Mennonite Master Thread (previously smoke cigars thread)

[Kat Kid]

Yoder is an Amish name.  He's not to be trusted.

[Gooch]

Yoder is an Amish name.  He's not to be trusted.

Can confirm.

<----- grew up around the Amish

[Gooch]

Don't even get me started on the Mennonites  

[Dugout DickStone]

Yoder is an Amish name.  He's not to be trusted.

Can confirm.

<----- grew up around the Amish

Do you have any good Amish stories?  They are weirdly fascinating

[OregonSmock]

From the Eugene Reporter:

There is plenty of talk that Pac-12 commissioner Larry Scott does not want to sit at 14 conference members and that two other Big 12 schools will be joining the Oklahoma contingent.

It is known that the Pac-12 greatly values Texas and has designs on Texas and Texas Tech being that pair. However, the Longhorns stubbornness in wanting to keep it's third tier rights and partner with ESPN in the Longhorn Network is a sticking point for both Texas and Scott and the Pac-12. The other pair in lieu of Texas and Texas Tech appear to be Kansas and Missouri or Kansas and Kansas State.

One journalist with plenty of experience and contacts throughout the conferences and schools most heavily involved in the current state of realignment is George Schroeder of the Eugene (Ore.) Register Guard. Schroeder, who also writes for national publications, including Sports Illustrated, has covered Arkansas and the SEC, Oklahoma and the Big 12, and has been in Oregon covering the Ducks, the Pac-12, and national college football for the past four years.

Schroeder says his sources tell him the Pac-12, as reported, will take Oklahoma State and Oklahoma, with or without Texas.

"It's clear that Oklahoma and Oklahoma State that the Pac-12 is ready to invite them and that they have that indicated to them regardless of whether or not Texas or anybody else is willing to come along," said Schroeder. "I have heard that from people that are high up at the Pac-12 that will happen. I'm also hearing that they really want Texas and that they don't want to be at 14.

"Now as things continue to happen and as we wait for the SEC and Texas A&M (to be official), I think we are going to continue to hear wilder and wilder things," added Schroeder. "The KU and K-State thing would be mildly surprising to me. They would love to have Kansas, academically and basketball. It would not be a monetary thing with football, but it would give you a flagship basketball program on one side of the league and one on the other side of the league with UCLA. It just gets weirder and weirder as time goes on."

Schroeder said he isn't sure whether all of this realignment and the move toward super conferences is good or bad for college football and college athletics. It really kind of remains to be seen. He also isn't sure whether the rapid movement of it all is good or bad or if something is being missed in breakneck speed that schools and conferences are shifting.

He does see that Oklahoma State and Oklahoma will fit in some ways into the culture of the Pac-12 Conference and in some ways they may not, but their influence will be felt and be felt the day they join the league.

"I think it all sort of depends on if they take two schools and get to 14 or if they take four schools and get to 16," started Schroeder. "If you get to 16 and you have the East-West divisions then you are still with the same schools you have been playing all these years. You would have the original Pac-8 and then you would have Arizona, Arizona State, Utah, Colorado, and whatever these four Big 12 schools would be. At that point it is a nice fit because you really have two leagues within one. If you just have 14 then it is a cultural adjustment for everybody because the Pac-12 is a different league. Even the passion is different. Oregon can fit in anywhere.Their fan base is like that in the SEC or Big 12. Eugene is a liberal hotbed, but their passion for football is like the schools in the SEC and Big 12.

"The image of UCLA fans half filling the Rose Bowl and playing with beach balls like they are at Dodger Stadium is a little bit of a characterture, but it's not a bad characterture. It will be a culture shock in some ways for everybody."

Get ready for a little shock because it sure looks strong that the Cowboys are edging that way along with the Sooners. The major question is who or what two will join them?

 

[catzacker]

Beems, take us with you.  You know you love us.  Don't leave us with ISU.   

[TheHamburglar]

Don't even get me started on the Mennonites  

Are you kidding me?  If you are in high school lurking, take these words of advice.  Get your ass to the Canton-Galva area and talk to any girl that looks Mennonite.  Just walk around.  There is not a better population of girls that have been repressed their whole lives just waiting to go crazy.  You+ + = .  

[catzacker]

Don't even get me started on the Mennonites 

Are you kidding me?  If you are in high school lurking, take these words of advice.  Get your ass to the Canton-Galva area and talk to any girl that looks Mennonite.  Just walk around.  There is not a better population of girls that have been repressed their whole lives just waiting to go crazy.  You+ + = . 

Yes, but...I don't know how put this...ummm...do they keep it maintained?  that would be my only concern.

[Dugout DickStone]

Ben is freaking out again.  Stop mentioning 13-1

[chum1]

please tell me this isn't going to turn into another bmw thread.

[Gooch]

Yoder is an Amish name.  He's not to be trusted.

Can confirm.

<----- grew up around the Amish

Do you have any good Amish stories?  They are weirdly fascinating

Sadly no. But any group of people that spends that much time around horses can not be trusted*. They do make fantastic baked good tho.



* See Whitney Snyder

[steve dave]

I grew up in a Mennonite community.  pretty normal. 

[wetwillie]

I grew up in a Mennonite community.  pretty normal. 

They seem like good folk.  Good builders, expert cheese makers, etc.

[EMAWgeddon]

Yoder is an Amish name.  He's not to be trusted.

Can confirm.

<----- grew up around the Amish

Do you have any good Amish stories?  They are weirdly fascinating

Sadly no. But any group of people that spends that much time around horses can not be trusted*. They do make fantastic baked good tho.



* See Whitney Snyder

WHAT ABOUT MINI HORSES 

[steve dave]

I grew up in a Mennonite community.  pretty normal. 

They seem like good folk.  Good builders, expert cheese makers, etc.

they were normal.  just as many people slut around, drink, etc. as anyone else.  the conservative ones are uber-conservative but other than that, nothing outside the norm.  makes fielding a football team tough when your town has 1,400 people though.  PLAY SPORTS YOU rough ridin' MENNONITES! YOU ARE HURTING THE REST OF US BECAUSE WE CAN'T DROP DOWN A DIVISION!

[michigancat]

our mennonites played sports.

[Tobias]

our mennonites played sports.

get them to post here

[steve dave]

our mennonites played sports.

Some of ours did.  Our town was about 50/50 Mennonites/others.  Used to have segregated schools.  Mennonite highschool was out in the country where they all lived.  

[Tobias]

our mennonites played sports.

Some of ours did.  Our town was about 50/50 Mennonites/others.  Used to have segregated schools.  Mennonite highschool was out in the country where they all lived.  

 

sd's mennonite-cred just increased a lot from zero

[Dr Rick Daris]

our mennonites played sports.

yeah. mennonie rommie in college and friend in hschool (mhs) that played soccer in hschool.

[Dugout DickStone]

our mennonites played sports.

Some of ours did.  Our town was about 50/50 Mennonites/others.  Used to have segregated schools.  Mennonite highschool was out in the country where they all lived.  

Were the girls hawt?

[steve dave]

our mennonites played sports.

Some of ours did.  Our town was about 50/50 Mennonites/others.  Used to have segregated schools.  Mennonite highschool was out in the country where they all lived.  

Were the girls hawt?

average, same as everyone else.

[CNS]

Went hunting with an Amish guy several years ago.  He was a furniture maker.  In talking with him about what everyone thinks is hand made stuff, I found out that they use gas powered generators and have normal woodworking machines in their shops.  They are not hooked to the grid and therefore "don't use electricity", they "use Amish power".

Also, Amish Power sounds like a super power.  Like maybe instantaneously able to grow a beard or patch overalls faster than lightning or something.

Unfortunately for Amish, not only are they hypocrites when it comes to electricity, but they also are liars when it comes to marketing their goods to you.  Oh, yeah, they also don't have any rough ridin' super powers.

Right to not trust them.

[jtksu]

Seems like using gas powered generators wouldn't be very cost effective.

[CNS]

Seems like using gas powered generators wouldn't be very cost effective.

Evidently, it is either that, use hand tools, or sell your soul to the devil and hook up to the grid.

What was also interesting is that I was on said hunting trip as a guest of one of my dad's vendors(sold wood materials, not raw, but partially shaped base materials).  The amish guy was also a customer of the same vendor.  So not only did the hypocritical Amish d00d use generators, but they also bought materials that was partially processed by some non Amish guy in a factory in downtown Philly.