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If Off Tackle Empire did a Big Ten Power Ranking with Spinal Tap which person/thing would Minny be? it is entirely possible we would be the speaker notch marked 11. Otherwise, we are Arnie Fufikn (Paul Schaefer).
 

wait!what? said:
If Off Tackle Empire did a Big Ten Power Ranking with Spinal Tap which person/thing would Minny be? it is entirely possible we would be the speaker notch marked 11. Otherwise, we are Artie Fufkin (Paul Schaefer).
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Anyone but Bobbi Flekman, I'd rather be Morty the Mime. (oh, and I changed it to Artie Fufkin)
 

C'mon guys, Mime is Money.

I'd have to guess that we are likely that limo driver who gets the window shut on him when he starts talking about Frank Sinatra. We Gophers are in love with our past, but dismissive of our present (because it sucks).
 

Gopher Bandanna Guy said:
C'mon guys, Mime is Money.

I'd have to guess that we are likely that limo driver who gets the window shut on him when he starts talking about Frank Sinatra. We Gophers are in love with our past, but dismissive of our present (because it sucks).
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I mean, you know, when you've loved and lost the way Frank has, then you know what life's about.
 



This might be my favorite Gopherhole thread of all-time.

Let me paraphrase the great Nigel Tufnel:
The question is: "How much more black can things get for this program? And the answer is, none. None more black."
 

It's such a fine line between stupid an'...and clever.

I'll go deep on Spinal Tap all day. As a matter of fact, I have a copy in my office, and I might just put it on one of my screens for the rest of the day.

<img src="http://i.imgur.com/6hp7jm6.jpg" width="35%" height="35%">
 

Ah, that 'Dobly' logo is excellent. I too go deep on Tap (really all the Christopher Guest movies).

Two questions for you Unreg:

1) Do you feel that the Pride of Minnesota Marching Band should try to do more of a 'blues-jazz' or 'jazz-blues' halftime show?
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2) Would you agree that things would go better for the U if Norwood Teague would start carrying a cricket bat around with him everywhere?

Fun fact - here in Milwaukee, we've got a nice club/concert venue called 'Shank Hall'. Named after the fictional stop on Tap's tour when they stopped in Brewtown. They even have a crappy little Stonehenge monument mounted on the wall behind the stage. You know, so the dwarves don't trod upon it.
 

Gopher Bandanna Guy said:
Ah, that 'Dobly' logo is excellent.
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I was going to make it "doubly" but I didn't want to take the time to stretch everything out to size it correctly. But now that I have it, I might make a t-shirt out of it.

Gopher Bandanna Guy said:
1) Do you feel that the Pride of Minnesota Marching Band should try to do more of a 'blues-jazz' or 'jazz-blues' halftime show?

Only if they have multiple members playing bass and they rock "Big Bottoms". It took me about 5 years before I realized all the members of the band were playing bass.


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2) Would you agree that things would go better for the U if Norwood Teague would start carrying a cricket bat around with him everywhere?

Only if Souhan is within striking distance.

Fun fact - here in Milwaukee, we've got a nice club/concert venue called 'Shank Hall'. Named after the fictional stop on Tap's tour when they stopped in Brewtown. They even have a crappy little Stonehenge monument mounted on the wall behind the stage. You know, so the dwarves don't trod upon it.

Fantastic! I saw 'Tap' live at the Orpheum years ago. They had a Stonehenge that was full size, but it didn't come down all the way to the stage. The bad thing was that you could clearly see that it was built only halfway up, so there was no intention of it ever reaching the stage. Grew a goatee, and wore spandex pants with a cucumber running down my leg. Fantastic night. Still laugh my ass off every time I hear "Give Me Some Money" played during the American Express commercials.
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-If I told them once, I told them a thousand times - Gopher football first, puppet show second.
 




Did you ever notice the hat worn by Marti Bi Bergi?

They couldn't get authority to use a hat the read USS Coral Sea, so they changed it to USS Ooral Sea.
 

Unregistered User said:
Did you ever notice the hat worn by Marti Bi Bergi?

They couldn't get authority to use a hat the read USS Coral Sea, so they changed it to USS Ooral Sea.
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I always thought I was seeing things. Strangely, Gopherfaith and I looked at a house years ago on Coral Sea Street NE in Ham Lake. I liked it 25% just because of the address.
 

Gopher Bandanna Guy said:
Ah, that 'Dobly' logo is excellent. I too go deep on Tap (really all the Christopher Guest movies).

Two questions for you Unreg:

1) Do you feel that the Pride of Minnesota Marching Band should try to do more of a 'blues-jazz' or 'jazz-blues' halftime show?
and
2) Would you agree that things would go better for the U if Norwood Teague would start carrying a cricket bat around with him everywhere?

Fun fact - here in Milwaukee, we've got a nice club/concert venue called 'Shank Hall'. Named after the fictional stop on Tap's tour when they stopped in Brewtown. They even have a crappy little Stonehenge monument mounted on the wall behind the stage. You know, so the dwarves don't trod upon it.
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Gawd, yes the cricket bat.
 




This is the single greatest thread in the history of Gopher Hole.

The other great thing about the Ooral Sea hat... When Reiner asked Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits to do the music for "Princess Bride," Mark asked that the hat be included in the movie. It hangs above Fred Savage's bed when Peter Falk is reading him the story.

I was also at the show at the Orpheum. Drove down during finals week my Freshman year in college. One of my best friends flunked a final because of it and stands by the decision to this day. Saw them, not as Tap, a couple years back in Milwaukee doing songs from Tap and Mighty Wind and doing a Q&A. That movie is a huge part of my life.

If I had to equate the Gopher football program with anything from Tap, it would be one of two things:

Either they'd be "Drowning in a sea of retarded sexuality and bad poetry." or it would be:
"It begs one to ask the question 'On what day did God create Gopher Football post 1967, and couldn't He have rested on that day too?'"
 

discochris said:
It hangs above Fred Savage's bed when Peter Falk is reading him the story.
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Fantastic! I'll be looking for that on my next viewing.

discochris said:
If I had to equate the Gopher football program with anything from Tap, it would be one of two things:
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I'm just hoping that it's not "People were still booing him when we came on".

But I'd be happy if we renamed TCF "Sex Farm".
 

Unregistered User said:
Fantastic! I'll be looking for that on my next viewing.



I'm just hoping that it's not "People were still booing him when we came on".

But I'd be happy if we renamed TCF "Sex Farm".
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Sex farm is for Iowa week only!
 


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I have seen both Spinal Tap and Princess Bride many times. Did not know about the Oooral reef hat on Princess Bride.....checked it out and sure enough, there it is.
 

discochris said:
I was also at the show at the Orpheum. Drove down during finals week my Freshman year in college. One of my best friends flunked a final because of it and stands by the decision to this day. Saw them, not as Tap, a couple years back in Milwaukee doing songs from Tap and Mighty Wind and doing a Q&A. That movie is a huge part of my life.
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Were you the guys who tossed a hat on stage during the Orpheum show?
 

tikited said:
Were you the guys who tossed a hat on stage during the Orpheum show?
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No - we were in about the last row of the highest balcony. Poor college students and all... Had better seats a couple years ago in Milwaukee at the Pabst Theater for the Tap/Mighty Wind show.
 

discochris said:
Saw them, not as Tap, a couple years back in Milwaukee doing songs from Tap and Mighty Wind and doing a Q&A. That movie is a huge part of my life.
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I was at that show too, 'Live and Unwigged', sitting like 4th row, right-center. Their folk version of the Stones 'Start Me Up' might be one of the funniest things I've ever seen live.
 

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