"Dear Tom Holmoe" - the thread for saying stuff to Tom Holmoe

[YOhio]

Wuap, if you ever correct anyone's Spanish in a sports thread again you'll going to be banned from the sports forums. Totally outrageous behavior.

[wuapinmon]

Those Jedi mind commitment pattern tricks are useless against me. If he persists I will simply ask when the last time it was that he masturbated.

Raising the bar should become a new Mormon euphemism.

[Blueintheface]

could be worse, they could try to commit you to doing something you really don't want to do.

Those Jedi mind commitment pattern tricks are useless against me. If he persists I will simply ask when the last time it was that he masturbated.

[pellegrino]

The bishopric is coming over tonight and I sure hope they don't bring the missionaries. All the last pair wanted to do was arm wrestle and eat our food without breathing.

could be worse, they could try to commit you to doing something you really don't want to do.

[Blueintheface]

A visit from the missionaries.

The bishopric is coming over tonight and I sure hope they don't bring the missionaries. All the last pair wanted to do was arm wrestle and eat our food without breathing.

[Sizzle]

Who knew that change could come at such an inexpensive price?

$10 goes a lot further in Costa Rica.

[Donuthole]

I think that's the failure trifecta. Do I win anything?

A visit from the missionaries.

[Blueintheface]

Hang your head in shame, elder. You add -es to make a plural in Spanish if it ends with a consonant, and, AND, there's no need for an accent in colones ya que it ends with ans. Finally, the names of strange currencies are not capitalized.

I think that's the failure trifecta. Do I win anything?

FTR, I was using a colloquial English plural, not the Spanish one so the accent is appropriate. The only real error was the capitalization which is something I did not know (or remember) despite having one of my undergrad degrees in Spanish and 25 years of near-constant immersion. (I lived in Mexico for several months prior to my mission and really began studying the language at the age of 8 after my disappointment with not going to Guatemala as a MP's son). :catfight:

[wuapinmon]

Don't make him show you the Colóns.

Hang your head in shame, elder. You add -es to make a plural in Spanish if it ends with a consonant, and, AND, there's no need for an accent in colones ya que it ends with ans. Finally, the names of strange currencies are not capitalized.

[wuapinmon]

Who knew that change could come at such an inexpensive price?

Hey, my $10 spends the same as anyone else's.

[Blueintheface]

Who knew that change could come at such an inexpensive price?

Don't make him show you the Colóns.

[TripletDaddy]

Who knew that change could come at such an inexpensive price?

[wuapinmon]

When 801-422-1588 called this morning asking me to contribute to the Annual Fund, I explained to the very polite young man that I would not give any money directly to the BYU until the Honor Code was revised so that the treatment that Davies received (namely the press conference and later very public shaming in the press) cannot happen again. He said he understood and asked if I wanted to be removed from all alumni communication. I told him no, that I didn't hate BYU, I still supported the teams, the faculty, etc, but that the only weapon I have in hoping the trustees change the HC was to withhold donations and explain the reason for doing so.

I know my few dollars matter nothing, but it's what I can do.

Apparently, it worked.

[byu71]

'71 is all about the benjamins.

I would like to think I am about reality. I have heard the mantra that athletes get treated better and some academians resent what coaches at the Universities are paid. I understand that a lot of academians, those on this board excepted, are clueless when it comes to Capitalism and how they benefit from it.

By the way I know you were kidding and I got a LOL out of it.

[I.J. Reilly]

From what I have heard, you are correct and your sources are better than mine.

In addition, a non-athlete does not have his "transgression" made public or speculated on.

An argument can be made that athletes do get treated well and get public adoration that your average student doesn't get. In terms of $$$ to the University though, the athlete is worth more to the University than your average student. Worth far more, in my opinion, than the scholarship money they receive.

Note: I am saying in $$$ terms and am not measuring the worth of a soul.

'71 is all about the benjamins.