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I'm going to print this thread and keep a copy in my pedofile cabinet.

Many people DO have a problem with fertility clinics and I think many more would if they had any awareness of what actually happens there.

A blastocyst comes from a fertilized egg, so if you believe that life begins at conception it's consistent to be opposed to using them. The argument that "they're just going to be discarded anyway" doesn't hold any water because people opposed to such research should also be opposed to fertility clinics that necessarily create fertilized embryos that will need to be discarded at some point.

The funniest part is that the producer, Don Murphy, has a career that can best be described as "embarassing." Natural Born Killers and the crappy Transformers movie where they painted flames on Optimus Prime and gave Megatron a spikey body for some reason. He's talking smack about Patricia Heaton's career being "nothing at the time" but his career is still basically nothing. Jim Caveziel is actually a really good actor who isn't in that much stuff. Does anyone really think the best actors are the ones who are in the most movies?

Yes, that's pretty legendary in all the background stuff about BN, although the story has pretty much nothing to do with Adam Lazzara. Back when all that happened John Nolan was the lead guitar and brains behind TBS, as well as the best friend of Brand New's lead singer, Jesse Lacey. Unfortunately, Nolan decided to screw around with Lacey's girlfriend and "Seventy Times 7" was written as a big FU from Lacey to Nolan. "There's No I in Team" was written as an "Oh yeah, well FU right back" from Nolan to Lacey. At some point they made up and even performed the second song together (it's on YouTube somewhere). Then not long after that, Nolan left TBS because Lazzara was dating and cheating on his sister, Michele Nolan (who also appeared on the first TBS album). So John Nolan and Michele Nolan and the original TBS bass player all left to form the band Straylight Run. TBS looked like it was dead in the water without Nolan to write the lyrics but they found two new guys, Fred and Matt, and are probably better than they ever were. Way back in the day, before any of these bands had albums, Jesse Lacey also played bass for TBS. So, in a way, Taking Back Sunday spawned lead singers for three different bands: Taking Back Sunday, Brand New, and Straylight Run, of which BN is the best. All this crap happened before I owned any of these albums.

Even if it is! "A 25 year old Cheektowaga man died yesterday after accidentally locking himself in a basement freezer while trying to organize his frozen pierogies." I'd be really disappointed if you guys didn't laugh at that. What a great way to complete the Paul and Kelly trilogy.

It was hilarious. I don't know about the Crocodile Hunter, but when I die, I hope a couple million people get a funny joke out of it. I really can't imagine anyone dying and, in the afterlife, them hoping everyone they know stays in a constant state of mourning over them. BTW, that was maybe the best South Park this season. Butters dropping an N bomb. Satan's Ferrari cake. The Catholic priests and their "pets". The Three Serial-Killer Stooges. The Crow.

Hell yeah! November 21st can't come soon enough. The new Brand New single, Sowing Season, is here. I put the other ones I like in red. I saw Weird Al live when I was a kid. I also like Jay-Z and Ludacris (or as I call him "Luda"). Country music mostly sucks but I like Sara Evans and Miranda Lambert (and Hank Williams Jr. who I also saw in concert at Darien Lake when I was younger). And for the hell of it, the song "Take Control" by Bobby Brown (yes, from the Ghostbusters II soundtrack) is one of the greatest songs ever, along with "If it isn't love" by New Edition. Oh, and Mandy Moore too. She has a voice like an angel.

Well if you can't define them, don't group them with a bunch of bands they don't have very much in common with. Then it bugs me when people try to give them their own definition but it's still "emo-based" (like "screamo" or "emo-core"). I don't understand why everyone clings to "emo" like every current band in the world has to in some way be "emo". It's the same crap that happened to the Deftones 6-7 years ago. People said the Deftones are kinda like Korn who is kinda like Limp Bizkit so they're all "rap-rock". Emo is Saves the Day's "Stay What You Are" album. TBS is more like a party band with their last two albums. No emo band would ever write songs like "Spin" and "Error: Operator". EDIT: By the way, if anyone cares (or is still reading this thread besides the 5 of us still posting in it) the entire new Deftones album is available to listen to on their myspace page (myspace.com/deftones). "Hole in the Earth" is an awesome song.

Between that giant arch, the new bridge to Canada, the Adelphia tower, and now this tower, we're well on our way to a pretty awesome make-believe city.

Marv didn't build this team. Marv inherited the team and ran their draft this past April. Marv Levy hasn't even had a full year to do whatever he's planning to do. I really don't see how anyone can blame him for things.

Why not? They're not emo and I basically have no regard for journalists, most of whom seem either lazy or imcompetent or both. "Emo" is the overused term of the moment. Even you can't define it, and when you do define it it's either too vague to mean anything or the definition doesn't fit Taking Back Sunday.

She's much better looking in the actual show. The slutty and airbrushed look doesn't do her any favors.

If you had a link for that, you would've already posted it. Instead, you've posted a few vague, broad definitions of "emo" that manage to encompass every type of music in the world.

Ah yes, the wonderful tradition of demanding that people hire you and doing anything you can to hurt your city/county/region if they don't.

This is going to look great right next to those sketches of the new bridge to Canada!

Thanks for providing two more quotes from people who don't know what they're talking about. And when is the last time anyone looked to MTV as an authority on music? They're an authority on reality shows starring 16 year olds but probably not music....

Does anyone know if he has "IT"?

I don't remember reading anyone posting that they even knew who Whitner was before we drafted him. The only disappointment I felt on draft day was that we weren't able to trade down (i.e. find someone else who wanted to trade up to get Leinart), and even that disappointment did not last long when I examined our draft as a whole. BTW, Losman is NOT what is wrong with the Bills.

That's a funny way to put it. But (and this is another topic) I still don't think Jessica Simpson has ever had a hit song. I think her record company just annointed her "music star" one day without consulting the entire rest of the world.

I wish he'd just drive the Sentra off a bridge. Those commercials aren't funny. And whoever came up with Chevy's "This is our country" commercials needs to be put in jail. You have images of Martin Luther King and then you have hippies, wildfires, and Katrina. Boy, thanks for making me feel great about the country. The other version has this lame populist vibe where they show a bunch of guys in hard hats and the screen reads "This is our focus group." Gimme a friggin break. Instead of trying to convince me that "Chevy = America" maybe they should do a commercial that might help me think that Chevy cars have even 25% of the quality of Honda, Toyota, or any other company currently kicking their ass.

Yes, God forbid we judge bands based on quality instead of popularity. By that standard, NSync may be the greatest musical act of all time. Green Day was a bunch of has-beens about 5 years ago before they decided crank up the anti-American crap (which is something a lot of desperate celebrities do). They even released a greatest hits CD, which is not something bands in their prime generally do. And I'll take both Killers albums over everything Green Day has ever done.

The Killers are about 100x better than Green Day, and that's a conservative estimate. The lyrics to every Green Day song sound like they were written by a 14 year old ("here comes the rain again, falling from the stars"?? That's friggin embarassing.) Meanwhile, "Mr. Brightside" and "When You Were Young" are two of the best songs of the past few years. And he didn't wait until they'd "made it" to say this. They "made it" with their first album. He waited until their second album was out.

Really? You're sure you don't want to buy one? Or maybe five or six? The Sabres Store had a bunch of them yesterday when I was there. I didn't see anyone buying one but I did hear another person (besides me) ask when the throwbacks would be in. If you want ANY jersey with a name on it, you have to special order it. Wow, with November a week away, I think it's pretty safe to say this has been a really smooth transition into the new uniforms. So not only did Larry Quinn sell out the team's identity to the tards at Reebok, the whole process was butchered so badly that they don't even have merchandise to sell.

Tell All Your Friends was TBS's first album and the only time they were even close to emo. And even then it was barely there. None of their songs had that "I'm so heart broken, I can't possibly go on" emo vibe. The songs were angry and some were about girls but that's pretty much what ever guy starts writing songs about. After that album, John Nolan left the band and any emo influence vanished. Their last two albums have been much better. How can TBS possibly be an "emo" band if most of their albums are NOT emo and their only emo-ish album was years ago before the band ditched two key members? You think I sound like a 15 year old? You're the genius that just tried to define emo as music "about sound and emotion." Perhaps you should go hang out with some more 15 year olds so that you can sound smart by comparison.