Sherri Coale: Talking horses, wrestling pigs and categories of lumps

[swok34]

http://www.normantranscript.com/localnews/local_story_034004627

[Bball Girl]

Great advice from Sherri...thanks for the article swok.

[mred]

Given the title, I was disappointed to not find a single reference to myself... :)

[Bball Girl]

Given the title, I was disappointed to not find a single reference to myself... :)

You wrestle pigs?

[Scamp]

As a young assistant coach in Edmond, Coale said she learned from a seasoned high school coach to "never wrestle with pigs." She struggled with what the advice meant until a parent unloaded on her about his daughter's lack of playing time.

"You'll both get dirty and they'll like it," she remembered the veteran coach telling her. "There will always be people and circumstances that are so full of negativity that you can't ever win."
That was some "pig wrestling" Monday night in Baton Rouge. :rolleyes: I hope Kim has been able to cool down.

[35TangoTango]

MRED was referring to his name - Mr. Ed

(Now will we still have to explain that to the young posters?)

[sybarite]

She doesn't look that wise. I guess looks can be deceiving.

[Bball Girl]

MRED was referring to his name - Mr. Ed

(Now will we still have to explain that to the young posters?)

I know.. :D

[#1OUWBBFAN]

Perspective is everything. I never once saw that as Mr. Ed. I always thought it was M Red and had something to do with his school's colors. Go figure.

[swok34]

Perspective is everything. I never once saw that as Mr. Ed. I always thought it was M Red and had something to do with his school's colors. Go figure.

So did most of the rest of us #1.......until MR. ED explained it to us. And that wasn't until a year or so ago when we could post avatars :D

[mred]

Like swok said, most people thought it was M Red until we got avatars and I put up one of Mr. Ed for myself. After a while, I finally got tired of that avatar and put one up of a red M just to confuse people more. :p The funny thing is that I pronounce it "M Red" both in my head and out loud.

It's been my handle for just about everything since I took a summer trig class at ISU after my soph year of high school (1995) and I signed up for my first email account at Iowa State. I kept trying different email addresses, but all the ones I wanted were already taken. I ended up putting "mred" on a whim, and the rest is history.

Anyone else have a story about their name? This thread's alreay waaaaay OT anyway... :)

[Dale8R]

MRED confused the matter himself by taking down his MR ED avatar and replacing it with the M RED one. Red seemed logical for ISU, I thought :)

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. . . and of course, he had to make it worse by explaining it himself while I was composing my witty response!

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My apologies for butting in again without commenting on the fine story by one of the best English teachers in college basketball. She could make a good living with her keyboard if she ever decided to give up basketball. Somehow I don't see that happening any time soon, though!

OK, my name. Dale8R Dale is my first name and my last initial is R. 8 is a part of my street address, BUT when you put it all together, you get something resembling a word which unfortunately describes how I get things done sometimes. Speaking of which, there are mountains of things I should be doing instead of "talking" to you good folk. Now I return you to Sherri's entertaining thread!

edited for the THIRD time to correct a grammatical mistake. Wouldn't do to have her read this and call me out on it.

[brolewis]

Anyone else have a story about their name? This thread's alreay waaaaay OT anyway... :)(Since we're already off-topic ;))For me, not really. I'm a seminary-trained minister and so most people at church refer to me as Brother Lewis, and since I'm lazy, I just shortened it to brolewis.

[Scamp]

I'm usually "Carol Anne" on the Web, but there was already a Naismith Award winner here with a very similar name. I didn't want to risk confusion. So, I'm using an old summer camp nickname. :)

[swok34]

I'm swok everywhere or some variation of it....

I wouldn't have put a number behind it, but my first internet account already had swok (or they wouldn't let me use it)...

so mine's pretty simple: initials + Oklahoma :D

[Gator]

When I signed up for Hoopscoops, my "poker for play money" moniker of Duchess (trying to intimidate other players? didn’t work) just didn't seem appropriate. I wanted something "athletic" but when you are sitting here looking at the blank space where you are instructed to create a "handle".... I don't know about you but my mind goes blank. I decided to pay homage to my long ago allegiance, the Gators of UF. My slide show screen saver shows a lot of gator pictures I took the last time I was at home and went air boating with my brother in the "real" Florida back woods so I guess gators were on my mind anyway.

[Bball Girl]

I stole mine from a friend's daughter who was playing junior high basketball. Her email handle was Bball Girl and we were exchanging email about the time I discovered HoopScoop. She gave me permission to use it :)

[Jimi]

Mine is easy to explain. Ron is my name, KSU is my team alligence. = KSUron

Hey wait! What the?

[KSUron]

First Coach Coale is still a smart writer and a smart motivator/story teller.

BOOMER SOONER!

Second my screen name is from another first class writer/story teller Chipper. He said I was looking at the world through a Purple Haze and called me Jimi (after Jimi Hendrix). It seemed to fit so I changed, but I won't change from supporting the Wildcats. ;)

[sybarite]

I must admit that I find Coale's humor and style fascinating. Her TV show suggest the same type of humor that is often found in her writing, a rather homespun wisdom, somewhat of a vintage of Will Rogers. I like the idea of wrestling with pigs, tends to remind me of message boards and politics. I also love the idea of the relative importance of lumps. How can you not want to play for her?

I think I have explained my user name before. Sybarite is resident of the Isle of Sybar, lovers of pleasure and luxury, somewhat interchangeable with hedonism. It is somewhat characteristic with my attitude toward the misplaced reverence of mankind.

[walkaway]

and here I thought it meant South West Oklahoma .... :eek:

Walkaway?

From "Walk away."

Not the worst advice in the world, some times. ;)

[giraffespots]

I am giraffespots because I love giraffes and I collect them avidly.

Sometimes I am giraffespots23 (the 23 was my number "back in the olden days")

My favorite comic had a bit about evil herbivores, so often I am Evil Herbivore (usually in my fantasy leagues).

[Jennifer]

I'm horribly orginal, aren't it? :rolleyes:
OK, so because Jennifer was only the most popular name in the early 70s, I guess I can still be remain somewhat anonymous here, right?

I also use some derivation of jjsooner on other boards. Some have my birth year on the end. JJ is my first-middle initials and an old nickname.

[labcoatguy]

Fans of OU womens basketball from 2 to 4 years ago should be aware as to why I am labcoatguy. 2 of my friends and I, being nerds in engineering and meteorology majors, decided to start wearing lab coats to the basketball games we were already attending as sort of a way to attract attention to ourselves and to the program (this is the same story for the infrequent poster Goggle Guy as well, who was unfortunate enough to have seen the Illinois game this year in person).

[swok34]

labcoatguy and goggleguy are....(weren't there three of you?)

They were the ONLY ones to meet the bus when the girls got home from winning in Idaho and were headed to the Final Four San Antonio at 4 am.

[labcoatguy]

labcoatguy and goggleguy are....(weren't there three of you?)

They were the ONLY ones to meet the bus when the girls got home from winning in Idaho and were headed to the Final Four San Antonio at 4 am.
There were three of us, but the other one has never posted here. And to be fair, I think it was closer to 2 or 3 am. But come on! First final four in program history? Sleeplessness was an incredibly small price to pay.

[Row6Seat10]

Mine's fairly self explanatory. It's where I sit at the "Bob". ;)

Swok, for some reason I've always thought 34 was meant to be your favorite Sooner player.
Now if I remember right I think that was Phylesha Whaley's number. :)

And I thought Dale8R was a Nascar fan.

[35TangoTango]

Mine's pretty obvious, too. Hoopscoop was my introduction to message boards, so I didn't know about inventive names.

Later, I wanted a more neutral name for other boards, so I used the registration "number" of the small plane I am partners in - 35TangoTango (see avatar).

I got DayLater's right from the beginning. I sure couldn't figure out Brole-wis, though. And I've always wondered whether it's Elden Mom or Elf DenMom.

[tx4OU]

Mine is pretty straight forward, tx4OU. Like a license plate.

However there's a little story to it. Growing up watching all of those great gridiron matches between Switzer's Sooners and Osborn's Huskers, I'd always see those huge banners on TV hanging from the sides of the stadium up in Lincoln. All of them would read "Kansas Cornhuskers," "Floridians for Nebraska," and "Oklahomans for Huskers."

I was like, "wait a minute!" "How can Oklahoman's be Huskers?!"

But then I thought it was kind of cool. It was an intelligent way of saying, we're so superior that everyone wants to be a Husker. So after moving to Dallas for work, I soon adopted that same concept. I'm an Okie through and through. I still don't say I'm a Texan just b/c it so happens that I live in Big D, but instead say I'm a Sooner living in Dallas. (And I can't stand that saying that people that weren't born her claim. "I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here just as fast as I could.")

So that's how I arrived at tx4OU. I guess my crimson and cream up-brining really shows. I come from a lineage of Sooners and you're just taught to not like anything about Texas. Of course I have all the respect in the world for all of the Texas schools and even root for the underdogs from time to time. I truly believe that if it wasn't for the true heated and passionate rivalry like OU/tx, both schools wouldn't keep succeeding in all their respective sports programs. It's like keeping up with the Jones. Here's an example: After OU completed a nationally recognized "first of it's kind" athletic construction project (building side-by-side, state-of-the-art men's and women's basketball practice facilities to the Llyod Noble Center including locker rooms, coaching offices and of course full length practice gyms) soon Texas was putting the final touches on their own version down in Austin.

The constant equaling and one-upmanship between rival schools pertaining to facilities, coaches and most of all; recruited athletes is what drives programs to greatness and elite status.

[swok34]

Swok, for some reason I've always thought 34 was meant to be your favorite Sooner player.
Now if I remember right I think that was Phylesha Whaley's number

It was Phylesha's; now it's Erin's. But I didn't choose it because of a particular player.......


not even KSU's Mahoney. ;)

[TTU79]

Mine is so boring! The handle I wanted was taken so I used the year I got one of my degrees from TTU. I think this is really fun--finding out the reason behind the names used here.

[#1OUWBBFAN]

Fans of OU womens basketball from 2 to 4 years ago should be aware as to why I am labcoatguy. 2 of my friends and I, being nerds in engineering and meteorology majors, decided to start wearing lab coats to the basketball games we were already attending as sort of a way to attract attention to ourselves and to the program (this is the same story for the infrequent poster Goggle Guy as well, who was unfortunate enough to have seen the Illinois game this year in person).

We loved seeing you guys at the games. You were a lot of fun. Where in the world is duplexland?

[YCN]

My nickname derives from a slightly more rambunctious time when I first really started posting regularly on message boards.

Back in 2000 I was one of legions of OU fans who were extremely excited about how our football team was playing, and I decided to become active on the internet at the same time that OU was awaiting a minor upcoming football game against sombody called "Florida State".

After reading an endless series of posts on Seminole message boards referencing "land thieves" and "sister-mothers" and broken down trailer homes and uneducated and backward "okies", I'd had about enough.

So I registered a nickname of YourCrimsonNightmare, and set off on a one-man reign of terror in the land of the Seminoles. It was pretty ugly, but it got the point across that just because we are from Oklahoma doesn't mean we take a back seat to anyone, and that we won't just sit back and allow the slander of our state and people without retaliation.

I guess the impact was substantial, because I made a completely innocuous first post on a Miami Hurricanes message board around the same time, and was immediately banned as a "notorious troublemaker". That was kind of funny, since I've never been banned from any FSU message boards, then or now.

But my original board name here made me feel a little uncomfortable in such a civil place as this, so when the opportunity arose it was shortened to YCN. It was a way of keeping a consistent identity without the shout-it-out arrogance of the original. In real life I'm nothing like my nickname, but it was convenient to my agenda at the time.

[labcoatguy]

We loved seeing you guys at the games. You were a lot of fun. Where in the world is duplexland?

It's actually, uh, in Norman, although I no longer dress up when I go to games since I am unable to go to as many games as I used to. I am swamped with more writing than a mathematically minded engineering student should have to complete. You can pretty much grunt and point your way through an undergraduate engineering degree, but they actually expect you to write things for graduate school.

I was in Fort Collins last year, but my fiance and I have returned. And <a href="http://www.normantranscript.com/siteSearch/apstorysection/local_story_034010237">this unfortunate person</a> lives down the street from me in Duplexland.