Kenneth Baker writes: >Another new cheer also started this season! When the announcer would >acknowledge 1 minute left to play in each period at all games, the >students would all shout 'THANK YOU!!' hoping to hear a 'YOU'RE >WELCOME!!' from Glen Williams, the famed PA announcer at Yost. Maybe Michigan stole this one from Cornell, as payback for the Cornell fans stealing "See-ya!" from the Wolverines a few years ago :-) Anyway, Cornell does a slightly more elaborate version of the same thing: an appropriately timed, "HOW MUCH TIME IS LEFT?" followed by PA announcer Arthur Mintz's one- minute announcement, followed by "THANK YOU!" For no particular reason, I find this incredibly annoying. Might as well pass along my nomination for Best Cheer Never Used. This one comes from 1986, when Cornell won the ECACs and headed west to take on Denver in the first round of the NC$$ tournament. A bunch of us came up with, "You can't spell DUMB without D-U!" which seemed like a monstrously clever line to put down the Denver-ites with... that is, until we remembered that at least half of the Cornell team were brothers in the Delta Upsilon fraternity, which is also known as D-U. -- Disclaimer -- Unless otherwise noted, all opinions expressed above are strictly those of: Bill Fenwick | Send your HOCKEY-L poll responses to: Cornell '86 and '94.5 | [log in to unmask] LET'S GO RED!! DJF 5/27/94 "One night a week is not a network, it's a marriage." -- Jim Mullen, _Entertainment Weekly_, on the new television networks