Big Dog's Tweet

[maroon79]

When I was a junior at UK ih engineering there was a guy that had made it that far without being able to spell kat-----oh, I mean cat. If you had asked him to spell coffee, he wouldn't have gotten one letter right, he would have spelled it kawphy.

I doubt it because It should have been mentioned by now, but I have to wonder if his autocorrect was responsible for the error, it does it to me all the time. I doubt if anyone misinterpreted what he meant.

Please tell me what roads you designed so I can avoid them! Haha. Thanks man! Good to see you still around

 

[jauk11]

I had a malapropism yesterday. You'd think something crawled up inside me and died.

Isn't that what malapropism means? LOL

 

[jauk11]

Please tell me what roads you designed so I can avoid them! Haha. Thanks man! Good to see you still around

Good to still be around, thanks.

I didn't design any roads, I was in electrical engineering, so you should be safe, But I did do something unusual, I worked in Huntsville on the Saturn V that went to the moon AND worked at Jackass Flats Nv, at NTS on the successful Nuclear rocket tests, but I was a very small cog in a huge crowd of workers at both places.

I did think it was a bit unusual at NRDS when we had our last successful test run the prime contractor (Westinghouse) had a champagne party.

And they used urine sample cups for the champagne. I always thought that was an unusual touch.

 

[Catluv]

Good to still be around, thanks.

I didn't design any roads, I was in electrical engineering, so you should be safe, But I did do something unusual, I worked in Huntsville on the Saturn V that went to the moon AND worked at Jackass Flats Nv, at NTS on the successful Nuclear rocket tests, but I was a very small cog in a huge crowd of workers at both places.

I did think it was a bit unusual at NRDS when we had our last successful test run the prime contractor (Westinghouse) had a champagne party.

And they used urine sample cups for the champagne. I always thought that was an unusual touch.

You sure it was champagne!! Lol

 

[Freetaxreturn]

Good to still be around, thanks.

I didn't design any roads, I was in electrical engineering, so you should be safe, But I did do something unusual, I worked in Huntsville on the Saturn V that went to the moon AND worked at Jackass Flats Nv, at NTS on the successful Nuclear rocket tests, but I was a very small cog in a huge crowd of workers at both places.

I did think it was a bit unusual at NRDS when we had our last successful test run the prime contractor (Westinghouse) had a champagne party.

And they used urine sample cups for the champagne. I always thought that was an unusual touch.

11 good to see you back around 🍺

 

[UKfirst]

Hope he kills it at tOSU but burnt bridges go both ways.

Happy 1 year anniversary to me

 

[jauk11]

You sure it was champagne!! Lol

What the hell, we were celebrating, who would have noticed?.

Then they did nothing with it, because everyone is scared of the word nuclear. But a bigger miss was plowshare, the peaceful use of nuclear explosions. Had a buddy from flag football that had a doctor's' degree that quit EG&G to work on the two projects they had lined up, one to blast their way through a low mountain to create a river from the Mediterranean Sea to a valley in Egypt that was below sea level like Death Valley, and to use it for the biggest hydroelectric plant in the world. The valley was so big the water would have evaporated before it accumulated in the valley.

The second was to blast out a harbor in Australia, but both never got off the ground. The word nuclear killed both of them too, although the only radiation would have been a small amount from the nuclear explosion used to trigger the hydrogen fusion bomb. All this about 1950.

Been watching replays of UK games on the SEC network currently showing a replay of the UK/Louisville football game, UK ahead 7-0 end of the first quarter

 

[LosGatos]

Good to still be around, thanks.

, But I did do something unusual, I worked in Huntsville on the Saturn V that went to the moon

I also worked on the Saturn V project in Huntsville. Work for the prime contractor (Boeing) in 1966/67. As you say, a small cog in huge crowd.

 

[coachcombs57]

I'm guessing this was a drunk tweet? Our coaches usually take the high road and don't call out recruits, especially considering we've had a couple that didn't sign with us but later transferred to UK.

I remember Darin Hinshaw doing this several years ago and it did not sit well with the rest of the staff.

Vince does this at least once a year...bit us in the butt last season with the CBs from Winton woods

 

[jauk11]

I also worked on the Saturn V project in Huntsville. Work for the prime contractor (Boeing) in 1966/67. As you say, a small cog in huge crowd.

LOL. I also worked for Boeing for 9 months, from September1958 to June of 1959 , Big "recession", NO jobs near home. Spent three days, three nights, and three hours with rest stops on a Greyhound bus to get to Seattle. One of my brothers told me Boeing was hiring.

Then I hitchhiked down the coast and across the south home to Kentucky to join the Army for two years. It took me 56 different rides to get home. Went home because a family friend was an Army recruiting sergeant and he let me volunteer for two years instead of three, never met anther two year RA while I was in the Army. Wanted to see the world and thought I would go to Europe., instead spent two years in the Army at Ft Bliss to repair the new Hawk CW radar system, but they had a steel strike and no equipment so I spent almost two years pulling guard and KP, minus a six month school, Everyone else volunteered for 4 years and were supposed to make Warrant Officer after the school, we were all still PFCs until just before my two years were up.

I had a big laugh when they asked me to re-up.

 

[3632]

If you are not personally invested in your occupation, its not really a calling is it?

I wasn't referring to invested in the occupation, I am disputing that notion that the personal nature of recruiting a particular kid and being spurned/hurt was what sets these things off. A personal investment in his job is different. And hence my reference to competitiveness.

 

[CRZ4UK]

LOL. I also worked for Boeing for 9 months, from September1968 to June of 1969 , Big "recession", NO jobs near home. Spent three days, three nights, and three hours with rest stops on a Greyhound bus to get to Seattle. One of my brothers told me Boeing was hiring.

Then I hitchhiked down the coast and across the south home to Kentucky to join the Army for two years. It took me 56 different rides to get home. Went home because a family friend was an Army recruiting sergeant and he let me volunteer for two years instead of three, never met anther two year RA while I was in the Army. Wanted to see the world and thought I would go to Europe., instead spent two years in the Army at Ft Bliss to repair the new Hawk CW radar system, but they had a steel strike and no equipment so I spent almost two years pulling guard and KP, minus a six month school, Everyone else volunteered for 4 years and were supposed to make Warrant Officer after the school, we were all still PFCs until just before my two years were up.

I had a big laugh when they asked me to re-up.

Ft Bliss. Ugh. My lips cracked wide open when I was there for 3 months. The dry air and constant wind. What a hell hole.

 

[JHB4UK]

In this day & age Vince doesn't need to piss off kids or their parents who tell him no. In a year or 2 Witten might decide playing at Kentucky is now the right decision.

 

[UKnCincy]

In this day & age Vince doesn't need to piss off kids or their parents who tell him no. In a year or 2 Witten might decide playing at Kentucky is now the right decision.

That was my first reaction too.

It rarely makes sense to burn bridges in life, and especially so if you’re in a world where the transfer portal exists.

If Marrow really wanted the kid and truly believed he’d be an asset to Kentucky, then why slam the door on that relationship when there’s a decent chance he’ll end up transferring to a new school at some point.

 

[Rembrandt90]

In this day & age Vince doesn't need to piss off kids or their parents who tell him no. In a year or 2 Witten might decide playing at Kentucky is now the right decision.

In the past, the Big Dog has been very good about keeping the door open. That's how we got Wandale Robinson, Xavier Peters, Luke Fulton, Darrion Henry-Young, Jantzen Dunn, Ben Christman, Tanner Bowles, JQ Hardaway, and Keyshaun Silver as transfers. Big Dog is an honorable man who is well liked by prospects whether they sign with UK or not. On the unusual occasions when he has tweeted in this style, those have appeared to be cases when he believed someone else was dishonorable, such as lying to his face. So those bridges were already burned. FWIW.

 

[Littlefeller]

Do we even know for sure Witten is who(if anyone) VM was referencing to with that tweet?

 

[maroon79]

VM knows what he is doing. Trust me