AuburnChris

That is awesome, MicknMin! In fact, it sounds exactly like the sort of thing that you should put as a review of the app on your flavor of phone's app store, hopefully along with a nice large number of stars in the review. :)

That is exactly the sort of thing I was hoping people would be able to do with the app- I'm glad it's working for you guys!

It's not that it's a rule that you have to post in the intro thread first before you post that you're selling something.

It's that you should post -anywhere-, about -anything- besides what you're selling and what your phone number is, before pulling something like that. You should, in short, be a member of the community first. People should have some idea of who you are before you go posting ads. And just joining the board doesn't quite do that.

To be fair, I don't think that was A&M's call. Texas won't play them out of spite for leaving the increasingly-inaccurately-named Big 12.

That reminds me- I need to set up a word replacement filter for a certain phrase...

Can someone explain to me why Southern Cal quarterback Matt Barkley was still in the game with a 32-point lead in the fourth quarter against Hawaii and why the Trojans went for it on fourth-and-3 and threw a touchdown pass on the play? Oh wait, never mind. I have the explanation, and it has nothing to do with Barkley's Heisman hopes or national title plans. Coach Lane Kiffin never has had, and never will have, any class.

I had visions of this season ending in a USC-Alabama BCS title game, and it made me throw up in my mouth a little. I can't decide who I want to win less.

STOP THINKING AUBURN WILL WIN. We never do well unless we're expected not to. Ever.

We were expected to lose most every game in '93- we had a brand-new coach, and a team that went 5-5-1 the previous year. We were undefeated. In '04, we started the season at #22. In '10, we were in about the same place.

Corollary: If Auburn is ranked in the preseason Top 5, it is the kiss of death. We were preseason #1 in '84, and Bo Jackson celebrated by separating his shoulder and missing 3/4 of the season. We were supposed to run the table in '03, and we lost our first two games to USC (west) and Georgia Tech (of all teams).

The current line on the Clemson-Auburn game is Clemson by 3. The last time Auburn was a 3-point underdog was last year's UF game. We won. We were 1-point underdogs to Alabama in '10- Judy will tell you how that one turned out.

But seriously we're going to lose because I can never believe we're going to win until the clock says 0:00.

I've been to a lot of Auburn games, and I've never heard booing for the announcements of other game scores. (unless it was Alabama, of course. :) )

Soon, we'll have actual football to talk about instead of all this talk about what happened before. (And note: I have absolutely nothing against ND. We've never played them, and in fact, several of our finest coaches from the earliest history of Auburn football were ND alums.)

You know, even if Alabama stopped claiming national championships you didn't win, you'd still have quite a few. More than most, even. Trying to lay claim to national titles you didn't earn is particularly silly, in that light.

It's not "jealousy" to say that claiming a national championship in a year that you lost your bowl game to the -other- team that claims a national championship that year is wrong.

Part of the reason Alabama fans get a bad reputation is that they resort to the "you're just jealous of how awesome we are" defense at the drop of a houndstooth hat. (Well, that, and the unsettling tendency of Alabama fans to get full-color tattoos of Bear Bryant on their backs.) Especially since you define "how awesome we are" as "how many championships we have," when the point is you don't have as many as you say you do.

Write it out in crayon for the 'Bama fans, it seems to help. You might have to explain some of the longer words.

(I can't resist.)

ND has a few shady ones as well, I'm sorry to report. They claim a NC from the year of the Four Horsemen ('24, if I'm not mistaken) which was retroactively awarded about 15 years later. Back in those times, if teams were ranked at all, it was a regional ranking, because the idea of a national champion was simply not feasible given the state of transportation technology and the popularity of the game.

I'm not saying those old ND teams weren't worthy of the title "champion," it's just that such a title didn't exist at the time, so it's not entirely honest to claim it.

(It is a joke. Alabama claims 14 "national championships," but 6 of them are from the very early parts of the 20th Century and are highly disputed (unless you are an Alabama fan, in which case they are absolute fact). Also, they didn't claim any titles from before 1934 at all until around 1982 when their sports information director decided to bump up the numbers a bit.)

At least two of Alabama's "National Championships" are claimed for years in which they lost their bowl game. At the time (1964), there were no polls after the bowls were played, so Alabama got to claim a "national championship" after losing their bowl game. (The following year, the AP started releasing a final poll after the bowls.) Again in 1973, Alabama had the audacity to claim a UPI national championship, because the UPI (coaches' poll, equivalent to todays USA TODAY poll) didn't have a post-bowl poll. Alabama (#1) played Notre Dame (#2) in the Sugar Bowl, and Alabama lost 24-23. No sane person would claim that Alabama was National Champs that year. But since the UPI didn't release a poll after the bowl games, Alabama claims that year as a national championship.

It'd be like LSU proudly hoisting a "2011 National Championship" banner at Tiger Stadium this year. They'd be laughed out of the SEC. But Alabama gets away with it, because (as far as I can tell) they're Alabama, and if you mention these sorts of things in public around them, they yell at you until you leave their general area.

It is my understanding that if you choose to play as Alabama in a full season of NCAA Football '13 on Xbox, and win the national championship with them, they will raise a banner at Bryant-Denny in your honor.

Some of those Twitter comments at the end of that article are great.

"I gave the UNC pop-tarts a C+ in a taste test, but it got changed to an 'A'"

Auburn doesn't need Pop-Tarts, we had breakfast covered long ago:

Alabama's breakfast cereal has little marshmallow championship trophies in it. They claim 14 scoops, but it's actually much less than that.

The guys at Touringplans.com are awesome. If you enjoy podcasts, check out WDW Today, which is hosted by one of the guys there. It's a hoot.

This might be near the Meadows, I'm thinking. Maybe the exit of the 900 or 1000 loop?

Before Muschamp was announced, I was absolutely certain that Florida's next coach would be someone who had success as a head coach somewhere else. And then they announced Muschamp. I was and still am mystified by this choice.

TCD

Replace "Muschamp" and "Florida" with "Chizik" and "Auburn" in that sentence and you have my thoughts a couple of years ago. I think Muschamp has a chance to do some good things once he gets the Gators reloaded a bit.

Any of those coaches on AC's list would be a step down, I think.

OK, looks like it's time for my annual "Why Is Auburn Called The Tigers But They Say 'War Eagle'?" post. Listen up, folks, 'cause I'm just doing this once.

Auburn's athletic teams are called the Tigers. We use "War Eagle" as a battle cry, the same way Alabama uses "Roll Tide" or Arkansas uses "Sooie Pig" or Georgia fans... well, bark like dogs.

You don't call Alabama the "Roll Tides," or Arkansas the "Sooie Pigs". (You generally -can- bark at Georgia fans, and they'll answer. Try it sometime!)

So: Where did the whole Tigers/War Eagle thing start?

Auburn (the city) was named by the daughter of the local judge when they founded the city. She had just read Oliver Goldsmith's poem, "The Deserted Village." In it are the lines: "Auburn, sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain..." and "...where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey..."

Which explains Auburn, Tigers, and (by the way) "Loveliest Village of the Plains," which is how you'll hear Auburn referred to occasionally, even though there's not really very many plains around Auburn. (The baseball stadium at Auburn is called Plainsman Park, and the school newspaper is The Auburn Plainsman, but none of the athletic teams use "Plainsmen" officially either.)

So what about War Eagle? You can get the official line here, but the stories there are a bit fanciful. I think what's more likely (and a bit more corroborated by history) is that the local Creek Indian chief when Auburn was being settled by Europeans was named Chief War Eagle (there are actually a family of Indians living in Arkansas who carry the name Wareagle to this day, and trace their history back to the Auburn area. It's likely that the students took the Indian chief's name as a war chant.

Nobody ever asks Alabama what "Roll Tide" has to do with pink elephants, by the way. Auburn fans get asked about Tigers and Eagles as soon as someone sees the "AU" logo on us, but Alabama fans never get asked about Tides and Elephants. Just sayin'.

Update: we are still in traffic, trying to get off the interstate at exit 212. We have to navigate our way around to get up there.

We're on I-75 in between Macon and Atlanta, it's a parking lot. Apparently there was an accident that's got all 3 lanes northbound closed. The CB is telling us there's a truck fire, everything's blocked until they put it out.

We should be there later on this afternoon, we're kinda stuck- there's no place to get off between where we are and the accident site.

He writes that Disney filed for permission to start work, not that there was any infrastructure work going on there yet.

It's a distinction without a difference. Do you really expect that they won't receive that permission, and then begin shortly to move on it?

It is relevant to the extent that if the OP had known, which BTW she couldn't have and is blameless, that this was old news and that it had been discussed previously, she wouldn't have started the thread in the first place. Therefore Epcyclopedia wouldn't be yelling at us.

Epcyclopedia wasn't posting all old news- his main point was that there was infrastructure being put in place at the STOLport to actually begin work on projects at the Fort. He even mentioned that the permit filings from last year had "faded into relative obscurity."

As I recall, the proposed DVC resort isn't going to encroach too much on Fort property- it's meant to exist between the Fort and the Wilderness Lodge. I can't put my hand on a copy of the plans, but from what I remember, there have been longstanding plans to put a resort between the Lodge and Fort- I distinctly remember there even being plans to extend the Fort Wilderness RR to serve the Lodge and proposed (still non-existent) resort, to give you an idea of how long this has been on the drawing board.

As far as copying an entire article goes- we ask that you don't do that, out of courtesy to people like Epcyclopedia who do a lot of work to bring news to us. A few sentences to get folks interested is usually fine, but be sure to follow it up with a link.

As far as hotlinking goes, we don't like that either- please don't do it. In this case, however, I believe it didn't actually work- we never actually had a working link to the picture in the article, because of the way it was posted.

We could argue all day about how Google ranks sites, and nobody would be able to agree on anything, mostly because Google is very secretive about how their algorithm works. I don't think that a single article copied between two sites would tank page rankings (and, in fact, searching "fort wilderness DVC resort" just now gave me Epcyclopedia's article in the #2 position, with one of our old articles about the issue at #4, so everyone's doing OK in that regard). I think Google might downrank pages if they found evidence of someone copying content among a whole bunch of sites in order to artificially create interlinks, which is pretty important to Google. Again, all of this is my impression of how Google ranks pages, and isn't meant to be the authoritative word on the subject. Your mileage may vary, see your dealer for details.

Having said all that, we're happy to accomodate reasonable requests like Epcyclopedia's. The one thing that we'll be changing shortly to help with that is to add a "Contact the administrators" link at the bottom of the page, so that requests like his can come directly to us rather than through the forums.

Here's how it went down yesterday afternoon:

Here's me, holding the handle on the back of his bike to help him keep his balance:

As we pass the camera position, I let go...

CJ still thinks I'm right behind him, holding on. He's talking to me this whole time:

It took him this long to figure out I wasn't there at all.

He started to yell at me for not staying with him, but then he realized he'd gone all that way alone. Yay!

I got three more words, then: Income tax evasion.

Seriously, let them try that. The IRS would take one look at that and say "Denied."

I'm aware of the Android issue, I'll have to code in a submit button. (on Apple devices, hitting enter on a text field simulates a "submit," but not on Android. Yay cross-platform compatibility!)

Ill also look at the 600 loop results, they might be reversed. It's an easy enough fix.

We really don't like having to edit stuff like that, but the combination of language and holiday really wasn't appropriate. And as Snarkalicious said, it's not a "we hate bad language, oh my virgin ears" thing, it's a "we don't want the site blocked for those of you who like to visit us at work" thing.

Having said all that, Merry Christmas! :)