Ha

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Start it up, GGG

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Start it up, GGG

I'm on vacation. Let someone else do it.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Another sign that "athletic scholarship" is the world's biggest oxymoron.

Steve Spurrier threatens to quit because two recruits were rejected by the admissions department.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Start it up, GGG

Yesterday I saw the Jackie Robinson Story. It was filmed in 1950, so the acceptance problems couldn't have been over yet. Anyway, I would have thought a movie from that time would have completely glossed over white people being racist assholes, but it didn't. It showed some teamates being dicks, but some not. And it showed fans screaming all sort of hate at him. There was one fan from Brooklyn who went down to Florida for spring training and was shown in the grandstand talking with somke local klan guys about how they would get JR, and the Brooklyn guy was agreeing with them- but then he grows into a supporter.

So overall it was a pretty enlightened movie for the time, or it wanted to be. But everyone (I mean good guys even) kept referring to Jackie as "boy."

That's a word that went from acceptable to dead really quick. I have never heard it used to refer to a black man.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
How could you tell it was a bag, rather than a well-behaved dog?

I suppose it could have been a dead dog. It was pretty stiff.

TM

[John Phoenix]

Heard their new song (The Pretender) today. I liked it quite a bit. Can't wait for the album to come out...I mean for their new CD to drop.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I suppose it could have been a dead dog. It was pretty stiff.

TM

Dead dogs give you a hard-on?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Anyone know about Magic Jack?

• This is the name of a device that you plug into a USB port, allowing you to make phone calls from a regular phone to U.S. [and Canadian] numbers for free. The license fee is $40 for the first year (includes the device), and $20 for the next year. It supposedly works over any high-speed line, including outside the U.S. (but you can only call U.S. [and Canadian] numbers). I started using it last night. It took about three seconds to plug the device in, and another 2 minutes to get the software set up. I was assigned a local number, though local numbers are only available sporadically. Anyway, really amazing! I mostly use my cell phone for long distance, and Magic Jack makes much clearer calls, on both ends. I can't imagine how Vonage and other companies charging $20 plus per month for essentially the same service will compete.

A Volokh conspirator

I (foolishly) spent $29 last month calling Vancouver on my cell phone.

[ltl/fb]

Carvel stuff.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Dead dogs give you a hard-on?

It's a little early in the morning for this, isn't it?

[dtb]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
Dead dogs give you a hard-on?

Only on the first page and this thread is already earning its name.

Way to go, man.

[dtb]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Carvel stuff.

Hey - that's near me!!

Apparently, Tom Carvel didn't get accepted (or whatever you call it?) at the snazzy country club in the area, so he built his own public golf course.

It could be that I'm confusing him with some other loser who couldn't join the CC who built his own public golf course. Good thing for local golfers that the CC is so picky about who can join.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

I'm a little surprised that Flower hasn't been posting more about "nerdcore:"

• A largely white subgenre of hip-hop that celebrates the solitary pleasures of science fiction, computers and bad teenage movies, nerdcore is emerging from the shadows of the Internet, where it spent the last half-decade as an in-joke. This do-it-yourself brand of rap, part self-expression and part self-satire, has inspired two documentary films, and its own festival, Nerdapalooza, in California. This month, MC Chris — otherwise known as Christopher Ward, 31, the son of a finance executive from the affluent Chicago suburb of Libertyville, Ill. — will attempt an unprecedented nerdcore crossover when he joins mosh-pit-friendly rock acts like New Found Glory and Sum 41 on the Warped Tour.

I found this touching:

• From its early days, hip-hop has been an art form born from oppression and marginalization, where performers sought to turn limitations into strengths, and the harshest circumstances yielded the best material. While no one is going to compare life in the high-school computer lab to the streets of the South Bronx — or certainly, wedgies to racism — suburban dweebs have their beefs with society, too.

South Bronx, Bronx H.S. of Science -- aren't these just different kinds of oppression?

Oddly enough, there's not a lot of black nerdcore:

• Which is not to say that nerdcore has crossed over to hip-hop’s core black audience. Mr. Hess said he knew of only one African-American nerdcore artist, a self-described “half-black” Web designer named Ken Leavitt-Lawrence, who performs satirical gangsta rap in the voice of the physicist Stephen Hawking, under the name MC Hawking. (In “All My Shootin’s Be Drive-Bys,” he directs a bullet at a foe with the rap, “Time to give a Newtonian demonstration/of a bullet, its mass/and its acceleration.”)

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by dtb
Hey - that's near me!!

Apparently, Tom Carvel didn't get accepted (or whatever you call it?) at the snazzy country club in the area, so he built his own public golf course.

It could be that I'm confusing him with some other loser who couldn't join the CC who built his own public golf course. Good thing for local golfers that the CC is so picky about who can join.

Nice of you to have concern for us hoi polloi. but let me ask, what percentage of applicant's do you turn down? What criteria do you use?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I'm a little surprised that Flower hasn't been posting more about "nerdcore:"

• A largely white subgenre of hip-hop that celebrates the solitary pleasures of science fiction, computers and bad teenage movies, nerdcore is emerging from the shadows of the Internet, where it spent the last half-decade as an in-joke. This do-it-yourself brand of rap, part self-expression and part self-satire, has inspired two documentary films, and its own festival, Nerdapalooza, in California. This month, MC Chris — otherwise known as Christopher Ward, 31, the son of a finance executive from the affluent Chicago suburb of Libertyville, Ill. — will attempt an unprecedented nerdcore crossover when he joins mosh-pit-friendly rock acts like New Found Glory and Sum 41 on the Warped Tour.

I found this touching:

• From its early days, hip-hop has been an art form born from oppression and marginalization, where performers sought to turn limitations into strengths, and the harshest circumstances yielded the best material. While no one is going to compare life in the high-school computer lab to the streets of the South Bronx — or certainly, wedgies to racism — suburban dweebs have their beefs with society, too.

South Bronx, Bronx H.S. of Science -- aren't these just different kinds of oppression?

Oddly enough, there's not a lot of black nerdcore:

• Which is not to say that nerdcore has crossed over to hip-hop’s core black audience. Mr. Hess said he knew of only one African-American nerdcore artist, a self-described “half-black” Web designer named Ken Leavitt-Lawrence, who performs satirical gangsta rap in the voice of the physicist Stephen Hawking, under the name MC Hawking. (In “All My Shootin’s Be Drive-Bys,” he directs a bullet at a foe with the rap, “Time to give a Newtonian demonstration/of a bullet, its mass/and its acceleration.”)

MC Chris is pretty funny. Didn't you watch Sealab 2021? He was Hesh.