People's Choice Awards
 

To use a baseball metaphor, there's a hanging curve ball if I ever saw one.

As for the People's Choice Awards, sorry to say I saw a part of this... Wow was that a crapfest.

When Mel Gibson won, he basically said as much that he hadn't done anything in 2 years. Wasn't sure how to take the award. Said he might not do anything this year if it means he'll win again.

Favorite muscial group/band came down to Alabama, Brooks & Dunn and Matchbox Twenty. Absolute crap.

As for movies, they lump everything into either Drama or Comedy. Also they apparently don't consider movies released after a certain point in the year. They considered Elf, but not Return of the King, so they must do their polling in November or early December.

Another thing that makes the show suck is that they notify the winners in advance. They probably do this to convince them to show up (and it still doesn't work for some of them). One funny one I did see was "Favorite All-Time Entertainer". Tom Hanks won, but it says something about the show when you give basically a Lifetime Achievement Award and you can't even get THAT honoree to show up.

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I hate commercials that make up stuff and then make it seem like everyone says this stuff. Like who has ever talked about "being back in the game" as a euphemism for getting it up. And yet Mike Ditka talks about it like it's everyday parlance. Mike Ditka talking in euphemisms bugs me too - it doesn't fit with his character.

Also the dodge commercials with Hemi engines bug me. No one talked about Hemis until your stupid commercial, and they still don't. It's meaningless. Just because Debeers gets away with that shit doesn't mean you all can.

I watched a little too much tv this weekend, I think.

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Great (american) football games.* I heart the playoffs.


*however it was painful to watch the end of the Philly - Green Bay game with my Packer-fan bf. It sucks that Favre lost them the game. WTF was he thinking?

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WTF is a "Hemi", other than an unnecessarily large engine that purports to make up for the dick shrinkage created by the wife's insistence on an in-car DVD player?

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Irv retired in 1998. I guess I never noticed how many fires there were --- or just got used to it. On that note, I found something funny (well, funny to me) when I Googled Irv.....I found a chat board with this quote

"Irv's been retired for a couple of years now - I forget the guy who replaced him. It's the same formula, though - tonight's opening will be something like "Topping tonight's Eyewitness News, bail is set for one of the six accused Lackawanna terrorists. But first, two families are homeless tonight after a three-alarm fire on Buffalo's South Side..."

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You didn't mention the example I felt sure you would bring up -- the "right hand ring."

The idea is that it's empowering for women to buy their own diamonds. No shit. It's empowering for anyone to buy their own anything, but if you only buy it because some marketing executive told you to, then you're not really bucking convention.

Non-Vegas Casinos
 

You're on your way, Grasshopper. The best part of craps comes once you know enough to yell back.

"I want to press the 8, move my 9 to the 5, and give me all the hard ways, two ways, for a nickel each."

Two-way means that half the bet is for the benefit of the dealers (and it's perfectly acceptable to call the craps-table folk "dealers"). If it wins, you get half and they get half.

By the way, always throw down a $2 two-way Yo, sometime early on in the session. The dealers love the Yo.

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Other than that, not much.

More info.

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This guy loves his Hemi:

http://www.eyetide.com/images/ec/4009.jpg

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I think it's more empowering to hock the ring and use the money for an investment that'll cushion one's ass when Social Security utterly tanks, instead.

The whole point of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," if you listen to it, is that it's reliable cash on the hoof when the guy who buys 'em dumps you for the next generation of eye candy and you're out in the cold. How that message got transformed into "Oooh, glittery! Women need lots to wear!" is beyond me.

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This seems to sum it up, though:

"If HEMI engines have all these advantages [described earlier], why aren't all engines using hemispherical heads? It's because there are even better configurations available today."

So, in other words, Dodge is peddling revolutionary technology from the 50s/60s as still desireable today. What's next, two more words: radial tires?

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In my (limited) experience, it plays out more like your second example.

Just curious, do you apply the mailbox rule to dating? If A asks B out via email, is it okay for B to decline/dump A via email?

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Favre did not lose them the game. Mike Sherman (or D coordinator) called the wrong defense. Either that or that was worst coverage on 4th and 26 I've ever seen.

The Apprentice
 

For paigow (and me): The first episode of The Apprentice will re-air this Wednesday night for those who missed it. Second episode airs Thursday night (NBC decided to put episode 2 on Thurs after strong numbers for the first episode came out).

I will be programming the Tivo for this and other new shows tonight.

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That was horrible. But the Packers had the ball back and Favre threw it up for grabs for no reason on 1st and 10. Crazy, especially in light of the fact that the Packers run game was running all over Philly in the 4th quarter.