- Da Bears have a nationally televised preseason game on CBS tonight against the Chargers. I’ll be watching you Rex!
- Why do teams always change their uniforms from year to year now? The new Vikings jerseys are pretty ugly in my opinion. I’d be pretty upset if the Bears ever do much to change the look of their classic jerseys.
- Apparently there is a common misconception in Iowa that muskmelons are melons grown in Muscatine, Iowa. That certainly didn’t sound right to me, and after doing some very minimal research (thanks Google), I found that the muskmelon name has nothing to do with Muscatine, Iowa. In fact, all cantaloupes are muskmelons, and they actually originated in Persia, which is not anywhere near Muscatine.
- I will not be seeing Snakes on a Plane.
Friday, August 18, 2006
Quick Thoughts 8/18
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How about seeing Muskmelons on a River Boat?
I have had the muskmelon argument with my RAGBRAI friends for the past three summers, which often resulted in us asking random people what their thoughts on it were. Not surprisingly, only people who grew up around Muscatine believed that's where the name came from.
Finally this year we googled it to end it all. Of course I can't leave out that I was on the correct side of the debate.
I've never heard the muskmelon debate in my life, and the only people I've ever heard call canteloupes that were my relatives from Minnesota. They also refer to couches as davenports, so maybe the influence of the greater QCA area extends farther than we think. In any case, for anyone to think that anything anywhere has anything to do with Muscatine is just crazy. 63-36, bitches!
what is 63-36? hopefully not "measurements".... that'd be a big person.
Um, Dan, you lost me with your last statement. Do you mind elaborating? Is that some football score or something?
Okay, it is time for a new subject line. You really can't call these "Quick Thoughts" when you only post once a week at best. :-)
Well, this is an old thread now, but I'm just noticing it...
63-36 was the score of the '91 sophomore squad's victory over Muscatine, which set conference records (perhaps Soph only?) for points by a single team and combined points.
As juniors, combined with the Senior class that was the '93 Damn Fools, we actually LOST to those punks largely because the big drive we put together was ruined when we ran all over them to get to the 1, at which point we called a pass that was intercepted and I think returned for a 14 point swing. (They certainly eventually did score, not sure if was it fully returned on the INT.)
If it weren't for perennial doormat North Scott, we would've been winless that season.
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