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A new entry in the lexicon

I was reading the guide to "Stuff Orange and White People Like" on EDSBS, as one does, and was overjoyed to see this first comment about Charles Woodson winning the Heisman over Peyton Manning:

Too bad Michigan didn't play Nebraska that year, Nebraska would have USC'd them by 30.

In this sense, "USC'd" focuses more on a team / group pummeling, as opposed to the individual focus of "Maualuga'd" - which has evolved from referring to damaged frat member noses to supine opposing quarterbacks. +

Ladies and gentlemen, I am giddy at the prospect of using the neologism "USC'd" to indicate a beating of epic proportions. I plan to start using it at every opportunity... e.g., "Sure the Germans and Japanese started strong in WWII, but they were USC'd in the end," or, "Back in the day, VHS USC'd Beta++"

Obviously this should be used either for beatings which had a net positive (e.g., the end of Nazism and the Asian Greater Co-prosperity Sphere) or for ironic purposes. Use of the word in reference to bad beatings, such as police brutality, is less desirable.

+ Prompt recovery from being Maualuga'd is referred to as "Cowan-ing."

++ For any youngsters reading, this is a reference to competing formats of magnetic tape used to record analog video images for subsequent viewing during the 1980s and early 1990s. Linear access and the inability to record multiple data streams in parallel were common to both formats.

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I watched Knight Rider . . .
. . this weird show called "Oro Puro" (Solid Gold), and Santa Barbara dubbed in Spanish on beta back in Chile when I was a little boy before coming here to the States. Our CHiPs beta tapes were whack! They blew up into pieces after trying in vain to make them come in clear on our TV sets back in the day.

Beta. Indeed. They were once the rage down in Chile.

USC'd? That's going into my lexicon right as we speak. Let's hope Scotch doesn't USC me tonight. Again. Yesterday's April Fool's celebrations got a little outta hand last night. I'm still burping some  peat moss breath from near or around the Isle of Man in Scotland.

by tapoutstylist on Apr 2, 2008 4:56 PM PDT   0 recs

What about Palumalu'd
Definition is when a gunner creams an opponent on a return a few seconds before the ball arrives.  See the Kansas St. game at the Coliseum.

by frak on Apr 5, 2008 6:28 PM PDT   0 recs

It's times like this...
...when I'm glad that I don't have a particularly good memory for games. I think I'd rather have Polamalu'd refer to picking up the tab for random people in Pittsburgh restaurants ;)

by DC Trojan on Apr 6, 2008 5:23 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

How can you forget
Kansas State punt returner motionless waiting for the ball.  Troy arrives while the ball is still in the air and hits the guy so hard he flys like 5 yards.

by frak on Apr 6, 2008 12:07 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

Didn't see it at the time
USC games weren't exactly thick on the ground on the east coast at that point. However, youtube provides, and that was a cheap shot.

Entertainingly, the people who are posting video of that game are all K-State fans who were putting these up a year or two ago, talking about K-state's "annual" thrashing of USC. Apparently winning a home and home series, followed by seasons of 11 - 4, 4 -7, 5 - 6, 7 - 6, and 12 - 1 make them the obvious alternative to USC. I mean they did have a better record last season, after all.

by DC Trojan on Apr 6, 2008 5:04 PM PDT to parent up   0 recs

They did beat us twice
in football and most recently in basketball.  But dammit Troy did tattoo that guy pretty good.  I remember sitting in the Coliseum when he did that.  The "oooooooo" of the crowd was priceless.

by frak on Apr 7, 2008 1:45 AM PDT   0 recs

Can't speak for their b-ball schedule
But if memory serves they had an even bigger bunch of creampuffs to play last season, and a mascot that would embarrass a minute high school (seriously, I went a high school with ~ 150 students, and we had more polished mascot. Not that any of the teams won much of anything, but that's besides the point.)

by DC Trojan on Apr 7, 2008 9:34 AM PDT to parent up   0 recs

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