Stop living in the past.
 

Mightn't there be other compounds that could, in combination with the alcohol, affect mood? I find that at pre-drunk levels, red wine makes me significantly happier/warmer/friendlier than other kinds of alcohol. Once I'm mostly drunk, the type of alcohol ceases to matter as much.

Stop living in the past.
 

No, but it was how my mom explained the embarrassing moment when I walked in to the Jacuzzi-room to tell her and dad that I was home. ewwwwww When you are 16 that shit can fuck you up. I feel all squicky now.

Singh apologizes to Sorenstam
 

When I was in high school, some dude at another school in our league was allowed to play on the girl's field hockey team, as there was no guy's field hockey.

In the end he was allowed to practice with the team, but rode the bench for games. Apparently he was awesome, and all the other teams in the league complained that he was too big/rough/good. To his credit, he at least would go to the games and sit on the bench and cheer for his teammates.

Stop living in the past.
 

Maybe grapey wines have a happy flavor?

Of course, different liquors have different appeal. I like rib-eye steaks more than filet, and it's a more pleasing eating experience. but it's all beef. I don't think it's the buzz effect that's different -- it's non-buzz aspects of taste that may affect your feeling. Like Gwink's fire-in-the-stomach from rye. And champagne is noted for its "quick" buzz, because the CO2 bubbles cause the stomach to absorb alcohol more quickly. Regardless of what you drink, you'll end up in the same place, which hopefully is not bent over a toilet bowl.

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Um, I give him credit only because he was smart enough to use this as a way to get laid. Maybe he thought being on the girls team would get him fucked regular? I don't know about anywhere else, but the girls field hockey team at my school had very few debutantes on it and if a guy would have joined the team (or even shown interest) he would have been sucked and fucked all season by these desperate chicks. I mean, not all of them could have been dykes, right?

Stop living in the past.
 

As if I needed another reason to be a martini drinker.

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I know nothing about the sport, but I've always wondered why the sticks have to be so short. It looks very hard on the back.

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/athletics/...010167_JPG.jpg

TM

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Did he have to wear the skirt?

I'm surprised the school got away with not playing him.

IS the US the only country in which guys don't play field hockey?

Stop living in the past.
 

EEEeeuuu parent-porn. My maternal-unit recently died and I was re-organizing stuff as my step-father was unable to do it, and I just had to see what was on that last video.



:eek2:

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I used to play. I actually don't remember our sticks being that short. I never really thought about it. I know there are weight regulations for the sticks, but I don't know about length restrictions. It has been a while. Of course the sticks are shorter than ice hockey or floor hockey sticks, but it's a different game. I'm not sure if the fact they are short makes them so effective for whacking the opponent across the shins, but they are good for that. And that is really what field hockey boils down to sometimes.

Stop living in the past.
 

I have never understood this. Why watch a videotape of you and your fuck-buddy having sex when you could just have sex? Or is there something erotic about having the camera running?

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Why not?

I suspect that nobody would pay to watch it though because they would know that he'd probably win.

To put it differently, I know of many junior sports leagues that permit the 12 year olds, for example, to play above their age level in the 14-16 league if they are good enough. It is a quite different thing to allow a 16 year old to play in the 12 and under league though.

Stop living in the past.
 

It's never been something that Mr. FuFu and I have been into. Why watch it when you can do it?

Stop living in the past.
 

My sibs and I learned at an early age that there were times not to interrupt my parents.

In ninth grade or so, my sister's biology teacher was getting to the reproduction chapter, and he asked the class who could imagine that their parents had sex. My sister was the only one to raise her hand.

About two weeks ago, my parents were at a party with a bunch of my brother's friends, and one of them, having seen how much my parents seem to be into each other, asked my mom how many times a week they still do it. My mom, in her late 50s, instantly replied "six." Reportedly, jaws all over dropped, and my dad got all defensive, explaining that he has an early morning meeting on Tuesdays and they just don't have time.

Stop living in the past.
 

I for one don't want to see my white ass bobbing up and down. Plus, these tapes always seem to wind up in the wrong hands. That would for sure ruin my political career.

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I know little about the sport, though in law school the practices for my intramural soccer team would end right as the college women's field hockey team took the same field.

Though a number of hours were spent watching, I paid such scant attention to the game itself that I couldn't tell you the rules if my life depended on it. (I can tell you that their backs did not stoop, though.)

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Why is it different?

And the "well, it just is" answer won't suffice.

not7y(slippery slopes are very slippery)S

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The field hockey players were pretty hot at my school. But they would always do goofy nonsense like have their collars up and sleeves rolled up during games. The female softball players were the ones desparate for some lovin'.

I give him credit simply because if I joined some team, and they told me "you're too good, you can't play", I think I'd find some other way to spend my time rather than cheering for the team at the games.

I have no idea how much tail he was getting.

He wore shorts.

I think the school got away without playing him simply because of the safety issue. He was a big dude. It was only a matter of time before he steamrolled some 105 lb 11th grade girl.

I was always mystified why the goal is like eight feet high, when I've never seen a shot over 6 inches off the ground. "Top shelf" is not a term one associates with field hockey.

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Inherent physical differences . . .

although with all these motherjumpin huge kids, everything will have to become like Pop Warner football, with weight-class leagues, instead of age-class leagues.

Stop living in the past.
 

I for one don't even want to see the words "my white ass bobbing up and down."

Ewwwww.

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Um, maybe because he didn't want to play for less money?

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Interestingly, there were two columns on the subject in our local rag today.

First, the regular golf writer takes Thurgreed's position that Annika will not be able to spin, putt, or hit out of the rough well enough to even make the cut - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...5/SP119841.DTL

Second, Scott Ostler kicks sand in Thurgreed's arguments about why she shouldn't at least try - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...5/SP185193.DTL

More Fuel for the Fire
 

Anika playing on the PGA tour. Micehlle Wie playing a development tour event. Boys playing field hockey with girls. What's next, husband and wife baseball players? Yup. Check it out here .

Stop living in the past.
 

And another poster is ruined for Paigow. And y'all are in the same town; she could run into your bobbing white ass on the street. Just so long as you aren't holding an umbrella at the time...

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The physical capabilities of course. 14 to 16 years olds are bigger and stronger. It would obviously be unfair for them to beat up on 12 year olds by playing in the 12 year old league. We set up a 12 year old league specifically to develop and nurture the younger kids. Of course, we could run the leagues as a free-for-all, and have no age restrictions, but it would be pretty comical to see the 10 year olds trying to battle it out with the 16 year olds. And the 10 year olds would not enjoy the game or get better.

The justification for allowing an occasional 12 year old to play in the older kids league is that there are, on occasion, exceptional 12 year olds that deserve the opportunity to test their skills in a league that would normally be closed to them.

If we ran our world worrying about slippery slopes, there would be no rules at all. People who always worry about drawing lines are just afraid of being tested. This seems to me like a particularly easy distinction to draw. Just because someone was good enough occasionally to play "up" in another league, doesn't mean you need to open the door both ways.

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:eek: OMG! Thurgreed IS Brian Murphy! It's like they're talking out of the same ass.
I did like the statistics at the end where it shows that Vijay has made a ton more $$ this year with the same number of wins.:mad:

Stop living in the past.
 

Damn. And I was just going to send you a proposition by PM.

Singh apologizes to Sorenstam
 

:rofl: !!!

(I couldn't resist.)

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Just a question for you golf experts out there. What would Annika have had to do to qualify legitimately (your words) for the Colonial and/or the PGA? Would she have to forego qualifying for LPGA? Would she have to change her LPGA status to PGA? As it stands she's turning down a tournament that she could probably win to do the Colonial. Would she have to qualify separately under PGA rules? Seems to me that if she did, she's be passing up a lot of income in order to qualify with the boys.
Just asking because I don't know.

Matrix Reloaded
 

I read a couple of magazine articles about the film and saw at least one Carrie-Anne Moss interview. All of them mentioned her motorcycle work in the film. She said that driving the motorcycle into oncoming traffic was the scariest thing she'd ever done, but that she was happy that she overcame her fear. All of the main actors (Keanu, Lawrence, Carrie-Anne, and Hugo) were injured on set, but they all seem to have an eerily calm/motivational speaker type reaction to it. Maybe it stems from Yuen Wo-Ping and some of the other stunt coordinators. I think he was in the Peking Opera. They would start as children and get beaten daily if they didn't perform their tricks properly. After about 10 years of that, I suppose I wouldn't put up with anyone saying, "That's dangerous. I could die" on set.

Personally, I think the emphasis on having actors do more and more dangerous stunts is going to lead to another Twilight Zone: The Movie incident, but I hope I'm wrong.

The theatre I was in showed a lot of previews, including one for Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai.

Singh apologizes to Sorenstam
 

The slope doesn't look so slippery from where I stand. Probably just because I have yet to spill my drink on the slope. But anyway, the 14-16 league is for kids up to age 16; if a 12 year old is good enough to play with the big kids, no harm. The 12 year old league is for kids up to 12. I see no issue with not allowing the fat talentless 15 year old to play with the younger kids.

Similarly, and I could be wrong about this, but I don't see the word "men's" in the PGA. It is the tour for the best golfers in the world, period. What's her name may not meet that definition, but if a sponsor with a free pass wants to give her a chance to try, so be it. The LPGA, in contrast, is expressly for "ladies." It acknowledges that most, and probably all, of its participants couldn't hack it on the PGA tour. I see no problem with letting the top chick try to play with the big boys, while denying some hack from the Nationwide tour the opportunity to play on the LADIES Pro Golfers' Association tour.

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Here are a few unquestionably legitimate ways, because it's what the men have to do:

1. Enter the proper qualifying tournament, which a number of tour stops have (like the woman who won the Conn. open, and thus gained entry to the Greater Hartford Open)

2. Go to "Q-school" to get her PGA card that allows her to enter PGA tournaments.

3. Win enough money on the tour to make the top 125 (or whatever) to be exempt from qualifying.

No. 3 is how Tiger did it his first year -- he played a few tournaments (on sponsor's exemptions) and won enough money to qualify for the following year.

Matrix Reloaded
 

The Rat-Brained Robot
 

I think this is how every sci-fi nightmare begins:

Wired to the Brain of a Rat, a Robot Takes On the World
By ANNE EISENBERG

THE nerve center of a conventional robot is a microprocessor of silicon and metal. But for a robot under development at Georgia Tech, commands are relayed by 2,000 or so cells from a rat's brain.

A group led by a university researcher has created a part mechanical, part biological robot that operates on the basis of the neural activity of rat brain cells grown in a dish. The neural signals are analyzed by a computer that looks for patterns emitted by the brain cells and then translates those patterns into robotic movement. If the neurons fire a certain way, for example, the robot's right wheel rotates once.

The leader of the group, Steve M. Potter, a professor in the Laboratory for Neuroengineering at Georgia Tech, calls his creation a Hybrot, short for hybrid robot.

"It's very much a symbiosis," he said, "a digital computer and a living neural network working together."

Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/15/te...next.html?8cir

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Well, #3 is never going to happen if she won 13 tournaments last year and doesn't yet qualify, then that will never happen.
And I'm sure that by going route #1 will mean that she misses out on some LPGA events.

Matrix Reloaded
 

Thanks for that one, but the better article is about Matthew McConaughey using Rogaine and Kate Hudson calling him "Merkin."
:thumbsup:

Matrix Reloaded
 

I love that the gossip column continues to reference Litingrate's, I mean McConaughey's bongo playing.

Separated at Birth?
 

http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/1741...730278_400.jpg http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Events/1982...087520_400.jpg

Matrix Reloaded
 

That's because the media (or his publicist) don't want us to forget what he was doing when he was arrested. Playing with his "merkin."

Matrix Reloaded
 

Far more amusing is the story immediately below it about Matthew McConaughey rubbing Rogaine into his scalp:

Hair apparent

No wonder the formerly balding Matthew McConaughey was looking more hirsute in “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” According to co-star Kate Hudson, the bongo-playing hunk was regularly rubbing hair tonic on his temples.
“He’s gotten [his hair] back,” Hudson told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, according to the Scoop’s translator/source.
“He sat there the whole time during filming and rubbed some stuff in his temples. It didn’t bother him that 35 people saw what he did.”
...
Hudson, who is known for giving people nicknames, was asked if she gave McConaughey a nickname, she replied that she called him “Merkin.”
She explained: “A pubic-hair wig. Haven’t you heard of it? OK, maybe it’s a new word. They used to have pubic-hair wigs in the 18th century.” (Note from The Scoop to Hudson: It’s not a new word.) ....

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