Trivia game temporarily suspended

hoosier · #1 04-26-2007, 12:17 PM

I've been ill this week and still don't quite feel up to performing the duties of trivia moderator.

Hope to be back with you shortly.

Hoosier

sockknitter · #2 04-26-2007, 02:12 PM

VERY sorry to hear you're down, Hoosier. Hope you see improvement every day. Your trivia has been missed!

samgrant · #3 04-26-2007, 06:27 PM

Hope you feel better soon, and not for the sake of the game.

hoosier · #4 04-28-2007, 09:01 PM

Thanks for your good wishes.

I'm not quite back to normal yet, but a lot closer to it than I was most of the week. Gastroenteritis - whoo-ee!

william42 · #5 04-28-2007, 10:21 PM

Get well soon, buddy. I always thought you were indeed a hoosier, until I read your post to the guy in Vermont, was it? Can't remember. Regardless, you're a stand-up guy. Take care.

Terry

hoosier · #6 04-29-2007, 09:22 PM

William42, thanks for your kind words.

I've told this story before, but I repeat it every so often for those who've come along since the last time.

No disrespect at all for Indianans, but it's my contention that I can legitimately call myself a Hoosier, even though I don't come from that fine midwestern state.

The town where I grew up is Hoosick Falls, NY, located a bit northwest of the point where the states of Vermont, Massachusetts, and New York meet.

When the local high school first started fielding athletic teams, they were known as the Hoosicks, but after a while that mellowed into the more mellifluous Hoosiers.

The school's teams were still known as the Hoosiers during my high school days in the 1960's, and since I did play basketball and baseball, I was officially a Hoosick Falls Hoosier.

To the chagrin of alumni of my era, the students some years later voted to change the school nickname, so Hoosick Falls High's teams now bear the rather commonplace name of Panthers, rather than the proud and unique (at least, for our part of New York state) name of Hoosiers.

But, even though I no longer live in Hoosick Falls and even though the school's teams have changed their name, being the stubborn cuss that I am, I continue to refer to myself as a Hoosier, and expect I always will.

samgrant · #7 04-29-2007, 09:35 PM

That would be the best posible Hoosier, one not from Indiana!

Rad2duhbone53 · #8 04-30-2007, 06:35 PM

We wouldn't want it any other way.... Once a Hoosier, always a Hoosier.

william42 · #9 05-05-2007, 08:46 PM

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being the stubborn cuss that I am, I continue to refer to myself as a Hoosier, and expect I always will.

Well, the fact that you're a stubborn cuss, makes you a Hoosier right there.

Sam, we Hoosiers don't dislike you Illinoisans. Do you disdain all Hoosiers or just Coach Knight?

TW