(01-24-2022 12:15 AM)GreenFreakUAB Wrote:  ...as to the 'multiple Owls' thing, I think I have it:

Rice - Swamp Owls (sorta/kinda)
FAU - Sand Owls or... Sea Owls (maybe cooler)
Temple - Snow Owls (although I think there is an actual species named 'Snow Owl', so might conflict with their 'true' Great Horned Owl)... SO, howza bout... Blizzard Owls?

I grew up down the street from rice and we always had these little “ screech” owls screeching at night sometimes right outside my window so I always Associated rice with the little Cantankerous creatures
Two other local owls are the large barn owl and the huge great horned owl
Also I’ve worked at and with rice and the girls are super sexy, heck at UofH too especially at the clear lake campus, heck all college girls are sexy…

(01-24-2022 12:09 AM)GreenFreakUAB Wrote:  

(01-22-2022 05:07 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  In the CFL Rough Rider spirit,
Rice volunteers to add a space to our Owls nickname.

Heretofore we shall be known as the Rice Ow Ls.

Ow, as in: have you seen our football team play lately?
Ls, as in: I bet we got more Ls than you!


We still beat highly touted UAB in both major revenue sports this year, so we’re not totally inept. Just slightly so.

...yeah, but we are gonna CURB STOMP y'all in baseball!!! ...um, actually just looked up Baseball 'power rankings', and... what's going on with y'all's baseball? (yeah we are way down there somewhere, too) but Rice DOMINATED for awhile there...

1. We had the greatest coach in the history of sport as our baseball coach
2. Our AD fired him and hired some guy who’d won one regional somewhere random. WTF?
3. We’ve just hired our next ringer coach. Played for our HOF coach Way back when Rice originally became elite.

Got it right this time and it won’t be long before that shows up in rankings and postseason results.

(01-24-2022 12:09 AM)GreenFreakUAB Wrote:  

(01-22-2022 05:07 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  In the CFL Rough Rider spirit,
Rice volunteers to add a space to our Owls nickname.

Heretofore we shall be known as the Rice Ow Ls.

Ow, as in: have you seen our football team play lately?
Ls, as in: I bet we got more Ls than you!


We still beat highly touted UAB in both major revenue sports this year, so we’re not totally inept. Just slightly so.

...yeah, but we are gonna CURB STOMP y'all in baseball!!! ...um, actually just looked up Baseball 'power rankings', and... what's going on with y'all's baseball? (yeah we are way down there somewhere, too) but Rice DOMINATED for awhile there...

(01-21-2022 09:42 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  Rice - It’s not just for sushi!

Rice, all the humidity of UH, but no Coogin’ it.

Rice - highest ratio of baseball attendance to undergraduate enrollment in College Baseball
( oops, too long for a thread title)

Rice, the womb of buckminsterfullerine

There, that last one could be a winner.

We’re new at this. You could call us young. But we’re here for you and we won’t let you down!

https://youtu.be/ydLcs4VrjZQ

The "humidity" at rice ain't even on the same league as UH when it comes to basketball and football. Be thankful Rice is even in AAC because the athletics have nothing to bring at this point in time to the AAC.

(01-22-2022 03:50 PM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(01-21-2022 09:42 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  Rice - It’s not just for sushi!

Rice, all the humidity of UH, but no Coogin’ it.

Rice - highest ratio of baseball attendance to undergraduate enrollment in College Baseball
( oops, too long for a thread title)

Rice, the womb of buckminsterfullerine

There, that last one could be a winner.

We’re new at this. You could call us young. But we’re here for you and we won’t let you down!

https://youtu.be/ydLcs4VrjZQ

Rice, the womb of buckminsterfullerine

Not getting the connection between Rice and Bucky Fuller. Explain. Did Rice scientists discover Buckminsterfullerene, the molecule?

Nevermind. Found it.

Rice Bowl

Got the Nobel for it there as well.

The amazing thing wass that after getting the Nobel, Rice wanted to make sure that Smalley stayed with Rice instead of jumping with his new-found fame and accolades.

Smalley made a demand of his staying at Rice that he be allowed to teach freshman chemistry from time to time. Which he did.

Kind of awesome that a Nobel laureate made a requisite for his staying that he be able to teach a freshman class, and kind of awesome that a whole slew of Owlets got to say that they were taught freshman chemistry by a then - Nobel laureate.

They have discovered a new insect species on campus and named it after the graduate student pub. Neuroterus valhalla.

https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/biologis...university

Any other AAC schools have an insect named after one of their pubs?
I thought not.

I don't know how the various owls should be identified, but one of them should be known as "The Hooters".

The thing you need to know about the Rice Owls is "The Mob".
You should heed this warning.

The Mob has provided great entertainment for a long time but the aggies
don't accept humor well.

https://youtu.be/_B6VOJbSKfg

(01-25-2022 11:07 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(01-22-2022 03:50 PM)Fishpro10987 Wrote:  

(01-21-2022 09:42 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  Rice - It’s not just for sushi!

Rice, all the humidity of UH, but no Coogin’ it.

Rice - highest ratio of baseball attendance to undergraduate enrollment in College Baseball
( oops, too long for a thread title)

Rice, the womb of buckminsterfullerine

There, that last one could be a winner.

We’re new at this. You could call us young. But we’re here for you and we won’t let you down!

https://youtu.be/ydLcs4VrjZQ

Rice, the womb of buckminsterfullerine

Not getting the connection between Rice and Bucky Fuller. Explain. Did Rice scientists discover Buckminsterfullerene, the molecule?

Nevermind. Found it.

Rice Bowl

Got the Nobel for it there as well.

The amazing thing wass that after getting the Nobel, Rice wanted to make sure that Smalley stayed with Rice instead of jumping with his new-found fame and accolades.

Smalley made a demand of his staying at Rice that he be allowed to teach freshman chemistry from time to time. Which he did.

Kind of awesome that a Nobel laureate made a requisite for his staying that he be able to teach a freshman class, and kind of awesome that a whole slew of Owlets got to say that they were taught freshman chemistry by a then - Nobel laureate.

That is impressive. I was a chem major at one time. Did not have a Nobel prize winner for a teacher, but had a brilliant organic chemistry prof who was the discoverer of the formation of nitrosamines when you prepared beef on a grill. This was in the 1960's. He lectured for an hour without notes, scribbling equations and such the right off the top of his head. One of the three most impressive profs I had at Temple. One of the kids in the class immersed himself in chemistry to such a degree that the Philadelphia police were interested in his work. They busted him for making LSD in his apartment.

(01-21-2022 06:44 PM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  Over on the CUSA there's nothing but Sun Belt fans screaming at the CUSA leftovers. Over here there is no need for any Rice discussion yet.

I'm lonely.

awww...loki...

(01-21-2022 06:44 PM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  Over on the CUSA there's nothing but Sun Belt fans screaming at the CUSA leftovers. Over here there is no need for any Rice discussion yet.

I'm lonely.

..or, maybe it's...

On a similar level, when I was at Rice the President of Rice was a person named Norman Hackerman,

Norm served as the 18th President of the University of Texas at Austin (1967–1970)and later as the 4th President of Rice University (1970–1985). He was an internationally known expert in metal corrosion, and was ultimately awarded the National Science Medal in 1993 for his work in chemistry.

One will note his being President of major universities and think it odd that a university adminstrator would be awarded such a prestigious award. Well, ol' Norm made it a condition at UT to still teach and conduct research.

And when he was approached by Rice, made that ongoing issue a staple of his tenure at Rice. Hackerman, all during his tenure at Rice, operated and maintained a constant office in the Chemistry Department, ran a research lab on campus, and every third or fourth year taught a section of either freshman chemistry or some inorganic metallic based chemistry at the sophomore to junior level. I also had heard he, from time to time, took on a graduate student as their advisor and sheperded their path through the Rice PhD program in chemistry.

On top of it, you always saw him biking to and from his lab to his on-campus house. And somehow he always seemed to be able to greet about a quarter of the undergraduate students on his path by name.

One time I was bailing out of the grad student lounge (located in the basement of the chemistry building, the same lounge mentioned above with respect to the newly found wasp) at 2pm on a Saturday after having some very cheap beer. (mind you I was a mere sophomore, no way a grad student, but Valhalla did not care about your student status). Norman was cycling down the inner loop and called me out, saying 'I see you are having a productive Saturday afternoon, Mr Tonic' (obviously I have changed the name there). I was floored that he would know who I was, since at that time I had not been brought before the proctor that I would become intimately familiar with for my last years at Rice.

But, still kind of cool that the President of the University would call out to me while on his Saturday afternoon bike sojourn.

(01-24-2022 06:51 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(01-24-2022 12:09 AM)GreenFreakUAB Wrote:  

(01-22-2022 05:07 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  In the CFL Rough Rider spirit,
Rice volunteers to add a space to our Owls nickname.

Heretofore we shall be known as the Rice Ow Ls.

Ow, as in: have you seen our football team play lately?
Ls, as in: I bet we got more Ls than you!


We still beat highly touted UAB in both major revenue sports this year, so we’re not totally inept. Just slightly so.

...yeah, but we are gonna CURB STOMP y'all in baseball!!! ...um, actually just looked up Baseball 'power rankings', and... what's going on with y'all's baseball? (yeah we are way down there somewhere, too) but Rice DOMINATED for awhile there...

1. We had the greatest coach in the history of sport as our baseball coach
2. Our AD fired him and hired some guy who’d won one regional somewhere random. WTF?
3. We’ve just hired our next ringer coach. Played for our HOF coach Way back when Rice originally became elite.

Got it right this time and it won’t be long before that shows up in rankings and postseason results.

...hopefully better days ahead for each of us... We hired Samford's (the cats who hung 50 (albeit a losing effort) against Florida in football this season) baseball coach recently (Casey Dunn), and he has a lot of promise... got Samford to the tourney three times in his tenure there... and is a local guy, so knows the area - we have some decent HS teams around here.

Fun fact about Rice: the MAJOR event in the school year is an event known as the Beer-Bike race. During non-Covid times it pulls almost all the Rice student community together for the day, and I would hazard to guess that during normal times more alums go to Rice for Beer Bike than go to Homecoming.

Description of Beer Bike ---- bike race between the 'dorms', one lap per rider, someone has to chug a 32-oz beer clean after the preceding rider has crossed the line, and the next rider cannot leave before the beer is chugged.

Think customized mouth fitting tops on the cans, carburetors, and the beer being boiled to a warm flat slosh so it can be chugged easier. Also think the 32 ozs being chugged clean in 3 secs or less as a general rule.

(01-24-2022 06:24 AM)JHS55 Wrote:  

(01-24-2022 12:15 AM)GreenFreakUAB Wrote:  ...as to the 'multiple Owls' thing, I think I have it:

Rice - Swamp Owls (sorta/kinda)
FAU - Sand Owls or... Sea Owls (maybe cooler)
Temple - Snow Owls (although I think there is an actual species named 'Snow Owl', so might conflict with their 'true' Great Horned Owl)... SO, howza bout... Blizzard Owls?

I grew up down the street from rice and we always had these little “ screech” owls screeching at night sometimes right outside my window so I always Associated rice with the little Cantankerous creatures
Two other local owls are the large barn owl and the huge great horned owl
Also I’ve worked at and with rice and the girls are super sexy, heck at UofH too especially at the clear lake campus, heck all college girls are sexy…

...I used to live in more of a 'urban suburb' of Birmingham, so, a bit of trees, but not much in the way of wildlife... ...I moved out to a 'satellite town' of Birmingham, and it IS a bit more 'woody', thus more wildlife. I remember hearing some weird sounds out on our deck one evening, and I looked out and there was a Great Horned staring back at me, which scared the bejeepers out of me for a sec, and then I thought, hey pretty cool! But yeah I think I've heard those 'screech' variety a time or two as well, which are also a bit unerving when there is an otherwise quiet evening going on...

...so, Rice is thus the 'Screech Owls', as they can be somewhat annoying... or in UAB's case, VERY annoying, at least thus far in the 2021-2022 athletic year...

(01-24-2022 01:11 PM)mikeinoki Wrote:  

(01-24-2022 12:09 AM)GreenFreakUAB Wrote:  

(01-22-2022 05:07 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  In the CFL Rough Rider spirit,
Rice volunteers to add a space to our Owls nickname.

Heretofore we shall be known as the Rice Ow Ls.

Ow, as in: have you seen our football team play lately?
Ls, as in: I bet we got more Ls than you!


We still beat highly touted UAB in both major revenue sports this year, so we’re not totally inept. Just slightly so.

...yeah, but we are gonna CURB STOMP y'all in baseball!!! ...um, actually just looked up Baseball 'power rankings', and... what's going on with y'all's baseball? (yeah we are way down there somewhere, too) but Rice DOMINATED for awhile there...

...uh-oh, I forgot about youse guys...
Well, probably not ready for y'all in baseball YET, but I'm READY to get the Pirates back on the football schedule, hopefully each season... there were some great games we had in that 1.0 era...

(01-25-2022 02:35 PM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  They have discovered a new insect species on campus and named it after the graduate student pub. Neuroterus valhalla.

https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/biologis...university

Any other AAC schools have an insect named after one of their pubs?
I thought not.

I am less impressed by the discovery of a new insect, than I am by you having a pub on campus.

(01-27-2022 10:30 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  

(01-25-2022 02:35 PM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  They have discovered a new insect species on campus and named it after the graduate student pub. Neuroterus valhalla.

https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/biologis...university

Any other AAC schools have an insect named after one of their pubs?
I thought not.

I am less impressed by the discovery of a new insect, than I am by you having a pub on campus.

Let’s be clear. There’s more than one pub on campus.

Valhalla is the graduate student pub. More of a Tavern, actually kind of a dive. But the selection is good and the prices are amazing.

Willy’s is the undergraduate pub. Also a cool scene but I haven’t been in quite a while. Also great pitcher specials and unique “Rice” touches.

If you live on campus, no designated driver needed. If you live off-campus, you know someone on campus with an extra sofa.

(01-28-2022 06:26 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(01-27-2022 10:30 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  

(01-25-2022 02:35 PM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  They have discovered a new insect species on campus and named it after the graduate student pub. Neuroterus valhalla.

https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/biologis...university

Any other AAC schools have an insect named after one of their pubs?
I thought not.

I am less impressed by the discovery of a new insect, than I am by you having a pub on campus.

Let’s be clear. There’s more than one pub on campus.

Valhalla is the graduate student pub. More of a Tavern, actually kind of a dive. But the selection is good and the prices are amazing.

Willy’s is the undergraduate pub. Also a cool scene but I haven’t been in quite a while. Also great pitcher specials and unique “Rice” touches.

If you live on campus, no designated driver needed. If you live off-campus, you know someone on campus with an extra sofa.

Sadly the U of NC System does not allow that in our public schools.

(01-28-2022 06:26 AM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(01-27-2022 10:30 PM)Nugget49er Wrote:  

(01-25-2022 02:35 PM)loki_the_bubba Wrote:  They have discovered a new insect species on campus and named it after the graduate student pub. Neuroterus valhalla.

https://news.rice.edu/news/2022/biologis...university

Any other AAC schools have an insect named after one of their pubs?
I thought not.

I am less impressed by the discovery of a new insect, than I am by you having a pub on campus.

Let’s be clear. There’s more than one pub on campus.

Valhalla is the graduate student pub. More of a Tavern, actually kind of a dive. But the selection is good and the prices are amazing.

Willy’s is the undergraduate pub. Also a cool scene but I haven’t been in quite a while. Also great pitcher specials and unique “Rice” touches.

If you live on campus, no designated driver needed. If you live off-campus, you know someone on campus with an extra sofa.

The scene at Willy's changed a lot when the drinking age went from 18 to 21. I think I've only been in there once in the last 35 years or more.

(01-21-2022 11:03 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(01-21-2022 09:48 PM)ncbeta Wrote:  Rice, where the girls are so ugly they make the UH girls palatable.

At least our men look stunning.

So kind of the opposite of ECU then?

Soooo... ...I could get a Rice boyfriend then?!