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I think folks do that out of ignorance or laziness. I feel like Bees is a purposeful slur.Not like being called Georgia Tech University! [emoji2]
I think folks do that out of ignorance or laziness. I feel like Bees is a purposeful slur.Not like being called Georgia Tech University! [emoji2]
My daddy was a beekeeper. I am offended. Bees are way better than pests like yellow jackets, dirt dobbers, carpenter bees and whatnot. You get stuff from them, after all. I do admit that "Georgia Tech Bees" does not have quite the polish, though. (Georgia Tech Dirt Dobbers would not be bad, though.)I think folks do that out of ignorance or laziness. I feel like Bees is a purposeful slur.
Besides who doesn't want to be the Bees Knees?
Someone who is showing his age.I wondered how long it would take for someone to offer that comment....
No. I DO NOT have to admit that.you must admit, our uniforms are concerning.
Nice! Had not heard that one and it is worth remembering.the Big Integer
I tend to have the counter worry. I do not want ND to slip up early due to looking over their shoulder at us.We get two warm ups while they have to ignore the triple option prep facing Texas and UVA.
My ND friends purposely call us the "bumble bees" just to get to me and it usually does. It is a slur IMHOI think folks do that out of ignorance or laziness. I feel like Bees is a purposeful slur.
I want ND to lose every game they play before us and every game they play after us, into perpetuity. It's not that I don't like them or anything.I tend to have the counter worry. I do not want ND to slip up early due to looking over their shoulder at us.
Similarly, last year I thought before the season started we would beat VPI. I told several people on threads that I wanted VPI to be undefeated going into that game because if they lost an earlier game it make them much more determined against us and a harder team to beat.
Just call ND fans Fairies. They don't care for that too much.My ND friends purposely call us the "bumble bees" just to get to me and it usually does. It is a slur IMHO
Next time ask them if they have ever been stung by a bumble bee. Would take just once to prefer yellow jackets.My ND friends purposely call us the "bumble bees" just to get to me and it usually does. It is a slur IMHO
?Next time ask them if they have ever been stung by a bumble bee. Would take just once to prefer yellow jackets.
Well, if they think bumble bee is diminishing yellow jacket, they ain't never been stung by a bumble bee, so they need to be careful of what they wish for. The yellow jacket sting is a mere pinprick in comparison. Have a memory from my youth of a friend who stumbled over a dead log and stirred up bumble bees, but it is too grisly to repeat.
I was puzzled because that was not my experience as a kid, but then I was not attacked by an entire hive of bumble bees.Well, if they think bumble bee is diminishing yellow jacket, they ain't never been stung by a bumble bee, so they need to be careful of what they wish for. The yellow jacket sting is a mere pinprick in comparison. Have a memory from my youth of a friend who stumbled over a dead log and stirred up bumble bees, but it is too grisly to repeat.
The great thing about growing up in the piney woods as the son of a beekeeper, and that is where he put his hives, is the lifetime immunity from all kinds of stings. Not that I seek them out, mind you. My friend was not so lucky.I was puzzled because that was not my experience as a kid, but then I was not attacked by an entire hive of bumble bees.
I have a much worse reaction to yellow jackets. Their sting feels like hot coals on my skin and, unlike the bumblebee, the stinger stays in you and keeps working the poison deeper into the wound. I also find bumblebees to be very passive. As a kid I would sometimes catch them with my hands. Yellow jackets have stung me just because I walked too near their nest.
Anyway, I was just curious about your comment.
Well, that would be different.Just curious, are any of you guys considering the possibility that ND might just not suck this year?
Good writeup. So the Citrus Bowl win doesn't count as a major bowl even though we were ranked #2 and Nebraska was ranked #13 going into it?
That is technically correct; the major bowls were traditionally the Orange, Sugar, Cotton, and Rose. The Cotton may have been replaced by the Fiesta by then; I don't remember the year in which that happened. An undeserving Notre Dame team got the Orange Bowl instead of number 2-ranked Tech.