UConn James

It's so hot... Satan went home until it cools off. It's so hot... Rosie O’Donnell is selling shade. It's so hot... Burger King is saying, "If you want it your way... cook it yourself!" It's so hot... I saw a funeral procession pull through a Dairy Queen! It's so hot... I saw two fire hydrants fighting over a dog. It's so hot... the ice cream man is now only selling milkshakes. It's so hot... every gay person who's ever come out of the closet has gone back in. It's so hot... L.A. Dodgers fans were seen removing the paper bags from over their heads. It's so hot... you've been getting hot flashes --- and you're a man! It's so hot... Paris Hilton has sworn off making sex tapes until we get a cool snap. It's so hot... I saw a dog chasing a cat --- and they were both walking. It's so hot... Al Sharpton came over to swim at Don Imus's pool party. It's so hot... people driving their Mustangs with the top down and seat belts on have "FORD" branded into their hips. It's so hot... cows are giving evaporated milk. It's so hot... digital thermometers have a reading of “Are you friggin' kidding me!!?” It's so hot... birds have to use potholders to pull worms out of the ground. It's so hot... you've experienced condensation on your rear from the hot water in the toilet bowl. It’s so hot... you can wear wrinkled clothes outside, and get them steam-pressed. It's so hot... chickens are laying boiled eggs. It’s so hot... even the sun is looking for some shade. It’s so hot... not only can you fry an egg on a sidewalk --- you can cook hash browns to go with it. It's so hot... the retirement center is having a wet T-shirt contest. It's so hot... the fish are sweating. It's so hot... Jehovah's Witnesses started tele-marketing. It's so hot... hot water comes out the 'Cold' tap, and steam comes out of the 'Hot.' It's so hot... I saw a turkey praying for Thanksgiving. It's so hot... you need a spatula to remove your clothing. It's so hot... your kids' braces are giving third-degree burns on their lips. It's so hot... the strawberries are ripe and the cab drivers are riper. It's so hot... the ducks on the lake come in "original recipe" and "extra crispy." It's so hot... your car overheats before you start to drive it. And it's so hot... How hot is it? It is *so* hot... Democrats are taking their hands out of your pockets to fan themselves.

Yes. Because the whole 'police yourselves --- if you wouldn't show it to your mother, don't use it as an avatar' policy failed... or some people here have a very weird relationship with their mothers. On a site that wants to remain family- and fan-friendly, some posters pushed the envelope too far to see what they could get away with. There were several instances of Seinfeld-ian "I think I see a nipple!" and borderline pornography. And so, SDS and the mods felt they had to take corrective measures. It's their show. Don't like it? You don't have to post here. If one wants to see that kind of stuff, there's plenty of places to find it online. And, true to form of people who can't or won't follow the rules of TBD, this should have been put on the Customer Service board.

You call that getting the crap kicked out of him? He got a little scuffed. My dad could expect a lot worse than that if my grandfather had found out he stole. When he delivered a correction, they never did it again and when he told them to do something, it got done. One anecdote often told was that a nun at grammar school rapped my dad on the knuckles for lying when he said he'd been on the USS Nautilus while it was being built. It was the truth. My grandfather drove rigs for Roger Sherman trucking company and, well, I'm not bragging to say he was the best driver they had. The historic houses at Mystic Seaport? He drove most of them there. Guys would get in tight spots they couldn't get out of, they'd call him. Anyway, my dad had been with him during the summer when he made a delivery for the submarine yard for it. The commander was there and gave him a tour of the ship (except for areas that are still classified) and gave him a sterling silver tie-clip of the Nautilus with a 'GD' mark on it. This was a special one, as the ones they had for the general public to buy didn't have this mark, which stood for General Dynamics, which built the Nautilus. It's also my dad's initials. Anyway. Long story short, the nun hit his knuckles with a ruler, my dad called her a "!@#$ing B word" and he got sent to the principal's office. When he got home, he expected to get it. He was French-Canadian, and the French historically hit their kids as discipline. And just to note that during the Depression, my grandfather was a boxer on the side... He wasn't a known name or anything, but he was never knocked out. As my dad says, "The old man gave me a wallop for calling the nun that. I was expecting another, but he said he couldn't punish me for lying when I hadn't lied. He was a tough SOB, but he was fair." Time was in this country where that kind of treatment would be a kid gloves version of what many parents would do in addition.

I guess it wasn't sewn in yet, and they had to take it off for some reason. No need to Photoshop. That's the design the NFL used for the Super Bowl fields (all of them, iirc). The white with red border is roughly the same concept as the numbers in the home jersey redesign. I'm actually surprised they didn't do a navy border instead of the thin white stripe. If this field is supposed to last 12 years, that might say something about how devoted they are to the navy trim. (Which is a positive, in my book. The navy is totally unnecessary.)

The writers post material attributed to Hank on the AMC site for the show, as an extra. No spoilers there, just a little more insight on his character. Hank's Blog - The Overshare

By the by, here's some video of the infill removal from the other week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwkD9_JXGzg&NR=1 Right. As I understand, this company didn't touch any below-grade materials (asphalt, drainage system, sand, rubber padding) that were installed when the turf was last changed in 2003.

Oh, my bad, I didn't mean to make that question to pertain to re-inforcement at the base of the lettering. The sewing with heavy stitches does that. That stitching just seemed to be the last thing Chris Brown said was left to be done on the field. I then repeated my question about there being a rubber infill, as that would ostensibly be the final step in installation. As to the staking, I would imagine that's to confirm measurements and keep the lettering in place as the blue turf is cut into (before removal and stitching). It's also serving in a taut string line along the bottom and top edges of the lettering.

RIP As an aside, just wondering what kind of arrangements are going to be made.... If the calling hours and funeral (assuming they're not family-only) are held before the CBA is lifted, what's the deal with the no-contact order between ownership/coaches and players? Is it not applicable here? If it does bar players from attending, that'd be pretty sad.

Does anyone know whether this system uses the rubber pellets, that we frequently saw a spray of in game photos? Brown's blog entry implies they just have to cut and stitch the lettering and then will be done. There's not going to be any re-enforcing material at the base? (Note: I'm not asking this in outrage mode. Just an engineering question.)

Rangers to raise railings after fan death

Yeah, don't get me wrong... even tho I find her really annoying, she's necessary to the show. But the more she gets involved in Walt's covert activities, the greater the likelihood that she faces certain repercussions. A lot of people connected to Walt have borne the brunt for his choice to cook meth rather than accept the help from his former business partner. Hank said, "It's a mineral... and I'm bidding on it" in response to Marie's "That's a pretty rock you're buying." He's trying. But, naturally, he's also depressed and impatient. I wouldn't read into anything about it being a crystal. It's a hobby. You don't read anything into him doing home-brew beer (well, besides seeing the line of comparison where Walt went in on his own home-brew scheme...). When it hits him, it's going to come like a ton of friggin' bricks. Right now, I don't think he's thinking too much about the case, because he's too busy being depressed/angry and trying to distract himself. It would make no sense for the writers to have him try to connect the dots of everything that's happened in the first episode of the season. But, how it's all coming together will be interesting how Hank and Marie handle it if he does connect the dots. And I don't think for a moment that Skylar made this arrangement without it coincidentally being a backup plan for if Walt is discovered. Hank has now been receiving profits of a drug producer to pay for his medical bills. Hank will be implicated if Walt is caught; he hasn't done anything wrong, but it would be the appearance from a compounding of facts (viewed with hindsight) that would certainly do him in. Nevermind Marie's shoplifting... Walt and Skylar have them both by the short and curlies. If they Walt goes down, they go down.

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Einstein's theory of relativity at work, folks.

A better angle.

Admittedly, after the Wombach header, I was like "!@#$ YEAH!" and then a few seconds later, it was like... .

Well, I put a lot to the "left it simmering" part. The culture of D.C. is the stove/flame. I was thinking of when you put milk on low heat, and it'll scald and reduce; put it on high and it'll get all over the !@#$ing place. To not have expected that likely end is like not expecting, as you put it, for ObamaCare to eventually spell disaster for timely and/or cost-effective medical treatment. (It may do this on its own, or likewise poking and prodding from Congresscritters or alphabet-soup agencies).

In which sense are you using the word "Donnie"?

Yep. One kind of wants to avoid a situation like CNN's descriptor of "African-American" youths who were protesting black/minority employment levels in France a few years ago.

Hmm. Victor explained that people would assume he was a "lookie-loo" but yeah.... As for use of spoiler tags, it is the longstanding rule in other show discussion threads here (e.g. LOST) that any descriptions of and comments about an aired episode are fair game for normal typography. People should be reasonably aware when clicking on a thread about a show episode that has aired, even out-of-time-zone, that they will be seeing discussion. I get that a lot of people DVR, stream, etc. these days. But the burden should be on those people to avoid the thread if they aren't caught up. Anything that goes beyond "Well, X might happen in the next episode because..." needs to be yellow-fonted or use the spoiler tag. E.g. future casting details, snippets from sites such as SpoilerTV, etc.

Looks like the midfield logo and one BILLS wordmark are in. Link. Not bad for a week's work, and for the sake of this guy's business, I hope this stuff really impresses other teams.

Also, WRT the "Lab Notes" it seems possible that they'll find those and might think that Gale was Heisenberg. At least for a while.

Coburn to unveil $9 Trillion Deficit-Reduction Plan They're not against cutting tax loopholes to increase receipts. They just don't want to do it absent real spending cuts that will do something about the debt --- because otherwise, it's just more money for the government to piss away on such things as studies on how to get Chinese prostitutes (in China) to stop drinking alcohol while they're "working." At least if a company is allowed to keep that money through a loophole there's at least a chance it might go into R&D, dividends that make further investment more attractive, or some other actually useful thing for the business and therefore useful for the country. You can go to a crack addict's house and clean up, do their dishes, scrub their shower, and figure out how they can save $200 a month by combining their cable/internet/phone bills. But without getting someone un-addicted to crack, what the !@#$ does it matter? The only thing you've done is free up some resources for them to buy more crack. POOF! Up in smoke. Perhaps you're not seeing it because your mind is so closed to the idea that Republicans actually do want to bring down the deficit. Your Confirmation Bias is set to high dudgeon.

Yep. The order of tiebreak methods is serious ed. Play the two 15-minute periods of extended matchplay. Then go to a 30-minute Golden Goal. And only then should they go to PKs. I really don't get why the Golden Goal has gotten the cold shoulder. Sepp Blatter and FIFA would rather have the biggest games decided by discrete 50/50 odds of a goalkeeper diving in the right direction than actual team play. Not to mention that the U.S. was the last team to qualify for the tournament. Just like Japan, they got where they did by grit, determination and teamwork... not because they had special talent.

Well, a number of the things that initiated the crash were started by liberal feel-good policies that wanted to get people into homes they couldn't afford. Clinton put that pot on the stove and left it simmering until it finally boiled over in fall 2008. But I'll also say that producer confidence / "the rich" started tightening their grip on their nickels when it became obvious to anyone with a pulse in ~May-June 2008 that Obama would win the presidency. The slow-down of money circulation (because "the rich" were/are scared shitless about aggressive "progressive" spending sprees and workplace mandates (see: Obamacare)) is what's really hurt the country. And while you and the rest of the Democrats can point index fingers and say that "the rich" aren't spending their money (or, according to Michael Moore, "our money"), is it any wonder that they saw the writing on the wall and didn't/don't want to contribute 80% of the ingredients to a pie they're only going to get 40% of? The math and logic isn't that difficult. Also, leave it to Democrats to get totally caught up in a turn of phrase. If you think McConnell would shut down legislation that he was confident would put millions of people back to work, then you've crossed into cynicism. That legislation isn't coming to the Senate floor anyway because Democrats are **** out of ideas other than another stimulus.