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		|  12-17-2008, 10:37 PM | #2746 |  
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				Wipe Out Troika:  Cycle, Gymnast, and Dancer
			 
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		|  12-17-2008, 10:53 PM | #2747 |  
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					Originally Posted by Adder  I vote for going back to the old fashioned bowl system, and letting the polls decide.  I would much rather listen to people bicker about who the national champion is, than over which non-bcs, lame-ass WAC team got snubbed for the right to get killed in the non-champion BCS bowls.  In my view, a playoff doesn't help because instead of bickering over the top 2-4 we will bicker over the top 6-8 or 12-16.  Both arguments are stupid. |  I dunno about playoffs but BCS is better than what was before. The last two years, under the old system, Ohio state would have played the Pac-10 champ in the rose bowl. OSU might have won, and might have had an argument they were best, when they clearly were not.
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		|  12-17-2008, 11:07 PM | #2748 |  
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					Originally Posted by Adder   In my view, a playoff doesn't help because instead of bickering over the top 2-4 we will bicker over the top 6-8 or 12-16.  Both arguments are stupid. |  Perhaps, but it seems a little easier to reject one 8-4 team for another and not be too worried about it.  This year highlights the problem--at least 3, if not 6, teams with a decent claim, and only two are playing.  The only reason they're recognized as 1 and 2 is because the BCS has convinced people it's right about who's 1 and 2.
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		|  12-17-2008, 11:15 PM | #2749 |  
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					Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch  Beef jerky handbag |  Some cats and dogs will gnaw through bags to get at beef jerky.  I can imagine what they'd do to this bag. |  
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		|  12-18-2008, 12:17 AM | #2750 |  
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					Originally Posted by bling trade   |  The best part about the first one is the camera person who trips and lands on his equipment.  Twice the fun. |  
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		|  12-18-2008, 09:39 AM | #2751 |  
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				Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
			 
 so i was looking at a book about writing exercises, and it was saying that talking about human bodies, at least attractive ones, in an unique and interesting way is tough. the exercise recommends focusing on flaws, like not "she was really beautiful, with large real breasts" but instead focus on a scar maybe. 
 so for lawtalkers secret santa I got adder, and I was looking at realdoll.com for ideas and there is an annoucement that they are selling factory seconds, with minor flaws, on something called dollforum.com
 
 I spent 2 minutes on dollforum and I no longer feel Ironweed is the oddest person I know of, but I digress: given that what makes a real beautiful body most intersting is its flaws, wouldn't a factory second love doll be better than a perfect one?
 
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		|  12-18-2008, 10:09 AM | #2752 |  
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					Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski  so i was looking at a book about writing exercises, and it was saying that talking about human bodies, at least attractive ones, in an unique and interesting way is tough. the exercise recommends focusing on flaws, like not "she was really beautiful, with large real breasts" but instead focus on a scar maybe. 
 so for lawtalkers secret santa I got adder, and I was looking at realdoll.com for ideas and there is an annoucement that they are selling factory seconds, with minor flaws, on something called dollforum.com
 
 I spent 2 minutes on dollforum and I no longer feel Ironweed is the oddest person I know of, but I digress: given that what makes a real beautiful body most intersting is its flaws, wouldn't a factory second love doll be better than a perfect one?
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		|  12-18-2008, 10:19 AM | #2753 |  
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				Last-minute holiday gifts
			 
 Why am I getting emails suggesting last-minute holiday gift ideas?   Was I supposed to have purchased Xmas presents already?  Xmas isn't for a whole week. 
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		|  12-18-2008, 10:46 AM | #2754 |  
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				Re: put down the pitchforks
			 
 
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					Originally Posted by Adder  I vote for going back to the old fashioned bowl system, and letting the polls decide.  I would much rather listen to people bicker about who the national champion is, than over which non-bcs, lame-ass WAC team got snubbed for the right to get killed in the non-champion BCS bowls.  In my view, a playoff doesn't help because instead of bickering over the top 2-4 we will bicker over the top 6-8 or 12-16.  Both arguments are stupid. |   We may bicker over the top 6-8 or 12-16, but there would be no argument over who should be national champion (or who should be in the national championship game), which is all that really matters.
 
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		|  12-18-2008, 10:59 AM | #2755 |  
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					Originally Posted by dtb  You're weird. |  2. Still, Howard Stern talks about real dolls. i heard they were selling their factory seconds, and it struck me as sad that someone who is so pathetic that have to buy one needs to settle for a factory second, but then I thought maybe it isn't so bad.
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		|  12-18-2008, 11:10 AM | #2756 |  
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					Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall  We may bicker over the top 6-8 or 12-16, but there would be no argument over who should be national champion (or who should be in the national championship game), which is all that really matters.
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		|  12-18-2008, 11:20 AM | #2757 |  
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				Coke with Stevia
			 
 So, it looks like Coke/Pepsi will soon be using a stevia-based sweetener in some of their drinks. I enjoy the stevia.  Do we know if they're going to use actual stevia, or some product containing stevia combined with several other artificial cancerous Big Sweetener chemicals? 
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		|  12-18-2008, 11:28 AM | #2758 |  
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					Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?  So, it looks like Coke/Pepsi will soon be using a stevia-based sweetener in some of their drinks. I enjoy the stevia.  Do we know if they're going to use actual stevia, or some product containing stevia combined with several other artificial cancerous Big Sweetener chemicals? |  What have you tried that has stevia in it?  Will this product be better than Coke Zero?
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		|  12-18-2008, 11:31 AM | #2759 |  
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					Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)  Perhaps, but it seems a little easier to reject one 8-4 team for another and not be too worried about it.  This year highlights the problem--at least 3, if not 6, teams with a decent claim, and only two are playing.  The only reason they're recognized as 1 and 2 is because the BCS has convinced people it's right about who's 1 and 2. |  That's why the old bowl system is preferable to the current BCS.  We don't have to decide who is 1 and 2 until it is all over, and we let the polls decide. |  
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		|  12-18-2008, 11:32 AM | #2760 |  
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					Originally Posted by dtb  you're weird. |  2 |  
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