Medical poll
 

People have been praising Bobby Valentine like he's the second coming. He fucking sucks. And he needs to lay off the self-tanner and the coke.

Bring back Buck!

Bill Walton
 

Methinks he has compromising photos of David Stern...

I can't stand him either. Still upset he was allowed to call NCAA Tournament games a few years back when his son Luke WAS PLAYING IN THE GAME... Of course that was CBS, the same network that keeps Billy Packer, the most sour and condescending person on the planet employed...

Memo to FB
 

Probably the only concert this year where the promoters can honestly say it is "priced right"...

Medical poll
 

Sorry dude, Buck's got a gig right now. However, at this rate, he'll be available shortly after the All Star break.

And speaking of Bobby, who in the hell told him he was the second coming? With an ego his size I'm surprised he fits through the doors.

Could be worse, could be the "fabulous sports babe."

:dance2:

Medical poll
 

When NBC lost the NBA, I thought that this was my big chance to lose Walton and get back into the game. Unfortunately, they took Walton with them... bastards.

Anyhow, now that I'm thinking about it, I believe that Bill Walton single handedly drove me away from the NBA. The Rockets sucked for the six or so years following their championships, so local programming was out, and every time there was a national game, Walton would be there, and I'd find something else to do. By the time I moved to another (sucky) basketball city, it was too late. I'd moved on from the NBA.

Medical poll
 

Him and Mychal Thompson (who spells their name that way?)

more sports announcer related gripes
 

While I'm at it, what I find most annoying is when the announcers tell you what the player is thinking or saying. Like for example, in hockey, if someone delivers a big hit, one of the hitee's teammates might skate over to the hitter and they'll exchange words. And the announcer will say "now he's saying 'gee, you'd better cool it, fella'", when that is sooo not what he is saying. Or something like "now he's thinking 'gosh, I'd better pick myself up and concentrate on what I'm doing", when we all know that no one ever thinks "gosh" and for all we know the guy was thinking about how so and so is really butt ugly when you look at them up close or beer or tits or money or something like that.

It's just profoundly irritating to me that these guys feel the need to fill every single second of the game with chatter, and when they run out of words to call the play, they start blathering and chuckling inanely. It's so unintelligent. Maybe that is what they are paid to do, but there must be another way.

more sports announcer related gripes
 

With local baseball and hockey I normally turn down the sound and listen to the radio version because I like the radio colormen better. With national games, I like to turn down the sound and inject my own color commentary. Much more fun to watch a good hit and say "now he's saying 'what the fuck, you asshole, after the game how about we meet by the team busses and I kick your ass, take your car, go to your house and beat your children and fuck your wife, what do you think of that Mr. Elbow-In-My-Face-Shitbag?'"

Sports Gripe
 

OK, so I just heard that Neuheisel got fired. Idiot. Left a 1.2 million dollar gig for a $5000 sports bet. Mike Price another idiot. Left another multi-million dollar gig for some stupid white trash, trailer park strippers.

What is this? A conspiracy by California Pac-10 colleges to even the playing field?

more sports announcer related gripes
 

Agree. The only time you can truly know what a player is thinking is when he's just taken a shot to the nuts.

(One of my favorite moments from my very few instances of watching live hockey was the arena organist breaking into "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" by Billy Joel when a member of the visitors took a puck to the pills and dropped to the ice, and his teammates skated around him, watching him writhe.)

more sports announcer related gripes
 

Is Bull Durham the movie where they have the meeting on the mound and talk about non-baseball stuff?

Medical poll
 

I'm generally in this camp - unless it is superficially obvious that I need medical attention, I don't need medical attention. OB/GYN every 6 months (doc won't renew a scrip for a full year, go figure), and other than that, I'll only go if (i) I've suffered chronic pain for at least one week that is sufficiently bad that I can't work, eat, sleep or watch TV, (ii) I've suffered lesser chronic pain for at least a month, or (iii) something catastrophic happens and I'm in excruciating pain and/or clearly physically incapacitated (in which case I get myself carried to the ER).

Actually, the last time I went to the doc, I did something weird and horrible to my neck. (Like, I reached forward to pick up a pencil off the desk and something horrible happened to my neck.) I couldn't move. At all. Couldn't lie down, stand, sit, walk, nothing, without shrieking pain through my whole left side. The stupidity of my condition pissed me off so much (this from picking up a pencil???) that it took the Mr. 4 1/2 hours to convince me to go to the dr. (Where my resistance was justified by my having an "adverse reaction" to the synthetic opiate she shot me up with.) Anyhow, they acknowledged that they could do nothing for me, and I should just "work the kinks out," with the aid of some really, really fun drugs. Come to think of it, I should go to the Dr. more often - they pass out the recreational drugs like candy these days. Hydrocodone and a gut full of muscle relaxants - now THAT is the way to take a 3 hour conference call.

On the Dr. thing, though, I think that all the hypochondriacs who go to the Dr. to get antibiotics for colds, influenza and sprains should be removed from society and confined in the old TB wards, where their self-created flesh-eating antibiotic-resistant-germs can't infect and murder the rest of us.

Two Gentlemen Lost
 

Both Gregory Peck and David Brinkley have died.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?nav=hptop_tb

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...l?nav=hptop_ts


I'm going to watch To Kill A Mockingbird on DVD tonight.

more sports announcer related gripes
 

I dunno -- I kinda like Bill Clement's "why, I oughta...." line in such situations.

In general, I have to say that ESPN's hockey announcers are quite good. Gary Thorne calls the game very well, and Clement's comments are usually insightful. Steve Levy and Darren Pang are also good. However, I love Chris Berman, and it hurts me to say this, but ABC shouldn't have let him anywhere near the Cup games. Talking with a fake Canadian accent is only funny when I do it, and he didn't add anything. He just made me wonder where John Buccigross was.

Local hockey announcers are a bit more iffy -- the guys who do the roller hockey games on TV here in Podunkville aren't horrible, and the color guy's use of the telestrator to explain the replays is really quite good -- almost good enough to make up for his malapropisms and his near constant leering at the chick who does player interviews during the between-period intermissions.

Double Bagger
 

He could have at least bought TM dinner first. You kids and your loose morals.

more sports announcer related gripes
 

Yes. I just saw it recently on broadcast TV. One of the players is griping about his jinxed glove, one is distracted because he can't figure out to get as a wedding present for the marriage of the slut groupie to the team religious wingnut, etc. Manager comes out and gives thoughtful answers to their dilemmas ("candlesticks are always nice"), then breaks it up to get back to the game.

tm

Double Bagger
 

It gives an entirely new meaning to the phrase "skull fucking," doesn't it?

Medical poll
 

This is obviously a Seattle-Portland thang. You just don't like ex-Blazers.

Medical poll
 

That's it! That's why I hate those guys so much. Well...that and the fact that THEY SUCK AT WHAT THEY DO.

Mychal Thompson's commentary consisted of "well when I was playing, I would..." "You know when I used to take that shot..."

Bill Walton does the same thing. "If I was so-and-so, I would...." Even though Walton spent the bulk of his career on the bench rehabilitating his multiple injuries.

Medical poll
 

Neck pain is the WORST!! (And I've given birth to more than one 9-pound baby...) You're totally immobilized -- and it comes on so suddenly and unexpectedly. I usually get it when I've slept in a strange position (or at least that's the only thing I have found to explain it.)

I did end up going to the doctor for that (I was literally in tears in my bed on the phone to my Dr. -- in contrast to the time that I had a compound fracture and nearly passed out from the pain -- where not a tear was shed), or more accurately, she prescribed physical therapy and I somehow made it over to the PT's office (that taxi ride was excruciating). Physical therapy (which, prior to this experience, I basically considered as equivalent to voo-doo, witch doctors, faith-healers and the like) was a MIRACLE.

Ever since, when I find myself with excruciating neck pain, I do the recommended exercises, and it really helps. It's unbelievable. I'm a true convert.

Double Bagger
 

OK, that was totally unnecessary. [If there were a vomit smiley, I'd include it here.]


(But I admit it -- I laughed.) ;)

VH1's Top 100 Songs of the Last 25 Years
 

Huh?

Medical poll
 

Not true. Some people do exactly what doctors advise, and just get killed by it. So please be cautious about victim-blaming.

Sorry about your mom, and mine.

VH1's Top 100 Songs of the Last 25 Years
 

Yeah. That's what I said also. And I don't even know you.

Then I thought about responding with a "you're a racist" comment and "so racist that you think all asian cultures are the same or don't care enough to know that chow mein, teriyaki and pad thai don't all belong in the same restaurant," but I figured it was just a waste of time on someone who will never know the difference.:eyeroll:

Medical poll
 

And embarrassing! Do you know how much crap I got when I had to ask my partner to conference me into some bigwig meeting from home because I was literally unable to move to get out of bed?

Lying there immobile having to stare up at the ceiling wearing holey boxer shorts talking contracts with a client and partner you know are wearing $3000 suits and fresh from their manly manicures is truly a squicky feeling.:rolleyes:

VH1's Top 100 Songs of the Last 25 Years
 

I figured it for a compliment. A suggestion that the mere thought of our little Paigs drives posters to, you know, play a little Bachman-Turner Overdrive.

At the drive-in
 

I am late, but whatever.

I got my first kiss at a drive in. Seriously. It was tonguey and gross.

I saw Ten at the theater with my mom and dad. Could I have seen a movie with more nudity that wasnt a porn? My dad acutally reached over and covered my eyes every time Dudley Moore busted out the telescope to watch his neighbor with the naked chicks. I was like "Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad, cut it out".

Medical poll
 

Tom Tolbert. He was fun to watch when he played at the University of Arizona. Does anyone recall whether he and Steve Kerr were teammates? Kinda funny that Kerr is still playing and Tolbert is commentating.*

* Which is different from commenting, of course.

Blister in the Sun
 

I was thinking more along those "Pictures of Lily" lines myself.

not7yS

The Perfect Threesome
 

Me, Benecio Del Toro and Pam Anderson or Angelina Jolie (tossup= who'd be better in the sack?). If you want pics, I can repost that one of Justin.

VH1's Top 100 Songs of the Last 25 Years
 

As did I. For those who missed (or forgot, or ignored, etc.) a discussion about this topic a long time ago on a board far away...

Back when the song was popular, there was a rumor (spree--an 80s music lyrics place, safe for the office) that "Turning Japanese" was about, uh, you know. What Ollie said.

edited in a probably futile attempt to bring clarity to my point

Medical poll
 

Tolbert's not so bad (though perhaps my perception is colored by memories of listening to him do sports radio on KNBR back in the day).

Tolbert's problem is not necessarily that he plays the doofus commentator on the team, because he does it pretty well. His problem is that being teamed with Walton makes it one doofus too many.

Gattigap

Blister in the Sun
 

Huh?

Medical poll
 

That's exactly it. Except for me, any doofus doing commentary is one doofus too many. Unless it was a Kramer-like doofus - that would be funny.

Blister in the Sun
 

Are you being deliberately dense?

From Google - entry #1

"The Who's "Pictures of Lily" is probably the most famous song about masturbation ever, bar the Vapors' "Turning Japanese" or "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper. And then there's The Kinks' not-so-famous "National Health", and Fleetwood Mac's "Rattle Snake Shake" but anyway...

The song parallels a young boy's "problem", and how his dad helps him solve it by hanging pictures up on his wall of a beautiful woman. However, he "falls in love" with her, and, to his grief, discovers she's dead. Or so the British censors thought...

Pete Townshend: "Really it's just a look back to that period in every boy's life when he has pin ups.... Merely a ditty about masturbation and the importance of it to a young man. I was really diggin' at my folks who, when catching me at it, would talk in loud voices in the corridor outside my room. 'Why can't he go with girls like other boys?'"

John Entwistle: "It's all about wanking."

The beauty of this little ditty is that, despite its taboo nature, its sugary melody and vocals covered up that fact.

Blister in the Sun
 

And I thought I knew all the Who songs. So Turning Japanese is a masturbation song? (hmmm. no sex no drugs no wine no women no sin no fun no you no wonder its dark) Is this to say that the Japanese are heavy masturbators? I suppose the clever Mr. Ebola thinks I masturbate a lot? That was a good one, Mr. E.

Shock and Awe
 

So I'm talking on the phone to this person and I said something to make this person *GASP.*

After, I called my best friend to make fun of the fact that this person GASPED at my statement. And then she GASPED and said "YOU haven't seen the Pamela Anderson/Tommy Lee tape? What? Everyone's seen it! I thought for sure YOU had seen it. And you haven't seen the Rob Lowe video?"

So I said "do I seem like the type of person who downloads porn?"

And she said "well it's not really porn."

And I said "um, naked people having sex is porn."

So anyway, am I missing something? Am I the only person NOT to have seen those videos?

Shock and Awe
 

Well, there is the pop culture aspect.

I have not seen the two you mentioned, though I don't really think of them as porn. I have seen the R Kelly video -- and I kinda wish I hadn't.

Even(still mad about the Mychal Thompson bashing)Odds

Shock and Awe
 

No. They're at the top of my queue, but Slave's bogarting them. Fucking Netflix.

Shock and Awe
 

Quite possibly, but any attempt to catch-up on pop-porn culture must also include viewings of the Tonya Harding wedding day tape and the Vince Neil/Janine Lindemuller tape.