CF Notable Posts: Q1 2025

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Quarterly roundup of amusing (and sometimes insightful) comments I encountered on Cyclone Fanatic, January-March 2025. If anyone recalls a nugget I missed, please add to thread.

Key:
Bold is thread title (or summary of it)
*** indicates break in narrative flow.

Some entries have been edited for clarity, brevity, spelling and all that.

In case you missed it: Notable Posts: Q4 2024

Due to volume of material, I'll do this in two posts. I had to make some difficult decisions for cuts, too.

PART 1 of 2

Random Thoughts in the Year 2525

@JP4CY: Looking forward to football today. Gonna wash all the bedding and get a bunch of laundry done.
@ImJustKCClone: I have this mental image of you washing your bedding only once a year.

***2024-25 Men’s College Basketball Thread***
@Malone: Trevin Knell for BYU is 26! years old.
@isucyfan: There's no way he's 4.0329146e+26 years old.
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@CychiatricWard: (re KSU) “Octagon of Room” … a lot of empty seats.
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@PizzaTheHutt: Kansas looks like a car with four wheels, but one of the wheels is a cube.

(Resurrected thread) Official announcement of TJ as Iowa State men’s basketball coach
@CtownCyclone: Real question is, when do we burn our tickets? It's cold outside, need to burn them to heat the house.
@VeloClone: Since Jamie went to virtual tickets for so many of our programs, burning my tickets has gotten really expensive, since I am replacing my phone after each holocaust.
@coolerifyoudid: Might I recommend a burner phone?

2024-25 MBB Computer Projection Thread
@Sigmapolis: Almost comical how many Q1A games we have comin' up.
@ClubCy: Exactly, and I can’t wait to see the meltdown if we happen to drop a couple.
@NENick: Oh, I can wait.

***2024-25 CFB Playoff/Bowl Games Thread***
@GTO: When does the Orange Bowl mascot go inside a fake, giant juicer, so the players can drink him?

Cards
@CyCrazy: Euchre is the game that always leads to fights, usually because my wife is my partner.
@stormchaser2014: I know people that take the game so seriously that stealing their trick is worse than sleeping with their wife.

***Official #9 Kansas vs. #2 Iowa State game day thread***
@CoachHines3: Ol’ Doc Sadler is a senior advisor for KU. Saw him and TJ embrace after the game.
@CloneLawman: Any tongue?

What is it with the refs?
@dafarmer: My.
@nfrine: Enough said.

Hilton urinals
(Nominated by @CycloneRulzzz)
@CycloneDaddy: Who the hell is looking at strangers’ d*cks while p*ssing?
@bos: Exactly. Just stick to people you know.

AI in Gmail
@Cyclonepride: Gemini AI just appeared recently appeared on Gmail, and now it's populating into email responses, despite turning off the smart features … Any ideas to get rid of it?
@coolerifyoudid: Ask Gemini AI for help on how to get rid of itself, and watch an existential crisis unfold in real time.

Weird Geography Facts
@danvillecyclone: Did you know if you search “weird geography facts” on Google, this thread is 3rd on the search list? Obviously, I’m not on here enough.
@Cyclones_R_GR8: Much like the rest of us, when Google wants to know something, it checks CF first.
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@CoachHines3: Half past a monkey’s a** is a quarter to his balls.
@CySmurf: Good Lord, you’re not in middle school anymore.
CoachHines3: Maybe I am.
@MeanDean: That's why his mom gets so much action. She's still pretty young.

***Official #2 Iowa State vs. West Virginia game day thread***
@exCYtable: Is this court slick? Why does it seem like everyone is slipping a little?
@JM4CY: Moonshine.
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@ClonerJams: Minus-3 in turnovers and shooting the 3 like Phillip Seymour Hoffman in “Along Came Polly.”

***Official UCF vs. #3 Iowa State game day thread***
@Malone: Jess Settles turning into a goddamn national treasure.
@Dgilbertson: How fake is that hair? Kid was bald in ‘88.

***Official #3 Iowa State vs. Arizona State game day thread***
@Clonehomer: Forks down!

Memorial Union Zodiac: To walk Around or Step It Through
@RagingCloner: I went on a tour during HS, had no idea what i was doing. just strolled right over that hallowed ground.
@acoustimac: And you still graduated?
RagingCloner: High school? Yes.

ISU baseball team
(link posted by @Messi): Bill introduced in Iowa House requiring Iowa State and UNI to bring back varsity baseball.
@coolerifyoudid: Up next: A bill requiring Iowa to bring back varsity basketball.

***Official Kansas State vs. #3 Iowa State game(day) thread***
(After the debacle … various, disconnected comments)
@Stumbles (after the game): Just got home from work and I don't even want a beer.
@clonedude: TJ should accuse KSU of cheating after the game!
@awd4cy: But at least we win KC, right? All that matters to the casuals.
@cytor: ISU indeed has qualified for the Big 12 tournament in KC.

Today’s loss is due to GameDay
(The “math conversation.”)
@harimad: It’s almost as if we’re missing an integral player.
@Cyched: Maybe a derivative player could help.
harimad: I'll just take a functional player at this point.
@stormchaser2014: I think we've reached our limit on those.

11-Win Poster
—> This made me chuckle, I call it the “grab-bag” post. :)
@Drew0311: Ill check and see how many I grabbed. I grabbed some really quick for my nephews. If I only grabbed two I won't have an extra, but if I grabbed three, I’ll send you the third one.
 

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PART 2 of 2

***Official #9 Iowa State vs. Oklahoma (day) thread***

@Prone2Clone: Milan is not the most graceful gazelle on The Serengeti.

Popular snacks/restaurants/drinks you hate
@throwittoblythe: I don't know how Twizzlers remain on the market.
@psycln11: Because my daughter single-handedly keeps them on the market!
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@Cyclones_R_GR8: Lobster is just an expensive excuse to eat butter.

***Official TCU vs. #8 Iowa State game(day) thread***
@madguy30: ISU fans are very passionate, but some don't work through their own thoughts very well.
@CycloneVet: Some of them are pretty stupid.

***2024-25 NFL Season***
(specific to Super Bowl LIX halftime show)
@Hoggins: Boomers are crying out all over the country.
@FarminCy: My Gen X neighbor just posted he’s considering boycotting the NFL.
@Mr Janny: "I get that the kids like this Elvis guy, but he's just not a good drummer."
@GTO: They should have surprised him and brought out Drake.
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(pertaining to game)
@CyGuy5: Is there a worse possible fanbase to win a Super Bowl? God, Philly fans are insufferable and deserve nothing.
@3TrueFans: You get a battery to the face with an attitude like that.
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@Peter: Listening to Tom Brady is like story time with Grandpa.

Greatest Dunks in ISU History
@ackatch: Initially read this as "greatest DRUNKS in ISU history" and was wondering why we're already in off-season mode.

Williams & Blum: Iowa State rolls UCF…
@brentblum: My 10th birthday, my twin brother and I, my parents rented a limo for us, and we picked up all our friends in the limo.
@ChrisMWilliams: That sounds like something you would do.
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@brentblum: I talked to a class yesterday, because … I get invited to be a guest lecturer, and you don’t.

***Official Cincinnati vs. #10 Iowa State game(day) thread***
@Dgilbertson: I’m snorting pelletized gypsum enjoying this win and boy does it feel good.

Annoying TV/MovieTropes
—> SO many good ones in this thread.
@Mr Janny: (re: biopics): Sometimes they'll deify everything that comes out of the subject's mouth, with every word being prophetic and meaningful. I mean, not everything that Abraham Lincoln said was worthy of carving into stone. Sometimes he just asked the White House cook if he could have extra bacon with his Johnny cakes.
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@Die4Cy: “The Fugitive” was on the other night and I was reminded of the mountainous regions that house a large hydroelectric dam just outside of Chicago.
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@enisthemenace: Palm trees in the background in “Halloween.” It’s one of my favorite films, but I don’t think there are any palm trees in small-town Illinois.
@drlove: Must have been shot on the old “Hogan’s Heroes” set. The palm trees in winter scenes in Germany were something.

Williams & Blum podcast: Big 12’s officiating problem
@ChrisMWilliams: You watch (Tamin Lipsey), once he’s not on the court, and he walks around like an abused, 60-year-old man.
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Blum: You’ve gotta protect Eric Heft.
@ChrisMWilliams: You come near Eric Heft, it's your ass.

NCAA March Madness men’s bracket preview
@JP4CY: It’s so wild to see an up-tempo Wisconsin.
@jcyclonee: I think so, too. 30-ish years of boring basketball with one kinda fun year mixed in with that tall guy who rode tricycles.

Cold
@JM4CY: It’s cold outside. Really freakin’ cold.
@cytor: Up here in Minny, we call this June.
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@drmwevr08: 78 here today.
@jcyclonee: I hope you get bitten by a rattlesnake.

***Official Colorado vs. #8 Iowa State game(day) thread***
@CY9008: How the hell did Colorado beat UConn?
@Cyhig: UConn players were miserable leading up to the game. I can't blame them. Do you really want to be forced to go to a tropical island with Dan Hurley?

The State of Oklahoma State basketball
@NWICY: Forte and Page, I think we hated them as much as OSU fans hated Naz.
@ImJustKCClone: Don't you mean Carphil Paigefort?

Commercials that need to be shot into the sun
@demoncore1031: The “What's in your wallet?" commercials are pretty dumb. Not just because there's nothing in my wallet.

If
@VeloClone: This has to be in the running for worst thread title ever.

What songs do you want played at your funeral?
@bos: There is gonna be so much funeral grindin’.
@CycloneRulzzz: Imagine the kid who discovers his creation was because his parents got all excited by the funeral playlist.

These new MLB hats are …
@NorthCyd: I still can't stand the flat-bill look. I know, I'm old.
@Gonzo: The only thing worse than a flat-bill hat is seeing a 45+ year old dude in a flat-bill hat.

***Official (12) Iowa State vs. (17) BYU game(day) thread***
@NodawayRiverClone: Where’s the BYU bar in KC?
 
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Additional from list

2025 MBB coaching carousel
@heitclone: Looks like Will Wade to NC State.
@alenz95 Take out a second, third, and fourth mortgage after you all finish work today. Put all of it on Clemson.
alenz95 (responding to own post the next day): Hey guys. The bank called and they want to foreclose on my house. I’m starting a GoFundMe, if anyone feels like tossing in to save my family.