Favorite Magazines?
 

Or we can invite Slave and make it bridge and tunnels.

that was bad, I am sorry.

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Oh, oh, pick me! pick me! I like all cards and have played only a little bridge, so no unfair advantage here. Maybe I could discern the rules from a book too, having played once or twice. I also enjoy hearts. No real tennis thing though...

I feel so pathetic. Second begging post this month.

Favorite Magazines?
 

Not the best place to lose your virginity.

Favorite Magazines?
 

Terrible, but I forgive you.

NCS, why are you begging, are you lonely?

Favorite Magazines?
 

It's because they're trying to pander to too many people. Mia Hamm was on the cover last week. Really? During the playoff run and the first weeks of baseball - you put Mia Hamm on the cover. AND the freaking articles have gotten SOOOO long. Used to be you could read the articles in like 15 minutes. And the only good pictures are the first 5 pages. There used to be good pics throughout.

That said, I still read it every Monday on my way to work for the Steve Rushin stuff.

Edited to add - you're right - ESPN the mag is pure crap.

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Canasta! How did you know? I learned how to play on a ski trip out west a few years ago. That's a fun one. For now I can only play on the computer. Cribbage is a good one too.

Why is it so hard to get people to sit down and play a game of cards? When I was growing up, card parties were all the rage with my parents and their friends. I have Rat-Pack-esque recollections of those parties. They all thought it cute that I wanted to take a puff off of my Mom's Kent cigarettes.

Anne
My goal this weekend is to teach the SO to play a card game. Must remember to pack Hoyle's.

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That and I could use an excuse to relocate to the Notheast. Damn winters are holding me back right now, but maybe if there was bridge club in front of a fireplace with warm, spiked beverages, I could survive the October-April crap weather. Well, maybe not.

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Well, almost a full two countries care about their women's soccer teams.

Can't they skip all of this World Cup nonsense and just have the U.S. play China in a 7-game series?

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That is every night at the paigowhouse once fireplace season starts. except no bridge. we should all move to the same town and hang. though I dont knwo how much longer i will be here.

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Just relocate a little further south and everything will be better.

Family
 

I can't imagine how one wouldn't have preferences. Among my relatives, I find:

Mysterious uncle who collects "industry information" and other corporate intelligence for multinationals (who once disappeared for a few months and we later found out he was in prison in China)

A farmer

Parole officer in the rural south

A caterer

A cousin who IS the guy in your company's system's department

An assortment of fun-loving party-head southerners

Artist - but when she says she's been painting we never know if she means pictures or houses

Deeply religious church organist

Housewife in suburban southern CA devoted to crochetting and geneology

Insane alcoholic great-aunt who thinks she's Scarlett O'Hara

Drug-doing fuck-up

National figure in the hospice movement

Mormon convert who sits like a lump and makes his wife do everything for him

A civil war reenactor

Nuclear submarine engineer

Elementary school teacher

Cousin who races souped-up VW Sirocos

Housewife in New Jersey

Indie film production manager/producer (with an IMDB entry longer than my deal sheet)

How could I not have preferences?

Goofy Post(er) of the Day
 

Dude, what's with all the shades of white?

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Did you mean the first weeks of football? The Women's World Cup started this week. To the rest of the world that is a huge sporting event. Unfortunately Ihave to follow most of the games via the internet or on the Spanish channels (love that Gooooooooooal Guy). Anyway, as a soccer nut, I was glad to see Mia on the cover. Fascinating article too.

When I was growing up and participating in sports, women were supposed to play the pretty games like tennis, field hockey, golf and gymnastics. When it got to the point where I could beat guys in butterfly I was considered freakish. People thought it strange that I wanted/needed to play soccer (they still do) and went in front of the school board to lobby for a women's varsity team (finally got one my junior year). Acceptance of women in sports has come a long way in the last 20-30 years.

Chalk up another vote for the suckiness of ESPN the Magazine.

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Damn, how I love that movie.

"She had scoops of flesh which seemed to defy gravity."

sf

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Card parties do not utilize clay or drawing with your eyes closed. They also require attention span, and Chesterfields in addition to Kents.

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What?! Sacrilege! Especially after Brazil upsets Norway and the Chinese win yesterday on a late goal. But I guess we could skip the baseball season and have the Yankees play the Braves every fall.

The US Nigeria match tonight should be brutal. Nigeria plays a VERY physical style and a bunkering defense so it's going to be a battle. I need a Tivo (or a quick lessson on how to program my VCR). I can't watch the game because I'm playing in another one tonight.

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Dude, SI is not USAToday. The articles are too long? It's journalism.

But I agree about the pictures. Even the swimsuit edition is lame.

The fundamental problem, though, is that you've seen and heard everything about a given event by the night it happens or on SportsCenter the next morning. SI doesn't get there until Thursday -- so dated.

And, to keep my post count down, do you think the Bachelor could spring for some new music and lines after four shows? Good lord, it's like someone's getting paid for each time he can say, "who goes home broken-hearted." Now, sure, ABC may be on the hitch for $5m to repair the house, but it's not like they have to pay the amazing bachelorette who says no to Bob a million.

Family
 

This reminds me of the greatest TV fashion moment of all time: Carol Burnett as Scarlett O-Hara flouncing in in her dress made of green velvet curtains--with the long curtain rod still sticking out of the shoulders.

Goofy Post(er) of the Day
 

This reminds me of how your friends NEVER let you forget about the time you took the really fat girl home...

Poaching
 

Out of respect for a beloved board curmudgeon, I hereby retract my earlier post.

You're right, you do need more cool people there, so I will stop poaching.

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If you and leagl and Anne move to Colorado, California, New Mexico, Arizona -- oh hell, anyplace that isn't the midwest or cold, then I will gladly relocate and be the 4th at bridge. But no cunnilingus. I will have to be a political lesbian. In fact, I think I already am.

Even if you invite Slave, the no cunnilungus rule still applies.

Poaching
 

It isn't really poaching if I am already in your state is it? Oh, to have people fighting over little 'ole me! E/o, do you like cards?

Poaching
 

Just hold 'em, but I am willing to learn.

Poaching
 

This whole conversation is so stupid that you should all have your fingers broken to keep you from continuing typing this crap.

TM

Favorite Magazines?
 

Three words: San Fran Cisco.

Poaching
 

Looks like someone has a case of the Mondays!

Poaching
 

Fill in my FB history: who was originally responsible for this phrase and the ensuing irritation?

And as I don't watch SportsCenter or whatever the show is from which "The Whiff" springs, or any sports show, for that matter, TM, could you tell me what "The Whiff" means on the show?

Poaching
 

Go now. Rent Office Space.

Poaching
 

I think it's from the movie Office Space.

:P :P :P :thumbsup: :D

Dude, I was at this meeting
 

http://www.theonion.com/3937/opinion1.html

Again, an Onion piece that I read and find myself forgetting that this is supposed to be satire.

Goofy Post(er) of the Day
 

You are really being awful and disgusting today. I am so over you. Who's next?

Poaching
 

I've seen it, but for some reason I thought somebody started saying it on the Board regularly and it pissed off TM. But I can't keep anything straight in my head anymore. When I recognize people on the street I don't know if I know them from law school or TV or previous jobs or what.

Bachelor/BB4
 

Talk about FEEL BAD television . . . the last 20 minutes of that show was a total train-wreck. Between Alison's (ex, presumably) boyfriend not showing up, and the jury slamming them all 8 ways to Sunday, I could barely watch. Congrats to Jun; I'm surprised that among this group, the loathing for Alison trumped the "respect for how smart and good she was" stuff. When Jack voted for Jun, damn. Only Nathan prevented it from being unanimous, and I'm betting he said something like "I'll be damned before I ever vote for Charlie to win $500,000."

Worst ending, ever, except for the time that Chris and Alex won Amazing Race 2. I hate those guys.

p(knows her gayborhoods)p
 

Dont you mean

Rock Ridge Oakland?

Poaching
 

It was me of course. Which means its off limits to the derivative types. but not you, honey.

Nicolas Coppolla
 

Was someone talking about Nick Cage the other day?

Sept. 25 — Does Nicolas Cage have the hots for Nicole Kidman? The red-blooded actor has been linked to a string of babes since he split from Lisa Marie Presley, and now gossips are saying that he has his sights set on the Aussie star. ONLY A few months ago, Cage was reportedly trying to hook up with Angelina Jolie (ewwwww), but now, the buzz is that he was trying to meet Kidman at the Toronto Film Festival.
In fact, according to one report, he asked festival organizers to book him in a hotel room near hers. Sadly, their schedules didn’t permit a rendezvous.
Cage’s rep dismisses the talk, saying that they weren’t even in Toronto at the same time. “Guess he didn’t know that when his room was being booked,” chuckled a source.

Nicolas Coppolla
 

Is she trying to cement her reputation as a beard?

FB Bridge Club
 

Any bridge club will have programs for newbies; I hear that EZ-bridge is an especially good teaching tool. Just do a search for bridge clubs in the boston area; it's really good fun once you get the feel for it.

Teaching friends to play bridge is a daunting task. I'd pretty much give them four or five books about bidding and say "come back when you've read these." I learned in high school by reading some of my dad's bridge bidding books.

Oh, and my whistles go Woooo Wooooo.

str8.

Nicolas Coppolla
 

Can someone remind me what this means?

Flipping through the channels last night I came across Risky Business. At that point I realized that I have never seen this movie. Should I rent it and watch it or just let it slide? Factor in that I hate Tom Cruise.

Favorite Magazines?
 

SI is hit or miss; the short stuff tends to be good; the longer features not so much. But sometimes they're great, like the piece on Uday Hussein. That guy's a first class asshole. Steve Rushin and Rick Reilly are unreadable. But their photos are worth it alone.

ESPN the Magazine had a great article last month about the Cover 2 defense. I like reading the more technical aspects of tactics employed during the game.

str8.