DBD 3.3.10 Crappy Sequels to Movies with Great Characters
by chowder on Mar 3, 2010 5:05 AM PST
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Recently I began to think..... to most this is a bad idea, and I should probably stop writing this dbd. But, I began to think about movies nonetheless, specficially movies with characters I grew to love, but due to plotline have no outlet for a sequel. Creating a sequel with these characters would utterly destroy the original film, yet I find myself longing to know what would have happened to them. I guess, I don't necessarily want another movie, rather a 30 minute 'where are they now' segment about these fictional people I've taken an interest in.
Example One: Scent of a Woman
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At first, I hated Charlie (the shy and quiet buzzkill) and Lt. Colonel Frank Slade (a dick), but as the movie progressed their character arcs did too, and I became more and more enamored with each. At the end of the movie, I loved both characters.
I know a sequel to Scent of a Woman is a terrible idea. I can't imagine what a sequel would look like, or know if I can bear Al Pacino saying hoo-ha every two minutes again, but I'm really really curious as to where each would be 20 years later. Did Charlie get into Harvard? What career did he choose, did he take tango lessons, does he have a smoking hot wife? I want to know! More curiously, what happened to Frank Slade. Did he end up with that teacher? Did he go into AA? Did he start working again, what happened to him? I want answers!
Example Two: Dazed and Confused
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Yes, its a teen movie, but it was one of the best teen movies of the 90's, a movie that hit home videos at the time I started high school (hence an irrational emotional connection). Contrary to Scent of a Woman, I fell for most of the characters in Dazed and Confused right away, and the idea of the movie is that all teenagers resonate with at least one of the character groups. I'd like to see where these characters went with their lives. Again, I'd love to see a 30 minute special on where Randall Pink Floyd is, or if Wooderson has been locked up for being a pervert, or if O'Bannion is still a complete deusch, and basically what happened to everyone.
Example Three: The Beach
Yes, I read the book (which like usual was better) and therefore have some insights into where each character ended, but the movie took several turns for the different. They combined some characters, modified others, and generated a different narrative. I understand why the movie makers did this, but I feel it created completely different characters. I also recognize the point of following Richard from where he lands in 'the unknown' to when he leaves, because he is essentially exploring the unknown parts of himself. Exploring himself within a tabula rasa, no mother to remind him of who he was, or what he did. No job etching itself on to his character. A tabula rasa, for Richard to explore. Without spoiling too much, I want to see how he readapts to life within society again. Does he completely forget his life on the beach, does it give him nightmares, how does it influence him as a person and how does he cope with the experience. Again, a sequel to the movie is a terrible idea, The Beach Two, Life in Suburbia doesn't have the same mystique, but I still want to know what happens to the characters.
What movie characters do you want to most find out about? Conversely, which movies would simply make for truly terrible sequels?
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Men's tennis beats Utah
This doesn’t make up for the Poinsettia Bowl, but I’ll take it.
No. 10 California 6, Utah 1
Hellman Tennis Complex | Berkeley, Calif.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Doubles
1. Lovill/McLachlan (CAL) def. Eilers/Golding (UTAH) 8-5
2. Hejazi/Katsarov (CAL) def. Jacobs/Suriano (UTAH) 8-4
3.
Order of finish: 3, 1, 2* (California wins doubles point)
Singles
1. No. 42 Pedro Zerbini (CAL) def. Phillip Eilers (UTAH) 6-4, 6-1
2. No. 59 Christoffer Konigsfeldt (CAL) def. Jason Smits (UTAH) 6-3, 6-1
3. Nick Andrews (CAL) def. Alex Golding (UTAH) 6-2, 4-6, 6-2
4. Bozhidar Katsarov (CAL) def. Timmy Allin (UTAH) 6-3, 6-3
5. Riki McLachlan (CAL) def. Dmytro Mamedov (UTAH) 6-0, 6-1
6. Stephen Jacobs (UTAH) def. Bijan Hejazi (CAL) 6-2, 6-1
Order of finish: 5, 4, 6, 2, 1*, 3
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Women's lacrosse get a win!
Cal beats Davidson
BERKELEY – Midfielders Alex Tickner and Vail Horn scored four goals apiece to power California past Davidson, 14-9, for the Golden Bears’ first victory of the season on a mostly sunny Tuesday at Memorial Stadium. The Bears improved their record to 1-3 after the nonconference match. The Wildcats dropped to 1-3.
This was a breakout game for Tickner, a senior midfielder who ranked second in points (40) and goals (35) in 2009. This year through three games – including two against nationally ranked opponents Ohio State and Northwestern – she scored zero points and had taken just two shots.
“We were waiting for her to explode on the attacking end,” Cal head coach Theresa Sherry said. “Even last game [a 17-3 loss to No. 1 Northwestern], we had her playing low attack. It was great today that she finally found her rhythm. She was going harder. I’m really happy with her finally getting on the board.”
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Vail Horn
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
no helmets?
Or have the Regents just sold them for spare pennies?
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
carp (paraphrased): "117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"
by natteringnabob on Mar 3, 2010 9:08 PM PST up reply actions
Well they have stick checking when they have the ball(which is why some, but few wear light gloves). And up until about 5-6 years ago the masks were optional, but as you can see in that picture they can be very beneficial haha
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right
I always thought the helmets/cages were more about the sticks than the checking, but whadda I know from womens’ lacrosse
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
carp (paraphrased): "117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"
by natteringnabob on Mar 4, 2010 1:36 PM PST up reply actions
a big reason is also because the sticks are different, women use a more “traditional” stick (more similar to the native american versions). Men have a deeper pocket, which means a different style of cradling and much more vicious checking, which a lot of times results in stick to helmet contact… Which does happen in women’s lax no doubt, but not to the same extent… Either way both are extremely fun and can be rather dangerous
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Lacrosse is a big deal in Maryland… there was a bit of hubbub about the women’s game a couple of years ago because some high school student took a ball to the chest and died as a result, but it didn’t appear to have resulted in any changes on the safety equipment front.
Yeah I hate it when balls are on my chest.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 5, 2010 10:39 AM PST up reply actions
Syd'GOD
News from the scouting combine
INDIANAPOLIS, IN – Former Cal football player DB Syd’Quan Thompson posted the fifth-fastest 3 Cone Drill time (6.73) by a cornerback on Tuesday’s final day of the 2010 NFL Scouting Combine. Thompson’s mark came two days after teammate TB Jahvid Best recorded the fastest times among the event’s running backs in both the 40-yard dash (4.35) and 3 Cone Drill (6.75) on Sunday.
Best and Thompson are two of six former Cal football players that participated at the 2010 NFL Scouting Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium. DL Tyson Alualu, WR Nyan Boateng, OL Mike Tepper and WR Verran Tucker were also among hundreds of invited prospective NFL players.
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Thompson
I can see the Raiders drafting him.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Mar 3, 2010 6:17 AM PST up reply actions
why? His 40 time wasn’t as fast as others. I can see the niners drafting him in the middle rounds.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
shoe fail?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I must have planted my foot awkwardly or something. I have no clue how it happened. I’m really clumsy.
First semester, senior year, I twisted the same ankle three times and broke a toe once.
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I twisted the same ankle three times and broke a toe once.
I think the Giants did that last year.
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Maybe you can pull this off with your suit. :)
You can step anyway you want and you’ll have full ankle support!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Have you looked into a possible pronation issue?
I have one too, and I got help when I sprained my same ankle about 6 times within a span of 9 months, maybe 9 or 10 times in my life.
After about 3 months of physical therapy, and being instructed on buying Orthotic friendly shoes, I haven’t had any problems (Going on about 8-9 years without incident)
its spelled "S-H-U-F-E-L-T-N-O-B-A-L-L-S"
I read that as protonation.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I might. Bear in mind, senior year was a while ago and my ankle went unsprained for a while…
I’m pretty sure the reason I sprained my ankle three times in one semester had to do with not letting it recover properly (I once twisted it on the way to a sorority invite, but went anyway).
If this recurs again, though, I’ll definitely look into it.
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Walking down the hallway to get to the water cooler?
by 33SwisherSweet on Mar 3, 2010 9:38 AM PST up reply actions
Good thing you had insurance though, eh?
by 33SwisherSweet on Mar 3, 2010 11:37 AM PST up reply actions
Or you could’ve gone to the gym and walked it out, PUSSY.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 3, 2010 12:03 PM PST up reply actions
Or gone to the gym and worked it out like a MAN.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 3, 2010 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
YEAH
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 3, 2010 12:29 PM PST up reply actions
Sorry to hear it. Ice and vitamin I (Ibuprofen) are your friends.
As is scotch. Scotchy scotchy scotch.
Not to mention scotch’s friends, tequila, vodka, and johnny walker.
Not according to Ohio Bear.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
‘twas CALumbus Bear who took umbrage. Do not rape good scotch with ice. Ohio Bear, who is a different person, doesn’t care for the scotchy scotch scotch
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:03 PM PST up reply actions
Flagged for people thinking we are the same person
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
Allow me to extend my sincerest apologies. You are merely a Bear from Ohio, not Ohio Bear. Sorry for confusing one for the other.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 12:15 PM PST up reply actions
I enjoy it neat at room temp. I understand and accept putting in a drop or two of water, but I don’t do it myself.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:26 PM PST up reply actions
If I was forced to drink Johnny Walker Red I’d probably add Coke. Lots of it.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:31 PM PST up reply actions
i thought it was bad to drink booze under the influence of ibuprofen, acetaminophen, etc.?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Yeah, actually it’s not a good idea.
Ibuprofen + alcohol can jack up your stomach.
Tylenol (acetaminophen) + alcohol is worse → it’s toxic to your liver.
Men's golf finishes strong at USC tournament
Good final round to take 2nd place
WESTLAKE VILLAGE – Cal bolted up an additional four spots with a second straight strong round of golf on Tuesday to finish second overall at the USC Collegiate Invitational hosted by USC at the North Ranch Country Club. The Golden Bears were in 11th place after the first 18 holes of the event Monday but combined to shoot nine-under par over the final 36 holes, including a five-under par round of 279 on Tuesday that featured three birdies by scoring players on the 17th hole of the day. Cal finished the tournament with a five-under par 54-hole team score of 847.
“Every great team and every great player has to compete,” said head coach Steve Desimone. “What we’re seeing from our guys is that they want to compete.”
Cal’s second-place finish and surge over the final two rounds was especially impressive considering a tournament field that featured seven teams ranked in the nation’s top 25 and 12 among the country’s top 50.
Oregon (279-277-275 – 831, -21) won the event for the first time in school history with a comfortable 16-shot margin over the Bears. Arizona State (282-279-288 – 849, -3) was third two shots behind Cal and followed by Pepperdine (289-276-286 – 851, -1), San Diego (293-280-278 – 851, -1) and USC (283-283-285 – 851, -1), in a fourth-place tie.
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We may be the Pac-10 champions, but we still must beat stanfurd
Weekly media release
California Golden Bears (20-9, 12-5) vs. Stanford [sic] Cardinal (13-16, 7-10)
Saturday, March 6, 3 p.m., Maples Pavilion, Stanford [sic], Calif.
Radio: KFRC 1550 AM TV: FSN/CSN Bay Area
After clinching a share of its first Pac-10 title in 50 years win a win over Arizona State last Saturday on Senior Day, California heads down the Peninsula to Stanford [sic] to face the Cardinal in the regular-season finale having won six out of the last seven. The Golden Bears and the Cardinal will play Saturday, March 6, at 3 p.m. at Maples Pavilion.
It was a team effort in the historic game against the Sun Devils last Saturday, as seniors Jamal Boykin and Patrick Christopher led the Bears in scoring with 14 points each.
Cal last won a conference title in 1960 when the Bears captured the last of four straight Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) crowns. Cal finished that year with a 28-2 overall record and 11-1 league mark. The Bears reached the championship game of the NCAA Tournament before falling to Ohio State.
A strong free-throw shooting team all season, Cal currently ranks No.19 in the nation at 74.5 percent, with senior guard Jerome Randle ranking second in the nation indivudally at 92.3 percent, which is the best single-season percentage in school history.
Randle moved closer to Sean Lampley on Cal’s all-time career scoring list with 1,733 points, Lampley is in first with 1,776 points. After reaching 600 points a year ago, Randle currently boasts 549 points this season.
The team leader in steals with 48, Christopher is seventh on the school’s career scoring list with 1,610 points, and is currently second on the team in scoring with 15.7 ppg and second in rebounding at 5.4 rpg. On Saturday, Christopher will surpass Keith Smith (1987-90) for the school record in career games played with 129.
In addition to sitting atop the Pac-10 standings, Cal also has a Strength of Schedule ranking of No. 10 and an RPI ranking of No. 21. The Bears have defeated each Pac-10 team at least once this year.
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Cal played seven league champions this season
If you’re like me, you could name 6 right away. The 7th one surprised me.
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Ahhh, Jacksonville.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 9:04 AM PST up reply actions
Rene Herrerias says Pete Newell would be proud of this team
Herrerias succeeded Newell as head coach in 1960
Rene Herrerias, who served as Pete Newell’s top aide and then succeeded him as Cal’s head coach, said his late boss and friend would have enjoyed watching the Golden Bears win a Pac-10 title for the first time since his final season of 1960.
"I think he’d be real proud of the team," Herrerias said. "He liked (Mike) Montgomery, thought he was a good coach. He liked his ideas, liked his discipline – the same discipline that Pete had. That’s what Montgomery’s brought to the floor.
"He would have really been happy. He’s probably laughing up there."
Newell, a Hall of Fame coach who directed the Bears to consecutive Final Fours and the 1959 national title, died last fall.
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Monty press conference kwotes
On getting any reaction from the fans after Saturday:
People are excited. I think a lot of people waited a long time, and were fearful of being let down again, at least that’s how they would describe it. When we finally won, I think it was a load of a lot of people’s minds and so it’s been pretty positive. I mean, I don’t hang out, though. I don’t walk across campus with my uniform on, so I’m not in contact with a lot of people.
On the team’s play in the last three weeks:
Well, we played better with our backs to the wall. The fact of the matter is, we actually played well against USC. I think SC is a pretty good team. We played well there, but lost. We’ve played better when we’ve had our backs to the wall. When we’ve had to win, we’ve typically managed to come back with a pretty good performance. We’ve been focused, we’ve played hard and generally, I guess, we’ve won.
After losing at SC, we came back and played very well against UCLA. After getting beat at Oregon State, we came back and played pretty hard against Oregon. We needed these two games, obviously, and we played very well. The Washington games, you know, the Washington game in particular, we knew was going to be a tough game based on how they handled us up there and we came back and played really well, really hard. Then in the first half against Washington State, we weren’t quite as good, but when we got our backs on the wall, we came out and played very well. If we can learn anything, it’s how we have to play to be at our best. I don’t know whether that will be the case, but that seems to be when we are at our best.
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carp doesn't have to be torn today
Softball game vs. UC-Davis postponed due to weather
BERKELEY – The California softball home game originally slated for Wednesday, March 3 at 2 p.m. versus UC Davis has been postponed due to inclement weather.
The game has been rescheduled for Sunday, March 14 following a pre-scheduled game against UC Davis as part of the California Tournament.
Later this week, the Bears will travel back to Las Vegas, this time for the Las Vegas Tournament, which will be held Friday, March 5-Sunday, March 7. There, the Bears will face off against New Mexico State (March 5, 11:15 a.m.), Weber State (March 5, 3:45 p.m.) before two games on Saturday, March 6 – Portland State (9 a.m.) and Southern Utah (1:30 p.m.) and close the weekend against host UNLV on Sunday, March 7 at 2:30 p.m.
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Women's basketball weekly media release
Looking to pull the epic upset this weekend
The California Golden Bears (17-11, 11-6 Pac-10) close out the regular season by hosting the No. 2 Stanford [sic] Cardinal (27-1, 17-0 Pac-10) at Haas Pavilion on Saturday, March 6. The game will be carried nationally on Fox Sports Net and locally on Comcast Bay Area. Tip off is at 12:30 p.m.
Saturday’s game will be a Cal Kids Day with general admission tickets available for all youth 12th grade and younger for just $1. There will be pregame face painting, poster making and inflatables as well as a post game player autograph session. However in the event of rain, the kids day pregame activities will be canceled.
Cal enters the week in sole possession of third place in the Pac-10 standings, holding a half-game advantage over the USC Trojans. Cal and USC both have six losses, but Cal has 11 wins. USC will play a pair of games this week, hosting Arizona on Thursday and Arizona State on Saturday. If Cal and USC end up in a tie for third, USC holds the tiebreak advantage over Cal and would earn the three seed in the Pac-10 Tournament, pushing Cal into the fourth seed. If Arizona State wins both of their games and Cal loses, then ASU and Cal would be tied for third. Once again, Arizona State owns the tiebreak advantage and Cal would be seeded fourth. Cal could also end up as the five seed if ASU, USC, and Cal tie for third place (with a Cal loss, two ASU wins, and a USC victory over Arizona).
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Women's gymnastics going to do a three way
Tri-meet, that is
The California Golden Bears compete in the second of three straight Northern California meet, heading to San Jose for a tri-meet on Friday, March 5. The first rotation begins at 7:00 p.m.
It is also the second consecutive meet that the Bears will face off against the Stanford [sic] Cardinal. The meet host, San Jose State, is also a familiar foe as they participated in Cal’s home tri meet on Jan. 22.
Last Week: Stanford [sic] Quad Meet California finished fourth at the quad meet, posting a season-low 188.825 team score.
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Flagged
totally misleading :(
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Women's H2O polo heads to SoCal this weekend
Tournament on Friday; game vs. SC on Saturday
Bear Bites:
The No. 4-ranked Cal women’s water polo team (12-4, 2-1) will compete in its fourth tournament of the season with a pair of matches Friday (March 5), before battling the hottest team in the nation Saturday (March 6) at USC (11-1, 1-0). On Friday, the Golden Bears have matches against Occidental (8:30 a.m.) and Cal Baptist (2:45 p.m.) at the Cal Lutheran Invitational. On Saturday, Cal takes on the No. 1-ranked Trojans, who are fresh off of upending previously undefeated Stanford [sic], 10-6, in the championship match of the UC Irvine Invitational. The Bears will be looking to avenge a 10-5 loss to USC last Sunday in the semifinals of the UC Irvine Invite. Along with its 2-1 league mark, Cal has performed well in tournaments in 2010; winning all five matches during the NorCal Invitational in Berkeley and making it to the finals of the Stanford [sic] Invitational, were it fell to then-No. 1-ranked Stanford [sic], 10-7. Last weekend in Irvine, the Bears topped UC Davis (13-5) and No. 6 Hawaii (8-4) in day one, before falling to the Trojans in the semifinals and being tipped by No. 3 UCLA, 7-6, in six sudden death overtime periods. Cal’s lost to the Bruins is believed to be the longest match in NCAA women’s water polo history.
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Women's soccer kicks off its spring schedule
Sunday friendly (did I use that right?) vs. Colorado
BERKELEY – The California women’s soccer team kicks off its spring schedule this Sunday, March 7 against Colorado. The game will begin at 11 a.m. at the Mustang Tri-Valley Field in Danville, Calif.
“This game will provide us a chance to see where we are early in the year,” Cal head coach Neil McGuire said. “Furthermore, it will allow the players to get a sense for what they need to refine in their game in preparation for the fall.”
The field, which is a turf surface, is located at 1000 Tassajara Ranch Drive, which is off of Crow Canyon Road in Danville.
The game against Colorado is the first of the 2010 schedule, which was released last week. The Bears will play three games against Division I opponents and in two tournaments as well.
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The headline alone is epic:
Senator Dikembe Mutombo blocks record amount of legislation:
President Emperor Warlord Of The Sun!
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PS I Need to be clear, that the actual story is UNIMAGINABLY epic, too, so that read that. Heres a tidbit:
His biggest rejection came 20 minutes into the first half of the session when 5-foot-10 Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) had his Peace Corps Improvement and Expansion Act emphatically slapped away by a leaping Mutombo. Following the rejection, Mutombo glared at Dodd from the Senate podium and said, “Get that weak-ass legislation out of my house,” in a yell that was reportedly heard in the top rows of the Senate Chamber
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I liked this:
“Sometimes I get the impression that he’ll block something just because it’s introduced by a Democrat or, quite frankly, just because he’s taller than the rest of us,” Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA) told reporters. “Why else would he reject a resolution supporting stability in Sudan?”
Specter went on to express concern for the future of his party, saying that the only hope for getting meaningful legislation passed through Congress is to make sure Rep. Greg Ostertag (D-UT) is elected to the Senate during November’s midterm election.
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“The thing about Mutombo is that, for a big man, he can actually pass bills really well,” Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) said in reference to their bipartisan work on the Trade Act of 2007 and the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. “Because he’s so tall, he sees the perimeter of the entire Senate floor and knows when a senator from the left or right might offer some weak-side help.”
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You sure he wasnt saying "who wants to sex mutumbo?"
by 33SwisherSweet on Mar 3, 2010 9:39 AM PST up reply actions
Will Best be better than Spiller?
From SI.com’s Truth and Rumo[u]rs
Jahvid Best may be ready to catch speedster C.J. Spiller on the NFL’s draft boards. Best finished faster than Spiller, according to the time posted on the league’s official Web site. That’s both significant and surprising not only because there’s a lot of discussion of the top prospects after Spiller, but there were questions about Best after suffering a concussion in a game against Oregon State after leaping to reach the end zone. It was a terrifying fall as Best landed on his head and neck, his helmet coming off and his left arm going rigid.
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I dunno…Spiller can return punts very well (why didn’t Best ever get a shot?) and appears to not be quite so fragile. Of course, if Best is used as a complimentary back (and if he goes to San Diego at 28 he won’t) then I think the fragility issue will be a moot point.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I still think Best doesn’t place in the first round due to injury concerns. Sure, they were all freak injuries, but he did suffer two season-ending injuries, and two other injuries requiring off-season surgery in three years. I love me some Best and hope the best for him, but these are very serious concerns.
Best never returned punts because we had D-Jack, then Best became an integral part of the offense and Tedford did not want to risk his health as we had another solid returner in Syd
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I thought J Ross was actually more exciting than Syd as a punt returner.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Damnit, don’t forget how good he was as a kickoff returner! (Best)
UCLA 2007, brought us in position to win the damn game. Oregon State 2008?
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Oh I remember, but the discussion was punt returning which is a little trickier than kick offs as the players do not have as much time to survey the field, not saying Jahvid couldn’t handle that with his excellent vision, but just sticking to topic…
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Would you say the same for Best?
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I wouldn’t know… he’s never been used as a punt returner, but you can bet that NFL teams would give him that role in training camp
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So we shall wait and see?
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this is what I don’t understand. If it’s possible for him to be an NFL returner, why did he never do it in college?
I’m glad Best declared Sanche. Not only for his hopes and dreams, but because I think Cal would have continued to use him as the primo back (and the Chargers might) when I think he’s more of a Spiller-type.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Unemployed? Join Cal professor George Lakoff to help him get the requisite # of signatures so that California can become majority-driven and not minority-driven.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
<3 lakoff – I think I will go to www.californiademocracyact.com, download a signature page and send it in.
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
Scent of a Woman II : PTSD Strikes Back!
Tagline: Bipolar disorder goes away … but not forever.
Dazed and Confused II : Dazed and Confused-er.
Tagline: The first day of middle management is the best day of middle management.
The Beach II : Sand Gets Everywhere.
Tagline: Off-season rates are cheaper … just like life.
/sorry, that’s the best I got.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 3, 2010 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
Note the absence of Nabby, who led the Sharks to a 4-3 loss to New Jersey last night. I think Wilson needs to find a new netminder this offseason.
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What a bunch of Canadian douchebags.
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by Rishi on Mar 3, 2010 8:32 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
How many Sharks total were on olympic teams, seven?
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Eight
The four Canadians, Pavelski (USA), Nabokov (Russia), Murray (Sweden), and Greiss (Germany)
I am a Vereenian.
and Greiss sucked too
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--Coach Clark
Murray has some big hits. Greiss’ can be excused, Germany had nowhere near the firepower of some of the top teams.
I hear you could score on both Nabby and Greiss.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Didn’t Sweeden win Bronze?
If so, was he just not invited to the medal picture party?
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before atomsareenough corrects you, Finasogihagoiahgland. You forgot the silent ahogiahgao
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Duly noted. I was under the mistaken impression that the ahogiahgao was silent and invisible.
I am a Vereenian.
Fuck yeah, I’m a meme!
BTW, typos generally don’t vex me. It’s the grammatical mistakes which I think we could all stand to be more careful about.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 10:59 AM PST up reply actions
Grammatical mistakes like Chili? ;)
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In fairness, that could very well have been a typo, but I thought it could have been an honest mistake as well. Someone here (I forget the person’s name), keeps mixing up “yolk” and “yoke”, for example.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 11:10 AM PST up reply actions
(I forget the person’s name),
"atomsareenough—cleaning up CGB one day at a time until we finally get that press pass." - Berkelium97
by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 11:14 AM PST up reply actions
It wasn’t.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
I’m willing to admit that I’m about to be a jackass:
about which I think we could all stand to be more carefulabout.
That’s better. I look forward to being vigorously corrected when next I make a stupid mistake, grammatical or otherwise.
Good catch! You’re not a jackass. :)
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
I’ve always thought the “don’t end a sentence with a preposition” rule was spurious. As, by the way, did Winston Churchill, who, I think you will agree, had a fairly good command of the English language, and was a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. When one of his aides gave him a document in which a sentence that had been completely twisted around in an effort to avoid ending it with a preposition, Churchill wrote in the margin: “This is something up with which I will not put!”
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I was gonna point out that maybe he should have said “corrected vigorously”, but it’s not exactly a split infinitive, I don’t think, and like the preposition thing, I believe it’s more of a style issue than anything else.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 11:29 AM PST up reply actions
The split infinitive “rule” is an odd one, to say the least, and I think you’re correct that it is as much a stylistic issue as anything else.
From a letter sent by George Bernard Shaw to The Times:
There is a pedant on your staff who spends far too much of his time searching for split infinitives. Every good literary craftsman uses a split infinitive if he think the sense demands it. I call for this man’s instant dismissal; it matters not whether he decides to quickly go or quickly to go. Go he must, and at once.
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by CalBear81 on Mar 3, 2010 11:37 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Dude, I like to split the shit out of my infinitives!
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Dude, I like to the shit splitthe shitout of my infinitives!
Fixed, and possibly made more Germanic to boot.
George Bernard Shaw would be so pleased with your non-pedantic literary craftsmanship.
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I feel like the Michaelangelo of the internet. Insomuch as I am a party dude.*
*Reference you won’t get CalBear81 unless you had a child grow up in the late 80s/early 90s.
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by TwistNHook on Mar 3, 2010 11:52 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I’m not a hardliner on the subject, in fact I tend to apply the principle you describe: avoid instances in which the sequencing of the words damage either the meaning or the flow.
As for Churchill, I tried following his example, but they won’t let me smoke at work, the police took a dim view of my attempts to drive home after drinking brandy all day, and the less said about the stack of native bodies in my wake, the better.
Up with it they would not put, eh?
Did Churchill drive himself? I think the key is to get a chauffeur.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 11:33 AM PST up reply actions
Once it emerged on the domestic front that I had hired a driver, the tempest from the missus would not be the expense, but the fact that she didn’t get one also.
Wilner catches up with Ben Braun (ruh-roh):
Braun, of course, is responsible for bringing the four seniors (Jerome Randle, Theo Robertson, Patrick Christopher and Jamal Boykin) to Berkeley.
In his second year rebuilding the Rice program, Braun watches the Bears when his schedule permits and keeps in touch with certain fans/boosters and players, including Robertson.
He told me that he’d just sent off a congratulatory note to Mike Montgomery, which didn’t surprise me — I wouldn’t say they’re pals, but they certainly had a cordial relationship when Braun was at Cal and Montgomery at Stanford.
Here are the highlights.
* On how he feels about Cal’s title: "I’m proud of what they’ve accomplished and glad to have been part of their growth. It’s rewarding to see the guys get healthy and mature. I always felt it was a team that could win a championship one day.’’
* On how the Bears look from afar: "The team plays with a lot of confidence. Mike has allowed the upperclassmen to play with freedom within the structure, which is what you should do with upperclassmen. We had those guys in their formative years.’’
* One whether he thinks, "That should be my Pac-10 title.": "I’m past that. People ask all the time, ‘How do you feel?’ And I tell them that I’m happy for the players and the coaches and the Cal fans, the alumni that have supported the team and supported me through the early years.’’
* On whether he ever thought Randle would become a Pac-10 Player of the Year favorite: "He was as good as Earl Boykins coming out of high school, very quick with a great shot. In time, I felt he’d be an excellent player. And I think he has a chance to play at the next level."
* On Robertson overcoming his injuries: "I talked to Theo. We’ve stayed in touch. I mentioned to him how happy I was for him with all the injuries he’s been through — to be able to bounce back like that. We redshirted him my final year and boy, did he come back strong. He’s kind of the glue for them. He defends hard every night."Ben Braun’s still a classy dude. I hope things work out for him at Rice.
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--Coach Clark
Nice little article, he may not have been the best coach in winning percentage, but he was always a class act and strived to help young players become strong men… How did Rice finish out this year btw?
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I think I saw 8-20 overall and 1-13 in league.
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--Coach Clark
To be fair, it's also Rice.
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Indeed. Rice has improved some since Braun got there…they were godawful two years ago.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Braun was always a class act at Cal. Win or lose, he always met the press and was generally pretty accountable. He did pretty well with players that already had a decent basketball IQ. He had trouble when he recruited players that were perhaps better athletes, but needed more coaching and teaching to run a set offense. My cousin was student manager and used to tell me all the time about how the guys looked bad on offense because they kept forgetting the plays. Kateley, McGuire, et al were particular culprits. Unfortunately, BB wasn’t too good at adjusting on the fly or changing his system to accommodate the strengths of his players. There’s no way he gives Randle the leash and green light needed to develop into the player he is today.
Rice is probably a pretty good fit for him and I hope he does well.
Well said, Kodiak. I always had a lot of respect for Braun, he was a class act, a good recruiter, and most importantly (at the time) ran a squeaky clean program after the mess of Bozeman (sp?). But yes, no halftime adjustments to speak of, and you never felt like he was really good at calling plays out of the timeout either.
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Wilner’s got a lengthy post on Pac10 expansion, scheduling, TV deals, etc:
* To say that the soul of the Pac-10 is at stake would be an overstatement — but not by much.
The presidents are aware of the huge difference in revenue between the Pac-10 and Big Ten/SEC (more below) and have dollar signs in their eyes. "Everything is for sale," one source told me. "They’ll do anything necessary to make money.’
This doesn’t guarantee that everything will be for sale when/if the presidents ultimately sit down (as a group) to vote on expansion.
But they’ve made it very, very clear to Scott that they want more money — and they want him to lay out the options for generating more money. After all, that’s what he was hired to do.
And if Scott comes back to them in six or nine months and says, "I can get each school X million more dollars annually, but you’ll have to play basketball games every night of the week and football games on Thursday," … if Scott says that, the presidents just might do it — even if it cuts into class time.
For decades, the Pac-10 viewed itself (rightly or wrongly) as being on higher moral and ethical ground than the SEC and Big 12, for instance. Certainly, it viewed itself as more committed to academics than those conferences.
But if the dollars are right, I’ve been told, we might see an entirely different approach.
"There will be no moral high ground if it can be monetized," the source said.
Scott can probably get more money for 10 schools than the league currently generates (more on that below). But can he get even more with the addition of two teams?
In other words: Let’s say he can get $150 million with the 10 schools. Could he get to $190 or $200 million with 12 schools?
I spoke to several people well-versed in the ways of TV ratings and advertising/marketing dollars, and they’re skeptical that any school not named Texas is going to bring that kind of revenue windfall. Especially in this economy.
But you can bet the conference will (or already has) hired a bevy of consultants, strategic thinkers and M&A experts to figure it out.
* How does Scott go about generating more revenue?
By creating more "inventory" — by giving TV partners more events to broadcast and sponsors more opportunities for their "signage" (that’s fancy advertising lingo, apparently).
Basically, he creates more inventory by offering up more games for TV, which is where Monday night basketball and Thursday night football enter the picture.
Unless Missouri or Texas (presumably with Texas A&M) are available — and at this point there’s no substantive reason to believe they are — then only three options exist for the conference: Utah, BYU and Colorado.
And for all practical purposes, there are only two options: Colorado and BYU, or Colorado and Utah.
Utah and BYU together simply will not work.
As I speculated a few weeks ago (and have since gotten confirmation on), you cannot add two mouths and only one trough, especially when that trough is the Salt Lake City market, which is not exactly Dallas-Ft. Worth.
I also wrote previously that the conference has long been opposed to BYU on multiple fronts:
The presidents aren’t interested in aligning with a church-affiliated school (regardless of the church), and they look down upon BYU because it’s not a research institution.
The coaches also have been opposed to BYU in the past because, as one league insider told me, "They don’t want their 18 years olds playing against 25 years olds."
Now, what the coaches want or don’t want won’t make a lick of difference to the presidents if the money’s right. The question is: Will the money be right with BYU?
Do the Cougars, with their regional fan base, bring enough households that are not currently within the Pac-10 footprint to make the 1/12th split worthwhile?
Or, as one source quipped: "Can you monetize the Mormon Church?"
That’s for the media consultants to determine this spring/summer, but there was serious skepticism on that front among the sources I spoke to.
And if — somehow — the dollars look right with BYU and Colorado … and it ultimately comes to a vote … will all 10 presidents sign off on BYU?
"If BYU’s a home run, I think they’ll pull the trigger," a source said. "But I’m not sure BYU’s a home run."
My belief, unchanged over the past few weeks, is that Colorado-Utah is more realistic than Colorado-BYU … although still not as realistic as no expansion.
* Then there’s the complicated issue of creating two six-team divisions.
I’ve long believed that splitting the league like a zipper (detailed here) makes more sense than a North-South split because the Northwest schools will never agree to being cut off from Los Angeles.
Lots of interesting tidbits in there.
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--Coach Clark
I can not imagine that the Pac-? will ever let in BYU, not gonna happen, no way.
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I sure hope not. Call me racist if you will but I don’t want any association with LDS
In other words, Go Bears!
Firstly, I will. You racist!
Secondly, Mormon is not a race.
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Neither is Judiaism, but you always bring up that fact in race discussions
In other words, Go Bears!
Jewish = much more of an ethnic group than LDS.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
Certainly Judaism is not a race. It is a religion. But being Jewish has been considered a “race” in some contexts. Most obviously, the Nazis treated it as a race. A person of Jewish ancestry could not avoid the Holocaust by converting to some other religion, and thereby stop being “Jewish.” People with one Jewish grandparent were considered “Jewish” regardless of whatever religion they practiced. And many people today consider themselves “Jewish” even though they do not practice Judaism. None of that is true for Mormonism, which is a religion, and nothing else.
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Also, race and ethnicity are more often than not social constructs anyway. Considering Jews have been the “other” for several millenia longer than Mormons, I think that is sufficient.
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Women have been the ‘other sex’ for much longer. My favorite was that early doctors assumed a vagina was just an inverted penis.
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That’s before they knew it was caused by small gnomes living in the belly
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by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:28 PM PST up reply actions
I don’t think that anybody considers women to be a race or ethnicity.
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no, but I’m just pointing out that the male perspective has been the default perspective.
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The default genetically is female. Takes a special chemical to make a male at a specific time. While I actually know this from a biological perspective, you may remember from Jurassic Park:
“Dr. Ian Malcolm: But again, how do you know they’re all female? Does someone go into the park and, uh… lift up the dinosaurs’ skirts?
Henry Wu: No, we control their chromosomes. It’s really not that difficult. It just takes an extra chromosome developed at the right hormonal stage to make them male. We simply deny them that. "
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(this is the point where I wait for Paleodan to get off work and tell me just how wrong Jurassic Park is)
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Yeah, I got that, funny he was basic playing Newman in that movie.
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Makes you wonder how he got hired. The Newman we all knew could barely deliver mail.
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Next thing you know there’s going to be affirmative action for Women-Americans.
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Gyno-Americans, get your terms right
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by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 1:10 PM PST up reply actions
I thought it was a Gyna-Americans.
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You are partially hydrogenated?
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by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 1:52 PM PST up reply actions
Perhaps this has escaped your notice, but the Jews ended up in all the places they did because of various diasporas. In order to be evicted from somewhere, you have to be living there first. Correspondingly, any person who is Jewish and not a convert or the product of converts, or from a non-Semitic region (i.e., Ethiopia, India), has at least some common regional heritage in a way that Mormons most certainly do not.
I can’t see his ‘zipper’ divisions, as outlined, being a go, for a number of reasons. Primarily, over the course of the past 25 years or so (I would have to look up actual records to go back any further, and I am much too lazy) one of those divisions is MUCH stronger than the other. If the league ever wanted to set up USC to go to a championship game every single year, I guess this would be the way to do it. And I can’t believe the presidents in the non-USC division would ever go for that.
For those of us too lazy to click on the link, what are the specific divisions?
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Why is that referred to as a “zipper”?
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 12:16 PM PST up reply actions
put a zipper down the center of the west coast (Utah doesnt apply) open it up and see who is on either side… but in reality its just ore based on how the ACC is configured, less on north south and more east west
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How would you do it?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
I almost liked:
West
Washington
Oregon
OSU
Cal
Stanfeit
UCLA
East
Wazzu
Colorado
Utah
USC
Arizona
ASU
With 5 divisional games, 3 cross-divisional games, 4 OOC games, and a conf. championship game. However, the apple cup and victory bell would have to be played OOC, as the cross-divisional games would get screwy. Also, if the fates have it, if Texas and aTm were to join, having USC and Texas in the same division would make it Big12S-esque. Of course…pennywise that could be what it takes to get Texas & aTm.
Any divisional slicing is going to be awkward from an LA-recruiting/$, geographical, or rivalry game. But those don’t matter to the powers at be if the $ makes sense.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Why is USC in the East and UCLA in the West? That makes no sense geographically.
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I thought USC was (slightly) more east of UCLA, and more East than Cal, Stanfraid, Washington, and the Oregons? I know, it’s a bit of a stretch but it solves Wilner’s LA issue (whether that’s an issue or not I don’t know).
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My idea is epically better like fuck
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What about the LA issue?
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--Coach Clark
They are in the South. See above.
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The Oregon and Washington schools don’t want to lose their trips to USC and UCLA (for recruiting purposes) or their visits from USC and UCLA (for ticket-selling purposes). They simply won’t approve a North-South split.
Unless somehow, some way, the money is there by the truckload.
And then anything’s possible.
So you’re assuming then the money will be there by the truckload? It may be, I have no idea. I just make and break bonds for a living.
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--Coach Clark
I like this better than Twist’s.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 2:02 PM PST up reply actions
I think this one is better than the one above (not Twist’s — that one is what I’d do, and probably all six of the ‘south’ skills would want, but the north would shit a brick). It seems a bit more fair, strength-wise.
But really, I don’t think we’re expanding.
Quick What Country is going to have the 5th largest population in 2050?
India and China at one and two are a given. The United States would be too obvious, Indonesia is already 4th, Brazil is currently 5th. Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Russia, and Japan are currently 6-10, yet none will become 5th. In 2050 the country with the fifth largest population is projected to be Ethiopia at 278,283,137 people. They currently have 79,221,000, that is one hell of an increase!
Source: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/broker (projected)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population (current)
I realize most you don’t care, but I found it amazing.
That can't possibly be correct.
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Probably at today’s fertility rates. They’ll drop after the first famine.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 3, 2010 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
(lol remember more procreative society means a better one right?)
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 3, 2010 11:23 AM PST up reply actions
Thank you, Malthus.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 11:33 AM PST up reply actions
Seriously. There is no way Ethiopia can sustain that sort of population. Although, given the history of the area, I think a genocide is more likely than a typical famine.
Famine —> war —> Genocide
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 4, 2010 12:50 PM PST up reply actions
try this http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
but India, China, United States, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Nigeria, Brazil, Bangladesh, Congo round out the top 10 (in order).
Workspaces
Since so many of you seem to access CGB from work, I’m curious what kind of workspaces you all have that give you the privacy to discuss PSoCY and BAM without fear of being caught by a boss. I’ve just started using CGB during little breaks at my internship, and I’m always afraid somebody is gonna walk by my cube and be upset that I’m on a blog…
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I alternate between my cube at the office and a cube at a client office. There’s never more than 4 of us at the client site, and no-one ever comes by. As for being at the office, it’s known that I’m a… multitasker but since my projects come in on time and generally within budget, it’s overlooked.
Also, my desks in both cubes are situated such that I can’t have someone approach from behind, so as long as I catch them in peripheral vision, all is well.
At both my jobs I just use my phone during down time, and at both jobs there usually is alot of downtime. Both jobs I work are unsupervised, one because I am the supervisor and the other because I’m the only one at the site, therfor no fear of getting caught.
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by HOUSE66 on Mar 3, 2010 9:42 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
Self-employment is the best thing ever. (Except for the minor inconveniences of no paycheck or benefits.)
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Self-employment is better than being married to me (which I previously had conceived as being the best thing ever)!?!?!?!??!
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Is there nothing higher than orange?
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Nope. Syracuse is #1!
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 11:34 AM PST up reply actions
I just keep the images off. That people walking by can’t really see that the text I’m reading/writing has nothing to do with work.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 3, 2010 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
I have my own office. It’s pretty large and I’m facing the door (which means my monitors face away from the door).
In other words, Go Bears!
As I type this, I’m sitting in an open bullpen. No cubicles, just desks. My monitors are sort of facing the middle of the room, or at the very least the main walkway. So how do I get away with it? I’m on salary, and I get my shit done. As long as that happens, no one cares.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
<3. I’m at home, “reading” my case study. The dog is not very good at judging me.
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Ohio Bear and I have our own offices with our monitors pointing away from the door. That, and we have job security being partners. There are some partners who more egregiously violate our AUP and they haven’t been ousted, so I think we’re safe.
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by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:29 PM PST up reply actions
What is the history of you two working together? Were you friends at Cal? Are either of you from Ohio? Is it all just a weird coincidence?
Ohio Bear and I met at this here office back in 2002. He graduated the semester before I started, as he is very old. But we’re both Cal sports fans, and after the 2001 football season we commiserated greatly, which no doubt was the foundation of our friendship. Neither one of us are originally from Ohio. His wife is a native, and I had distant family ties but really came here for the job and high quality of life (not joking). A few years ago we moved our offices closer together so we wouldn’t have to walk as far to talk about Cal. This has not helped our productivity, and neither has CGB.
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by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:41 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
You don’t remember when they ripped out our souls and encouraged us to be more cruel and selfish? That was the day.
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by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:42 PM PST up reply actions
Oh yeah. That day. I forgot because it was the same day as…
as…
I can’t say it. I thought I could talk about it, but I can’t.
I am a Vereenian.
Is it the same day CALumbus Bear declared you Sanchez.
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That happens nearly every day. The day in question happened, in fact, the day after Jesus in Cleats Riley led us back from a 21 point deficit against AF and we thought “we have found our answer at Quarterback!!!”
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by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 1:06 PM PST up reply actions
Close. A certain awful thing happened that day involving a storied rivalry game trophy made from a heavy edged cutting tool.
I am a Vereenian.
Ah, that was voting day. Soul ripping day was Jan.1
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
MINNESOTA BEAT MICHIGAN FOR THE LITTLE BROWN JUG?!?!?!?!?!?
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who uses a brown ceramic jug to cut things?
Go Bears Go
It’s like they have slumber parties. AT WORK!
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I introduced CALumbus Bear to the wonderful world of CGB. And the rest is history.
You’re welcome, CGB.
I am a Vereenian.
Analogy:
“Hey buddy, try this crack, it’s ok.”
“No, I better not, ok maybe just once… AH FUCK IT’S ALL OVER”
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 1:26 PM PST up reply actions
The first one is free. The rest is gonna cost ya!
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In Twist’s marriage the quote is actually “The first one is NEVER. The rest is NEVER EVER.”
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 1:51 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I thought it was Attorney Unproductivity Privileges.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 2:05 PM PST up reply actions
Giants Spring Training Starts Today!
Can I Tivo a radio broadcast? They have that now, right?
I've been Honked...
God forbid you miss a split team game against the Rangers
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I will miss nothing!!
I must consume all Giants and A’s-related coverage produced!
I've been Honked...
It’s the habit of a lifetime, 33SS, the habit of a lifetime. It’s not like they’ve ever been particularly great, so we are used to the loveable losers, the absolute futility, the frustration and heartbreak.
Do you not still love the team of your childhood?
I do!
They’re called the Dodgers :)
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 12:17 PM PST up reply actions
huzzah for the Blue Crew
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
I’m a Giants fan for much the same reason as I’m a Cal fan. The faceplants and seasons that never really were make the occasional breakthroughs all that much sweeter. Sure, there’s heartbreak and disillusionment, sure they suck, but they’re my team, dammit.
(Not to mention my Giants fandom is practically hereditary — they were my grandfather’s team before they were mine.)
Member of the Lost Tribe of Mooch
This.
Let’s go Oakland!
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
Monty can be such a cranky old guy
I hope this doesn’t backfire for him Saturday.
— The team’s film session on Monday featured several clips of the group playing well, a rare experience for the Bears under Montgomery. “He says he always sees the glass half-empty,” Christopher said, “so maybe he was putting some positive water back in the glass.”
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Another typical Monty quote
— Cal trampled the Cardinal, 92-66, in its conference opener on Jan. 2 at Haas Pavilion, but the win doesn’t stand out in Montgomery’s mind.
“I don’t even recall the game,” he said.
Love it. Don’t lose our edge. And let’s beat the furds AGAIN!
I am a Vereenian.
He'll be back next year!
Oregon State basketball coach Craig Robinson has agreed in principle to a two-year contract extension.
School officials said Tuesday the agreement will keep Robinson with the Beavers through the 2015-16 season.
As the brother-in-law of President Barack Obama, Robinson has brought some national attention to Corvallis as he works to turn around a basketball program that was struggling near the bottom of the Pac-10.
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I don’t have a problem with Robinson…. My problem is losing to Robinson.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
OSU is currently at 7-9 in the conference and only 1 game out of 4th place with 3 teams ahead of them at 8-8. They face the Washingtons at home. It is not inconceivable that they finish the season 9-9, potentially in 4th or 5th place.
Considering they were 0-18 2 years ago, I think that Robinson is doing a really solid job there.
That said, FUCKING GODAMMIT!
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This
Things to Remember: Girls usually don't like it when you yell out "Beast Mode!" when switching to doggy style. - TFLN
And not a single one of them is a good writer…
Things to Remember: Girls usually don't like it when you yell out "Beast Mode!" when switching to doggy style. - TFLN
14 Ways to Ensure You Won't Get Laid
1. Insist I call you anything other than your God-given name.
2. Try to trick me into talking about my breasts by challenging me to a bet I never agreed to.
3. Ask me to let you knock me up. First conversation. Never met.
4. Follow me into the ladies room and hide in the next stall while I’m peeing.
5. Tell me I can’t take my box of leftover food from the restaurant in your car.
6. Ask if we can take my car since yours has puke in the backseat of it.
7. Get mad at me for things I did before we met 18 minutes ago.
8. Tell me you have blood in your stool.
9. Ask me to go someplace that doesn’t serve alcohol.
10. Comment on the fact that you think the chutney on your chicken “looks like poo.”
11. Brag about treating your boys to an expensive dinner in Los Angeles.
12. Get shit-housed and tell me you love me after 3 days.
13. Ask me to come to your house to watch a movie on our first date.
14. Ask me to do some activity that requires me to wear a sports bra.
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some single ladies i know
actually find that sort of aggressive pick up interesting enough that they don’t say no, right off.
Go Bears Go
I suppose.
Someone should write a counterlist of 14 Things That Ensure You Won’t Get A Second Date
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1. Insisting in fact, names were given by God.
2. Not having breasts to talk about
3. Being infertile (or is that just a “can’t get married” sort of thing?)
4. Sharting loudly in said ladies room
5. Leaving smelly leftovers in car after making waiter pack stuff up
6. Having been cause of puke in backseat.
7. Having done something so offensive 19 minutes ago that I’m mad about it now.
8. Being the cause of blood in stool
9. Being such a lush that places that serve booze is the only place you’ll go
10. Serving poo on chicken and calling it chutney (I cannot think of a single chutney that could even remotely be described as poo. wtf)
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14. Being so f-ing lazy that doing anything physically exertive is a turnoff.
Go Bruins!
11. Complain about the time and money you spend with your boys
12. Be sober and tell me you love me after 3 days.
13. Ask me to pick you up from your house, then making me wait half an hour for you to get ready
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Lols. As opposed to the Calumbusbear/Ohiobear tandem of tightness, I’m not sure I’m liking this RishiHarsha duo. Yeah brah. High five dude. Beer… guzzle guzzle guzzle.
by since1997 on Mar 3, 2010 11:58 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
My favorite tandem is TwistNHook/Anybody Not Named Rishi
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I disagree with your categorization.
(Un-pops collar.)
Go Bruins!
by Harsha on Mar 3, 2010 12:09 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I am so elite that my collars pop themselves. Even when I try to fold them down (like at a funeral or a day of national tragedy) it just won’t work.
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Let’s start referring to them Harshi
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
fail
Let’s start referring to them collectively as Harshi
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 12:26 PM PST up reply actions
Most of these, if appended with, “unless you’re really hot,” are not true.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 3, 2010 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
California insurer now offers medical marijuana coverage
A California insurance company now offers coverage for “all aspects” of the medical marijuana industry, including liability, workers’ compensation, and operations related to growing pot.
Statewide Insurance Services of Rancho-Cordova said its new coverage plan, launched Monday, extends to all 50 states, even though medical marijuana is only legal in 14, The Sacramento Bee reported
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Roger Ebert gets his voice back!
Hooray Roger! Warning, might get a little misty eyed watching the vid and reading the article.
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Tiger still not popular. I'm sure this will all stay the same when he wins his next tournament.
Tiger Woods’ apology seemed sincere to more than half of Americans, but his popularity remains in the weeds.
In an ABC News/ESPN poll conducted from Feb. 25-28, 54 percent of over 1,000 respondents said that Woods was sincere when he said he was sorry for the damage done by his admitted extramarital affairs. Twenty-two percent didn’t believe it, and 24 percent had no opinion.
But only 39 percent had a favorable impression of the golfer after his admission. Woods has been on a steady decline since the story of his affairs broke. That’s a far cry from his approval ratings in 2000 (88 percent), 2001 (84 percent) and 2005 (85 percent).
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I kinda wish I lived in a country where more than 24% of those surveyed had no opinion regarding Tiger Woods’ public apology for being a manwhore.
So, basically, you gotta Go Bears!
Dan Guerrero chairs the selection committee this eyar
Good or bad for us? SF Chronicle thinks SUPER MONDO!
The UCLA athletic director is the chair of the selection committee for the NCAA Tournament, and is allowed to speak only in generalities.
But we’ll say it for him: The Pac-10, which took a beating in nonconference play and in the media, will get at least two teams in the field of 65.
There’s talk this week among the bracketologists and online experts that Cal, which won a share of the Pac-10 title Saturday and has 20 wins, still needs to win a couple more games to assure an at-large bid.
Hogwash. Or Bearwash. Cal is in. Right now. The winner of next week’s Pac-10 tourney (which won’t be Cal because it’s not important to coach Mike Montgomery) is in. And Arizona State might make it three if it can get to the Pac-10 final, win or lose.
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Hogwash. Or Bearwash. Cal is in. Right now. The winner of next week’s Pac-10 tourney (which won’t be Cal because it’s not important to coach Mike Montgomery) is in. And Arizona State might make it three if it can get to the Pac-10 final, win or lose.
I had wondered whether Steve Lavin and I were the only ones in the world who believed this.
I am a Vereenian.
All three of those things? I believe we’re in no matter what. I think Monty believes the tourney is important this year, as our performance in it could affect our seed markedly. And I think it will be a cold day in hell before a third Pac-10 team gets in this year.
I read fucking Vittorio Tafur’s article this morning, and I have to say I violently disagreed with most of it. That guy is a total tool. (sorry if one of you is him)
I’m not Vittorio. (As an aside, he’s a Cal grad and was a student the same time I was. He was a good guy.)
No, I wasn’t referring to all 3 things. The main thing I was agreeing with was the belief that Cal is a lock. During the broadcast of the Cal/Arizona game last week, Lavin expressed the view that the Pac-10 would get 2 teams in (Cal being a definite), which I also agree with. I think it will be Cal and the winner of the Pac10 tournament ; if Cal wins the Pac-10 tournament, I’m not really sure what will happen.
I am a Vereenian.
I’m Vittorio Tafur and I did NOT like what you are saying here!!!
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Then stop writing like a douche and start reporting! You are not a columnist. You are a reporter! Though, I am impressed that you can write full time for the sports section and still have enough spare time to evict grannies.
To the CGB gamers:
What are your guys PSN, Xbox Live and/or Steam names? Mine’s obviously royrules22
In other words, Go Bears!
This place just got a little more "dorkier"! Can always count on RR22 for that.
by 33SwisherSweet on Mar 3, 2010 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
To the CGB Dungeons and Dragons Crew: Who is up for a night of playing Magic: The Gathering and sobbing silently in the corner while thinking of women???
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In many ways, the role-playing requires scotch and sobbing.
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you must be married.....
hands you a scotch, and pulls up a chair in teh corner
Go Bears Go
It’s a decent sized split level, with 4 levels, I can usually conceal myself in the basement somewhere and evade detection.
4 stories?!?!?! OH LA LA, MR RICH MAN
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No, not four stories, four levels. It’s like two small, 2 story houses joined together with bubble gum and duct tape.
DC, to interact with them is to encourage them. Encouragement should be avoided.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 2:59 PM PST up reply actions
I suspect that there’s a GPS module planted somewhere on/in me. Seems like the lady and especially our sleep gestapo offspring can find me anywhere.
After women have children, the part of the brain that tracks objects increases like crazy. She probably is better at tracking you.
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
My offspring favor the “start shouting for a parent until one emerges to tell them to shut it” approach. It’s sort of like the old WWII approach of firing depth charges in the general area where you think the U-boat might be.
Ironically, I’ve found that you can train them out of that habit with “run silent, run deep.” The 3 year old will actually run back to her room (to reset) and come back down to ask in her nice girl voice if she really wants something.
In my family, growing up, we had a rule that you couldn’t talk to someone you couldn’t see. So, no hollering from upstairs. No calling from the living room to the kitchen — get up and go find the person you want. I liked it.
Pretty good rule. I like it – the question is whether the so-called adults of our household can actually remember to follow the rule themselves. Sigh.
How about gray hair?
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 2:30 PM PST up reply actions
offering to skip the roll play and cut to the chase....
scotch and weeping.
Go Bears Go
Yea I totally forgot everyone here but me is too cool to ever play video games. Ever. Nope it’s totally dorky and unacceptable to spend an hour or so playing a game. Hey it’s totally fine to spend all day talking to strangers online or waste hours in front of a TV but when you start controlling something then it’s totally not cool brah. Nope the only people who do that weigh 400lbs, drink Mountain Dew, and live in their mom’s basement with thousands of pizza boxes and the only social interaction is when the dork plays Magic or Dungeons and Dragons with other losers.
Sorry you got associated with this totally gay shit because of my post.
In other words, Go Bears!
Well now that we’ve got that out of the way…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Mar 3, 2010 12:28 PM PST up reply actions
Well honestly, it’s not like you’re out killing hookers or anything, I say let that geek freak flag fly.
I confess, I too have played computer games, so much as to have a 278-110 record on Starcraft. So there.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Wow…. you are sooooo cool
My heart skips a beat every time I hear the band strike up 'Our Sturdy Golden Bear'.
Dude man, don’t drink Mountain Dew. They put plutonium in that shit.
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No, it is a scientific fact that fucking a Mountain Dew would reduce sperm count.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 3:18 PM PST up reply actions
Xbox 360. I’m rarely on, however.
Now that the baby is sort of sleeping through the night, I don’t have a reason to stay up.
It used to be that when it was my shift, I’d plop her on my shoulder and go to town.
Most of the games are hard to play in front of the 3 year old. I got away with Mass Effect 2 for the most part…until the missus caught me headshotting people.
If she had caught you getting your butt kicked instead of being awesome, would it have been better or worse?
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 2:07 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, she could care less whether I rule or suck monkey butt. She was more concerned that the little girl asked me, “What happened to that guy, Da Da?”
“…Um…It was a robot. He went night-night.”
“Why?”
“He was bad.”
“Why?”
“He didn’t listen to his mommy and daddy.”
…
…
Is therapy at least partially covered by insurance these days?
by Kodiak on Mar 3, 2010 2:20 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Solid parenting, dude.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 2:24 PM PST up reply actions
Do you force her to eat broccoli and spinach like all other parents despite said parents hating the veggies when they were kids themselves?!
In other words, Go Bears!
I suspect that part of that is because they are getting crappy vegetables.
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
I loved my veggies growing up. But then, my family’s Indian so they actually had flavor.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 2:42 PM PST up reply actions
I would fight Mrs. CALumbus Bear over saag paneer. Yum, cheese cubes!
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 2:51 PM PST up reply actions
Mrs. CALumbus Bear would crush you. Shes got an iron fist!
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Apparently, every single jar lid is impervious to her mighty iron fist.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 2:57 PM PST up reply actions
Often times people plug in special boxes into their glowing rectangle of images. It allows them to press keys on a hand controller and engage in a fantasy world of video images. Sometimes they are allowed to create their own nomenclatures.
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Look, not everybody’s emotional emptiness can’t be filled by cats and lesbianism.
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by TwistNHook on Mar 3, 2010 11:59 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Worse. Joey Lawrence!
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 2:07 PM PST up reply actions
No, I didn’t write it. I had my asssistant write it out for me. I dictated, though.
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Just the cats, he got confused when people told him that he might be able to relax if he got some pussy.
by DC Trojan on Mar 3, 2010 12:06 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
He's like 007
He just straight up introduces himself.
Trojan. DC Trojan.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 3:09 PM PST up reply actions
The one filled with lesbians and cats?
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:52 PM PST up reply actions
Fuck that should be read as “can.” Can. Fuck, I fucked it up.
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Swamphunter for everything.
XBL, PSN, Steam.
"Today's weather, excessively violent with a chance of dismemberment. Tune in later for our 5-day forecast!"
~ Three Dog - Fallout 3
For PC online gaming I’m “Ash From S-Mart”, an homage to the best movie trilogy evair
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
Gimmie some sugar, baby
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
Tomorrow's DBD
I’m doing it unless someone has a strong objection. I’ve been inspired by Fire Starkey (again! you’re my muse honey!). I will even attempt posting official stories.
Would Guy’s Night Out be called GyNO?
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 2:58 PM PST up reply actions
Just be prepared for Twist to roast you! Look what he did to poor CalBear81!
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Excuse you, 81 is Senior Div snobby chick. That’s like legit hard core status. Twist will get his… 81 will handle it.
Sigh. Yes, see CALumbus Bear’s post about crack. Or was it Ohio Bear. They all look alike, you know.
I just tried to use the “z” key to switch screens on my office management software → symptom of too much time on CGB.
All Ohioains look the same to you???? RACIST
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Hey, only 90% of Ohioans are obese! Only 90%!
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 2:12 PM PST up reply actions
Are you in the 10%?? Did you notice any difference in your health since you moved?
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
Only that I instantly became better educated.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 2:35 PM PST up reply actions
My health is at risk, though — I’m much more likely to be injured by ice or tornadoes. Luckily, no mountains will fall on me.
Costs STILL assessed against Twist
by CALumbus Bear on Mar 3, 2010 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
I can probably predict at least one strong contrary reaction to your representation of women and/or men, from me.
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Nah. This is just a research project I embarked on. Has quotes and everything. And (unfortunately) no generalizations about dating, hotness and whatnot.
Here’s to hoping it doesn’t erupt into a 600 comment debate about immigration rights, healthcare, or abortion!
What about somebody who immigrates here and has an abortion done in the middle of the Rio Grande and tries to get Medicaire to pay for it?
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Yo dawg, I heard you like to be a hater, so we put some hate in yo hate so you can hate while you hate.
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Yo dawg, I heard you like to exhibit Xzibit so we put an exhibit of Xzibit in yo Xzibit so you can exhibit Xzibit while you exhibit Xzibit in yo exhibit.
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First, the two wenches one goblet and now this. Medjved, I like your style. So much better than that cruzinbears. He is so uncouth.
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The implication was, though, that you are extremely couth.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 2:17 PM PST up reply actions
Hey now, I am very couth too… just in very different ways…
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Again?????
The only thing I’ve commented on substantially in the past few days was PSoCY and the important role mayo plays in a successful interaction.
This could be an interesting DBD
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
But YOU’RE my inspiration. That’s like hating yourself. FireStarkey. You’re an amzing person. You need to love you.
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Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
Hmmmm...
I need to love me
Others will love me
PSoCY
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
I was disappointed that the iraqi turned evil. They made him a complicated character, but in the end, he’s evil.
Ragnarok: Great Man or Greatest Man?
Despite Jacob being the guy who believes people are inherently good and FLocke being the way he is, I don’t think we know for sure who is evil and who is good. Flocke’s been pretty straight forward with people, I assume he’s just a utilitarian who knows what he wants and needs. Jacob just comes off as a master manipulator.
Without plunging too deep into Christian themes, it just seems like not everything’s as clear as it could be.
Of course, FLocke also reminds me of Randall Flagg from The Stand (not The Black Tower), so he might just be the most evil bastard anyway.
Oh, you should read this if you haven’t already:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20313460_20348187,00.html
Once upon a time, Sayid Jarrah was a man who prayed. As a Muslim, he would have prayed fives times a day, including at sundown, the beginning of the Islamic day. Prayer brings the believer closer to God. Prayer brings the believer orientation and direction. Prayer brings balance. During his first tour of castaway duty on the Island, Sayid tried his best to honor his faith and uphold its pillars of belief. One of the last times we saw him praying on the Island was just days before he escaped it. The episode was ‘’The Economist,’’ which juxtaposed its Island tale of Sayid trekking into the jungle to bargain peacefully with John Locke for the life of Charlotte Lewis with its flash-forward tale of Sayid taking lives as Benjamin Linus’ personal assassin. Ever since then, Lost’s first man of faith has been slowly, sadly losing his religion, one dehumanizing hit at a time, all of them committed in the misguided belief he was avenging the (alleged) murder of his true love, Nadia. Did he pray for deliverance as he found himself getting dragged into the pit? We don’t know.
It’s an I, not an A. T-W-I-T
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 3:19 PM PST up reply actions
He meant it was too close to “twistpic”.
by Yes We Cannon on Mar 3, 2010 3:30 PM PST up reply actions
I’ve never seen Twist, so I can only imagine.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 3:33 PM PST up reply actions
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
by Yes We Cannon on Mar 3, 2010 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
Friends don’t let friends see Twist.
PS 
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Angry Hobo!
I’ve missed you oh so much!
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
Reddit asks: What is the worst attempt you have ever witnessed of someone trying to pick-up or impress someone of the other sex?
One time I threw a party at my house. I invited one of my friends who is socially awkward. So the next day everyone who stayed the night is getting up and talking and one of my wife’s friends asks me if he’s “slow or something”. I said “No, why”. She said that he was trying to pick up on her with the great line of: “You know how when girls get on their period it comes out all clotted with blood? I eat that shit”. I don’t invite him over as much anymore.
a buddy’s brother, “hey baby, let me burp in that asshole”. girl looks as if she was just shot in the gut.
granted this was on the street during mardi gras in NOLA.
So my buddies were over talking to a girl at a bar many months ago. She was cute, and had most of our attention. Well, I have this perception that they were bothering her. She keeps getting on her phone, and I know if I were trying to talk to someone on the phone I wouldn’t want to be bothered. Also, it seemed incredibly creepy. This continues for another 30 minutes, and gets to the point where I’m telling my buddies to leave her alone.
Well finally, they convince her to sit down. Having already finished quite a bit of beer and working on a pretty strong IPA, I was pretty hammered. My sarcastic humor comes out, and the beer at this point had completely removed my filter. I lean over to her and say “Ya know, statistically speaking if you sit down at the table you could get raped.” She immediately stands up and storms away. My friends are absolutely pissed at me, but I laugh and tell them they were being complete creepers.
(Note: I realize this was bad to joke about the second I said it. Again, no filter.)
Come to find out, the girl was on the phone because her friends had ditched her. My buddies were telling her she should come join our table, and that she should meet me because I was a single guy and really nice. They quite literally spent the entire time talking me up and telling her I was a quality guy.
Epic Fail.
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by Avinash on Mar 3, 2010 12:59 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
I knew a guy back in the day nicknamed “Cock Block” and while sitting at a group table with a big pack of people, he asked out the girlfriend of one of his closet friends. She was shocked but he says “It’s ok, Eric told me he is breaking up with you and you were fair game.” Unfortunatewly Eric hadn’t told her yet and was sitting right there. hahaha, high comedy
Goodbye Bob Gregory. I am soooooo 6 dimensional now!
Hey Chemists
I want to pass aqueous solvent with small molecules through a .45um polypropylene filter. What is the mechanism of action of the polypropylene? What does the polypro filter actually do, chemically?
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Filter undissolved particulates, which is important for HPLC samples. If it’s a special kind of polypropylene, then it could even trap hydrophobic, hydrophilic, or even fluorous cpds before elution with an appropriate solvent (so called trap & release columns)
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
by carp on Mar 3, 2010 1:27 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Thats what I thought THATS WHAT I THOUGHT
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:)
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Meth is too easy to make.
I’m trying to make pure THC, available in liquid tablets. The benies of pot without teh lung cancer!
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Totally sign me up.
That’d just be awesome to pre-medicate squirrelly patients.
Or, just self-medicate and not be all that bothered by anyone, squirrelly or otherwise.
agreed. Marinol just isn’t the same.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Marinol led to a very disappointingg grad night in high school… Such a let down… but hey I should have known with it having Marin and all in the name, how could it not be a disappointing let down
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Is this pursuant to California Probate Code 2580?
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a .45um polypropylene filter?
Such a rookie move.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
FUCK I just got an email that I coulda gotten the womens game tix for just 5 bucks bc I bought football tix. I WASTED 5 BUCKS. FUCK
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Ted Miller and CGB are brothers, best friends forever
Linked to solarise’s junior day post!
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u guys let ‘em scoop it in, didn’t u?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Ted and us don’t talk. But we’re always thinking about each other.
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unfortunately, urbandictionary doesn’t have the definition I was looking for “scoop it in.”
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Goin’ w/ the movie theme for today’s DBD, scoop it in = Chasing Amy II?
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Couldn’t have done it w/o the awesome community here.
[The Hangover] – And we’re the three best friends anyone could have. And we’re the three best friends anyone could have…
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SFW?
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Screen shot or else it’s not SFW.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
Unless your sensibilities are shaken by the sight of Shareef in a suit, it’s totes SFW.
I am a Vereenian.
I had an ad on the side with a girl in a tight, skimpy tank top with massive [censored for CGB ladies]. How is that SFW? I’m appalled.
"We lose to Stanford in many sports, but if you want to make a Cal team quit, bring a weapon."
--Coach Clark
8fps animation!
If you want your childhood to remain unblemished, I highly recommend not going back and watching favored tv shows – especially cartoons – from that era. I used to love Dungeons and Dragons, Thundercats, Voltron, GI Joe, Transformers. Now with the magic of priating in China, I’ve bought box sets for a few dollars a piece – horrible horrible cartoons.
I remember
years ago being all excited to see Speed Racer again, which was once my absolute, cannot miss, favorite cartoon. I gave up 5 minutes in.
At least the Canal St. edition disks are worth the price you paid for them.
Giants pitching coach Dave Righetti. "I treat Timmy differently from most pitchers: I leave him alone."
Bengie Molina: "I don't understand why they didn't want to commit to another year, with my numbers and my experience and things like that." Brain Sabean: "He's certainly welcomed back with open arms".
carp (paraphrased): "117 elements, and still no Stanfurdium"
by natteringnabob on Mar 3, 2010 9:11 PM PST up reply actions
If he never told another lie until he died, the nose on his corpse would grow.
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by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 3:41 PM PST up reply actions
…or would it?
"atomsareenough—cleaning up CGB one day at a time until we finally get that press pass." - Berkelium97
by atomsareenough on Mar 3, 2010 3:43 PM PST up reply actions
Pinocchio: the world’s greatest renewable resource.
by Yes We Cannon on Mar 3, 2010 3:49 PM PST up reply actions
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