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[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Indeed. I usually reserve a full erection for massive vaginas. Since the onset of waxing, however, I've frequently misallocated my engorgement.

Can't Pam Anderson inflate/deflate her boobs at will?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

You win.

[Gattigap]

So I remember reading somewhere people predicting that Belichik's play will, when the circumstances repeat itself, scare the piss out of coaches everywhere, and we'll see nothing but punts for the next 30 years.

Anyone who thinks that hasn't met Yale coach Tom Williams, who knows that the answer is that you double down, bitch. You double down.

See if this sounds familiar. Yale was leading by three points with 2:25 left in their giant season-defining game against Harvard on Saturday. It was fourth down and they had the ball on their own 26-yard line. Seems like an obvious punting situation, right? (After all, their punter is the best in the Ivy league and was averaging 51 yards per kick for the game.) Well, Williams was apparently so won over by the outpouring of love and affection that Bill Belichick got all week by going for it against the Colts, that he decided to do the Patriots' leader one better. The Bulldogs ran a fake punt that gained 15 yards on an end around run. The only hitch in the plan was that they needed 22.

I'm not sure those Ivy League eggheads read all that statistical analysis defending Belichick very carefully. Oh, sure it was a gutsy gamble that really sent a message. The message is that Yalies are not smart. Seriously, fourth and 22? Harvard got the ball at the Yale 40 and three plays later they scored the winning touchdown, their eighth victory in nine tries over their arch rival.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

So I remember reading somewhere people predicting that Belichik's play will, when the circumstances repeat itself, scare the piss out of coaches everywhere, and we'll see nothing but punts for the next 30 years.

Anyone who thinks that hasn't met Yale coach Tom Williams, who knows that the answer is that you double down, bitch. You double down.

Bellichick's decision was at least arguable. I don't see how you can expect to pick up 26 yards on any play let alone a fake punt. 4th and 7 maybe.

[Sidd Finch]

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

Bellichick's decision was at least arguable. I don't see how you can expect to pick up 26 yards on any play let alone a fake punt. 4th and 7 maybe.

OTOH, it appears that people are paying attention to the Harvard-Yale game. This should be considered a victory, given that "Ivy League football" is an oxymoron.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Why do people write messages to their dead friends and relatives on facebook? Is this some kind of tribute? If so, is it appropriate for anyone but a fucking acquaintance? Are you doing it for the benefit of other facebook friends who knew that person? Do you think dead people give a fuck about facebook?

TM

Why do people leave teddy bears at the base of the tree some drunk or texting teenager ran into?

[Fugee]

Glambert's performance was one of the few I really watched at the AMA Awards.

I thought the most shocking thing about his performance was how mediocre his vocals were but apparently 1500 people were offended enough to call ABC to complain.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/162...23/story.jhtml

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Why do people write messages to their dead friends and relatives on facebook? Is this some kind of tribute? If so, is it appropriate for anyone but a fucking acquaintance? Are you doing it for the benefit of other facebook friends who knew that person? Do you think dead people give a fuck about facebook?

TM

Why does eugenics still have a bad name? The science is catching up to the premise. I read Hominids over the weekend and the author - Robert Sawyer - posits a parallel dimension where Neanderthals became dominant rather than homo sapiens and developed a justice system where anyone with more than 50% of the same DNA as a murderer or rapist is sterilized. I would extend this to include anyone who writes to the dead on Facebook.

[Hank Chinaski]

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

Why do people leave teddy bears at the base of the tree some drunk or texting teenager ran into?

because it's a memorial to where a loved one died. no one ever died on facebook, although wonk should be embarrassed to death by much of what he posts.

[1436]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Why do people write messages to their dead friends and relatives on facebook? Is this some kind of tribute? If so, is it appropriate for anyone but a fucking acquaintance? Are you doing it for the benefit of other facebook friends who knew that person? Do you think dead people give a fuck about facebook?

TM

Because people who live mediocre lives hope that this is not all that there is. Surely, their loved one is looking down and is happy that they are being remembered in such a touching way. If not, then they have to face their own mortality and the fact that the one special place where they spend most of their waking hours taking quizzes and polls may have even less meaning than the rest of their life.

Or, Adder is trying the sensitive thing on the paralegal.

Either could work.

[barely_legal]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

Does this mean I won't be meeting the man in your mother's life in Vegas in January? Or does it mean she doesn't want to see me?

If you want to meet him, he's scheduled to be there with her. I'm sure we can set something up. Maybe you could have a geriatric threesome? I bet that's a purity test box that you haven't checked off yet.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

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

Why do people leave teddy bears at the base of the tree some drunk or texting teenager ran into?

As padding for the next drunk or texting teenager?

TM

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Why do people write messages to their dead friends and relatives on facebook? Is this some kind of tribute? If so, is it appropriate for anyone but a fucking acquaintance? Are you doing it for the benefit of other facebook friends who knew that person? Do you think dead people give a fuck about facebook?

TM

I don't know but I find it creepy when Facebook tells me that I should reconnect with a friend of mine that died in September. I realize that they don't have a clue that she died, but it's another argument against that "reconnect" feature they just started.

Do you de-friend the dead? How soon after she died?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

I don't know but I find it creepy when Facebook tells me that I should reconnect with a friend of mine that died in September. I realize that they don't have a clue that she died, but it's another argument against that "reconnect" feature they just started.

Do you de-friend the dead? How soon after she died?

I have absolutely nothing against reconnecting with the dead. It sounds like a great idea.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

I have absolutely nothing against reconnecting with the dead. It sounds like a great idea.

Necrophiliac.