DBD 12.7.11 CGB Superheroes
So it's well-known by now that all members of CGB are superheroes, part of an international, crime-fighting syndicate (or crime-creating, depending on your orientation). Superheroes have a superpower (or several, I guess). Superman is a Super Man. Spiderman has the web thing.
Now, anyone knows that all superheroes have one weakness. For Superman, it's Kryptonite. Green Lantern's is Yellow. Batman's is, well, everything, since he's human. Bad example.
So what is your strength and weakness? (and you only get to pick one)
Mine!
Strength: Unlimited energy
Weakness: Free alcohol
Since I have to fill up words, I may as well guess a few others.
Twist - Strength: Master trolling; Weakness: Easily distracted by mirrors
Kodiak - Strength: Can analyze and break down any football play in a moment; Weakness: Joke is too easy here
Fiatlux - Strength: Instant travel; Weakness: Cal Marketing is responsible for concealing his secret identity
Ohio Bear - Strength: Superhuman memory; Weakness: Ineffective if brought outside Ohio
The opinions expressed in a FanPost are, in every way, reflective of the opinions of every California Golden Blogs Marshawnthusiast. Moreover, they are reflective of every employee of SBNation, including Tyler "Blez" Bleszinski.
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I wrote a DBD, which I posted like 1 minute after yours. I hid it and we can reuse it later.
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Thanks. Did you have links ready or should I start hunting htem down?
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I’ll start with the CalBears.com links. Then, I can do the pro links. You can grab whatever links you so desire
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Twist, is this something you’ve been looking forward to posting? I was going to post one for tmrw….
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
You can post it tomorrow. I like it personally, but its not time sensitive or anything.
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I love DBD hide and go seek! Where did you hide it?
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You already know what the DBD says. We were discussing it the other day.
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I bet it’ll be in the last place I look!
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--Thoroughbred
Well, yeah. Why would you keep looking after you find it?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:34 AM PST up reply actions
ZOMG, I clicked it! What should I do? Should I see a doctor?
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CalBears.com quotes…….us???
In its recap of the event, California Golden Blogs wrote, “Cal Athletics is pretty committed to expanding their involvement and promotion of social media, and that they hope to have more events.”
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Inspired by the Cleveland Indians! Hey heyyy!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:08 AM PST up reply actions
Its a start, isnt it?
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absolutely. it’s a start. at the last home game of the season.
that entire press release was written by amateurs… nothing like really really highlighting how it wasn’t really your idea you just copied it from someone else… and not just any someone else… but an OHIO someone else (OK, that part is irrelevant)… but really, was it necessary to point out three times it was really the Cleveland Indians’ idea? Oh and also way to point out that the Indians did it ALL FRICKIN’ YEAR but we decided to do it just for our last game…
It’s just lame. I don’t really blame the folks doing on this particular press release… they just have no leadership.
The young lady who wrote the press release is very nice.
However, as a recent grad, I don’t think she has a lot of experience just yet. Also, I got the unspoken sense from her that a lot of what she wants to say or do is getting censored or vetoed by higher-ups.
It’s unfortunate.
However, kudos to her for sticking her neck out to suggest some out of the box ideas. I don’t think the old guard who ever have bothered doing anything with social media. That suite just would have been left empty.
Old Toothwrangler
I am sure she is perfectly nice. She may also be talented. It’s just not demonstrated here. As I said, I would not blame her, but leadership.
Does it look like this?
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Exactly like that!
Only, the head isn’t silver and doesn’t look like a snake, and the rest of it might be a different color.
Old Toothwrangler
You’re posting a quote of CalBears.com quoting you? How totally meta!
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
WERE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, PEOPLE!
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Couldn’t you have said something more memorable?
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I didnt write that quote.
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That wasn’t the question.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I think most of them are playing along :)
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:10 AM PST up reply actions
Nah, they have a point. Our hatred for Mack Brown is irrational and illogical. We’re just using him as a scapegoat.
It was all about the computers. We would have been bumped down no matter the margin of victory because of Southern Miss’ strength of schedule and record.
Plus, we can’t say anything at all because we didn’t take care of business against a lousy Texas Tech team.
Old Toothwrangler
Now you’re just trolling me. I was talking about Twist’s silly fanpost. Most of them realize how silly it is and are asking purposefully silly questions.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:40 AM PST up reply actions
the point i was referencing was why the Rose Bowl means so much. I thought 81 did a great job on that. a couple said it meant more to them… sigh.
Yes, I was surprised that at least one guy kept insisting that the Rose Bowl was actually a bigger deal for Texas than for Cal, even after I tried to explain:
The Rose Bowl is the White Whale of Cal football. I was born in May 1959. The last time Cal played in the Rose Bowl was January 1959 — five months before I was born. That’s right, I’m 52 years old, and Cal has never played in the Rose Bowl since I have been alive. And as a third generation Cal grad, I have been a Cal fan for my entire life. I have waited my entire life for Cal to make it to the Rose Bowl. Like many Cal fans my age, my prayer is: "Please, God, Just Once Before I Die." And then, after years and years and years of waiting, hoping, dreaming — there it was. I was Ahab at that moment when he hit Moby Dick with his harpoon. CAL WAS GOING TO THE ROSE BOWL! It was there. It was real. It was in our grasp. I had actually bought tickets! And then, it was gone . . . In a lifetime of incredibly painful memories courtesy of Cal athletics, it was the worst, the most horrific, the most depressing. For you, it was just another bowl game. For us, it was like Galahad having the Holy Grail snatched from his very fingertips. It’s like that story told by the Prophet Nathan to King David about the poor man who had a sheep he loved like a child, and the rich man who, instead of slaughtering one of his own hundreds of sheep, stole the poor man’s sheep and slaughtered it for his own table. With all your riches, you can never begin to understand what you did to us. Only Joseph Conrad came close. The Horror. The Horror.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
by CalBear81 on Dec 7, 2011 10:49 AM PST up reply actions 4 recs
See, this lack of understanding is your fault. You used way too many literary allusions for those Texas people to possibly understand.
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
Too many words, too.
Should have been like:
ROZ BOWL US LIKE U NO CARE.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 11:11 AM PST up reply actions
I thought htat was really well written.
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I agree with sec119 and AndBears, but not Rishi.
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by Kodiak on Dec 7, 2011 1:09 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
We said a LOT of things that were more memorable and better-represented our site.
I’d say what I really felt about their quote selection and article, but I don’t want fiatlux to pop a coronary.
Or have to drink afterwards.
Old Toothwrangler
Oh dear. I feel glum that it’s so overcast.
If ONLY there were some sunsets from an EXOTIC place with some cool CELEBRITIES to make me feel better about my life…
Old Toothwrangler
Seriously?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 10:36 AM PST up reply actions
True Story – My coworker is ready to hit the bar. at 10:48am. It’s been a tough day, we’ve got execs planning for 2012.
Cal: Bears with Books.
Yes! I love that place now.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:35 AM PST up reply actions
Do you really? I’ve never been in, but if I had to make up the prototypical ‘sketch bar’, it would be the Sutter Station.
Cal: Bears with Books.
nothing says sketch like ‘lingerie night’
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Wait, that happens there? Where have I been?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
It’s a block from my office, has just the right amount of dank without smelling or allow smoking, the bartender knows me and I’ve yet to see a fight there, so it’s working for me.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:38 AM PST up reply actions
Did you see there’s a new bar opening up on Sutter? the sign says it’s called ‘Per Diem’. Preliminary website
Cal: Bears with Books.
too fancy. need dive bar.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Sutter Station pours BIG shots of Jameson.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:37 AM PST up reply actions
Irish Coffee glasses?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 11:41 AM PST up reply actions
Specifically, Toledo.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 11:42 AM PST up reply actions
Are they made at The Glass Bowl?
Man crush on Aaron Rodgers, since 2003.
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How meta!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
more per diem updates:
http://sf.eater.com/archives/2011/12/07/pier_diem_will_open_on_december_16.php
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
off that article it seems to be more of a restaurant than a bar.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Dark wood, exposed concrete, and steel beams hope to capture an air of the California Gold Rush optimism from which the restaurant is named. A place to spend your precious daily yield, if you will.
I hear ‘per diem’, I do not hear ‘gold rush’, I hear ‘way to take advantage of your employer’.
Cal: Bears with Books.
BRB
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:35 PM PST up reply actions
we’ve got execs planning for 2012.
“We’ve got a group of people trying to come up with plausible projections of revenue that plausibly match their performance targets, regardless of the odds of achieving those metrics.”
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Yes, and luckily somebody found the coffee cart, so they’ll at least be happy while they enjoy their fiction writing.
Cal: Bears with Books.
Where is boomtho when you need him?
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
True story: I’m drinking beer right now.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Dec 7, 2011 11:51 AM PST up reply actions
Thanks!
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Dec 7, 2011 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
TBF, I kinda need the beer to deal with the hangover from last night’s toasting.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Dec 7, 2011 1:17 PM PST up reply actions
I feel your co-worker’s pain. My job took a turn for the (er, what’s worse than Ohio? Kentucky? That.) today. I thought not being able to DBD was grim, I think the rest of this year is going to be that x 10.
/sob
What’s wrong? Is everything OK?
Thankfully, the rest of the year is only a few more weeks.
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Oh, there is a huge game of “my dick is bigger than yours” occurring between the guys one level above me (who run my division) and one level above them (who run the company), and depending on whose dicks really are bigger, either my great job will get even greater, or my great job, along with everyone else’s in my division, will go BUHBYE. There is secrecy and cloak and daggerism and phone tapping and secret snooping and much huddling in closets and coffee shops and so on, so let’s hope my boss is an outlier, eh?
Oh Scootie, that’s terrible. Good luck.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
:( :(
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 8:35 PM PST up reply actions
oh sorry to hear that.
Sucks when there are a lot of politics involved.
Gotta say, though, that Ky is better than Ohio. Let me rephrase that, Louisville is better than Ohio. Can’t say the same for the rest of the state :) Also can say that people in Ky are probably bigger than people in Ohio.
Louisville? Really? At least Lexington has all the bourbon. I guess Louisville has the KFC Yum Center.
Sorry, Scootie :/ Good luck!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:42 PM PST up reply actions
The Yum center is nice. I work 1 block away and went to a free tour before the facility was open. It is nice and has these bourbon lounges under the 1st level. The thing is that it is like all other new arenas for the most part.
Didn’t see much of Lexington I like. There are some bourbon places near Louisville and some between Louisville and Lexington.
HeyAlumniGo, you should come up to Ohio and hang out with us!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:59 PM PST up reply actions
It’s times like these I’m happy I have a tiny penis.
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Oh no :(
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:12 PM PST up reply actions
Reverse vampires?!!!!
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 10:05 AM PST up reply actions
Rugby gets some new recruits:
BERKELEY – Seventeen freshmen have joined the Golden Bears for 2011-2012 as California seeks to evolve its roster and replace the loss of 15 graduated players following Cal’s second straight undefeated season and national collegiate championship.
“These young men are here for a world-class degree first and foremost,” said head coach Jack Clark. “But they also want an authentic student-athlete experience and the opportunity to develop into the very best rugby player they can become.”
Coach Clark called the connection between the new student-athletes and the program “in many cases generational – young men who have been parented and/or mentored by individuals with deep ties to us.”
These new Rugby Bears will be called upon to help fill the void created by the departure of six All-Americans and more than two thirds of the lineup from Cal’s triumph in the final last May over Brigham Young. The group of 17 players includes 15 Americans – one from Southern California and the rest from Northern California – and two Canadians. The Bay Area and Sacramento area are well represented, and 14 of the 17 entered the pipeline through Cal Rugby Summer Camps. “Our annual summer camp for high-school boys continues to be invaluable in identifying athletic potential and character,” coach Clark said.
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Mens swimming doing great:
The University of California men’s swimming program, under the direction of head coach David Durden, represented itself well during the Dec. 1-3 AT&T Winter National Championships hosted at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center in Atlanta. Past, present and future Golden Bears excelled in the long course meters competition that will help them in preparation for Olympic Trials and possibly the 2012 London Olympics.
Former standout Nathan Adrian (2007, 09-11), the 2008 U.S. Olympian who concluded his collegiate career by helping propel the 2010-11 Cal men’s swimming and diving team to an NCAA team championship in March, won the national titles in both the 50 and 100 free. On Dec. 1 Adrian clocked a time of 21.85 in the 50 free, and then won the 100 free in 48.33 on Dec. 3.
Also on Dec. 1, sophomore distance freestyler Jeremy Bagshaw finished 10th in the 400 free with a mark of 3:56.78.
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Beat Texas!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:48 PM PST up reply actions
Jinx. Buy me a whiskey!
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:50 PM PST up reply actions
I’m holding you to that.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:53 PM PST up reply actions
Well, if you come all the way here, we might as well head about two hours north to TN to Jack Daniel’s place…
NOOOO!!!! Lynchburg is in dry county, you can only buy ‘commemorative’ bottles from the distillery there.
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--Thoroughbred
Meet me on the Bourbon Trail
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:59 PM PST up reply actions
The ironing is classic.
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Scootie’s mom disagrees
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Hell yes!
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:49 PM PST up reply actions
Anger is an elite punter:
(BERKELEY) – Bryan Anger will be honored with the College Football Performance Awards Elite Punter Trophy during a presentation at halftime of the Cal-San Jose State men’s basketball game at Haas Pavilion on Wednesday, Dec. 7. Tip-off is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. PT.
Anger has had yet another banner season in 2011 for the Bears in his fourth campaign as the team’s starting punter. For each of the past three seasons (2009-11), he has earned first-team all-conference honors and also captured the J. Scott Duncan Award as the team’s Most Valuable special teams player. Anger is one of only four players in the history of Cal football to be named first-team all-conference for three consecutive seasons. He is averaging 44.57 yards per punt in 2011 to rank third in the Pac-12 and 12th nationally for those with the NCAA’s minimum number of punts per game. His 2011 average is also fifth on Cal’s all-time single-season list and has improved his career average to 43.54 yards per punt, second on Cal’s all-time list. He earned an honorable mention spot on Phil Steele’s 2011 midseason All-American squad.
“As my time wraps up here at Cal, it is truly an honor to be named the CFPA Elite Punter for my performance over the past two seasons,” Anger said. “I look forward to finishing off the season strong in San Diego. Go Bears!”
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I will miss watching him warm-up.
FUTBALL IZ SRS BUSINESS GUYZ // ONLY HAVE FUN WHEN ROZ BWL
--Thoroughbred
I kind of hope we don’t see him punting at all in the Holiday Bowl…
and no, not because Texas keeps getting INTs… see, i beat you all to the punch there.
spin move, spin move juke left, juke right, dropped for no gain.
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Had I wrote shake-n-bake, dances to the right… then, maybe.
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but if greg jennings puts the team on his back…
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 4:13 PM PST up reply actions
As a man who loves good special teamers (Colquitt is the Chief’s bestg player!) I never understood why yards per punt is so commonly used. This has more to do with field position than anything else. I always like the inside the 20,10, 5 stats much more.
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:07 PM PST up reply actions
You’ll never see a Colquitt back away!
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THE WIZARD OF RETURNS!!!
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 4:09 PM PST up reply actions
He’s going to the endzone!
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I will never get sick of watching that.
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srsly. I want that shown at my wedding/funeral.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 4:14 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Wow, Rishi has really gotten to you
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I meant both my wedding, and then decades later, my funeral!
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Both weddings?? Wow, Mitt Romney has really gotten to you
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That was a good day
1) some Tennessee fans were causing a stir, so I started a Cal chant in the BART station
2) the furd lost
3) Michigan lost to Appalachian State
4) Ohio State won
5) DESEAN JACKSON!
Almost as good of a day as Spazzy’s wedding/funeral!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 4:33 PM PST up reply actions
Too bad about the Ohio State thing, but nothing should be absolutely perfect, right?
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
Pobody’s nerfect, right?
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Did you just have a stroke, Twist? It’s nobody’s perfect. Nice stroke, Twist.
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
Why is Twist stroking Rishi!?
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 5:58 PM PST up reply actions
He can’t be everywhere at once.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
Atoms is omnipresent.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I’d need to be at least plural like zoonews for that I think.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 8:41 PM PST up reply actions
Omniscient?
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I will happily accept that, thanks :)
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:25 PM PST up reply actions
STOP STROKING ME!??!?
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Sometimes, can’t we just enjoy the reference and build off it instead of Ohioing everything up?
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No
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One of the greatest Cal sports moments I’ve ever experienced.
Also close to the top, Colvin’s fumble through the endzone!
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:38 PM PST up reply actions
On the flip side:
Jahvids dome smasher
Riley’s OSU debacle
Crazy over the backboard buzzer beater for UCLA to beat Cal (was that Shipp or Afflalo?)
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
Why
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Not on my page.
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Not on mine either.
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
Shipp, iirc
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
He should have come to Cal like his bro
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:47 PM PST up reply actions
I have friends who were watching with me who will back me up on this… but right before that play i was chanting
FUMBLE OUT OF THE ENDZONE
FUMBLE OUT OF THE ENDZONE
FUMBLE OUT OF THE ENDZONE
We went wild and all jump in the pool when the call was upheld!
A great day!!!
fiatlux won the game!
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:43 PM PST up reply actions
that may not have been the first time i chanted something… for instance two week later i was chanting
YOU CAN MAKE IT INTO THE ENDZONE
YOU CAN MAKE IT INTO THE ENDZONE
damn it.
I was a big part of the “23’s a bitch! 23’s a bitch!”
I don’t care what any Oregon fan argues..Maehle was visibly rattled after that.
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:46 PM PST up reply actions
And before I get trashed on by the Old Blue…I was young and drunk….and I don’t regret it
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:48 PM PST up reply actions
also, we were chanting that because of a dirty hit (on special teams?)
he deserved it
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Dustin > Britton
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:36 PM PST up reply actions
WBB v. SMC on Thurs:
BERKELEY – The California Golden Bears (6-2) will take on a pair of Bay Area WCC schools, first traveling to Moraga for a Thursday, Dec. 8 game at Saint Mary’s (5-3) at 7 p.m. The Bears close out the week on Saturday, Dec. 10 hosting Santa Clara (6-2) at 2 p.m. at Haas Pavilion.
The Bears will travel 14 miles to take on the Gaels on Thursday night (7 p.m. tip). Though Cal and Saint Mary’s have played one another six of the last seven seasons, this is the Bears’ first trip over the mountain since the 2002-03 season. The Bears fell 71-64 Dec. 21, 2002, which is also the last time the Gaels topped the Bears. Cal has won six straight meetings and lead the series 15-5, but Cal has not won in Moraga since a 91-80 victory on Nov. 29, 1994.
Over the past six years, the Bears have dominated California schools who are not members of the Pac-12. In 20 games since 2005-06, including this season’s 85-61 victory over Sacramento State, the Bears have only lost once to an out-of-conference team from the Golden State, the 68-66 stunning loss to San Jose State during the 2009-10 season. The Bears 19 victories over California schools include two wins in the NCAA Tournament (San Diego, 2008; Fresno State, 2009) and a WNIT overtime win (UC Davis, 2010).
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BERKELEY – The Golden Bears return home to host four straight games at Haas Pavilion after suffering just their second loss of the season; a 64-63 defeat at the hands of San Diego State, on the road.
Cal is eager to get back into the national rankings after falling out, following its loss to the Aztecs, and will have the opportunity to regain its footing with four of its final five non-conference games, at home.
The Bears will host San Jose State, on Wednesday evening, for the 19th time in program history. Cal owns a dominating 17-1 record against the Spartans in games played at home. The Bears are also 25-3 under head coach Mike Montgomery in non-conference home games, including a 5-0 mark, this year.
Sophomore F Allen Crabbe has regained his touch and leads the squad with a 15.4 ppg average. He ranks eighth in the Pac-12 and has made waves, nationally, with the 24th-best three-point field-goal shooting percentage. Crabbe is also 30th, in the country, with 3.0 three-point baskets per game.
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Bah! Blockquote fail!
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VBallers honored:
BERKELEY – The American Volleyball Coaches Association selected senior Tarah Murrey for its All-Pacific Region Team and Shannon Hawari was honored as an honorable mention, the AVCA announced Tuesday. Murrey makes her second career appearance on the All-Region squad.
Murrey finished her Cal career with a list of impressive accolades, most recently as the Pac-12 Volleyball Scholar-Athlete of the Year. She also earned placement on the All-Pac-12 First Team and as a Pac-12 All-Academic Honorable Mention. A two-time Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week this season, Murrey led California with 4.20 kills per set. She was also one of the 10 finalists for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award that honors student-athletes who excel in the classroom, on the court and in the community.
Hawari was second on the squad with an impressive 2.68 kills per set and 1.17 blocks per set. Talented on and off the court, Hawari earned an All-Pac-12 honorable mention as well as a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention. The Pac-12 also honored Hawari as the Oct. 24 Conference Defensive Player of the Week. Helping the Bears to their early No. 1 national ranking, Hawari landed on the Hilton Garden Inn Classic All-Tournament Team and the Cal Molten Classic All-Tournament Team.
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Wearing Superman colors today
My lab has already noted today that I’m wearing Superman colors today (red tights included), but I’m no Superman.
Superpower: sleeps more than your average bear
Weakness: showers
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:10 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
How many hours a night would you say you sleep?
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About 8 hours, but if not, I take a lot of naps. And, I can sleep through parties…couches all over Columbus are calling my name!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:26 AM PST up reply actions
And, I can sleep through parties
Well, then, I guess you’re not hosting the CGB Cal-Ohio State tailgate?
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Well, I’d take a nap…THEN FIRE ZE MISSILES!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:33 AM PST up reply actions
Ughhhhhh
Just a little bit longer, mom!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:28 AM PST up reply actions
?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:40 AM PST up reply actions
That’s kind of sweet. And hilarious!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:42 AM PST up reply actions
There have been times when my parents called while I was sleeping, and apparently I answered…but I don’t remember in the morning.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:43 AM PST up reply actions
I once purse-dialed them from a frat party. Oops.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:46 AM PST up reply actions
My buddy and I use to drunk-dial each other’s significant others after Thurday night clinic. Now that we’re both married, our spouses still laugh about it and threaten to disclose the recordings one day. Whoops.
Old Toothwrangler
Play them at a CGB HH!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 9:27 AM PST up reply actions
Not if they’re AT the CGB HH!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 9:36 AM PST up reply actions
Wait… so you’d drunk dial your friend’s gf and vice versa?
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:43 AM PST up reply actions
We’d start by drunk dialing our own gfs, but we’d almost always end up doing something like, “Here. Talk to Kodiak! He’ll tell you I’m okay!”
Old Toothwrangler
Wow, I didn’t know you were into that.
Say listen, my GF and I are having this dinner party, just a few close couple friends. You should swing by…
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 10:09 AM PST up reply actions
Anyone here watched “Life on Mars”?(British version) The key party episode was hysterical.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
The British one is great, the American one was a huge disappointment. Which is too bad, it could have been potentially even better. Oh well.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Well, yes, I suppose so, but I loved the British one, and the American one had a good cast (all except for the mis-cast Harvey Keitel), so I was looking forward to watching it; it could have been a great examination of American big-city life and mores in 1973.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Working on it! Episodes 5 & 6 arrived with the Grinch. (Sniffle)
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
As you might expect, I love the score of this show – they did a pretty good job of selecting the music.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
The great irony is that by ‘buddy’ he meant his wife. So he and his wife would drunk dial each other, awwww so cute!!!!
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"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 2:00 PM PST up reply actions
HAHAHAHAHA
“Maybe Dwight thought it was inappropriate to talk business after a couple of glasses of wine… Maybe I should have waited until the morning,” Vander Weide told BHSN Tuesday.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:50 AM PST up reply actions
Haha yeah, so many roommate interactions go this way!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:45 AM PST up reply actions
Nice.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 9:36 AM PST up reply actions
Sleep through parties? You must have had a lot of inappropriate things drawn on your face.
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Naw, I take off my shoes first :)
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:44 AM PST up reply actions
Thank goodness they banned couch burning! That law may have saved your life.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:42 AM PST up reply actions
HAHAHA so true. Although I did fall asleep on a plastic chair on a porch one night…
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
Are plastic porch chairs legal in Ohio?
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
On this grey area, I defer to the Ohio lawyers.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
They’re not only legal, they’re a status symbol.
LOOK, THEY BE RICH! THEY HAZ FURNITURE FOR THE PORCH!
Man crush on Aaron Rodgers, since 2003.
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Definitely not in my tub…my roommates are kind of dirty.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:40 AM PST up reply actions
With your irrational fear of showers, sounds like you’re all dirty.
"Fuck DOOOOOM. We prefer BOOOOOM!! - alpha1906
Eh heh heh
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:42 AM PST up reply actions
Take off those red tights!
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:44 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Someone had to say it :)
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:10 AM PST up reply actions
I didn’t want to be that guy, being somewhat new here and all.
"Fuck DOOOOOM. We prefer BOOOOOM!! - alpha1906
Welcome to the DBD!
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Go Bears Go
by Rocksanddirt on Dec 7, 2011 11:07 AM PST up reply actions
why must so many people on this forum be so “internetty” when it comes to women…
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 11:15 AM PST up reply actions
To be fair to atoms
He wasn’t trying to be internetty. Had Twist mentioned he had a red tie, he would have said “take off that red tie!”.
It still came off as creepy, though.
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Only if you completely lack any sense of humor or irony whatsoever.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 11:42 AM PST up reply actions
Thanks for being fair to me though :)
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 11:42 AM PST up reply actions
alright then
Yes, please remove thy scarlet leggings.
"Fuck DOOOOOM. We prefer BOOOOOM!! - alpha1906
I wasn’t creeped out until the ensuing comments told I should be :P
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 11:21 AM PST up reply actions 7 recs
you must have been in band
when at Cal.
Go Bears Go
“I can’t do this all on my own / no I know / I’m no Superman!”
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 10:12 AM PST up reply actions
I’ve been playing with the Longhorns. If you go over there, don’t fuck up my work. You can join in if you want, but don’t act like a jerk. I worked hard to get where I am in life and I don’t need the rest of you holding me down anymore!!! IT’S TIME FOR ME TO MOVE OUT! Maybe get my own place.
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Looks like fun!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:27 AM PST up reply actions
Well, join on in!
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Looks like they have an Ohioan…
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:36 AM PST up reply actions
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!
PS Where is your Lurker-American friend?
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Probably taking an exam or something silly. I’ll keep trying!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:49 AM PST up reply actions
Tell her we respect the heritage of all NonCommenter-Americans and would never use any of the dispairaging terms.
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I’m sure that’ll work.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:55 AM PST up reply actions
You got a better plan?
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Nope
Lying it is!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:01 AM PST up reply actions
I look at it as massaging the truth. Hopefully, with a Happy Ending!
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Medical Admin Story of the Day (In case someone wants to chime in or comment...)
I was in a surgical rotation. End of the day, this girl comes into the ER with severe swelling in her neck due to infected wisdom teeth. Her airway was constricting and she could not open her mouth. The chief resident operated and saved her life. Toughest surgery I ever personally witnessed.
The next day, the med admin chewed him out on rounds in front of everyone – residents, patients, nurses, etc. Full-on screaming with profanity. “Why didn’t you get a CT you -insert profanity here—?!” After the guy was done, the chief resident calmly took the CT scan out of folder he was carrying and put it up on the view box next to the patient. I asked why he hadn’t defended himself. “He’d just find another reason to yell at me. This way, at least I know I can’t be punished for it.”
Those that can, do…
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by Kodiak on Dec 7, 2011 9:26 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
But I’m not from Toronto at all!
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YOULL MISS ME MORE THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE!
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NinersNation previews the Cardinals game:
The San Francisco 49ers travel down to Glendale this Sunday to face the Arizona Cardinals, looking to at least maintain and possible increase their lead on the New Orleans Saints for the second first round by in the 2012 NFL playoffs. The Cardinals are on a solid run having won four of their last five games. Of course, their one loss in that stretch was a 23-7 victory for the 49ers at Candlestick.
That game was a crazy one considering David Akers had two field goals blocked and missed another one. John Skelton was pretty much a disaster that game as he threw three interceptions and almost lost fumble before being replaced by Richard Bartell. The Cardinals got a late touchdown on a Bartell pass to Larry Fitzgerald, but otherwise it was a 49ers rout.
The 49ers get a different look this weekend as Kevin Kolb is back in the saddle. He started this past weekend in the upset of Dallas after sitting for a month with foot issues. Much like he’s shown this season, he did some solid things and he struggled at times. Nonetheless, he is an upgrade over John Skelton and will bring a challenge to the 49ers secondary. And in Arizona, crazy things sometimes happen when the 49ers and Cardinals meet up, so we’ll see what this Sunday brings.
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Could lakers get Paul?
All day the New Orleans Hornets have been staging a Chris Paul auction, and it seemed for a while that the Lakers had dropped out. The Clippers or Warriors appeared to have emerged by late afternoon as CP3’s most likely landing spots. But according to David Aldridge it’s still too early to count out the Lake Show:
The Los Angeles Lakers are not out of the Chris Paul Sweepstakes.
A league source involved in the discussions said late Tuesday night that the Lakers are still among the teams the New Orleans Hornets are having advanced discussions with on a potential trade of Paul, the four-time All-Star guard who is seeking a trade after spending his first six seasons in the Big Easy.
The Lakers, Clippers, Warriors and Celtics currently have a leg up on other teams that are trying to acquire Paul. Yahoo! Sports had reported earlier Tuesday that the Clippers, Warriors and Celtics had the three best offers on the table for Paul. The Lakers’ potential offer would send either center Andrew Bynum or forward Pau Gasol along with forward Lamar Odom to the Hornets for Paul.
Hmm. A 2-for-1 trade wouldn’t work under the salary cap. The Lakers would have to take back another piece, and presumably they’d insist it be Emeka Okafor. Otherwise the depth chart is nearly blank at the four and five positions. Any such deal might spell the end of the Lakers’ pursuit of Dwight Howard, as it’s dicey whether Orlando would accept either Drew or Pau straight up without the Odom sweetener. My hunch is, Mitch passes on CP3 and keeps his powder dry for Dwight.
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PLEASE NOT THE CELTICS
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:48 AM PST up reply actions
all the teams are doing at least one span of 3-games in 3-days and like 11 teams are doing it twice.
Cal: Bears with Books.
I feel sad for these underpaid basketball players who might have to work 4-5 days a week.
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That is the biggest refrigerator magnet I have seen in my life! WHo owns a refrigerator that size anyway?!
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GoldenStateOfMind talks WARRIORS SCHEDULE:
Warriors have 10 games scheduled on ESPN or TNT, and several more on NBATV this season. Six of those ESPN/TNT games come in April. Our back-to-back-to-back games come on April 20-22, and then we play again on April 24. That’s 4 games in 5 nights! Crazy.
Is everyone psyched? Let’s do this thing.
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Sactown Royalty talks Sacramento Sked:
The Sacramento Kings’ revamped 2011-12 schedule has been released. In addition to the opener — December 26 against the L.A. Lakers, in which the color yellow shall be prohibited from Here We Stayed Arena — the Kings will end the season on April 26 defending home court against the infidels from the south.
The Kings lucked out and were given just one back-to-back-to-back: January 3-5 at the Memphis Grizzlies, at the Denver Nuggets and at home against the Milwaukee Bucks. That could very well be an 0-3 triptych, given the special difficulties of playing in Denver on short rest; the Bucks in Sacramento would otherwise be a winnable game.
While the relative lack of B2B2Bs is a schedule bonus — some teams have three such situations — the calendar won’t be kind to the Kings early. By the time the All-Star break hits in late February, the Kings will have played 11 games at home and 21 on the road.
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Rookie doing well for SJ Sharks:
Finish the story.
The Sharks start strong, getting an early goal from Joe Pavelski just a minute into the game. Apparently firing on all cylinders, San Jose puts shot after shot on Minnesota, controlling the play. Then Josh Harding, he of the sparkling 0.935 save percentage, gets knocked out of the game by his own player. With starter Nicklas Backstrom on the shelf with an injury, Minnesota Wild coach Mike Yeo is forced to start his third string, rookie netminder.
That kind of opening effort usually leads to a win, and if you were playing the odds, you would have assumed that the Sharks would have earned a better fate. If not, you’re probably a narcissist.
Or you’ve just been watching a lot of Sharks hockey lately.
The Sharks generated plenty of shots (42 to be exact), but rookie Matt Hackett dispelled all 34 that he faced in a Al Stalock-esque rookie showing. The Sharks controlled play, they had the chances. They just didn’t capitalize, and that’s been the story lately.
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Hot(ter) Lincoln

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So basically they put Lincolns hair on Kennedy's face?
"Let me tell you a story. I was a political prisoner for two years. The instant I was released I ran to McDonald's. I had a Big Mac and a Coke.
It was fantastic."
-Toyama Koichi, US Presidential candidate from Japan
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Odd response to my Oregon president post. This Duck can’t tell if I’m being serious or trolling. It amuses me in the sense that the post is so OBVIOUSLY not serious. I just don’t understand how anybody could think that is a serious post.
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Facebook randomness

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by TwistNHook on Dec 7, 2011 7:21 AM PST reply actions 8 recs
BOOMTHO LOSES AGAIN
Now Adorama has it for $697 and change
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I need witnesses to confirm! Lets put this bitch to bed once and for all!
Inspiring and completing since1997 since2010!
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY DONUTS THAT WOULD BUY!?
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:37 AM PST up reply actions
Print screen, paste it into paint or whatever, crop the relevant portion, then upload it to imgur.com
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
I have that same TV! Got it a few years ago with my credit card points. Works great still!
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:15 PM PST up reply actions
…free shipping??
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:52 AM PST up reply actions
it’s this thing online retailers do where they pay the shipping instead of the customer.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
…….but that’s not important right now.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
It could be important! Last time I looked at adorama, shipping wasn’t included and it was like $200.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:56 AM PST up reply actions
It says free shipping “on thousands of products”, of which this television may or may not be one.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
I don’t understand anything about this post.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
All you need to know is that Boomtho loses and:
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This is a tough decision. I’m considering either:
- A literary analysis of the 5 “Fire Starkey: Ultimate Wingman” and 2 “Rishi: Diaries of A Love Assassin” episodes which includes:
* Ranking the episodes on real life accuracy and humor
* Their place and relevance in 21st century American Literature (using specific examples to illustrate your points)
* A list of the single male lovehunter stereotypes not used (so I can write more episodes!)
OR
- a treatise on the 10 primary reasons why Joe Starkey sucks as a radio announcer using specific examples of his eggregious shittiness.
Haven’t decided yet.
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
It’s time for boomtho to retract his concession! The ol’ “Al Gore” is what we used to call it.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
i would like to petition the court for 3 e-slaps because FS has erroneously declared victory 2 or 3 times.
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I called.
The guy said you lock in the original price.
And he said free shipping.
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see? see? IWIN
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
you dont believe Rishi. You dont believe Scootie. You didn’t believe the 4 people the other day who confirmed my version of events the first time around.
COMMUNIST ALERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTT
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:49 AM PST up reply actions
hold on, i need to adjust the tin foil on my head...
OK, done.
but seriously, LOOK AT THE WEBSITE IT SAYS $150 SHIPPING TO CALIFORNIA
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it was free this morning
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:53 AM PST up reply actions
sigh, no, no I did not!
Ok, what’s your e-mail? Next time I win this, I’m sending you an e-mail with a screen shot. 3rd times the charm!
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
bullshit! I have won twice already! How many times must I win?
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
grounds for divorce
I may be overreacting here, but that doesn’t matter.
In prior DBDs I mentioned that I’ve never seen the Grinch who stole Christmas cartoon. Since my kids hadn’t either, I told the missus “hey, I’m returning those Netflix DVDs and getting the Grinch so I can watch it with the kids.”
So yesterday I called to say I was on the way home, and mentioned that I saw she had called around 3.30 but I hadn’t picked up because the phone didn’t really ring through (happens every so often). She said, “Oh, I was calling to see if you wanted to watch the Grinch with the kids but since you didn’t answer I figured I’d just put it on for them.”
Let’s say I was disappointed.
Then when I got home, I was asked when I was next going to the barber, as the 6 year old wants to get her bangs tidied up. My response “you mean this past weekend? Like when I told you, hey I’m going to the barber, and then came back with shorter hair?” And my wife’s response: “Oh. Well your hair is only ever short or really short, I hadn’t really noticed.”
SIGH.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Yes, yes they did.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Aw thanks.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
A small amount on my head.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Sorry, DC. That’s totally uncool. I’d give (and have) Mrs. Kod a lot of grief for a deliberate act of aggression like that. There can be only one way to make amends: you need to buy yourself a fancy European car and put a big bow on it.
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Is your wife The Grinch?
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1. Totally uncool.
2. I’ll watch the Grinch with you too. It’s best shared (though it’s still awesome on one’s own).
CGB GRINCH VIEWING PARTY!
(Can we also watch Mickey’s Christmas Carol Please?)
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Also, the Muppets?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:15 AM PST up reply actions
TWSS
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:35 AM PST up reply actions
I mean, his mom’s gonna be calling me, right?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:48 AM PST up reply actions
http://www.buy.com/prod/christmas-story-collector-s-edition/208426987.html
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True Story
My friends got me an ornament of the leg lamp in the wooden box that talks and lights up…but Mrs. Unclesam hates it and makes me hang it in the back of the tree after we argue about it for 10 min…life imitates art.
My neighbors proudly display theirs in the window every christmas. It’s a nice tradition.
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I think she might actually be getting me a Cal ornament…it was in the google autofill on the iPad recently…
Yes, sometimes life does imitate art.
And sometimes life turns art on its head.
My favorite Christmas movie is probably It’s A Wonderful Life. I say probably because I’m also a sucker for the Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol (alternately titled Scrooge). I never tire of a story in which a bitter old man re-discovers his own humanity, regardless of the season.
For my wife, though, her favorite Christmas movie without a doubt is A Christmas Story. She wants a leg lamp very much. I want very much, to give her a full-sized version. We just can’t afford to have one right now. We have a picture window that overlooks Spruce Street. Guess what she wants to put in the window.
“It’s a major award!”
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
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How about a trip to Cleveland to see the leg lamp?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:37 PM PST up reply actions
I’d rather spend less money to get the leg lamp.
I’ll get it. Someday. Hopefully soon.
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Good luck! Fiat leg lux!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 8, 2011 8:46 AM PST up reply actions
I have a friend from HS whose husband (who is her second husband, but was also her HS sweetheart, it’s quite cute) made her a leg lamp one year. Apparently it was the only way he could think of to make up from some huge fight they had.
I have to admit I’ve never seen (or even heard of) A Christmas Story.
It’s quite enjoyable.
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There’s so much to like about that movie. There’s something for everyone in that movie; something that everyone can relate to.
It’s told from the point of view of the kid as an adult looking back on his childhood, with humor and a wry, knowing, yet gleeful perspective.
Everyone should see it as a kid and as an adult. If you didn’t get to see it as a kid, then see it as an adult and make up for missing it as a kid by seeing it multiple times.
Come to think of it, one of the major cable channels plays it on a repeating loop on Christmas Day (I think it may be TBS or TNT).
Definitely worth the time.
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
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I’ll have it at my house! Sacramento! everyone!
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
That can be arranged.
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Hey, just because we take our baths with plastic buckets doesn’t mean we’re behind the times!
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Fact: America is trying to go green and conserve water.
Fact: American society has been trending towards taking shorter showers/baths
Fact: A bath with plastic buckets uses significantly less water than a two minute shower
Fact: Such baths are much more common in India than in America
Conclusion: India is ahead of America
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Fact: A bath with plastic buckets uses significantly less water than a two minute shower
not necessarily true, dependent upon flow of water in shower and size of buckets.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
That is a fair point. For purposes of this fact, I used median bucket size vs median shower head flow.
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my shower is very non pressure-y, once i stopped the drain to see how much water i use during a shower vs. a bath – you’d be amazed how little water you use in the shower comparatively. it was maybe half an inch by the time i was done, and i have a small tub
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Yes.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
will there be scotch?
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
If DC Trojan comes!
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I watched the Grinch once. I thought it was OK. I just dont like Jim Carrey that much.
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That’s too bad, as you only get one chance to experience something for the first time with them, but I think divorce is a bit extreme. Did your kids like it? If they did, I’m sure they can be persuaded to watch it again, kids are like that I’ve discovered.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Dammit you’re right, divorce might be overdoing it. Apparently the kids loved it, so I’m sure they’re in for a repeat viewing.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
DO NOT MISS IT!!!!!!
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
Kick it up a notch the next time...
…..get a bunch of popcorn, turn off the lights and make a blanket tent you can all (sans the wife) watch it in, maybe ice cream sundaes just before his heart (SPOILER ALERT!) grows two sizes……
THAT will teach her….
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
That’s a good thing. If she noticed his haircut, she’d probably suspect him of having an affair.
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ooh la-di-da you go to a barber Mr. fancy Scotsman!
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Did that already. They think we’re trying to get them some pop culture references so they won’t be so socially isolated, but in fact we’re just watching things we approve of and leaving them slightly less isolated.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
When they’re a bit older Gremlins is good, as is Some Like it Hot.
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Some Like It Hot is hilarious.
Apparently both girls confessed, separately, to my wife that they rather like romance in movies (WTF?), so apparently my wife has cued up It Happened One Night for a family viewing.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Both are great fun.
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It Happened One Night was a staple of Cinema 190, the introduction to film class at SC. It was one of several films I probably wouldn’t have watched left to my own devices, and it’s great.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
India to Wal-Mart, it’s not us, it’s you:
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REPORTING FROM NEW DELHI — Less than two weeks after India announced it would let foreign companies such as Wal-Mart enter its fast-growing but often inefficient retail market, the government said Wednesday it was bowing to mounting opposition and suspending the move.
The turnaround is the latest sign of weak leadership and lack of direction by India’s Congress Party-led government, which is beset by corruption scandals, an increasingly ineffective prime minister and rebellious allies. The long-awaited opening of the retail market was touted as the government’s biggest reform initiative since it was reelected in 2009.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee told parliament Wednesday after a meeting with government and opposition parties that the proposal would be put on hold until a consensus emerged. The changes would have allowed single-brand foreign firms such as Nike or Adidas to assume a 100% ownership stake and multi-brand retailers such as Wal-Mart a 51% stake.
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Im kinda mixed on this. I think India needs as much foreign investment as it can get, but Im not exactly a huge WALMART fan.
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Of what?
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As in, it would let in any foreign-owned retail store like that to enter. More grocery stores and whatnot would follow.
And I think that benefits the average Indian consumer.
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It would benefit the average middle class Indian consumer. I’m not sure how it would affect the poorer classes. It would probably hurt some of them.
Also, I think more foreign investment will only come when the corruption is controlled. Controlling the corruption in and of itself would bring great benefit to all average Indians everywhere.
What ever happened to those anti-corruption bills they were discussing in the government?
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Well, it would hurt the poorer classes inasmuch as the shopkeepers will be out of jobs. A significant portion of the employed own their own shops. For example, near my grandmother’s old flat in South Delhi (where I spent the most of my time when I was in India), there was a bazaar nearby, multi-storied.
Outside, there were a couple food stands, while inside, you’d find a couple newstands, a pharmacy, a place to get drinks, a store for cds and dvd, etc.
If all that, which is currently like ten different shops ,can be replaced by one Wal-Mart… then those shopkeepers will be gone. Will they in turn be employed by Wal-Mart or will Wal-Mart try to hire the call centre types, who know English?
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nail on the head
only come when the corruption is controlled.
having lived in third world countries, corruption IMHO is the single biggest obstacle to improving the lives of citizens.
Which is why, even with our flaws, I am so glad we live here. It is somewhat comforting to know so many high level government officials call prison home such as Rep Trafficant, Govs Blagojevich, Edwards and Siegelman, and so on and so on.
Just be clear, CGB is a very corrupt state. Pay me off and I’ll keep you in the front page posts all day long!
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here, corruption is legal, and it’s called lobbying.
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
I hear this comparison made a lot and while there need to be fixed in lobbying, you cannot compare open, transparent, regulated lobbying (which is ideally how it should be) to actual corruption.
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If you give me $20, I’ll never compare open, transparent, regulated lobbying to actual corruption.
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Yes you can.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 10:50 AM PST up reply actions
SEATTLE TRAFFIC!
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It’s not just the lobbying, it’s the campaign contributions and sinecures for family or when people leave office.
Just because it’s more subtle doesn’t mean it’s not there.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Agree… or being able to buy and sell stocks on insider information that would be illegal to everyone else.
Thankfully Pelosi can’t keep blocking changes to that and with Frank retiring it should be easier to get that change passed.
But like I said, at least we do in fact put a lot of these folks in prison…
I know there are issues with it. And like fiatlux said, when people go awry, we put them in jail. It’s a lot easier to catch here.
The thing is, lobbying as a system is not comparable to graft.
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I’m saying that the above-board lobbying might as well be graft, and there’s a substantial amount of money changing hands for what might as well be graft. It’s an indication of the relative maturity of the US political system.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I disagree. It’s one thing to influence a politician through lobbying efforts and it’s another to give them money for an interest.
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…and often times it’s the same thing.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:51 PM PST up reply actions
Why, yes, I totally will listen to an NPR podcast in order to find your argument!
Also, I’m pretty sure I’ve already said that the system needs fixing.
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No, you should listen to it because it’s good.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:55 PM PST up reply actions
Seriously? …why?
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
Im not going to listend bc Im too laazy
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Hmm, not really, but… Different strokes, I guess. Suit yourself.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:20 PM PST up reply actions
That’s not very clever, but okay.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:23 PM PST up reply actions
Just reading the name “Rishi” tells me to not expect any in the first place :-P
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:31 PM PST up reply actions
I deemed the purpose of making fun of you to be sufficiently worthy.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:38 PM PST up reply actions
What if the lobbying consists of gifts and contributions? I.e., is graft only graft if it’s cold hard cash?
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Or if it’s fruit trees.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I’m inclined to think that one of three possibilities is true:
1 – I didn’t make myself clear the first couple of times I explained my position
2 – You didn’t understand the two ways in which I explained my position
3 – You are ignoring what I am writing
We have a lobbying / political action system that is designed to channel money to politicians both for their election and to get their vote. The use of jobs for retired politicians and their spouses is outside the lobbying laws and rarely gets picked up for ethics reasons.
Furthermore, you’re overestimating the extent to which lobbying is effectively regulated. For example, you’re supposed to register if you’re lobbying for a foreign interest, and as long as that’s been the case, lobbyists have been skirting the rules so they can pocket money from at times questionable sources and appear clean.
The one good thing about all of this is that it’s bipartisan.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Like fruit trees.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
What, fruit trees are bipartisan?
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Well, nonpartisan, at least.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
And I think we agree that our current lobbying system needs to be fixed. So there’s no disagreement there.
Now can we agree that even lobbying as it is is not comparable to graft in other countries, like India?
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“Not the same as” isn’t “not comparable,” but this may just be a semantics slapfight now.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
No it isn’t.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Stop being casually anti-semantic!
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Nonsense. Bribery Lobbying has a hugely negative effect in our country as well as India, is deeply ingrained, and is part of the political culture to the point where eliminating it will be almost impossible. They’re not exactly the same, to be sure, but really it’s just a different shade of lipstick on a pig.
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
Maturity? You do know it was much more blatant in the past.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
Hasn't it already begun?

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I don’t see Chicken Tikka Masala on there at all.
Now, I know it’s not authentic!
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PS The “Wrap Chicken Mexican” is funny.
What is the surprise in the Veg Surprise?
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The veg surprise is their veggie burger, but flavoured with Indian spices.
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and the veg is actually bacon.
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by golden oso on Dec 7, 2011 10:09 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Maybe it’s missing a comma:
Wrap Chicken, Mexican.
Racis?
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Here's another odd thing about the Indian consumer market
In India, they eat their cereal (corn flakes, etc) with hot milk, not cold milk.
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That sounds good.
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It depends on your tastes. Some people like it; some people hate it.
Corn flakes failed for the longest time in India since they became soggy when in contact with hot milk. They only succeeded when Kellogg adjusted the product to stay crunchy in hot milk in India.
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I absolutely hated it. I used to dread eating cereal and eventually gave up and ate toast and chai for breakfast instead.
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Also, they have cheetos and lays and ruffles and whatnot in India already
Of course, Cheetos are vastly inferior to Kurkure, an Indian snack similar in appearance to the cheeto, but flavoured with Indian spices and absolutely delightful with a cold beer

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I’m a little conflicted on this. While having Wal-mart would help the average consumer, I do feel that it would kill the bazaars that are so ingrained in Indian culture.
That said, I’m all for freedom of choice and economic development…
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Modern retail kills local business and color.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
It does!
Having spent significant amounts of time in India growing up, I grew to love the vegetable seller who came straight to each apartment and sold them right downstairs.
And the afternoon bazaars with all the fruit and veggies and food I wanted.
And even beyond food, the tiny little shops selling books and comics and toys and whatnot. I’m having trouble explaining it, I guess, but I would be very sad to see that go.
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No, I get it. Big box stores (and the dramatic increase in car ownership that started during the Thatcher government) absolutely killed high street shops in the UK. In some cases, that wasn’t a bad thing, but when I visit my aunt and uncle and walk down the main street in their little town, the shops that used to sell hardware or vegetables or outdoor gear are now either charity shops or coffee shops or sell tourist tat. It’s a shame.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I always felt a little bad in Maiden head being on the high street and buying my coffee at Starbucks, but that’s all there was.
The damage is done… and believe me, it’s easy to romanticize ye olden days until I think back to actually experiencing them. Some of the “food” we ended up with on trips home when traversing the UK were just atrocious.
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I recently learned that Thatcher was a chemist. One of us! One of us!
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It’s in general a good thing, though it has had some ramifications like I’ve described above in some cities.
I appreciate the lifelong shopkeeper over price and efficiency. I like the owner of the drink shop who would still recognize me if I walked in today, before asking me if he should order me a crate of Red Bull. I like the comic store owner who would ask me how things are going back home in America. I like my local chaat shop, where the owner would just start serving me pani puri and knows not to charge anything until I’m done.
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It's the house from Up!
The couple had been looking mainly in California for a home that had either a colorful exterior or a bright blue kitchen like the one in the film. They then learned about the home in the Salt Lake City suburb of Herriman, Utah, that was built based on the film. The home, which was officially recognized by Disney as the Up house, had a $400,000 price tag on it.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
That’s disappointing. I thought the Up house was based on a house in the east bay. Sad.
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Don’t be disappointed! The SLC house was based on the movie! The one in the movie could still have been based on a house in the East Bay…just color-ific.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:24 AM PST up reply actions
The movie based on the house was based on the movie?
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The Campanile is based on the Campanile is based on the Campanile!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 9:30 AM PST up reply actions
Actually from what I heard, the house in “Up” was based on a Victorian in the Emeryville-Oakland-Berkeley area, but the good folks at Pixar won’t tell anyone where it is because they don’t want the residents of the house disturbed.
Personally, I love all the little East Bay references in Pixar movies.
Hamburger Cake from Merritt Bakery
Emeryville Street names in The Incredibles
Don’t forget Fentons!!!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 7:48 PM PST up reply actions
I saw the Incredibles at the Grand Lake, and it was clear that some of hte peeps were employees b/c they stayed thru all the credits and randomly started applauding some of the names.
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--Thoroughbred
You mean you don’t do that at movies??
GO FIRST GAFFER GO!
PS IF you have dyslexia, don’t try to spell gaffer quickly.
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How much do you love your state?
Want a cutting board in its shape? I particularly like this part of the description:
The "Heart" on the board is a custom feature for all and right now it is placed on the Sacramento Area, but you are more than welcome to place your heart on whatever city/town you like! Stars are also available. So please tell us. If not specified with the order, by default, there will be NO heart!!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
The heart should stay on Sacramento!
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
There will be no heart!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 9:30 AM PST up reply actions
That was unusual
I’m working at home this morning. Today’s the day the milkman delivers so when the doorbell rang I assumed it was him – turned out to be two ladies who were going through the neighborhood talking to people about Jesus. I got a pass because we never removed the mezuzah that the previous residents had, but they did reassure me that the scriptures they were handing out were from the Old Testament.
We almost never get people trying to get recruits in this neighborhood… and on a Wednesday at that. Odd. Anyway, I wished them a merry Christmas and recycled the handout.
I do wish I had been able to see them take a crack at converting the elderly lesbian couple across the street – one of them is the Queen of Scientific Rationalism and has no edit button whatsoever.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Are you actually working, or are you watching the Grinch without us?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:02 AM PST up reply actions
I am not actually working, but I am not watching the Grinch either. I had a 9.30 web meeting which I would have missed had I driven to the office after putting the kids on the school bus… now I’m just arsing about pretending like reading email counts.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
You’ve just confirmed what I think my bosses ‘work from home’ days include. No wonder they do it so often.
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Then I went on the treadmill for a while, checked my email, worked out a bit, checked my email, showered, and motored on over to the office.
I need to find a part time project because this one just doesn’t require my full attention.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
YOU'RE MISSING SOMETHING
ftfy
Then I went on the treadmill for a while, checked DBD, checked my email, checked DBD, worked out a bit, checked DBD, checked my email, checked DBD, showered, checked DBD, and motored on over to the office.
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I assumed that was taken as read – except for after taking a shower, I really needed to leave the house.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
DC, was your robe left accidentally open when you answered the door?
Tony Gonzalez? University of California?
I was fully clothed!
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I’m working
That is unusual!
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Milkman? Do you live in India?
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Milkman? Do you live in a Toni Morrison novel?
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
(anyone? anyone? ok too obscure)
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
Milkman? More like 1st Corinthians amirite?!?!
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god what a fucking weird book
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 11:22 AM PST up reply actions
Is there a normal book that Toni Morrison has ever written?
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I wouldn’t know that’s all I read of hers. I did enjoy it compared to a lot of books I read of hers in HS, though… I mean, actual things happened and there was a plot ish.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
You have a milkman?
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Only if they live in India in 1956.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
This is the 2010s, I believe “Milkperson” is the accepted nomenclature. Also acceptable is “Safeway.”
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by sec119 on Dec 7, 2011 11:22 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Today’s the day the milkman delivers
Did I just time warp to the 1950s?
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No – we order our milk and other goodness from the fine people at South Mountain Creamery. Fresh milk, reasonably local, and they resell meat and produce and whatnot from other local farms – their sausage is particularly tasty.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Looks yummy!
I just got some milk from Snowville Creamery. SO GOOD!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 11:57 AM PST up reply actions
Good stuff.
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Man I would’ve trolled them so hard.
Either that or yelled at them until they left.
Depends on if I had just woken up and how irritable I was
In other words, Go Bears!
I feel much the same way, but they were very nice and really, they didn’t give me a specific reason to be hostile. I don’t agree with a lot of the doctrinal positions of evangelical Christian churches but that’s not really their fault.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Of course it’s their fault. They should change their beliefs to match yours. Forthwith.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
You should have emotional counseling
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I was about to like this on Fbook, but it’s not exactly a “like,” is it? Nevertheless, thanks for the reminder.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:12 AM PST up reply actions
One of my parents’ friends was there. It was always interesting to hear him talk about it.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I think the important thing about remembering this day is to not hate anybody.
War is horrible, no matter who started it or fought in it.
/grandfather + 3 uncles served in the Pacific theater
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Is Mack Brown the Axis of Evil?
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was my facetiousness, seriously, not evident there????
I think one of the amazing things about the U.S. (and many other societies I am sure) is how much we have embraced, so quickly, once sworn enemies.
Oh, I know you were joking.
I just get a little somber when I think about WWII. My grandfather was supposed to get parachuted behind enemy lines in China if not for Hiroshima. Good chance there would have been no more Kodiaks if that had happened.
Sorry, man. Don’t mean to be a downer.
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You certainly don’t have to apologize… I think WWII is certainly something that is “downer-worthy.” Somewhere, on an old blog, I think on BI (damn I wish it would have been here) after my godfather died, i posted a letter we found that he wrote to my godmother from the front… in it one of the things he talked about was how Cal wasn’t having such a great year and no Rose Bowl for them… It was really touching… I wonder if I can find that somewhere.
one of the things he talked about was how Cal wasn’t having such a great year and no Rose Bowl for them…
plus ça change…
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:03 AM PST up reply actions
The Japanese? Those sandal-wearing goldfish tenders!
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When I lived in Rhode Island I was entertained to discover that V-J Day was still a public holiday, so they’ve got that covered.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
No trees in soCal
Too many fires
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:57 PM PST up reply actions
hmmm
…if there were no trees, there probably wouldn’t be many fires to begin with.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:00 PM PST up reply actions
Not like trees. You don’t see epic wildfires in the Great Plains.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:03 PM PST up reply actions
hottest burning wood. full of oil. probably the single worse exotic introduced to California… flora category.
I nominate Yahoo Serious for the animal category

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So for some reason (probably user error), that double posted :(
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
Just in the State House!
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
Interesting Article on how this changed the Bay Area

The attack crippled the Pacific fleet, killed 2,402 Americans and plunged the United States into World War II. It also created a huge panic on the West Coast, particularly in San Francisco, where the Army and Navy were convinced the city was about to be attacked by enemy planes.
The panic soon subsided and the Bay Area settled into becoming a major staging area for the war in the Pacific. When it was over, the San Francisco Bay Area and the West Coast had completely changed.
From a Real Estate perspective, this transformed the Bay Area, although the transition back to civilian uses of military bases has been painfully slow.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
It also resulted in the dregs of Richmond/E. Oakland/W. Oakland.
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Tim McCarver is this year’s Frick recipient and HOF inductee for “excellence in broadcasting.” Hey, how did those quote marks get in there?
Seriously?!?!?! [Yes, seriously]
I find it appalling that Tim McCarver will be in the Baseball HOF and Bill King is not.
Yup.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:04 AM PST up reply actions
Bill King’s problem: He was so friggin’ EXCELLENT at doing Raiders football and Warriors basketball, that it’s forgotten what a great baseball announcer he was.
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Kodiak – Strength: Can analyze and break down any football play in a moment;
If “in a moment” mean after re-playing it a dozen times while saying “WTF just happened?!?” and then making wild guesses with snarky paintbrush comments – sure!
Weakness: Joke is too easy here
Geez. I don’t know why it’s such a big deal. Lots of people like Sailor Moon. Don’t tell me those outfits aren’t kind of hawt!!!
Wait, wut?
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Cops dismantle Occupy SF encampment. Bums threaten to leave town.
Police raided the Occupy SF camp early today, arresting 70 campers and protesters at Justin Herman Plaza and clearing out the 2-month-old encampment.
Officers, sheriff’s deputies, firefighters and public works crews converged on the camp at the foot of Market Street at about 1:30 a.m. and gave protesters five minutes to clear out, said Officer Albie Esparza, a San Francisco police spokesman.
Money Quote:
The [police] chief added, “Most of the people in this neighborhood are part of the 99 percent, and they needed some relief. So this part of the 99 percent removed that part of the 99 percent to give the other part of the 99 percent some relief.”
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The two-man tryout the Texans conducted last week between Jake Delhomme and Jeff Garcia must have been special. It was undeniably fruitful.
Immediately after, Delhomme was signed. And now, following the Tuesday release of Kellen Clemens, the Texans have added Garcia, who will turn 42 in February.
What’s next, the Bears sign Favre?
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GILROY!!
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I don't know if this is vintage, but . . .
I heard this story on NPR this morning and was rather shocked.
New band members –– called “crabs” –– had to face choreographed assaults, with two-by-fours, belts, baseball bats, beer bottles, suffering literally hundreds of blows from their older compatriots. For example, an Alabama A&M flute player vividly told me about how she’d been attacked, time and time again, by the older flutists.
So extreme has been the band torture at HBCUs that some victims have had to be hospitalized. After one crab at Southern University almost died when his kidneys stopped functioning, his assailants were criminally prosecuted, because, an assistant district attorney told me, “To continue that cycle … somebody was gonna die.” Still, when my piece aired, there were no apologies, and worse: no change in the way things had always been. The bands must play on. Then, last month, a member of White’s Florida A&M band died of alleged beatings at the hands of his comrades, in the line of tradition.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
That’s insane, psychotic, pointless, idiotic and a whole other messload of descriptors I can’t think of right now. Florida A&M’s band should be shut down as an example.
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Good idea. Can never be too safe.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 10:03 AM PST up reply actions
Curious...
….is/was there any hazing associated with the Cal Band? Seems we have many band members/alums and my hope is it would only be minor “fun” hazing (peeing in tubas, etc….).
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
Officially: no. Unofficially: good-natured and clever fun ensues when one enters the Cal Marching Band. Not sure about peeing in tubas, however.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
The students of the cal band have been, first and foremost, for the safety and fun of everyone. I have never seen in my time anything the least bit dangerous or intimidating or coercive. There is a bit of good-natured elbowing, but ‘no’ is always accepted.
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you are not allowed to say no to pantsing if you are wearing red.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
I didn’t care for “Pants [Twist] Week”
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But you did say you hated pants.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:08 AM PST up reply actions
That’s not true. I love pants so much that I held turkey’s pants
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Did I miss it this year? I still have my decoraitons up from last year …
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TOO LATE!
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Seemed like it to me.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
Despite this insane hazing, HSBC Marching Bands are on a whole other level compared to regualar D1 marching bands. Get rid of the hazing, but keep the regimented splendidness.
But will stay splendid if they stop killing people?
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
Please do not slander the good names of HBCUs by associating them with that horrible British bank.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:21 AM PST up reply actions
this isn’t just the HBC bands but the HB frats as well. My first roommate in the dorms at Texas was a black guy rushing a frat. Basically, he told me never to answer the door or tell anyone where he was. One day, he came back to the room and asked me “how bad it was”. He took his shirt off and he was a really well built, light skinned dude but his back was various shades of purple with cuts all over it. Apparently the brothers from the HBCs in the Houston area had visited and beaten all the pledges with their belts, buckle end first. He ended up making it through a few weeks later and got a massive Omega branded into his bicep.
Fuck
That
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
yeah, I thought so too
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:50 AM PST up reply actions
Selfish

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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 11:51 AM PST up reply actions
Who is the player?
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TP
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 11:59 AM PST up reply actions
I had buddies that did this on a whim in college and that thing took like a month to even look like it was beginning to heal.
that sounds about right.
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:57 AM PST up reply actions
Greek system should be illegal. It provides zero value to society.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 11:53 AM PST up reply actions
Am serious.
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
It offered CGB. Without the Greek system, CGB prolly wouldt exist
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I’d be inclined to agree except the problem is not so much the institutions as the people.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
not true. Without it, we’d have no reason to call random guys “brother”. Plus the Jewish frat at Texas used to have fajitas and ritas nights and since a buddy of mine was El Presidente, we were the honorary Gentiles. So there’s that.
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:54 AM PST up reply actions
I was full of fajita tacos and margaritas so didn’t notice the quality of the partiers themselves. Although we did get into a fight with a bunch of UT swimmers once, cocky fuckers.
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 12:58 PM PST up reply actions
no, thats a true story. As awesome as the Texas swimming program is, they are the biggest pack of douches this side of the Mississippi! At least they were when I went there. My gf was an RA in Jester (which had the athlete section) and she would have me walk around with her when she had to do all night rounds. Besides being terrified of the football players (once a door opened right in front of us and a chair got thrown out of a room and smashed on the wall. A not to be named future NFL player walked out, saw us, did a double take and apologized since he didn’t see us there then he went back into his room), the swimmers were always a rpoblem. They like to walk around naked, flipping their dicks around and when you ask them to quiet down, they would routinely yell abuse at us.
Fuck heads, that fight at the Jewish frat was sweet. The only time I ever remember feeling delighted for punching someone in the face. (Sorry Twist)
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Hmmm… if I can find it, I think there’s a good link for Twist.
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About what?
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Cool story, bro.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:04 PM PST up reply actions
So many incoming freshmen got laid for the first time at frat parties! You can’t take that away
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I know of at least one virginity mislaid at a frat house.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:18 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, they did.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:21 PM PST up reply actions
Can’t touch this.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
Of course not
It’s been at least an hour since Jerry Sandusky got arrested again.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:58 PM PST up reply actions
I dont understand this statement
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I dont undesrtand what a “virginity mislaid” means. Is she saying a virgin was raped at a frat house?
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Does Rishi know you stole his dots?
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I think she means that there were some foolish girls, or girls making impulsive decisions, at frat houses.
I don’t think that she means that.
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this is what i thought too.
and i have to think rape is not a common thing at most fraternities despite what the movies say.
It’s not common in the sense that it doesn’t happen every night, but it happens more often and more frequently at the frat houses than anywhere else on campus.
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This
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 2:34 PM PST up reply actions
Are there statistics to back up that a fraternity member is more likely to commit rape than a non-fraternity member?
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by non-fraternity member, do you include everyone in the world?
probably.
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When I was in school there were stats, but I’m not googling for them at the moment. The stats at that time showed that those with the propensity to rape were:
1. athletes
2. frat boys
3. everyone else.
I did not say that actually, though the connection is clear. Regardless, this is info from a friend who was a mental health counselor / therapist at the Tang center.
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Okay, I was honestly wondering. I’ve heard that fact quoted; just wanted to know the truth behind it.
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That health counselor / therapist might have had a different view of college than I.
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She might have had a different view of college than I
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You are probably right. It just seemed really vague and I wasn’t sure. I was hesitant to make any sort of joke if it was relating to that, bc then I’d look like a total asshole.
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Also, it seemed odd that she would state “I know of at least one virginity mislaid at a frat house” if she just meant somebody had sex for the first time at a frat house. That seems probably so common that it doesn’t seem like a big deal to know that. So, I figured that there mus be something more to it than that
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Sorry…I was doing some experiments, but am now back to explain myself.
Anyway, I hate how people say, “Oh, I lost my virginity,” because I mean…it’s not like you go around looking for it. So, I was trying to make a pun with misLAID. Fail. The stories I have are not about rape, thank goodness!
Joke away.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
Uh…the virginities were consensually discarded at Cal frat houses. A lot more virgins there than here, I think. Take that as you will.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 2:33 PM PST up reply actions
What sort of sick thing is “doing experiments”????
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[insert relevant Hannibal Lecter reference here]
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 2:33 PM PST up reply actions
I bet you ’ll find your virginity in the last place you look for it!
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In your pants?
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it's not in my pants.
strikes through really creepy comment about my pants
Go Bears Go
Heteronormative!
Also the ones looking to experiment!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 1:08 PM PST up reply actions
Agreed. Look at what their economic problems are doing to the EU.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
Covaughn DeBoskie-Johnson has one of those on his arms.
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Also, a reader is named Alpha1906, I bet hes in one of those
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He is, in fact, quoted in this article about the branding practices of the black fraternities. Totally by chance it was the first one that came up when I Googled Alpha Phi Alpha branding.
Lawrence Ross Jr., author of “The Divine Nine: The History of African American Fraternities and Sororities,” is also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. Ross, who resides in Los Angeles, said the culture of branding was "too strong" to be stomped out by critics.
But the decision to get branded is a choice, Ross said. "It’s their body, and they make the decision," he said. "I have an Alpha tattoo, and the decision was strictly a personal decision to demonstrate my pride in Alpha that way. I think for most members, the choice of brand or tattoo comes down to the same thing."
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free stuff
One of the best parts for players going to a bowl game are the free gifts. Bowls can give players up to $550 in free stuff. Cal and Texas players will each receive a $400 Best Buy gift card, a watch, a hooded sweatshirt and a hat for their participation in the Holiday Bowl.
Other bowlz:
â– Gildan New Mexico Bowl
University Stadium, Albuquerque, N.M.
Saturday, Dec. 17, 2 p.m., ESPN
Gift suite, Oakley Eyepatch 2, Oakley beanie, New Era cap, Oakley Flak Pack 3.0, pen with box, Christmas ornament
â– Famous Idaho Potato Bowl
Bronco Stadium, Boise, Idaho
Saturday, Dec. 17, 5:30 p.m., ESPN
Gift suite, North End winter coat, Kombi gloves, Nike beanie, Ogio Fugitive backpack, Big Game souvenir football
â– R+L Carriers
New Orleans
Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans
Samsung Galaxy tablet
Photo by: GETTY IMAGES
Saturday, Dec. 17, 9 p.m., ESPN
Samsung Galaxy tablet
■Beef ‘O’Brady’s Bowl
Tropicana Field, St. Petersburg, Fla.
Tuesday, Dec. 20, 8 p.m., ESPN
Sony PlayStation 3, Oakley Eyepatch 2, Oakley backpack duffel, mini-helmet
â– San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl
Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego
Wednesday, Dec. 21, 8 p.m., ESPN
Best Buy gift card*, Tourneau watch, hooded sweatshirt, FlexFit cap
â– MAACO Las Vegas Bowl
Sam Boyd Stadium, Las Vegas
Thursday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m., ESPN
Gift suite, cap
â– Sheraton Hawaii Bowl
Aloha Stadium, Honolulu
Saturday, Dec. 24, 8 p.m., ESPN
Oakley sunglasses, Aloha shirt, Pro Athletics custom beach shorts, Oakley T-shirt, performance wear, cap or visor, backpack, beach towels, bowl calendar, playing cards
â– AdvoCare V100 Independence Bowl
Independence Stadium, Shreveport, La.
Monday, Dec. 26, 5 p.m., ESPN2
Gift suite, Timely Watch Co. watch, New Era cap, commemorative football
â– Little Caesars Pizza Bowl
Ford Field, Detroit
Tuesday, Dec. 27, 4:30 p.m., ESPN
Timely Watch Co. watch, leather duffel bag, commemorative football
â– Belk Bowl
Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte
Tuesday, Dec. 27, 8 p.m., ESPN
Estimated $400 shopping trip to Belk’s flagship store in Charlotte, Fossil watch
â– Military Bowl presented by Northrop Grumman
Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C.
Wednesday, Dec. 28, 4:30 p.m., ESPN
Amazon Kindle Fire, Apple iPod nano, Deuce watch, LunaTik wristband (to hold iPod), beanie, Nike backpack
â– Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl
Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego
Wednesday, Dec. 28, 8 p.m., ESPN
Best Buy gift card*, Tourneau watch, hooded sweatshirt, FlexFit cap
â– Champs Sports Bowl
Florida Citrus Bowl, Orlando
Thursday, Dec. 29, 5:30 p.m., ESPN
$420 shopping trip to a local Best Buy, Timely Watch Co. watch
â– Valero Alamo Bowl
Alamodome, San Antonio
Thursday, Dec. 29, 9 p.m., ESPN
$400 Best Buy gift card, Fossil watch, Schutt mini-helmet, panoramic team photo
â– Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl
Gerald J. Ford Stadium, Dallas**
Friday, Dec. 30, noon, ESPN
Sony Gift suite, Timely Watch Co. watch, camo knit beanie, Ogio backpack, Big Game souvenir football
â– New Era Pinstripe Bowl
Yankee Stadium, New York City
Friday, Dec. 30, 3:20 p.m., ESPN
Note: Bowl committee would not disclose details about participants’ gifts
â– Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl
LP Field, Nashville
Friday, Dec. 30, 6:40 p.m., ESPN
Gift suite, Reactor watch
â– Insight Bowl
Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Ariz.
Friday, Dec. 30, 10 p.m., ESPN
Gift suite, Fossil watch, cap, Ogio Convoy backpack
â– Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas
Reliant Stadium, Houston
Saturday, Dec. 31, noon, ESPN
Toshiba 32-inch flat-screen television, Fossil watch, belt buckle, T-shirt, backpack
â– Hyundai Sun Bowl
Sun Bowl Stadium, El Paso, Texas
Saturday, Dec. 31, 2 p.m., CBS
Gift suite, Timely Watch Co. watch, Majestic Pro-Base fleece pullover, VP Sports cap, Ogio Politan backpack, Helen of Troy hair dryer, souvenir coin
â– AutoZone Liberty Bowl
Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis
Saturday, Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m., ABC
Best Buy gift card, Fossil watch, Nike training shoes, Nike sport sandals, Nike sunglasses, Nike Air Jordan backpack, commemorative game ball
â– Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl
AT&T Park, San Francisco
Saturday, Dec. 31, 3:30 p.m., ESPN
Soundmatters Personal Audiophile loudspeaker, Fossil watch, cap, Timbuk2 custom messenger bag
â– Chick-fil-A Bowl
Georgia Dome, Atlanta
Saturday, Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m., ESPN
$250 Best Buy gift card, Fossil watch, Russell Athletic ski cap, Russell Athletic travel bag, $15 Chick-fil-A gift card, commemorative football
â– TicketCity Bowl
Cotton Bowl, Dallas
Monday, Jan. 2, noon, ESPNU
Gift suite, Timely Watch Co. watch
â– Capital One Bowl
Citrus Bowl, Orlando
Monday, Jan. 2, 1 p.m., ESPN
$420 shopping trip to a local Best Buy, Timely Watch Co. watch
â– Outback Bowl
Raymond James Stadium, Tampa
Monday, Jan. 2, 1 p.m., ABC
$150 Best Buy gift card, Fossil watch, Jostens ring, cap, $25 Outback Steakhouse gift certificate
â– TaxSlayer.com Gator Bowl
EverBank Field, Jacksonville
Monday, Jan. 2, 1 p.m., ESPN2
Fossil watch, Gator Gear performance headwear, rolling luggage bag, Jostens ring, commemorative football
â– Rose Bowl Game presented by Vizio
Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Calif.
Monday, Jan. 2, 5 p.m., ESPN
Gift suite, Fossil watch, New Era hat, Oakley Flak Pack 3.0
â– Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, Ariz.
Monday, Jan. 2, 8:30 p.m., ESPN
Gift suite, Kenneth Cole watch, cap, Ogio Convoy backpack
â– Allstate Sugar Bowl
Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans
Tuesday, Jan. 3, 8:30 p.m., ESPN
Gift suite, Reactor watch, New Era cap, Majestic fleece pullover
â– Discover Orange Bowl
Sun Life Stadium, Miami Gardens, Fla.
Wednesday, Jan. 4, 8:30 p.m., ESPN
Gift suite, Tourneau watch
â– AT&T Cotton Bowl
Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, Texas
Friday, Jan. 6, 8 p.m., Fox
Fossil watch
Note: Bowl committee would not disclose additional details about participant gifts
â– BBVA Compass Bowl
Legion Field, Birmingham, Ala.
Saturday, Jan. 7, 1 p.m., ESPN
iBeats by Dr. Dre (ear buds), Reactor watch, Oakley Eyepatch 2, Oakley backpack duffel, Big Game commemorative football
â– GoDaddy.com Bowl
Ladd-Peebles Stadium, Mobile, Ala.
Sunday, Jan. 8, 9 p.m., ESPN
Nikon S80, Timely Watch Co. watch, leather luggage bag, commemorative football
â– Allstate BCS National Championship Game
Mercedes-Benz Superdome, New Orleans
Monday, Jan. 9, 8:30 p.m., ESPN
Gift suite, Fossil watch, New Era cap, Boxer and Stone shirt
"RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!"
-TwistNHook
by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 9:41 AM PST reply actions
How many tattoos can you get with that swag?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 9:42 AM PST up reply actions
At $100-120/ hour
depending on which guy I go to, that’s about a Moala fist sized tattoo with color, 1 1/2 times bigger if B&W.
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Gift suite, Timely Watch Co. watch, Majestic Pro-Base fleece pullover, VP Sports cap, Ogio Politan backpack, Helen of Troy hair dryer, souvenir coin
The hair dryer and souvenir coin really complete this.
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Hey, that hair dryer launched a thousand ships!
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
more than one thousand ships are launched literally every day
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
But is it due solely to 1 hair dryer?
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How many tubs of cheeze ballz can I buy with a $400 best buy certificate?
"RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!"
-TwistNHook
by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 9:56 AM PST up reply actions
0, must trade for 20 $20 target gift cards from the man in the ikea lot, and buy target cheez balls
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
If not you can get $400 worth of skittles
"RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!"
-TwistNHook
by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 10:06 AM PST up reply actions
do not know, trying to eliminate junk food and have not tasted the sweet orange powder for many moons
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
what about the orange drank?
"RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!"
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by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 10:07 AM PST up reply actions
i succumbed to the tang once two months ago. but have had zero sodas for three mos
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
are we still talking orange drink here, b/c this is starting to get good
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Or the Tang Center, which I heard is really unhelpful?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
How about purple drank?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
Gross
To be fair, I haven’t actually had any. Ever.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:51 PM PST up reply actions
It’s mostly just sugar water, but of course that’s why it’s tasty.
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:52 PM PST up reply actions
make me fatter and dissolves my teeth slowly. UNHEALTHY FOOD #1 IS SODA seriously soda is probably the worst thing ever.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Liquid calories are, in general, worse since you don’t feel full from them.
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Don’t mix uppers and downers!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 1:15 PM PST up reply actions
I am not a chemist, but a biologist. Also, a linguist.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 2:19 PM PST up reply actions
I drink upper and downers while showering. Is that OK?
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I would highly recommend against having more than one of those in a night.
I went through a jagerbomb phase… that was all bad.
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How can Rishi defend alcohol?
…his liver?
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:56 PM PST up reply actions
I made that joke like 4 days ago.
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:08 AM PST up reply actions
Helen of Troy hairdryer was vital
hey, it takes a lot of hair dryers for this… this doesn’t happen by itself

that’s my recycled joke
….and now we’re caught up :)
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:13 AM PST up reply actions
Poor atoms.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
AHAHAHA THAT JOKE WAS DOPE
I’m surprised no one else thought of this joke before!
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I’m not going to be trolled that easily.
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:15 AM PST up reply actions
Poor atoms.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
The Sun Bowl tradition lives on!
Man crush on Aaron Rodgers, since 2003.
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â– BBVA Compass Bowl
Legion Field, Birmingham, Ala.
Saturday, Jan. 7, 1 p.m., ESPN
iBeats by Dr. Dre (ear buds), Reactor watch, Oakley Eyepatch 2, Oakley backpack duffel, Big Game commemorative football
…Why would the BBVA Compass Bowl be handing out footballs commemorating the annual game between Cal and Stanfurd, neither of whom are participating in the bowl?
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:07 AM PST up reply actions
Because the Big Game is the greatest event in college football, and everyone should commemorate it constantly.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
by CalBear81 on Dec 7, 2011 10:19 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Because they couldn’t put down that they give them pepper spray to get out of that neighborhood alive (seriously, that game is played in a total dump of a stadium in a terrible neighborhood).
Question for CGB Gamers and Awesome Computer Experts
Grandpa Kodiak wants to know if his 2005 Dell Gaming PC has any value.
He’s taking one of our office computers in to get repaired.(prob new power supply) While he’s there, he was thinking of also taking in his old PC. Worth repairing/upgrading at this point, or should he just look into buying a new rig? He doesn’t play FPS anymore. Mostly turn-based strategy games with occasional RTS.
(And keep in mind, he destroys any and all PC’s that he comes in contact with. Never turns them off. Never defrags or re-formats. Lifelong Apple/Mac person, so his PC-knowledge is even less than mine.)
Old Toothwrangler
We have a cheap one for the office phone-call software bought 10 years ago.
He bought himself a gaming Dell because it came pre-loaded/set-up. I think neither my sister nor I wanted to take on the roll of Sisyphus for his tech support.
Old Toothwrangler
Was that supposed to be a pun?
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:22 AM PST up reply actions
Seven days of this could make one weak.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
After he post specs and you grade I will grade your grade
"RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!"
-TwistNHook
by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 10:06 AM PST up reply actions
I asked him. He doesn’t know.
But, the lady at the shop already told him that, “he has a paperweight.”
Old Toothwrangler
her job as a salesperson is to convince you of that. but all gaming rigs are obsolete as soon as you order the parts.
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Well, I told him to check and let me know what the specs are anyway.
For his type of gaming, I don’t think he’d need much to be serviceable. Maybe a new graphics card and some ram if the motherboard isn’t too obsolete.
Old Toothwrangler
if it’s 2005 there is no point in upgrading ram, it’s more expensive to get ddr2 now than ddr3. 4 gigs of ddr3 is like 30 bucks most places currently. 4 gigs of ddr2 is like 80
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
If its >= 5 years old, the Motherboard might not even have PCI-E on it – I don’t know of many (relatively current) video cards that have AGP. Memory is also freakishly expensive for older computers.
I’d even get a new case – Dell Cases were proprietary for a while and had motherboard specifications – for a while, you couldn’t even put a regular mobo into the case of a dell. I’m sure they’ve all standardized at this point.
In addition to that – a new case should allow for better cooling.
what’s he trying to say is either get a pre-built rig and we’ll get rid of the bloatware, or build one yourself if you want to take the time to do it
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
In his case, yes.
If I were going to get a new gaming PC, I’d ask for help and try to build it myself.
But there’s no way that he’d be up for that. I tried to guilt-trip my sis into building a new one for him. She was too smart to fall for that.
Old Toothwrangler
Yeah, if you’re at all interested in seeing what all of these new fangled games are doing, might be a worthwhile time sink. The nice thing about today’s computers is that they are mostly not getting outdated because the current-gen gaming consoles are keeping the technology back a bit.
Unfortunately, time-wise I’m not doing much with the newer games.
I only played Skyrim because I was stuck on the couch for two weeks.
Otherwise, I’d have to look into some type of building or puzzle game that I could do with Little K. At 5, she’s just a bit too young for a bunch of them. Starting to get there, though.
Old Toothwrangler
grandpa Kod is a gamer? seriously?
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--Thoroughbred
We used to play war games together on the old apple II. I remember designing starships for Cosmic Balance (Star Trek game) and we’d see how many enemy ships we could beat. Then, we’d split up a tank or battleship squadron and try to defeat Axis forces. As I got older, we’d do the 3x games like Imperium Galactum.
By the time I was in HS/college, he ran ethernet cables all over the house so we could play networked Starcraft and Diablo as a family. I think the last game he played was WoW.
Old Toothwrangler
Android 10 cent apps for the day.
Fruit Ninja
Bernstein Bears – Bedtime Battle
AirSync
Flick Golf!
Star Chart
Reckless Racing
Christmas HD
NFL Rivals
Beautiful Widgets
Read It Later
I might try Reckless Racing and see what NFL Rivals is.
DUDE
Get NFL Rival now. It’s amazing.
It’s BackBreaker foootball, so you control your running back by tiling your device and tapping buttons, but this time, it’s for NFL teams!
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It does look cool; the only thing I’m worried is how it’s going to consume battery power.
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
yeah, i actually don’t use widgets so i won’t be downloading it. i do have an awesome clock that i downloaded for free though.
Deposed (and recently graduated!) #1 Indian
GentleAlarm is one of the best apps I’ve ever bought (wait, I got it for free, nm)
Lets you use MP3s for the alarm. Fades in the mp3 slowly instead of starting it right away.
Also, you can set a pre-alarm half an hour early that’s super quiet.
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but for only 10 cents, it’s worth getting and trying out.
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 1:46 PM PST up reply actions
i would judge you more favorably since i grew up reading them
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Greatest Jewish Bears ever! I love their version of the Talmud …
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--Thoroughbred
I can’t download NFL Rivals—it says my device is incompatible! wth?! I’m running 2.2! I should be fine!
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 1:09 PM PST up reply actions
it’s Samsung’s fault.. they haven’t released a stock version of 2.3 for the first-gen Galaxy S phones (so the developers at XDA don’t have a “working” copy to work off of). ridiculous.
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 1:42 PM PST up reply actions
you're bumming me out
i have the sg2 and i’m hoping for ICS by july 2012… and not feeling very good about it =/
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yeah, I haven’t been very happy with my Samsung phone or their “support” of it
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 1:47 PM PST up reply actions
at the same time, i love my phone and don’t know what else i would’ve bought
i was considering the photon (already ~3mo old when i bought) or the iphone 4s… but im pretty damn happy.
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you got the sprint version of the sgs2? battery life’s ok?
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 1:49 PM PST up reply actions
not great, i’ve been playing with it. using juice defender plus to time/meter my data, basically disabling when screen’s off except for corp email (when enabled) and pandora. i can get home with usually ~40% on a good day and 20% on a bad day… no idea why i have good days and bad days though.
gps is an absolute killer and i almost never use it.
Deposed (and recently graduated!) #1 Indian
that’s pretty decent battery life. if I"m listening to Winamp on my phone (Vibrant for tmobile), I"m down to 15% by 3 pm or so. not good at all.
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 1:56 PM PST up reply actions
I posted this yesterday but think it got buried in a thread
I’m trying to put together a team for the SoCal Tough Mudder. I did the Tahoe one this year and it was an amazing experience. Easily the most physically, mentally and emotionally draining thing I’ve ever done. And when I finished, crazy as this sounds, I wanted to do it again! Let me know.
"Fuck DOOOOOM. We prefer BOOOOOM!! - alpha1906
For M-A-S-H fans, Harry Morgan died
Emmy-winning character actor Harry Morgan, whose portrayal of the fatherly Col. Potter on television’s “M-A-S-H” highlighted a show business career that included nine other TV series, 50 films and the Broadway stage, died Wednesday. He was 96.
RIP :(
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get ready to drink...
I had an odd childhood memory… in the summer in the 70s, Channel 44 or Channel 20, I can’t remember, used to run old 1950s TV shows… and I remember Harry Morgan in December Bride… I don’t know why, but that particular show always sort of captured my imagination
Flash forward to 2002… i’m living in LA and one of my good friend’s father used to be a producer on MASH… one day quite randomly ran into him on Larchmont having lunch with … Harry Morgan… I was introduced and brought up December Bride with him and I think he was genuinely amazed someone my age would know about it… he was as charming and gracious as you would imagine he would be… Just one of those cool little life moments.
That’s awesome. He always seemed like a cool guy. Nice to hear it’s true. When I was a kid, I was a huge fan of Dragnet. Also love High Noon.
Random Q: Do you know the Nakahara family by chance? Kellye had a bit part on MASH.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
Figured I’d ask. Stranger connections have been made on DBDs :)
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
Wow…that is old.
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
RIP, Sherman Potter
Now, I know that Harry Morgan was not really Sherman T. Potter. Before he was Col. Potter, I remember him as Joe Friday’s sidekick, Bill Gannon, in Dragnet.
There were plenty of moments in M*A*S*H where Col. Potter didn’t seem like a by-the-book career Army officer. But it was established in the first episode that introduced Col. Sherman Potter that showed while he could be serious, he also knew when to let up on the reins.
Early in the episode, Klinger walks into Potter’s office wearing a gold evening gown, a tiara, white gloves with a gauntlet up to his elbows, and heels. Paraphrasing from memory:
Klinger (saluting): Col. Potter, sir! Corporal Klinger. I play with dolls. I’m wearing a Warner bra. My last wish is to be buried in my mother’s wedding gown. I’m nuts. I should be out.
Potter (returning the salute): Horse hockey! I’ve seen every dodge in the book. One fellow carried a colt in his arms, said he was a mare. Another insisted he was a potted plant and that we water him every morning. No, no, this won’t do soldier! You get out of that fru-fru and into uniform and you stay in uniform! Dismissed!
Klinger turns to leave the office. On his way out, Radar comes in.
Klinger (to Radar): I’m finished. I may have to burn my bra! (exits)
Later, at the end of the episode Potter, Pierce, Hunnicut and Burns are all in Potter’s office. Burns is indicating that he established discipline at the 4077th and that he can be counted on as Potter’s second in command.
Potter: I appreciate that, Major.
Klinger enters wearing a girl’s sailor outfit.
Klinger: I found your bridle, sir. It was in the box marked "trusses."
Potter: Thank you, corporal.
Klinger and Potter exchange salutes, Klinger turns to leave.
Potter: Klinger!
Klinger turns around.
Potter: Nice outfit.
Klinger: Thank You, sir! It’s from the Shirley Temple Collection! (Klinger salutes again and leaves).
Burns stands next to Klinger, mouth agape, and then looks at Potter. While Pierce and Hunnicut are giggling, Potter has a calm, collected look. Potter’s eyebrow flash lets Burns know that Potter isn’t going to be a stick in the mud.
Fade out.
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
The first thing I remember in was as Pete in Pete and Gladys. And he was the judge in the Spencer Tracy version of Inherit the Wind.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
do you remember what i’m talking about on those TV shows… I think it was channel 44… they would run all these old 50’s black and white shows… I recall, Bachelor Father, December Bride, Dobie Gillis… one about a secretary in San Francisco (can’t remember name)… OH, and they would also have You Bet Your Life with Groucho Marx episodes… i think they would do one of Groucho episode and one of the others every night… like from 10 – 11… Anyone in their 40s-50s who grew up in the Bay Area remember this?
Harry Morgan was in December Bride, and his role got spun off from there to Pete and Gladys. But no, since I didn’t grow up in the Bay Area, I don’t remember Channel 44 showing old TV shows.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
and i just remembered they would also do Burns and Allen… used to love how George Burns would break the fourth wall…
oh no… i feel a huge waste of time coming on for me searching the internet…
oh no… i feel a huge waste of time coming on for me
Too late, you’re already on the DBD.
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
I just started watching You Bet Your Life on Youtube. there will never be another Groucho…god was he talented.
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that was a sensational show… somewhere on line i read a little history of it and how it was created just for him and how they kept tweaking the show so the contestants could win… it was all so innocent and charming…
Groucho’s in my top 3 of favorite comedians. He had such brilliant tact for being risque, but PC, before there was even so much of a concept as ‘PC.’ There was one episode where this Korean woman was on as a contestant, and I braced myself for “ching chong ding dong,” but he was totally respectful. Her story was amazing, too…she and her family were captured by the North Koreans, held at gunpoint and told they were going to be shot, during the war. They were bluffing and didn’t shoot them, but were still held. She said the sight of US Marines entering the compound to save them was the happiest moment of her life.
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admit it, you miss Dance Party
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
was the goal to be as cheesy as you could be or did people actually think it was cool?
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
from what I remember watching that as a kid, nothing good can come from it. I also recall kids trying to be MJ along with square dancers. It was a strange show.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
This was the height of Valley Girl new wave California music… so lots of skinny pants, argyle, collars up, bouncing around stiff legged dancing… I’m sorry for that.
dude, you need to find video of yourself on this and share.
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Timestamp?
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 4:00 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, wasn’t your school. Nevermind!
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 4:02 PM PST up reply actions
you’re from LOLS Altos?
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Oh please tell me you’re not from Palo Alto…
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The P!? I’m from the P!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 4:16 PM PST up reply actions
Poraga?
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Oh.
Never mind.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 4:18 PM PST up reply actions
San Leandoraga?
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Ticonderoga!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 4:23 PM PST up reply actions
full disclosure, I’m from PA and grew up surrounded by Furdies so you’re free to mock me at will for that.
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you’d certainly almost be welcome!
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 4:28 PM PST up reply actions
It’s awesome! I pretend that some of the older commenters are in the video. Scootie’s definitely there, obviously fiatlux, you might be in it.
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I cant stop loving this and, by extension, you.
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fiatlux, you were a valley girl?
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 3:54 PM PST up reply actions
Remember this all too well
Cut from the same cloth you and I.
"Fuck DOOOOOM. We prefer BOOOOOM!! - alpha1906
and i gotta tell you… they’re actually good memories…
slightly non-sequiturish… growing up I loved American Bandstand and always wondered what those cool kids on the show’s lives were like… and how did they get on the show… etc… we always argued about whether or not the performers lip synced or sang live… and then this appearance by the Go-Gos settled it once and for all… right around the 1 minute mark Belinda doesn’t even try to pretend… she’s probably coming off a raging coke binge any, so who cares!
Yes, I do remember old shows (in b&w) on both Channel 44 and on Channel 20. I loved Perry Mason, but I often fell asleep before midnight when the re-runs would come on.
You Bet Your Life was great. I love Groucho’s sense of humor and use of double entendres. He was a master. What a wit!
Burns and Allen was similarly funny, only it was a couple, not just one guy being sarcastic. Gracie was such a great foil for George. Or was it the other way around?
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
George was the straightman and Gracie delivered all the comedic punch… i loved when George would talk to the camera… it was supposed to be sort of their life in Beverly Hills / Hollywood (I think)… always looked like a great life..
What I am talking about though is they would do this just during the summer… and i want to say it would go from 10-11or 11-12 every night.
Hmmmm…maybe it was Channel 44. I think Channel 20 was more year round with its old TV programming.
I think that both Channel 44 and Channel 20 went away from that kind of programming/format because TVLand and other cable channels took up syndicated programming.
Summertime is a great time to do it, though. Typically, re-runs are in full gallop and students are out of school and watching more TV (!).
I miss being able to stay up late and watch TV. It only happens now when I have a bout of insomnia.
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
And who?
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
Do you kids wanna be like the real UN, or do you just wanna squabble and waste time?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:03 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
The ATO didn’t send me an email, so I can’t go.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I emailed that dude you told me to email. Haven’t heard back.
….don’t expect to.
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
And when is this weekend?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:03 AM PST up reply actions
Surely you can’t be serious.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
Ted Miller's a funny guy
7. Kraft Fight Hunger (Dec. 31): Illinois (6-6) vs. UCLA (6-7). You have two interim coaches because both teams fired their head coach. You have a certainty that one team will end the season with a losing record. You have one team riding a six-game losing streak. You have another that lost its final regular season game 50-zip to its archrival and needed a waiver from the NCAA to even be here. If you are watching this game on New Year’s Eve, you are in need of some fairly strong New Year’s resolutions about, you know, getting a life.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
CRN isn’t coaching the bowl game?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:10 AM PST up reply actions
He was fired, CBG. Fired.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
But didn’t he coach the 12-Pac championship game? Is the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl that much more important that they can’t let him screw it up?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:20 AM PST up reply actions
yeah it’s one thing to keep the fired guy around for a week, another to keep him for another month. i guess.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Dec 7, 2011 11:48 AM PST up reply actions
Never.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:26 PM PST up reply actions
Also, never.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
Or after we have a 19-game winning football winning streak and a 55-game basketball winning streak against them.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
So…. Never :(
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:52 PM PST up reply actions
San Ramon Valley vs. De La Salle in NCS DI championship
This Saturday at the O.co Oakland Coliseum, 3:30 pm
Cal quarterback commit Zach Kline — the Gatorade California High School Football Player of the Year — will lead Danville (Calif.) San Ramon Valley (10-3) against Concord (Calif.) De La Salle and Bears linebacker commit Michael Barton in a rematch of the Spartans’ homecoming, in which De La Salle stomped the Wolves 40-3.
"Fuck DOOOOOM. We prefer BOOOOOM!! - alpha1906
Only sort of useful
Get 25% off a Virgin America flight by going here: http://thetakeoff.urbandaddy.com/ (or just use the code I got by putting my own emails in): E6EE3BE7
You have to book 12/15-12/31 and fly 1/3-2/15. Also, Virgin America doesn’t fly to Ohio, so those of you trying to come visit won’t be able to use it.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
Not sure
But I didn’t use it, so go ahead and try!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:19 PM PST up reply actions
Too late, I already claimed it.
Domestic
Flight 815
Departs SJC at 6:15 PM
Arrives SFO 7:00 PM
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Hahahahaha
Some airline once emailed me a deal for a $64 flight between OAK and SFO.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
Why is 77 better than 69?
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:28 PM PST up reply actions
I will not respond to that joke! CGB is a family environment!
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by Rishi on Dec 7, 2011 12:31 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
Maybe Ive been married for too long, but I dont get this joke, although I can guess its a dirty one
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Someone please inform him! Atoms?
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 2:20 PM PST up reply actions
On my work computer? Not likely.
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Wow, really?
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That’s not an actual route.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:22 PM PST up reply actions
Would this be an appropriate use of: thanks, atoms?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
Christmas Shopping
Just finished shopping for my girlfriend. I’m never one to buy a gigantic single present. Instead, I bought her a bunch of small little things. Like a partridge in a pear tree.
I bet she’s really excited about the maids-a-milking.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 11:24 AM PST up reply actions
Did you know that in Canada, you can buy bags of milk?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
SFW?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:34 AM PST up reply actions
depends on whats being milked
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:33 AM PST up reply actions
But where do you hide the ten lords-a-leaping until xmas?
"Fuck DOOOOOM. We prefer BOOOOOM!! - alpha1906
Nicely played. It’s fun to open many presents.
My GF asked for a Holiday Bowl ticket for Xmas (which is why she’s my GF), but I’m still gonna get her some small presents to open.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:24 AM PST up reply actions
lol
Reeves Nelson is off the team – permanently.
"RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!"
-TwistNHook
by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 11:35 AM PST reply actions
Link?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:36 AM PST up reply actions
Also, the band should learn that song for dumb plays at basketball games.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:33 PM PST up reply actions
Let's recruit him.....
……and sit him on the bench permanently !!!!
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
June Jones to be named ASU's head football coach
Arizona State is preparing to announce that SMU coach June Jones will become the team’s next coach, sources said.
Arizona State dismissed Dennis Erickson a week ago after five seasons. In choosing Jones, the Sun Devils are again turning to a coach with both college football and NFL experience.
Jones, who spent the last four seasons at SMU, was formerly coach at Hawaii and for the NFL’s San Diego Chargers and Atlanta Falcons.
Jones spent nine seasons at Hawaii, leading the Warriors to the Sugar Bowl in 2007.
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Isn’t that an actress on Mad Men?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:40 AM PST up reply actions
Wrong month.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 11:53 AM PST up reply actions
So there won’t be cleavage shots on the sideline during next year’s games?
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 11:57 AM PST up reply actions
No, that will still be the student section shots.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
But of course!
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:10 PM PST up reply actions
hmmmmmmmmmm, interesting choice
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
sumlin was not real?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 11:54 AM PST up reply actions
Sumlin is a real person. He just wasn’t hired as the coach at ASU.
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Sumlin is a possibility at TAMU, which still surprises me, I had originally heard he had zero interest in that job.
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by Fire Starkey on Dec 7, 2011 11:55 AM PST up reply actions
I heard Illinois is after him, too, but I doubt that would happen.
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Office Ettiquette
Is it bad etiquette in the office to use someone else’ sriracha sauce? Or should I just bring in my own? (I don’t know who’s sauce it is)
as long as no one catches you, it’s ok.
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--Thoroughbred
exactly. or put a little note up saying you used their sauce and will replace… then actually bring in a new bottle… you’ll be the HERO you’re office has been looking for!
I keep sriracha, green tabasco and tapatio on my desk at all times.
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If there’s no name on it, it’s fair game !!!!! But the note idea is a good one.
We put our names on our Sarancha, because a lunch w/o Sarancha is like…….. Twist without his tricycle…..
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
I think it’s silly that I have to put my name on anything that’s mine. We’re not in grade school.
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Our rule of thumb for the office fridge:
No name: communal
Name: for one person only
Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!
Then I guess it’s time to write passive aggressive notes and stick them in the fridge!
Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!
What if it belongs to zoonews?
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:35 PM PST up reply actions
what about you sideburns you want some of this milk?
6 1st round draft picks, 2 Super Bowl Champions and counting
by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:28 PM PST up reply actions
Miss Lippy’s car…is green
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
How odd, why would milk be the one communal thing? Hmm.
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--Thoroughbred
Because it’s the one thing the company pays for. (It’s for coffee)
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What about sexcretaries?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 3:48 PM PST up reply actions
only managers
get sexytaries.
i’m only a supervisor….i have to share one with everyone else….
sigh
Go Bears Go
We get milk, cereal, ramen, soda, juice, bagels, toast, an assortment of jams and flavored cream cheese, nuts, crackers, ships, cookies, chocolate, half and half, 2%, soymilk, coffee, lindor truffles, caramel ghiradelli squares, granola bars, apples, pears, oranges, and lunch consisting of a 20-ingredient salad bar, two types of soup, hot/cold sandwiches, and occasionally a treat like eggnog or butternut squash soup served in a baked squash.
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
OMG
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 3:54 PM PST up reply actions
We get oatmeal, tea, milk, coffee and there’s a couple of handles of vodka in the freezer.
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oh and two cold kegs of beer refilled every friday.
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
usually Sierra Nevada and something else like Anchor Steam, but sometimes folks in the company will brew their own. those I’ve sampled have been pretty good!
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
we get hot cocoa powder! wooooo!
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Dec 7, 2011 3:59 PM PST up reply actions
most of the salad things are. sometimes they’ll tell us what farm they came from. i don’t really care about that. “oh, these rutabags were grown by Dave? ohhh well let me just throw them in the trash, then!”
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Sodas, bottled water, pop tarts, power bars, granola bars, oreo thins, cheez its, peanuts, trail mix, pringles, coffee, tea. No milk.
Do they have chimneys for the fires? Or is that taken care of outside by the char wallah?
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
We have to burn all our fires outside. And we use all confidential documents as kindling.
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use it..for what?
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 7, 2011 11:54 AM PST up reply actions
Enema
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:23 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, I’m going to have to side with Rishi on this one.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:13 PM PST up reply actions
Jacksonville, Charlotte, what's the diff?
ESPN called out for inaccurate aerial shots during MNF
According to ESPN’s Paul Kuharsky, observant viewers threw multiple flags against the “Worldwide Leader” after it became evident that some of the overhead shots on the “Monday Night Football” game between the Jaguars and San Diego Chargers were outdated representations of Jacksonville.
That’s not the best part. According to Kuharsky, one of the aerial shots was actually of Charlotte, North Carolina. Whoops! Kuharshy reached out to an ESPN spokesperson, who had this to say:
"The Charlotte aerial was an inadvertent mistake. It should not have aired. We apologize that it was part of the telecast.
“The scenics of Jacksonville that were used during ‘Monday Night Countdown’ were shot the night of the previous MNF game there in late October. We did not have a crew shooting scenics Monday. There were no graphic or audio mentions indicating the shot was live, though we understand viewers may have been under this assumption.”
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Giants trade Torres, Ramon Ramirez to Mets for Angel Pagan
Late Tuesday the Mets traded outfielder Angel Pagan to the San Francisco Giants in exchange for outfielder Andres Torres and reliever Ramon Ramirez.
The Mets, who lost shorstop Jose Reyes to the free-wheeling Miami Marlins earlier this week, also added free-agent relief pitchers Frank Francisco and Jon Rauch in an effort to beef up a bullpen that finished 28th in the majors last season with a 4.33 ERA.
Deposed (and recently graduated!) #1 Indian
Meh.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:44 PM PST up reply actions
Sandusky arrested again. You’ll never guess why.
Ex-Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested and arraigned Wednesday on new sex abuse charges brought by two new accusers, including one who claims Sandusky molested him numerous times in a basement bedroom, according to authorities.
The claims bring the number of Sandusky’s alleged victims to 10 and he now faces more than 50 charges stemming from accusations he molested boys for years on Penn State property, in his home and elsewhere. The scandal has raised questions about whether Penn State officials did all they should have to stop the alleged activity and ended the careers of the school’s president and football coach Joe Paterno.
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If by tax fraud you mean molesting boys, then yes.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:34 PM PST up reply actions
Begs the question.....
……why was he not in prison already?
I'd like to smell the Roses before I die.
bail was set at $100K, i believe, reduced from $500k by a judge who had worked with his charity.
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Wall Street Journal Provides Perfect Rorschach Test for Cal Fans
Don’t know how I missed this yesterday, but the Wall Street Journal did a quick write-up of all the bowl games as if they were a Hollywood Movie… A Movie Guide to the Bowls
The Tourist
(Holiday Bowl: California vs. Texas, Dec. 28 in San Diego) Just because there are two big names on the marquee (think Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp) doesn’t mean it’ll be the least bit entertaining.
I read this and thought, man, this is the perfect Rorschach test for negabears v sunshine pumpers.
We’re definitely Johnny Depp in that analogy.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:46 PM PST up reply actions
Word.
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by CalBandGreat on Dec 7, 2011 12:47 PM PST up reply actions
On the Waterfront
(Rose Bowl: Oregon vs. Wisconsin, Jan. 2 in Pasadena, Calif.) If only Oregon had hit that last-second field goal against Southern California, and Wisconsin hadn’t suffered those two agonizingly close losses. The Ducks and Badgers coulda been contenders!
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How dare they
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
(BCS: Alabama vs. LSU, Jan. 9 in New Orleans) After a plodding, boring, dud of an original comes the irresistible sequel. The superior intellect of Nick Saban goes up against the swaggering Les Miles in an explosive rematch.
The Wrath of Khan is fucking awesome. This game is bullshit.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:53 PM PST up reply actions
no, he is mad that they would say that this game will be as awesome as star trek II, he correctly stated his displeasure, and you guys are misinterpreting it
Remember, the enemy's end zone is DOWN!
Yes, this. Thank you.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:58 PM PST up reply actions
...
Evidently much fail on the part of you and zoonews.
They are saying this game will be awesome like Wrath of Khan. Which is bullshit because this game is going to suck donkey balls and how dare they compare it to such an awesome movie. Ricardo Montalban is not amused.

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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 12:58 PM PST up reply actions
SINCE THE GAME HASN’T HAPPENED YOUR CPOMPARISON FAILS YOU CAN ONLY COMPARE THE IDEA OF WRATH OF KAHAN AT THE TIME OF ITS PRODUCTION TO THE IDEA OF THIS GAME NOT THE RESULT OF WRATH OF KAHN TO SOMEHTING THAT HASN T BHAPPNED YET
WE ARE THE 0%
Only on a Cal blog would there be an intense argument over a Star Trek movie.
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LISTEN ATOMS JUST ISN’T GETTING IT. AT THE TIME OF THE PRODUCTION OF WRATH OF KHAN THERE WERE A LOT OF NEGATREKS WHO SAID THE ORIGINAL MOVIE WAS A DISGRACE< THE SERIES IS WHAT COUNTED, OK STATE GIOT SCREWED, ETC. AND THEN THE MOVIE HAPPENED AND PEOPE WERE LIKE KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN THAT SHIT IS AWESOME AND THEY WOUT ADMIT HOW NEGATIVE THEY WERE ABOUT THE IDEA OF THE MOVIE JUST LIKE ATOMS WON’T ADMIT HE WQAS WRONG IN A MONTH WHEN THE REMATCH HAPPENS AND WE ALL SKIP IT TO WATCH WRATH OF KAHN TOGETHER
WE ARE THE 0%
by zoonews on Dec 7, 2011 1:02 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
WHEN THE REMATCH HAPPENS AND WE ALL SKIP IT TO WATCH WRATH OF KAHN TOGETHER
I am down for this.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:04 PM PST up reply actions
THE IDEA OF THIS GAME IS DEFINITELY GOING TO SUCK WITH ANOTHER MONTH FOR THESE TWO DEFENSES TO PREPARE AND IN FACT THE ENTIRE POINT OF THIS WALL STREET JOURNAL ARTICAL IS TO COMPARE ACTUAL MOVIES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE TO GAMES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYED YET.
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:02 PM PST up reply actions
LOOK YOU JUST AREN"T GETTING IT. IN THIS ANAOLGY YOU ARE SPOCK AND YOU ARE FROZEN IN LIQUID NITROGEN AND PUT IN A CUBE IN JABBA THE HUTS HIOUSE BUT THE MOVIE HASN’T BEEN MADE YET SO YOU ARE JUST A FIGMENT OF STEVEN SPEELBURGS EYE TWINKLE SO YOUR ARGUMENT IS IRRELEVANT IN THAT YOU CAN’T COMPARE
WE ARE THE 0%
I’m sorry. I didn’t read the last four posts.
Can someone just tell me what the weather is going to be like this week?
Old Toothwrangler
BENIGN WEATHER IS FORECAST TO CONTINUE THROUGH AT LEAST THE
WEEKEND. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS HINT AT SOME SORT OF INSIDE-SLIDER
TYPE LOW DROPPING SOUTH ALONG THE COAST AND THEN TRENDING OFFSHORE
OVER SOUTHERN OR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA BY EARLY NEXT WEEK. THERE ARE
DIFFERENCES IN PLACEMENT OF THIS LOW AND TROUGH…BUT
OVERALL…COOLER TEMPS WOULD BE THE UPSHOT OF THIS SYSTEM
AFFECTING OUR AREA. ANY POSSIBLE PRECIPITATION OCCURRING OVER OUR
DISTRICT WOULD LIKELY BE SHOWERY AND NOT ABUNDANT.
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
ARTICAL!?!?! Oh, atoms, atoms, atoms . . .
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All articles about Cal should be artiCals.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:09 PM PST up reply actions
I had originally written “argument” instead of article and hastily changed it without paying enough attention.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:34 PM PST up reply actions
Is that a man or woman?
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FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:26 PM PST up reply actions
Having watched both teams in every game this season, the game has the potential to be an ugly, fairly low scoring game so the analogy looks like it could be valid.
Cal SHOULD win this game, Texas’s O is dreadful and I don’t expect it to get better in 3 weeks and while their D is very good, they are extremely vulnerable at safety with the loss of Brewster and now Scott. Gideon will also be playing with a broken hand.
If Maynard plays like he has the past 4 games, Cal wins by 10+. The only wasy Texas wins is if Cal goes into turnover fest mode and gives the Longhorns short fields a la SC and fUCLA. Cal has to stack the box on D and make Texas throw. McCoy is a decent passer but has a tendency to float balls if rushed. With Fozzy out and Bergeron’s status uncertain, Malcom Brown has to be healthy otherwise its all over with for Los Horns.
Just my opinion.
Just IMO.
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Mythbusters Accident
One of the zany experiments staged by the “Mythbusters” television show nearly turned into a suburban tragedy Tuesday afternoon in Dublin when the crew fired a homemade cannon toward huge containers of water at the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department bomb disposal range.
The cantaloupe-sized cannonball missed the water, tore through a cinder-block wall, skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood, where children were returning home from school at 4:15 p.m., authorities said.
There, the 6-inch projectile bounced in front of a home on quiet Cassata Place, ripped through the front door, raced up the stairs and blasted through a bedroom, where a man, woman and child slept through it all – only awakening because of plaster dust.
The ball wasn’t done bouncing.
It exited the house, leaving a perfectly round hole in the stucco, crossed six-lane Tassajara Road, took out several tiles from the roof of a home on Bellevue Circle and finally slammed into the Gill family’s beige Toyota Sienna minivan in a driveway on Springvale Drive.
That’s where Jasbir Gill, 42, who had pulled up 10 minutes earlier with his 13-year-old son, Manvir, found the ball on the floorboards, with glass everywhere and an obliterated dashboard.
Busted?
WE ARE THE 0%
I’d hardly call a smashed up car and some broken plaster with no injuries a “tragedy”
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Dec 7, 2011 1:01 PM PST up reply actions
as long as those “things” are not the wings or engine, yes.
Nothing to worry about, it's not like I've learned to open doors or anything.
by RaptorApocalypse on Dec 7, 2011 1:15 PM PST up reply actions
Wow that coulda ended REALLY bad
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…ly
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:35 PM PST up reply actions
3. Kari Byron (yum)
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
So this.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 2:44 PM PST up reply actions
lolololol
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:05 PM PST up reply actions
I didn’t know Yes We Cannon worked for MythBusters!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 3:22 PM PST up reply actions
Holiday Bowl Tailgate
Got my tickets purchased, booked the hotel today AND…. got confirmation that we will indeed be putting on a tailgate at the game. I’ll start a fanpost or something with info. Just wanted to let y’all know now cuz I am filled with psychedatude about this game.
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Cugel = zoonews?
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 1:35 PM PST up reply actions
Family; warning, no hitting on my daughter, she’s only 15.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
You really shoudnlt have asked Cugel’s son tot ake off those red tights
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The rules clearly state you should not wear red to any Cal gathering! the pantsing was his own fault!
Cal: Bears with Books.
He never would, and although he’s a total Cal fan, in truth, he’s a Slug.
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I WANT IT
Who’s got the smoker?
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:29 PM PST up reply actions
I WANT IN*
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:30 PM PST up reply actions
awesome gift site
http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/
for rishi!:
http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/suit-pajamas
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
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"RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!"
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by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 1:24 PM PST up reply actions
hrmmm

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by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
Does their cruelty to animals have no limit? Dog is clearly terrified he’s about to attacked by flying Snowspeeders, oh the humanity!
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must has
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by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 4:00 PM PST up reply actions
Go Bears!
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Fuck that guy.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 2:17 PM PST up reply actions
Soon to be unemployed
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
Whoo! The SEC is doomed
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/31357/the-sec-is-doomed
ESPN.com analyst Brock Huard finally wrote what everyone — and I mean everyone — believes is about to happen in college football: The Pac-12 is poised to overtake the SEC as the nation’s dominant conference.
Sorry, SEC. You had a nice run. We have a nice parting gift — a Hickory Farms summer sausage & cheese gift box — which you can pick up by the exit. Bye bye.
Writes Huard:
The fundamentals are in place for tremendous growth in the Pac-12, led most importantly by a forward-thinking commissioner unwilling to settle for second. Larry Scott brokered the richest television deal in the history of collegiate athletics for his conference, one that not only ensures tens of millions of dollars annually for all of its members but also allows for the type of visibility and exposure necessary to get into every recruit’s living room.
Huard goes on to detail specifics on why each Pac-12 school is going step on the forehead of the SEC on its way to the top. His reasoning you will find is air tight and unassailable. So don’t even think about assailing.
Huard also wonders how we might get more SEC-Pac-12 games.
And who knows, if Alabama or Auburn or the Arkansas Razorbacks would ever venture west of the Rocky Mountains and test their excellence on the road and out of their comfort zone (Alabama’s nonconference schedule this season featured North Texas, Kent State, Penn State and Georgia Southern), as USC and Oregon have been willing to do over the years, we could see this theory put to the test instead of having it exist as a mere hypothetical.
by j.lee on Dec 7, 2011 1:12 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
No way the SEC wins the national championship this year!
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ConquestChronicles disagrees
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FORONT PAGE CONTENT JUNE JONES TO ASU
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supposedly a grad A bitch though. That reduces her hotness factor
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No, not really, makes her role in Mad Men less about acting, maybe.
Am I known as Cugel the Clever for nothing?
so, how does everyone feel about this? ASU going after another older coach? ASU is great for retirement?
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
only flagstaff, which I found to be rather nice.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Wait, they backed off
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also, not sure why that was directed at me.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Theres a perfectly good front page tghread to discuss this in
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I link to it here so you know where the perfectly good front thread is. And I call your dad to call you, roy, and tell you that
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requires opening another tab, therefore sucks
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
pre-vacation habits
I get obsessive about checking airline seating chart to see if anyone claimed the seat in my section, would love an empty seat in my row.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
OMG. yeah, on some level I recognize it’s beyond my control but I need information!!
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
if someone gets in your row, fart really loudly, mutter something under your breath along the lines of “Oh God, I think I shit my pants again” and wait for the row to clear out. Works for me every time
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but i’m going to wear CT shirts!!
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
they are of a high quality and well tailored
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
And very thorough.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
He’s a good man….
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 2:16 PM PST up reply actions
DUDE!
On my flight home from Seattle I was in the middle, gf on the R, random guy on L. THERE WERE FOUR rows with ONLY the window seat taken in our immediate vicinity. But this asshole to my L NEVER MOVED. He was right across from one of the rows! I was so pissed! Why would anyone not move?!?!
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
I think he liked you.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Goddammit ATO you suck
So I bought the tickets yesterday and I called them and asked where I’d get a seat and they said it’s based on priority points but I won’t get a chance to pick.
In short I probably got nosebleed seats. FUCKKKKK
In other words, Go Bears!
well, yeah. All the good seats for bowl games go to local donors/supporters. All the tickets going to the Cal/Texas ATO’s are going to be shitty. Fact of life when it comes to bowl games.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
all seats allotted to Cal are shitty.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Is no one seeing my comment RE: my 1%er seats?
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
yes, good job. you have been acknowledged and validated.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Thank you.
Geeze.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
please drink as much beer as possible
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Oh I will. I sat in the club level at AT&T a couple times this year and almost single-handedly forced them to change their policy of allowing us elitest to drink.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
Elite in all things but spelling.
elitists
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
Don’t you have people to do you spelling for you?
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I had to fire him for constantly explaining jokes to me.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
I believe that’s the joke. Thanks, Rishi.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 2:24 PM PST up reply actions
wait, did you just say something not totally negative about the ATO?
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
No. Not remotely. Part of the initial 11,000 seat allotment includes decent seats. The ATO is obligated to accept those seats. The Holiday Bowl forces some decent seats on the ATO… Let to their own devices…
We sat in the last row for one of these Holiday Bowls. The really cold one. Thanks, Cal!
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i let my friend take care of buying tix for 2004. We were also in the top row. The drizzly, cold, blow-out loss top row…
I sat in the upper corner for Chiefs/Chargers and the seats weren’t that bad. Unless you’re directly behind the goalpost…they won’t be too bad
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:32 PM PST up reply actions
actually upper corner is better than upper mid field… for some reason you’re actually farther away midfield.
But I like the angles…I’ve argued this a lot in my life. For pro stadiums, I feel the view from the top (or at least as low as you can go in the upper level) are the best seats.
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:40 PM PST up reply actions
I will take lower down farther out than higher up closer in any day… The closer oyu get the more you can “feel” the game and the more you feel a part of it. I hate sitting high
I agree it’s cool to see the players up close…but it’s tough for me to see the plays develop. And although I particularly like to stand…it’s nice to have the option of sitting if you want to.
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
I want to be at least half way up at Memorial. Everything else is too long and you can’t tell what’s happening.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Yah Memorial is a different beast….tough angles when you get too far down
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:47 PM PST up reply actions
This shouldn’t be a prob in the new stadium…they’re lowering the field like 6 feet.
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
A WIN FOR THE CAL FANS
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:54 PM PST up reply actions
I love how details get exaggerated
The field will be lowered 4 feet 6 inches.
"We do not seek men who will bravely lie down to die, but men who will fight valiantly to live."
"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
-- Andrew Latham Smith
But whats the girth itll be lowered at?
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You’ve got a dirty mind, Twist.
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"Winning is not everything. It is far better to play the game squarely and lose than to win at the sacrifice of an ideal."
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I’m feeling very judged right now
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Aaron Rodgers talking to Roxy
Still Bitter about Texas
"RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE!!"
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by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 1:44 PM PST reply actions
lol
Mr. Mandel, I am new (legal) citizen from foreign country, learning English and American sport. Please explain me how team can be national champion but not conference or division champion. In my country thing like this do not happen.
— Chartah Varhta, Akron, OhioI can’t possibly explain it, but this may be the most insightful summation of the BCS I’ve ever seen.
2011 World Cup Champions Team India
by Rishi on Dec 7, 2011 1:45 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
link: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/12/07/bcs.plus.one.mailbag/1.html
I read that in Borat’s voice, btw
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roffle
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by Redonkulous Bear on Dec 7, 2011 1:46 PM PST up reply actions
stupid Bama. stupid voters. stupid BCS.
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 1:50 PM PST up reply actions
Hammered
Rod Blagojevich gets 14 years in prison.
A federal judge today sentenced impeached Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to 14 years in prison, giving little weight to Blagojevich’s first-ever apology this morning since his arrest three years ago. “The jury didn’t believe you and neither did I,” U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel said.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
2 1/2 hours ago is ancient now? I’m in big trouble.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
Geez: Be Governor of Illinois, Go to Jail
From the same article:
If Blagojevich is sent to jail today, he will join George Ryan, a Republican who was governor from 1999 to 2003, who is serving a prison sentence. After a scandal involving the illegal sale of government licenses, contracts and leases by state employees, Ryan was convicted of corruption in 2006. Otto Kerner Jr., a Democrat who was governor from 1961 to 1968, was convicted in 1973 on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury and related charges. Dan Walker, a Democrat who was governor from 1973 to 1977, pleaded guilty to bank fraud, misapplication of funds and perjury in 1987.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
you go to jail, bad boy /russellpeters
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 3:16 PM PST up reply actions
The problems with the BCS (and maybe how to fix them?)
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7323875/a-solution-bcs
What’s a Harris Poll?
Do people even know who votes in the Harris Poll? Here are the results. You will see an eclectic mix of people associated with college football. And yet somehow, this seemingly learned group of voters managed to have two voters rank Alabama fourth, nine rank Oklahoma State fourth, four rank Oklahoma State fifth, and three rank Oklahoma State sixth. Sixth! How did that happen? Here is a shocking interview with one Harris Poll voter in which he claimed that the BCS is a mess, and that he might not do as much research as he needs to. This is the voter who inexplicably had Houston fifth after getting blown out at home by Southern Mississippi, while he ranked Oklahoma State sixth. He also revealed that the Harris Poll is a “well-paying job.” That can’t make anyone feel good about this poll when you really don’t even know the level of attention being paid by voters2 and when they are compensated for their vote, incentivizing them to participate even if they have no interest.
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That writer has an awesome name.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 2:18 PM PST up reply actions
Aaron Rodgers was on 95.7 at 1:20 P.M. today?!?!?!?!?
WHY DIDN’T ANYBODY TELL ME?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!
This is everyone’s fault, but mine.
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They’ll probably have it as a podcast later.
But, we have the Cal-relevant portion on the frontpage.(see above)
Old Toothwrangler
he’s 0-3 in Cal games he’s attended after leaving Cal :(
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 3:14 PM PST up reply actions
MUMIA IS PARTIALLY FREED:
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday abandoned their 30-year pursuit of the execution of convicted police killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, the former Black Panther whose claim that he was the victim of a racist legal system made him an international cause celebre.
Abu-Jamal, 58, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison. His writings and radio broadcasts from death row had put him at the center of an international debate over capital punishment.
Flanked by Officer Daniel Faulkner’s widow, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams announced his decision two days short of the 30th anniversary of the white policeman’s killing.
He said continuing to seek the death penalty could lead to “an unknowable number of years” of appeals, and that some witnesses have died or are unavailable after nearly three decades.
“There’s never been any doubt in my mind that Mumia Abu-Jamal shot and killed Officer Faulkner. I believe that the appropriate sentence was handed down by a jury of his peers in 1982,” said Williams, the city’s first black district attorney. “While Abu-Jamal will no longer be facing the death penalty, he will remain behind bars for the rest of his life, and that is where he belongs.”
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That doesn’t sound like he’s been freed at all.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 2:38 PM PST up reply actions
That seems to be a sound plan if the goal is to reduce the level of complaint about it. I read the background once and while there were plainly irregularities in the trial, I didn’t walk away thinking that Abu-Jamal was exactly innocent.
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
…you think he should have been executed, or freed totally?
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:24 PM PST up reply actions
Suddenly PUPPIES

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by Rishi on Dec 7, 2011 3:28 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs
I could not have forseen this.
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I’ve had it up to here with your pro-cat agenda!
FUTBALL IZ SRS BUSINESS GUYZ // ONLY HAVE FUN WHEN ROZ BWL
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I’ve had it up to here with your anti-vassar agenda
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I thought that was DC.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
Simps ref
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DC Trojan ref
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
DC Troj?
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DJ Trocan!
unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce un-un-unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce un-un-unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce un-un-unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce un-un-unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce un-un-unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce un-un-unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce un-un-unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce un-un-unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce unce un-un-unce
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it's because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea"
I applaud your pro-cat agenda!
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
Cats rule. Dogs drool!
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Suddenly, kitties!

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by Rishi on Dec 7, 2011 3:50 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Suddenly, Rishi has a pro-cat agenda.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I just have a pro-happiness agenda.
Here’s two cal alumni enjoying a stroll
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Aww, is that Rags and AndBears?
Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!
by MR.F. on Dec 7, 2011 3:55 PM PST up reply actions 3 recs
Looks like they’re headed to the Young Alumni section.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I took this one of CalBear81, Rishi, and Twist just this July!!

The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
Is your first thought always to look for an exhaust port to fire your proton torpedo into?
Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!
…because then someone might lose their virginity at a frat house?
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:31 PM PST up reply actions
*his or her
"i, for one, welcome our new atomic overlords" - GoldBlooded
by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:32 PM PST up reply actions
:)
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 3:33 PM PST up reply actions
TWSS
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:34 PM PST up reply actions
I leave the DBD for five minutes and people are now encouraging atoms?!
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What’s your stance on quarks?
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I’ve got a lot of ‘em. I’ve been told I’m a very quarky guy.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:49 PM PST up reply actions
\o
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:58 PM PST up reply actions
I’m either up or down on them.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Would have been funnier if someone had replied to my comment with, “Well, you do have a strange charm about you….”
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:57 PM PST up reply actions
Yes. Trust me, I’m omniscient.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:33 PM PST up reply actions
What’s your stance on frilly toothpicks?
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anti
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Atoms for Peace!
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
More mindless trade talk.
Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry and Los Angeles Clippers guard Eric Gordon are the two players New Orleans has pursued the hardest in the Hornets’ fast-moving search for a workable Chris Paul trade, according to sources close to the talks.
But the Hornets continue to meet with resistance from the Warriors and the Clippers on Curry and Gordon, sources told ESPN.com, because both teams are reluctant to part with their young backcourt cornerstones with no assurance from Paul that he will stay beyond this season.
S. Curry
Gordon
Sources said that the Hornets have actually been trying to convince the Warriors to part with Curry since before last season’s trade deadline in February. But the Warriors could only stomach the inclusion of Curry if they knew Paul would extend his contract as part of the trade or at least commit to invoking his option for the 2012-13 season. Golden State has still received no such promises.
One source close to the process told ESPN.com that talks with the Warriors are “definitely cooling” because of Golden State’s unwillingness to include Curry in the deal.
Following a voluntary team workout on Wednesday, Curry said he has received assurances from team executives that he is “safe and secure” with the Warriors despite the latest round of trade talks.
The Clippers, meanwhile, have been aggressive in their pursuit of Paul, but sources told ESPNLosAngeles.com’s Ramona Shelburne that neither Gordon nor restricted free agent center DeAndre Jordan have been offered to New Orleans.
holy gesundheit, batman….
just got this in an email:
His lab at Rockefeller focuses on using bioorthogonal chemical reporters to probe post translational modifications in vivo (using lipid mimetic cycloadducts combined with real-time fluorescent imaging and proteomics).
Still trying to figure it out…
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
To be fair
So is he!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 3:26 PM PST up reply actions
Wiki cites a Cal researcher, Bertozzi. My friend worked in her lab.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 3:32 PM PST up reply actions
ya this guy used to be in that lab.
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
IT ALL MAKES SENSE!
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 3:39 PM PST up reply actions
You can’t start out a post on SBN with the # sign as the first character, or else it will screw up the formatting.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 3:48 PM PST up reply actions
It just IS.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
Exactly. That’s like asking what’s the square root of a million. Nobody knows.
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Isn’t it 6?
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
for my money it doesn't get better than this...
Diana Krall singing Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
I love Diana Krall’s music.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
I can listen to this version of HYAMLC all year… well i can listen to all christmas music all year… but this one is just so nice.
and don’t hate me for this but Toby Keith’s version is also very nice. So soulful and warm.
Judy Garland’s original isn’t bad, either.
"For eight long years have those lobster backs made you bite the dust. It is your turn now. Make them bite and bite hard. Play, every one of you until you drop in your tracks; and when you can’t play any longer, we’ll put another man in your place. If you are repulsed once, come at them again, harder." - Garrett Cochran, Big Game 1898
OMG the winter dream tea latte at Coffee Bean is OM NOM NOM
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
winter dream tea, steamed milk, sugar free vanilla powder. all in a delightful 100 calorie beverage.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
How does it compare in taste to the Skinny Peppermint Mocha at SBUX in overall enjoyment (also a 100 calorie beverage)?
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indeed, real sugar isn’t that many more calories, i think maybe 200.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
yeah, sugary and sugar free versions. the choice is yours.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Have at it if you want. Just dont ruin my thread.
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Wrong thread, but I’ll accept your compliments.
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Just got my Holiday Bowl tickets!
My brother and I are driving back from KS (in my new Mini Coop!) right after the Chiefs destroy the Raiders. My bro is an Oregon grad so he’s working on getting us Rose Bowl tix as well…do I pay $100+ to see Oregon v Wisconsin?
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:27 PM PST reply actions
Ever since i saw that photo of you at the Chiefs game I didnt see you as a Mini Cooper person
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Well my mom is giving me a family discount since she is getting the new Mini. I wouldn’t probably pick one out myself…but they are kickass rides IMO
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:35 PM PST up reply actions
it’s pretty hard to talk shit and be tough when you’re getting in or out of that.
Every time i see people get out of one i expect to hear Entrance of the Gladiators and see about 12 other people get out.
I AM TOUGH!
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 4:41 PM PST up reply actions
Come to the tailgate!
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…how about me?
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 5:15 PM PST up reply actions
Of course! Are we facebook friends? That’s how I arrange these things. Especially when we’re at an away game and I need to give people our location when we arrive.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
Yeah, but the pigeons peck in the location on their facebook accounts.
Cal Football: I loved them once and they broke my heart. Let that be a lesson to you. Never love anything.
but I can comment on pictures of you, so I have that going for me.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Can you introduce me to fiatlux? Fiat, you wanna come to the tailgate?
It’s gonna be funtimes. We shotgun beers, sing the Drinking Song, eat some good food, play games like our version of Loteria and make witty remarks about the opposing team. Kinda like a real-life DBD.
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you can look me up on there here http://www.facebook.com/montgomeryken
We’re definitely going to be down for hitting tailgates since, as you know, you want to get to Qualcomm as early as possible!
Awesome, will do. Our rule of thumb is to start 3 hours before gametime, but I’ll have to check with the stadium’s parking lot policy first.
I’ll friend you and add you to the Cal Drink Squad -the highest honor a Cal Graduate can obtain.
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funny how that happens. and I was just going to link you to calbandgreat :)
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
i can’t remember who you are on facebook (sigh)… send me a message… it’s hard enough to remember all my frickin’ passwords… now i have to remember different “names” for people…
apparently not. and identifying message sent.
(spoiler alert, I’m not Rishi)
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
Ahhhh. I was assuming that based on your sending of CBG’s info to fiatlux.
Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!
Requested!
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:01 PM PST up reply actions
I'm down
Can you make a fanpost so we can talk logistics and get hyped?
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 7:18 PM PST up reply actions
Got my CNR newsletter in the mail today
Did you know there was a Home Economics major?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
speaking of whom, what’s the latest news out of UCLOL?
by the federer express on Dec 7, 2011 5:43 PM PST up reply actions
Nahhh
Someone who joined the Peace Corps. Well, I guess fucla = developing nation.
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 5:43 PM PST up reply actions
Yup
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 5:57 PM PST up reply actions
ESPM minor. It’s like we’re almost sort of in the same venn but totally not.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
same venn! same venn!
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 6:28 PM PST up reply actions
:)
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 6:04 PM PST up reply actions
Microbial Biology. My other major was in L&S, though (linguistics). Yours?
"Sometimes you get it, and sometimes you get got."
by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 6:25 PM PST up reply actions
Interesting major. I guess you could say you are a cunning Microbial Biologist!
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by TwistNHook on Dec 7, 2011 8:18 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Nice.
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by TheBuckeyeBear on Dec 7, 2011 8:40 PM PST up reply actions
I left CNR freshman year. I loved their offices in Mulford with all the wood samples!
The odds of Cal winning are inversely proportional to the odds of Cal winning.
I loved sleeping on those couches in the student lounge.
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WOOO CNR!
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by Another Successful Tedford QB on Dec 7, 2011 7:20 PM PST up reply actions
What's with the MyCalendar birthday requests on facebook?
what is that? i never accept any of these things, but what’s the deal? are people actually doing it or is it some autobot thing going on?
i never accept any of these things
That’s the most important lesson to learn on FB.
Then, I’ll make a big ruckus, because I am a hypocritical asshole.
-TwistNHook
HS FB state championship game TD called back
There is a HS football championship game TD called back because of the taunting rule. The QB broke through the line and the secondary and raised his arm up for less than 5 yards around the opponent 30 before lowering it and running into the end zone. The go ahead TD was called back and a pick was thrown the next play and they ended up losing.
Seems like a bad interpretation of the rule since he wasn’t taunting, regardless of what Skip Bayless says.
by HeyAlumniGo on Dec 7, 2011 7:44 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
I’m going there next month!
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:21 PM PST up reply actions
btw
rec’d so hard for Ice Cube and LA and modernism and awesomeness all around
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:22 PM PST up reply actions
Skip Bayless and the refs are both fucking morons if they actually believe that this was a penalty.
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 10:00 PM PST up reply actions
haha
reply fails all around. That rec is for you baby
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by atomsareenough on Dec 7, 2011 9:22 PM PST up reply actions
most expensive asian cities
Hong Kong’s a bit surprising.
Following are ECA’s top 10 most expensive places in Asia:
1. Tokyo
2. Nagoya
3. Yokohama
4. Kobe, Japan
5. Seoul
6. Singapore
7. Beijing
8. Shanghai
9. Hong Kong
10. Busan
No way this is accurate, unless its for one of those global baskets of goods where they take into account say, a box of triscuits which would cost $4.5 in HKG and maybe $6 in Shanghai.
But still, as a resident of Shanghai and someone who goes to Hong Kong and Beijing at least quarterly, let me give you an anecdote. I was in HK and had dinner with a friend of mine who was complaining about his rent increase. We live in the same size places (about 1000 sq feet, 2 bedroom relatively new apartment buildings). His rent went from $4,500/month to $6,000/month. And he paid the increase. That entire increase is equal to my rent.
So I call bullshit.
this is what the company that did survey said
http://www.eca-international.com/news/press_releases/7541#.TuB37lbnt6J
Hong Kong has tumbled down the list of most expensive locations as a weaker dollar continues to negate the impact of rising prices, according to the latest cost of living survey conducted by ECA International, the world’s leader in the development and provision of solutions for the management and assignment of employees around the world.
Hong Kong’s 26-place drop in the global ranking is the largest fall of any city in Asia and puts the SAR in 58th position globally. Within the region, Hong Kong has slipped from being the 6th to the 9th most expensive location, despite the price of goods there having increased even more than this time last year.
“We are typically seeing higher price levels across the region compared with September 2010, and Hong Kong is no exception: items in ECA’s cost of living basket have gone up by more than 7% in the last twelve months,” said Lee Quane, Regional Director, Asia for ECA International.
“However, when we look at Hong Kong in a regional context, the weak dollar means that the city is now cheaper than a number of other locations including Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai, where there has not only been significant price inflation but also currencies have strengthened. While this is good news for many companies who have international assignees in Hong Kong, sending staff out of Hong Kong could become more expensive for businesses if allowances designed to protect an employee’s purchasing power whilst on assignment need to be increased.”
Living costs for assignees are affected by inflation, availability of goods and exchange rates, all of which can have a significant impact on assignee remuneration packages. To help multinational companies calculate assignment salaries, ECA carries out a Cost of Living Survey twice a year, comparing the cost of a basket of consumer goods and services commonly purchased by assignees in over 400 locations worldwide.
The data is used by ECA clients to calculate cost of living allowances for assignees. The survey covers:
Food: Groceries; dairy produce; meat and fish; fresh fruit and vegetables
Basic: Drink and tobacco; miscellaneous goods; services
General: Clothing; electrical goods; motoring; meals out
Certain living costs such as accommodation, utilities (electricity, gas, water costs), car purchase and school fees are not included in the survey. Such items can make a significant difference to expenses but are usually compensated for separately in expatriate packages.
I mean, it sounds like property price is not part of the metric…only “the cost of a basket of consumer goods and services commonly purchased by assignees.” Yeah, land is expensive as fuck in Hong Kong but I don’t think it’s so implausible that everyday items could be cheaper…
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 8, 2011 10:30 AM PST up reply actions
Ok, its not implausible, but I’ll bring up a few more real life examples:
transport: taxis in Shanghai start the meter at $2.15 USD and in Hong Kong at $2.40USD – not too different, right? But the rate of is so very mtuch different – in that a 10 minute cab ride in light traffic in Shanghai will end up between $3 and $4 USD, while a 10 minute cab ride in Hong Kong will end up around $8 – $10 USD. Same thing for subways – Shanghai goes from $0.30 to $0.60 cents, while Hong Kong starts at $0.33 but can easily go above $2.00 USD with a few stops.
The only – and I repeat only way this makes sense is if you’re purely looking at imported goods, like a USDA Prime rib eye might cost $10/pound in HK and it’d cost $15 in Shanghai, so that were the case they wouldn’t be wrong, they’d just have dumb methodology.
tl:dr – There’s no way Shanghai is more expensive than HK. If that were the case, I’d move back to Hong Kong in an instant. Things that work. Rule of law. cleaner air. Nicer Less rude street manners. No spitting.
and HK has, literally, tons upon tons of hair gel!
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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 9, 2011 10:48 AM PST up reply actions

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