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NC starts next month (year). I agree with GG on liking the effect, but not the precedent. Then again, your rights end where mine begin and vice-versa. Maybe they're just getting everyone ready for the decriminalization of pot by making sure whatever you smoke is done in the privacy of your own home (whatever that is)? I watched the Bills-Jax game at a sports bar here in Charlotte. The guy at the table next to me put on the greatest smoking display I've ever seen. He chain-smoked Marlboro Reds for nearly 4 straight hours. The pile of butts in the ashtray at halftime was obscuring his view of the flat-screen. I don't know how he got there because that bar doesn't have a place where you can tie up your horse.

Homer Simpson once proposed a billboard in Springfield that read "No Fat Chicks". Just thought I'd mention that.

Translation: We will pay you slave wages and you'll also be your own project manager. We'd off-shore it, but nobody over there understands this game.

You go, Senator. Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind. - W. Somerset Maugham Weren't there quite a few high quality OTs available in the draft and that was part of Oher dropping? I don't remember him being tagged as dogging it, but I wouldn't discount it. After reading "The Blind Side"last year, I took special note of Oher's play. It seemed like whomever lined up across from him was basically taken out of the play by either power or finesse.* *The same could have been said of Andre Smith. Smith was even getting some talk as a #1 (IIRC). When you're that good, it's easy to get bored. Smith then decided he just didn't care at all. Cincinnati still took him high after he showed up at the combine completely out of shape. Of course he broke his foot on his first day of practice after a lengthy hold-out. Then again, Oher is a guy that was basically illiterate at 15 who later chose to leave the "football track" major of Sociology at Ole Miss to pursue a degree in Communications. Here's Michael Lewis from "The Blind Side".

One of my email pen-pals* wrote on the subject. *Okay, we exchanged emails once, but still... Michael Shermer is a well known skeptic. He's been on Penn & Teller's . He's also given a talk at TED. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'.

I voted yes because I'm being honest. Those that vote "Not a Chance" are friggin delusional. Having said that (/Curb), she's really not all that great. She's hot, but she's not any hotter than any chick in the background at McLaren's on "How I Met Your Mother". Of course, hotness is subjective. So... whatever.

You're not going to believe this, but this whole story is rubbish. James Randi weighs in

There's a cream for that, Sasquatch. Hey-o!

Last year I was involved in an auto accident. I was sued with the person I hit claiming a "soft-tissue injury". The case was settled this spring and my insurance covered the settlement (barely). This summer I was home and ran into a girl I sort-of knew in high school. She lives near me here in Charlotte and we became Facebook friends. A few weeks ago I was on Facebook and saw a name commenting on my friends status that nearly caused a spit-take. You guessed it - the person that sued me is a FB friend of the girl I know. After a little digging I saw that this person had enjoyed a little hang-gliding while suffering from a debilitating "soft-tissue injury". I'm sort of glad I found it after the settlement. I might have been tempted to send it to my attorney and then who knows what would have happened?

I saw it. It sucked. /Drexel Grad

I met a girl in college that was on Remote Control. She was on the first ever episode where they had a 1 question playoff to determine who went to the bonus round. The question was "What number is equal to four?" Don't forget Ken's appearance in three Blues Traveler videos: Runaround, Hook & The Mountain Wins Again. Too bad.

Agreed, but I'd also add that what men really want is 'the next one'.

You think you hate it now, but wait 'til you drive it.

A friend of mine was a stock broker who had Fred DeLuca as a client. He would tell my friend that it's more important to act successful than to be successful, at least at first. The best decision DeLuca and his partner Peter Buck made was to expand even when the first few stores weren't doing all that great. He said that when people would see a second or third store they'd figure "Hey, I keep see these stores. They must be pretty good." Like Bruce Dickinson said, " of the walk, baby!"

Here's the Engaget Review with some videos. I've had my Moto RAZR V3 for way too long now, so I'm overdue to take the smart phone plunge. This device seems just geeky enough for me.

Two things: (1) The guy is a hell of a ballplayer, arguably the best of his generation. (2) He has not one, but two paintings of himself as a centaur hanging on his wall. I have no doubt that both points are PED-related.

My friend told me that she told her 6 year-old daughter to "eat her vegetables" (pointing towards cream corn). The kid retorted, "Mom, corn isn't a vegetable. It's a grain!" I told her, "She'll be a blast when she's 15!" Marketing people are -ing awesome!

When ultimate fighting first came on the scene in the early-mid 90s, they had very few rules. In fact, I think they had 3 things that were forbidden: (1) No strikes to the groin. (2) No biting. (3) No eye gouging. MMA has cleaned up its act quite a bit, but even the most brutal sport we've seen in the last 30 years would not put up with what this young man was doing. If the refs had seen this, he would have been ejected from the game. He should get a full game suspension. Since the Gators next opponent is Vandy, I'm surprised Meyer isn't taking the opportunity to make a statement. This is pretty weak. Oh and crayonz is right on the Dez Bryant comparison. The NCAA is garbage.

I'm not sure about the musical tastes of the descendants of the Viking conquerers of northern France. I'm going to skew optimistic and go with to Dick's penchant for smoked eyewear.

You should never eat microwave popcorn. Never. My dad uses one of these. It makes pretty good popcorn but since I've gone off the deep end with nutrition, I just settle for an apple.

At the Halloween party last night there was a guy dressed as Ray Finkle (OP of this thread) and a girl dressed as Alex DeLarge (Wooderson's avatar). That's pretty spooky.

All of my bilingual friends grew up in it. One guy was born in Columbia to German immigrants. He speaks fluent Spanish with a thick German accent. One time we were in a German deli and when he ordered (in English) the woman at the counter noted his accent and started to speak to him in German. He was able to converse with her, but he later told me he's only "conversational" in German and he can't read or write it. One time a girl I was dating called her dad while were driving home. She was telling him (in Spanish) that she was going to stay at her friends place so he shouldn't wait up. After she hung up, I said "Did you just lie to your Dad and say you were staying at XXX's?" She said, "I thought you didn't speak Spanish." I replied, "I know a lie in any language."

They stuck a bunch of us up in the 500s. I'd say my section was about 75% Bills. It was a blast! Tons of WNYers here. When the Bonnies come to play UNC-Charlotte, it will be similar.

Not for nothing, but that made me think of this Cheers classic: Sam: Carla's trying to become the kind of waitress you would enjoy being waited on by. Diane: "Being waited on by"? You just ended that sentence with two prepositions. Sam: Haven't you got customers to be waiting on? Diane: You ended that sentence with a preposition. Sam: Haven't you got customers to be waiting on, MULLET-HEAD?

Déjà Vu in that post for me. In 2000 a group of us decided to head up to NYC for the 2nd weekend (Games 6 & 7). The Yanks spoiled it for us by sweeping the Mets. We still ended up having a pretty good time. Go Phightins!