aPaladin Negative Nancy Thread for the 2025 Football Season

[Roundball]

Might as well give aPaladin his own thread since he is already down about next year.

[Affirm]

Might as well give aPaladin his own thread since he is already down about next year.

Actually it is usually good to have apaladin interject more REALITY into this board. Other than his bringing up baseball excessively and also insultingly expressing his disdain towards the Furman administration occasionally and maybe some other irritating posts, apaladin is a valued member. It is often good to receive apaladin’s thoughts and comments.

[FUTex]

Thank you Roundball for teeing this up. But first, we have to beat Mercer. Then after the victory we'll circle back to sh*tting all over our collective hopes and dreams. As Norman Vincent Peale once said, "Optimism is for losers".

[gofurman]

Might as well give aPaladin his own thread since he is already down about next year.

Actually it is usually good to have apaladin interject more REALITY into this board. Other than his bringing up baseball excessively and also insultingly expressing his disdain towards the Furman administration occasionally and maybe some other irritating posts, apaladin is a valued member. It is often good to receive apaladin’s thoughts and comments.

Agreed. We need a little more reality. Those with objective notions are often oppressed here. Which is scary. Not being political - I know about recent events lol - but America and democracy is having a right to free speech etc… even my father CAREER MILITARY 33 years.. says as much as it kills him he is fighting for the very right of others to burn the flag and have different opinions. That’s true.

[FUTex]

I'll give you some reality. I'll give it to you right now. And it is BIG news regarding our probable victory against those Mercer boys.

I caught a possum on Friday night / Saturday morning. It was the very first night I put out the trap. (The bait was Japanese sweet potato leftover gunk, btw.) Its a littler feller, and brownish. I've never seen coloration like this on a possum. And its a juvenile, which makes no sense since its way past possum mating season. I really don't know what to make of it.

I thought it was a girl, and it took me like fifteen minutes to identify its gender. But lo, there it was. And its a boy. I've named him Bifurcated.

My aim is to keep him alive through for another nine months until we start the new season. I think having a really good possum like Bifurcated will be key to the Paladins going all the way next year.

[FUBeAR]

Brown, you say?

Maybe it am a midget bear.

[Afurmanfan]

Free speech??
Getting a little dramatic aren’t we?
There are fans and there are fair weather fans.
“Fans” who trash the whole secondary or call for a coach to be fired in a game where we beat a nationally ranked team are not fans, IMHO.
This is a public forum that we know players read. If you don’t think that feeling support from fans when a season is tough isn’t important, then we will just have to disagree about human nature. Praise in public and criticize in private has been a lesson my dad taught me a long time ago.

[FUTex]

Bifurcated is doing really well in his pen (its a dog crate). He appears to be gaining up a bit.

I'm on the road for bidness this coming week and into the next. (Northern Ireland, of all places, where they don't got no Thanksgiving break). Mrs. Tex said she will keep little Bifurcated watered and with as many table craps as he wants. He appears to like vegetables but not fruit. Go figure. There's always something to learn in Possumry.

[Davemeister]

Do they have possums in Northern Ireland? If you come across one, it wouldn't hurt to have a back-up.

[FUTex]

No. There are no possums in Ireland. Indeed, there are no native marsupials in Ireland. There are, however, introduced marsupials. There's a whole area taken over by red-necked wallabies. You think I'm making that up, but I'm not.

My ancestors left from Belfast in 1740. I think (and hope) the reason for coming to the new World was the veritable cornucopia of possums in the Carolinas.

[FUBeAR]

No. There are no possums in Ireland. Indeed, there are no native marsupials in Ireland. There are, however, introduced marsupials. There's a whole area taken over by red-necked wallabies. You think I'm making that up, but I'm not.

My ancestors left from Belfast in 1740. I think (and hope) the reason for coming to the new World was the veritable cornucopia of possums in the Carolinas.

Didn’t that St. Derrick fella drive all the possum out of Ireland a while back.

[FUTex]

It was indeed St. Derrick who drove the possums out of Ireland.

St. Derrick, born Beauregard "Beau" Venable in 1681, also known by his friends as "Spider", banished the possums from Ireland because the natives were relying on the opossum rather than Shamrock Road Nondenominational Bible Church. The Irish were using the possum for their entire sustenance: you can eat on them, wear their grimy fur, chase them over fences, throw rocks at them when cornered... just about anything and everything. When the possums left the Irish then relied solely on the potato , and when the potato blight hit a million people starved. Its one of the many reasons you should never go full Protestant.

[FurmAlum]

I was a History major at Furman. For what purpose I can't remember. I think I do remember a course titled "Possums in Ireland 1681-Present". Must have been an elective that I did not take. Probably taught by one of the Jones. I'd rather watch paint dry than take a course from Newton J. Ed J. was just barely more interesting. I found out what the word assundry meant. I swear he used that word in every lecture. Usually wore a turtleneck.

My 2 favorite teachers at FU were Block and Lavery. Never a dull moment. Listening to a lecture from Block was like the Germans were right outside the classroom getting ready to invade. Lavery took our class to a Greek restaurant in a seedy part of Greenville and introduced us to the owner who looked like a member of the Greek mafia. I ran into him at the Vanderbilt/Furman football game in Nashville in 2002. Hadn't seen him in 25 years. He remembered my name and my hometown.

[FUTex]

My favorite History professor was Jim Smart. He was AWESOME. The class was Rennaissance and Reformation, a tough class. Although Mr. Smart never actually said the word "possum" in class, I could tell that all the religious, humanistic, and political upheaval in Europe 1500-1650 was, at its core, due to the inherent friction between the Possumists and the anti-possumry break-away groups. And while I knew Mr. Smart was a Baptist, I never got the feel he went full Protestant. (You never go full Protestant.) His Possumological lectures were well-balanced.

My only regret with Mr. Smart is he failed me on my paper "Marin Luther Nailed a Possum, Not No Dang Theses, To The Wittenberg Church Door, You Moron".

[Louis Tully]

I will never forget the dulcet tones of the Great Al Sanders as he described the founding of Charlestowne where the "Ashley and Coopah Rivers meet to form the Atlantic Ocean. " The week he spent in the South Carolina History class haranguing us about the virtues of early possumry and how it helped insure the survival of the early settlers was fascinating.