Comments on: Thanks for nothing 2008 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:47:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: It’s beginning to smell a lot like FSMas! (and, reflections on Thanksgiving/living) » V for Vegan: easyVegan.info http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-187068 It’s beginning to smell a lot like FSMas! (and, reflections on Thanksgiving/living) » V for Vegan: easyVegan.info Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:42:09 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-187068 [...] done the past few years, but it still doesn’t seem like enough to offset the “guilty” feasting we’ve engaged in [...] [...] done the past few years, but it still doesn’t seem like enough to offset the “guilty” feasting we’ve engaged in [...]

]]> By: thinker http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135839 thinker Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:05:41 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135839 Twisty, Glad you are here. I feel better reading your perspective. You open my eyes all the time. Twisty,

Glad you are here. I feel better reading your perspective. You open my eyes all the time.

]]> By: Smite Me! [.net] » Blog Archive » It’s beginng to smell a lot like FSMas! (and, reflections on Thanksgiving/living) http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135562 Smite Me! [.net] » Blog Archive » It’s beginng to smell a lot like FSMas! (and, reflections on Thanksgiving/living) Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:02:22 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135562 [...] done the past few years, but it still doesn’t seem like enough to offset the “guilty” feasting we’ve engaged in [...] [...] done the past few years, but it still doesn’t seem like enough to offset the “guilty” feasting we’ve engaged in [...]

]]> By: Megan http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135523 Megan Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:11:14 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135523 I listened to that song for about 15 seconds before compulsively closing the tab. *Marking Texas, completely and finally, off the "cheap-o (and worth it!) places to live" list.* (Though, to be honest, it's about 70% due to the heat.) I listened to that song for about 15 seconds before compulsively closing the tab. *Marking Texas, completely and finally, off the “cheap-o (and worth it!) places to live” list.* (Though, to be honest, it’s about 70% due to the heat.)

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135469 Twisty Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:40:15 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135469 KMTBERRY, thanks for the amusing anecdote; not having attended the U myself, I'd never heard it. I hope it's true, and not just some modern effort to explain away what has to be the most asinine school song ever. I will say this: there are fewer experiences more splendidly frightening than being in a stadium full of burnt-orange sports fans bursting with chemically-induced conviviality, brimming with school spirit, making with the hook'em horns gesture, and belting out that song. KMTBERRY, thanks for the amusing anecdote; not having attended the U myself, I’d never heard it. I hope it’s true, and not just some modern effort to explain away what has to be the most asinine school song ever.

I will say this: there are fewer experiences more splendidly frightening than being in a stadium full of burnt-orange sports fans bursting with chemically-induced conviviality, brimming with school spirit, making with the hook’em horns gesture, and belting out that song.

]]> By: KMTBERRY http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135464 KMTBERRY Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:28:03 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135464 The University of Texas Song: Here is the story that I heard ti 'splain the UT anthem: there was this guy who was going to UT like the first year it opened. He was a wit. Everybody waited on him to be the hilarious, genius guy and he did some clever things verbally of some kind. There was also the President of the Iniversity who used to go around, looking at the class of like fifty guys (it was the first year) and saying "MY EYE IS UPON YOU!!!" meaning, you are not going to get away with any hijinks!! Cuz I be watching!! And then this Professor dude expanded upon his theme and said "The EYES of TEXAS are upon you !! YOu are the first graduating class of the University of Texas and We have some HIGH EXPECTATIONS of you fellows !! So you had better toe the line with whatever drinking and whoring you think you want to engage in because you are under CONSTANT SCRUTINY!!" Meantime, the student body has tapped the Clever student to write the school anthem. He procrastinated and didn't do it and the MORNING of the DAY the Glee Club was supposed to sing it at a huge event he woke up hungover from his debauchery, and wrote "The Eyes Of Texas" as a deliberate send-up of the University President and the hierarchy of power in general and perhaps just making fun of the grown-ups. Clearly, the guy expended VERY LITTLE EFFORT, so little that it was a slap in the face. The student body, apparently, found the whole thing hilarious and subversive, and LOVED it, and it has been the song ever since. The popularity of the phrase "MY EYE IS UPON YOU!" has waned to the point that no one gets the reference (it was a popular phrase in the 1870's, especially for educators, and occurs in many "school days" books of the period, including that testament to Patriarchy, "Daddy-Long-Legs" (which also provides proof that the game of basketball was invented for,and originally played by girls. Basketball was invented on purpose to be a game that girls could get safe exercise with, without tipping their uteruses etc.) When you know the story of the UT song, it becomes far less creepy. I apologise for not having anyone's actual NAMES or DATES of anything. The University of Texas Song: Here is the story that I heard ti ’splain the UT anthem: there was this guy who was going to UT like the first year it opened. He was a wit. Everybody waited on him to be the hilarious, genius guy and he did some clever things verbally of some kind.

There was also the President of the Iniversity who used to go around, looking at the class of like fifty guys (it was the first year) and saying “MY EYE IS UPON YOU!!!” meaning, you are not going to get away with any hijinks!! Cuz I be watching!!

And then this Professor dude expanded upon his theme and said “The EYES of TEXAS are upon you !! YOu are the first graduating class of the University of Texas and We have some HIGH EXPECTATIONS of you fellows !! So you had better toe the line with whatever drinking and whoring you think you want to engage in because you are under CONSTANT SCRUTINY!!”

Meantime, the student body has tapped the Clever student to write the school anthem. He procrastinated and didn’t do it and the MORNING of the DAY the Glee Club was supposed to sing it at a huge event he woke up hungover from his debauchery, and wrote “The Eyes Of Texas” as a deliberate send-up of the University President and the hierarchy of power in general and perhaps just making fun of the grown-ups.

Clearly, the guy expended VERY LITTLE EFFORT, so little that it was a slap in the face.

The student body, apparently, found the whole thing hilarious and subversive, and LOVED it, and it has been the song ever since.

The popularity of the phrase “MY EYE IS UPON YOU!” has waned to the point that no one gets the reference (it was a popular phrase in the 1870’s, especially for educators, and occurs in many “school days” books of the period, including that testament to Patriarchy, “Daddy-Long-Legs” (which also provides proof that the game of basketball was invented for,and originally played by girls. Basketball was invented on purpose to be a game that girls could get safe exercise with, without tipping their uteruses etc.)

When you know the story of the UT song, it becomes far less creepy. I apologise for not having anyone’s actual NAMES or DATES of anything.

]]> By: Lar http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135326 Lar Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:56:30 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135326 That song is fucking creepy. That song is fucking creepy.

]]> By: thebewilderness http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135316 thebewilderness Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:43:05 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135316 You can check out any time you like,... You can check out any time you like,…

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135301 Twisty Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:15:13 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135301 "I was only following orders?" Precisely. Patriarchy degrades the species into a race of murderous drones. A challenging concept, I admit. “I was only following orders?”

Precisely. Patriarchy degrades the species into a race of murderous drones. A challenging concept, I admit.

]]> By: B. Dagger Lee http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135286 B. Dagger Lee Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:34:39 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/11/30/thanks-for-nothing-2008/#comment-135286 I was only following orders? I was only following orders?

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