Fashion Board 2-3-04 to 3-5-04

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
The complaint is about the rules. Competitive balance is, um, lacking when the Yankees spend so much more than everyone, and when the Red Sox spend so much more than everyone but the Yankees.

If it were a complaint about the rules it wouldn't be so bad. But it's not. It's a complaint about the Yankees over and over again for being successful within those rules. Instead of people calling for a salary cap, which would make sense (and I am in full support of), they say, "Tax the Yankees!" The Yankees represent all that is evil. No. The owners (probably even Steinbrenner) would be all for a salary cap. It's because of the union that it will never happen.

And someone needs to beat the shit out of Ben Affleck. People from Boston should be ashamed that they run to that dumbass whenever the Red Sox get fucked.

TM

[Alex_de_Large]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall And someone needs to beat the shit out of Ben Affleck. People from Boston should be ashamed that they run to that dumbass whenever the Red Sox get fucked.

TM

Today's SportsGuy has a wonderful couple of graphs about Afflek and a certain big-assed chick from the Bronx. Good stuff.


Edited to add link

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Yeah. But we make up for it by swimming in more forgiving ponds.

Pool, pond. The pond would be better for you.



TM

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Pierce Brosnan will not make a fifth Bond film, sources say.

I still haven't seen anyone who'll do better than Clive Owen. He showed he had the stuff in his limited role in "The Bourne Identity." But is the world ready for a Bond actor named "Clive"?

Any other suggestions? Anyone mentioning Rupert Everett will be laughed out of the virtual room.

I can see Colin Firth playing Bond. Although I agree that Clive Owen has theright stuff, Bond-wise, he suffers from not being old enough. Bond needs a few years on him.

[Flinty_McFlint]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Pierce Brosnan will not make a fifth Bond film, sources say.

I still haven't seen anyone who'll do better than Clive Owen. He showed he had the stuff in his limited role in "The Bourne Identity." But is the world ready for a Bond actor named "Clive"?

Any other suggestions? Anyone mentioning Rupert Everett will be laughed out of the virtual room.

Brosnan will be back.

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Pool, pond. The pond would be better for you.



TM

I can think of worse ways to spend my time than hanging out with Scarlett Johanssen (sp.?). Of course, I'm just glad I don't look more like your identical twin.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall



TM

To paraphrase Richard Roeper, isn't it a wonderful world when it's highly likely a Best Actor Oscar(tm) will go to either this guy ^^^^,

or this guy v v v v v v?

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
If it were a complaint about the rules it wouldn't be so bad. But it's not. It's a complaint about the Yankees over and over again for being successful within those rules. Instead of people calling for a salary cap, which would make sense (and I am in full support of), they say, "Tax the Yankees!" The Yankees represent all that is evil. No. The owners (probably even Steinbrenner) would be all for a salary cap. It's because of the union that it will never happen.

And someone needs to beat the shit out of Ben Affleck. People from Boston should be ashamed that they run to that dumbass whenever the Red Sox get fucked.

TM

Of course it's a complaint about the rules. We don't hate Darth Vader because he blew up Alderan (sp?). We hate him because he epitomizes the evil that is the Empire.

Dickering about a salary cap is symptomatic. The problem is that revenue is more local than national in origin, and there are huge disparities between the localities. Steinbrenner paid more for his franchise because it was worth more, and A-Rod is worth more to the Yankees than he would be to any other team because they get more return on him. You can't solve this problem without transferring a lot of money from rich teams to poor teams, and forcing the latter to pay people more. None of this seems likely as long as the commissioner is a bobble-head doll, and absent darker storm clouds not just on the horizon, but overhead.

Ben Affleck has lost his status as a Bostonian now that he has participated in a NASCAR event. See ya.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by Flinty_McFlint
Brosnan will be back.

You're going to take the word of the National Enquirer over a bunch of Bond geeks who've built a slick website dedicated to this issue?

All I can say is that this looks like the basis for the "still 007" rumor, and it doesn't sound very definitive.

ETA: Of course, these Bond geeks say YMMV.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by taxwonk
Of course, I'm just glad I don't look more like your identical twin.

What's the matter? Too lazy to find the guy with the really big lips?

TM

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
And someone needs to beat the shit out of Ben Affleck. People from Boston should be ashamed that they run to that dumbass whenever the Red Sox get fucked.

For this among many other reasons, yes.

I've never understood how Affleck has managed to become a celebrity spokesman for the Red Sox. (Any sports network or show with an ounce of self-respect playing clips of Affleck holding forth on the subject should do so only when coupled with subsequent ridicule).

Unless and until he plays Theo Epstein in the TNT Original Worthless Movie of The Week on the subject, I could not care less about that dumbshit's views on anything related to baseball.

[LessinSF]

A british version of The Surreal Life with 10 people I haven't heard of, Sarah Kozer from Joe Millionaire (the bondage/slurper), and Uri Geller. http://www.five.tv/programmes/backtoreality/

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Can't say I was sorry to see Trishelle leave. She had proven herself to be a clueless psycho, but not quite as bad as Robin or Amaya (wonder how she feels to learn that Colin from RW Hawaii is gay). That said, Coral needs to go too.

[ThrashersFan]

Originally posted by Not Bob

Speaking of hockey, you all should go see "Miracle." Even Mrs. Not Bob -- who prefers baseball to hockey -- liked it.

I feel sad for her because she feels a need to prefer one over the other. I have been blessed with the ability to feel full out love for both sports and still have room for NASCAR. This is a rough time of year for me -- three overlapping sports. Oh well, sleep is for the weak anyway.

Just in case anyone forgot, I like to "do the nasty" while watching my sports so my husband is always pleased when my sports overlap.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I suggest you call up Ted Gayer -- the Georgetown professor who wrote the study -- and point that out. You might save him some embarrassment. Also, you should call Kip Viscusi, the Harvard professor who edits the journal where it appeared, the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. I'm sure he'd be glad to hear about it, too.

I remember reading a piece that responded to a famous Viscusi article about how we shouldn't tax cigarettes, if anything we should subsidize them for all the money they save (pensions, etc.) from unproductive old people dying earlier than they otherwise would.

[str8outavannuys]

Originally posted by bilmore
Don't have to. I was referring to Easterboy's guesses:

"The Journal of Risk and Uncertainty does not speculate much about why SUVs and pickup trucks crash so much more frequently than regular cars, but the guesses are obvious. First, SUVs and pickups are styled to look cinematically menacing, and thus bring out the worst in drivers, visually egging them on to be hostile and aggressive. Second, owners of SUVs, especially, may falsely believe their vehicles have superior handling or road-holding power. Actually SUVs as a group are less stable than regular cars--as evidenced by roll-overs--because their high centers of gravity more than wipe out any benefits that four-wheel drive may confer. Finally, those sitting at the wheels of SUVs and pickup trucks may drive like lunatics, yakking into the cell phone all the while, because they themselves have fallen for the propaganda about SUVs being safer than regular cars."

Did anyone see last week's ER episode about the guy who had a heart attack while driving his Hummer and killed a bunch of people? 'Twas written by my sister-in-law. She and my brother don't much care for SUVs. Liberal media bias indeed.

Str(still driving the white horse)8