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UConn James

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  1. That is indeed a terrible thing, but your analogy is lacking.

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    Right. Well, if the pedophelia epidemic isn't enough for you, try reading "Hitler's Pope" and then pretend that the same structure isn't there. Never mind the library of other monstrocities the leadership has endorsed or swept under the rug. The largest landowning entity in the WORLD, and they can't afford a settlement that will provide pysch. care to their victims?

     

    I erased your quote from my reply. It was disgusting and you didn't need to go that far to make your point. Please try to use some tact in the future.

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    It is disgusting. It is also true. But don't bother yourself with that detail. Sorry, you can get back to talking about whippings, stonings, beheadings and the like. :devil:

  2. I can live with that.

     

    Look...is it all that unreasonable to believe that people who aren't singers shouldn't masquerade as such, and that disabled people shouldn't be exploited or coddled simply because they're "special"?

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    What if it was a Make-A-Wish thing?

  3. The point is that this would be like Catholics killing a boy for eating meat on Friday during Lent or something similar.

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    How about a Catholic that makes a boy suck on his penis, and the leadership's refusal to accept any semblance of resonsibility for shuffling pedophiles below the radar of police involvement and directly leading to that boy's suicide 20 years later?

     

    But Islam is just as much a 'religion of peace' as any other religion.

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    Implicit here is that no religion is peaceful. It establishes a group of believers who form a looooooong list of grievances in their text. They can then feel morally superior when they have run-ins with the Other.

  4. Actually, stutterers are perfectly fluent when they sing. Usually when speaking in unison as well.

     

    Sorry, just had a DC Tom moment.

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    I was talking about non-stutterers who stutter-sing, by drawing out a syllable and breaking their voice in between short segments for 20 seconds.

     

    If what you say is true, why couldn't Ken sing out 'Cathcart Towers Hotel' in "A Fish Called Wanda"? :devil:

  5. I think it was something that a player had to actually get an Rx to be allowed to wear a tinted visor. Like if they get headaches from bright sun or somesuch.

     

    IIRC, it was instituted so fans could see/"connect" with the players. Even tho they introduced a penalty if a player takes his helmet off on the field....

     

    Then again, this is the NFL we're discussing, where a fumble is a fumble. Unless it's not. :devil:

  6. You were all drinking heavily during the first game, weren't you?  That was horrible...not nearly as bad as the kid in the Eagles game, naturally, but putrid nevertheless...

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    Mmm. Why are people so impressed with stutter-singing?

     

    And the land of the <awkward pause> Braay-ay-ay-ay-ay-ay-a-a--ay-ay-ay-a-a-a-ave.

     

    Started with Whitney Houston in the '91 Super Bowl and now they all sing in a way that calls attention to themselves rather than the lyric. Moved into regular music too. I hate it. Carry the note ala Jeff Buckley or cut it off.

     

    No offense to the girl, she's just mimicing all the others who have nice voices but have no connection with what they're singing.

  7. I don't know if this story is true because I did not personally see it, but a friend told me it happened.

     

    Johnny, iinterviewing  a professional golfters wife ( if Iremember correctly it was either Mrs Nicholas or Mrs Palmer). "Do you do anything to bring him luck"

     

    Mrs ??? " Yes before every match I kiss his balls"

     

    Johnny -- You get the Johnny look.  That look was enough to make it hilarious if it wasn't already.

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    :devil: That look! A cross b/w Innocent choirboy, "Hey, you said it!" and "I hope the censors don't axe us."

     

    Gumbo.

     

    We're the Fucawi! --- The funniest thing was the screen just went black a second after he said it. All it took in any show after that was him raising his hand to his brow. The NBC censors made that joke into so much more than it ever would have been otherwise.

     

    You were the best, Johnny.

  8. The trick is, there are a bunch of folk here who occasionally mistake the board for their own blog[.]

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    This was probably a big part of the reason the blog feature was added. And which few people have paid any mind to.

     

    The main Bills board is a lot like Grapenuts sometimes, to borrow from Seinfeld.

     

    The BB forum is categorized/compartmentalized better in this regard. PPP here is a nice example of how to divide things up in their own place.

  9. or the even more obvious channel some 25 years ago, a small channel in bristol connecticut created to cover UCONN sports....whatever happened to that channel, don't hear much about them these days.

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    Umm... ESPN was not created to cover UConn. Even back when it was really about showing sports rather than opinions on pro sports and highlights of Kobe they had such things as bowling, darts, and get this, the national spelling bee (which I think they still have).

     

    BTW, UConn bball didn't really start getting dominant until the late 80s/early 90s.

  10. They're now saying 15-24" here with wind chill temps in the negative double digits.

     

    Bah. We get one or two of these things a year. Stay inside and feed the wood stove if you're smart enough to have one. For afterwards, a 4x4 Jeep. But yes, that's good advice to stay safe and drive carefully if you have to. People here pretty much know how to drive in it. Until you get some schmuck with N.C. license plates.

     

    In '78, when I was a gleam in my pop's eye, the snow was actually over the roofline. There's pictures to prove it. I'll still take a little snow any day over hurricanes, floods, and mudslides.

  11. We'll see about that. See, where you and I differ is I think that some portion of this money being sent to help those people is ending up in the hands of some really bad people who will use it for murderous purposes.

     

    Simple answer: I don't TRUST the people that live there enought ot send them aid. I know what happened when we sent aid to Ethiopia: the bad guys got their hands on it and the average shmuck saw nothing of it.

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    The phrase "biting the hand that feeds them" doesn't wholely apply to canines.

     

    'Desertion' mentality is a powerful motivator toward desperate acts. With Americans' 15-minute attention span to critical problems, it's unwise for us to get involved in other countries' affairs. That's what got us where we are today.

  12. I heard an interview today with the actor that plays Hurley, and it turns out there's a good reason for him not losing weight: they don't pay him enough to.  :D  As he good-humoredly put it (paraphrasing): "Tom Hanks got $20M to lose weight for 'Castaway'.  I don't make nearly that much."

     

    He also mentioned that the producers accepted the impossibility of him losing as much weight as someone his size would being stranded on an island, and somehow worked it into the story (in a "they're scavenging enough food" sort of way, not a "odd sh-- happens on the island" way).

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    They'd apparently been on the island for 16 days on this week's show. I don't know about you guys, and maybe it's just my bird diet, but it'll take more time until they start losing mad weight. The folks on Survivor lose about 10-15 pounds in 43 days (except for Dirk, the Bible-thumper in the first or second season; he was a twig in the third week) and that's with a lot of physical exertion in challenges etc., which you don't really see them doing in Lost.

     

    I don't know, I kind of like Hurley for some of his comic relief on the show (and per above in real life). Can't wait for his backstory. Still have some ?s about him.

  13. Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Tell that to Howard Dean who very nearly stole the Democratic nomination out from under the "moderates".

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    Have you listened to anything Dean spoke except "YAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" (BTW--His Yahoo! commercial was funny as all get out)? I watched him on Charlie Rose a while back and thought, Is this the guy they said was the ultra-liberal? A-rating from the NRA is a good starting point with me. Follow that up with his message of going grass-roots for donations and then backing it up with how his campaign raised $. Kick out the special interests who buy access and make it about what the people want.

     

    It'd be a good thing for him to get the DNC chair.

  14. Men's clothing is just damn boring, period.  Yuck. 

     

    And don't you all recall that according to Jerry Falwell purple means you're a...um...well...homasexshul?

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    I'm looking around for a brown suit for the time coming when I have to get a respectable (read: desk) job. Neckties are an important part. Still have to bone up on the Full Windsor (Half-Windsor looks like crap!). I might get a purple tie, or a nice blue-red mesh just to give Falwell the bird. For all his airs, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if he's got a boyfriend on the side.

     

    Men's clothing isn't entirely boring. I've got some awesome high-brown Snake boots from Cabela's a while ago, almost to the knees. People laugh if you wear them in the summer, but break 'em out in the winter and then see who's laughing!

  15. I see the island as the end point for the many different paths of our casts lives. You see that for each person that survived the crash, their individual journeys to the island began long before they boarded the plane.

     

    I wouldn't get so worked up about Fate, man.

     

    It's not like everyone else has a clean slate in their lives. The plane crash just happened to these people. And it's not necessarily an "end point" for them.

  16. Black men have it so lucky in regards to fashion. They can wear light tan suits with a black shirt and purple tie and make it look good. I wear a combo like that and Im either fired and/or getting my ass kicked.

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    I don't know. There's things that work differently with any complexion. I actually don't think that ensemble would look half bad, even on a white boy. Would probably go better with dark hair as a balance with the dark shirt. Why might you get fired for wearing that tho? And it all depends on how you wear it, and who you are. Clothes do not, contrary to what Shakespeare's Polonius says, make the man. And then there's the away jerseys, which white guys, black guys, green guys, red guys or blue guys look bad in.

     

    Racist? Jebus Flubbing Krist!

     

    Watching the inauguration today, I've seen quite a few. And lots of people mixing vivid blues and reds. Baraba Bush, the elder, for example.

     

    When exactly did purple become an un-manly color?

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