#NuAIDS Time-Delayed Madness – Sweet Sixteen (no Chmura smh) Time!

Our calendars and body clocks are off, I know.  Shit, I believe I had an afternoon nap every day this workweek.  Scion of the law-talkin-guy profession, me.  Thus, the Round of 16 is two days late.

But this is one of the bestest gifts #NuAIDS done gave us…because the round is slotted perfectly for TV.  Yes, I love flipping around in the early, Bacchanalian rounds.  But it will be nice to be able to watch every one of these games today, in their entirety (book and Football Manager for halftime or in case of blowouts).  Plus, we are on shit-ass International Break (again), so the sportsball appetite will be immense by tip-off.

These are all very compelling matchups, too.  We got us some Best Coasters, Jesuits, even random-ass private evangelical schools (and not complaining about that last bit, Oral (Deffo Counts) Roberts has been delightful to watch).

Quite ready for the Premiership to return next weekend, though.  Even if that means Everton wrecking my pill-addled mind even further.

Aprapos of nothing, here is a great song, before we look at the first two hoopsball tilts:

12MW Oregon State (+7) v. 8MW Loyola-Chi**** (2:40, CBS)

Oh man, this is probably the coolest matchup of the lot.  Niiiiiiice Beaver is historically terrible at all things revenue sport, and has caught the hottest wave of their modern existence.  They needed to win the Pac-Twaaaalve torneo, and did it.  They’ve been a Mack truck in the first two rounds, as have their Jesuit opponents.  Betting against Sister Jean (magical nun/witch) seems a fool’s errand, but these teams are dead equals in my mind.

5S Villanova (+7.5) v. 1S Baylor (5:15, CBS)

Sweet, sweet entropy.  In the Year of Our Diamond Joe 2021, Nova and Bay-Bay are what passes for “chalk” and/or “blue bloods.”  And only one can advance to the Flacco Eght.  Baylor.  It will be Baylor.  Reminds me of a True Hippo Story, I worked as an engineering tech (summers during undergrad) with a guy we called Baby Koresh.  He had been in a cult for like 5 years, but left after he got caught banging the leader’s wife.  That guy could tell a story over a spliff (we almost always toked up doing end-of-day paperwork), lemme tell ya.

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Reclusive, vulgar Broncos fan. Also a proud fookin' Evertonian. Likely dropped on my head repeatedly as a small child. [Insert George Carlin quote followed by thoughtful nod.]
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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Yesterday I watched an episode of Disenchantment that had me laughing so hard my stomach hurt. It was a sequence inside a house of mirrors. It’s been a long time since that happened, and it was great.

Dunstan

Brewing up a pot of gumbo. And since I need to go to the liquor store to get banana liqueur for the Bananas Foster, I really had no choice but to grab some other items while I was there. Finally added Cherry Heering to the bar, so I’m thinking a Singapore Sling is in my near future.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Strongly recommend making Remember the Maines and Blood and Sands with that Cherry Heering

Dunstan

Yep, those are on my “to do” list as well!

Redshirt

Has someone recently checked on the hamster that’s powering the wheel that powers the website? Because I’m thinking it may’ve sprained an ankle or something.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

We’ve put in a call to corporate. Fingers crossed we can get it resolved in the near future.

Redshirt

Baylor #11: “I’m going to jump ten feet over two benches and save the ball from going out of bounds. I’m going to be a hero!”

Reality: “Its a one-point game midway though the first half and you’re going to land on that tractionless rug on the slick floor while wearing gym shoes. I’m going to ensue!”

Horatio Cornblower

Hippo is indifferent to life on the best of times. No need for a warning.

scotchnaut

There are a million billion vids of “Under The Pressure” out there. This is the best one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByrKdwQMGYc&ab_channel=MUSTARD

scotchnaut

Congrats to nobody that picked Oregon State to get to the Elite 8.

scotchnaut

If Loyola didn’t have a 14 year old point guard, the score might be different.

Horatio Cornblower

If this site were acting any more like a c*nt today I’d think Megan McCain was our matron saint.

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Gumbygirl

Took me an hour to get on. Logged me off yesterday for no apparent reason. I still have to go into my history to get posts, they used to show up in my email. I’m not technical at all, so I fear I could lose you guys forever if it crashes hard.

Dunstan

The only problem I keep having is that when I hit “post comment,” my screen doesn’t refresh. The comment goes through, but in order to see it I have to click to another page and then come back.

Gumbygirl

That’s happening to me too.

Game Time Decision

Just refresh the page and it shows up for me

scotchnaut

Gotta say, I’m not a fan of this much refreshment.

Horatio Cornblower

“Loyola-Chicago’s Hopes Stuffed By Beavers”

Keep your tabs open to this site for more great headlines like that one, folks.

scotchnaut

[puts big money on Orgone State]

-Wilhelm Reich

herodotus450

(Walks into The Drunk Tank, the DFO equivalent of Shark Tank)
Yes hello, I’m pleased to bring you this exciting opportunity today. What’s the one thing that’s never been done to the humble granola? That’s right, cheese. Cheese Granola. I’ll take your offers now.
(Hippo pukes)
(Scotchy is asleep because it’s after 4pm)
(Three empty chairs say nothing)

Don T

Hey, I brought one of those empty chairs. The one without ketchup stains.

scotchnaut

If Krutwig isn’t slapping the roof of a used car 5 years from now, I will truly, finally know, for certain, that there is no organizing principle governing this universe.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I always assumed he’d become a handyman of some sort, like Teddy on Bob’s Burgers.

SonOfSpam

Beavers played great defense that half, a nice way to honor Sister Jean.

Don T

Pfft. Even disgraced priests sent to Beirut have scored more than Loyola.

scotchnaut

-Loyola losing by 8 at the half

Me: “Welp, there’s goes my ‘Oregon Trails’ joke.”

Don T

In 2010, while still in 6th grade, Krutwig had his First Communion and became a fully-bonded roofer.

scotchnaut

Cameron Carsalesman taking a break.

scotchnaut

“Nun Shall Pass.”

-Loyola’s new motto

herodotus450

These players look like they’re playing as hungover as I feel.

Don T

Fun Fact! Cameron Krutwig’s a Sagittarius, born December 21, 1998 (Source: Civil Registry, Dominican Republic).

scotchnaut

I knew he wasn’t a REAL AMERICAN!

herodotus450

Finding Karen Carpenter’s body was also a challenge

Don T

Nice to see Pierce off the sauce, acid-ed up.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

We’re gonna need a full post on the baby koresh story

scotchnaut

“I will have my way with these Beavers.”

-Cameron Slurtoupee

Redshirt

So the Ever Given has been blocking the Suez Canal for four days holding up 12% of the Global Trade and everyone is okay, but I go only five miles over the speed limit on the highway and people call for my head to be displayed in Columbus and my arms and legs to be sent to Toledo, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Marietta.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

What are you, soft on crime?

Redshirt

I am a Republican, and don’t you forget that! Those Tea[bagging] Party, lust for power, Trump-seminal-fluid suckers were the ones that forgot.

Gumbygirl

We’re gonna have to start hoarding tp again, if they don’t bust it loose.

scotchnaut

Sillycuse is testing my fanship by playing another really late (for me) game. Some of us are adults that have a rigid 6am wakeup/8pm passout schedule that we adhere to. smgdh…

scotchnaut

The D2 champeenship has the look of a really good pick up game at the Ottawa Y.

Horatio Cornblower

Have no idea what Colo Colo is, but it did remind me that there’s a Mexican Coca-Cola in my fridge, so thanks for that.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Well you know what a regular Colo is, right? It’s double that.

Dunstan

I prefer Yolo Colo. Which I’m just going to assume is a thing somebody is making already.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

My understanding is that Philip Rivers has signed an endorsement deal with Bolo Colo, but that’s an entirely different product.
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Dunstan

I would have thought that would have conflicted with his deal with No Homo Colo

Viva La Tabula Raza

Probably made by the same bottling company. Like Coke makes Sprite and Mr Pibb.

Horatio Cornblower

My wife is currently picking up $500+ worth of Ukranian kielbasa. The jokes, they write themselves.

(about 20% of that is for us; every year a local church does a fundraiser with kielbasa and pierogi, and one year a friend of ours got a taste of some and now every year when we call and ask how much he wants his answer is “all of it”)

litre_cola

Oh fuck yeah, hang em up so your place smellsike a smokehouse.

yeah right

Do you do the “cook with sauerkraut” thing? Or do you grill them and place them on a roll with a choice of condiments? Fuck, now I want kielbasa.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

“At 8:20 in the morning? Yeah Right, I’m gonna take back some of the things I said about you. You…you’ve earned it.” – Andy Reid, handing you a Nestle Crunch bar

Horatio Cornblower

I can take or leave sauerkraut, and Mrs. Cornblower regards it as a crime against humanity, so they will be primarily grilled. Some will be fried with eggs and a bernaise/hollandaise sauce for breakfast.

Arteries will be closed.

Dunstan

Yeah, when I was growing up, a lot of the local churches did pierogi sales, and they were excellent. I make up a batch every year or so now, but I can’t compete with Ukranian grandmas.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

> but I can’t compete with Ukranian grandmas.

I’m having the same problem with my OnlyFans channel.

Horatio Cornblower

When I was a wee Cornblower I attended a Catholic elementary school in a Polish parish. Every summer they had a fundraiser carnival that my father referred to as “The Polack Pigout.” While less than enlightened, he wasn’t wrong; the amount of smoked sausage consumed over that weekend probably dented the populations of every pig farm in New England.

litre_cola

G’morning. I have a day full of errands then gunna get real drunk chuh chuh bullleee dat

rockingdog

found a funny:
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ballsofsteelandfury

That’s REALLY funny on a bunch of levels.