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Would it be wrong to stop dating a guy who is throwing a virtual hissy-fit because you won't have a "state-of-the-relationship" conversation with him on this night of all nights to prove, i guess, that you care about him?

Yaytee - Your situation reminds me of the time when my recently widowed father and the rest of family were gathered around the TV for the ACC tournament. Somewhere in the last two or three minutes of a close UNC game, the woman my dad was dating called him just to chat. (Believe me, the over-60 set gets quite assertive with the casseroles and the calls.)Daddy was pretty annoyed and they broke up soon after. Some differences in mindset are just too difficult to overcome.

- Pelosi's push for jet remains up in air -

The Bush administration has agreed to provide House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with regular access to an Air Force passenger jet, but the two sides are negotiating whether she will get the big aircraft she wants and who she may take as passengers, according to congressional and administration sources.

A congressional source said that Rep. John P. Murtha, chairman of House Appropriations subcommittee on defense, which controls the Pentagon's spending, has telephoned administration officials to urge them to give the speaker what she wants.

Mrs. Pelosi wants a larger aircraft that can fly to her home district of San Francisco nonstop.

a real environmentalist

Yaytee,
Cut him loose. It isn't worth it. Tonight is just too important and if he doesn't get that, then .. well, bye-bye.

Ian: great column in today's dth. After Saturday's debacle, I have lost some confidence in the team, but I expect a total team effort tonight. GO HEELS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love the new column Ian - can you post the full unedited text here? Would love to see the rest of the vitriol - can you do it today - before gametime?

yaytee - My birthday falls on March 8 (in fact I was born in Chapel Hill Memorial Hospital 4 minutes before the tipoff of the 1969 ACC Tourney final - UNC beat dook, mom still hasn't forgiven me for making her miss the game) - so right in the middle of the ACC tourney. One year my wife scheduled a birthday dinner for me at a place without a TV and I agreed that ONCE I would do this if she never did it again. She learned that Carolina basketball comes first and has never made the mistake again.

I think first you must explain to the person that doesn't understand that they can't understand, but must respect your love for the Heels - if they can accept that, then they could be a keeper.

YES! I was walking into my building this morning wondering if my daily DTH would include The Dook Column. Last year I wondered if it was still relevant mentioning players like Alaa Abdelnaby and Bobby Hurley. Glad to see that hate like that trancends the years.

Thanks for the update!

God bless them Tar Heel boys!

yaytee - I once broke up with a boyfriend because he wanted to have a talk about our relationship in the middle of Dean's retirement press conference.

Him: "Is this really more important than our relationship"

Me: "........."

You're A-ok.

some more fuel for tonight's fire - JJ airballs a layup...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwRa2j2s6ao

ian - awesome column. fk dook.

yaytee - any guy who wants to have that conversation, much less set a time to do so, should receive his walking papers by lunch.

Annie, I got your message on the Time Out incident that Dean and I witnessed so many years ago. I will take a stab at putting the story on paper. If it's not up to snuff, however, I won't send it out. That memory is too sacred to try risk losing something by putting it down on paper.

How is my hooping video request coming along? If you're not busy, it would be hoot to get a shot o you in a Carolina shirt hooping outside of where the nerds tent at Rat Bastard-ville. You know, I will be up in Chapel Hill for the next dook game. I think we'll need to meet up with Mr. Blindfold at Pepper's Pizza and see if you can teach my big ass how to hoop it up!

Ian, nice addendum to the original. As you and the other Tar Heels on this blog (who are on my listserv) saw all week, I was doing my part to stoke the fires of hate by sending enough fodder to get you amped for the game. (By the way, if any of you other Tar Heels who regularly read Ian's blog want to get the Carolina updates, just post a comment with your email address and I'll add you.)

Loved the little video of Lucy. My 9-days-shy-of-being-one-year-old son has the same book. Last night, however, I read to him from the book called, "I Want To Go To UNC, which follows the adventures of a little space alien who comes to Chapel Hill. It's a great book, if you can find it.

God Bless Them Tar Heels Boys, indeed!

Go Heels!

PS--Yaytee, it's a good idea to break up with ANY guy who throws a hissy fit. But if the idiot wants to have a detente on the night of this game, cut your losses. No one man is worth that!

I should also add that this guy is a die-hard yankees fan (I'm a yankees fan too), and you all just KNOW that if I pulled the same stunt during ANY yankees game, let alone a yankees/bosox game, I would SOOO be kicked to the curb, notwithstanding the fact that he has NEVER, NOT ONCE received a check from Mr. Steinbrenner. At least I have a degree from Carolina (thank God!!!) Thanks for the validation, guys!

GFWD:

I WANT MY, I WANT MY, I WANT MY UNC!!!

(I hope I'm not dating myself, and that most of you can get that nod to the 80's ... )

yaytee@hotmail.com

Ian,

Thanks for giving us the column. It was a great blast from the past.

DanielK, the Pelosi jet thing is bullshit. The speaker of the house has, since 9/11 always flown in military aircraft, since the speaker's in line after the VP for the Presidency. The point of contention is that the smaller jet Hastert took to Chicago can't reach Pelosi's district without refueling.

Why does the conservative media spend so much time fulminating about bullshit, made up controversies? Could it be that everything the Republican party does is a costly, bloody failure, so the only safe things to talk about are stupid crap like this story?

Every time Tyler dunks from now on...I'm going to say "Tyler's playing Xylophone"....hopefully he will go Xylophone on McRoberts about 10 times tonight.

yaytee - the fact that he is a Yankees fan should have been your first clue. This conversation "scheduled" for tonight is just the straw that breaks the camel's back.

I learned a long time ago to not schedule things during important basketball games, football games and baseball games. In fact, I don't think that I can ever schedule anything at anytime, but I accept that.

Even if the significant other can't understand it, they need to respect it. If they can't respect it, then they don't need to be the significant other.

Go Heels!!!

Hey, everyone in the DTH is now in love with your daughter!!! Thanks for writing the column, it was great!

yaytee-- do consider running for hills. i had a similar experience DURING the championship game in 1993. red flag.

today i'm running thorium on the mass spectrometer at WHOI. they make you wear paper overbooties. you have your choice of white or light blue. i chose one of each. go heels.

any other unc fans on cape cod this week?

I am loving the passion on these pages, although there unfortunately ain't nothing like that spirit at my small-time Ivy League alma mater up North. So, I say what the heck 'Go Heels!'

The video of Lucy is priceless and the picture luminous..

But I have a non-related question: Ian, before Christmas you posted a links of 'must sees' in Brooklyn, if memory serves...can you repost that link? Will be in NYC in a week's time and looking to check out haunts off the beaten track. anyone else care to weigh in?

Thanks!

rivertam,
You have GOT to be joking. That is truly unbelievable. I remember gathering w/some friends on that day after the announcement at He's Not Here to drown our sorrows along w/a few blue cups and talk about nothing but Dean Smith and Carolina Basketball.

yaytee: let us know how it goes

GO HEELS!!!!!!

yaytee: we don't know each other, and I'm not even a tar heel or a yankee fan (GO METS AND BRUINS!), but whoever that Gump is that you're dating needs to go.

from the sound of it, he seems a little needy and/or high-maintenance. problematic on several levels. for serious, RED FLAG. you'll need to GET RID.

or just tell him to stop whining and grow a pair and you'll "talk" manana.

ALERT: Chip (above) is working the monitors for ESPN during tonight's game! Look for him at the scorer's table, closer to the UNC bench, near that execrable "K" logo on the court. Unless he calls and tells me he's somewhere else.

c - I don't remember that Brooklyn post specifically. Can you tell me one place that was mentioned so it'd be easy to search for?

Great column today, Ian!! It's going on the fridge in my apartment, right next to the original. And what a great video of Lucy!

LET'S GO HEELS!!!

I will die a happy man if:
Tonight, around 11pm, I rise from my couch with my arms triumphantly raised above my head just as Dewey Burke's 3-pointer falls into the net and I bellow "BISCUITS!!!!"

For any of you that are true Heels fans this season, you'll know what I am talking about.

Can you get biscuits for away games? From you lips to Dean's ears, DFB&Ts

FOR THOSE OF YOU WAITING TO HEAR GFWD'S CELERY/TIMEOUT STORY, consider the following:

The ingredients of this story include:
1. a drunken GWFD
2. a drunken DFB's&T's
3. a long line of drunken, annoying frat boys trying to impress Billy with their witty repartee
4. a drunken junior who looks like he is 44 years old and he walks like he has a wooden peg leg.
5. a drunken or high crackho who just wants a buttered biscuit, a little lovin', and the line to move a little faster.
6. a 137-year-old scrawny black geezer looking for a buttered biscuit, a little lovin', and a chance to defend the honor of said crackho with an assortment of roundhouse punches against the face of said pegleg.

Now, having said all of the above, can we all agree that there is no way whatsoever that GFWD can ever possibly tell the tale in less than 27.87 pages and also in a way that captures the spirit? Isn't the cast of characters enough to make all of you realize that ya' simply had to be there?

GO HEELS

Y'all--

PUMPED to hear the Celery Incident--no matter how long it takes or in what form it arriveth--but in the meantime MEGA PUMPED for tonight's game!!! Blindfold and I will be watching down at the Cellar (under the West End Wine Bar) if anyone's out & about & wants to holla, high-five, CELEBRATE VICTORY.

In fact, since GFWD will be in town for the next shellacking, I propose we xtcianers get a big booth at Pepper's (whether it's moved yet or not--don't know if y'all knew it's moving aout 3 storefronts down because of shitty landlords/repairs etc--new place looks good) and hang out and talk trash before the game!!! Perhaps even hear The Story (DFB&T augmenting with Flav-like backup commentary). Would that not be a blast?

We'll do our best to get another video up before we go out to Portland/Seattle so Bax can teach some hooping workshops (for real) at the end of this month. Ian, we'll only be gone for one weekend, plenty of time left to spend with you and the fam. (ps. Next, we go to SF/LA!!! First week of April...oh yeah!)

Blessings on our boys tonight, and that goes double for all you Tar Heels out there, in every corner of the world!

p.p.s. WAY TO GO CHIPPER!!!! We'll look for you--

Greg: Add me to your list. I stumbled upon this site last spring and check in every now and then for the UNC-related posts.

It's a shame that child rearing has put a damper on your Cheyenne Grille attendance (very understandable). The good news/bad news is that your kid(s) will grow up fast and you can enjoy the games with them.

We've got to pull this one out tonight.

Yaytee, I feel your pain. My (now thankfully ex-) wife used to wait until key moments in key Carolina games to have heart-to-hearts about our shambles of a relationship. This is a truly passive/aggressive trait that I should have recognized as a harbinger of doom from the outset.

GO HEELS!!!

Chip, I'm viewing the game at Landgraff's house with Drew, Charley, and Ricky. We'll look for you!

Nice '07 Edition.

Although, were you really thinking you might stop hating Duke?

:-)

Go Heels!

Hey Ian! You should've given me or Greg Humphreys a call. One of us would've hooked you up with an illustration!

Ian,
Enjoyed the new column in the DTH. It was so great watching us tear out the hearts of all the Dook students with that win! I don't know what I enjoyed more, McRoberts crying into his towel while on the bench with foul trouble or Ty becoming a blur in the paint with his drives.

GO HEELS!

Pete - I can't believe I didn't think of that! How perfect would that have been!

Ian - loved the new column. And I'm so glad Lucy likes her book!! It was so much fun to see her reading it on video.

Emily, I don't know where we'd be without your Carolina book!