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That's kind of what I was getting at.... something along the lines of the need for positive parental role models. And the islanders all seem to have had none. Don't forget Sawyer's father. And Kate and the farmer guy seemed to be a father figure/protector relationship. Sounds like Boone and Shannon were absent a father, or had a stepfather that didn't shiv a git. Michael (tho this seemed to turn around but then we discover that Walt burned his boat) and... oo... what was the guy's name who didn't want Walt.... Looked like Danielle will be making a return appearance. Sayid had been helping on the boat, pro'ly gets back to the maps.

Who was doing the commercial? I didn't even catch it.... Interesting ep that made me both like and hate Jin. Liked his answer to the father, after he agrees to work for him and he's accused of giving up his dreams so easily --- "She is my dream." On the island he finally has a chance to start over, as Sun puts it, and he leaves for spite. Yet another inadequate father figure. Two, actually, altho I was pissed when he says he was "ashamed" of his father b/c he's a fisherman and instead said he was dead. Cultural difference where there is no such thing as marrying outside of your family's social/econ class. Sawyer made mention of my "Lord of the Flies" reading.... Tho it's probably wrong. Boone is emerging as the Island's very own Ed. So, Walt burned the boat. Can say this fits in the Walt controls the universe theory. I think it's wrong. At this point, all of these things can be explained (OK, except for the carnivorous giraffe that got the pilot). The turning point has yet to come where anything can really be deduced. Read somewhere that the Flash comic book that had the polar bear was about him and Green Lantern attacking an alien that was actually there benevolently.... Here's something interesting too, rumor is this was created by the creators of the show. Next week's is about Hurley. That really had me in stitches at the end. SOB!

A smug smile and, 'So what. That is SO last year!' Karnak the Magnificent predicts this is going to be Michael Jackson's defense too. The stink of it is, it'll work.

Ache-man wore #8.

I'm not Bill Gates, but.... Try right-clicking on the file and go down to Properties. Where it says at the bottom, "Read-only" uncheck it. Then try to open it. Hope that works.

Last week when they were building for the "house-less" families, they were going off on so many tangents (like Ty doing the community center on top of everything else) it was like watching Oscar Schindler at the end of the movie taking off his ring and sobbing, How many more would this have saved? They want to do so much but there's no Ben Kingsley to say, You did enough. The show on Sunday did go overboard. 5,300sq. ft. for a four-person family? My brother is building one that's 1,800 and they don't even know what to do with the entire upstairs. Don't mean to pee in the Cheerios, but I'm sure they could have found another family in the same town and built them each a normal-sized home....

Drew takes it on himself to defy what the coaches tell him, b/c he certainly knows better. Good guy who did things his way and had the occasional smelly, chair-creaking brain fart. And then there's JP in a relief appearance vs the Pats who went in with about 10 seconds notice. No whining, no bitching. How high, sir? I'll take a QB that knows his place.

Some of the sundry links on these are NSFW.....

Didn't you read the headline? Shelton doesn't like girls, he likes bears. (Someone should tell him those claws hurt if the lucky she-griz is a scratcher).

It means the player salaries will have to come back down to reality. There are too many people who think the NHL is somehow on par w/ the NFL, simply b/c it's the Major League! And until this same thing happens in baseball, that league will continue to be a joke. B/c it gets boring for the Colorado Avalanche playing the Red Wings 40 consecutive times. And the Avalance/Red Wings cannot play against the Avalanche/Red Wings in a regular season game.

As I recall, it is up to the teams involved to work that out. Say the Jets have franchised DE Abraham. If the Bills offer him $20M/year (let's just go with this hypothetically to show something), the Jets can either match that offer or negotiate to their satisfation w/ two first rounders being the maximum. Sometimes it is just one 1st. I think the Pats did this w/ the Jets in their multiple incestuous player and coach dealings (Curtis Martin, Belichick compensation) and the 1st round picks were spread over two years.

Yeah, it was 45 years after the 1919 non-SC year that the Bills won in '64. And then they repeated in '65.... FF to 2051: "Ladies and gentlemen, the back-to-back NFL Champion Buffalo Bills!"

Actually, the Canadians have you beat on the world domination thing. CWD!

If that really is the case of what you want, Shaud Williams wears jersey No. 40. I do think a lot of people here sell him short. The height factor is actually a positive for him, (lower center of gravity --> harder to tackle). Played pretty well in what relief appearances he had in SF. You're not really going to find anyone who's got as good stats or heart as him. That said, they still pick another one up for the PS in case of injuries. And I respectfully disagree, but Bettis and Willis are very different type backs. Power and size, you say. Really watch their running styles and you'll see they do lots of things differently. And it's small details of their style, but it matters big. Yeah, Willis can, but he doesn't do them nearly as well as his speed game (and you'll be seeing a revert more to this when he heals fully). I'm not convinced of his goal-line presence yet. I think Bettis could show him a few moves in camp.

I don't know (and it's hard to explain) but Bettis does it a lot differently. Willis seems to be more speed with stiffarm, running toward the sides on sweeps than a full-ahead steamroller. Bettis almost aims for the pile and busts it open. Kind of like Sam Gash, only he carries the rock while he's doing it. And still, you can't say the man is without finesse. He brings a very weird, but useful combo of size and skills to your table. He always gave our Ds fits.

Mick, the reading around here is a lot better ever since I quit PPP and didn't look back, and discovered the Ignore feature. It's really beautiful.

Valid point that there are going to be a lot of good RBs to be had for cheap in the draft and as UDFAs. I do think, tho, that Bettis would be a satisfactory "change-of-pace" back. Signing another speed & power guy would be getting esentially the same style runner. Bettis brings a lot more than that. And he's a good goaline runner/decoy.

I actually think w/ his size and style, he'd complement Willis well. He brings to the table pretty much everything Willis doesn't have (not much, at that tho) --- a bust it up your gut and you're still not going to stop me 'cause I'll run you over, guy. I'd only be concerned b/c of his age, but as a 2nd if/when Travis gets the axe or block, I'd be very happy to sign the Bus.

Here, here! (or is it 'Hear, hear!'?) For all of the in-fighting that could have gone on and didn't; Drew, thanks for taking the helm for a few years to guide the ship. And thanks for stepping aside fairly graciously. Good luck with your next team (except when you're playing the Bills or have any Bills-related tie-breakers requiring you to lose).

Actually, his quote was "particularly for J.P." Why particularly for J.P.? If Dallas isn't interested and Drew doesn't want to be a backup, then I'd say his playing days are over. When it comes down to it, he probably will land as a No. 2 somewhere. There are worse things in the world than getting paid $2M to analyze film, make fart jokes in the scout team huddle, and hold a clipboard on Sundays. Much worse things.

Thanks, I missed the first few minutes (they do start it earlier than 8) and had a few coughing-up-a-lung spells in getting over the flu. That sense of "community" that some people were saying is lacking on the island is plainly obvious in Locke's story. He might not know the particular's of Sawyer's life, but it is pretty textbook of an abusive father. There's a lot of other types of communication that goes on, especially for Locke, but it may be a Sherlock Holmes kind of Knowing things. It seems magical that he might know about this something until you find out his ordinary reasoning. Let's face it, Jack's father isn't the best of men. Which leads to another thing he said. Jack as the Good/Great Man. Who's going to emerge as his nemesis (you can't have a great man w/o a contrasting evil one)? Initially, I thought it was going to be Sawyer. And now I'm not at all sure. Call me crazy but it may actually be Boone with Locke as a medium. Trying to fit this all in to the Lord of the Flies-type reading I've been kicking around.... One'll get you ten that when they get to Hurley's backstory in a few weeks, with the clues there and what's been in the show, he had won the lottery.

The drinking game sequence was probably the most nearly original take on the lots-of-info-divulged-rapidly milieu that many other shows fail in. And this where everyone is seeking info. Sawyer's back story was intriguing and I really see him in a different light. What was a little unclear was, who killed his mother? His father? who then shot himself on the bed. And if so, why was he going after the supposed Sawyer guy? That it ended up that he was esentially a hitman on some schmoe who didn't repay a loan, that was pretty cold (the actor who was sitting in the chair in the dark was the advanced Terminator in T2). Saywer wasn't a killer... Since being on the island, he shot the polar bear, shot the Air Marshal in mercy killing (but missed -- significance?) and now didn't have it to shoot the boar. Locke's story was an intriguing moment too. He puts things out there such that you don't even know if he believes what he says half the time. The dog wasn't his sister, but there's likely some element of him that wanted to believe this, but simply dismisses it. There's some things I've read elsewhere where I think it may be wrong-headed to be trying to figure out who is "controlling" the island. There are weird things, yeah, like Stephen King. It just is, and they have to survive in the face of them.... BTW, anyone catch that next week's is, in conjunction w/ the show title, "Lost in Translation"

I stand corrected. (Even Sherlock Holmes had his 'Norbury').

Uhm, yeah he did. Not that he had much choice about it. He needed to cut guys. That's the nature of the beast. The way he did it, tho, was a tad skeevy. Legendary guys finding out they've been cut on ESPN's ticker. Christie is another example of this. Linky-poo.

I've got a GSP also. All told, we've had five, and have raised three litters. These are some of the smartest dogs you will ever find for taking a command (you have to be the Alpha, tho). At four weeks, they came running when I whistled. But the hair gets into everything, and it's as if it has Velcro hooks. Some of them, like my current dog, have a hair type where they don't shed as much, but that's like saying a downpour is less wet than a monsoon. I wonder how they'd cross with the standard poodle for the shedding issue, like they've been doing with the Labradoodle....