Am I the only goober?

[NC_Uconn_Fan]

Going to assume you're on the other side of 50. Lol.

 

[CTBasketball]

I still have a schedule up in my office on the white board. Have to let the others know.

 

[80shusky]

Why is there an exclamation point after Illinois, a % after Florida, and a # after BC? The # with BC makes sense - Time to pound BC again. But I don't get the other two.

Not sure, those came out when I printed it. I wrote in the exclamation point next to the Kansas W because that's a big road win and I was happy and it was like midnight anyway.

 

[Greathusky]

I used to write down the American Top 40 charts every Sunday .... Casey Kasem

I can top that. Used to record Casey on a cassette player and play it back in my 73 Plymouth Duster while driving to school.

 

[gtcam]

You may one of the last people alive who use the word goober!!!

 

[alexd]

Why is there an exclamation point after Illinois, a % after Florida, and a # after BC? The # with BC makes sense - Time to pound BC again. But I don't get the other two.

This goes back years.... on these schedules the symbols designate special info located on the key at the bottom of the page (like a map key).... in this case game location, TD Garden, Mohegan, MSG...etc.

 

[NJHusky]

Who does this? View attachment 114649

Those are 2 distinct questions 😉

 

[FlippinCrazy!]

This goes back years.... on these schedules the symbols designate special info located on the key at the bottom of the page (like a map key).... in this case game location, TD Garden, Mohegan, MSG...etc.

Some might call them footnotes*


*but not us we’re UConn

 

[temery]

This goes back years.... on these schedules the symbols designate special info located on the key at the bottom of the page (like a map key).... in this case game location, TD Garden, Mohegan, MSG...etc.

I've never seen a percentage sign, an exclamation point, or a carrot used as a footnote. I'm sure you're right that they're meant to be footnotes, but whoever did it is a complete freaking moron.

 

[alexd]

I've never seen a percentage sign, an exclamation point, or a carrot used as a footnote. I'm sure you're right that they're meant to be footnotes, but whoever did it is a complete freaking moron.

UConn has used them on their official schedules for years.

 

[temery]

UConn has used them on their official schedules for years.

Ah, so at least I know who the morons are. Those are not well established footnote symbols.

 

[Edward Sargent]

Nope

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

I used to write down the American Top 40 charts every Sunday .... Casey Kasem

“Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars”. - Casey Kasem ending each show

Anecdotally in a 1-off interaction, Kasem was an arse hole when I valet parked his vehicle while working for a restaurant during a long ago UConn winter break.

 

[temery]

“Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars”. - Casey Kasem ending each show

Anecdotally in a 1-off interaction, Kasem was an arse hole when I valet parked his vehicle while working for a restaurant during a long ago UConn winter break.

That's when you hide a condom in the glove compartment for his wife to find.

Source: I parked cars at the president's house when he had VIPs for dinner. I didn't do it, but I know it was done.

 

[alexd]

Ah, so at least I know who the morons are. Those are not well established footnote symbols.

View attachment 114659

So, someone at UConn had to decide what symbols to use for MSG, TD Boston and Mohegan Sun, so they chose basic symbols that we use everyday rather than those daggers and parragraph symbols, which by the way all look very similar on these small printed schedules. LOL
Oh by the way, an asterisk (*) denotes Big East conference opponent. ;-)

 

[dennismenace]

I would think old school bowlers might do it.

Walko's "Dine a Bowl" , Plainville. Duckpin: Saturday morning 25 cents a string ("automatic pinsetters"!!!) (I can't imagine people crazy enough to manually setup pins in that environment). I had scoresheets from my own NBA games played by me alone racing back and forth in my cellar. Usually Celtics vs St Louis Hawks. Pouring sweat by the end. 3rd grade.

 

[CL82]

Autopen?

Is that what makes your handwriting sloppy when you write things out in the car?

 

[CL82]

That's when you hide a condom in the glove compartment for his wife to find.

Source: I parked cars at the president's house when he had VIPs for dinner. I didn't do it, but I know it was done.

Which president? I'm guessing Taft.

 

[beerfan]

I was visiting a friend who had that same schedule printed out and taped to his refrigerator. I miss the old refrigerator magnet schedules that they used to give out.

 

[Chin Diesel]

When my mother finds a news article from the local papers she thinks I'd find interesting, she cuts out the article, takes a picture of it with her cell phone, and then sends me the picture of the article.

 

[CL82]

When my mother finds a news article from the local papers she thinks I'd find interesting, she cuts out the article, takes a picture of it with her cell phone, and then sends me the picture of the article.

Yeah, that's just adorable!

For what it's worth, back in the pre-Internet days my dad would send me articles that he thought I would find interesting. A lot of them were local coverage of UConn. I always appreciated the time and effort it took.

 

[Kolumbo]

I feel bad for the kids today because printing and completing the basketball brackets at work was an annual ritual which really made our entry level jobs somewhat bearable for a few weeks

kids & pets, classic 🤣

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

“Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars”. - Casey Kasem ending each show

Anecdotally in a 1-off interaction, Kasem was an arse hole when I valet parked his vehicle while working for a restaurant during a long ago UConn winter break.

And now it's come back to haunt him.

 

[80shusky]

You may one of the last people alive who use the word goober!!!

I was just trying to pick something that wasn't totally insulting so I didnt anger the legions of people who also do this but also because I was describing myself!:

 

[jdb50]

Back in the early 2000s iirc there was a white Tee shirt that was given to fans that had the schedule on it and it said Victims of the Huskies. Fans could write in the score.