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SLOBBER_KNOCKER_U

SLOBBER_KNOCKER_U

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Did anyone else LULZ at the the piece they were showing today on ESPNU's "ESPN The Magazine" where they had ESPN writer, Wright Thompson narrating "Toombers Corner", the story of the poisoning of the trees. You would have thought that an actual person was dying by the way he was talking and the video of the Auburn fans crying and putting a shrine of flowers around the trees. I thought it was rediculous how they were acting as if it was another terrorist attack like 9/11 and Toombers corner was ground zero. Get a Life bammers and Barners! Please!
 
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rockytop9808 said:
It's part of their tradition. All schools have them.
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Yeah but don't you think it's over the top. Especially the way the host of the ESPNU show was acting and talking in a somber voice. I'm surprised they didn't show a picture of the trees and put the date of birth and death beneath it and have a moment of silence before they went to commercial. ESPN is just over the top with stuff
 
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I think this should be somewhere between a dead pet and wrecking your first car, not the size of memorials for columbine or pirate attacks.
 
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SLOBBER_KNOCKER_U said:
Yeah but don't you think it's over the top. Especially the way the host of the ESPNU show was acting and talking in a somber voice. I'm surprised they didn't show a picture of the trees and put the date of birth and death beneath it and have a moment of silence before they went to commercial. ESPN is just over the top with stuff
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It's an incredibly long tradition with 150 year old trees that some redneck from backwoods Alabama shat on. People have celebrated and built up memories at that place for a very long time. So no, I don't think it's over the top.

It's also the off-season. What else are they going to show between brief practice reports?
 
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rockytop9808 said:
It's an incredibly long tradition with 150 year old trees that some redneck from backwoods Alabama shat on. People have celebrated and built up memories at that place for a very long time. So no, I don't think it's over the top.

It's also the off-season. What else are they going to show between brief practice reports?
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You need to educate yourself a bit. The trees are 80-90 years old tops, and the tp rolling "tradition" didn't start until the 80s.
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rockytop9808 said:
It's an incredibly long tradition with 150 year old trees that some redneck from backwoods Alabama shat on. People have celebrated and built up memories at that place for a very long time. So no, I don't think it's over the top.

It's also the off-season. What else are they going to show between brief practice reports?
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Ever wonder how many "old" trees have died in order to continue their "tradition" of rolling the trees with their poor relatives? Give me a break dude, go to Lowes and get another tree and put it in the ground. Shhesh.
 
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rockytop9808 said:
It's an incredibly long tradition with 150 year old trees that some redneck from backwoods Alabama shat on. People have celebrated and built up memories at that place for a very long time. So no, I don't think it's over the top.

It's also the off-season. What else are they going to show between brief practice reports?
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So it was so important that ESPN had to have a remembrence on national TV and a documentary? Taking it too serious IMO. What the guy did was stupid, but it's not like he blew up their stadium
 
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SLOBBER_KNOCKER_U said:
So it was so important that ESPN had to have a remembrence on national TV and a documentary? Taking it too serious IMO. What the guy did was stupid, but it's not like he blew up their stadium
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I'm just saying it's an important part of Auburn tradition. If ESPNU wants to cover it when nothing else is going on, then what's the big deal? They cover all sorts of stuff that's way more boring and pointless.
 
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tim said:
Ever wonder how many "old" trees have died in order to continue their "tradition" of rolling the trees with their poor relatives? Give me a break dude, go to Lowes and get another tree and put it in the ground. Shhesh.
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I'll let you know next time I can buy a 150 year old oak at Lowe's.

And, dude, what are you talking about with the bolded mumbo-jumbo up there?
 
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rockytop9808 said:
I'll let you know next time I can buy a 150 year old oak at Lowe's.

And, dude, what are you talking about with the bolded mumbo-jumbo up there?
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The bold mumbo jumbo is pretty much an example of how silly your argument about their sacred tradition with their ancient trees. If they cared about the friggin trees so much why do they waste tons of paper (a wood product in case you are unaware) each year.
 
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tim said:
The bold mumbo jumbo is pretty much an example of how silly your argument about their sacred tradition with their ancient trees. If they cared about the friggin trees so much why do they waste tons of paper (a wood product in case you are unaware) each year.
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sentimental value (usually uncountable; plural sentimental values):
1. The personal value of an object, derived from the
personal memories associated with it.

You're just a bitter buffoon. Paper made from trees and traditional oaks on campus are apples and oranges.
 
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rockytop9808 said:
sentimental value (usually uncountable; plural sentimental values):
1. The personal value of an object, derived from the
personal memories associated with it.

You're just a bitter buffoon. Paper made from trees and traditional oaks on campus are apples and oranges.
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Im not bitter Im just not stupid enough to get upset over a tree. IMO the mere fact that there is/was so much attention made of this gave the perptrator of the act exactly what he desired, minus the fact that he was caught.
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How would vol fans feel if some nutty bama or uf fan took some tnt to the rock on campus?
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