UConn James

...unless they're not.

On one of those Inside Edition or whatever shows before I turned the TV off after the news, they were saying the 'racial tensions' this has caused at highbrow Duke and in the surrounding poor Raleigh were escalating. They played a 911 tape where a girl calls in to say that (mimiced in her rat-a-tat voice: she and her "black girl friend" were driving by somewhere and heard the N-word shouted, and that she was just calling 911 to report this, and she was so angry about it and didn't know whether calling 911 was the proper thing to do in this situation but she was just sooooooo angry. Guess that hearing the N-word is now a 911-worthy, life-threatening event. Raleigh PD will be forming a Thought Police division soon, honey. Let's lock up all the people who use bad words.

Desmond kept the pantries well stocked, and the Others generally occupy the other side of the island, so it would stand to reason that he got the food drops. It's not that he didn't go outside (in fact, he was moving pretty well when he was running away); simply that he couldn't go outside for very long.

Tgreg, merci beaucoup for the rundown. I saw the part where Locke tells 'Henry' the numbers, and the curiosity about and memorization was a little too much to expect. Do the Others want or need the number sequence for their own uses? The countdown did run out, and nothing really happened. Unanswerable for now I know, but could Henry have used the computer to talk to Walt or whoever's at the other terminal? Did Henry type in a different number sequence? As I was reading your description, I was thinking the same thing about Locke's father being Frank Sawyer. The timing would be w/in reason given James Ford/Saywer's age; i.e. that 25-30 years ago, Frank Sawyer wouldn't've been a white-haired colostomy-bag carrier, and would have been dashing enough to lure in a naive woman.. And also, the shrimp guy James Ford shot in Australia looked to be older too, so that tells us he knew the guy was older. I'd say this is a solid theory. Something that's a little disappointing about Locke's backstories is that as they've gone deeper back, they skipped over how Locke was paralyzed. But that is, generally speaking, how this season has been going into deeper flashbacks, as last season's were mostly what happened w/in a few days/hours of the flight. From what I saw, and what I'm reading, the creativity of the plot and the really good dialogue shows that this was a Lindelof/Cuse script, and not one of the absolutely horrible writers from last week.

Was helping my brother install some Pergo-type flooring and by the time I got home I missed the first half... Came in as Locke was getting Henry to climb through the vent and he fell from the shelf. Could someone describe a little of what happened in the first half? Need to see a screen capture of the design illuminated by the blue light(?). Was that over the mural that Desmond or whoever had made? What was the deal with Locke's backstory? His father got him to do a life insurance scam? So, it's settled that "Henry Gale" is an Other, or was at least sent by them? Said in the preview for next week that "He'll kill me." Could we take that to be Mr. Friendly/Zeke?

To be fair to KVO, as he was going down toward the turf, he was blocked right into Palmer by one of their OL.

Hmm. Royal, Tripplett and especially Reed have contracts that are really cap-friendly this year and then require a serious appraisal of "Do we keep this guy?" next offseason.

Some good stuff there. It's the little things of the campaign trail and on-the-road political life that are amusing. Lots of people don't like celery. Stringy and gets caught in the teeth. This would be especially bad for someone whose appearance matters. Me, I love 'Ants on a Log.' My 5-y.o. nephew doesn't like any of the three ingredients by themselves, but when you put them together.... Darin, we can only assume that he was against celery before he was for it? What the hell is Peanut Power Butter? I could only guess it's been blessed by George Washington Carver. Someone can't spell. "Beens"? "Prefereably organinc"? The 'No tomato products' bit is good for a chuckle, considering.

Kind of like arresting people at the wedding altar, b/c being married is one half of the problem of "spousal abuse." It's not enough that cops can sit outside of the bars and cherry-pick the drunks as they pull out of the lot?

I don't know about all of that, but Lieberman has seemed more and more cuckoo since the 2000 run (specifically an interview he did in the 2004 run when he got a basement apartment in NH. The very definition of senility right there on the teevee). Has gotten little to nothing done for Connecticut and representing what we want and need (Along with most of CT, I could really give a sh-- if you stray from the Dems as long as you make sense); almost always in Washington --- his own words --- and goes off on tangents. Yet he gets elected b/c of the incumbent advantage. If he's getting some heat, he deserves it. We've been getting back 60 cents on the dollar in federal taxes for the last 15-20 years. Maybe he could do something about that? No, 'course not. We need to save the children by putting 'MA' ratings on video games.

I don't know, but has a team with as much talent as UConn ever played as bad a game as against Washington, but still win? Half-court passes, 3/4-court passes that KEPT GETTING INTERCEPTED and Williams et al kept doing them all the more. Sloppiest game I've seen on offense in a while. I think the formula for beating UConn is right there. Move like banshees on the court, disrupt the passing (b/c it's like no one wants to take the shot. 'Here, you take it.' ' No, you take it...'). Foul Boone and Armstrong early and often, to put them on the line instead of letting our position guys get shots, and hope that your guys don't foul out by the end. Almost worked for UW. A UConn-LSU matchup would be interesting.

Under the couch? .... Or did that good-for-nothing Daniel Danielson put it up in the attic? Except that the comparison wasn't so spot-on and absolute four years ago? Newsflash, Mr. Merhi! The only reason that the Palestinean 'suicide bombers' don't kill 3,000 people at a clip is that they lack the means, not the motive. Better that he's not on a legislative floor, and the state party leaders did the common-sense vetting they should do.

You guys are going to have to stop making fun of Moulds for his projectile drooling problem. Otherwise, someone who's been registered here for 3 weeks is going to say you'll all be removed from the forum, and you won't ever earn any money again, b/c you don't join his EM fellation. Tsk, tsk. I believe the next argument in this line is, "Think of the children!!! Dear God, won't ANYONE think of the children?!!?!?"

Especially in those outfits.

If Travis Henry got us a 3rd....

Buried? It was on the news here. And notice that it was well after press time for most newspapers. Maybe the reason why people bash the media for not having any "positive news stories" is that they don't read (or watch) it in any depth. The past several "good news that's not reported" threads, I *have* read and seen it reported. And I'm less well-read than the average bus driver. Good news for sure, after all the sabre-rattling that's gone on there in the past. Thing is that when Musharraf eats one too many double-cheese hamburgers or the next assassination attempt is successful, all hell's gonna break loose.

In French, that last name is pronounced 'Twat.' No comment.

I didn't know he had one.

Not meant to be a political thread, just funny. 'The Smoking Gun' link. Four cans of Diet Caffeine-Free Sprite? Can anyone tell me what the incentive is for this drink over water? The bubbles? On a side note, you should see Jerry Lewis's diva list when he does a charity event. Saw one when a relative worked security at Paul Newman's camp for kids. Big-screen televisions that he can take with him when he leaves, coolers full of bottled water, fancy shampoos and skin lotions.... Fuggin unbelievable.

My first thought was that he was playing around with his three daughters. All the headlines go to Catholic priests and the altar boys. The abuse of young girls is the church's (and I mean this in a non-centralized, non-denominational way) dirty little secret, b/c so few come forward.

Patience, grasshopper. Still a long way to go in the offseason.

I don't know how much of it is the feeling of "entitlement" to a job, as much as it's protesting those companies who hire and fire on a continual basis so they can escape having to pay health insurance, retirement, etc. Here in the States, we belittle anyone who doesn't start saving for retirement at age 20 b/c they will be woefully behind and never catch up if they start just 5 years later. You can easily dismiss this as 'lazy youth' but I doubt the French are any lazier at their jobs than we are (spoken from someone who humps 200-lb stones around 10 hours a day in wall-building season). Sure, you say, a kid who works hard doesn't have much to worry about b/c they'll prove their worth and they won't be fired... but that's not necessarily the case. Companies don't really care about turnover nowadays; it's the norm, and if they can save a few bucks, they won't bat an eyelash. This smacks of age-ism, and if one lived there and heard the whole story rather than 5 paragraphs, you might have a different take when you read the tax codes and get into the nitty-gritty. And then there's the sidealong argument -- Why they don't pass a law that says anyone 50 or older can be fired w/ no reason given? You know, b/c people slow down, become less valuable as their skills decline, get costly diseases....

As the creator of this thread, I would have to ask for this stuff to piffle, take it to PMs or whatever. This is for discussion of the episode, not the viewers thereof. Thanks.

I don't know if calling them 'evil' is really warranted. Charlie had his moments of weirdness, but then again Claire had the baby baptized; might just be a thing where Claire wants it to sink in that he is not the father and he won't be raising Aaron, which Locke took to an extreme. As for how Sayid was acting toward A-L, I would say that's par for the course for someone who shot Shannon. How he's reacting to the Henry Gale situation, he doesn't take the security of the camp as a light matter. That too. And by what he said in that last scene, it was too well thought out for him to just be making up a possible scenario. Nevermind that, Why would someone under suspision say something like that? No doubt in my mind that he's an Other, but if on the off chance he isn't, that was a stupid thing for him to say to people he wants to believe/release him.