Not that most of my fellow esteemed AOTFers have this issue (although some that I never felt would have prior, have begun to recently), I felt compelled to post this anyway, juuuuust in case to serve as a reminder.
Below is a an instant message exchange I had this morning with a friend of mine. It’s relatively wordy but only if you have severe ADD like me. Either way, totally worth the read, IMO. But first a very brief background of note.
OF NOTE: This is the first message thread I’ve started since I was blacklisted from posting on the forums way back in October of ‘01. A time that was well before the “safe space” that the AOTF forum provides for me (and all the twisted sons of bitches just like me) was in existence. A “safe-space” that I’m very appreciative of, by the way. Now, I’ve replied to a 160-170 messages or so since I discovered that my posting ban had ceased to be in effect shortly after the switchover to the completely revamped Peegs site last year.
But yeah, this is my first message thread started I’ve started in 15 years. That’s a long f*cking time. Hell, even Indiana has gone to the final 4 since the last time I started a thread. Like I said, it’s been a while.
Ok, now that that’s out the way…
The IM exchange, which l’ll get to in a moment, is with one I had with a buddy of mine earlier this morning. He’s been a friend dating all the way back to our days spent together in Bloomington. Like myself, he’s a proud 2002 graduate of Indiana University.
But unlike myself, my friend had recently reached, and now apparently succumbed to, the all too familiar point that so many IU fans (too many) have also recently reached and succumbed to.
The next time you start to feel tired, down, helpless, shitty, or whatever about the current state of the IU basketball program relative to its place amongst the elite, and you don’t feel like putting up a fight any longer, or expressing concern, just straight defeated about it or whatever….please keep the following verb and it’s definition in-mind.
DO NOT BE ACQUIESENT
Acquiesce: To rest without
opposition and
discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting to object.
Now, The IM exchange and its historical perspective for all to pontificate
FRIEND: Thomas Bryant !!! B-A-C-K
ME: The exclamation points indicate you believe this to be a good thing.
ME: To which I say, it's only good if you want to give Tom Crean a better chance of achieving some of his woefully limited ceiling of "success" next season…
ME: which in-turn, would prospectively prolong Crean’s tenure…
ME: which, in turn, would only further extend the duration of time that where the Indiana University basketball program remains as "just another basketball program"
ME: Just another program. One without any reasonable or rational national championship aspirations.
ME: So if you think that's a "good" thing then, yeah, sure, Thomas Bryant !!! Yaaaaaaaaay
FRIEND: Crean ain't going anywhere
FRIEND: so you might as well start to embrace the Crean regime, the regime of your alma-matter
ME: Dude, not cool! Now THAT I take serious exception to.
ME: Do you even realize just how dangerous of a position that is to take?
FRIEND: huh?
ME: You know who else said that?
FRIEND: Every chick you’ve ever convinced to come back to your place ever?
ME: Ha! Well-played. While that’s conceivably true, that’s not who I was talking about.
FRIEND: not sure then.
FRIEND: So then who the f*ck said it?
ME: The Non-Jewish citizens of Nazi Germany, that’s who.
ME: Those F*ckers said the same thing about Hitler in 1933
FRIEND: Hahahahaha hahhahaha
FRIEND: We are stacked next year. Period.
ME: (sigh) I knew it was bad, and that Crean and co. had gotten to you, but I didn’t know it was THIS bad
ME: It pains me to hear you say that
FRIEND: Still dying over that Nazi Germany comment
FRIEND: did you really just type out the word “sigh” as an instant message expression? And italicized no less? Douche
FRIEND: And it PAINS you for me to say that?
ME: Yes it pains me
ME: Although not quite as painful as that time, when, in the summer of ’95, I decided to masturbate using hand-soap as the lubricating agent
ME: It was the only thing (closest thing, really) available for me to use at the moment that I had the sudden urge to rub one out
FRIEND: Ha. That’s awesome! I need to try that sometime.
ME: Trust me, it’s anything but awesome
ME: All I had to do was wait until there was something more reasonable to stroke myself with when I felt that masturbatory urge.
ME: And when I say something more reasonable I mean something...ANYTHING that doesn’t cause your dick to burn/sting excruciatingly all the way from your dick-hole down to wherever the f*ck it is that your urethra ends (and for days on end, no less) at my disposal to take care of the ol’ high-hard-one with. Like sandpaper, or a chainsaw. Either of those would’ve been better. Way better.
ME: Point is, all of that is only slightly more painful than to seeing you give-in and lay down like a Frenchman about the IU program
FRIEND: Whatever. You hate IU
ME: Noooo, but you acquiesce Tom Crean, that’s for sure
ME: The only thing I hate is the fact that as long as Crean remains at IU we’ll never again so much as even SNIFF the rich and abundant level of success that is so very attainable for our sleeping giant of a basketball program to achieve under the direction of a better (aka different) coach
FRIEND: Not sure what the f*ck acquiesce means
ME: Cool. Look it up. Cause that’s you with regards to the Crean “regime” as you put it. Only I think you’ve taken it even an entire step further now
ME: While you’re looking that up also know that in addition to being acquiescent towards Crean you…
ME: Dream about sucking his balls. Maybe even a little taint lick here and there too.
ME: And eeeevery once in a while you picture yourself milking his prostate, don’tcha? But only when he gets to a sweet 16 or something real special like that
ME: God knows what you’ll have in-mind if he were to ever lose by single digies in the sweet 16.
ME: Dare I say….Rusty Trombone?
ME: And what’s an elite 8 appearance worth to ya? Perhaps you and Crean go find some dead chick to dig up and do the mung to?
ME: Here’s a link to the description of the mung in case you didn’t know http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mung
ME: Go ahead and look that up to once you learn what acquiesce means
ME: Anyhow, I feel like I’m gonna give myself carpal tunnel syndrome if I keep stroking the keyboard this furiously.
ME: Speaking of Carpal Tunnel and furious and stroking…
ME: That reminds me of this one time from the summer of ’95 when I...
John R signed off at 10:49 am cst
ME: That’s what I thought. Pussy.