UConn James

And I'm gonna go there free Like the fool I am and I'll always be I've got a dream, I've got a dream They can change their minds but they cant change me I've got a dream, I've got a dream -- Jim Croce - "I Got A Name" -- Brandi Carlile - "How These Days Grow Long (Live)" (Just a great summer tune. I could cite many other songs by her. Do loiter around youtube a little if you have the time. In an age of a lot of crap music, BC is a throwback authentic.) "Many years have passed Since those summer days Among the fields of barley You can tell the sun in his jealous sky That we walked in fields of gold" -- Sting "Fields of Gold" (The Eva Cassidy cover is better suited). This song is providing me a little comfort in the wake of losing my grandfather (96yo, an old WNY farmer) and the best dog ever (we literally "walked in fields of gold" at the farm just before the funeral, we got home and then he went downhill with what turned out to be advanced cancer) about a week apart. This all was last month and I'm still a mess.

ESPN link I seem to remember some kind of deal like that with Jim Kelly too (tho, a much smaller sum --- $1M lump payment iirc). I wonder what the rules are on such a payment re: the salary cap. It seems like a way to undermine it in some cases, ala, 'We'll give you this contract that states you'll get $40M from the team after you retire if you take less money now and help us stay under the cap.'

You're not offending me. I simply happen to disagree with you. <shrug>

Sorry I'm too 'cheap' for you (then again, my family nickname is Scrooge McDuck ; he didn't need to spend all of his wealth to be truly happy). Some people don't have much $ to be throwing around, especially in these times and especially on a shirt the average person will wear maybe four times a year. If you have a problem with that, then I don't know what to tell you.

Or you could go with your own name and favorite #. It won't go out of use until the uniform changes... but then, I'd just get it in the throwback. Too much moving around (not to mention the NFL-average 2-1/2 year career) to plunk down that much coin for a glorified piece of fabric.

Whoever that was is stepping out on a very small limb.

Yep. Mickey, molsen, beausox, steely, hogboy.... there's been a steady stream of virtually the same persona. He creates different user-names so they have the air of being on the board for a while with the join date, then languishes a few of them to pull out when one inevitably gets banned (ever notice how they just roll out in sequence after each ban?) b/c he acts like an a--hole (crusades, posting entire copyrighted texts w/o links or quotes, personal insults among other violations of the Terms of Service). And then just the general 'Do my research for me' and 'I don't care what the facts are; I'm not going to admit I'm wrong, so I'm just going to toy with people.' Tracing the IP addresses would probably confirm some things. It really brings the quality of the boards (PPP, TSW and OTW) down to have to deal with this kind of bs, and puts a lot of crap work onto the mods.

He's again't it. Unless you provide him some links... HTML only, no PDFs, site domain-name registered by godaddy.com, and in triplicate.

Wasn't that one of Rob Johnson's maladies in the injury report one time? Yeah, everyone's read that Encyclopedia Brown story --- how'd Novak know it was a "he" if he didn't see him? Case closed! That'll be 25 cents, plus expenses!

King Nick uses the "Royal We."

Dude, that is so Jeremy Davies' voice! 'Bad Robot' spy! 'Bad Robot' spy!

(Except, AAD uses "!@#$ing" as a verbal form rather than an interjection/intensifier).

Well, it is supposed to be equipment from the '70s... and also there may be magnetic interference issues on the island. <shrug> But it sure does make it easier for them to leave some gaps to fill in a little later. People who can't take the suspense by now probably don't watch the show.

Lindelof and Cuse released a few small foreshadows of some things at Comic Con. There's also a video they played featuring Marvin Candle. Just some little tidbits to tide us over until January. Link. So, it appears evident to me that it's Faraday's voice on the tape (my only question is whether I hear Desmond's as well. I think so). They have gone back in time to the 70s and apparently informed Candle --- tho he gives his real name, finally --- of what has happened in the future. Reading over my last post above about Jack's father.... I just wonder. Could he have been a previous Dharma volunteer (say, along with Claire's mother? Hmmm?!?!) who knows the future b/c Des and Faraday went back in time and told them? That would be a pretty good explanation of why he doesn't let things like a child dying on the operating table personally, is seriously depressed/disillusioned, drinks like a fish, he doesn't care, because nothing he does matters in the grand scheme --- he knows he's going to be back on the island c. 2004, somehow, someway. He just has to go through the motions of his life until he gets there. What an awesome character to be playing! Tgreg, you're a lucky man to be working with these people. The show was also nominated for an Emmy in the Best Drama category last week. Certainly deserves it; the Desmond-centric Constant episode has been called by quite a few people the best hour of television last season. I was watching the presser where they announced them and I don't watch 90 percent of the shows that appeared (I'm still trying to see where "Pushing Daisies" is going). Network TeeVee is on life support right now.

This is carry-over from the PPP board. Three pages of him asking Darin to provide him with the links to Darin's previous posts re: global warming, and that if he didn't, it meant that he lost the argument. I wish I could get other people to fall all over themselves to do my work for me as well as elegant elliot, but unfortunately, I don't live in a dream world. And, now that I see what vile concoction you've brewed in that link, I'll add a hearty Thank You.

BTW --- What is this "continuity" concept of which you speak, krazykat? Go around to the other 31 teams and you might get hit by the clue stick that few teams enjoy this luxury in part or parcel on their roster even from year to year. The NFL is about constant change and purging. Just like the economic sector --- take the electronics industry --- some companies show awesome things at CES and they never make it to market (vaporware), or when they do get to market it's a shell of what was proposed. This happens to every company in the world. It falls under the "Sh-- happens" milieu. If you're going to constantly B word and moan every time something doesn't go according to your initial envisioning, you must be the most bitter person in this world next to Heather Mills. And if life is this disappointing for you such that you prattle endlessly about the direction of a friggin' sports franchise, they make ropes, razor blades and tall buildings every day.

You know his name. Even a friggin' Wiki search will tell you. It takes all of two seconds to highlight the name, right-click and scroll down to "Search Google for 'Darwin Walker'" and open the first link. I'm not going to tell you if he's still with the Bears. I want to make you show a modicum of effort. Jesus Christ on a stick! Stop trying to get other people to do your work for you!

Maurice Clarett The very definition of 'Million-dollar talent, 1 cent brain (only b/c they stopped issuing the half-cent).'

If only we had NJSue here to ask for a website to figure the current dollar-to-carbon-credit exchange rate. How much bread will a carbon credit buy me at Piggly Wiggly?

Actually, the translation was "Why the !@#$ should I do your work for you!??" If you want to read the contrary opinions so much, why won't you put in a modicum of effort to do so (if you can call typing "Alaska Darin" AND "global warming" in the search box 'effort')? People like you who expect everything on a silver platter delivered to their seat really burn me up.

To be fair, ABC pulled the plug on a shallow bath after they saw it was a pile of warm sh-- that came out of the tap. The film's producers dished it off to some cable network iirc.

And the FO are "morons" b/c they didn't agree with you about the Edwards/JP situation and took one step back (some would argue they simply took a side step b/c hate to break it to you, but JP didn't play well last year) so they can take four steps forward. Got it. BTW --- how is this thread substantively different from your earlier Edwards thread? Besides the fact that that thread slipped off the front page? He's going to B word about how we should have kept JP, or that we got nothing in return for JP. That, and that the stadium concessions should have signed an exclusive contract with A&W root beer.

Close enough. Wikipedia 2008 Draft entry: We traded the Ravens' 3rd this year, along with a spare 5th previously acquired from Chicago, to Jax for Stroud. Not a bad deal based on things so far, I'd say.

The problem with krazykat is he focuses way, way, WAY too much on the QB position as the root of every problem with the franchise. And specifically, his opinion that JP didn't get enough time to prove he has game. Get a new schtick, dude, this is getting a little old.

I'm sure there will be plenty of competition through camp. Royal is the incumbent who's coming off of knee surgery and had some problems with dropsies/mental mistakes, Schouman had some good showings in limited time last year, and Derek Fine (remember him?) is a 4th round rookie who could surprise some people.