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Yeah, my mom mixed them into the Thanksgiving centerpiece too, but eventually we ate them.

He must have irritated the ***** relations department.

Any way the wind blows, Doesn't really matter to me.

You might know them as hazelnuts. When I was a kid, my parents would buy bags of mixed nuts, still in the shells. The mix included almonds, walnuts, filberts, Brazil nuts, pecans, and maybe something else.

That would make a good sit-com.

If the sun refused to shine I would still be loving you When mountains crumble to the sea There will still be you and me Kind woman, I give you my all Kind woman, nothing more

John Cleese. On the edible side, I'm not sure I have a favorite, but I'd say almonds, filberts, and pistachios are high on the list.

Remembering John Lennon and John Enwtistle on what would have been their 80th and 76th birthdays, respectively.

Tyrod didn't blow the season, but to say he got us out of the drought would be a stretch. A killer defense got us out of the drought. John sums it up here:

Is anyone (other than Tyrod) surprised by this?

I'm gonna buy me a Mercury And cruise up and down the road.

Ditto. I was a teenager at a party. They played the whole album, and I was blown away from start to finish.

It says she's a sandwich maker at Subway. So much for the $5 foot-long.

Josh is definitely more coachable and more disciplined than Favre - probably because of his unconventional path to the NFL - but that doesn't make him the opposite of Favre. As we've seen, even as recently as the Raiders game, Josh slips back into his old habits now and then. The left-handed throw (the play where he got injured), taking a sack that put us out of FG range - all very Favre-like behaviors.

Read the whole quote in context and it doesn't seem like he's comparing Josh's style to Brady's - just that Josh will own the division like Brady did. Given the teaser subject line, I assumed Favre was comparing Josh to ... Favre. That would make sense, because Josh scrambles, improvises, takes chances (often unnecessary), and generally has fun out there, just like ol' #4 did. Like Favre, Josh plays sandlot football at a professional level. Brady, on the other hand, is a cold, steely machine - all business.

"It might be!" - Vikings game. "It could be!!" - Cowboys game. "It IS!!!" - Rams game.

Three years ago, we drove to southern Illinois to see the total solar eclipse. DSoTM was one of several discs I grabbed for the ride. After listening to it, my son said, "Can we hear that again?" That's parenting done right, my friends. (That's not the first time he'd heard it, by the way.)

When I die, I want to go peacefully, in my sleep, like my grandfather - not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

Once upon a time there was an engineer. Drove a locomotive both far and near. Accompanied by a monkey that would sit on a stool Watching everything the engineer would do. One day the engineer wanted a bite to eat, He left the monkey sitting on the driver's seat, The monkey pulled the throttle, the locomotive jumped the gun, And did 90 miles an hour down the mainline run.

My two favorite teams are the Buffalo Bills and whoever is playing the Patriots* that week.

Agreed. He's the OC of his hometown team, with a great young QB and a solid shot at a championship. He's not in a hurry to leave. Undoubtedly he'll interview with any team that asks, if for no other reason than getting HC interview experience, but he'll wait for the right opportunity before accepting an offer. People often point out that there's only 32 HC positions in the NFL, so you have to take a shot when it opens, but every year opportunities open up. When that happens and Daboll eventually leaves, we'll already be in good shape to carry on without him.

"Hey, kid - can I interest you in a bell curve? Maybe a little standard deviation? It's pretty mean stuff."