Buftex

This is pretty brilliant..

Right? You know, at this point, we should just have a pinned thread where the merits of any football discussion cannot be can celled by, "EJ sucks, so any other discussion is irrelevant". I suspect it would go longer than the "last one to post wins" thread, from a year or two ago.

You will thank us later...the blu-rays are awesome! I only have the first season, but the features are really cool...you can watch each episode in its' original form, or an alternative version, with updated special effects. I prefer the orininal, when all is said and done...but if you like to see the Enterprise flying in front of what look like real planets, instead of spray-painted styrofoam balls, the updates are the way to go!

It had one of the grooviest Trek moments...Spock is one! Trek tackles the generation gap! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OptLgGtZ9_E

Nerd...I knew that..was just trying to lure you out of hiding!

The truth is out there...Skip Bayless will get to the bottom of this!

Jeezes people...get a grip.

Joe- love the topic, but really? #2 is perhaps the funniest (as in bad funny) episodes of the series...I love it, mind you...but it is pure camp! There were a lot of really great episodes, very difficult to pick just three, but today, I think I would probably go with: 1- Errand of Mercy (Kirk & the boys find themselves in the midst of a planets civil war, only to learn that one side is being, secretly, backed by the Klingons, for their own uterior motives. The first appearance on the Klingons!) What people forget about the original Star Trek series, beyond its' technicolor assault, over-acting (bad acting?) and low budget, campy special effects..when it was at its' best, and why I think it was such a cultural touchstone, it was one of the first sci-fi shows (along with Twilight Zone before it) that, to a degree (laugh if you want) to deal in some sort of semblance of scientific reality, and to deal with parallels with the times it was on television...this episode was a commentary, in Rodenberry's own way, on the Viet Nam war, and future military situations that our country would become entangled in. Putting your resources behind one side, and then finding out that maybe they weren't the good guys, after all. The dangers, and unintended circumstances of giving weapons to people who will one day turn them on you... 2- City On the Edge of Forever: the first real sci-fi time travel story I remember, that really put the characters into the time and place that they travelled back to...New York City, during the depression, where Kirk falls for a, still foxy, Joan Collins. I liked it because it actually offered some sort of commentary on the times it was taking place in, rather than just making it an excuse to put the characters into some "fish out of water" circumstance to figure their way out of...no Kirk dressed like a Nazi, or anything silly like that. Generally, this is considered the all-time best episode of the show. 3- The Devil In the Dark - this was the first time we see Spock use the Vulcan "mind-meld". A creature is terrorizing a Federation silicon mining operation on a planet... in trying to figure out how to stop it, Spock comes to learn that the creature that is killing the miners, is actually a mother protecting her children from the miners. It was here that the notion of learing about what you don't understand, rather than fearing it was really driven home. My favorite McCoy "damnit" was: "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not an elevator"!

I still think Searcy still has upside, but the guy has some play-making abilities.... I think he makes the team...I agree, he seems more a SS, but as we should all know by now, those defensive secondary positions are, perhaps, behind only QB as the toughest to learn coming from college to the pros.

A long time ago (early 90's) I was in your town a couple of times. There was a lounge singer, went by the name, I thought, of Buddy Love, or Bunny Love...guy was hysterical. I seem to remember he was somewhat of an instution in the area...but I can't find out a damn thing about him on line. Maybe I have the name wrong or something... all my searches keep brining up Bun E Carlos, the drummer from Cheap Trick...i am sure he is a cut-up, but not the guy I am looking for.... I saw him at a club there a couple of times....of course can't remember the name of the club either...it was close to the Purple Onion. Anyone? ps- it is not Richard Cheese!

A buddy and I had season tickets from 1980-1988 (great timing huh?). I moved away before the 1989 season, and my buddy moved shortly thereafter. We passed our seats on to his sister and brother in-law. They added another 4 seats over the years. Finally, after the 2008 season, they cut it back down to two seats again. Although they told me I could use them whenever I go home for a game, I don't have the heart to do that. However, whenever I go home, for a game, I always have a hell of a time getting somebody to go with me. My brother in-law (he's an Aussie) will only go if it is warm out, but I am normally going to the last home game of the season...

I never have any luck posting pictures.... bbb was kind enough to advise me, but It still doesn't work for me!

I know, it is all about money... and it may not mean much, but I don' think the NFL wants to go through what they did when the Oilers moved from Houston to Tennessee. Olilers played a lame-duck season in Houston, and it was pretty ugly. Bad PR for the league, on top of everything else...can't imagine them being to excited about going through that for 5 years. I don't know...this whole topic is hard for me to keep up with (I don't like thinking about the end of the movie where the team leaves, though I know it is a possibitly), so forgive me if I am missing something...but I viewed the Bills going up for sale, and predictions that the sale would happen relatively quickly, to mean that the chances of the team leaving were pretty minimal.

Gotta be retractable roof.

Sorry, I should have clarified, like the Cleveland Browns, in the sense that they would get another team asap! Miami is becoming the Los Angeles of the east coast. Difference is, it is still a manageable enough size that some celebrity investors would bring another team there in no time. Also, maybe even more than California, Florida is football country. The Dolphins have too rich a tradition to just disappear that easily.

1- Planet of the Apes 2- Beneath the Planet of the Apes 3- Escape From the Planet of the Apes 4- Conquest of the Planet of the Apes 5- Barbarella!

If Ross ever moved the Dolphins, it would be a Cleveland Browns situation all over again...Dolphins fans may not be as hardore as some...but Miami is a huge sports city...if the fish ever start winning again, they will come. Much as we (or at least I ) hate them, the Dolphins still have a pretty big fan base, nationally. If any team moves to LA in the near future, it will be Jacksonville.

Emily is Bruce's ex-sister in-law. She was married to his brother Charlie. He has some good records out too...very musical family all the way around. Bruce wrote a couple of big country songs, recorded by more main-stream artists, you might know: "Traveling Soldier"- Dixie Chicks "Angry All the Time"- Faith Hill & Tim McGraw "Desperately"- George Strait "Wrapped"- George Strait And a few others I can't think of at the moment. Bruce and Charlie have a younger sister, named Robyn Ludwick who also has been putting some pretty solid, Lucinda Williams-like albums out.

Nothing wrong with that...but you are clearly trying to make this into an issue that isn't there (or maybe the Standard is, and you are falling for it)...you know, the straw-man thing that right wingers always accuse left-wingers of doing? If you actually watch the video imbedded in the article, they cut it off before he even finishes his commnet...clearly creative editing to cause a controversy. I agree with your larger point, that we have become way too politically correct in a lot of instances, but you can't fight that by making up **** to get inflamed over...there are plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle, saying truly stupid things, all the time... this was clearly a swipe at Texas, not at woman or hispanics. One wold have to be a complete moron (maybe he is) to take swipes at those two groups, running for governor of New Mexico.

Many New Mexicans hate Texas, particularly in the political realm...I think that was the joke he was trying to make... Susanna Martinez is from El Paso, TX originally. Send her back where she is "really from". I can't believe this warranted a thread, let alone an article on the Standard website.

Wow...that is hideous. For a second I thought it was really Edwards. Or is it? Reminds me, when I was a kid, my best friend and I used hang out in the backyard, playing on the swings. We would make up stupid lyrics for the songs that were on the radio at the time... Helen Reddy singing "I Am Woman", sort of anthem for the woman's lib movement at the time... we came up with they lryric "I am woman hear me snore, with boobies too big to ignore" "They are BIG (big), they're like basketballs" We had a great gift to make any song about ta-tas! My mom was washing dishes with the window open....she heard us. She came flying out to the backyard to order, looking unusually pissed, and ordered us to cease and desist... of course, we were about 8 or 9 at the time..we just thought it was funny because we could say dirty words, and make it fit the song... my mom had heard us do that before, and never said a word...but I guess, looking back, we had just kind of dumbly stumbled upon a simple, but really politically incorrect take on the song, that unwittingly insulted the entire meaning of the real song. It wasn't just the old standard "Hey Jude, I saw you nude, don't try to fake it, I saw you naked" That is pretty great. I have always been meaning to check out more stuff from these guys.

I would highly recommend Kelly to anyone who just loves great singers. She is married to a good buddy of mine (Bruce Robison, the guy in the Astros shirt, behind her in the video), and I can say, not exaggerating at all, I have seen her perform live 100+ times...she has an amazing vocal range, and can go from 10 to 100 at the drop of a time, and it is effortless. If there has been a criticism of her over the years (not one I share) it is that she isn't a big enough "show off". She sings what she likes, not what necessarily shows off her voice the most. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, MCA signed her during the Randy Travis/Garth Brooks era of country, and try to promote her as the new "hot thing" in Nashville. Her records were critically acclaimed, and moderate success, but she was notoriously shy, and just didn't ever feel comfortable playing that Nashville princess role... I really like her Nashville era stuff, though it is much slicker than the stuff she chooses to do on her own. After she and Bruce got married, the had a bunch of kids (4) so she dropped out for a while...but she has re-emerged in the last couple years, with a couple of collaborations with Bruce...new album "Our Year" just came out this past week. Both Bruce and Kelly are pretty accomplished songwriters on their own, but the new album is about 3/4 covers (including "Harper Valley PTA")...in fact, the title track is a cover of an old Zombies song. Can't say enough about these people... great people making great records, doing it the way they want to.

Not a great video, but I will bet you never thought this could be done with Prince's "Raspberry Beret"...just the Derailers kicking ass, again! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDtP6wDaA40

What I was trying to point out to OC, before I stepped in his troll trap!