A frolic in Cambodia

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I may be able to help you out with [getting into a Masonic lodge]. PM me for details.

I am not interested in gender reassignment.

Thanks, though.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I am not interested in gender reassignment.

Thanks, though.

You obviously know nothing of the truly significant lodges.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Phonak needs to fire the team doctor, who's been giving the team something funny to cause these positive results (perhaps blood). Is there any speculation on this--like they screwed up the autologous tranfusions, and switched blood bags or something?

Blood doping with your own blood is still against the rules. It is just less easy to detect. Are you asking whether there is speculation that the doctor, while attempting to blood dope the athletes with their own blood, screwed up and accidently gave them blood from others on the team?

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
While some cities are more baseball or NCAA basketball cities, Cleveland is all about its NFL team.

Yes, because cities that pationately support a team always see it leave to go off to what it considers greener pastures: a slowly decaying former port/steel town whose future is slowly devolving into being just another suburb.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Blood doping with your own blood is still against the rules. It is just less easy to detect. Are you asking whether there is speculation that the doctor, while attempting to blood dope the athletes with their own blood, screwed up and accidently gave them blood from others on the team?

Is this about your Dugeons and Dragons friends?

[ilikenewsocks]

Originally posted by baltassoc
Yes, because cities that pationately support a team always see it leave to go off to what it considers greener pastures: a slowly decaying former port/steel town whose future is slowly devolving into being just another suburb.

You seem upset. Have you tried frolicking in Cambodia?

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Actually, despite my pretty common name, I come up as no. 2 when googled.

I am primarily a romance novel writer. Google apparently searched my fantasy life.

I am also an associate at another firm here in town, a doctor, a professor at several universities in various subjects, a bad (and quite unattractive) artist, and a classical musician living in a smallish city I actually used to live in.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Seen last night: Sideways.

I like Paul Giamatti. This flick wasn't bad. Not spectacular, but his movies never are. He is very good at capturing that sour mood we all get once in awhile (mostly during work hours). And his ability to make you believe these moods makes his funny lines even funnier -- because you're so grateful that he has removed himself from the realm of the depressed. I recommend it, although it might be better as a rental. (Then again, what independent films aren't?)

TM

I refused to go see this over the weekend because I didn't feel like dealing with pre-middle age white male angst. Instead, we saw Finding Neverland, which I liked a lot. It didn't shove the sad parts down your throat as much as most movies do, and the acting was good, and Mr. Depp is a hottie.

[Aloha Mr. Learned Hand]

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Stanford has an opening. Worked well the first time, both ways around. Unlike Bill Walsh, Ty hasn't lost it.

Only caveat being that I hear Stanford doesn't pay big time money to its coaches. While the job certainly has its perks, the $500k neighborhood they've been in doesn't go a long way in that area. For top programs these days the bidding starts at $1 million per and goes up from there...

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I refused to go see this over the weekend because I didn't feel like dealing with pre-middle age white male angst. Instead, we saw Finding Neverland, which I liked a lot. It didn't shove the sad parts down your throat as much as most movies do, and the acting was good, and Mr. Depp is a hottie.

Wow, just finally coming out of that turkey coma?

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Blood doping with your own blood is still against the rules. It is just less easy to detect. Are you asking whether there is speculation that the doctor, while attempting to blood dope the athletes with their own blood, screwed up and accidently gave them blood from others on the team?

Yes.

Since there's a pattern with Phonak (not just Tyler, apparently), it seems that there may be something in the team's program creating problems. One possibility is they're taking some drug that creates false positives. Another is they're using autologous doping figuring they won't get caught, and they screwed up somehow here (dirty needles, dirty blood bags, I don't know what else). Third is they're just stupid cheaters and were using transfusions and hoped not to get caught.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
I refused to go see this over the weekend because I didn't feel like dealing with pre-middle age white male angst. Instead, we saw Finding Neverland, which I liked a lot. It didn't shove the sad parts down your throat as much as most movies do, and the acting was good, and Mr. Depp is a hottie.

I thought it dealt with mid-middle age white male angst? who is this Mr. Depp of whom you speak? I'd like to google him.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Wow, just finally coming out of that turkey coma?

Mmmmm, gravy and stuffing.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Aloha Mr. Learned Hand
Only caveat being that I hear Stanford doesn't pay big time money to its coaches. While the job certainly has its perks, the $500k neighborhood they've been in doesn't go a long way in that area. For top programs these days the bidding starts at $1 million per and goes up from there...

True, but they pay more than the Indiana Unemployment Office. Of course, Stanford won't win a bidding war . . .

That said, the willingness of D-I football schools to hire black head coaches has been pretty weak.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I thought it dealt with mid-middle age white male angst? who is this Mr. Depp of whom you speak? I'd like to google him.

Sideways is whiny, I am scared of women angst. Finding Neverland is I'm a fun guy and me and my wife don't have kids and my wife is a tightass so I'm going to spend time with a family with kids angst. I don't think that's even angst, much. He seemed bemused by the wife's upsetnessosity.

Plus, Mr. Depp is hot.

And they had cool costumes. No, not the Peter Pan crap, the main female characters.

ETA I think I have been gone to long, and had too much coffee and not enough sleep while gone, and totally whiffed.