I thought he was in jail.
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It was on a t-shirt. It did not start getting us called Cameron Crazies. We owe that moniker to Dick Vitale and it didn't pick up steam until after I graduated (Class of '85). The majoring in smart something comment was by a columnist at the Washington Post after the (in)famous Herman Veal game in 1984.
It was a friendly rivalry, as far as I was concerned, until one time I checked to see what they were talking about (beer is boring, yeah, I said it) and they were ragging on our choice of topic, which at the time, was lawnmowers. After that, I realized there was much more of a competition involved. If they were reading what we were saying, borrowing the topics, and yet decidedly not posting here, I realized there was an actual competition going on.
As soon as I posted that I regretted it.
Also beer is not boring, but not everyone loves it. I think they were just tweaking us to see if we were paying attention to them with the lawnmower thing. I found that to be kind of funny. Whoever it was who posted on this thread on their way out made some comment about us making public threats that the Moderators should have popped us over? I didn't understand and still don't. Maybe they saw that Wilson picture (it IS scary) and Aimo threatening to pop me? You guys have been around me long enough to know that no jury in the country would convict Aimo for hitting me. Hell, I think I deserve it.
Ain't the internet the cat's meow?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-a30cf8817232/
I loved that t-shirt. Wish I still had it.Quote:
Fame Hits Us From Behind -- That Devil!
By Ken Denlinger
February 12, 1985
The Dukies tore into him with shockingly poor taste, I thought. They cluttered the court with women's undergarments and chanted filth at him on the foul line.
I thought their little-Devil bottoms ought to have been paddled, and was angry that no administrator rushed to the courtside microphone to call for mercy.
I said they were "majoring in smartass."
They hated the column, but thought the description apt.
An enterprising senior, Jon Blank, designed a T-shirt with a sly-looking Devil holding a pitchfork in one hand and twirling a basketball.
"Cameron Chaos" is lettered on the Devil's horns; "Duke's Sixth Man" is below his tail.
On the back is "Majoring in smartass," my name and the date of the column.