DrW

I thought the same, but then the comparison is pretty unfair. If you start at or close to the top, your slope will always be zero or negative. You can only have a large positive slope if you start at the bottom (what applies to Detroit).

Excuse my ignorance, but what please is "the slope of success"?

Hindsight is 20/20.

Unfortunately. when you have one pick close to the end of the first round, you are not allowed to draft two players, and WR was arguably the biggest position of need.

Another amusing sing-along...

Australia's arguably most famous hard rock band, Cold Chisel, with their attempt at reggae - and it works.

An early psychedelic masterpiece by "The United States of America". What was remarkable was the omission of guitars. Their place was taken by very primitive and not easy to play synthesizers ("ring modulators"). From the review in "Pitchfork": If USA had an anthem, it was "The American Metaphysical Circus". The track opens with a pleasantly disorienting hodgepodge of sampled John Philip Souza marches and Byrd's faithful kiddie-baiting Ringling Bros. calliope melodies before chanteuse Dorothy Moskowitz arrives with her herbal tea-watered croon, carefully enunciating like a three-nights-of-sleep-deprived mother's lullaby. Meanwhile, electric violinist/ring modulator foreman Gordon Marron emits aurora borealis streaks of police siren wails and bassist Rand Forbes keeps the music resting its head on a bar table all night long.

Funk and Jeff Beck - an intriguing combination

I was standing by the Nile When I saw the lady smile I would take her out for a while For a while Oh, my tears wept like a child How her golden hair was blowing wild Then she spread her wings to fly For to fly

Well, I just finished grading 63 biochemistry exams (verbal answers, not multiple choice), and I needed something to cheer me up. The unedited version of your post did just that. Thanks again!

As far as Freudian slips go, this one is easily top 100.

Ooh Ooh Those creatures jumped the barricades And have headed for the sea She began to breathe To breathe at the thought of such freedom Stood and whispered to her child, "belong" She held the child and whispered With calm, calm, "belong"

I still have the 2010 Odyssey and I love it. However, the coolest 3rd row seats in cars I ever owned was in full-size station wagons (Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser, Pontiac Safari) where the passengers were facing the back (probably not the safest).

Actually, the pic shows the German "parent" of the Le Mans, the Opel Kadett E. However, the German version was too expensive; thus, GM had the Le Mans built by Daewoo in South Korea.

And I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari Tehachapi to Tonopah Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed And if you give me; weed, whites, and wine And you show me a sign I'll be willin' to be movin'

A new clip by "A Place To Bury Strangers", the "loudest 3-person band in NYC" (and a very cool band name). The mastermind behind APTBS is Oliver Ackermann, whose company "Death by Audio" is designing guitar-effect pedals. For me, the musician who holds everything together is Sandra Fedowitz, the girl on drums.

To celebrate the re-opening of Notre Dame in Paris... Roxy Music "A Song For Europe" (lyrics) Down by the Seine, Notre Dame Casts a Long, Lonely Shadow...

Canned Heat's "Christmas Album"

And here is the masterpiece: Japanese all-female Shonen Knife with "Sweet Christmas" Well, I just discovered that Shonen Knife had another Christmas song, "Space Christmas". I like the idea to have bison pull Santa's sleigh.

Chuck Berry essentially had one - very successful - guitar riff. He just had to exchange the lyrics for each song. Run Rudolph Run is the Christmas version. And here is Lynyrd Skynyrd's version...

Does humor belong in music? - Classical edition

Canned Heat "Christmas Blues", with Dr. John on piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PouMzBdB-Ts (Youtube does not allow embedding of this video)

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For me, it is the "local" team. When I came to the States to Rochester, it was Syracuse. Then we moved to Lubbock because my wife and I both got positions at Texas Tech, and at that time the Red Raiders were intriguing (Mike Leach) and became my favorite team. When the kids went off to college, things got a bit more difficult as they both chose UT Austin. Our son even played in the Longhorn band for 4+ years. Since then, my loyalty is split between TTU and Texas. And then there is a team that I cannot watch: Boise State - the blue turf makes me seasick. Fortunately, it seems that no other program followed suit; otherwise, we would have red, pink, purple or yellow fields.

For me, it is not "lost interest", I always disliked - Sports where the results depend on judging (ice skating, gymnastics, equestrian dressage, and all the new X games stuff) - Why are there four different styles of swimming? - Why are there so many different distances in track running? On the other hand, I like sports where you need some versatility (biathlon, triathlon, hepta/decathlon, olympic pentathlon - although the last loses some appeal with the removal of the equestrian part). I could even come up with a few new combination sports: - King/queen of the runners: each athlete does a 60 m sprint, 400 m hurdles, 3000 m steeplechase (or cross-country), and a marathon. - King/queen of the ice track: you have to combine runs in luge, skeleton, and bobsleigh. - Sailor king/queen: First, you let them sail their high-tech, heavily computerized catamarans. In the second round, the skippers have to compete in a $5,000 Optimist dinghy.