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Satellite or over-the air antenna. ANYTHING but cable!!

Depends even then. After my uncle got divorced the third time, he told us that if he ever went to get married again, to take him out in the middle of the woods with some rope and a shotgun. He went in for the fourth about five years later, and we showed up at his door (this is several states away) with said materials. He laughed his ass off. And, to note, he just divorced the fourth after ~15 years.

Ooooo! That's a pretty cool theory with the numbers providing for power generation in the hatch(es). I was thinking exactly that, and that if the numbers stop, the power unit stops working. But tractor beam magnetism every time someone misses the countdown clock? That's inspired! I like it. I'm anxious to hear what the guy they catch has to say. But how can Zeke and the Others have gotten there on the pirate ship? That thing's like 200 years old, at least. Unless you're implying that people live forever on the island....

Get your facts straight, you lemming! They break to 2-hour high-speed car and motorcycle chases, too!!! To the topic, this is like news that I won't have to pay taxes to support a diddler who molests my children. What the eff is the problem?

I've got a Jeep too. '93, so I'm even less worried than most about getting crap all over it. <low whistle> Are they not the perfect vehicle?

What time Joe and Tom will meet in Chicago if Joe is on a train leaving Kansas City that goes 50 mph and Tom is on a bus from Boston that goes 70 mph is an abstract on a piece of paper. A 300-pound DLman coming across the line is a jolt. Maybe Peters had to pee during the Wonderlic just like Losman. Maybe he's not good at book learnin' but is great at hands-on instruction/football prodigy like the guy in that movie "The Program." Most of us walk a narrow path in life, and we're all good at certain things and not others. JP showed some good stuff in his time, against some good DEs. That said, he could always turn into a Robert Hicks. I'd say we sign him to a pretty safe contract, 2 or 3 years and a middle-of-the-road $ figure.

It's snowing lightly again here, right now. I'd say up here in the far NE corner of CT, we got 14-16 inches, it's harder to tell b/c gusts blew it around. Plowed and shoveled out this morning and like Pete said, it's really light stuff. Looking out my window again and it's now stopped. I'll take an occasional blizzard as long as I can live in the county that was rated as the Most Protected From Natural Disaster in the US, in a fairly exhaustive study. Nice not to have to deal with hurricanes very often (and by the time they get up here in the hills, they've usually petered out), earthquakes, droughts, floods, you name it. And four distinct seasons to boot. Gas prices are another story, but I recently found a town nearby in MA that has $2.12/gal when everyone else around here is in the $2.35 range.

1)I didn't mean to come across as an ass, either. It's just that that whole "Walt Controls the Universe" theory was brought up in like the 4th ep of S1, and then every other week after that. It's been established, and there's nothing really new to report on it. 2) I think that's entirely probable. Michael wasn't "well" at that point. Combined with there being a lot of text on the screen one moment, then Jack walks in and then there's nothing, and from when Locke entered the wrong number once and had to delete, the dinosaur sh--box computer wasn't backspacing very fast. You do the math there.

Actually, Bob Woodruff was a high-powered corporate attorney before he got thralled into the news world and stayed b/c he liked reporting. I don't know and wouldn't hazard a guess as to his personal politics. He got caught in the IED b/c he was there to report on the progress of the Iraqi military. Some say he was stupid for not riding in the U.S. vehicles that had armor.... But when you're doing a story about Iraqis, you ride with the Iraqis. Wrong place, wrong time. It takes some stones to go over there w/o a weapon just so people back home can see in the scant time he's got to do his story what 1/1,000,000,000 of the Iraq situation is like. And really, that's what any reporter is doing over there. Need to combine them all to get a clearer picture, and even then it's not complete by a long shot but they're not Superman.

Very original thought it is, too.

Observation that I failed to include yesterday: Sawyer sitting in the car counting, "One Mississippi, Two Mississippi...." compared to Jack's "One. Two. Three. Four. Five" method.

Think about where her mouth is when she stands next to TV execs. Perfect placement in the 'How Do I Get On TV' milieu.

Touche. I still think reason #2 is the trump card. So many other areas that need to be addressed, getting a DE would be a luxury. I do think the DEs would/will benefit from the new scheme and adding a DT like Nagala(?).

At some point, that kid gets gunshy and it'll never leave him. You WASTE a high QB pick when you don't have an adequate OL in place. This has been shown time and again and GMs keep trying to fit the square peg into the round hole.

Is the "Is Team" kind of like the A-Team? I used love that show.... Shoebel is in the mold of Phil Hansen, who is an adequate DE by himself, but when paired with the right DE partner, they'd be better together than they'd be apart. Kelsay is not that DE, but I'd give him another year b/c 1) he's been here 2 years; this is his make-or-break season (and iirc, it's his contract year so he'll have that extra push) and 2) we have SO many more pressing needs right now; we can draft a DE high next year if a solution doesn't present itself this year. And I think a change in scheme from JG's 'BLITZ EVERY DOWN!' will help out this D. Paup was a LB in the 3-4.... but to be fair, he often was lined up at the LOS.

Madden brought some of his tired schtick to MNF but it has tapered off drastically. And this year was probably the best I've seen of him, and I think that's a combination of now being familiar/comfortable with Michaels and that the producers of MNF have helped him a LOT in getting rid of the repetition, guffawing and general hucksterism. When you ask Michaels, he absolutely gushes about the producers. (I've spoken to a couple who work in int'l soccer, NBA and NFL and they compliment Michaels right back). When they were so new to the scene, I doubt FOX was heavily investing in their staffing.

And yet, this was something that was puzzling me today. How does Sawyer intend to use the guns? With the Others bearing down on them, is he somehow going to fend them all off by hisownself, carrying all 100 guns at the same time? No. The only way they can be used effectively is to have numerous people having a gun. One person having them all is a detriment to all of their security. This con provided Sawyer w/ a lot of perceived power w/in the group, but no real kind of protection if the sh-- hits the fan. To extend the metaphor of guns=money (and maybe make my point a little clearer), this situation is like Scrooge McDuck having all of the known money in the world in his money silos. Everyone else hasn't a penny, and there's nothing the Scrooge really needs that he would give anyone any money for. So, what's the point of him keeping the money if he can't spend it? It becomes essentially worthless that way b/c money must pass and be in circulation to produce any good effect on the economy.

I didn't even get that last night. And it happened on the 15th. Tho, there are certain of conspiracy theories floating out there re: his death.

But... it really speaks to Charlie's level of desperation to get back with Claire. Which he thinks will be accomplished by getting Locke out of the way. (This all would not have happened if Locke had stayed in the hatch rather than making camp at the beach to be with Claire). He's getting rather obsessive. But I don't think this switch to evil is going as fast as you say, or if it's necessarily happening at all. See how Charlie was heavily concerned that no one ever find out that it was he who grabbed Sun. I think that's b/c he intends to rejoin the ranks of the good people, after this discrete occurance of evil that is the catalyst. I agree with the previous poster who said Jin will find out b/c it's too good a storyline not to have this play out. And if he thought he was an outcast before, Charlie's going to have hell to pay. And if he survives, it might necessitate a big change for him.

She seemed more hurt that she was used than that she now hates him. Might help to compare this situation with S1 when they found the marshal's Halliburton case. She was all right with him having it so long as he couldn't open it. She also wasn't so concerned about the guns than the toy plane, and yet, she used her wiles to get them to Jack. Like you say, it'll be interesting to see how this goes. That was a few pistols; now, it's the whole arsenal, while the Others represent a threat, detente or not. Funny that Locke took a page from Handgun Control Inc. And as an aside, where is Michael? It'd be something if he teamed up with Rousseau to get their kids back. So if it wasn't a hallucination, Walt is at another terminal presumably on the island. Finding out what happens when the code is not entered might reveal what the Others are trying to accomplish; perhaps they're at an abandoned terminal trying to get it to work again. I think it might control the power source inside the hatch. What I'd like to know is, what was the timeline there? Where does this ep fall wrt the con he was doing where he stopped the deal b/c the kid walked in and he realized he was becoming the same guy he hated (which goes against that "I've never done a good thing in my life"). He's got the hints of becoming a little soft, but then again, you might say he was as hard as a stone, doing a very good job faking he was in love even to the guy who sent him on the con. This whole 'going soft' thing is thrown out of whack by Kate's mother showing up. As we know, she was dying in the hospital about two years prior to the plane crash. Also meant to mention the gold necklace con where Sawyer said, while putting the bandage on, that it'll be harder for them to identify as he'll just be some guy who looked like he was in a barfight.... Something for which he was deported (headbutting the minister of... fisheries?) and put on 815.

I too got the sense that it wasn't. Sawyer told her to go to a specific hotel, etc. He played it in such a way that she understands the money is gone. It was a serious character revelation that Sawyer could say he loved her, pretty convincingly, and then sh--can her. Translates into how he's been with Kate the past few eps. But, tgreg, in that closing scene, I don't think Kate hates him, per se; she just doesn't know why he's doing what he's doing. I'm 99 percent positive that the waitress was Kate's mum. I don't know what the significance is, but that place didn't look like Iowa. At least Sawyer left her a nice tip. Note that the primary term used was "rising action." If you check back thru the discussion threads, I don't often criticize the eps b/c they are what they are; I'm not one who bitches about it when nothing of consequence happens. I considered the ep to be filler-ish b/c nothing really advanced the story with the Others --- it was an internal matter. Yes, it was very important as far as developing the plot and setting things up for the next/upcoming eps, but at this point, we don't know if Sawyer having the guns will come to anything. Hurley spending a whole ep deciding what to do with the hatch food, it wasn't. We do know that Charlie is willing to do some pretty dark things, and sacrifice the stability and security of the group simply to one-up Locke.

Or on Monday morning after coffee black. Truth be told, I fell asleep in the third quarter. Billions and billions of dollars are bet on the SB? Not quite. And much of it is illegal. Maybe the FBI could get on that. Or maybe the FBI should arrest the prostitutes on Washington Street in Hartford, or the kids who committed a class E felony last week by having mopeds out on the ice on my pond. Or maybe, just maybe, the FBI has badder fish to fry at the fuggin' moment. Calm down, Pete. It would be a scandal if BR was at the 5-yard line and they called a TD. It would be a scandal if Joey Porter took out a .357, shot Matt Hasselback on the field and wasn't called for roughing the QB. As it stands, they were close calls made on the ref's judgment --- maybe you'd like to become a ref and see if you can officiate a game w/o getting criticism from someone.

Seemed like another rising tension/filler episode. Have to admit that near the start of the flashback I was thinking that the woman would be conning Sawyer.... Anybody get where the "long con" took place? I'm just trying to puzzle through who on the island is playing which role from the real world. Rationalize it any way you want, but Charlie is going evil, even tho it may be a wanton evil. I don't buy Kate's theory that he does all this to make people hate him; Sawyer did this for a reason, and like he said, it wasn't about pills or shaving cream. And again with the "good person" phrase. Kate's mom was the waitress in the scene with Sawyer and the set-up guy. (What was the purpose of that guy in the story anyway? And what the hell happened to him?). Looks like some revelations will be seen next week about the countdown timer. And the introduction of another quirky island-inhabitant.

You use salamanders for bait. Geckos tries to talk you into buying car insurance. Happy Birthday, sh--.