I just ordered about $60 worth of Oral Roberts Sports attire

I expect the ducks to win their Super Regional.
If they don't I'm stealing a line from Al Michaels in 1980 at Lake Placid.

"Do you believe in miracles?"    "Yes!"

The comparison isn't good because the Russian hockey team vs our amateurs might be the biggest upset since David vs Goliath. The ducks have superior talent to ORU but not on the level of *USSR vs USA Hockey.

However, if they lose I'm using it anyway to "rub salt in the wounds" of a duck fan.



* There is a line from this game that gives me chills as a guy that competed in sports. It was said after the 2nd period by USA coach Herb Brooks, with his team trailing Finland 2-1 for the Gold Medal.

"If you lose this game, you'll take it to your f%#*ing graves." He then walked towards the locker room door, paused, looked over his shoulder, and said to them again, "Your f%#*ing graves."

We won 4-2. I remember it as a 9 year old but didn't understand the importance.

I like Norman & Stillwater as names for a city better than Eugene.

Eugene sounds like an ignorant bum name, while Corvallis sounds like a cool name with "swag."

Lol

Skinner may look like a bum but he was an early settler & a Mason, which is fine by me.

I'm not a Mason BTW but I like their contributions to civilization.

My wife had me watching a sitcom with Levy in it that was hilarious.
I'd rather be watching baseball or football, but a marriage is about the art of compromise.

Forgot the name of it .....something creek or river......my memory isn't what it used to be.


P.S. About compromise... my wife doesn't really 'do' or understand compromise..... but I love her anyway😀

Schitt's Creek


Looking at his Wikipedia profile he is 76(!) years old damn ... I know he has been around a while remember first seeing him as the used car salesman that sold Clark Griswold the Wagon Queen Family Truckster:




Then of course years later as the dad in "American Pie":

Eugene Skinner's dad was Major John Joseph Skinner, a Major at the Battle of Plattsburgh.  The United States of America repulsed the Canadian Invasion of New York at Plattsburgh on September 11, 1814.  Major Skinner was briefly captured during the Battle but managed to escape to continue the fight.  The Invasion of Baltimore started the next day and was won by the United States of America on the 14th.  The United States of America also won the First Battle of Fort Bowyer (the fort that guards Mobile Bay) the day after the Invasion of Baltimore was repulsed.  The United States of America's three victories four days apart forced the United Kingdom to the negotiating table in Ghent.  General Jackson's victory over the British and Spanish at Pensacola 7 1/2 weeks later expedited peace negotiations with the Treaty of Ghent being signed on Christmas Eve in 1814.

Eugene Skinner's older brother was St. John Bull Skinner.  St. John served in a rifle company at the Battle of Plattsburgh.  St. John went on to be the Assistant Postmaster General of the United States from 1853-1872 (from the Pierce Administration through the first term of the Grant Administration).

Eugene Skinner made a donation land claim for area from Skinner's Butte to the river.  Skinner made money operating a ferry.  Later in life, he used part of his land to start laying out "Eugene City."  Skinner went on to be a lawyer, Lane County Clerk, and Eugene City Postmaster.

So why wasn't it named Skinner?

The capitol of Mississippi isn't named Andrew, the capitol of Wisconsin isn't named James, the capitol of Missouri isn't named Thomas and the largest cities in Ohio aren't named Moses and Christopher.

That city was ass-backward from the get-go.

Watergate burglar Howard Hunt had a son named St. John. 

The final concert of the Happy Wanderers, AKA Yosh and Stan Shmenge, was named the Plattsburgh Disaster.