http://www.antibox.net Antibox.net is Your Source For All Things en-us Haha yes. The sports stats brain and fantasy football are traits held by some of the brilliant and thoroughly Minnesotan relatives of mine.; julie Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:21:22 -0700 http://www.antibox.net/topics/8/threads/1051/posts http://www.antibox.net/topics/8/threads/1051/posts Rly?<br /><br /> maybe I just knew the wrong people in minneapolis sam Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:48:54 -0700 http://www.antibox.net/topics/8/threads/1051/posts http://www.antibox.net/topics/8/threads/1051/posts Sam, you goofball, this is not a southern thing. julie Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:35:25 -0700 http://www.antibox.net/topics/8/threads/1051/posts http://www.antibox.net/topics/8/threads/1051/posts I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m a level 4 magic user. No correlation, my ass. cameron Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:43:18 -0700 http://www.antibox.net/topics/8/threads/1051/posts http://www.antibox.net/topics/8/threads/1051/posts In Richmond I am surrounded by the Wrong Kind of White Person. Given lemons, I am attempting to clone them, and grow Super-lemons. In this instance this means carrying out an ethnographic study of southern white people.<br /><br /> Installment I: Sports<br /><br /> I finally get it. I think. About sports. Southern white people treat sports like you or I treat indie music, musical theater, and gaming. That is, they build up a sophisticated array of knowledge specific to a functionally useless subject in order to signal their social prowess and create a commonly-accessible conversational framework.<br /><br /> For instance, instead of a DnD session or a concert, Southern white people will watch a game of football. While you or I might utilize a Broadway show lyric in a <em>bon mot</em>, a Southerner will shout &#8220;Dynamite goes <span class="caps">BOOM</span>!&#8221; Instead of running MC, they will join with their peers in a &#8220;Fantasy Football League.&#8221; I am currently enrolled in just such a social group for research purposes. However my fake team&#8217;s name (Eggplant Wizard) betrays my outsider status and I fully expect to lose, as I can name two <span class="caps">NFL</span> players. Maybe. Does Randy Moss still play?<br /><br /> I should also note that this interest in other people playing sports in no way correlates with personal fitness. See relative rates of obesity: <a target='_blank' href='http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/20530522 '>http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/20530522 </a><br /><br /> In the interest of fairness, I should also note that interest in DnD rarely correlates with magic ability.<br /><br /> <em>Post updated by <a target='_blank' href="http://antibox.net/users/sam">sam</a> on 2008/08/15 15:19</em> sam Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:17:41 -0700 http://www.antibox.net/topics/8/threads/1051/posts http://www.antibox.net/topics/8/threads/1051/posts