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Though in truth, that was something of a career Oscar, imo. Stagecoach that made him a star, Red River, and the Searchers are his best westerns, the last probably his best performance.

Didn't realize your avatar was a self-portrait. Mrs. is keeping it together well.

That is your prerogative. I am far from an enthusiast for popular culture, nor have I probably watched an award show in twenty years or more. Nonetheless, there is still good work and talented artists out there. The Hailee person is genuinely talented. If you like Westerns (I do), at least seek out the True Grit remake.

I'd get you to put some of my favorites in time out first . . .

I'm a John Wayne fan, but you're missing out. The remake with Jeff Bridges is a superior film, better dialogue, one of the best modern westerns. Pitch perfect is not about baseball, but competitive acapella singing. I suppose you are pretending at being this removed from popular culture. I am a virtual hermit, do not have a Facebook page or Twitter account, yet somehow know these things.

As soon as this thread hits twenty pages, merge with the old thread to get to 300. It will seal the deal.

There's a thread on the Sabres' forum discussing it big time Buffalo sports' fan. Folks who say they are leaving for good never leave . . .

She's lovely, and perhaps a caring, intelligent person who is fun to be around and capable of sustained conversation. All that is part of what makes a person genuinely beautiful, but saying all that is ponderous to folks who judge quickly by a less complex criteria.

You're painting with a very broad brush. Do you assume every actress is a shallow narcissist or that they all want to live the Hollywood lifestyle, because that is manifestly untrue.

The opportunity is there, so I hope it happens. Guess we'll see.

If Beane is playing it straight with his rhetoric, I think he overvalues Davis. He should definitely go get Hopkins if he can do it.

You seem to enjoy linking him to other teams. I'll imagine him in Buffalo where he would make a dangerous offense nearly impossible to defend.

She was in the remake of True Grit (2010). It's a really good western and she can act.

There's a locked on podcast by Joe Marino where he talks about Davis and WR3 a fair bit. Of course, maybe he's wrong in his assessment. I take it the position is largely the long ball routes Davis does well with minus the short and mid-range routes that WR2 also incorporates.

Davis becomes WR#3 where he will excel.

And it's a dirty, little whiny tricycle at that.

Diggs, Hopkins, Davis as your #3 which is where he would excel, Kincaid as big slot, Knox, and decent depth from Shakir and the FA signings. Add in a more diverse RB room. It would be formidable.

It's not. It's a stealth move to fool the Chiefs and others who are monitoring our thread to see if it gets to 300. Once this thread hits 20 pages, it will suddenly merge with the existing thread and Hopkins will be ours before any nefarious enemies can do anything about it.

Ok, so basically he's pretending to be a Carolina Panther. I don't know what more the fella can do to get McD's attention.

There are differing accounts for the origin. Historians and linguists do not appear to agree. Since ideology enters into academic pursuits, it is difficult to discover a supposedly neutral account (which is something of an Enlightenment myth regardless.) It just does not make convincing sense that any group would name themselves after a term that would be universally held to be grotesque or negative. No one names their team the stooges, the liars, or the imbeciles. I suppose one could surmise that a bloody practice might denote fierceness and this would be flattering to a football team. Richard Noggin is a rather clever articulation of a pejorative term, so I personally don't mind the satire of his avatar picture. I believe Christ is the ultimate truth of the universe. That is either true or false. No degree of ideological conflict or differing epistemological approaches or radically incongruous metaphysical presuppositions will alter fundamental reality. It is only in the modern/postmodern ethos that folks think, largely following the logic of scientism that itself presupposes the truth of a particular epistemological and metaphysical account, that reality is malleable and open to creative "will-to-power." As I find that particular combination of rationalist nihilism incoherent and culturally ignorant, I am mostly dismissive of its claims, but it does a lot of damage to souls and corrodes what remains of the limited organic cohesion Western society has left. Of course, advocates celebrate the destruction of civilization as liberation and Enlightenment. Our technological sophistication allows, temporarily, at least, for the convergence of barbarism and advanced technology. My view is that you can only spurn nature so long before it ultimately catches up to you.

The assessment on the nature of his coaching tenure is fair. You could say the latter prognostication is true insofar as the AFC appears to be a monster conference with the bulk of franchise qbs, but I don't really concede that "this group of Bills" is automatically in a tougher position. The notion that we are not also improving or that we peaked, etc. is lazy thinking. Some much needed talent infusion along the IOL, adding Kincaid and revamping the Wr and Rb rooms, along with Dorsey in his second year at OC should contribute to a more powerful and less predictable offense that was statistically already one of the top teams. Theoretically, we might emerge as a more dangerous team to play, so that it is now harder, not easier for other AFC teams as well.

Can he play RT?

Your response is rhetorical and contemptuous. There is an anthropological phenomena across cultures involving the ritual use of red earth/pigment. It has nothing to do with skin color. Indigenous peoples used "war paint" because they anticipated the possibility of death in battle and the red coloration was understood across various ancient cultures as associated with passage to the next realm. It's actually interesting, but regardless, I wrote later in the thread that because the issue is contentious and many folk find it offensive, they ought to stick with Washington Football Team.

I'm not going to rehash the complexities of an historical argument on this issue. For those who are offended by it, there's no information that would persuade them it is inoffensive or not intended to be in any event. Too bad they couldn't reinstate the logo and use the Washington Football Team designation.