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The future is now. Can't wait to see this one fly, especially with the double-cockpit White Knight II.

Notice you never see Dubya fall asleep during a speech. Maybe that's because he goes to bed early and gets plenty of sleep when he's supposed to, instead of spending every waking hour womanizing. :mischief

Victim of HHH?

Inter Milan jerseys. The football club is turning 100, too. :mischief Okay, it's a stupid idea.

Wasn't that Fred Penner's place? You know, that may be really what he's looking for. Raffi was more about singing, and still is, only without the show. But again, a show I didn't watch. I didn't even know it was on Nick until I saw it on the Wikipedia article here. :mischief It's a comprehensive list of every show Nick has ever aired. It's fairly accurate, though some run lengths are limited to actual production instead of when they were actually on; for example, I know for a fact that Hey Dude and Salute Your Shorts aired long past 1992.

Raffi Ahh yes, I was right. A show I didn't watch.

That happens to lots of people. I don't like to be in a position where I'm playing more than I want to just to meet the comp requirement. Sometimes you can be on a losing streak and just not want to play. The comp deals are good if you know for sure that you're going to be playing at the level required come hell or high water. Out of curiosity, what were the "requirements" for your comp or reduced rate, and at what hotel? Or have the disposable income to waste on it. :mischief

This is an old Nickelodeon show -- and I mean old. It was on during the era of the Sharon, Lois and Bram Elephant Show. All I can remember is this guy who has a guitar, and the beginning of each show, he walks through a field, into the woods, and I think he comes out of a log and sits down and starts telling stories. I was a big Nickelodeon watcher in the 1980s (I mean, I grew up on it, back before the gak logo and the game shows, we're talking Pinwheel and Today's Special), and I honestly cannot pinpoint that. The only show I can think of involving woods and fields is David the Gnome, and I don't recall that cartoon involving any guitars. Though I think somebody has a guitar in Pinwheel, but its beginning is vastly different from what you describe, and I think it was cancelled long before the Elephant Show. EDIT: Looking through the Wikipedia article: Does Are You Afraid of the Dark? ring a bell? Nah, couldn't be, that's just silly. I honestly don't know. Must have been a show I didn't watch.

Communal Service Agency? Or Communist Service Agency? :mischief

DC is my own fave, though I want to go many other places.

Ouch. And what did we learn from this experience?

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga is putting together a Cinderella style Australian Open. He's all the way to the semis where hes gonna run into Rafa Nadal. Funny thing, the AO has had a two "no-names" make it all the way to the finals in the last two years (Fernando Gonzalez in 07 and Marcos Baghdatis in 06). This is where those guys made their names. In the top half of the bracket, Federer faces James Blake and Novak Djokovic takes on David Ferrer in the quarters. Note: If Blake beats Fed and Nadal wins the AO, Rafa takes over the World No. 1 spot. The only thing that holds Fed from being the greatest of all time is his lack of dominance over Rafael Nadal, especially on clay. On the surface, that has nothing to do with this, but if Blake pulls the upset and Nadal wins out, it will be a well-deserved #1 ranking for him. If he can pull up and get a Grand Slam this year, it may well be him we'll be talking about as the greatest male tennis player of all time.

Philip Rivers has confirmed his torn ACL, and is undergoing surgery. He's expected to be ready for training camp. he played with a lot of guts, and got a lot more respect from his team than LT I think... 1) Maybe LT, as good as he is, was being saved for the Super Bowl. A little bit of the Marty Ball conservatism cropping up in Norv Turner? :mis2 2) Your icon FTW. :mischief

Philip Rivers has confirmed his torn ACL, and is undergoing surgery. He's expected to be ready for training camp.

It's coming in two weeks minus one day's time. Tom Brady vs. Eli Manning. Tom Brady beat the Giants (barely) in Week 17, but not for a lack of trying from Eli with his four touchdown passes. The Giants haven't lost on the road since Week 1, against the Cowboys, who they took revenge against in the Divisional Round. It's the team of destiny versus a team on a mission. The immovable object against the irresistible force. If this turns into a Patriots blowout, I'm gonna be disappointed. Otherwise I really don't care.

Curt Menefee is freezing. Terry Bradshaw is talking about shrinkage. ( :mischief ) Howie Long is talking about animal cruelty. And Jimmy Johnson is doing a science experiment.

Weird sh*t happens when the ball is frozen.

It's -13 in Green Bay right now. They say the high today will make it to 2. Predicted gametime temperature: 0. likely snow right? Should be a fun game, at least they both play in the cold. Not really likely. ESPN said 30% chance.

It's -13 in Green Bay right now. They say the high today will make it to 2. Predicted gametime temperature: 0.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3203489 The new head coach of the Baltimore Ravens is Eagles assistant John Harbaugh.

I'm surprised they're functioning. They just lost an eight-figure lawsuit because of their protesting a soldier's funeral. They must have some very rich kooks up top. :mischief

What a lame and friggin' hot planet. Fixed. :cool Actually, if you're not in the sunny side of Mercury you're in the hundreds of degrees below zero territory. :geek Venus is the friggin' hot planet. Just ask the idiotic Russians, who landed several probes there. Fixed. :mischief If you count ones that burn up in the atmosphere, but I'm going to give the Russians the benefit of the doubt and assume that was their goal. There is no way they were that stupid. :whistle Venera 7 Venera 8 Venera 9 Venera 10 Venera 11 Venera 12 Venera 13 Venera 14 Vega 1 Vega 2 Those are the successful landers. Russia renames failed probes as "Cosmos" generally.

Surprised that this hasn't been posted yet.... From NBC/NJ's Adam Aigner-Treworgy WARREN, Mich. -- Huckabee's closing argument to voters here this evening featured a few new stories and two prolonged sections on illegal immigration and Christian values. These two topics usually feature prominently in Huckabee's stump speech, but last night he got specific, promising to build a border fence within 18 months if elected and elaborating on his belief that the constitution needs to be amended. "[some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, but I believe it's a lot easier to change the constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God, and that's what we need to do is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards," Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman. Huckabee often refers to the need to amend the constitution on these grounds, but he has never so specifically called for the Constitution to be brought within "God's standards," which are themselves debated amongst religious scholars. As a closing statement he asked the room of nearly 500 supporters to "pray and then work hard, and in that order," to help him secure a victory in Tuesday's GOP primary. Tomorrow Huckabee will visit two polling places in the morning before taking off for South Carolina where he will watch Michigan's returns come in. Link If you thought Dubya was bad, here comes the Huckster with his cross to shred the Constitution! :thumbdown Does he even know that most of the founding fathers weren't even Christians? They were Deists.

The worse the weather, the more you would expect the game to even out.... but with Brady sometimes I guess you just throw all that stuff out the window. However, the Chargers haven't played in cold like this. Plus, LT isn't healthy. It's a decent running game that allows teams to take advantage of bad conditions.

I have never ever seen a lose-lose situation until now. :mischief