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rthomas
03-21-2008, 08:57 PM
Working at WVU but being a Dukie has been HE-doublehockiesticks all day, starting with calls last night. We had better win tomorrow or I may as well...you know.

I can't handle it. All my students and WVU friends are coming to watch the game at my house. WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO? I'm watching in my bedroom, they are watching in my tv room. I can't do it. Go away!

I'm drinking too much.
Indoor66
03-21-2008, 09:00 PM
Working at WVU but being a Dukie has been HE-doublehockiesticks all day, starting with calls last night. We had better win tomorrow or I may as well...you know.

I can't handle it. All my students and WVU friends are coming to watch the game at my house. WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO? I'm watching in my bedroom, they are watching in my tv room. I can't do it. Go away!

I'm drinking too much.

Uninvite the Heathens! :mad: :cool: :eek: ;)
BCGroup
03-21-2008, 09:08 PM
WOW. Thank you for posting. My neighbor is a UNC/WVU fan (isn't that a bad combination) and he has all his friends coming over. I'm choosing to just smile at him everytime he starts trash talking Duke. The old notion of taking the high road...but then he's not in my house!
TillyGalore
03-21-2008, 10:03 PM
Working at WVU but being a Dukie has been HE-doublehockiesticks all day, starting with calls last night. We had better win tomorrow or I may as well...you know.

I can't handle it. All my students and WVU friends are coming to watch the game at my house. WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO? I'm watching in my bedroom, they are watching in my tv room. I can't do it. Go away!

I'm drinking too much.

Isn't there a bar you can go to rather than having to relegate yourself to the bedroom?

I'm with Indoor66, UNINVITE THE HEATHENS!!!

Good luck tomorrow.
CrazyCat
03-21-2008, 10:06 PM
Tell them, just by Duke affliation, you also got the flu and not up for company.
billybreen
03-21-2008, 10:07 PM
Wow, you seriously need to adjust your priorities. In no circumstances should courtesy subject you to such indignity.
ricks68
03-22-2008, 12:48 AM
I was unaware that WVU was our rival.

The WVU people I know (which includes my boss) are generally nice. They are not necessarily UNC fans or Duke haters or even non-rival Maryland fans. Just watch the game with them and compliment their team on their fine play.

Hopefully, after we beat them, we can tell them how much we respect their valiant losing effort.

ricks
ricks68
03-22-2008, 12:56 AM
Oh, by the way----you haven't been acting in an un-Duke like way towards WVU for a while leading up to this possible confrontation by being arrogant and obnoxious about our great basketball team, have you?

If you have, then you are in the "what goes around comes around" situation, and unfortunately deserve what you are going to get. So, please do not gloat when we win. Make up for your bad behavior by being gracious in victory, please.

ricks
Duvall
03-22-2008, 12:58 AM
I'm watching in my bedroom, they are watching in my tv room.

You don't happen to have a couch in your tv room, do you?
dukepsy1963
03-22-2008, 01:18 AM
Maybe too late now, but I remember taking a course at Duke called, "Sports Rivals and Enemies: How to Deal With Them", or something like that. One thing that was emphasized over and over was to, "never invite your sports rivals into your home no matter what, etc." I am assuming that you did not take that course?

Another great course was titled, "1001 Ways to Really Fix UNC Fans."
mgtr
03-22-2008, 03:44 AM
If you know some people with cats, just borrow their (well-used) cat litter boxes, and scatter them around the TV room. Your "friends" will probably find another place to watch the game.
Lavabe
03-22-2008, 04:31 AM
Save the good drinks for the Crazies. Be sure that your WVU friends have a few of the beers in the "Ycch ... Beer" thread.:D

Whoops ... no one's started that thread yet.;)

Immediate suggestion: call up whoever else at WVU shares Duke loyalties.

Cheers,
Lavabe
rthomas
03-22-2008, 08:55 AM
Oh, by the way----you haven't been acting in an un-Duke like way towards WVU for a while leading up to this possible confrontation by being arrogant and obnoxious about our great basketball team, have you?

Yes. Yes, I have...since I moved here in 1995.
rthomas
03-22-2008, 11:17 AM
My Duke flag is waving proudly. Go Duke!
YmoBeThere
03-22-2008, 11:32 AM
You should post a pic!
billybreen
03-22-2008, 11:50 AM
Morgantown always reminds me of this:


One trick is to tell em stories that don’t go anywhere - like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. “Give me five bees for a quarter,” you’d say. Now where were we? Oh yeah - the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn’t have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones…

That makes me happy.
YmoBeThere
03-22-2008, 11:52 AM
Man, you are a Simpson's repository...
phaedrus
03-22-2008, 11:54 AM
Nice! I wore a Duke shirt to work here in Madison on the day of the Wisconsin game (and that turned out well). The stakes are a bit higher now - so I salute you.
ricks68
03-22-2008, 12:01 PM
You don't have any ancestors from UNC or Maryland, do you? If you do, maybe you could just explain that to your "friends" before the game and it might temper their wrath. Or maybe you can get out of it by us just plain kicking their butts.

Methinks you should hope for the latter.

ricks
CatfiveCane
03-22-2008, 12:28 PM
Nice! I wore a Duke shirt to work here in Madison on the day of the Wisconsin game (and that turned out well). The stakes are a bit higher now - so I salute you.

For those who are about the die.... we salute you!!
rthomas
03-22-2008, 12:47 PM
rthomas and Rosebud patiently waiting for today's game!

http://www.as.wvu.edu/~rthomas/ecology/IMG_2053.JPG
YmoBeThere
03-22-2008, 12:51 PM
rthomas and Rosebud patiently waiting for today's game!

That's the spirit!
YmoBeThere
03-23-2008, 03:10 PM
So how rough was it yesterday at your place?
rthomas
03-23-2008, 03:19 PM
Lots of alcohol. Lots of insulting my guest's mothers. I won't do it again. Going outside of my normal routine may have been why we lost.
SeattleIrish
03-23-2008, 03:21 PM
Thank goodness. Now, rather than scapegoating Demarcus or K's recruiting, we can all rally against our new sacrificial lamb.

DEATH TO RTHOMAS!!!

s.i.
rthomas
03-23-2008, 03:27 PM
Thank goodness. Now, rather than scapegoating Demarcus or K's recruiting, we can all rally against our new sacrificial lamb.

DEATH TO RTHOMAS!!!

s.i.

I promise I won't do it again!
YmoBeThere
03-23-2008, 03:37 PM
Lots of alcohol. Lots of insulting my guest's mothers. I won't do it again. Going outside of my normal routine may have been why we lost.


At least it's easy to implement a fix!
weezie
03-23-2008, 04:16 PM
Maybe you should get Rosebud a monkey to keep her company next year.
Lavabe
03-23-2008, 08:04 PM
... rthomas, MONDAY will be the day we receive our share of abuse from the Duke Hatred Tsunami. I hope you don't get too much of it.

No sports talk radio tomorrow. ANy other coping mechanisms out there to deal with tomorrow's DHT?

Cheers,
Lavabe
rthomas
03-23-2008, 08:09 PM
... rthomas, MONDAY will be the day we receive our share of abuse from the Duke Hatred Tsunami. I hope you don't get too much of it.

No sports talk radio tomorrow. ANy other coping mechanisms out there to deal with tomorrow's DHT?

Cheers,
Lavabe

yea, I had to go to my office today and my door was decorated already. And it's spring break week. So I got my stuff and plan to work at home for a couple of days.