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Haters!
I mean, look, we obviously all have different tastes. I'm not saying Nickelback is everyone's favorite. We all have other 'guilty pleasures' that aren't as good but we like them more.
I thought it was the general consensus that they have been king of the rock and roll mountain ever since Scott Stapp an co. flamed out.
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Whether your like them or not, I don't think anyone would disagree that Nickelback is a great, great rock band (maybe the best since Creed's heyday). Losing them would set back the genre.
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So I thought yesterday's might trip people up, but linksfiend ended that with another 1st Round KO. The guy's an animal.
YESTERDAY:
17 minutes. LF's answer explained it.
TODAY:
I'm doing something a little different since today's puzzle can't be translated into text. I took a picture with my phone and uploaded it to tinypic.
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YESTERDAY:
1.
1. Seek and ye shall find
2. Mind your P's and Q's.
3. No man is an island
4. Opposites attract
5. To the victor belong the spoils
6. Many a true word is spoken in jest
2. 18 minues
TODAY:
Four people wish to cross a long bridge in the dark of night, but the bridge will only support a maximum of two people at a time. Furthermore, it's so dark that any bridge-crossers need to carry a flashlight to guide them, and the four people have only one flashlight to use. Walking alone, the four people would take 1, 2, 5, and 10 minutes, respectively, to cross the bridge one way. If two people travel together with the flashlight, they must go as the speed of the slower person. Remember that the flashlight must be brought back across the bridge by someone each time.
What is the shortest amount of time it will take to get all four across?
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I love that concept! What an interesting idea for an article. It's refreshing when an sports outlet actually put the time into releasing something beyond the 4000 prediction stories or power rankings.
I won't pretend that I know much about more than 3-4 of those players so I don't know if any Bills deserve a spot. Nelson started 12 games so he is out. I think Brohm would be out best shot, seeing the Chase Daniel made the list. I mean, didn't the Packers somewhat try to keep him around? He has some potential-value. EDIT: Brohm doesn't qualify...thanks DC). After him the cupboard is bare. Hardy? Could you make the argument that he caught a few TDs in '08 and learned a lot during his injury. Probably not...
If this list came out last year, I think we would have had a surefire top 5 guy in Fred Jackson. He would have qualified and he was coming off a very impressive year spelling Lynch.
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I colored it. Number 6 was the toughest. Once I got the first one the rest were easy, except 6 of course..
Agreed...number 6 was tough.
I appreciate you coloring it, but I'm thinking navy blue wasn't exactly the best choice to blend in with the white background.
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Yo put your answer in some light font, or I'm going to have to start calling you eryntheruinsmypuzzles.
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YESTERDAY:
1. Pick Pink, Valve Value, Sealed Seabed, Impress Empress, Prisoner Poisoner, Phonograph Photograph
2. TOOTH, booth (or toots), boots, boats, brats, brass, brash, BRUSH
I almost had yall stumped for the first time, but of course Mr. Roberta had to step in and ruin it
(well done, though...that ish was tricky for sure).TODAY:
1. Read the sentences aloud to decipher these adages.
1. SECANT YEESH ALF HIND
2. MINE DIOR PIECE HANK NEWS
3. NOME ANACIN NIGH LENT
4. HOBBY ZITS HUT WRACKED
5. TOOTH EVICT HOPALONG THUS BOILS
6. MANIA DREW HERDERS BO CANNON CHEST
2. If 9 boys fix 9 toys in 9 minutes, how long will it take 10 boys to fix 20 toys?
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Just a quick Corolla corollary (sorry
)....did anyone here with a Toyota get the gas pedal fix last spring? My wife has a '09 Corolla so she took hers in. The people were great and friendly and fixed it right away. However, ever since the fix, the gas pedal makes a faint mechanical whirrring noise when it is depressed to a certain level. Usually happens when you have been accelerating for a bit and then you ease your foot off the gas.There is no difference in performance...just this annoying buzz/whirr. I told her to take it back in, but she said she didn't really care enough to do it so I didn't twist her arm.
Just curious if anyone else experienced this. I did some googling back when we got it done but found nothing.
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Round-a-BOUND....Round-a-BOUND!
Nice find...my wife has a Tom Tom...I might just commandeer it for a little while.
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Failed - couldn't get part 3 of #1, spent @10 min on #2 then gave up
Ahhhh....so you're a math guy! I found your weakness! Only word puzzles from now on!!
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95% of the time it is likely just a result of a player being wined and dined lavishly and given a contract offer that wasn't insulting.
"This really is a first class organization" = They flew me out here on a G-4, had 30 people waiting to kiss my ass as I walked in the door, put a huge banner with me in my new jersey on the wall and told me how wonderful I was."
"They really know how to treat their players" = They offered me $3MM more per year than the last team I visited.
But not all these guys are idiots...and I'd suspect in 5% (or more) of the cases it is a genuine endorsement that the organization treats the players as men and with respect. They aren't patronized and they aren't tossed around like poker chips.
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I assumed Corp was joking....this isn't exactly a secret.
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George: "You um... wanted to see me Mr. Steinbrenner?"
Stein: "Yes George, come in, come in. You know George I've been your biggest supporter around here and that's why I was so disappointed to hear that you been pilfering the equipment."
George: "George would never do anything like that."
Stein: 'No why would I. I own it."
George: "Right!"
Stein: "So what are you saying?"
George: "Why would George steal from the Yankees?"
Stein: 'He wouldn't."
George: "Of course not"
Stein: "Exactly..........I don't what the hell's going on here."
George: "Sir?"
Stein: "Nothing."
George: "Well seems it's about time for George's lunch."
Stein: "Yes it is. Well lets see what I have today. Darn it It's ham & cheese again and she forgot the fancy mustard. I told her I like that fancy mustard. You could put that fancy mustard on a shoe and it would taste pretty good to me. Oh! She made it up with a cupcake though. Hey look at this . you know I got a new system for eating these things. I used to peel off the chocolate now I turn them upside down , I eat the cake first and save the frosting for the end.
RIP Boss....
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YESTERDAY:
1. Florence Nightingale, Neil Armstrong, Michael Bloomberg, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Nixon, George Balinchine, Fidel Castro, Charles Dickens
2. 40 steps
Well done to you math whizzes...and beerballer.
TODAY:
1. Use each clue to form a phrase that consists of two words differing by one letter in the same position. For example: GRIME GRIPE. 713
1. Select a rose color ...... _ _ C _ / _ _ N _
2. Worth of heart part with a flap ..... _ _ _ V _ / _ _ _ U _
3. Made an ocean's bottom airtight ..... _ _ _ L _ _ / _ _ _ B _ _
4. Cause a favorable effect on a female monarch ..... I _ _ _ _ _ _ / E _ _ _ _ _ _
5. One giving a lethal drink to an inmate ..... _ R _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ O _ _ _ _ _ _
6. Old music machine snapshot ..... _ _ _ N _ _ _ _ _ _ / _ _ _ T _ _ _ _ _ _
2. In this word ladder, make your way from TOOTH to BRUSH in just seven steps, changing one letter at a time to make a common, uncapitalized English word at each step. 116
TOOTH
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _
BRUSH
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Layne Staley
There he is! I was going to have to do it myself if no one else mentioned him.
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Sorry for your loss, bud. But he did receive a peaceful death...something to be said for that.
Also, trust that people here do care when things like this happen. TBD is a community and a loss like this does not go uncared for. Whether or not I met him, you or your family is not important.
RIP!
PS - AJ..."Sylvester Knickerbocker?" That's one helluva an awesome name!
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Since I forgot to post on Friday, here's two: 128, 22
LAST WEEK:
1. firecracker, crackerjack, jackrabbit, rabbit punch, punch card, cardboard, boardwalk, walkabout, about-face, Facebook, book fair, fair exchange, exchange student, student body, body double, double-cross, crossfire.
2. microorganism....well done Sage. I must have stared that one for 20 minutes before crumbling it up and throwing it in the trash.
TODAY:
***Thanks to people who are putting their answers in yellow font. I think that is cool so more people can do them w/o seeing the answers.**
1. Many famous people's initials lend themselves to self-descriptive phrases. For example. "Wrote Sonnets" works well for "William Shakespeare." Identify the famous people below.
1. Famous Nurse
2. Noteworthy Astronaut
3. Mayor Billionaire
4. Played Bond
5. Resigned Notoriously
6. Generated Ballets
7. Fettered Cuba?
8. Created Drood
2. In a department store, there are two identical escalators side by side. One moves upward at a certain rate, and the second moves downward at the exact same rate. Two men each walk down a different escalator, stepping on every step as they descend and always taking one step per second. The man walking down the down escalator takes 24 steps to reach the bottom, and the man walking down the up escalator takes 120 steps to reach the bottom. If the escalators instead had not been moving, how many steps would either man have taken to reach the bottom?
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Setting last night's circus aside, the most troubling part of this whole situation is how willingly LeBron gave away his chance to be known as the GOAT. There is literally nothing he can do now to get that back. 10 rings? It won't matter. He accepted a legacy ceiling "one of the greatest" and that is sad. Someone who wants to be remembered as the best ever doesn't join the one situation in the league where he won't even be alpha dog.
He says he did this to win titles because w/o titles he can't be considered the greatest. How ironic that he just sunk his own ship in that regard.
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I'd love that, but it ain't happening. Boston went from worst to first by adding an aging Allen and Garnett to Pierce. I can't even imagine how good Miami will be by adding Bosh and Lebron.
They'd be pretty awesome...I think this whole "3 Stars and 9 minimum-salaries" thing is a little overplayed...we're talking about an unprecedented joining of talent in their primes, not your average title contender. I think LeBron could thrive by altering his game to be more of a point forward. He could put up Magic Johnson numbers (I'd see 21-9-13 as reasonable), especially with Wade. And it also appears that these guys already have great chemistry.
The things they don't have that the Celtics did are hunger and good role players. This is strictly my opinion, but I think Wade is the only one of those three that has the mindset that Allen/KG/Pierce had when they got to Boston. LeBron still seems to care more about his "brand" and Bosh just seems like he wants to be famous and live in South Beach. This could change in time and it could also all be bull ****. But despite the orgy of talent they would bring to Miami, they will need hunger and cohesion to win multiple rings. LA and Boston aren't ready to leave the party yet, Orlando isn't going anywhere, OKC is coming up, Chicago is coming up, etc. No one is going to lay down for them and the talent gap isn't so great that they can cruise.
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What a dumbass.
Yeah, Simmons runs hot and cold. I read him because his passion for the NBA is unmatched and for the most part, I enjoy his style and flow (he can get a little too ADHD for me though).
I thought that paragraph was stupid as well...but I do subscribe to the idea that a LeBron/Wade/Bosh trio has weaknesses and is a classic "whole is less than the sum of its parts" situation. The LeBron/Wade dynamic will be very interesting to follow...it will not be easy for them to maximize their effectiveness together. But it just may be (as Simmons pointed out) that LeBron is not a Kobe/MJ-wired killer and he never will be. If this is the case, then he needs a Wade anyway.
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Another good take from Bill Simmons.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story...=simmons/100708
I'm starting to think that LeBron choosing someone other than Cleveland on TV will officially end the Buffalo vs. Cleveland "Most Suffering Sports Cities" debate. I've championed Buffalo for as long as I can, but this would put us back in 2nd place (ironically a spot we know all too well...
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For me the Jordan thing would be too much to go to Chicago though. I'm not sure NJ/Brooklyn is that stupid - as terrible as they were last year they have better pieces in place than the Knicks and Cavs. I agree it would be a jerk move to leave Cleveland this way.
The Jordan Shadow is definitely something to think about. But you could also think of it in terms of creating a multi-generational dynasty. Kobe isn't diminished due to Magic just as Magic isn't diminished due to Kareem and just as Kareem isn't diminished due to West. They all become part of the legacy of a dominant franchise. Not many teams have dynasties that span generations. LeBron could conceivably elevate Chicago to that very elite stratosphere by winning 4-6 more rings. Now the history of the Bulls no longer starts and ends with Chapter 1: Michael Jordan. It gives him the chance for the greatest legacy ceiling I think. He could actually manage to do the impossible, which is steal a little of the historical spotlight from MJ by making the Bulls about more than just the Jordan Years. Plus, the same history which will judge him as potentially weak if needs Wade/Bosh to win will praise him louder if he defeats them.
And I don't think NJ is the worst situation, but it is not an immediate win situation. I think he might have a better chance of winning with Amar'e and the Knicks than he does with Harris and Lopez. If it's all about guaranteeing a title and nothing else, I'd go:
1. Miami
2. Chicago
3. Dallas
4. NY
5. NJ
6. LAC
7. Cleveland
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Sorry for the absence...I was cooking like a piece of bacon at the Delaware beaches. I don't know how hot it was this weekend in upstate NY, but it was brutal in the DE/PA/MD area. I feel like Stewie in the tanning episode of Family Guy. Anyway:
LAST WEEK:
1. Game 1: things you catch ::: Game 2: words that precede "pants"
2. 19 socks
3. The Man in the Iron Mask, Arsenic and Old Lace, Ulee's Gold, Silver Streak, Platinum Blonde, Tin Cup
TODAY:
1.
Fill in the blanks with consonants to complete the 13-letter word below:
_ I _ _ OO _ _ A _ I _ _
2.
Use all the words below to form a chain in which each word links to next to create a common compound (or hyphenated) word or phrase. The chain starts with FIRE and links to CRACKER to make FIRECRACKER. Then CRACKER links to another word and so on. The chain comes full circle, ending with FIRE.
FIRE
CRACKER
ABOUT
BOOK
RABBIT
FAIR
DOUBLE
EXCHANGE
WALK
BOARD
FACE
CARD
BODY
PUNCH
JACK
CROSS
STUDENT
Attn: Al Qaeda
in Off the Wall Archives
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I'd say they are pretty rare. It's a big burden to be universally considered the best in your genre and most bands crack under the pressure. (Look at Creed...they were passed the torch and while they burned very bright, it didn't last long). Nickelback picked up the baton and never looked back.
It takes talent and creativity (a real "thinking outside the box" mentality) to hold the crown as long as they have. I don't think that is arguable.