shrader

Can someone start posting pictures of shiny objects?

Exiled, please tell me that's a typo. There's a Republic of the Congo AND a Democratic Republic of the Congo?

One problem, Palmer is in DC and Logan's corpse is in LA.

How many different names has Congo/Zaire had in the last 5 years?

I'm on another board that has seen some major unexpected increases in traffic lately too. Obviously I'm the connection between the two boards, so feel free to blame me.

How could you forget Chad?!

Mine is taped to my monitor here at work. I don't know it, but I had to answer yes to that one.

Getting right around 10 of them before giving up has to be some kind of accomplishment, right?

2% I went through and changed the planet answer from 8 to 9 and it went down to 1%. Stupid quiz doesn't even have the right answers.

Those British "news" sources have a reputation for making up a lot of this stuff. I'm declaring shenanigans on this story.

But if he was born in 1987 like Crosby, could he take it?

The laugh track made me turn it off after a couple minutes. Do those things ever actually help a show?

Bang your head all you want, but I gave you how it's calculated. Why would a game where you gain 1 point be considered the same as a game where you get nothing? Anyway, in the end it really doesn't matter at all since all anyone cares about is the point totals. This "winning" percentage is just another way of quantifying that point total.

Winning percentage is total points/possible points. So for the winning percentage, an OTL counts as 0.5. If a team has more wins than regulation losses, they're above .500.

4:19. I started in the northeast and worked my way over, but somehow missed New Jersey.

Yeah, but how long ago was that? I'm sure every new machine since then could accept the dollar coins.

Weren't they when the last one came out?

We've got enough idiots in this country. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to have the same president appearing on more than one coin. As for it possibly catching on. If they really want it to, eliminate the single and force people to accept it.

And then there's the fact that if you pick a team to be a surprise and then they follow through, it's not really a surprise, is it?

It said only one player didn't listen to what the coach. Do you really need to ask that question?

Because it was under the BU bridge. That kind of idiotic placement is exactly why these guys are in trouble.

Another media thing that really bugs me. One of the sources reporting all of this, CNN, is owned by the same company responsible for the ads. Why did it take them so long to step up and take responsibility? Yeah, I already know the answer to that.

The articles weren't completely clear about that. The ads have been around major cities for weeks, but did they put them all up at the same time or did they do LA one day, New York the next... ? I sure as hell never saw the things and I'm in the immediate area of two of them.

I'm not jumping on either side here, but how does football being the #1 sport in the US have anything to do with which sport is more popular in Buffalo? Since football is #1 nationally, does that mean that it's the #1 sport in every single town in the country? Why not simplify that even further. If it's the #1 sport in every single town, it must be the #1 sport in every single household too.

It seems like a common sense move to try to disguise a bomb. A cartoon character could be a good way of doing that. As usual, this whole thing was completely media driven. It took way too long for the stories to finally mention exactly what was on the "unidentified packages". The media sticks with those words as long as possible because they want to scare people. I'm sure some of them were even hoping they were bombs just so they could be to one to break the story.