UConn James

The Return of the Friggin' Lonnie. Someone call Peter Jackson!

<lotus position> Haaaoooouuuuuummmm. Haaaoooouuuuuummmm.

I'd wager that OBD is, after they see this and have wallet cramps, figuring that they can get by w/ what's on the roster, by signing a mid-level FA and drafting an interior OL in the 3rd. Sadly, it's doubtful Nugent is even a speck on the radar at this point.

Wow. Karnak the Magnificent predicts TD selects a CB in round 2.... That is just too much and Nate will want more.

I certainly don't blame him for taking the cash (The 49ers version of 'A fool and his money are soon parted'). But "class" means shutting your pie hole and biding your time when you've made a commitment, and then being gracious that someone gave you hundreds of thousands of dollars to play football straight out of college. So far, he hasn't really run off his mouth about how much the Bills are sucky losers, but I give him until tomorrow's first bulldog edition of the SF Chronicle. Figures he'd go to SF, too. Did anyone read his parting words in the News? "I'm going to let my star shine somewhere else"? Who, outside of Broadway, talks that way? Not that there's anything wrong with that. Have a nice life, Jonas.

I think steve forgot to hit the <sarcasm> button. Jonas has never been classy, unless you call salivating and saying "I'd LOOOOOOVE to play for the Atlanta Falcons" while he's still under contract w/ the Bills for another two years a classy move.

To quote K-K-K-Ken in "a Fish Called Wanda": "Good!"

*AHEM* To say anything in this thread would really be like gloating....

One of the things that made the scene b/w him and Danielle so good. There was a load lifted when he realized he wasn't crazy. I think D. probably felt much the same way. "She said to say 'Hey.'" If you've noted, Hurley gets really defensive whenever Charlie or Jack have said things, even jokingly, questioning his sanity. Tgreg, it's all but certain Hurley was a patient for those reasons and that the receptionist was trying to get him out of there, he didn't know what Leonard's last name was means he wasn't holding the charts, if you know what I mean. It likely had something to do w/ an angry outburst like w/ Danielle. Noticed it a couple of weeks ago, anyone notice that Charlie's decorative bandages on his knuckles reads EVIL? What was the wire doing on the beach, looked like it went into the ocean. And then it apparently went down into the ground when they got to the bridge. Was it for the radio tower? The T-Rex idea? I don't know, but I wouldn't rule it out. One of the writers had an interview where he offered jokingly (or not?), "Maybe it's a Loch Ness kind of thing." And just generally b/c I don't want to do anything that may be deemed a spoiler, he said there wasn't going to be things that are WAY far out like time travel, etc. but they do play around w/ the science milieu. And for those who think there's a multiple-season "bible" for the show, that's wrong. There's general ideas of what the storylines in seasons 2, 3 or beyond, but nothing is set in stone.

And keep your pee-pee out of cha-chas unless it's desired there by someone who is at least the age of majority.

Maybe an escape route. You have to get around quick on the island, so the carnivorous giraffe doesn't getcha. But that would imply that the big monster, assuming it's not a polar bear b/c that would be so anti-climactic, was already there before Danielle. Bermuda Triangle/The Lost World? For those w/ Tivo, what book was Sawyer reading?

Well, getting back to brass tacks, how in the heckfire could the bridge support Hurley and not Charlie? That's one that boggles the mind, unless it took a while for a rope to become totally unfrayed. Then, who built the bridge? Looked a lot older than 16 years for Danielle's party to have put up. That combined w/ the existing signal that sidetracked the expedition, this island has likely seen several crashes. Bermuda Triangle, the Pacific version?

When my uncle had one and nothing was found, the doctor gave him a certificate saying that he was a 'Perfect A**hole.'

Well, I do understand and concede his point. And everyone should have the opportunity to read and discuss the show w/o big spoilers being revealed. It's a courtesy thing that is crucial. It's just that in mixing the discussion w/ convention, some ideas get tossed around that others mistake as obvious, premeditated spoilers. They're not, and I don't know how sensitive Steve is about not knowing anything before it is actually on the pixels. But if you're talking about a show, at least be prepared to discuss convention.

Point taken that this isn't a show that follows all the conventions of TV, but they don't throw all of the conventions out. A birthing episode is a ratings-grabber. The writers knew this when they were writing it all before the show became the biggest thing since Marlon Brando's jowls. Obviously, I've obviously been obviously listening to Drew "Obvious" Bledsoe for too obviously long an obvious time. There's a few spoliers I've heard and I haven't and won't post them here. The baby and the lotto one weren't that big a deal. Fuggin TV Guide tells you more. Really, it does. (I doubt it's a polar bear that got the pilot.)

Sorry. Actually, a baby birthing in the season finale is so common an occurance (e.g. Friends, twice; ER, however many seasons it's been on b/c it's every year; need I go on?) it's laughable that anyone might think of it as a spoiler, esp. w/ Claire being 8 mos. preggers and there being not many eps left in the season. It's not hard math. They showed Hurley on the TV getting into a new car. A few positions down in the Telephone Game and voila, you have "Maybe he won the lotto?" That's the risk you run when you read a thread. I'll be conscious about labeling obvious spoilers.

That's a question I asked kind of rhetorically, b/c from what was said, I really couldn't make any judgment on how Hurley knew this guy, Leonard, either as a fellow patient or as a ward attendant.... Just before the numbers come up, he had on a chicken joint uniform, tho, and was telling his mum that he knew that everyone was down/ragging on him. At this point, I'd say he was a patient, but I would guess not very long and not a very severe thing. Maybe anger management issues? see: his blowup to Danielle and bottling things up as mentioned before.

Right on! I wouldn't be overly surprised for this to be a quiet FA period at OBD, relatively speaking, and then addressing some of needs w/ current backups and in the draft. Yaknow, I don't know if an extension gets done for him in this offseason. It seems like a lot of teams (Deadskins, Rayhhdahs) just sign guys and don't worry about it b/c they bank that the cap will go up by $7-8M each year. So far it generally has. Maybe this is what TD has in mind. Or he logically doesn't want to pony up that much green (did I just mix a metaphor? ) for one player and will let him walk or do another PP-type deal.

I'll repeat it. That was a great scene. Saw a lot of who Hurley is. The guy who holds it all in --- internalizes things (and the weight thing as a physical manifestation of this) --- and he finally just goes all "I WANT ANSWERS!" to a crazy lady w/ a rifle to his head. And then the, "Dude, I'm spry!" What was the signif. of the strung-up boar that he passes when he's following the wire? It seems there won't be a new ep until 13 April.

The draft is deep in RBs (about the only position where it is). I'd rather get one who isn't carrying 60 pounds of baggage onto the field, and already beyond the NFL shelf life of the average RB. Bettis was one of the few exceptions I would've made. As a backup.

Yup. It's come up quite a few times, e.g. on the toy airplane in the safe deposit box. Anyone catch that Hurley owned a cardboard box company that burned down? Wasn't it Locke who worked at a place that made... bum-bum-BUM(!) cardboard boxes? (Or was it Michael, I forget). These people are all interlinked. It's like that math thing where you have to draw a line to all of the vertecies. BTW, anyone catch the ref to Hurley as being mistaken for a drug dealer? Jorge played one in Curb Your Enthusiasm for a bit. Lots of in-jokes on the show....

Perhaps the filter needs some refining.

"Lighten up, Francis." You're quite high-strung, man. And you really need to stop getting so worked up over a game where 6th round picks have claimed 3 of the last 6 Super Bowl MVPs.

4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. '815' is in there....

Hurley's backstory was everything I thought it'd be. So, apparently it is these numbers that are causing everything to go bad. At first I thought it was Danielle who had broadcast the numbers that the listening post guys heard. It was there all along, tho, and imprinted on the plane that's buried. (I actually know what's in there, but I won't give it away). So, everyone who's connected with those numbers is lucky themselves but bad things happen to everyone around them, and it causes insanity in those who profit from them. Question --- how was Hurley in the mental institution that he knew this Leo(?) guy? A patient? Guard? Sigh. I still have no clue what this all is.... That was a really awesome scene w/ Hurley and Danielle.... Did anyone catch what the numbers are? Does 815 figure in there? Locke, Mr. Nice Guy. Nice touch, and Claire is at "almost nine months," so that question that arose here why she's still preggers awhile back is explained. She has the baby in the season finale, as if that's a big surprise to anyone. (And for being 8 mos. pregnant, Claire's got a pretty tight arse ). Anybody flashing on "Sphere," if you saw it?