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[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/recrui...month=4&rank=1

Incoming classes. (And I'll try not to comment on Coach K's recruits.)

Looks like Nova did well for themselves.

But Hank, where's State? You would think they could have added a big man.

TM

we got a big guy that was Michigan's Mr. Basketball. We did have an off year. It'll be interesting next year because our two biggest guys (that got time) graduated. OTOH a tall frosh, Roe, will hopefully get stronger and step up more.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

There would have been litigation if it had been a divorce or a declaration of the marriage in that particular case. OTOH, I know quite a few people who were perfectly capable of working everything out on their own and the divorce part was just a pain in the ass to an otherwise seamless split.

the same could be said for business disputes, or injury accidents. courts are for those that can't work stuff out.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Or should anyone who can cut a bb in half, mid-flight, probably have chosen baseball instead of modern-day samurai-ism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gcP...layer_embedded

(Points 3:45 and 6:00 of the video are the only two parts worth watching.)

TM

eta: And this one is just cool Mythbusters destruction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVfY...layer_embedded

Oh yeah. And something for Sebby's avatar: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1907003

I can't stop. What do you get the Adder who has everything?



Sleeping bag suit.

And I'm okay with these type of gun nuts:

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Or should anyone who can cut a bb in half, mid-flight, probably have chosen baseball instead of modern-day samurai-ism?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_gcP...layer_embedded

(Points 3:45 and 6:00 of the video are the only two parts worth watching.)

TM

eta: And this one is just cool Mythbusters destruction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVfY...layer_embedded

Oh yeah. And something for Sebby's avatar: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1907003

I can't stop. What do you get the Adder who has everything?



Sleeping bag suit.

And I'm okay with these type of gun nuts:

Is that the super-snuggie?

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

eta: And this one is just cool Mythbusters destruction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVfY...layer_embedded

I don't even know what they were supposed to be testing, but it doesn't matter. That was cool. Not every day you see a car get vaporized.

[Replaced_Texan]

This just fucking rocks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY (spree: another Britian's Got Talent suprise)

[Fugee]

Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan

This just fucking rocks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY (spree: another Britian's Got Talent suprise)

I never expected that voice to come out of that woman. She was a bigger surprise than Paul Potts.

[tmdiva]

Originally Posted by Fugee

I never expected that voice to come out of that woman. She was a bigger surprise than Paul Potts.

Friends elsewhere are discussing it, too, and I seem to be the only one who thinks she's not that good a singer. She is a good reminder to us all to keep up with our eyebrow grooming, however.

tm

[Hank Chinaski]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFxqC8hZ_xs

[Adder]

Originally Posted by tmdiva

Friends elsewhere are discussing it, too, and I seem to be the only one who thinks she's not that good a singer. She is a good reminder to us all to keep up with our eyebrow grooming, however.

tm

I think you're right. She wasn't that great. But she was decidedly good at least at that song, and enough of a surprise to put her over the top. If nothing else, a nice feel good clip.

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by Adder

I think you're right. She wasn't that great. But she was decidedly good at least at that song, and enough of a surprise to put her over the top. If nothing else, a nice feel good clip.

You want another from Britain's Got Talent? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNoiVrJDsE (six-year old, perfect pitch, and an ability to not rush a song, wows Simon).

[tmdiva]

Originally Posted by LessinSF

You want another from Britain's Got Talent? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNoiVrJDsE (six-year old, perfect pitch, and an ability to not rush a song, wows Simon).

Gad, seriously? Not perfect pitch by any stretch (she migrated upwards throughout the course of the song), and a strange affected tremolo.

Guess I'm a hard nut.

tm

[LessinSF]

Originally Posted by tmdiva

Gad, seriously? Not perfect pitch by any stretch (she migrated upwards throughout the course of the song), and a strange affected tremolo.

Guess I'm a hard nut.

tm

Maybe I am just comparing her to all (save Glambert) the lamewads on AI8.

[catrin_darcy]

Originally Posted by Jack Manfred

Dan Savage, who is usually a clear-headed fellow, recently told his podcast listeners that if straight people wanted to get married, they had a moral obligation to make a donation to a pro-gay marriage organization and to have the officiant make some statement during the service that it was wrong that gays are denied the right to marry in almost every state. Dan Savage is clearly getting far too much high-quality Vancouver-grown weed if he thinks this is going to catch on with more than a minority of straight people. And I was vehemently opposed to Prop 8 and want my gay friends to be able to get married. But as much as I want the State to stop preventing them from receiving the benefits of marriage, I equally don't want the gays dictating the terms of my (theoretical) wedding or marriage.

Dictating the terms of your theoretical wedding or marriage? By saying fundamental civil rights have to be applied equally and made available to every citizen of the state? You've got to be kidding.

I'm straight (and just got married), and I'm wholeheartedly with Dan Savage. But maybe I'm in this tiny, tiny minority of which you speak.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by catrin_darcy

Dictating the terms of your theoretical wedding or marriage? By saying fundamental civil rights have to be applied equally and made available to every citizen of the state? You've got to be kidding.

I'm straight (and just got married), and I'm wholeheartedly with Dan Savage. But maybe I'm in this tiny, tiny minority of which you speak.

Uh, what if you believe that and voted that way but don't want to make it part of your wedding ceremony -- is that so terrible? Seems to me Americans have a lot to be thankful for, but something tells me Dan Savage would take umbrage at the order that everybody say grace before meals at home. Maybe he meant his thing as a suggestion, but anything more strongly stated than a suggestion and I'm with Manfred.

I have been to weddings that were turned even briefly into some kind of political theater, including the high school friend who announced at the wedding that they were giving all of their wedding presents to the poor. Thanks, dude, but wouldn't it have been more thoughtful if you'd registered at a sammich shop? WTF are the poor going to do with a fucking porcelain gravy boat and a set of Wüsthof knives? It was motivated by the best of intentions, but the effect was appallingly self-congratulatory and perversely self-indulgent, and it soured the mood like Vanessa Redgrave at the '77 Oscars. I think everyone has a special duty not to take unexpected advantage of a captive audience, and Savage (who I agree is usually a very helpful intermediary between gay and straight) is out to lunch if he thinks straight people owe the gay community any duty other than to vote.

My bottom line is that "No thanks, I gave at the office" is always an acceptable way to decline an invitation to participate in political activism.