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The Associated Press is reporting an explosion at the Yale law school.

Anyone???

For Leagle
 

POT...oh wait. Someone used that joke already.

TM

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I have CNN on, they are not clear what as happened. There has been an explosion.

They think a part of a floor may have collapsed. They don't know what it was, they don't know it was a bomb, or a boiler, or what.


Edited to say they think it was the mail room.

Another edit.

They (CNN) say no injuries. The building/area was empty.

Witnesses say a loud shaking/sound. They thought maybe an earthquake at first.

Interviewing the geeky law student, he said he grabbed his computer from the law library and ran.

For Leagle
 

Oh well, that is what I get for reading backward. Funny post ABBA :)

Where's PETA when you need 'em
 

Someone like Paigow should organize a boycott against diners or something:

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Rioting Greek fans set fire to dog

Associated Press
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP)—
A black-and-white husky was smeared with tar and set on fire by rioting soccer fans after the Greek Cup final, police said Wednesday. The dog was attacked by fans of Aris Thessaloniki after the team was defeated 1-0 Saturday by crosstown rival PAOK.

After the game, Aris fans set fires in Toumba Stadium and later smashed cars and property. The dog was apparently picked on for its colors: PAOK play in black and white.

An animal welfare group found and treated the husky for burns and an injured eye, and informed the police Wednesday, authorities said.

Outrage -- Yawn
 

So, Nicole Kidman lit a cigarette while waiting for the press conference for Dogville at Cannes and there is now an international furor.

Check out the overheated press coverage:

Kidman's Cannes cigs raise a stink

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Nicole Kidman's televised cigarette puffing at the Cannes Film Festival has anti-smokers here fuming. Critics said the sight of the Oscar-winning Australian thespian lighting up in front of the world's media this week while promoting her new film, Dogville, was free advertising for the tobacco industry.

http://www.canada.com/entertainment/...0-E37EC134F214

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Sigh. Too many of these. They evacuated part of downtown Oakland yesterday when some jackass planted a faux-bomb outside a bank. A little too close for comfort.



C(just not amused by explosions)deuced

Outrage -- Yawn
 

I am not a big fan of Ms. Kidman (although her early Aussie BMX flicks rawk), I gotta give this one my "What the Fuck is with this shit" of the day award. I mean, if she had sharted (think a vurp from the other end) would they claim she was doling out free advertising for toilet paper? Perhaps they wouldn't have such big egos if we didn't focus on every fucking move that an actor made. Sheesh.

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And to think, l these years I thought "First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers" was from Shakespeare's Henry VI.

Apparently, it was from the Koran.

not7yS

Top Cult Movies
 

No. I won't tell you what I did with the fat kid with asthma (and the math prodigy, not the exchange student, who decided to see how long he could go without speaking any words he didn't make up himself), but it wasn't esperanto. It also wasn't what you are thinking, but it wasn't esperanto.

BR(sigh. The fat kid's name was Jason, and he had red hair and thick glasses and was funny and grew up to be really hot after he moved away)C

More Sorenstam
 

The other shoes haven't dropped on this idea yet, and those shoes are worn by, among others, Buick, Mercedes, Sony, Bank of America, Chrysler, AT&T, Nissan, Accenture, Cooper Tires, Ford, BellSouth, MCI, Shell, Hewlett Packard, FBR Capital, FedEx, NEC Deutche Bank, John Deere, Bell Canadian, and Valero. The tour is already hurting from the loss of eight 2002 sponsors; it isn't going to do anything to offend the current ones. This idea goes nowhere.

Let the jokes fly.
 

Well, since there were no injuries, let the jokes begin.

I thought Harvard Law School was the one like Beirut.

And, of course the building was empty, that's why Yale Law students are so sucky in practice.

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Example of an uneccessary parenthetical? You tell me.

I mean, aside from fireworks on the 4th, I don't think many people around here are amused by explosions of this type. I don't mean to pick, deucey. I'm just doing my part to rid the board of this parentheticals-in-my-sign-off syndrome.

:)

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That the equivalent of talking into the wind. It's been here longer than you and it is not going to change.

Even(so shut the hell up about it ;) )Odds

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Of course, the Unabomber did blow up some profs. himself.

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Agreed. I was about to post the same thing, but E/O has a quicker trigger finger.

Ollie (except my parenthetical was going to say "so fuck off") Ramone

All Annika All the Time
 

I couldn't find any stories on the Web yet about how she was doing in today's pro-am, but I did find this:

"At the Imperial Palace casino, you can get even money betting that Sorenstam will shoot a round in the 80s. On the other hand, if you think she will shoot a round in the 60s you can win $600 for every $100 you bet.

Other proposition bets include:

Sorenstam vs. Phil Mickelson: Oddsmakers at Caesars Palace give Mickelson 8 1/2 strokes against Sorenstam, and even then make him a slight favorite to beat her in the first round.

Holes above par: At the Palms hotel-casino, the over-under on number of holes Sorenstam plays over par in the first round is seven.

Holes under par: Also at the Palms, you can bet whether Sorenstam will make more than one birdie in her first round.

Highest score Sorenstam will make on a hole: At the Palms, the over-under is seven.

One matchup taken off the books was a proposition bet pitting Sorenstam against Vijay Singh. Oddsmakers figured Singh was seven shots better than Sorenstam in the first round, but he withdrew before the tournament began.

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I equate my crusade against parentheticals to TM's tilt at the "LOL" windmill, so get used to it.

Outdated Humor
 

I'd like to have been in the meeting where some ABC executive said, "Let's fire all of the attractive people and have a show about schlubby lawyers." That'll get the ratings back. They've fundamentally misunderstood why Law & Order can replace their cast: that show focuses on the crime and the trial. That's it. The cops could be any two New York cops. The prosecutor could be any battle-hardened DA. The focus is on the plot, the twist, and the writing. This move by ABC makes cast changes to Three's Company and Charlie's Angels look inspired.

Paigow, I was the one who recommended The Woman Chaser. Here's the imdb.org link. Perhaps it's not available on home video. They might have just sold it to Cinemax or HBO. Sometimes that happens.

A Clockwork Orange should also get cult status because it initially got an X rating here in America and wasn't screened in England until after Kubrick's death.

I saw O Brother Where Art Thou? in a theatre and thought it was just OK. I like it more on repeated viewings. With digital cable it was playing every weekend for a while back there.

I hope no one thinks that Blood Simple is the Coen brothers' worst film. I enjoyed it very much.

Slave, I hope Dude, Where's My Car? was your joke selection for cult film. That film made four times its budget. A lot of people saw that in theatres. Although I do think that naming the sequel, Seriously Dude, Where's My Car? was clever.

Regarding the Yale bombing (nice transition, eh?), as the explosion was in the mailroom, I would suspect rejected applicants before Islamic terrorists. Glad there were no injuries.

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MR, sometimes the parenthetical seems the perfect place for the afterthought or transition, but I have to admit that

MD (look I'm an aggressive-passive-aggressive asshat! my really stupid insults are small and in color! )JD

has ruined the tradition for me. So go over there (to the SF/SV Board) and kick his ass.

R(I hope he doesn't ruin my upcoming S.Ct. clerkship experience, but I'm thanking my lucky stars he wasn't a Bristow this year; anyway, gotta go, drinks with the SG and then slumming with my MENSA buddies)P

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PO-TAY-TOE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/images...unabomb300.jpg

PO-TAH-TOE
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/image..._khalid203.jpg

Outdated Humor
 

That's exactly what I said, but after hearing it from y'all via IM and from the OM, I should add that I was very young when I saw it initially (1984), and I may have failed to appreciate it properly.

Still, it's my least favorite Coen Bros. flick.

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Hey, no need to bring Ron Jeremy into this...

Lenny
 

Just for the record, I am very partial to Lenny. He's the rock of that show. If they replaced him I would be upset. The rest of them I don't care about.


Edited to say I'm a spaz - somebody fix my code please. The internet is so tricky now that it's on computer.

Done--RT

Lenny
 

Does that make you Laverne or Shirley?

Ollie (me, I'm a Leather Tuscaderro guy) Ramone

Lenny
 

I'd like to think I'm more of a Rhonda.

Yale
 

It was a bomb, as it turns out.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast...ion/index.html


http://www.msnbc.com/news/916608.asp?0cv=CA01

Predictions
 

Ok, you know you are watching, you know you can't help it, so lets lay it out on the line people. Who will win?

I pick Clay, only because another person, with whom I have a bet (hi person) picked Ruben. So I picked Clay to be contrary.

What do you think?


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Oh well, lost my bet. Enjoy the gift certificate dude ;)

Yale
 

AND, it was NOT in the mailroom, it was in a classroom. And 10 minutes after finals were over. Sounds like the work of a disgruntled student with bad timing. Plus, if no one has claimed credit for it by now, it can't be a terrorist can it? And would anyone copy the unabomber? I mean come on - be original.

Predictions
 

Reuben, has the better (and more commercial) voice. Clay will probably have his 15 minutes of fame and will play out his days in musicals. I see Reuben as have the more substantial career.

Predictions
 

I made a poll instead, so folks, feel free to go vote.


Edited to say poll completed. Those of you who voted for Ruben, gratz

Bairstow-mers; gangbusters, whatever
 

OK, so I know that the "Walter" thing is juvenile and stupid, but it's also pretty damned funny in a "Mahir" kind of way.

AdL

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I knew a guy in college who could allegedly speak fluent klingon. I say appegedly because there was no fucking way for anyone to verify if he was speaking Klingon or gibberish. Hell, he sounded like Worf, so I figure he was close enough. This guy went on to get a PhD in linguistics, so he obvioulsy took this very seriously...

AdL

The Animatrix
 

the first 4 are on the website. The two "Second Renaissance" are great backstory.

AdL

Yale
 

1) Or good timing -- make a point, but not too much of a point.

2) Al qaeda didn't take credit for 9/11 for some time (if at all, "officially").

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My law school roommates and I were on the phone laughing about this within a few minutes of the news breaking. A disgruntled Mike Thompson? Or Zina Schaffer? Somebody's had enough of Tony Kronman's shit, that much is clear.

Time for some more renovations Tony. I can't wait for the heartfelt appeal to alums. "Our community was shaken to its very core by recent events blah blah blah we are the center of the universe and will rebuild stronger than ever blah blah blah send me money blah blah blah."

Stratu.

AI
 

Through a fluke of timing, I walked by the television and caught (for the first time) the last 10 minutes of AI, and now understand a bit better this whole Clay/Ruben thing.

Now that I have the proper frame of reference, I plan to go back and catch up on the FB posts on this subject. I'll get back to you in about 20 days.

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I gave em up about a year ago. So very 2002, assjack. But for once I am onboard with MR. One poster did em and everyone copied it.

AI
 

I was quite surprised by the outcome.

Thoughts: how about Clay's fan base, or at least those they interviewed? The two men interviewed were totally gay and the rest were teenyboppers and a couple of their mothers. Case rested. I won't even go into the pink dressing room. Or the fact that his best friend is a girl. Why did that chick make the comment about all the girls wanting to clean up for hm? Is this some sort of cover? Nice guy though and i bet he is charitable with the money he makes from his touring musical and then off to vegas act. which aint a bad living.

Ruben, please lose weight. you are going to die soon. fat is not cute or cuddly, it is lethal. I heart you. Please take care. And you are lucky you are a man. THe last woman that size to have a succssful career was Mama Cass. And look how she ended up.

AI
 

Home early from kayaking?

Basically, they both won last night. Though Secrest gave two different vote totals, news reports are now saying the difference was 130,000 votes, not 1300 or 13,000. (With math skills like that, I am glad he's not hosting a jeopardy-like game show.)

Regardless, it was not a decisive win. I checked EW this morning, and their online poll, offensively titled "did Ruben deserve to win?" catalogue more than 500,000 votes and a line of 63%-37% in favor of Big Ru.

For those of you who did not watch the show except for this week and perhaps last, Ruben's win might seem a little suspect because his voice was definitely tired and off. But you also got to see Clay's theatrical tics and oversinging.

Overall, the finals sucked and were not representative of either competitor's best performances throughout the competition.

E/O