March Madness
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"Your free to leave me but please don't decieve me" Ewan McGregor..Moulin Rouge
Have you ever wondered why it is called March Madness? It really isn't that mad. In fact I find March wonderful. There are all these basketball games, and for many people the thought of baseball about to start is exciting. Also, Spring starts which many people welcome with open arms because they are ready for the winter cold to be over. Is it really that mad? I see no madness. Why don't we call it December to Remember or January Junction or some catchy phrase like that in December and January for all the bowl and playoff football going on. Yea, we have "SuperBowl Sunday" and the "Bowl Week" but we do not refer to it as a whole month.
What is this obsession with alliteration? I think it is just a phrase that someone found catchy that makes not a lot of sense. In fact, i propose a January Journey or Junction, February Frenzy, March Madness obvioulsy, April Action, Hay May (like hay day), June Doom, July Fry, August Anonymous, September Saneness, October its Over, Nutty November December to Remember. Im sure if I had wanted to put more than a whim of thought into these words they would be more catchy. However I only put a minute into them so they may not be to your standard. For this I do not apologize.
What I am trying to say is that I do not find the March Madness. I watch all the basketball, all the tourney's, and all the SportsCenters, yet I find it appealing, wonderful, happy and not crazy, mad, nor insane. What is this infatuation with alliteration. What is this infatuation with catchy phrases that in reality make no sense. Tell a chinese foreign exchange student about March Madness and you got a totally confused person thinking out loud in Chinese because they only no Madness for what it really is.
Quote the Shea, NeVeRmOrE
"Your free to leave me but please don't decieve me" Ewan McGregor..Moulin Rouge
Have you ever wondered why it is called March Madness? It really isn't that mad. In fact I find March wonderful. There are all these basketball games, and for many people the thought of baseball about to start is exciting. Also, Spring starts which many people welcome with open arms because they are ready for the winter cold to be over. Is it really that mad? I see no madness. Why don't we call it December to Remember or January Junction or some catchy phrase like that in December and January for all the bowl and playoff football going on. Yea, we have "SuperBowl Sunday" and the "Bowl Week" but we do not refer to it as a whole month.
What is this obsession with alliteration? I think it is just a phrase that someone found catchy that makes not a lot of sense. In fact, i propose a January Journey or Junction, February Frenzy, March Madness obvioulsy, April Action, Hay May (like hay day), June Doom, July Fry, August Anonymous, September Saneness, October its Over, Nutty November December to Remember. Im sure if I had wanted to put more than a whim of thought into these words they would be more catchy. However I only put a minute into them so they may not be to your standard. For this I do not apologize.
What I am trying to say is that I do not find the March Madness. I watch all the basketball, all the tourney's, and all the SportsCenters, yet I find it appealing, wonderful, happy and not crazy, mad, nor insane. What is this infatuation with alliteration. What is this infatuation with catchy phrases that in reality make no sense. Tell a chinese foreign exchange student about March Madness and you got a totally confused person thinking out loud in Chinese because they only no Madness for what it really is.
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posted by P. D. Shea at 1:52 PM
3 Comments:
Definition 1.c from Merriam-Webster for "madness": extreme folly (ecstasy, enthusiasm). Basketball tournaments are exciting and surprising and most certainly full of madness.
According to what you said madness is, i decided to look up your main word for your argument.
Folly:
1 : lack of good sense or normal prudence and foresight
2 a : criminally or tragically foolish actions or conduct b obsolete : EVIL, WICKEDNESS; especially : lewd behavior
3 : a foolish act or idea
4 : an excessively costly or unprofitable undertaking
Obviously this doesnt make sense for march madness
shea, march madness come on this is easy. it's not about the month of march its about the tournament, which does in fact span much of the month. now maybe it's not madness in the "folly" sense but it is madness in the crazy Bradley, Wichita St., Bucknell, George Mason type way....its alliteration and yes the tournament is always crazy, its march madness.
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