Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
Why is it different?

And the "well, it just is" answer won't suffice.

not7y(slippery slopes are very slippery)S

The slope doesn't look so slippery from where I stand. Probably just because I have yet to spill my drink on the slope. But anyway, the 14-16 league is for kids up to age 16; if a 12 year old is good enough to play with the big kids, no harm. The 12 year old league is for kids up to 12. I see no issue with not allowing the fat talentless 15 year old to play with the younger kids.

Similarly, and I could be wrong about this, but I don't see the word "men's" in the PGA. It is the tour for the best golfers in the world, period. What's her name may not meet that definition, but if a sponsor with a free pass wants to give her a chance to try, so be it. The LPGA, in contrast, is expressly for "ladies." It acknowledges that most, and probably all, of its participants couldn't hack it on the PGA tour. I see no problem with letting the top chick try to play with the big boys, while denying some hack from the Nationwide tour the opportunity to play on the LADIES Pro Golfers' Association tour.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Just a question for you golf experts out there. What would Annika have had to do to qualify legitimately (your words) for the Colonial and/or the PGA? Would she have to forego qualifying for LPGA? Would she have to change her LPGA status to PGA? As it stands she's turning down a tournament that she could probably win to do the Colonial. Would she have to qualify separately under PGA rules? Seems to me that if she did, she's be passing up a lot of income in order to qualify with the boys.
Just asking because I don't know.

Here are a few unquestionably legitimate ways, because it's what the men have to do:

1. Enter the proper qualifying tournament, which a number of tour stops have (like the woman who won the Conn. open, and thus gained entry to the Greater Hartford Open)

2. Go to "Q-school" to get her PGA card that allows her to enter PGA tournaments.

3. Win enough money on the tour to make the top 125 (or whatever) to be exempt from qualifying.

No. 3 is how Tiger did it his first year -- he played a few tournaments (on sponsor's exemptions) and won enough money to qualify for the following year.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

The albinos are pissed off about the Matrix Reloaded

[evenodds]

I think this is how every sci-fi nightmare begins:

Wired to the Brain of a Rat, a Robot Takes On the World
By ANNE EISENBERG

THE nerve center of a conventional robot is a microprocessor of silicon and metal. But for a robot under development at Georgia Tech, commands are relayed by 2,000 or so cells from a rat's brain.

A group led by a university researcher has created a part mechanical, part biological robot that operates on the basis of the neural activity of rat brain cells grown in a dish. The neural signals are analyzed by a computer that looks for patterns emitted by the brain cells and then translates those patterns into robotic movement. If the neurons fire a certain way, for example, the robot's right wheel rotates once.

The leader of the group, Steve M. Potter, a professor in the Laboratory for Neuroengineering at Georgia Tech, calls his creation a Hybrot, short for hybrid robot.

"It's very much a symbiosis," he said, "a digital computer and a living neural network working together."

Full text: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/15/te...next.html?8cir

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by MMmBurger
Here are a few unquestionably legitimate ways, because it's what the men have to do:
1. Enter the proper qualifying tournament, which a number of tour stops have (like the woman who won the Conn. open, and thus gained entry to the Greater Hartford Open)

2. Go to "Q-school" to get her PGA card that allows her to enter PGA tournaments.

3. Win enough money on the tour to make the top 125 (or whatever) to be exempt from qualifying.

No. 3 is how Tiger did it his first year -- he played a few tournaments (on sponsor's exemptions) and won enough money to qualify for the following year.

Well, #3 is never going to happen if she won 13 tournaments last year and doesn't yet qualify, then that will never happen.
And I'm sure that by going route #1 will mean that she misses out on some LPGA events.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Oliver Wendell Ramone
The albinos are pissed off about the Matrix Reloaded

Thanks for that one, but the better article is about Matthew McConaughey using Rogaine and Kate Hudson calling him "Merkin."
:thumbsup:

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Thanks for that one, but the better article is about Matthew McConaughey using Rogaine and Kate Hudson calling him "Merkin."
:thumbsup:

I love that the gossip column continues to reference Litingrate's, I mean McConaughey's bongo playing.

[tmdiva]

[NotFromHere]

I love that the gossip column continues to reference Litingrate's, I mean McConaughey's bongo playing.

That's because the media (or his publicist) don't want us to forget what he was doing when he was arrested. Playing with his "merkin."

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
The albinos are pissed off about the Matrix Reloaded

Far more amusing is the story immediately below it about Matthew McConaughey rubbing Rogaine into his scalp:

Hair apparent

No wonder the formerly balding Matthew McConaughey was looking more hirsute in “How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.” According to co-star Kate Hudson, the bongo-playing hunk was regularly rubbing hair tonic on his temples.
“He’s gotten [his hair] back,” Hudson told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, according to the Scoop’s translator/source.
“He sat there the whole time during filming and rubbed some stuff in his temples. It didn’t bother him that 35 people saw what he did.”
...
Hudson, who is known for giving people nicknames, was asked if she gave McConaughey a nickname, she replied that she called him “Merkin.”
She explained: “A pubic-hair wig. Haven’t you heard of it? OK, maybe it’s a new word. They used to have pubic-hair wigs in the 18th century.” (Note from The Scoop to Hudson: It’s not a new word.) ....

Complete text available at the link above.

Ok, I need to read ahead before replying.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Thanks for that one, but the better article is about Matthew McConaughey using Rogaine and Kate Hudson calling him "Merkin."

I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that she referred to her husband's member as "that puppy."

[evenodds]

Okay, I recognize that Ashton Kutcher is the first photo.

Who is the second guy?

[fufu]

Originally posted by Jack Manfred

The theatre I was in showed a lot of previews, including one for Tom Cruise in The Last Samurai.

Oh, hold me back: another Tom Cruise movie. Bleeeeck.

[NotFromHere]

"Set in 1870s Japan, this is the story of Capt. Nathan Algren, an American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the government attempts to eradicate the ancient Samurai warrior class in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly policies, Algren finds himself affected by his encounters with the Samurai."


Is this really the premise? Who tells this jerk he can pull this shit off? Train the Emperor's samurai? They'd kill him first rather than let a Westerner teach them the ways of battle.

Last samurai