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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--.

Not exactly what the NHL needed right now....

I don't know about all that, but Rupp is the orator of one of my favorite quotes: "Don't speak unless you think you can improve the silence."

He's gay? Really?

It's not just you. How fair is it to the team that made a play, even if it was only by a fraction of an inch, to have to put themselves in jeopardy again, simply b/c it makes the game entertaining? Give the other team a chance, despite the fact that they just had their chance? The refs are there to make calls. That's what they do, that's what was done. People complain about the ref not putting his hands up sooner... What is that? He was running toward the play to get a better view and perhaps to confirm what he saw b/c it was so close; bear in mind that he's trained to use that visual snapshot from the time the whistle sounds, and to discount any movement after the player is down. A lot of this crap smacks exactly of an asshat homeowner who stands behind me and asks "Why are you putting that stone there?" "Why are you mixing the cement like that?" "Why are you chipping that stone with the hammer?"... BECAUSE THAT'S HOW YOU DO THIS %$%^ING JOB!!!!

I've got something for them, actually. My father worked at an industrial supply warehouse for ~35 years before it went out of business in the mid-'90s. The place had been around for over 170 years. Anyways, up on the big desk, there were various items, but particularly a heavy frog paperweight that when you turned it over, had a... uhmmm... male part, which was the joke. When he started there, the guy he took over for told him it'd been handed down to him, the guy that he'd taken over for gave it to him and on and on four times. I've never seen anything like it, but those people on that show know everything. Maybe someday they'll come to the area.

Love Stinks by The J. Geils Band You love her But she loves him And he loves somebody else You just can't win And so it goes Till the day you die This thing they call love It's gonna make you cry I've had the blues The reds and the pinks One thing for sure (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah Two by two and side by side Love's gonna find you yes it is You just can't hide You'll hear it call Your heart will fall Then love will fly It's gonna soar I don't care for any casanova thing All I can say is Love stinks (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah I've been through diamonds I've been through minks I've been through it all Love stinks (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah (Love stinks) Love stinks yeah yeah

Unless we're copying the Redskins model and we're going to have five OCs.

I was under the impression that it's going to be used as a College sports board.... e.g. that during March Madness, it's a forum for that, and during the college football season, it's a forum for that. I giuess the name doesn't reflect that.

The issue with that catch was that the receiver did not have possession (two feet down / "football move") when he tapped the pylon. If he had gotten both feet inbounds and *then* tapped the pylon, it would have been a TD. As it was, he got one foot in, but the other was well out of bounds, so it didn't matter that he 'broke the plane.' Michaels did say he wasn't sure about it, then the replay was shown which prompted an, "Oh. OK...." Never? Does the name "Vinny Testaverde" ring any bells? I don't know. It looked borderline to me. You have to be Superman to see through BR's arm to where the tip of the ball is; the ref made a judgment call on this, which is his job. If you pause and draw a straight line up from where you can last see the ball, it's darn close and then when you put it on slow-mo, BR goes forward a few more inches before and as he's hit. Whichever way, that was not 'indisputable evidence.'

I can sing better than Aaron Neville (who can't?) and, still, I know enough to keep my mouth shut. Terrible.

I start this thread with a story of a Super Bowl past. It was the later '60s and my father was watching the recently-created "Super Bowl" game at a friends' house. An ad comes on for Marlboro cigarettes, featuring a lithe actress in what was described to me as "extremely racy, for the time." He stands up when the commercial is done and the friend's father and mother, with furrowed brows, ask, "Where're you going?! It's just the third quarter!" The reply: "I'm going out to get a pack of Julie Londons." On tap for this year.... Jessica Simpson in skimpy red outfit and cowboy boots hawking Pizza Hut where the outer crust is comprised of bite-sized cheese-filled pockets that taste just as nasty and are just as bad for you as the rest of the pizza. More from the CareerBuilder monkeys-in-suits. Kermit-de-Frog for the Ford hybrid. Also read something about the first national-broadcast bilingual advertisement.

I'd want to see if we could sign him to a longer-term deal, say three or four years and save the franchise tag. If the demands are out of whack, tho (and may well be, owing that Nate is the top CB in the league in his own mind), we tag him. Think about what his cap number already is (around $2M with bonuses, etc?) and it's a very economical move.

I don't see how this is an issue. Donna-ho doesn't sign his check anymore. Modrak worked w/o him in Philly, even so they aren't attached at the hip. I heard that TD and MM were seen entering the bridal suite in the Miami Beach Holiday Inn Express. And they ordered two bottles of cha-amp-aaan-ya and three dozen strawberries with whipped cream from room service.

I'm surprised he didn't also ask for a tax cut of the same amount. Fiscal responsibility? What's that? Let the next President get a bad rap for having to clean up the mess.

More of a kicker if it said that a week before JFK was shot he was 'in' Marilyn Monroe.

"Oh, no, you did NOT make fun of my Vera Wang!"

"Here's my Mr. Ed impression. Note the bug eyes, protruding upper teeth, and flaring nostrils. I've been working on this for, like, the entire time I've been in Congress."