Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Iran was in the middle of a revolution during qualifiers, and imploded with an own goal against South Korea. North Korea only needed to tie Saudi Arabia to get in.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

You say that like North Korea has no problems of its own.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

What I wonder is whether the North Korean players realize that the teams they are playing against are actually from other countries, or whether they think these are simply additional minions of the Glorious Leader.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I would guess that the members of the North Korean national soccer team don't fully share in the problems of their countrymen.

And that Dear Leader has instituted an exceptionally strong disincentive towards own-goals.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Is that the Colombian program?

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Similar, but worse. I think they make you listen to a few hours of speeches first.

Suggestive Much?
 

Looking forward to a friend's "Roaring Twenties" theme party:

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._2589556_n.jpg

Re: Suggestive Much?
 

Accidental penis!

Starbucks
 

I rec. a coupon for a free 12 oz drink if you buy a pound of coffee. there is an option to send to others if anyone would like this, pm me and I'll send it along.

Thanks.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

Why does The Hobbit have to be 2 movies? They managed to do each book of LOTR in one movie.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

I imagine it's because $700,000,000>$350,000,000. (based on approximate average of domestic revenues from the three LOTR movies on Boxofficemojo.com)

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

A less cynical person would say "so they can make the movies reflect the scope and depth of the book, rather than just compress the story into a series of battle, narrow escape, battle, narrow escape."

Or maybe that's more cynical. Or maybe I just need to get over the fact that Tom Bombadil was cut from the first one -- I really never recovered from that.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

The great thing about slash-and-crash battle scenes in the era of CGI is that a battle scene can take four minutes or half an hour at the director's option. What the LOTR trilogy proved was that the Battle of Five Armies that took maybe six minutes of the Rankin-Bass animated version of The Hobbit* could be drawn out to a full hour (if New Line pays for it) and no one would be bored by it. But apparently there's also some plot that someone is writing to better connect TH with FOTR, which New Line will gladly sell you in a twelve-disc Director's Cut with Authentic Replica One Ring for just $179.99.

*I'm grateful for this not for the thing itself, but for its inspiration of the Lemmiwinks episode of "South Park" in what turned out to be the last consistently funny season.

Re: The thread where Spring has sprung, and Penske has risen from the law. Word!
 

as I've mentioned, I've 3 FB friends with IMDB pages, yet socks who spend half the day salivating over Hot and now burgers post this stuff. Let me tell people how it is, ok?

this is worse than when ty challenges me on science on the PB. At least he copies his stuff from someone who claims to know what's up.