Comments on: Monday: Tech Orlando bound; London shakes up staff at UVa; Rocco leaves, fed up with uncertainty

By: jay

jay — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:25:30 +0000

Mistakes were the least of Rocco’s problem……….He simply was not a Division “1″ quarterback!!…….”TWO-STARS” rivals rating = FCS

By: pete

pete — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 07:47:41 +0000

Rocco is a very smart young man, and a pretty good quarterback. We all make mistakes…..

By: steve

steve — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 03:56:16 +0000

Barry, sounds like that professor was trying to separate the smart students from those that needed to transfer to lesser schools, say GT, for example.

By: Zman

Zman — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:24:37 +0000

OK, so the gas can blew Barry all the way to Atlanta. Nice.

If you want automatic weapons, move to Arizona. They are freely sold there. I don;t know if you can buy an airborne mini-gun but they sound like tearing paper (ok a little louder) when they fire. That is the fastest firing thing I know of.

Good for defensing your house in the Zombie Appocalypse.

FIRE BEAMER! His players blew up a soda bottle!!!!! FELONY OFFENSE!!!!! FATALLY STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HE HAS LOST CONTROL!!!!!!!!!!

geeez. GTH you Beamer haters. Or at least wait until the facts come out before going haywire.

By: Other John

Other John — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:44:00 +0000

haha Bob H, I knew which OJ you meant, but I’ll be honest that I had to re-read it! It would be really cool to have a phaser…or a transporter, that would eliminate my commute and I’d love that.

I failed to mention my Lions earlier. Yet again, they had a chance to score a win, and found a creative way to lose. They’ve had probably 4 games that they could/should have won, but didn’t. They have resumed their regularly scheduled mediocrity.

By: Barry from Ivy

Barry from Ivy — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:04:29 +0000

Also reminds me when I attended Vt before transferring to Georgia Tech. One of my VT professors had instructed us on how to tell if there was still gasoline in a can or if it was totally empty. He told us to light a match near the spout and that would give us enough light to see what was in the can. I didn’t think that was a very good idea and I am here today to tell about it. Not sure what happened to the rest of the class, they may have also become Yellow Jackets.

By: bluejohnson

bluejohnson — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:51:53 +0000

London’s tenure has just perpetuated the same basic problem the team had under Groh, inability to “coach up” players during their time at the school. The ACC is embarrassingly weak and other than at quarterback, UVa’s talent has been equal to most of the league’s teams for years, yet they consistently under perform.

By: Rick H.

Rick H. — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 21:01:34 +0000

I’ve had Tech students blow up bottles of dry ice in my yard. It leaves quite an impression.

It actually is quite impressive – and scary.

I guess I am doomed.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:48:12 +0000

The whole “boom goes the sodea bottle” reminds me of two “explosvie” experiences I have been part of it.

I lit up a firecracker in a friend’s pickup one day. Never saw someone get out of the truck so fast before. I tossed it outside the window and was about to stamp out the fuse. I’m happy to report my foot is still in one piece, and still attached to my leg. I can’t say the same about the firecracker.

The other time, I was prepping a burn barrel to burn some cardboard trashes, and I was dousing it with gasoline just to speed up the burning process. I then proceed to toss the match on it and the match went out. Puzzled, I moved closer to take a look, and boy what a booming experience. Some of the trashes went skyward, burning, and landed on the dried, crunch summer sun beaten grasses. Some of the trashes promptly lit the grasses on fire. I told my daughter to hurry and get me some water while I ran into an outside buidling to get my shovel. I got busy stamping out the fire with my shovel and my daughter comes running out with a cereal bowl of water. Seriously. I had to tell her to get me the garden pitcher so I could properly put out the fire.

I was glad there was never a 911 call or I would have gotten in trouble for sure. It was a lesson learned. Now…I just use blowtorch to light the cardboards.

By: Bob H

Bob H — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 20:36:36 +0000

Thanks OJ (and BTW, the OJ I referred to in an earlier post was Orinthal James Simpson and not you!).

I just get a little tired of gun control fanatics using such ridiculous exageration in their (ir)rationale to justify their views. In this case, there is no weapon in the world or on Star Trek ot Star Wars that fires thousands of rounds in a single second and I notice that Tim is singing the old 4 Seasons song “Silence is Golden” on finding a link.

I guess it is just a difference in theology. Me, if I don’t like something, then I don’t BUY it. But I don’t try to prevent someone else from buying it. Especially not a constitutionally guaranteed right!

I am 180 from you. I hunt and seldom recreational target shoot (other than to sight in). Mostly I hunt with the crossbow but I hunt with my shotgun, rifle, and muzzle loader (which, BTW, also does not fire very quickly either….). That being said, I do consume what I kill (deer) and never kill more than I need.

But, we are not on Mark Taylor’s BLOG here!

My take on this VT stuff is that this is a prank that got out of hand. The bomb was a soda pop bottle and the explosive was bathroom cleaner.

Sounds alot to me like the guy who brought the machine gun (eh, umbrella actually) into Valley View Mall a few months ago.