Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Where in the scene does "In Your Eyes" start?

Much much worse. I think she put "She's Like the Wind" on the mix tape, which, as far as I know, is the best song ever sung by Patrick Swayze.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
My (now grown up) "new" kitten has decided he likes chewing through the side of the food bag. Even though, not even three feet away, there is a dish full (OK, half-full) of food from the bag.

This means I'm, like, going to have to put the food away.

My. life. is. so. difficult.

You set a bad example for her.

[Sparklehorse]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Agreement with you is not so horrible. I just cherish my mean streak like my new kitten cherishes her leopard-printed pompom. I'm not comfortable unless I taste a smidge of its bitterness.

Tom may have just been being polite but he looked like a dork in any event.

I think I have mentioned this before but I did a test shoot with pre-Law and Order Jill Hennesey and her twin back in Toronto in the late 80s. She went on to fame and fortune, and I went on to all this.

I used to think Jill Hennessy was very attractive but these days, not so much. For one thing, I think she's overtweezed her eyebrows and she'll be forced to draw them on with a pencil someday when she's living in a nursing home.

Did something happen to your other cat or does he just have a new little buddy?

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
My (now grown up) "new" kitten has decided he likes chewing through the side of the food bag. Even though, not even three feet away, there is a dish full (OK, half-full) of food from the bag.

This means I'm, like, going to have to put the food away.

My. life. is. so. difficult.

This is, of course, a non-sequitur, but does anyone know of anecdotal evidece to support the theory that a pet will eventually begin to behave like its owner?

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
The only solace I take is that there have been at least one bigger choke in the last three years, and a Boston team came out on the good end of that.

I've had this conversation with a Boston fan friend of mine already, but I might as well mention it to you as well.

Mentioning the Yankees and the biggest choke in sports history does not have the effect on me Boston fans so very much wish it has. I simply don't care that much. Sure, when it happened, it was horrible. Sure I wish we had won. But the history of losing to the same team for generations and generations just isn't there. So, the collapse, while regrettable, simply will never affect me the way mentioning '78, '86 or '03 will a Boston fan.

I don't think you guys should stop doing it though, because it clearly brings you some much-needed sense of satisfaction. But you should know that it doesn't really work very well if you think you're rubbing in some kind of horrible memory. If you want to do that, go with '81 or '95, both of which will always be more painful (at least to me).

TM

[pony_trekker]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Did ya'll know that Peter Weller is a professor at Syracuse and he's working on a Ph.D in Rome and the Itailian Renaissance? There's a short article about him in this month's Wired, though it's not yet online. This NY Daily News blurb will have to do.

Professor of Roman History was always an alternative career choice for me.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I've had this conversation with a Boston fan friend of mine already, but I might as well mention it to you as well.

Mentioning the Yankees and the biggest choke in sports history does not have the effect on me Boston fans so very much wish it has. I simply don't care that much. Sure, when it happened, it was horrible. Sure I wish we had won. But the history of losing to the same team for generations and generations just isn't there. So, the collapse, while regrettable, simply will never affect me the way mentioning '78, '86 or '03 will to a Boston fan.

I don't think you guys should stop doing it though, because it clearly brings you some much-needed sense of satisfaction. But you should know that it doesn't really work very well if you think you're rubbing in some kind of horrible memory. If you want to do that, go with '81 or '95, both of which will always be more painful (at least to me).

TM

That's all to the good, of course, but I'm mainly sure that Burger wrote what he wrote so that Slave could read it.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Yeah, that's why people are still talking about the 2001 Ravens and the 2004 Buccaneers like they're football immortals.

More bullshit. These days, if you don't win multiple Superbowls, no one talks about you like you're immortal.* No one is going to remember the Marlins' World Series Victory either, even though they beat the mighty and dreaded Yankees. What's your actual point?

TM

*If they win it all next year, they will be remembered as immortal, just like the Patriots, who were widely considered a fluke after winning their first.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Yeah, that's why people are still talking about the 2001 Ravens and the 2004 Buccaneers like they're football immortals.

I don't think that there are too many teams that are treated like football immortals period. The big, big teams are the teams that managed to win several Superbowls in consecutive seasons (70s Miami, then Pittsburgh, 80s 49ers, 90s Dallas then Denver, early 00s New England) or the teams like the 85 Bears that just dominated the season AND the post season.

Indianapolis seemingly dominated the first half of this season with that streak of wins, but they lost steam towards the end (they lost to Houston, for Christ's sake!), and their defense has been routinely criticized throughout the season.

New England winning four in six years would have been football immortal discussion worthy. Indianapolis, had they lost this game, would have bordered on early 90s Buffalo reputation. (Another team that didn't "deserve" to win a championship.)

ETA: Or what Thurgreed said.

[Pretty Little Flower]

I was halfway through the first of 8 pages of this story about a group of refugee kids in Georgia who encounter racism and acts of kindness while putting together soccer teams called the Fugees when I realized that the movie is probably already in the works. In fact, I think I have a nagging feeling I have already seen the movie. I wonder who will play the small town mayor, who forbid the refugees kids from playing soccer in the town park on the grounds that the fields were made for football and baseball, not soccer. “There will be nothing but baseball and football down there as long as I am mayor.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/us...ef=todayspaper

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Did ya'll know that Peter Weller is a professor at Syracuse and he's working on a Ph.D in Rome and the Itailian Renaissance? There's a short article about him in this month's Wired, though it's not yet online. This NY Daily News blurb will have to do.

I literally watched from my shower window (whilst showering) the bridal party enter the church in Positano right before he was married in June. Plenty of famous folk in town for that event.



We stayed at the white hotel at the top. He was married at the church at the bottom of the picture. If you look real close, you can see me sticking my head out of the window.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I've had this conversation with a Boston fan friend of mine already, but I might as well mention it to you as well.

Mentioning the Yankees and the biggest choke in sports history does not have the effect on me Boston fans so very much wish it has. I simply don't care that much. Sure, when it happened, it was horrible. Sure I wish we had won. But the history of losing to the same team for generations and generations just isn't there. So, the collapse, while regrettable, simply will never affect me the way mentioning '78, '86 or '03 will to a Boston fan.

I don't think you guys should stop doing it though, because it clearly brings you some much-needed sense of satisfaction. But you should know that it doesn't really work very well if you think you're rubbing in some kind of horrible memory. If you want to do that, go with '81 or '95, both of which will always be more painful (at least to me).

TM

FWIW, the end of the '91-'92 Oilers season still has a bit of a sting for me.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I was halfway through the first of 8 pages of this story about a group of refugee kids in Georgia who encounter racism and acts of kindness while putting together soccer teams called the Fugees when I realized that the movie is probably already in the works. In fact, I think I have a nagging feeling I have already seen the movie. I wonder who will play the small town mayor, who forbid the refugees kids from playing soccer in the town park on the grounds that the fields were made for football and baseball, not soccer. “There will be nothing but baseball and football down there as long as I am mayor.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/us...ef=todayspaper

Gatti and the monkey are making the porno version.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
And he's going to get off easy, because the Bears are, despite their record, a poor shadow of the Shuffling Monsters of 1985.

Every single team in the history of football is a poor shadow of the '85 Bears. That was the greatest football team ever assembled.

[nononono]

Originally posted by Not Bob
In reverse order:

(1) I think that Vandersomething started it by saying something to the papers about the Colts not being able to win the big game. Not Bright. Kickers are to be seen and not heard. He's lucky that a roid raging back-up linebacker didn't rip him apart at the first special teams practice.

(2) (a) Tom was mean to Bridget? Well, that is a strike against him. Bastard. AoN, the bartender where I was Friday night looked a lot like Jill Hennesey. Fortunately, I was able to minimize my ogling, because Mrs. Not Bob was also there.

(2) (b) Maybe Tom was just nodding politely during the State of the Union.

(3) Agreement with me is so horrible?

Oh, for God's sake. And here I was, thinking Tom Brady was cute, as though this were a discovery. Not necessarily my subjective ideal, but attractive. Sure beats Manning, though I suppose some might find that hayseed thing appealing. If he didn't have the accent, I'd completely dismiss him. On second thought, the praying for the win was bad enough to overcome the accent.

But why is no on talking about how shitty Grossman is? If he didn't have the defense he does, he'd never get anything done, because he's completely inconsistent.