[jayasena]

The H-word should be waterboarded, cattle-prodded and whipped bloody for what it did. And whatever fool persuaded the software to let it back in should get the same.

But... but... maybe we have this all wrong. Maybe brobdingnagian is our lucky charm.

Think about it -- the last time it was uttered on this board, we went to the Rose Bowl (the Texas game was probably a test of faith... in an inconsequential OOC game to boot). Then the word was banned and we got Buddy, Wlat and a decade+ long Rose Bowl winter. Even when we had success, we ended up in other BCS bowls but not the Rose. Surely, the sequence of events that locked us out of the Rose in 2011 (when the Rose committee clearly would have loved to have us there) could not have been coincidence.

brobdingnagian comes off the blocked list earlier this season and voila! We are back in the Rose.

BTW, notice Yvonne's silence on this? I think she has been enlightened and silently released "brobdingnagian" from purgatory but wasn't ready to say anything about it until we non-believers were ready to believe the evidence.

I say we ensure "brobdingnagian" appears as often as we can on the board. Maybe auto-replace "the" with "brobdingnagian". Then we might go to the Rose Bowl every year!

[jayasena]

The H-word should be waterboarded, cattle-prodded and whipped bloody for what it did. And whatever fool persuaded the software to let it back in should get the same.

But... but... maybe we have this all wrong. Maybe brobdingnagian is our lucky charm.

Think about it -- the last time it was uttered on this board, we went to the Rose Bowl (the Texas game was probably a test of faith... in an inconsequential OOC game to boot). Then the word was banned and we got Buddy, Wlat and a decade+ long Rose Bowl winter. Even when we had success, we ended up in other BCS bowls but not the Rose. Surely, the sequence of events that locked us out of the Rose in 2011 (when the Rose committee clearly would have loved to have us there) could not have been coincidence.

brobdingnagian comes off the blocked list earlier this season and voila! We are back in the Rose.

BTW, notice Yvonne's silence on this? I think she has been enlightened and silently released "brobdingnagian" from purgatory but wasn't ready to say anything about it until we non-believers were ready to believe the evidence.

I say we ensure "brobdingnagian" appears as often as we can on the board. Maybe auto-replace "the" with "brobdingnagian". Then we might go to the Rose Bowl every year!