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A summer time challenge to develop stronger will power? Eat all the ice cream you want but give up anything that smells like fish.

"There's no 'I' in Team, and no 'QB' in Championship."

Some options: 1. Tell her you also admire George Foreman and Newhart, and you want to name all your male children Kyle. Your first born son could then go through life introducing his little brothers by saying - - "Hi, this is Kyle and my other brother Kyle." Then negotiate down to naming just one son Kyle. 2. Give her a legitimate, non-football reason to like the name Kyle. Do some googling on the inter web tubes for admirable people named Kyle. If she likes NASCAR (yeah, that's likely) then sing the praises of Kyle Petty. Or find somebody else on this list that she likes: http://www.famousbirthdays.com/names/kyle.html Might not want to mention Kyle Brovllofski from South Park, though. 3. Show her this link about the origins of the name: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Kyle Good luck! P.S. Maybe she just doesn't think "Kyle" is manly enough for her alpha-male's offspring? If she's seen this George Carlin clip, maybe you need to show her some Bills' highlight videos (or just name the kid "Nicky, Vinnie or Tony"): WARNING - - it's George Carlin, so it's NSFW (F-bombs)

My brother Darryl's on the fence.

If the guy's a friend of yours, make sure he knows about the "government pension offset" and "windfall elimination" provisions that can reduce Social Security retirement payments to someone who also gets a government pension other than Social Security. Not sure if either applies to him, but these provisions can come as a surprise to people who expect to get both a government pension and Social Security retirement income. http://www.wiserwomen.org/index.php?id=256&page=Government_Pension_Offset_&_Windfall_Elimination_Provision http://moneyover55.about.com/od/socialsecuritybenefits/a/Windfall-Elimination-Provision-How-It-Affects-Certain-Government-Employees.htm

Be careful what you wish for. 1. Go here to see the 2011 CBA at the NFLPA's website: https://nflpaweb.blob.core.windows.net/media/Default/PDFs/General/2011_Final_CBA_Searchable_Bookmarked.pdf 2. Read Article 7 (entitled "Rookie Compensation And Rookie Compensation Pool") at pages 21-35; 3. See especially section 1(i) at page 24 (entitled "Undrafted Rookie Reservation") - - placing limits on signing bonus paid to an undrafted rookie; 4. See especially section 2(g) at page 26 (allowing a team to pay a rookie an amount above the required minimum for a drafted or undrafted player, but only if the team can do so without exceeding the team's total rookie compensation pool amount for that year); 5. Read Article 14 (entitled "Enforcement Of The Salary Cap And Rookie Compensation Pool"), section 1 at page 112 - - prohibiting undisclosed terms. I'm certainly no expert on rookie contracts, but based on skimming Article 7 of CBA, it looks like the problem is that the Bills, like every other NFL team, have a defined amount of total money that can be paid to all rookies combined, and the drafted rookies are guaranteed certain minimum amounts based on exactly when they were picked. Then there is some additional money thrown in (but not a lot) to allow undrafted rookies to be signed. That gives a grand total for rookie contracts that the Bills can't exceed. As best I can tell based on a quick reading, there is nothing to prevent the Bills from, just as an example, signing Darby (our pick #50) to the "slotted" contract that the CBA requires the Bills to offer him, cutting Darby the next day, and then using what used to be Darby's portion of this year's rookie allocation pool to sign Collins to a 3 year contract with the same annual salary that Darby would have gotten for the first 3 years (so long as Collins got a signing bonus of no more than $75,000). The CBA says you forfeit Darby's portion of the rookie pool if you don't sign him first, so you would have to sign Darby, then cut Darby, then sign Collins. I know that sounds bizarre, and I could easily have missed something because the CBA is about as turgid as it gets and I only read Article 7 once. I think what I described would technically be within the CBA rookie compensation and salary cap rules. If the Bills want Collins bad enough, I think they could sign and then cut any number of drafted rookies to free up money already allocated to the Bills total rookie compensation pool, so that they could then turn around and give the money to Collins (assuming I am reading Article 7 of the CBA correctly). Truth is stranger than fiction. Edit #1: The $75,000 maximum signing bonus for undrafted rookies is per club, not per player. If the Bills have already signed other undrafted rookies, presumably most of that $75k has already been used up. Edit #2. OOPS. Never mind. I will leave the post up because some might be interested in how the CBA treats rookie contracts, but I missed something the first time through. It looks like the money contracted to be paid to a drafted rookie counts against the team's total amount that can be paid to rookies this year, even if they cut a drafted rookie the day after signing him and never actually pay the drafted rookie anything but his signing bonus. Article 7, section 2(b) at page 25 states "All amounts of Rookie Salary contracted for in each and every year of a Club’s Rookie Contracts shall count against the Total Rookie Compensation Pool and the Club’s Total Rookie Allocation whether or not such amounts are earned by the player . . "

Depends a lot on how good you are at managing your own money, and your expected longevity. Personally, I'd lean towards the limp sum, but FWIW: http://wealthmanagement.com/data-amp-tools/six-ways-pension-annuities-almost-always-beat-lump-sum You also might find this helpful when evaluating your options: http://betterexplained.com/articles/the-rule-of-72/

A Texas wildcatter - - guy had a pinkie ring in the shape of a roulette wheel that had a diamond that rolled around in it.

"Follow me - - Follow me to freedom !!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uASRgF2fwwY

Thanks for clearing that up.

Well, if the Wonderlic correlates with "the ability to process written information," but "it doesn't correlate with on-the-field performance," how big a part of being a [good] NFL player can the ability to process written information really be? Why should we care whether a player is good at absorbing the playbook and weekly game plans, if that ability doesn't translate to actually getting results on the field? I'm not at all convinced that there is no correlation between Wonderlic scores and on-the-field performance (at least for some positions), but I've never really looked at the data in anything close to a comprehensive way.

Gotta admit, Bruce Jenner cleans up pretty nice . . .

My brother Darryl always thought "Insane Clown Posse" was a pretty inspired name - - but then again he can be a bit twisted at times.

A reindeer who would rather not be in Philadelphia.

Personally, I'm OK with gay conversion therapy. If they need a little more help understanding the metric system than most people, just give it to them. Wait . . . What?

Bob Kalsu - - even if we didn't need an OL.

FWIW: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2083800/facebook-faces-lawsuit-for-allegedly-scanning-private-messages.html

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/house-passes-cybersecurity-bill-despite-privacy-protests/?mbid=synd_slate

When you think silent lurkers come to the board to be entertained by your self-proclaimed mastery of others, the answer is pretty clear.

So nobody ever told you - - - "Don't s**t where you eat?"

Could be worse - - what if surviving a marriage was a lot like ebola?

Maybe I'm twisted, and it certainly wasn't my favorite game - - - but here's my favorite moment: Don Beebe in an all-out length of the field sprint to knock the ball out of showboating Leon Lett's hand just before he crossed the goal line in a Super Bowl where we were already very badly beaten. Give me 21 starters with half that much heart, and it won't matter who plays QB this year. http://www.nfl.com/videos/buffalo-bills/0ap2000000148850/Don-Beebe-catches-Leon-Lett

If you're less than 55 miles from the nearest radio telescope, this solution might work: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/04/16/400183904/we-might-welcome-robot-lawn-mowers-but-astronomers-arent-so-happy

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." Applies to life in general, not just sports.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/source-puzzling-cosmic-signals-found-kitchen