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10-23-2007, 01:02 PM
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We really do surround them if we STAND UP!
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"So much for judges, GM shafted us all!"
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Glacier Park area
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My son is starting to show symptoms of this affliction and we haven't moved there yet... He asked for a Vols cap the other day. Can this most expensive disease be transmitted by the mail????  |
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10-23-2007, 01:36 PM
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Location: Tennessee
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Originally Posted by jimj
My son is starting to show symptoms of this affliction and we haven't moved there yet... He asked for a Vols cap the other day. Can this most expensive disease be transmitted by the mail???? |
Don't worry until he tells you he wants to go to Vanderbilt law school . . . |
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10-23-2007, 01:55 PM
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ELOHINO DOHIYI GESESTI
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Location: Florida Space Coast
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If your looking for "Big Foot" Cookeville has the Big Foot Society.........  |
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10-23-2007, 02:49 PM
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Location: Chattanooga, TN
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Now I'm scared, I saw the symptoms, but did not know there was an actual affliction called "Big Orange Fever". Is there a cure? Otherwise, I fear my husbands wardrobe will start to become more and more orange!!! Already, a t-shirt and a hat have crept into the closet....We have haven't even been here quite two months yet! I will be looking very closely for orange the next time he gets a paper cut.  |
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10-23-2007, 02:55 PM
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Location: Tennessee
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Originally Posted by beachbyrd
Now I'm scared, I saw the symptoms, but did not know there was an actual affliction called "Big Orange Fever". Is there a cure? Otherwise, I fear my husbands wardrobe will start to become more and more orange!!! Already, a t-shirt and a hat have crept into the closet....We have haven't even been here quite two months yet! I will be looking very closely for orange the next time he gets a paper cut. |
I'm sorry to tell you, but it's incurable once someone gets it. Other symptoms include buying your spouse "Big Orange" stuff for Christmas, using "Big Orange" coffee mugs, having "Big Orange" bath towels, putting in a "Big Orange" floor mat for the car, and hanging a "Big Orange" flag off your front porch. If they buy one of those Neyland Stadium snow globes and sit and shake it for hours on end, well, it's all over. |
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10-23-2007, 03:05 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Naples, FL & Monterey, TN
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Originally Posted by Turkey Creek Tom
I hear that many people after moving to Tennessee get an illness called "Big Orange Fever" and some get it so bad their blood turns orange. This is state wide but especially true for people in East Tennessee around Knoxville.  |
Being a fourth generation S FL Native the Dolphins and the Hurricanes are in my blood. Can't help it. I was born that way. But.........we keep some Big Orange shirts in our home up there that the kids wear when we are in town. It's hard not to like the Vols when your in TN.
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10-23-2007, 03:15 PM
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Okay, here's a trivia question for all of you new "Big Orange" fans and semi-fans: How did UT come to have orange and white as their team colors? (There is an actually answer to this . . . not just that someone liked orange.)
Winner gets a UT coffee mug . . . as soon as I can steal one from someone. If I can't you might have to settle for a Bank of Nashville mug. Or a "World's Greatest Father" mug.
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10-23-2007, 03:19 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Naples, FL & Monterey, TN
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Here ya go!
The colors Orange and White were selected by Charles Moore, a 150-pound right guard on Tennessee's inaugural first football team in 1891, and were later approved by a vote of the student body. The colors were those of the common American daisy which grew in great numbers on The Hill. Tennessee players did not appear in the now-famous Orange & White jerseys until the season-opening game in 1922. Coach M.B. Banks' Vols won that game over Emory and Henry by a score of 50-0.
I don't drink coffee.
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10-23-2007, 03:26 PM
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Location: Tennessee
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Originally Posted by Jhubtin
Here ya go!
The colors Orange and White were selected by Charles Moore, a 150-pound right guard on Tennessee's inaugural first football team in 1891, and were later approved by a vote of the student body. The colors were those of the common American daisy which grew in great numbers on The Hill. Tennessee players did not appear in the now-famous Orange & White jerseys until the season-opening game in 1922. Coach M.B. Banks' Vols won that game over Emory and Henry by a score of 50-0.
I don't drink coffee. |
Cheater!
But . . . yes, indeed. It's comes from the color of the flowers that grew on the hill. You'll notice that UT orange is also a little "golden" orange; which supposedly matched the color of the flower.
You sure you don't want the mug? I was just going to steal one out of the office kitchen. |
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10-23-2007, 03:54 PM
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Up on the Mountain
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"Enjoying the cooler weather."
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Not where I want to be
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So if I am Cherokee (1/4 actually) and I move from Florida to TN.....won't I technically have immunities against the "alleged" bacteria? Just kidding
Most bacteria can't live on surfaces more than 24 hours, let alone thousands of years. Soil bacteria is beneficial though. |
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