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College Conference Realignment

6/14/2010

The Pac 10 continues to expand. It incorporates teams out west that always complain they are on the outside looking in at the BCS. Utah is already invited; BYU and Boise State should also be invited. That would make a Pac 14.

The Mountain West and the WAC can merge back together like they used to be.

The big 12 continues the deconstruction of the Mountain West inviting TCU. They also should invite a Conference USA team like Houston or Memphis to get back to 12 teams.

The SEC and ACC hog the nation’s attention anyway. The big ten has made its move with Nebraska. Everyone is in pretty good shape right now.

The BCS can still function as the 6 conferences are intact and improved.

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"Tipping" or "The Invention of Gratuity to Placate Royal Paranoia"

6/1/2010

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             I have a theory about tipping. I have no evidence to support this what so ever!

         Back in the old days when you had Kings and rulers and other royalty who had servants, a visiting dignitary would come and want to receive "special treatment" from the servants of the king he is visiting. Tipping or "gratuity" came out as a way of buying the servants services and silence, in a way in which the host king would not object.

          For example, lets say Prince Charming is visiting King Trident, and Charming takes a fancy to one of Trident's chamber maids. He attempts to seduce her and she resists his advances. So Charming offers to her a bribe. The chamber maid refuses and threatens to tell Trident. So the next time they are all assembled at court, before the chamber maid can tell King Trident what happened, Prince Charming gets up and makes this grand speech in praise of the chamber maid and the excellent service she has rendered to him as a servant, and he would like to reward her with a token of his appreciation and pays her the money he attempted to bribe her with earlier. Now if she says anything to Trident she looks ungrateful, and as the only proof she had was the bribery money she is now holding, it would probably lead her to the guillotine. Since she took the money, Charming will later play the "your already in too deep, you might as well go through with it" card, and have his way with her.

          Early tipping wasn't always buying sexual favors. More often than not it was buying loyalty. Since the servants are all in the service of King Trident, if Trident wanted to have Prince Charming murdered, he would just command his servants to do so. So tipping for good service with the promise "there's more where that came from, provided I'm still alive" was a preemptive move by Charming to get the servants on his side. Eventually this practice became so common place that all pretense was dropped and it became standard procedure to give servants a little something-something as a general incentive, seeing as you can't kill another kings servants. That's almost as bad as stealing their silverware or losing their horse.

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"Tipping" or "The Invention of Gratuity to Placate Royal Paranoia"

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