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Linda Weiner (Bennett)

Fred, I love me some Amoretto in my coffee, Pepsi, 7-up; on my ice cream, on the rocks or just any ol' way! Mmmmmmmmmmmm.

Fred Clem

Clare,

I too was at that game in 1998.  I ran into an old friend, Dan Gerhard, who played for OSU in the early 70's.  He was from Dayton and starred on the 1970 state champion Chaminade team. 

In the 1974 NCAA tournament the Dayton Flyers were playing UCLA. Back then the games did not have national coverage until the final four. It was on channel 7 in Dayton but not in Columbus.  In pre-cable days I had a large antenna on a 40' tower and could get the game.  I invited Dan over and he brought two other Buckeyes with him, Alan Hornyak and Gary Repella.  UCLA was a heavy favorite, but UD took them into overtime before losing 111-100.

Moving to the Schott worked wonders for OSU.  The 1997-98 team went 8-22 but then all the way to the Final Four in Tampa Bay the following season.  My cousin Orlando and I attended their first four tournament games in Indianapolis and Knoxville. I went out to the Berwick to ask him if he wanted to go Florida.  He asked his wife and she said "Yes you can go, but when you get back all your stuff will be on Fred's front porch!"  We took that as a "No".

Fred Clem

Dan Gerhard was starting as a sophomore in the 1971-72 season.  He was on the court in Minneapolis for the infamous "Basketbrawl" game on 01/23/72.  OSU's Luke Witte was intentionally fouled and fell to the floor. UM's Corky Taylor reached out his hand as to help him up.  Instead he kneed him in the groin and Witte again fell, doubled up in pain.  Then a terrible fight ensued.  Several Buckeyes were bloodied and bruised.  Here's a video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmmJ60VXjco

David Mitchell

Wow Fred,

What a gruesome memory. And it seems to me the punishment was light. They had a crazy coach named Musselman who was a seruious sicko. I beleive he was fired and went to a small school and was guilty of some of the same violence wherever he went. I seem to recall he even went into the pro level of coaching and got into trouble again.

(and Dave Winfield - later of Yankees's baseball notoriety - was also in that incident but was not among those kicked off the Gopher's team)

Frank Ganley

Hey bull porker said you were hard headed but i didnt know you didnt like to discuss but i still love ya 

Frank Ganley

Mary margaret where is the political forum here but i dont think mike bullwarr will be joining in the discussions

Joseph D. McCarthy

Locally for the past week it was been in the seventies.  Today started off at (approximately) 6:00 A.M.at 27degrees.  For the next few days it is expected that the lows will be about the same.   WOULD SOMEONE FROM OHIO PLEASE​ COME AND GET YOUR WEATHER.  Whether or not you want your weather, it is yours weather not mine.

Sincerley,

Joe

Mary Margaret Clark (Schultheis)

Mary Ann Nolan (Thomas)

• Just wanted to let you all know that Kevin Call’s older brother Stephen aka PeeWee Call passed away recently. He was a few years older and a graduate of St. Charles.

Mary Ann Nolan (Thomas)

Sorry, I spelled Cull wrong.

David Mitchell

Joe,

Ain't life a bitch? 

So sorry to hear about your foul weather. Almost moved me to tears hearing about your plight - yup, almost. We too are suffering some tough weather down here in South Cakalatchie. We will be dropping all the way down into the mid 60's for tonight's low. Wish I could help you out buddy. I really do. 

Bonnie Jonas (Jonas-Boggioni)

Jack, on most days, I just read the first words or phrases on the email I receive ever day...no need to block anyone. You can just imagine what the rest of the post is...I like to think on the positive side...but you can use your imagination and decide to read more or not!

Mark Schweickart

Jack -- I am with you that our friend's (What the Frank's) postings are difficult to read. Although not named, I am assuming that is to whom you were referring. However, you did not mention that aside from the content being difficult, the actually reading of the content is difficult. I counted (no exaggeration) 35 typo and/or grammatical errors in his post aimed at Mike B. the other day. This does not reflect well on our Catholic school education. Granted, we may not have been ready for Harvard or Yale, but  I think we emerged with the ability to string a few sentences together in a relatively coherent fashion. Frankie, how about a quick proof read before hitting the old submit button? I generally read the Watterson posts first thing in the morning, and this sort of thing makes it difficult for me to enjoy my Cofvefe.

Frank Ganley

Gentlemen and ladies of the grammer section i beg and beseach your forgiveness. I have a phone for the past six months that has not only a auto spell check but it also immediately translates it into an early form of a small slavic nation. I have tried everything it makes no matter how much i have done checkung. I once got a group text and one of the recievers was sitting next to me me. I texted back and there were 3 different spellings of a not too difficult word. I will also try to only use my key board as i have fat fingertips.  I aways ace the spelling tests on facebook and i was in the holy angels reading group all through grade school. On the other hand at times i become so fervant in my thinking that in order to get the thought out fast enough the lord blessed me with the equivalence of tongues but only it effects my fingers and my eyes. So in the future i will try to be not so trusting of spell and grammer check . If need be in a future text i will provide a pony translation book to larry foster so like I in soph latin i looked over his shoulder the entire year. I know i have thanked you before Larry but you can never say thank you enough. And as far as fervancy of thoughts thats been moved to another channel. Mea culpa mea culpa , mea maxim culpa.

John Maxwell

Frank Ganley

Etymology and other names

Frank Ganley

If one were to picture and remember the scene groundhog day where he is nodding to all of the attributes that the producers name that escapes me and murray at the end admits thats its prett much discribes him . Now ask president trump if these attributes of Sheva are pretty much him. Its a joke

Lawrence Foster

Frank - 

Ah yes, the Latin class pony that I used to get me through Caesar's Gallic Wars.  I haven't thought about that for many years now.  I would love to take credit for it but it was something one of my older brother's got from a girlfrend whose older sister had created it.  So when I used it in 63-64 it was probably 10 years old.  It was  a type written copy that occasionally the girl had added colored pencil drawings on some pages.  I would bring in only 3 or 4 pages at a time to use in class.   I remember one day the teacher, Sister Cecily perhaps, decided to get rid of all the Cliff's Notes ponies that were being shuffled on desks and not hidden very well.  She started down the aisle by the door and by the time she got over to the window side where I was she had confiscated more than a dozen copies.  She looked at my pages, did a double take, and the expression on her face seemed that she was saying in her mind, "Okay, I'll let this one go this time since it is not a Cliff's Notes."  But she checked out my desk top every day for 3-4 weeks after that.  I had decided to just copy the pages at night and not bring them into class.  So while I did not get into any official trouble I was on her radar screen. 

I am glad that you were able to get help from it Frank.  I know it helped me tremendously!  I remember a little rhyme from those times that went "Latin is a language / Dead as dead can be. / First it killed the Romans / Now it's killing me."   

In later years I heard or read somewhere that the language died out partially because it was structred so that verbs were at the end of a sentence.  People got tired of waiting to find out what was going on that they switched to languages where the action could be known earlier on in the sentence.  Don't know if it is true or not but it seemed like an interesting thought when linked with the poem.  

I've looked online to see where or how the term pony or ponies came to be attached to Caesar's Gallic Wars.  No clear luck.  But below is a link to an article published in "The Ohio Teacher" in June, 1917.   The term (in the left hand column, 3rd paragraph) had been around for a long time before us!

 https://books.google.com/books?id=XBowAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA434&lpg=PA434&dq=why+is+latin+translation+of+caesar++called+a+pony&source=bl&ots=g1HnmjVbyI&sig=joMuUDJhRr5f0gQgjARqedt67RE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwingO7X07XZAhUK21MKHdHdBTMQ6AEIYTAG#v=onepage&q=why%20is%20latin%20translation%20of%20caesar%20%20called%20a%20pony&f=false

Lawrence Foster

I have no idea why my previous post is spread out like that.  That's the first time it has happened to me.  Sorry about that.

David Mitchell

Damn! This is gettin' too deep for me.

I'm still enjoying Clare's post about the free ticket to the "St. John's Swan Song".

Michael McLeod

Mark: speaking of grammar, It's ok to end a sentence with a preposition. 

People still labor under the assumption that it's not.

But it is. It's ok to end a sentence with a preposition no matter what profession you aspire to.

That supposed rule was long propogated by pedantic people and there are tons of writers who still buy into it. But if you poke around on the internet you'll discover that it was based on a rule that made sense in Latin but never did make sense in English.

Another shift is that you can now use "they" as a singular noun, as people have been doing in conversational English for time immemorial.

Mark Schweickart

Mike-- I am aware of the fading away of the rule about not having a sentence end with a preposition. As some one (I believe this is generally attributed to Churchill) jokingy said, "that is is something up with which I will not put." But for me, sometimes I just like to use the word "whom." It is not necessary I know, but I like it. And even though it is no longer required to avoid the periodic preposition, it is, I believe, still quite acceptable to do so. Albeit doing so definitely shows one's age–like using the word "albeit".

So let's raise a cup of covfefe and offer three cheers for the grammar police policing the grammar police! I love it.

Michael McLeod

Glad to hear it. About the preposition thing.

I wasn't sure how widely known that was - I only figured it out, and did that research about how it got started, a year or so ago.

I had to explain it to an editor just last year and he still didn't seem to get it.

Joseph D. McCarthy

Fred I too liked your Hot Chocolate mug.  However, unlike our Southeren Bretheren, turning 70 never bother me as I took it as just another day.  What is more important is that this year I, and many classmates, will turn 70 1/2 years of age.  Now I have to add additional income to next years tax return.  I have to start taking distributions from my 401k type plan that now will be added to income for tax purposes.  Luckly I made the conversion of my I.R.A. account to a ROTH I.R.A. account years ago so that doesn't, anymore, impact me for income tax purposes.  But that 401k distribution is going to play H.... under the new tax plan.

James Hamilton, M. D.