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    Phelps is great

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    I don't think it's applicable either, that's the whole point. And swimmers swim multiple events, it's just a fact of the sport. When you tally how many Olympic events Michael Phelps has participated in, I think it's unfair to call him the "greatest Olympiad" given the small number of shots other athletes have had.

     

    Personally I don't think the "he won two in one night" argument holds any water (pun intended) since that's what happens in swimming. Swimmers swim several times during one meet at every level.

    I don't even know how to argue this. Who would you consider a great Olympian? Who would you consider the greatest and why? Phelps has shown consistently in the last 3 Olympics that he stands out among the other Olympic athletes (of all sports) by demonstrating absolute dominance in his sport. Can you name another 3 athletes that are similar? How about just one? Outside of the Olympics, he's also dominating the entire sport of swimming rather than just one or two events. What he's done at the Olympics is mindboggling. He's not out-touching his opponents by fingertips. He's destroying them by full body lengths or more. This would be like an Olympic boxer coming out and knocking out all of his opponents with one punch.

     

    As for swimmers swimming multiple events in one meet...yeah, they do that and it's absolutely brutal (try sprinting a 200m butterfly...) On top of that, regular swimmers also don't face fresh world class specialists in each event. Some of those specialists show up and only swim one event (i.e. Ian Crocker) before hanging it up for the rest of the meet.

     

    Fair? Equating swimming to shotput or f*ucking rifling is unfair. If you're basing the media hype about him being the greatest Olympian solely off of his medal count, then I'd say that the media's focus on the number of gold medals he has is doing him injustice. Medals aside, his dominating performance alone would net him the title of best Olympian. A shot putter would have to throw his shot out of the stadium in multiple Olympics to impress the way Phelps is impressing.

     

    Do I sound like some fanboy? Hopefully not...but as a swimmer, I'm flabbergasted at what he's doing. Everyone in the sport is. I know records will get broken over time, but I also figured they'd fall by hundredths of a second at a time...not 2 second smashes.

     

    On another note, I can't believe 10m air pistol is an Olympic sport while softball is being eliminated.

    Atta Boy Edwards!

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    They should get as much a pass on mistakes in their personal lives as anyone else, as long as they bite the bullet when it comes to their personal lives affecting their jobs.

    In your personal life, what level of "passing" would you give to a personal friend that has cheated on his wife?

    Going to camp tomorrow...

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    Jeremiah's has the best wings in Rochester. There are a few good places to get plates though. Mark's Hots makes a mean plate, but you may want to wear a bullet proof vest.

    Whenever I return to visit Rochester, Jeremiah's is a must stop for wings (unless I visit Buffalo also on the same trip...then no wings in Rochester). Their french dip is fantastic as well.

    The Dark Knight

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    oh please, 47,000 people???? WOW....47,000 + people have forgotten about the godfather movie.......

     

    the frigging godfather has been out for nearly 35 years, batman or whatever the comic strip hero du jour movie of the day has been out for 3.5 days...dont make yourself sound silly by comparing the 2 or referencing some site that pretends do, by some purely subjective rating system...our hop pocket society will forget about batman, or the dark knight or whatever he/she/it is called this week once underdog 2 comes out... :bag:

    boy do you get excited...I simply posted the imdb website's rating and didn't make any personal comparisons to the movie.

     

    Did I like the movie? Hell yes. Would I say that it's better than The Godfather? No, not even close...I think part of the reason why people are so excited is because this is an amazing piece of work for a comic book movie (see previous letdowns like Batman and Robin, The Daredevil, etc.). Actually, I think quite a few people haven't seen The Godfather. I don't think my wife has sat through the full movie once even though I must've seen it at least a dozen times in my life (it was on consistently several times a year, probably still, on UB cable).

     

    The girl was absolutely horrible(Maggie Gyllenhaal). Can't act a lick. Pretty average looking as well. Her character was bland as hell.
    I found her to be incredibly unattractive. I would've preferred Katie Holmes before she went and became a Scientology nut. You'd think Bruce Wayne could do better than those two...though it wouldn't make much sense to have a "Christmas Jones Nuclear Physicist" type onscreen as a powerful lawyer.

    Black Holes and Men At Work

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/leo051600.asp

     

    The scheduling of a picnic to honor baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson led to a furor over alleged racism at the State University of New York, Albany. Some 40 students at the university insisted that the word "picnic" originally referred to the lynchings of blacks.

     

    They were wrong. "Picnic" comes from a 17th-century French word for a social gathering in which each person brings a different food. But in reply to the 40 protesters, campus affirmative action director Zaheer Mustafa put out a memo asking all student leaders to refrain from any use of the word "picnic." "Whether the claims are true or not, the point is the word offended," he said.

     

    In publicity for the event honoring Jackie Robinson, the word "picnic" was changed to "outing." This offended gay students, so the event formerly known as a picnic was publicized without a noun describing what was going on. "Every day we come up with a new word we can't use," said exasperated student editor Richard Ryback

    Whats a good time to crank up the mower?

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    Did you check/replace the spark plug?

     

    Check the spark plug. If it won't start after a spark plug replacement, your carburetor is probably flooded or clogged. Take it apart and try to clean it out.

     

    I'll do that tomorrow evening. Picked up an extra spark plug just in case from Home Depot...spent the rest of the afternoon staining the deck...the joys of summer housework.

    Whats a good time to crank up the mower?

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    my mower seems to be dead and it's a Guaranteed to Start Toro 22" Recycler...i just changed the oil and replaced the air filter. Everything seemed to be going great until I went slightly uphill and it just stopped. Now I can't get it started anymore...any ideas?

     

    I did do one thing the manual said not to do; I tilted the lawnmower to pour out the old oil without emptying the gas tank...

    Real Estate Agents

    in Off the Wall Archives

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    I'm told that apparently hot young real estate agents do very well with young single men looking to buy condos. They don't make quite as much money since these young single men generally don't have that much. Male or more homely looking female real estate agents do better with families as the wives don't get jealous of a hot young babe prancing around an open house in a tight ass skirt and motorboat friendly shirt and thus make more money since they're often selling larger homes...or so my male real estate agent friend tells me.

     

    Note: I realize this post is completely worthless.

    Hanoi Hilton

    in Politics, Polls, and Pundits

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    "They Told Me I'd Never Go Home"

     

    I really didn't know what to think, because I had been having these other interrogations in which I had refused to co-operate. It was not hard because they were not torturing me at this time. They just told me I'd never go home and I was going to be tried as a war criminal. That was their constant theme for many months.

     

    Suddenly "The Cat" said to me, "Do you want to go home?"

     

    I was astonished, and I tell you frankly that I said that I would have to think about it. I went back to my room, and I thought about it for a long time. At this time I did not have communication with the camp senior ranking officer, so I could get no advice. I was worried whether I could stay alive or not, because I was in rather bad condition. I had been hit with a severe case of dysentery, which kept on for about a year and a half. I was losing weight again.

     

    But I knew that the Code of Conduct says, "You will not accept parole or amnesty," and that "you will not accept special favors." For somebody to go home earlier is a special favor. There's no other way you can cut it.

     

    I went back to him three nights later. He asked again, "Do you want to go home?" I told him "No." He wanted to know why, and I told him the reason. I said that Alvarez [first American captured] should go first, then enlisted men and that kind of stuff.

     

    "The Cat" told me that President Lyndon Johnson had ordered me home. He handed me a letter from my wife, in which she had said, "I wished that you had been one of those three who got to come home." Of course, she had no way to understand the ramifications of this. "The Cat" said that the doctors had told him that I could not live unless I got medical treatment in the United States.

     

    We went through this routine and still I told him "No." Three nights later we went through it all over again. On the morning of the Fourth of July, 1968, which happened to be the same day that my father took over as commander in chief of U. S. Forces in the Pacific, I was led into another quiz room.

     

    "The Rabbit" and "The Cat" were sitting there. I walked in and sat down, and "The Rabbit" said, "Our senior wants to know your final answer."

    "My final answer is the same. It's 'No.' "

     

    "That is your final answer?"

    "That is my final answer."

    huge, huge balls

     

    that's some serious character there

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