The Random Rankings Thread

[EnochRoot]

Just found this on YT earlier. The guy who wrote Superman (for the band 'The Clique'), Gary Zekley played with R.E.M. in DeKalb, IL back in 1986.



Apparently he passed away at 53 in 1996 due to a heart attack.

[Ryan]

I know I haven't seen them all but...

Track and Field Uniforms
1. Grenada
2. Bahamas
3. Columbia
4. Jamaica
5. Netherlands

...

1,302. Whatever the ugliest one is that will NOT give people seizures
1,303. Canada

[Shirley]

I know I haven't seen them all but...

Track and Field Uniforms
1. Grenada
2. Bahamas
3. Columbia
4. Jamaica
5. Netherlands

...

1,302. Whatever the ugliest one is that will NOT give people seizures
1,303. Canada

Ours are pretty damn similar to Canada's.

[brian]

I know I haven't seen them all but...

Track and Field Uniforms
1. Grenada
2. Bahamas
3. Columbia
4. Jamaica
5. Netherlands

...

1,302. Whatever the ugliest one is that will NOT give people seizures
1,303. Canada

I choose to think you did this on purpose to piss Juan off.

[EdRomero]

The twitter thread may turn out to be better than the article.

[Ryan]

Ways I Satisfy Salt n’ Pepa f./ En Vogue’s Requirements for Being Whatta Man, ranked:

Not ranked - Everything else
2 - Spends quality time with his kids
1 - Knows that her name is not Susan

[rass]

Mascots/nicknames of the Union County (NJ) high schools that are competting in the 2022 County Conference Spring Track and Field Championships, ranked from most to least problematic:

1. Indians - the logo includes a feather but no human representation, so there are many schools, including in NJ, that are much worse as far as that goes, but still no good
2. Crusaders - at least this is a public school and not a Catholic school?
3. Blue Devils - before you accuse me of being unfair this town is definitely the Duke of Union County
4. Vikings
6. Raiders - I was going to have these two tie, but the Vikings are a Catholic school and Vikings weren't Christian much less Catholic so there's the tie-breaker
7. Royals - down with the monarchy
8. Pioneers - if I was being too woke they would have appeared earlier on the list
9. Comets - knocking them down farther than they would otherwise be because they're one of those schools who adds a "Lady" in front of the mascot/nickname for the female competitors. Weak.
10. Minutemen - warlike, but the county seal has a Red Coat shooting a woman in the back on it and we were a hotbed of Revolutionary War battles so we'll put them in the middle
11. Dragons - not real, and reminded me of the final couple of episodes of GoT
12. Highlanders - It's Scottish, so it's not crap
13. Cardinals - they flat out stole the logo from Arizona (NFL) (who stole it from St Louis?)
14. Panthers - they flat out stole the logo from Carolina (NFL) but at least they changed the accent color to red from blue
15. Lions
16. Tigers
17. Bears - oh my!
18. Cougars - about as common as you would expect at track meets made up of HS from a lot of very rich towns
19. Rams (ETA: there are two Rams, I missed a school when I originally wrote this up because I lost track of Roselle, Roselle Park and Roselle Catholic)
20. Hilltoppers (a goat) - Another set of similar options but (A) Hilltoppers sounds cooler and (B) is from a public school while Rams is from a $30K+ a year private school and (C) is boys only so the Rams thing seems like they're rubbing your nose in it a bit
21. Bulldogs- who hates bulldogs?
22. Farmers - they feed the world!

[A_B]

Look. Your list is good. But pioneers should be way down. 17 at worst. Guck your joke.

[DaveInSeattle]

20. Hilltoppers (a goat) - Another set of similar options but (A) Hilltoppers sounds cooler and (B) is from a public school while Rams is from a $30K+ a year private school and (C) is boys only so the Rams thing seems like they're rubbing your nose in it a bit

That was my HS mascot...usually shortened to "Toppers". And yes, it was super lame.

[Ryan]

I enjoy the podcast ad reads for Lady Comets

[sancarlos]

A public school called the Crusaders? That is weird.

I went to a Catholic elementary school called the Vikings. It didn’t seem odd at the time, but now that you mention it…

I agree that it is really stupid to put “Lady” in front of non-gendered nicknames (Lady Comets???)

Dragons makes me think of the KKK.

[govmentchedda]

My wife played tennis in HS. She was a Lady Bull.

[L-Jam3]

My school was the Minutemen/Minutemaids. The primary logo for us was TWP, but specifically for football we “borrowed” Pat Patriot.

I think that girl’s team should be the “Comettes”.

[A_B]

My wife played tennis in HS. She was a Lady Bull.

I don’t think self esteem issues would allow them to be the cows.

[duff]

My wife played tennis in HS. She was a Lady Bull.

I don’t think self esteem issues would allow them to be the cows.

Better to use Heifers since cows mean they have had a few calves.

[The Sybian]

Cougars is quite fitting for Chatham, since they can’t go with Milfs.

Fun fact, Chatham Boro and Township combined school districts while my wife was in HS. The mascots were the Eskimos and Gladiators. The student petition to name the teams Escalators was denied in favor of Cougars.

[The Sybian]

My wife played tennis in HS. She was a Lady Bull.

I don’t think self esteem issues would allow them to be the cows.

Better to use Heifers since cows mean they have had a few calves.

Wow, I never knew that!

[duff]

My wife played tennis in HS. She was a Lady Bull.

I don’t think self esteem issues would allow them to be the cows.

Better to use Heifers since cows mean they have had a few calves.

Wow, I never knew that!

Things you learn growing up in rural Indiana.

[rass]

Cougars is quite fitting for Chatham, since they can’t go with Milfs.

Fun fact, Chatham Boro and Township combined school districts while my wife was in HS. The mascots were the Eskimos and Gladiators. The student petition to name the teams Escalators was denied in favor of Cougars.

That was Cranford!

[mister d]

9 years here and I still can’t see Cranford without slightly adjusting the 8 Mile “that’s a private school” lyric in my head.

[rass]

I ghost edited up there because I realized I left out a school while I was doing the sporcle.

[The Sybian]

Cougars is quite fitting for Chatham, since they can’t go with Milfs.

Fun fact, Chatham Boro and Township combined school districts while my wife was in HS. The mascots were the Eskimos and Gladiators. The student petition to name the teams Escalators was denied in favor of Cougars.

That was Cranford!

Oh, shit. County championship… duh. Didn’t know Cranford was Cougars, too. Were you at GL today? My boy is the official result poster for the meet.

[rass]

Cougars is quite fitting for Chatham, since they can’t go with Milfs.

Fun fact, Chatham Boro and Township combined school districts while my wife was in HS. The mascots were the Eskimos and Gladiators. The student petition to name the teams Escalators was denied in favor of Cougars.

That was Cranford!

Oh, shit. County championship… duh. Didn’t know Cranford was Cougars, too. Were you at GL today? My boy is the official result poster for the meet.

I told you I was going!

Tomorrow too.

[rass]

9 years here and I still can’t see Cranford without slightly adjusting the 8 Mile “that’s a private school” lyric in my head.

I feel like they like to pretend they’re not that kind of town, but…

[A_B]

My wife played tennis in HS. She was a Lady Bull.

I don’t think self esteem issues would allow them to be the cows.

Better to use Heifers since cows mean they have had a few calves.

Wow, I never knew that!

Nor did I. The more you gi joe.

[The Sybian]

Cougars is quite fitting for Chatham, since they can’t go with Milfs.

Fun fact, Chatham Boro and Township combined school districts while my wife was in HS. The mascots were the Eskimos and Gladiators. The student petition to name the teams Escalators was denied in favor of Cougars.

That was Cranford!

Oh, shit. County championship… duh. Didn’t know Cranford was Cougars, too. Were you at GL today? My boy is the official result poster for the meet.

I told you I was going!

Tomorrow too.

When you told me, I didn’t realize my town was hosting. I thought it was in Westfield.

[sancarlos]

My wife played tennis in HS. She was a Lady Bull.

I don’t think self esteem issues would allow them to be the cows.

Better to use Heifers since cows mean they have had a few calves.

Wow, I never knew that!

Nor did I. The more you gi joe.

AB, you disappoint me. I’d expect a New Jersey city boy to not know that. But, you live in Kentucky!

[A_B]

Horses. No beeves

[Ryan]

UPDATE

National Parks I've Been To So Far, weighted 75% by "would I go back?" and 25% "man that was impressive" and also heavily influenced by weather

American League
1. Zion
2. Mount Rainier
3. Olympic
4. Kings Canyon
5. Sequoia
6. North Cascades

National League
7. Acadia
8. Shenandoah
9. Smokies

I think we're hitting 8 more out west next summer.

Dominican Winter League
10. Everglades
11. Biscayne
12. Dry Tortugas

Everglades was cool but it was the slow season for wildlife. Would go back in the winter/spring. But won't. A+ for the Tokyo Drift Airboat Tour though.
Biscayne is 99% water. We kayaked. Get the stamp and move on.
It takes major effort and time to get to Dry Tortugas. And you get there and it's a fort and a beach and a moat. Rained the whole time. Huge thunderstorms on the ferry. Kids were bored.

Desparately need to get back out west next year.

[Nonlinear FC]

Yeah, I've been to Key West 4 times. Twice on spring break, and then twice with my wife and her family. We looked at the Dry Tortugas but it just didn't quite make the cut. Mainly for the reasons you state about getting there, and then being whelmed by what there was to do.

[Ryan]

College Basketball Teams, Ranked by How Good of a First Name for a Dog They Make

1. Furman
2. Duke
3. Stetson
4. Samford
5. Marshall
6. Siena
7. Liberty
8. Lehigh
9. Xavier
T10. Dayton
T10. Creighton
12. Rider
13. Cornell
14. Stetson
15. Austin Peay
16. Lamar
17. Navy
18. Army
19. Elon
20. Drexel
21. LaSalle
22. Rice
23. Baylor
24. Butler
25. George Mason
26. George Washington
27. Winthrop
28. Yale
29. Bethune-Cookman
30. Bucknell
...
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117. Troy
...
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198. Hofstra
...
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250-260. Most of the Cal States
...
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349. Incarnate Word
350. Brown
351. Lipscomb

WOOF WOOF!

[The Sybian]

I think Elon has taken a tumble in recent months.

[Pruitt IV]

No love for Baruch College?

[The Sybian]

No love for Baruch College?

My father's alma mater!

[mister d]

Spindrift Flavors (non-lemonade, non-iced tea) Ranked:
1. Blood Orange Tangerine
2. Grapefruit
3. Blackberry
4. Mango Orange
5. Cucumber
6. Pineapple
7. Lemon Limeade
8. Lemon
9. Nojito
10. Lime

Have not tried due to opportunity: Cranberry Raspberry, Peach Strawberry

Have not tried despite opportunity: Raspberry Lime, Strawberry

[rass]

Would the ranking change at all if using as a mixer with gin (or I guess vodka)?

I haven't tried all of those, but drinking plain I like Pineapple a lot.

[HaulCitgo]

Mixers need a touch more flavor. Go San Pellegrino sodas instead of spindrift. Lille for gin but that's just me

[mister d]

Would the ranking change at all if using as a mixer with gin (or I guess vodka)?

I haven't tried all of those, but drinking plain I like Pineapple a lot.

Adding gin might invert the list. Not perfectly so, but definite correlation.

[EnochRoot]

If you're looking for more pop to a mixed drink, try adding some umami powder (important: less is more).

[govmentchedda]

Steven Hyden ranks best first albums