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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."

"America is addicted to oil." It's nice for him to admit that. But I think all that means is he's now not ashamed to admit that hisownself, his family, his friends, and some of his biggest political contributors are our dope dealers. And it doubles to put us on notice that the price on the street is going to go up even more.

The story goes that Washington more or less ordered Thomas Jefferson into his tent one day and asked Jefferson if he had financed some papers that were highly critical of Washington. So, Jefferson did the only thing an honorable man can do in such a situation. He lied. ---------- For what it's worth, governance is never what any one person wants it to be. Which is why compromising, making consessions, and voting with the party that most closely represents your political beliefs is what we're stuck with in our republic. Start your own party, then; if you've got better ideas, you'll win. You don't like the nature of the beast, but it doesn't change the fact that the beast is always going to be there. You'd better get accustomed to that. From the sounds of it, tho, C22 wants everything to be run his way, so he'll have to wait until the Constitution is amended to run for the office of Dictator-for-Life.

This is sig line material.