Things you don't see in the SEC or Big 12

[SoxFan]

"Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim yesterday said he and other top college officials would personally apologize to Harvard's president and to the family of a Crimson athlete who was heckled last week during a squash match at Dartmouth."

http://www.vnews.com/12092009/6227904.htm

[Tobin S.]

1. When someone says squash I think of a vegetable or a monster truck

[jobycom]

2. I went to an SEC and a Big 12 school, and can honestly say...

that I'm not even sure what language that sentence was written in.

[PVnRT]

3. What the fuck is squash?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

5. Something they feed to P.O.W.'s

despite Geneva Conventions that prohibit the practice.

[av8rdave]

7. It's actually a great court game

A little like racquetball, but more difficult to learn. The ball is basically "dead." Drop it from 6' and it will bounce about 4 inches. The bottom 10" or so of the front wall is a dead material, so even on a kill shot the ball has to hit the wall above that.

Since the ball is so dead, it has to travel FAST to get the bounce off of the walls. Therefore, the rackets are longer - about as long as a tennis racket. Scoring and strategy are similar to handball and racquetball.

I played/coached it in college (intramural teams).

It's a lot of fun, but very memorable if you get hit with a shot!

[SoxFan]

8. Trust Fund Raquetball

[av8rdave]

11. Still trying to remember that trust fund I went to school on...

[pokerfan]

13. video

WSF Promotional video for Squash's 2016 Olympic bid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRMO_EDwamk

[brendan120678]

4. I'm trying to think how...

Ivy League Squash fans would insult other players...

"Excuse me, sir. But that was a horrendous nick shot."

[rurallib]

6. I think they insulted him by saying he looked like he was from an SEC school.

[Dr. Strange]

9. You win the thread!

:rofl: :rofl: :patriot:

[KamaAina]

10. Oh, no. MUCH more mature than that.

:sarcasm:

Words such as “dick,” “fag” and “----sucker” were repeatedly shouted at Harvard players last Wednesday, many times with “f------” added as an adjective.

Harvard's female players eventually sought the protection of an assistant coach after they said they were called “whores” and “sluts” while they cheered on their male peers.

While playing his match, Cohen, the Harvard squash player, was told he had small genitals and asked if he liked bagels, a phrase his mother viewed as a reference to the family's Jewish surname.

The Dartmouth students shouting that phrase said they told her it referred to Cohen having a zero or “bagel” on the scoreboard at a particular juncture in play.

Then again, we are talking about Dartmouth, birthplace of Jell-O shots, not to mention the inglorious career of one Laura Ingraham.

K-A
Yale '85, cum laude

edit: Ingraham

[PVnRT]

15. So..."dick" and "fag" are printable, but not "cocksucker"?

[brendan120678]

16. You know the Carlin bit about...

the seven words you can't say on TV? Pretty much goes the same for print media. Although that's more of a self-censorship; I don't think there is a rules & regs governing body, like TV/radio has the FCC.

Shit
Piss
Fuck
Cunt
Cocksucker
Motherfucker
Tits

And for fun, also add..
Fart
Turd
Twat

And you've got a great Blink-182 song called "Family Reunion"!

[JVS]

12. This really makes me want to do some heckling at Ivy league sporting events.

Just think how busy we could keep those administrators.

[fishwax]

14. it's happened in the big 12

I don't think an apology for bad fan behavior is all that shocking :shrug:

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

17. I is a gradjutate of ACC skool and ain't squash

a veggietubble?