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If Lincoln is the most influential American, then John Wilkes Booth should definitely be in the Top 100. The guy who killed the most influential American is definitely pretty influential himself. Not to mention how much different post-Civil War USA was under Johnson than it would have been under Lincoln.

Everyone is mad at Ben Affleck. I'm still pissed off about that Pearl Harbor movie.

That's weird. Prior to yesterday's game I was thinking maybe WR or OL in the 1st round but now I'm thinking DT or LB because the team is so terrible against the run.

LOL The only way for TD to not be responsible for that many starters is if he added no good players and kept everyone here from before he showed up or if Marv Levy emptied out the entire roster to make room for new people in his first offseason.

Americans are too capitalistic and only talk about money at the dinner table? What? Two main problems with Gwyneth: 1. She just put down 300 million Americans to score points abroad. 2. She has no idea what she's talking about. Gwyneth Paltrow has about as much in common with the average American as that African kid Madonna just adopted. The additional problem with Gwyneth Paltrow is that she completely sucks. She starred in Shallow Hal and was the head in the box in Seven. There's plenty of stuff to bash America for but if you're in this for the long haul (like we are) then it's basically the same as laughing at yourself. Yeah, I can laugh at all the retarded parts of American culture but I'm not doing that to appear intellectual.

The obvious difference is that she's saying Americans are dumber than the people in the country that she's currently pretending that she's from. Americans can be pretty dumb but no worse than the morons all around the rest of the world. And it's pretty trashy for a rich, spoiled American to go abroad and trash her country. For every problem I have with this country, I wouldn't go to other countries and bash it. Would you? It's called class and the poor little rich girl doesn't have any.

I gave up on Family Guy about halfway through its first season back after being cancelled. It's not as funny as it used to be. Even the reruns don't have that much value. By comparison, classic Simpsons and South Park episodes never get old. Speaking of the Simpsons, I gave up on that show about 5 years ago. Every now and then I catch one of the newer ones and I'm pretty sure I haven't missed anything.

Link Yeah, I'm sure talking about money is boring to the girl who grew up with rich parents and got her career because Steven Spielberg is a "family friend." Says the woman who named her kid "Apple." I guess even if Gwyneth has to live with the shame of being born in America, she can always be proud of her awesome movie career and all those great movies she was in like......uh....hmmm....I guess maybe her five minutes of screentime in Seven?

Then the doctor could give you some penicillin.

How many people can say they attended AA before they could drink legally? Even people in Buffalo aren't that hardcore.

Not according to Michael Irvin.

"Hole in the Earth" is a great song. I liked a few of the others (though "Pink Cellphone" brought the whole record to a screeching halt). Totally agree about #1-3. Collinsworth needs to just shut the hell up. I remember during the summer when NBC was running promos for their Sunday Night Football and his big line was "This is going to be the greatest NFL season ever," which he apparently based on absolutely nothing (because how the hell would you know that in July??). Deion Sanders seems to think being clever and wearing an orange suit are the same thing. Listening to Irvin talk makes me think he never stopped taking drugs. And what was he doing at the TO press conference a couple months back? I like Madden alright. He's a goofy old dude and I really don't care if he never says anything I need to hear.

That would mean a lot more to me if you hadn't crashed and burned the last time you tried to understand what I was saying.

Note to Tennyboy: Get off the tracks when the train (AKA Lori) is coming through.

Here is exactly what I said: I have no idea where you got the idea that I "seemed sure" about everything O'Reilly said. Is it really that !@#$ing hard to read the things I write and understand that I mean exactly what I write? The words are right there on the screen in front of you. You can even read them over twice before you respond if that helps. I know Olbermann is making a name for himself by responding to the things people don't say but that's also why he's a complete retard. Don't emulate him.

"Madden 08" should be called "Madden 07" because it's not like they really change anything from year to year.

I managed to catch most of the interview. I thought JP sounded good, although the emailers made fun of his laugh afterwards (which is probably the best thing to have made fun of when you're a pro athlete). The most interesting thing he said was how much more confident he (and the team) gets during the week while they are preparing for their opponent. He made it sound like every team looks tough when you first look at the film but by Sunday they understand what they have to do to win. I thought it was candid (that he would admit how daunting each team can look) but also a testament to how good this coaching staff is that the players can have a plan in place to beat each team. That definitely looked like the case against Indy and we almost pulled it off.

Stupidity. I never said I knew about "everything they say" but if I'm able to comment on everything they say just by watching a few minutes here and there, that means they're pretty repetitive in addition to everything else wrong with them. Also it would be pretty bad if I said how much I disliked both without ever having watched them.

"I had a clue so big I almost shot clue goo all over Joe."

Unless they're completely clueless, they'd know that praying loudly on board on airplane is going to freak out everyone else on board the plane. They were definitely looking for trouble. Maybe worse. They can take their "pray in" and shove it up their ass.

Our receiver situation after Evans is pretty bad (we'll see if that changes with Reed coming back). It'd be nice if Price or Parrish got open before the last two minutes of the game. You're right that we need a TE even worse but finding another WR to compliment Lee Evans has to be another priority.

You drool over O'Reilly? I know you're new here but most of us tend to drool over Lana (over on the Off the Wall part of the board).

No, I'm not a fan of O'Reilly (I'm not even sure how you drew that conclusion) or Olbermann. I tend to check in on either one of them when I'm watching something else from 8-9pm and it goes to commercial. I probably see 5-10 minutes of each show a couple times a week. I check out Olbermann for the same reason I occasionally check out prisonplanet.com. Because it's funny.

Link Finally a special edition everyone can appreciate.

Not once during this whole thing did I see O'Reilly ever say anything positive about the OJ thing, but it wouldn't surprise me if Olbermann found one sentence to take out of context to demonstrate that. That's pretty much his policy regarding every "special comment." That's like official Countdown policy. Same reason Dana Millbank is on the show every night for some reason. Obviously you haven't been watching or else you'd know how important these guys are. O'Reilly wants you to wear "Factor Gear" to the mall and Olbermann needs to zoom the camera in close to his face at least once a week to deliver a 5-minute "special comment" to his followers. Friggin' Moses made less of a big deal about what he had to say when he came down with the Ten Commandments than Olbermann does every time he comes up with 5-10 melodramatic minutes of crazy talk.