well?

link

[quote comment=”285715″]To me, saying “I’m going to Xerox this” is a totally dated phrase – only old people say this![/quote]

HEY! i resemble that remark ;)

but do you mean old people like me (42)…or old people like link?

[quote comment=”285719″][quote comment=”285715″]To me, saying “I’m going to Xerox this” is a totally dated phrase – only old people say this![/quote]

That doesn’t mean the usage wasn’t part of the vernacular at one time or another…and that was the point.

But thank you for sharing that the point of view of those younger than 30 decides everything.[/quote]

just to add onto what ricko said…the ‘machine which makes copies’ in my office is made by…

wait for it…

xerox

so, it’s not dated…it might not be what you kids say (what do you say anyway?)…

i mean if i said “ditto machine” (like yesterday), you’d have a point…but whatever

[quote comment=”285682″]question for all you foreigners and world travelers…(i notice this every time im abroad…which is somewhat rare, but it has occurred)…

is the US the only nation that actually puts ice (or more than say, one or two cubes) in a cold beverage?

i was in…get this…a mickey d’s on the champs eleyses…(just had to, ya know??) and not only was my ‘supersize’ order smaller than a regular one here (back in about 1999…when they still had “supersize”)…there was NO ICE in my iced tea…WTF???

noticed this in england and canada too

is ice that much of an anathema elsewhere? is it ‘too expensive’? this one i just don’t get

and the foreigners here are the same way…was in $tarbux the other day and some british chick ordered some iced coffee drink with “light ice” (and it was about half full of cubes)…to which she, quite snarkily i might said, “that’s NOT light ice…light ice is one or two cubes”…(of course, it didn’t help that the counter teen even more attitudinally replied…”it does here in AMERIKA”)

(i would have told the british chick to check for spit in her ‘new, light-iced’ beverage…but well…she kind of deserved it)[/quote]

When I go to Germany for work they do not serve ice in their POP. You have to ask for it, and you stick out like a sore thumb with ice in your glass. Guess that screams ‘American’ to them.

Good thing I rarely get POP over there, too busy trying all the different kinds of beer :)

You know, I make one stop to fix a computer at a branch, and this board explodes with comments. Lo)

1. Trailer Park Boys = pure comedy gold. Why? It takes every stereotype you can think of and crams it into every episode. Hilarious.

2. Arrested Development = better than Curb Your Enthusiasm, and close to being Seinfeld. Sublime comedy, and Will Arnett is gold in that series.

3. Freaks and Geeks = didn’t build enough hype. It was a classic show, but it didn’t have the marketing or growing enthusiasm that AD or GtheB had. Which is sad because it was so good.

4. Every restaurant in Canada that I’ve been to serves ice with their soft drinks. Yes, that’s right – soft drinks. Not sodas or pops or sody pops or link. Another classic obscure reference to the past! I’m on a roll today! :o)

[quote comment=”285720″][quote comment=”285719″][quote comment=”285715″]To me, saying “I’m going to Xerox this” is a totally dated phrase – only old people say this![/quote]

That doesn’t mean the usage wasn’t part of the vernacular at one time or another…and that was the point.

But thank you for sharing that the point of view of those younger than 30 decides everything.[/quote]

just to add onto what ricko said…the ‘machine which makes copies’ in my office is made by…

wait for it…

xerox

so, it’s not dated…it might not be what you kids say (what do you say anyway?)…

i mean if i said “ditto machine” (like yesterday), you’d have a point…but whatever[/quote]

I (25) say ‘ I am going to copy this’. Don’t use Xerox…

[quote]Every restaurant in Canada that I’ve been to serves ice with their soft drinks.[/quote]

sorry…when i was dating that winnipegger…the only ‘restaurant’ we ever went to was A&W…and yeah…(plus someone already posted on it)…she’d tell me the story of why there was no ice in the rootbeers…perfect temp…ice waters it down…blah-blah-blah

i just assumed that all canadian restaurants/establishments followed…my bad

damn, i do miss me some double-doubles from timmahs tho…

[quote comment=”285728″][quote]Every restaurant in Canada that I’ve been to serves ice with their soft drinks.[/quote]

sorry…when i was dating that winnipegger…the only ‘restaurant’ we ever went to was A&W…and yeah…(plus someone already posted on it)…she’d tell me the story of why there was no ice in the rootbeers…perfect temp…ice waters it down…blah-blah-blah

i just assumed that all canadian restaurants/establishments followed…my bad

damn, i do miss me some double-doubles from timmahs tho…[/quote]

The reason they don’t put ice in the root beers at A&W is because the mugs are kept chilled. The chilled mugs keep the root beer cold as opposed to putting ice in it, much like bars are supposed to do with beer steins and beer.

Of course, the ice could melt and dilute the taste of the root beer, but if you’re drinking it that slowly, you didn’t order it because you were thirsty. :o)

[quote comment=”285729″]More importantly, what the fuck does pop vs. soda have to do with uniforms?[/quote]

I spilt pop on my uniform once….

Hockey news has an article on what one picture defines hockey. Has some good old time hockey uni goodness.

link

Man, I cannot wait for hockey to start up again…

RE: More importantly, what the fuck does pop vs. soda have to do with uniforms?

Finally someone said it! My finger hurts from scrolling through all this BS trying to find a post that has anything to do with uniforms. Let’s get back on track fellow uniwatchers!

BTW, in Maryland we say Coke for either Coke or Pepsi. If you want something other than those two, you refer to it by its proper name. Not too many “pop’s” around here.

Damn. Now I’m doing it….

[quote comment=”285734″]Hockey news has an article on what one picture defines hockey. Has some good old time hockey uni goodness.

link

Man, I cannot wait for hockey to start up again…[/quote]

Great pics in that article. Good find, Jim MI!

Just for fun, the Hornets recolored purple, green and yellow…

link

A moment of silence for Gene Upshaw…

[quote comment=”285739″][quote comment=”285733″][quote comment=”285729″]More importantly, what the fuck does pop vs. soda have to do with uniforms?[/quote]

Much like uniform tastes, common words that become “regionalized” have been discussed on here before. This is no different.[/quote]

Sorry, but I do recall Paul stating in the comments section a while back that if you have to start your comment off with “not really uni-related, but…” then you shouldn’t post it to begin with. Low and behold we have that in today’s ticker.

I love the comments section on this website. I don’t even read the ticker because everything in today’s ticker was in yesterday’s comment section. It just irks me that we had two new uniform unveilings and we end up talking about pop vs. soda.

And another thing, how dumb is it to say, “here in _____ we call it _______” No shit….I have a color coded map to tell me that.[/quote]

If you don’t read the ticker, then how do you know what was in today’s ticker?

[quote comment=”285693″]Jags changed the stripes on their white pants. It’s a large black stripe flanked by white and teal stripes:

link

From 1995 to 2007 it was a large teal stripe flanked by gold and black stripes:

link

That new stripe is pretty sweet, goes much better with the jersey, IMO. Get rid of that ridiculous logo on the sleeves, helmet…..ok just get a new logo and that’s one mighty fine lookin team.

[quote comment=”285743″][quote comment=”285738″][quote comment=”285734″]Hockey news has an article on what one picture defines hockey. Has some good old time hockey uni goodness.

link

Man, I cannot wait for hockey to start up again…[/quote]

Great pics in that article. Good find, Jim MI![/quote]

I know Teebz, I could look at old time hockey photos ALL DAY!! I read that article and immediatlly went online trying to find the Bobby Orr photo for sale for my hockey memoribilla room. It’s a must have.[/quote]

They have framed ones at link. They’re gorgeous but expensive.

[quote comment=”285643″][quote]Now, let me ask this: How many times have any of said, “I need a kleenex” or “I’ll xerox it so I have a copy” ?[/quote]

i generally say “i’ll xerox it” (the so i have a copy part is usually implied)…

lets keep this to coke, tho…not the ‘band aid’, ‘vaseline,’ ‘kleenex’ stuff (you know…the brand names that are synonymous with the overall genre of the product)[/quote]

If I may jump in here. . . companies lose their trademarks when their marks become the generic words for those products. Remember that in the late 70s’early 80s, Xerox had commercials that said, “You don’t Xerox a Xerox on a Xerox,” showing that you make a photocopy on a Xerox-brand photocopier machine.

[quote comment=”285746″][quote comment=”285693″]Jags changed the stripes on their white pants. It’s a large black stripe flanked by white and teal stripes:

link

From 1995 to 2007 it was a large teal stripe flanked by gold and black stripes:

link

That new stripe is pretty sweet, goes much better with the jersey, IMO. Get rid of that ridiculous logo on the sleeves, helmet…..ok just get a new logo and that’s one mighty fine lookin team.[/quote]

I think the Jags have the best logo in the NFL

[quote comment=”285752″][quote comment=”285746″][quote comment=”285693″]Jags changed the stripes on their white pants. It’s a large black stripe flanked by white and teal stripes:

link

From 1995 to 2007 it was a large teal stripe flanked by gold and black stripes:

link

That new stripe is pretty sweet, goes much better with the jersey, IMO. Get rid of that ridiculous logo on the sleeves, helmet…..ok just get a new logo and that’s one mighty fine lookin team.[/quote]

I think the Jags have the best logo in the NFL[/quote]

Definitely teal, gold, black, gold, teal.
link

[quote comment=”285752″][quote comment=”285746″][quote comment=”285693″]Jags changed the stripes on their white pants. It’s a large black stripe flanked by white and teal stripes:

link

From 1995 to 2007 it was a large teal stripe flanked by gold and black stripes:

link

That new stripe is pretty sweet, goes much better with the jersey, IMO. Get rid of that ridiculous logo on the sleeves, helmet…..ok just get a new logo and that’s one mighty fine lookin team.[/quote]

I think the Jags have the best logo in the NFL[/quote]

I’d say their main logo is OK, at best. And the secondary logo used on the shoulders is terrible. I’ve always been a fan of simplistic lgos that play with font. I’m also just tired of every team nowadays having an angry (insert random animal here) as their mascot/logo.

Does this …

link

… mean they are all retiring?

[quote comment=”285667″][quote comment=”285662″][quote comment=”285649″]
As a fellow Arkansawyer (who grew up in St. Louis), I quickly learned that if’n one wanted a Coca-Cola, one asked for a “Co-Cola”… since my native-Arkansawyer bride and I actually prefer Coke, no problem![/quote]

link Did he just say blindness?
link Yeah, blah. He also said “if’n”.

Classic obscure comedy from Greg The Bunny… another hilarious show canceled by the jerk-asses who run the Fox Network. If any of you saw the Paintball episode, you know what I’m talking about.

No one? Dammit.[/quote]

yet another reason i like ya teebz :o)…

back before greg the bunny was even ON tv…a guy i worked with got preview (VHS back then) tapes of the first six episodes of that show…fell in f’n love with it then…and still think it was one of the best shows never to gain any mass audience…prolly because the mass audience didn’t Get It (TM) …

that had seth green and that sarah silverman chick…and the dad from american pie, yes?

…just did a quick search and found the complete series is on dvd…may have to pick that up

…not quite in the same comedy genre, but as funny as “arrested development”…another hilarious show no one seemed to watch[/quote]
Yeah, Arrested Development, in my opinion, is the 2nd best TV show of all time. FOX screwed up bad in cancelling that, as well as Firefly.

[quote comment=”285760″]Does this …

link

… mean they are all retiring?[/quote]

It just means that if Japan is going to score any more runs at that ballpark, they’re going to have to deal with quite a stench to do so.

[quote comment=”285763″][quote comment=”285716″]As for the Hornets new unis … will Air Jordans be standard issue as well?

link

To be correct, those are Air Jordan V/Air Force 1 Fusions.

Why would they be standard issue?[/quote]

If the rest of what #08 (you know, MR.ABCDEFG) is wearing is standard issue, why wouldn’t his shoes?

[quote comment=”285766″][quote comment=”285763″][quote comment=”285716″]As for the Hornets new unis … will Air Jordans be standard issue as well?

link

To be correct, those are Air Jordan V/Air Force 1 Fusions.

Why would they be standard issue?[/quote]

If the rest of what #08 (you know, MR.ABCDEFG) is wearing is standard issue, why wouldn’t his shoes?[/quote]

Regarding shoes, was gonna ask why the yellow laces (on T’Wolves blue uni modeller-guy).

[quote comment=”285757″][quote comment=”285740″]Just for fun, the Hornets recolored purple, green and yellow…

link

I know purple gets a lot of hate here, but I really dig that idea. Did you make this? This is EXACTLY what I was hoping for.[/quote]

Yes, I did it this morning just to see what it would look like. And I do wish they’d gone with those colors.

Well in New Orleans it is none of these things.

We have “cold drinks.”

[quote comment=”285769″][quote comment=”285760″]Does this …

link

… mean they are all retiring?[/quote]

Well, since the sport is being dropped from the Olympic Games, in a sense, yes, they are all retiring.

Which leads to the question of what Misty May-Traynor and Kerri Walsh could have left on the court to announce their retirements.[/quote]
Baseball and softball can come back, but not until 2016 at the earliest. However, if Chicago gets the 2016 Summer Olympics then it’s a safe bet that they will return to the Olympics, if only as a demonstration sport.

link

leaving cleats @ home plate? why?

Whoops, I see this is already addressed.

[quote comment=”285778″]The thing with the purple, green and gold is that it’s SO overdone in terms of New Orleans. We’re very picky about when it’s Mardi Gras and when it’s not. Only tourists pretend it’s a party all year and wear beads every day.

Making everything in New Orleans purple, green and gold/Mardi Gras is like saying everything in New York should be red and have apples on it. Or everything in Florida should be orange and have Sunshine or Citrus on it.[/quote]
So overdone? How so? I don’t see it overdone on anything except maybe on all of the fleur-de-lis flags hanging in the French Quarter and the rest of the city. But even then you have numerous variations to those flags in multiple colors.

I have NO PROBLEM with the team trying to connect with the city by using purple, GREEN and gold. I think it’s a better color-combination and a smart move.

It’s overdone in that it’s all that anyone says/thinks/does when it comes to New Orleans. Mardi Gras is such a small part and yet it’s the only identifier people use. For the tourists intents and purposes, Mardi Gras isn’t even a week – they don’t even know it’s a whole season – and yet that one week defines the city.

I saw a show recently where they threw a New Orleans couple a Mardi Gras themed wedding and thought they were being clever. All I could think was how disappointed I’d be if that were my wedding.

I used to live in NOLA and I live in Wisconsin now. To me, it’s like when someone makes a cow or cheese joke here as though it’s the first time we’ve heard it. It’s not all Wisconsin is – you wouldn’t say we should have cheese yellow jerseys, right? And in that respect, Mardi Gras is not the only identifier for New Orleans/Louisiana.

[quote comment=”285783″]It’s overdone in that it’s all that anyone says/thinks/does when it comes to New Orleans. Mardi Gras is such a small part and yet it’s the only identifier people use. For the tourists intents and purposes, Mardi Gras isn’t even a week – they don’t even know it’s a whole season – and yet that one week defines the city.

I saw a show recently where they threw a New Orleans couple a Mardi Gras themed wedding and thought they were being clever. All I could think was how disappointed I’d be if that were my wedding.

I used to live in NOLA and I live in Wisconsin now. To me, it’s like when someone makes a cow or cheese joke here as though it’s the first time we’ve heard it. It’s not all Wisconsin is – you wouldn’t say we should have cheese yellow jerseys, right? And in that respect, Mardi Gras is not the only identifier for New Orleans/Louisiana.[/quote]
I still live in the New Orleans area and I think that Mardi Gras is a significant part of the region’s identity. Yes tourists walk around all the time with beads…but that’s because all of the shops in the quarter SELL beads year-round. I don’t think most tourists assume Mardi Gras to be a year-round thing, either. As for being over-done, when you walk around the city it’s evident that it’s not.

I think the fans of this team, this city and this region would LOVE a change to green from teal. It’s a throwback to New Orleans’ original NBA days with the Jazz and it’s something meaningful to the city. Too often, we see sports teams that really don’t try to make a connection with the local culture. The Hornets are DEFINITELY trying to do that and this would only further that bond.

[quote comment=”285751″]It’s a slow day so I’m posting this beautiful 1959 pic of Accra’s Hearts of Oak for the third time in the past month and hoping it will get some traction. It’s my all time favorite sports team and my all time favorite uniform and fortunately the general look gets revived by the club every few years to become the primary kit.

link

And right after the match the team’s heading down to link.

[quote comment=”285786″][quote comment=”285782″]so…no love for a return to link for the hornets 3rd uni?[/quote]
Personally, I liked those yellow alts much more than the teal away unis. But I think I’m in the minority (at least on this blog).[/quote]

I like them, too. Especially paired with those shoes! And the logo count for that pic is different than what we’re used to:
NBA: 4
Kings: 2
Nike: 1

link

Looks like the new Michigan home hockey jerseys will indeed have numbers on the front of the jersey as well, just like the 1950’s-60’s jerseys they are designed after. AWESOME.

[quote comment=”285774″][quote comment=”285720″][quote comment=”285719″][quote comment=”285715″]To me, saying “I’m going to Xerox this” is a totally dated phrase – only old people say this![/quote]

That doesn’t mean the usage wasn’t part of the vernacular at one time or another…and that was the point.

But thank you for sharing that the point of view of those younger than 30 decides everything.[/quote]

just to add onto what ricko said…the ‘machine which makes copies’ in my office is made by…

wait for it…

xerox

so, it’s not dated…it might not be what you kids say (what do you say anyway?)…

i mean if i said “ditto machine” (like yesterday), you’d have a point…but whatever[/quote]

Wow, didn’t think anyone would get offended. Touchy folks today, or what?

I just meant that you don’t hear that phrase much anymore. I thought most people just said Copy. There’s a wide range of ages in my office and we all use copy. Xerox is so uncommon to me that when I hear someone say it, I usually note it and think how strange it sounds. It just comes off like a phrase from another generation.

Ricko, why the jab about people under 30? Seems a bit much when all I said was that a phrase sounds dated TO ME.[/quote]

No reason whatosever to have said, “a totally dated phrase – only old people say this!”

What did a time component or anyone’s age have to do with what I’d written? Issue was THAT the phrase had been said, not WHEN. Was talking about product names becoming generic, and “Xerox” is one of best examples in the past 50 years.

Just because something happened before someone was born doesn’t make it irrelvent…or even necessarily outdated.

That being said, Nicole, I also apologize. I’m a year older today (with a LOT more years behind me than ahead of me…”three-quarters home from the start to the end”), and I’m surprised that it’s getting to me more than I though it would. So I guess I kinda got a sore spot there.

Tomorrow I’ll be back to bitching about normal stuff like NBA pantaloons with their stylish hemlines.

well shit…

link ricko!

i, mean, link, sir

;)

Twenty years from now, kids will ask: “Why are football players’ shorts called pants and baskeball players’ pants called shorts?”

They’re already just about the same length.

[quote comment=”285768″][quote comment=”285766″][quote comment=”285763″][quote comment=”285716″]As for the Hornets new unis … will Air Jordans be standard issue as well?

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To be correct, those are Air Jordan V/Air Force 1 Fusions.

Why would they be standard issue?[/quote]

If the rest of what #08 (you know, MR.ABCDEFG) is wearing is standard issue, why wouldn’t his shoes?[/quote]

Regarding shoes, was gonna ask why the yellow laces (on T’Wolves blue uni modeller-guy).[/quote]

Mike Miller, not a WNBA player, is the pictured T-Wolf. He is an Adidas endorsed athlete. For promo pics like that, they usually wear their street/casual shoes!

[quote comment=”285788″][quote comment=”285669″]
Maybe it’s just my social group here in Iowa, but we’re the exact opposite. Pop = Soft drink, Sodas = Beers[/quote]

It’s totally your social group. I grew up in Iowa and never called beer soda. It’s beer.[/quote]

I call a pint of Guinness an “Irish Soda.”

Isn’t this blog supposed to be about link, by the way?

[quote comment=”285740″]Just for fun, the Hornets recolored purple, green and yellow…

“I used to live in NOLA and I live in Wisconsin now. To me, it’s like when someone makes a cow or cheese joke here as though it’s the first time we’ve heard it. It’s not all Wisconsin is – you wouldn’t say we should have cheese yellow jerseys, right? And in that respect, Mardi Gras is not the only identifier for New Orleans/Louisiana.”[/quote]

Yeah, but last I checked the Packers wear cheese yellow helmets and their fans wear cheese hats. Like it or not, Mardi Gras is the biggest identifier for NOLA and therefore should be used to identify the team with it’s city. It’s not we’re saying that the neckline should look like a bunch of beads. Just that they missed a chance to make that franchise’s look unique to New Orleans. When I look at the new jerseys, I still see Charlotte.

As a Miami Dolphins fan, I’m very upset with the news from last week that Parcells is looking to fuck with what I believe to be one of the best uniforms in the NFL. However, the Dolphins have brought back the aqua pants with the white striped socks this year. If I recall correctly, Saban did away with these when he took over, and Cameron just stayed with not having them. I’m glad that Parcells did bring these back.

On a seperate not, I attend the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. We have no football team on campus (gone since the ’95 season I believe) so basketball is the big sport on campus. Our team has had some success in the past, taking Boston College to triple overtime in the tournament 3 years ago. Anyway, our team has been sponsored by And 1 for as long as I can remember. The team had nice uniforms my freshman year, and got new ones last year. I was at work today in our new University Center and 2 members of the coaching staff came in to reserve a room for a recruitment lunch. While talking with them I noticed that one of the coaches was wearing a Pacific Basketball shirt that was Nike. Before he left I asked if they had left And 1 for Nike (each sport on campus has its own deal; Women’s soccer is Nike, softball is adidas, baseball is New Balance, etc.) He told me that they had been with And 1 for 6 years and that the contract had expired in April and that they were indeed switching over to Nike. Anyway, he looked at me like I was slightly weird, but at least I know our team is probably going to have its third different uniform in the past 3 years.

[quote comment=”285777″]http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/softball/gallery#photoViewer=urn%3Anewsml%3Asports.yahoo%2Cap%3A20050301%3Aoly%2Cphoto%2Cf150438ccb0f4e148a4bb3f5ca0906d3.beijing_olympics_softballl_oly1479%3A1

leaving cleats @ home plate? why?[/quote]

According to the story, they were “saying goodbye to the game they loved.”

late to the game today.

Yes, I say xerox when I mean copy. I also used carbon paper. It was soda pop when I was growing up in Kansas.

Unis? I was a fan of the Charlotte pin stripes, but not so much of the teal. So the Hornets redos are OK by me, but those purple and green photoshopped versions are sweet. (Will that get me in trouble with the Adobe folks?)

The T-Wolves? I couldn’t understand when they rolled out the franchise that their uniforms had simply “Wolves.” Scrapping the full name was a step backward in my book. Timberwolves and Minnesota both stretch across a jersey pretty far.

Finally, RIP Gene Upshaw. I grew up a Chiefs fan (still am), but he was one classy Raider.

Keith Hernandez just called the Mets pants pajama pants in the bottom of the 8th.

It’s a uniform and some people consider being kick ass a sport.

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prolly a 63 patch for the Rayduhz..
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[quote comment=”285813″]It’s a uniform and some people consider being kick ass a sport.

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ummm…what!?

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Peyton switching from Reebok to Adidas? (Look close.)

[quote comment=”285819″]http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/photo?slug=7004aa570be24217a2a1b8341525247a.colts_peyton_appears_football_inmc109&prov=ap

Peyton switching from Reebok to Adidas? (Look close.)[/quote]

Considering that adidas owns Reebok, this is more like switching from Taco Bell to KFC – same company, different logo. ;o)