It's all about me - Page 173

NotFromHere · 08-02-2004, 01:43 PM

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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Racist fuck.

Dude. Did you break the board?

If not, I'll give you some info on your favorite guy, Roger.

CRAIG, Colo. -- Astros pitcher Roger Clemens was asked to leave a youth baseball game over the weekend for arguing a close call that went against his son's team.
He spit sunflower seeds at an umpire's leg and was asked to leave.

I can hear it now. "You might be intimidating to some people, but you don't mean shit here in little league. Get the hell out."

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 08-02-2004, 01:50 PM

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Originally posted by NotFromHere

CRAIG, Colo. -- Astros pitcher Roger Clemens was asked to leave a youth baseball game over the weekend for arguing a close call that went against his son's team.
He spit sunflower seeds at an umpire's leg and was asked to leave.

This is frightening for other reasons. According to the ESPN article, it was a game organized to pit top teams from around the country against eachother. They were playing Bakersfield. These are 10 year olds. WTF?

NotFromHere · 08-02-2004, 01:57 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
This is frightening for other reasons. According to the ESPN article, it was a game organized to pit top teams from around the country against eachother. They were playing Bakersfield. These are 10 year olds. WTF?

See, this is what happens when you let high school kids play pro sports. At 10, you're probably already on some agent's radar. Especially if dad's going to spit sunflower seeds on an umpire for a call at 2nd base. I mean really - come on Rog, he's 10. Get over it. They lost anyway.

I guess it just goes to show you that bad behavior can't begin too soon.

08-02-2004, 02:26 PM

Get those turkey basters ready, finally there is something for us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/02/bu...ant.html?8hpib

Shape Shifter · 08-02-2004, 02:31 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Get those turkey basters ready, finally there is something for us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/02/bu...ant.html?8hpib

Plum? What is the symbology here?

baltassoc · 08-02-2004, 02:31 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
POLL QUESTION: Do you dance? If so where and how did you learn? If not, why not and would you if you learned how?

I don't get many chances to dance these days, but I learned to two-step and sock hop from a chick I dated on and off in high school and college. She really liked to dance, and really liked places like you just described. Some of my best memories from that time period involve dancing* with her.

Hmmmmmn. I wonder what ever happend to her.

ETA: Google says she's now a lay Episcopal minister back in the town she grew up in. Google is scary.

*Vertical & horizontal.

taxwonk · 08-02-2004, 02:41 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan

POLL QUESTION: Do you dance? If so where and how did you learn? If not, why not and would you if you learned how?

I learned to waltz and do some swing dancing way back in junior high. If I go slow and don't try to get too fancy, I can move a partner around the floor a little without either of us breaking any toes or ankles.

I had a drunken housewife on a "girls' night out teach me to two-step in a Houston ice house a few years back, but I don't really remember it any more.

I supoose now I would dance if were with an interested partner and we were someplace where dancing was the intended or an acceptable form of enteertainment, but I don't think I would affirmatively decide to go out dancing without some prodding.

NotFromHere · 08-02-2004, 02:43 PM

spoiler space

So it almost looked like Jase threw the HOH competition Saturday night. He'll probably work his ass off now for the veto. His life depends on it. If he doesn't get it - he's out. No one likes him, not even Scott anymore. Still waiting on the 3rd twist. Probably something with the last twin thing with Drew. Maybe all of the twins will enter into a competition with their twins. Strongest twin stays in the house?

Not Bob · 08-02-2004, 03:06 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
POLL QUESTION: Do you dance? If so where and how did you learn? If not, why not and would you if you learned how?

I do Not Dance. Why? A complete lack of rhythm. I cannot even clap my hands in time when I go to folk concerts. A couple of years ago, we went to an ethnic wedding. There's a very simple dance that is traditionally done at wedding receptions in this culture, and I was simply unable to move my feet at the correct times. The bride's father took me over to the bar, and asked me questions about Podunk State's football team until the dance was over.

Mrs. NB has rhythm, and would like us to take dance lessons. I decline, telling her that "as you know, I have no rhythm." She always says, "oh, please. You're just boring." Then I remind her of the ethnic wedding fiasco, and she drops the subject. Until the next time we watch an old Fred Astaire movie on Turner Classic, anyway.

The ethnic wedding was "white suburbanites" and the dance was, of course, "The Hokey Pokey." Shh.

ThurgreedMarshall · 08-02-2004, 03:19 PM

Okay. Saw Bourne Supremacy this weekend. Not a bad flick. Good story line. Matt Damon wasn't bad. A little predictable, but not annoyingly so.

Here's my major complaint: Why did they change directors?

In the first movie, the fight scenes were crisp and well-thought out. To make Damon seem like he really knew what he was doing, they edited fight scenese so that the parts where he wasn't as skilled or quick were sped up. This made it seem like he was moving incredibly fast with unbelievable precision. A great camera view/angle also helped.

Now, all directors seem to have attended the same fight scene class. They think they're pulling one over on us by zooming so close to the two combatants in a fight scene. You can't tell who is doing what to whom. There are a bunch of quick movements and some grunting, but the scene is really just pointless -- they might as well have shot it in the dark.

I think it started in Gross Pointe Blank. Now you see it in everything (including the Chronicles of Riddick) and it just comes off as the director being too fucking lazy to choreograph and shoot a good fight scene.

TM

Sidd Finch · 08-02-2004, 03:30 PM

I'm beginning to think that the California Lottery is rigged against me.

Meanwhile, some yo-yo neglected to pick up their $15 million prize from last September, so the money has been given to a bunch of undeserving schools.

Atticus Grinch · 08-02-2004, 03:34 PM

A British sportwriter has undertaken to explain why soccer will never catch on in America. Conclusion: It's too much like basketball, only with less scoring. He also makes the point that if international soccer caught on in the U.S., we ugly Americans would insist on rules changes to increase scoring, and thereby fundamentally alter an international sport to comport with uniquely American tastes.

Did you just call me Coltrane? · 08-02-2004, 03:45 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Okay. Saw Bourne Supremacy this weekend. Not a bad flick. Good story line. Matt Damon wasn't bad. A little predictable, but not annoyingly so.

Here's my major complaint: Why did they change directors?

In the first movie, the fight scenes were crisp and well-thought out. To make Damon seem like he really knew what he was doing, they edited fight scenese so that the parts where he wasn't as skilled or quick were sped up. This made it seem like he was moving incredibly fast with unbelievable precision. A great camera view/angle also helped.

Now, all directors seem to have attended the same fight scene class. They think they're pulling one over on us by zooming so close to the two combatants in a fight scene. You can't tell who is doing what to whom. There are a bunch of quick movements and some grunting, but the scene is really just pointless -- they might as well have shot it in the dark.

I think it started in Gross Pointe Blank. Now you see it in everything (including the Chronicles of Riddick) and it just comes off as the director being too fucking lazy to choreograph and shoot a good fight scene.

TM

I saw it last night. My assessment of the movie parallels yours. I give a B/B-

Spoiler:

One problem I had with the movie was that Bourne had his rifle aimed at the Deputy Director's head when he found them first in Berlin. Why? He was never going to shoot her. He needed her for answers. He never let her know that he had a scope on her head. Couldn't he have done the same thing w/binoculars?

baltassoc · 08-02-2004, 03:52 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I saw it last night. My assessment of the movie parallels yours. I give a B/B-

Spoiler:

One problem I had with the movie was that Bourne had his rifle aimed at the Deputy Director's head when he found them first in Berlin. Why? He was never going to shoot her. He needed her for answers. He never let her know that he had a scope on her head. Couldn't he have done the same thing w/binoculars?

I liked it a little more. B+

Spolier Answer:

I thought this scene made perfect sense. He had every intention of killing her. At that point in the plot he believed only that the CIA had decided to screw with him, and he was going to start by taking out the new head of the program to reenforce his message to leave him alone. It's only the perspectives of his dead girlfriend that makes him call to make sure he understands what's going on. He then changes his mind based on what he hears.

Flinty_McFlint · 08-02-2004, 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
I liked it a little more. B+

Spolier Answer:

I thought this scene made perfect sense. He had every intention of killing her. At that point in the plot he believed only that the CIA had decided to screw with him, and he was going to start by taking out the new head of the program to reenforce his message to leave him alone. It's only the perspectives of his dead girlfriend that makes him call to make sure he understands what's going on. He then changes his mind based on what he hears.

Spoiler Answer Second:

What baltassoc said.