Jon in Pasadena
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Here's the one that's been really chapping my ass lately:
Say you've got a red light at the upcoming intersection, and the stopped traffic is backed up in the #1 and #2 lanes. There's also a (short) left turn lane which is partly or fully empty, but you can't legally get there yet because you'd have to cross the double yellows and drive the wrong way down the opposite side of the highway to get there before the traffic unclogs. I hate it when I'm patiently waiting to get up to where I can legally enter the turn lane but some !@#$s behind me just cross the double yellows and enter the turn lane ahead of me.
But I hate it even more when I'm coming the other way. 
:I starred in Brokeback Mountain: I've almost been in two head-ons due to this in the past 6 months. Friggin window-licking !@#$tards. The last time this happened I yelled at the bastard: "If you hit me I will !@#$ you in your eye!" :I starred in Brokeback Mountain: -
Don't you RIDE a motorcycle and DRIVE a car?
Only if you're the passenger. Or a squid.
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3. Tape lasts a long time- One of the tough things for us fans is our impatience. though we want production now and there is some logic to focusing only on the game in front of you if you want to win, a team's tendencies for the season are being written as we speak. Clements might see a play that might work well against Jax, but will almost certainly work really well against the Raiders (or maybe even the Pats) and it is reasonable for him to not tip our hand that a particular play is in our tool chest or to set-up a play woking well next week or against a more important opponent by showing a scheme now and getting the opponent to defend it in a particular way. This is a dangerous game as opponents schemes and reactions can also change (maybe they kno what we're thinking and fool us in to thinking we know what they are thinking or something like that). Clements simply needs to play the game well of setting up our O for the future but not compromising immediate opportunties to do so. If he held back something that he thought might work on Jax because it might work better in game 16 this was a bad choice as life will obviously change the further in the future you plan and we lost because we did not put up enough points on Jax.
This exact thought occurred to me during and immediately following the Jax game. I suppose it's a constant tightrope walk between using (and showing) your best stuff, and keeping a few things in reserve to be pulled out in desperation time in a crucial situation against your division foes. In this case they almost got the balance right except for a couple of brain-farts by NC and CV. Oh well, at least we should have something nasty saved up for the Patsies! Maybe Sam Adams on the 'go' route!!
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Well, I grew up in Buffalo so to me it's just 'Wing' Tzun (or possibly "Chicken Wing Tzun") , but I guess for the rest of the country it''d be 'Buffalo Wing' Tzun!
And the dumbest rule in all sports is that any team that is playing Buffalo in a playoff or championship game is allowed to fold, spindle, mutilate, bend, break or just plain ignore any damn rule it pleases.
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Last Spring I went to the Osaka grand Sumo tournament. That was my first time to see it live. It was a lot of fun. Great food, great beer, great action. What's not to like?
And btw, although somewhat odd to outsiders, there is no way in hell Sumo can compete in strangeness with this
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Well, for me the Shinto trappings (like the salt and the mawashi and the fun little dance that the Yokozuna does
) are not particularly relevant. That's not what I'm looking at. As a student and teacher of Japanese martial arts I am intrigued by the techniques used by these big, strong fighters. It isn't always easy to see the techniques hidden under all the fat, but believe me, they are highly skilled. Personally I am built like the antithesis of a rikishi, but I try to watch and learn from skilled fighters wherever I may find them. -
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When I was in college I almost stepped (barefoot) on a good-sized Widow.
I ran and got a jar and captured her easily enough. I named her "George Carcass" after a friend of mine who hates all creepy-crawlies, and over the next few weeks I fed her a steady diet of bugs, mostly moths since they were always fluttering around my dorm room and annoying me. Watching her stalk and kill the moths was really cool. A true assassin. The moths never knew what hit them. One day I noticed a huge egg sac had appeared overnight. Apparently female Widows, like many spiders, can store previously obtained sperm for months at a time, and they fertilize their eggs when they get a good food supply. Eventually hundred of cute littly baby Widows emerged and ate everything they could find including each other. I gave the survivors to a researcher on campus who works with a company that milks the venom to make antivenin. Pretty cool. Sadly George passed away one day after eating what I suspect was a tainted bug. But I'll always have the memories. 
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Dunno, but they're probably made by the Tyrell Corporation....
So I'm Sitting At Work With No Bills Fans...
in The Stadium Wall Archives
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I'm sorry, but for some reason that just cracks me up.
Feel free to hate on me now. 