Cripes
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The funniest thing Andy Dick ever did recently was when he big-timed the director/ star of "My Date with Drew." He initially said he would help him meet Drew Barrymore, but then changed his mind on doing a cameo because he didn't want to overexpose himself.
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My worst professional job was as a copy editor for a small Central Texas paper. I was earning $6.50 an hour and getting reamed out daily by a 300-pound, insecure managing editor we staffers dubbed (pre-austin powers, mind you) "fat bastard." If he didn't yell at you by the end of the day, you could count on getting a call the next morning before your shift began so he could make up for lost gripe time.
In one instance, he called me into his cubicle to discuss a parade photo I had laid out for that morning's paper -- a group of Clydesdales I described in the caption, "Ready to Trot." I thought he was going to ream me out for the banal headline, but that wasn't it:
"[CRIPES] -- CLYDESDALES DON'T FU**ING TROT!"
We spent the next half hour arguing about how you classify the gait of a 2,000-pound horse with frying-pan sized feet.
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There's no argument to absolutely prove Florida does or doesn't deserve it.
But I think it's fair to say the conference title requirement is a good minimum standard. Yeah, it may not be fair that a great conference can't get a wild card, but it's the closest thing we have to on-field merit. If you're not the best team in your group of 10 or 12 regional counterparts, then you can't be the best in the whole country. It doesn't matter if you're No.2 or No.3 or No.4 -- Michigan can't be No.1, unless you want to argue now that what we saw in November was moot.
If somebody wants to make Michigan's case because of strength of schedule or quality wins, then they need to argue to return to the rock-paper-scissor formula that handed OU a free pass in 2003.
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She porked anything with a pulse for 10 years in Van Nuys, and NOW her insurance company is worried about her health?
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No arm sling...no hazy concussive stare...yep, that's Losman.
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I've gone to the financial district on business a few times since 2004, without much time to sightsee, so my experience is limited...WTC site, Battery Park, Staten Ferry, Brooklyn Bridge.
My wife took one of the boat tours from the Fulton Street area and enjoyed it. It was under $20 (October 2005), and I think it took her to the Statue, Ellis and Governor's Island.
Going up town, Times Square is just a big well-lit mall these days. Go to the Empire State Building to say you've been there, and so you don't have to go again (too long a wait, too crowded).
If somebody recommends a restaurant, make sure it's still open. My boss recommended her favorite East Village hole, The Miracle Grille (you can see it in "My Date with Drew"), but we found it it was shut down by the time we got there. Lot of skyrocketing rents are driving out some familiar sites (i.e., CBGB's).
At least you're coming and going on Jet Blue.
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Maybe if they'd given her a stripper pole, she might have been able to concentrate?
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"Don't Stop me Now" by Queen. I've become a lot less guilty about it since it was the focal point of a major fight scene in Shawn of the Dead.
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"Shipoopi" was the type of number that was typically stuck into big musicals for the sake of having a big, full-cast song and dance number, regardless of whether it meant anything to the plot. You can find them in many of the older musicals (like Carousel's "This Was A Real Nice Clambake" or Brigadoon's "I'll Go Home With Mary Jean"). I have no idea why I know this.
Songs like that are the reason people joke these days with the whole "I think I feel a song coming on." In fact, what made it so funny in the "Family Guy" skit is that that is exactly what they were going for by having him break into song, and it was pretty damn funny.
I could never make it through Act 2 of the Music Man because of the Shipoopi break. Act 1 is hilarious as hell, but thanks to Buddy, I can never stick around long enough to see if Robert Preston ever learns his lesson enough to tap that Mrs. Partridge.
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Oh, they did more than that. They also massacred passersby.
I guess I was thinking more about the term influence. I think of them mostly as the winning horse from the Great Apostasy movement , not the source of great ideas that changed the American current.
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Wouldn't it be funny if he's just waiting for Mack Brown to take an NFL job?
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Maybe a few to nitpick over, but none moreso than both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. What influence has the Morman Church really had in changing or shifting the U.S., or Catholic and Protestant theology? If anything, the Morman church has only changed itself over the years to buy mainstream acceptability (whatever happed to the irrefutable divine word of God on the matter of polygamy through the Golden Plates? God had a "do-over" at some point?).
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Jim Tressell didn't vote because of the conflict of interest in choosing his opponent. 'Bout time somebody at Harris Interactive noticed the problem. So, ya think Lloyd Carr with his bitter ass is going to be voting honestly next year when it comes to Florida and OSU?
On another note: Why did Jim Walden (former Iowa State and Washington State coach not listed in Ed's link) vote Florida No.1 over Ohio State? He called the Big Ten a "joke."
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I think this post was made during a brain surgery. Nurse, up the gas -- stat.
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I like that JP Losman was 3 for 3 in the red zone today.
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Was it Tasker's clear explanation of the toe-heel rule as it was eventually followed by the refs?
Was it his comment on the poor Antonio Gates-London Fletcher matchup on a critical third down in the clinching drive?
Was it the "slow-going" comment on Willis McGahee's running lanes?
Or was it that his nipples didn't explode with delight on the mirage onside kick recovery?
Yup, Tasker=Bills hater. Case closed.
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CNET senior editor James Kim has been missing for a week after a Thanksgiving trip north to Portland with his wife and two children, including a newborn daughter. Police are conducting a search and rescue, which means maybe they were caught up in some bad weather. I'm fearing the worst.
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I thought this topic died a month ago...like AllofMP3 soon will be.
Johnny, you seem mighty confident to be throwing those "dimwit" comments around, so maybe you should first brush up on your numerology skills.
You have your logic completely inversed. If the RIAA wants to sue 10,000 people, they would need to file 50 cases each weekday for four years to get everybody. For five million people, if even if they had the capacity to file 100 lawsuits a day, they would be rolling up to the courthouse for each day for the next 961 years.
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Please don't forward him a job application to Big Red Sports Cars, OK, Blue?
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Big (and bad) recruiting news for MSU:
The Spartans have lost a two-year-old commitment from Elite 11 quarterback Keith Nichol from Lowell, Mich. Nichol is instead going to Oklahoma, after a visit to Norman. It seems a very surprising decision, since he had maintained his commitment after John Smith's firing and was recruiting other players to MSU...but opportunity knocks.
Nichol will be enrolling early to take part in spring football.
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I never said most of the things I said. .
- Yogi Berra
Been reading about Iwo Jima
in Off the Wall Archives
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Just thinking out loud here...
I recently picked up the "Flags of our Fathers" book written by James Bradley about his father's role as one of the flag-raisers on Iwo Jima. I'm only halfway through it, but its chilling to read what those boys went through after landing -- grouped on the beach for 20 minutes without a hint of trouble, and suddenly came under assault from 22,000 Japanese furrowed into hidden, underground pillboxes and concrete. Hand to hand combat, inch by inch over eight square miles of "Sulfur Island"'s volcanic ash/sand for 36 days.
Iwo Jima was only possible, of course, after training these Marines to work under conditions of dangerous amphibious assaults -- disembarking to landing craft, jumping onto beaches for cover, etc. By coincidence, last night the military channel had an hour-long show on the strategy of amphibious assaults, highighting both Iwo Jima and MacArthur's Inchon invasion in Korea in 1950. What I didn't know until watching it was that after World War II, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (under Omar Bradley) had officially phased out the strategy of large-scale amphibious assault landings by 1949. What we saw at Normandy and Iwo Jima would never happen again.
What the show didn't do was fully explain (to a non-expert history buff like me) more of why this tactic was permanently shelved. Yeah, we didn't have 300,000 marines anymore, but the show only said the U.S.'s decision came in the context of an "overreaction" to the new realities of atomic warfare. I guess meant that any future Hitler or Hirohito would know that you can't ultimately repel 100,000 to 200,000 Marines coming ashore with nests of machine guns -- so you might as well nuke them.
Because of this change and the lack of men and equipment, MacArthur didn't have the option of a mass landing in South Korea to hurl the North Koreans back...leading him to take a more limited crew into Seoul and the Han Valley to cut off supply routes. (Employing his brilliant multi-phased tactics to coincide with the quick-moving tides of of that peninsula).
For the military history buffs out there: what do you of all think the various reasons for why the mass amphibious assault was officially retired -- and whether that might have been a mistake given what MacArthur was faced with later in Korea. Were there other issues, such as a Navy/Marines split on tactics (the Marines were not happy with the lack of support Navy fliers gave at Iwo Jima)? Why did the Army have no interest in adapting the tactic? Was it just the new paradigm of atomic weapons, where you risked losing hundreds of thousands of men in seconds, or did Iwo Jima just prove that you couldn't pull them off without massive losses anymore? (No doubt aiding in Truman's decision on Hiroshima).
Finally, did the loss of the amphibious warfare option hurt us later in Vietnam? It seems a little farfetched there, since the Pentagon decided early it would never invade N. Vietnamese territory (but instead would bomb it to smithereens). Maybe the Soviets and China wouldn't have stood back if 200,000 men came ashore east of Hanoi in 1965 , but perhaps the threat we COULD have done it might have pressured Ho Chi Minh into an earlier settlement of hostilities? Ho was obviously very brave about throwing away the lives of his loyal Vietcong around Saigon, but if he personally faced the threat of buggin out...who knows.
Like I said, just curious thoughts...