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[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Blah blah blah.

Okay, but what are your thoughts on Billups' cheap shot on Jefferson? I only just saw it this morning. It's the same as Artest's cheap shot on Wallace, except this time it actually ended someone's season.

Billups said Jefferson jumped back into him. Bullshit. He intentionally low-bridged him when he had no shot at affecting the lay up, except by hitting him low when he was most vulnerable.

TM

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Okay, but what are your thoughts on Billups' cheap shot on Jefferson? I only just saw it this morning. It's the same as Artest's cheap shot on Wallace, except this time it actually ended someone's season.

Billups said Jefferson jumped back into him. Bullshit. He intentionally low-bridged him when he had no shot at affecting the lay up, except by hitting him low when he was most vulnerable.

TM

I only saw the end of the game, and haven't seen the clip. My son said he watched Sport's Center and they replayed it over and over and felt there wasn't anything dirty about it.

Of course, after the fight, I reached the conclusion ESPN was full of shit, so I don't see how I can rely on it now. Did you see the clip on the internet or TV?

edit- this was from a game several weeks ago, I thought it was last night's game.

[Hank Chinaski]

Last year the word was Darko needs to grow a little and get used to the NBA slowly. He seemed part of the team, like in warm ups Chauncey would play 1 on 1 games with him.

This season, I thought they would play him in real situations for a few minutes a game- I thought they HAD to. The guy was a number 2 pick.

They aren't playing him at all unless we're up 20. No one is with him at warm-ups, and then this on that ESPN list from the other day-

• 10. Ultimate Darko, Season Two
  Two Sundays ago, the Pistons were leading the Celtics by 24 with seven minutes left, so they put Darko in the game -- he officially has an "Igby Goes Down" look to him, like a prep school kid who just got kicked out of his fifth boarding school. You can almost picture him wearing a bad blazer and sneaking a smoke behind the cafeteria. Anyway, the Celtics immediately went on a run and cut the lead down to 10 ... so Brown had to take Darko out and put one of the Wallaces back in. Poor Darko can't even stay on the court in garbage time. This is going to end badly.

I was there. We left about a minute after Darko went in. I didn't know they had to pull him. When you put someone in for garbage time you can't pull him- unless you really have no faith what so ever in his ability. I coach 11-13 year old boys. I've put kids in for garbage time and have had the score start turning. I didn't pull them, because I knew if I did it would be a clear statement about their ability.

He's done. This has got to be about the worst pick ever. Sam Bowie at least played some.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I only saw the end of the game, and haven't seen the clip. My son said he watched Sport's Center and they replayed it over and over and felt there wasn't anything dirty about it.

Of course, after the fight, I reached the conclusion ESPN was full of shit, so I don't see how I can rely on it now. Did you see the clip on the internet or TV?

edit- this was from a game several weeks ago, I thought it was last night's game.

It was from weeks ago. I saw it on tv and they showed it from three different angles. Billups did it on purpose. I would say it wasn't malicious in that he didn't use his arms to push Jefferson the way Artest did, but he clearly did it on purpose. And as I said before, anybody who plays basketball knows what can and often does happen when you hit someone when they're vulnerable like that. It was a breakaway dunk. Billups had nothing to gain by not slowing down (other than having Jefferson shoot two instead of making the dunk). He had plenty of opportunity to slow up and avoid contact, but he purposefully sought it. Cheap shot.

TM

[Dualit]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Hummer: The Fragrance

It smells like bleach.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by crazy lou
That Story was sort of funny. Reminds me of a party I went to back in lawschool. There was a guy from our section who was the typical dorkbag geek ls type. Annoyingly obnoxious with bad hygeine to boot. No one liked him but he came to social events anyway. At the party in question, someone took a half empty bottle of corona and re-filled it with urine and stuck it in the fridge. Later we challenged dorkboy to a chugging contest and he chugged the corona bottle half-filled with the dude's urine/

When he finished he said "this fucking corona is nasty, tastes like piss"

Someone replied "ha, nice palate, that may be because it 's half-piss/half beer"

We all laughed while the geek started retching.

Never a good idea to invite standard issue law school folk to a party with non-law school friends.

I had a house in law school which I shared with two old frat brothers. Shockingly, I had very few friends in law school. My contempt was misinterpreted as aloofness. But one of the few close friends I had had access to the BarBri petty cash account. I talked the BarBri people into letting me throw a party on their dime, which the BarBri rep wrote off as a "marketing event." Free kegs and food; not a bad gig.

My best friend in LS decides to come by with an entire men's and women's rugby team returning from a tournament in Savannah, a fat percentage of whom were tripping. So I have a houseful of uptight douchebags and stinking, dosed rugby players basically scaring the piss out of the LS crowd. In the midst of the mess, rugby guys start getting naked in the kitchen. There was fighting, there was the destruction of a perfectly harmless microwave. There were nasty fat naked guys everywhere. The standard issue LS jackasses talked to me even less after that debacle (which meant they conspicuously avoided me).

Its amazing how some folks just can't let their hair down. I haven't seen this same uptightness in med school friends or b-school folks. Why do so many overwound fuckers wind up in this gig? This board proves that there are a lot of decent, normal folks in law, so why is it so dominated by douchebags?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield

Shockingly, I had very few friends in law school. My contempt was misinterpreted as aloofness.

2.

Everyone thought I was too cool for them. They were right.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
What's the big deal? It's just a joke or a silly story. Who cares if it actually happened to him? If he thinks this is the kind of thing that makes him sound more interesting then let him go for it. You know the shit isn't true. He probably knows you know it too.

If he was an asshole, I would say, call him on it in a way that embarrasses him every time. But if it is otherwise harmless and amounts to a tall tale, let it go.

Hell, maybe he's setting you up for a Big Fish-type moment.

TM

Its OK when people embellish. One buddy of mine admits embellishing. He says "Life's not interesting enough. I add." He is a really good storyteller. Funny motherfucker.

BUT, making up an entire story or taking a joke and making it a remembrance is creepy. It makes you feel embarrassed for the person telling the story.

Most fuckwads in this industry have nothing interesting to say, and litigators seem as a rule to forget there's a line between lies and truth, so I hear stories like the "I knew Kennedy" gibberish frequently. I usually translate it in my head to "I am another dull cog in the pointless administrative machinery."

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
This board proves that there are a lot of decent, normal folks in law . . .

I keep reading this over and over again. I understand each individual word in isolation, but when put together like they are above, my brain cannot even recognize the sentence as the English language, much less understand what you are trying to say.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
2.

Everyone thought I was too cool for them. They were right.

I trust that's a "get off your pedestal, asswipe" snipe. I deserve it.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
2.

Everyone thought I was too cool for them. They were right.

I was going to comment on the "contempt misinterpreted as aloofness" statement as well, before I got distracted by the uncomprehendable sentence at the end. But I had a similar problem in law school. My disdain for the other students was mistakenly interpreted as a sense of superiority over them. Maybe it is a trait universal to this board. I mean, with a few obvious exceptions (Ironweed).

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Its amazing how some folks just can't let their hair down. I haven't seen this same uptightness in med school friends or b-school folks.

I've spent a considerable amount of time around medical students. They're also an uptight bunch.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I trust that's a "get off your pedestal, asswipe" snipe. I deserve it.

Not a "snipe". 5% of law school students were worthy of my time. Am I that cool? No, they were that dorky. In the cool ocean, I'm not that cool; but in the cool law school pond, all you have to do is not suck to be cool.* Fortunately or unfortunately, almost everyone sucked in law school.

*I am now writing shitty sentences just for the reaction. That is decidedly uncool.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I was going to comment on the "contempt misinterpreted as aloofness" statement as well, before I got distracted by the uncomprehendable sentence at the end. But I had a similar problem in law school. My disdain for the other students was mistakenly interpreted as a sense of superiority over them. Maybe it is a trait universal to this board. I mean, with a few obvious exceptions (Ironweed).

"Shy Girl Really Just a Bitch"

-The Onion

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Its OK when people embellish. One buddy of mine admits embellishing. He says "Life's not interesting enough. I add." He is a really good storyteller. Funny motherfucker.

Good storytellers don't need to embellish. They can turn any random event into an adventure or a farce or a drama. Sometimes they'll highlight meaningless details, but for the most part, everything they say is right on the money.