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Is this a mad libs post about Kid Rock songs? The possibilities are endless.

The random place that asks you if you want to round up to the next dollar for a charity, those ones do it right. Sure it's a small donation each time, but I bet they consistently get that donation from most customers.

I hate that so many people's minds immediately jump to Vanilla Ice when they hear that music.

A classic rock station down here was running a top 500 this weekend too. I wonder if it winds up being the same exact list. After a quick google search, they're not owned by the same company, so it's interesting to see the same exact countdown format running on two unaffiliated stations and having the same number of songs.

Maybe I'm getting my bands mixed up, but I thought it was Candlebox. They bailed on a show in Buffalo and for years after WEDG refused to play any of their music. It must have been the show you're talking about.

It's pretty rare for me to have to make up on my mind on a tip prior to receiving the food. I can only think of one place where I ran into this. Still, I stick to the simple rule that if my meal does not involve a waiter, I'm not tipping. I supposed I might bend that one a bit if I was a big fan of the place or knew the workers well, but that's it.

I watched Into the Spiderverse on a flight recently. That one was incredibly well done. I can see how it was winning awards. And the scene at the end of the credits was hilarious.

I'm surprised they haven't tried to go that route again with this franchise, showing the future storyline instead of rehashing the lead up to judgement day over and over. Things at least get a bit more unpredictable in the future, where you no longer know John Connor has to survive the movie so he can lead the future resistance.

Kozlov was 29 at the time of the trade, so that one really wasn't a "looking towards the future" deal. But anyway, it's kind of funny to look back on that deal and see that the other piece wound up being a big part of a Stanley Cup champion. Speaking of Paille, apparently his draft pick bounced around between a bunch of teams and the first trade was for Joe Nieuwendyk. There's an odd coincidence for this whole discussion.

I don't mean to single you out. I had a longer post written up but then shortened it, talking about this constant rush to judgement we see with immediately grading winners/losers in trades and draft picks. So it's more about that "well, we have to print something" mentality that drives me mad. If we do want to judge it as of today though, it's amazing how quickly that picture could change significantly in a very short time. All it takes is one trade with that other pick.

I just don't see what the point is of making that assessment. A grading of incomplete is not a failure, yet it seems to be all that the fanbase wants to focus on.

I had a job in college grading tests and homework for stats classes. One year, there were these two girls (one was the star player on the soccer team) who would always hand in identical papers for every single homework assignment. It's homework, so it's not the biggest of deals, but when you have to write out explanations of results and the wording is identical every time, it sticks out very quickly. My personal favorite was when they would copy glaringly stupid mistakes on the level of "1+1=8", things that even the worst students in a class should catch if they're even slightly paying attention. I also worked in the athletic department, so I really didn't want to ruffle any feathers given that it was the star of the soccer team. Hell, I was on the sidelines for their games, standing right next to that girl for a good portion of the time. I did wind up telling the professor though.

The trade wasn't made for today, so it's not really a surprise that they don't have anything to show for it so far. Yes, we all would have liked to see more from Thompson this year, but that book's far from written. Calgary had absolutely nothing to show for the first year after trading Joe Nieuwendyk (yes, I had to google that spelling), but that wound up working out quite well. And please don't think I'm trying to compare those players, it's just the example that always comes to mind in a prospect for established vet deal that can work out for both teams. Hopefully we'll start to quickly see the true test of that trade begin next year. If Krueger truly is that great motivator who gets the most out of people, hopefully that pushes Thompson towards his potential. I'm not ready to write off that trade yet. That's like quitting on a diet because you're hungry on day 1.

I'm the exact opposite on this one. The most recent season was garbage. They had done a nice job in the prior season or two building up certain people and then they completely threw everything out the window and rebooted the show. Sure, some of the newbies are good characters, but not enough of them. I'm also not all that crazy about this current incarnation of Morgan. But hey, at least I can count on him revealing his 85th alternate personality soon enough.

Now there's an interesting possibility for the original post. The double "s" misspell of the name makes it sound reasonable.

Isn't Kesler completely broken at this point? I seem to remember something about potential career ending surgery. If they're suggesting taking on a cap hit in exchange for assets, I might understand it, but it's odd to see that option on the same list as Duchene. Edit: I should learn to read posts from plenz. Difficult, I know, but there might sometimes be value to them.

Short of a big free agent who has worn the number his entire career, I would not want to be the guy who wears that number here.

They'll be the first team to ever win 98 in a row but not win the Cup. Don't ask me how that's possible. They'll find a way.

They've been doing pretty well with the solo stories, so maybe there's hope here. If they really are spinning off and rebooting, there could have been potential to tie it in with the Joker movie, but I don't know how they can pull that off with the age difference for Phoenix. Even with the reboot, I hope they follow through on some of the backstories they teased in Batman vs. Superman. There's potential in seeing some of Jason Todd's story play out in movies. It would definitely be unique when compared to all previous incarnations of big screen Batman.

If he didn't have another year left on his contract, I'd ask if Halak would be interested in coming to Buffalo this time.

Please tell me there's a body bag reference at some point.

I missed the first ever in class exam I had in college because I was at my grandfather's funeral. On my first day back on campus, the professor set up a time in the afternoon to take the exam. That morning, I went to the weekly TA-lead discussion session that was a part of the class, not realizing they were passing out the grading exams. I explained my situation to the random girl sitting next to me and she handed me her exam after the class. It was a huge class, so the professor used 2 or 3 different exams. The one she gave me wound up being the same one I got. So yeah, I nailed that one. And before anyone asks, I was too clueless at that stage in my life to realize that I could have nailed more than just the exam.

Are we now at the "make completely random comments about Ralph Krueger" portion of the thread?

I wonder how many people right now are thinking back saying "I remember that guy" and claiming to be the person who won him over.

My brothers and I were unusually obsessed with the Dorf videos when we were kids.