UConn James
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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).
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.
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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.
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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!
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C'mon, JSP, you couldn't just wait for your fix?
JC's is one of the best I've read.
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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.
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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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I realize this more than you know. Advertisers want to see that the program could possibly be watched by 8 million people at any given time. Whew, that alone is gonna sell your products.... Advertising/marketing people always left me with the impression that they should be digging ditches somewhere.
I don't think it would survive as a 24/7 network like Empire. No, absolutely not. (Doubt the 'Boys or 'Skins channels will either). And it can't be over-reaching. If the NFL Network produced, what, a 1- or 2-hour segment/day for local providers in a team's area, that would probably work.
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Really? I predict I'll wear blue jeans next week.
Opposing values wasn't a foresight back then and it ain't a new concept to the 2000s either.
It's a book of fiction, history, rebel politics, love, war, archaeology, big-issue morality, rape, murder, prostitution, death, death, death, death, death.
Part of the Islamics' problem is that they have a really good system, via religion, of bringing up past time-out-of-mind political abuses against themselves.
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The Cowpukes and Chesapeake Drainage Basin Indiginous Persons are starting their own networks. They've got a larger population/fanbase, sure. But they're not as loyal. Nowhere near as loyal.
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Walt was walking the dog. The polar bear (he seemed to be a VERY BIG polar bear in the CGI images) attacks him in the circular reed enclosures. Locke and his father save him from above.
Locke and Boone go out to try to find the dog. Locke has a jury-rigged dog whistle. Rustling in the bushes. Locke grips his knife. Claire walks out. Her face looked pretty nasty w/ bruising and such. Others here say it looks like the baby is out. I don't know. I didn't see this, I saw the belly as the first thing. But I was a little tired last night....
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Boone's zinger has been long in coming (he did have some put-downs previously in the Why-aren't-you-helping milieu). I don't think it was funny or was meant to be funny. More like cold. I reiterate --- there seems to be a "Lord of the Flies" turn ahead. First it's this, then they're breaking Piggy's glasses.
That scene w/ Charlie was one of the funniest I've seen on Teevee in a while. Kind of sad considering that this ain't exactly a sit-com....
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Sometimes, especially late at night, that seems a whole hell of a lot more intelligent than someone who chimes in to say 1,300 of our soldiers have died to get the Ding-Dong out of the Do-Da..... <shrug>
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I'm not saying there is...necessarily.
What I mean is that by begining the show focused on an eye (not once, but several times) I think it's just a metaphor for The Mind's Eye as well as establishing POV. But when Locke specifically mentions the reality of the Mind's Eye (Lock of all people, his interaction with the monster is key here) it makes you wonder.
Here is what I said about the Monster last week (it fits nicely here):
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The monster was first sighted during the survivors' first night, when everyone was afraid of the island and where they were. This was their biggest fear. Thus the monster was stomping trees in the jungle. After all at that point they didn't know what was IN the jungle and were afraid. Thus the monster materilized as those fears.
When I read this last week, I flashed on "Cast Away" with Tom Hanks flopping around in the rubber raft when he was hearing things that first night. I actually
'ed at that the first time I saw it.I don't know, when I've had experience with "The Mind's Eye" it was always for visualizing something that you desire. Not making up something you fear. And maybe this fits in with the earlier discussion but I think it might just be an explanation goose chase. I think all the people who are looking to figure out the meaning and who think they really do know it, are going to be very surprised.
(Just noticed I had 'necessarily' twice in two consecutive sentences.
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I don't know if this has been discussed in previous LOST threads, but have you noticed the show's facination with begining episodes with a close up of a character's eye?
I went through my Tivo after last week's episode and noticed that in the majority of episodes (including the first 4) they begin with a close up of the eye. It's usually the character who the episode focuses on...
It may be a minor thing, but tonight Locke mentioned something interesting while showing Walt how to throw the knife. He talked about the Mind's Eye and Walt said, "it felt real." Locke responded, "whose to say it wasn't?"
An interesting conversation that has relevence I think.
Certainly the whole begining episodes with an eye could be just symbolic of the mind's eye of that particular character (since much of the show is flashback etc). But it also goes hand in hand with what I was talking about with the monster. About how the monster is a reflection of yourself...
thoughts?
I don't now about this theory. It's the Obvious Path the writers are leading everyone down to think more into it than there really is. Then when it is real, people will be surprised maybe? Surprised and confused is something they obviously want us viewers to be. Don't bring any expectations like 'The over-arching experience will turn out not to be real' b/c you're going to be duped by Abrams when he does a quadruple-bluff.
The point about the initial focus on the eyes of that week's highlighted character is interesting. Introducing point-of-view? I don't think it's necessarily a case that each person is seeing what they want, etc. I mean, they are, that's what POV is all about, but there's not necessarily some mystical/philosophical explanation of it.
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"Working with what we've got" isn't likely to make Josh Reed, Ross Tucker, Mark Campbell, etc...Pro Bowlers. The elite AFC teams routinely bring in cheap vet FA's like STB51 suggested in his thread. These cheap vet FA's help get them over the hump.
Furthermore, STB51 wasn't suggesting we bring in Brady and/or Manning and/or Culpepper.
Try again.
I give Reed one more year. The TEs are much maligned and they're better than many people here think; plus, you're not going to get anything better in the draft or that will ultimately be available in FA. Bradford won't be a cheap vet. McKenzie was a cheap vet who wasn't even allowed to play. Those FAs need to be targeted for specific need areas and not to be plugged ahead in the roster just b/c the current occupant is younger, or older for that matter.
That wasn't the suggestion by this poster and I didn't say it was, bro.
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See it more among the media types, but a lot of the pols have taken to wearing purple.
50% blue, 50% red
Do you own a purple tie?
Would you admit to owning a purple tie?
Would you wear a purple tie?
Sorry. Just trying to shake the peaches.
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They're not in Buffalo until 2009.
Which will be the first time ever. In 30+ years of existence.
Those schedule-makers really are fair and balanced, aren't they?
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How 'bout they work with what they've got instead of signing every FA vet that's out there. OL seems to be the only place I'd want to bring someone in if JJ goes.
Odds are that a #1 receiver isn't going to play in the slot. Or that a #2 QB who had a part in bumping out a young starter is going to make the Bills situation better.
Much as we'd like, they can't sign 53 Pro Bowlers.
It's gonna be another long offseason of 'Hey, why don't we sign Brady, Manning AND Culpepper for QB. That way, we're all set!'
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Liked the backstory of Walt and his father.... Nice at the end where they bonded a little bit when Walt finally saw that he'd gotten letters all along and the guy did care. :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: Brian, not that this kind of thing doesn't happen lots.... Speaks lots about Walt's dad (don't remember his name) that he at least covered and made himself look like the bad guy instead of saying that Walt wasn't wanted by Brian. Walt's mother's attitude just had me PO'ed. She's the mother, so she can take the kid wherever. Bye. I don't need you anymore, loser construction worker.
So what was it that was revealed that was more than ever? The polar bear? We've seen it before. Maybe it was the line from Brian that "things have always happened" when Walt was around. Dead bird when he was reading the bird book, polar bears when he was reading the comic (The Flash --- I actually used to read that when I was a kid)....
That's odd about Claire. Her belly was the first thing I noticed that it was her a split second before her face showed. Was she responding to the dog whistle?
It's getting more like "Lord of the Flies" with this group that's emerging around Locke and Boone. Walt and his dad now seem to be included. Splitting into one group that hunts and kills, another that relies on intelligence (Jack's doctoring, Sayid trying to figure out the maps).
OT: Vacum just had its farwell suckage
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Consumer Reports didn't have Dyson rated all that highly. There were several that did just as good but for a lot less than $400. I think it was this month's issue.