Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Flinty_McFlint

RT called those Tutorials, right?

second place joke: Stupid me, I instead chose to get fucked by the loan companies for years.

Translation: I'm the Boise State of Lawtalkers.

[Penske_Account]

Originally Posted by John Phoenix

What have you tried that has stevia in it? Will this product be better than Coke Zero?

A woman I used to date cooked with it. It's very similar to fructose in taste only sweeter, i.e. you need to use less when you cook with it.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

Translation: I'm the Boise State of Lawtalkers.

Move up from D-III to D-II, and then maybe, just maybe, you can't start with the insults.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by Icky Thump

I just got a text message from an unknown number that said "Passport and wire sent."

No answer from the unidentified phone call, no response to my WTF text.

Weird? Somoene looking for Jason Bourne? Am I Jason Bourne?

No. You're Douglas Quaid from Total Recall.

Not enough people dress up as George/Kuato for Halloween.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

In case you haven't been following the saga of the Michigan 2L hooker/psycho and the Michigan Law professor who purchased her services, and allegedly beat her, have fun - http://abovethelaw.com/2008/12/michi...ds_to.php#more . The link is his version. Hers can be found in another link at the bottom of the page.

Interesting story, but I think we're all just waiting to see a new Hank avatar.



TM

[Penske_Account]

Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen

I've heard that it causes intestinal distress in some.

I have not tried it my own self.

In my epxerience with it, I was not aware of such affects. some of the artificial sweeteners can have that affect though, or so I am told by dietary experts with special expertise in sweeteners.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

We need January madness. All the teams meet in places like New Orleans, Memphis, and Syracuse to play three games of football a week. Top 64 teams, just so we can be sure there's not a sleeper out there.

Syracuse? Syracuse?! Do they even play football there still?

Kidding aside (sorry BNB), you bring up another issue with playoffs. Most fans won't be able to afford to fly their families to San Diego one week, Miami the next, and New Orleans the week after that. For it to work, you'd have to give homefield advantage to the higher seed, like they do in the NFL, until the championship game.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)

There's one underlying motivation for a playoff: It's how we decide champions in the United States. And it's the only way to decide champions when it's not possible to have every team play every other team (as some european soccer leagues do).

Ah. The un-American argument. Always a winner.

Except of course for the hundred plus years of college football tradition that undermines the argument.

There's one underlying motivation against a playoff: Money--the bowls want to keep it, the BCS wants to keep it, and the NCAA, including all the other teams, want to spread it more evenly.

As you implicitly admit, there is only one real motivation for a playoff too. Other conferences want more of the money, or to put it more accurately think they will occassionally be one of the eight teams selected to play in the playoff.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

How is it wishful thinking?

Because in the year like this one (and several of the last few), there will be lots of people who think it is an outrage that Boise State doesn't get to be one of the 8 teams in the playoff.

Is this a serious question? If you are ranked 9th, how could you possibly claim that you deserve to be in the championship game?

I don't know, maybe you are undefeated, and you point out that ranking system is influenced by polls that undervalue your non-BCS conference, and BCS conference contenders are afraid to play you in the non-conference because they don't want to risk an upset so you can't improve your stength of schedule.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Shape Shifter

Syracuse? Syracuse?! Do they even play football there still?

Kidding aside (sorry BNB), you bring up another issue with playoffs. Most fans won't be able to afford to fly their families to San Diego one week, Miami the next, and New Orleans the week after that. For it to work, you'd have to give homefield advantage to the higher seed, like they do in the NFL, until the championship game.

am i on ignore?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

In case you haven't been following the saga of the Michigan 2L hooker/psycho and the Michigan Law professor who purchased her services, and allegedly beat her, have fun - http://abovethelaw.com/2008/12/michi...ds_to.php#more . The link is his version. Hers can be found in another link at the bottom of the page.

Idiot. If you're going to arrange an anonymous BDSM encounter over Craigslist, get. It. On. Videotape. A word to the wise is sufficient.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

am i on ignore?

No, you're still on Skim.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen

I've heard that it causes intestinal distress in some.

Can't be any worse than that gyro I had yesterday.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Adder

Ah. The un-American argument. Always a winner.

D-II and D-III football have playoffs. The World Cup has playoffs. Many other non-US leagues have playoffs. Perhaps the presence of playoffs in nearly every sport suggests that they are universally regarded as the best (or least bad) way to decide a champion. Having no playoff is not "unamerican" it's "unsport", like figure skating, gymnastics, and anything that relies on judges to decide winners.

Except of course for the hundred plus years of college football tradition that undermines the argument.

Ah the tradition argument. A more regular winner than "unamerican".

As you implicitly admit, there is only one real motivation for a playoff too. Other conferences want more of the money, or to put it more accurately think they will occassionally be one of the eight teams selected to play in the playoff.

Not really. I'll bet if you asked Boise State whether they wanted to be in a playoff even if all the money went to the majors, they'd say yes.

But the issue isn't really sharing the wealth, because the majors would do as well if not better with a playoff system. Sure, the money would be spread more ways, but they'd be more of it for them as well.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally Posted by Adder

Because in the year like this one (and several of the last few), there will be lots of people who think it is an outrage that Boise State doesn't get to be one of the 8 teams in the playoff.

Yes, but so what? That outrage, much like the outrage that an NCAA basketball team doesn't make it to the Big Dance is short-lived and inconsequential once the playoff begins. Sure teams will get screwed and not make the playoffs. But people want the championship settled. Like I said, all that matters is that you have a legitimate championship game. And a playoff is as legit as it gets.

Originally Posted by Adder

I don't know, maybe you are undefeated, and you point out that ranking system is influenced by polls that undervalue your non-BCS conference, and BCS conference contenders are afraid to play you in the non-conference because they don't want to risk an upset so you can't improve your stength of schedule.

So you're saying a playoff isn't as inclusive as it should be in an ideal world where teams don't get to pick their regular season games, so it doesn't work even though you have the exact same problem right now? Sounds like you're just arguing to have a bigger playoff pool.

TM