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I should amend my earlier comments to say that there is at least one difference in Rio Bravo and El Dorado. If you replace James Caan with Ricky Nelson and Robert Mitchum with Dean Martin you do get to add a couple of songs to the mix. For whatever that is worth.
Just now seeing this post - - that is hilarious.:laugh:Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
Tomorrow is my very first true snow-day. 3-6 inches here in the metro area. My poor wife will likely have to go in to work in the morning.
You're going to study hard on Greek all day right? Write some papers? Get a few hundred pages of Calvin or Barth's systematics read? Exegete some difficult passages in Leviticus or Daniel or something?
I guess we probably won't see you making many comments tomorrow.:icon_wink:
why is there still a countdown to the mcneese state game on the latechbbb homepage?
3 inches and counting...Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
No languages this semester (probably a mistake), so no translation tomorrow. But, I may get knee deep in a philosophy text-book. I'll see if I can peel myself away from that excitement to build a snow-person and post a thing or two.
:D
Never put money on a dog that doesn't void immediately prior to the race.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
Is that a weight issue?Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Wanted to countdown to a sport/game that we'd actually compete in and win. It's been this way for almost 2 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
Partly. Has also become part superstition in some regions.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Another in the list of things that make you say, "hmmmmm."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330462,00.html
Pay attention to what he was arrested for. If someone else can explain how this is possible, feel free.
i'm stumped. look at that wheel chair. i don't see how it would be possible for a quadriplegic to operate it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
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Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
Have you considered enzyte? :icon_wink: Meet Bob...
1/4 inch of ice now...two weeks, two ice-storms. Momma and Poppa lightinin' are flying in tomorrow. Good thing UPS keeps Louisville International up and running.
Lost is over-rated.
yeah, it's only the best drama series of the last 10 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
YOU'RE OVERRATED~! Are you just now trying to pick up the show with this season?Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Seriously though, Lost isn't The Wire, but its the best thing OTHER THAN The Wire.
Yawn.
All I'm saying is that after years of everyone telling me that just one episode and I would be hooked for life, when I finally watched a couple I could take it or leave it. I don't think it is crap or anything, but I'd just as soon sit through any of the hospital shows, cop shows, lawyer shows, or whatever else. If it is on, I can be in the room (my wife has started watching it), but I'm not going to make any effort to not miss it.
And I knew I could set some folks off with that comment. :)
My girlfriend is so far out of my league it's not even funny.
i never told you that. i would definitely be considerably less interested in it if i had not been watching from the beginning. it's still the best thing on tv.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Talk about damning with faint praise. . .Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
indeed, its not saying much, especially from me.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Sounds to me like someone has never watched the Steve Wilkos show. You adults and your "jobs".Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
That's why I don't bother owning one.
Ok, just checking if a link works...(sorry needed a place to test it out)..edit...got it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YDecLiA_Qbw
My pet peave is when people make a long post that has multiple points, but yet they leave everything in one paragraph. I mean, I don't need numbers or bullets... but a LITTLE separation into paragraphs CAN'T be too much to ask.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/800-dog...13075109990001
Wow. Imagine how long it took to take those dogs outside to go to the bathroom everyday. Whenever they did so, they should have been singing, "Who let the dogs out! Who! Who! Who!"
800 dogs...ok, but 82 parrots is just gross.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
WoWQuote:
Originally Posted by 9701Dawg
What the hell is that thing? Scares the crap out of me!Quote:
Originally Posted by 9701Dawg
Its a predecessor of the AT-AT. :undecided:Quote:
Originally Posted by Vettewrecker
It's only a matter of time before the machines take over and we become slaves.Quote:
Originally Posted by 9701Dawg
Won't happen in 100 years. Maybe 200. You'd be surprised how privative A.I. modules really are, even today.Quote:
Originally Posted by GonzoDawg
And yet, they still surpass the intellegence of a great number of the people I had the misfortune of growing up around in Livingston parish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luminaire
I have a new avatar. And its Early humpin' Cuyler. DON'T TOUCH THE TRIM!
Stoked about the spring game. Gonna be boozed up, son.
"If curiosity killed the cat, indecision killed the squirrel"
...And the boot killed the spider.Quote:
Originally Posted by GonzoDawg
If a job is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well.
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Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
No that would be the inability to properly assess an extreme treat.
I passed a guy in Walmart wearing a Jim Everett jersey for the New Orleans Saints. What I found equally impressive was that this jersey was in really great condition, so much so that it really looked new. He was wearing the jersey about four times too big with baggy shorts and a sideways cap like he was "thugging." But hey, you can't go thugging with Jim Everett.
You should've taken a picture and sent it to these guys:Quote:
Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
http://straightcashhomey.net/
Pimp my Ride was WAY better when they used West Coast Customs and not those freaks at GAS
Anybody ever heard of Fifty Cent? I have no idea who he is, other than the fact that he likes healthy food and is arriving in Shreveport to be in a movie. I have to make two gift baskets for him tomorrow.
He's been hit wit a few shells and now he walks wit a limp!
Yep..I looked him up..this guy's supposed to be a health nut?
after you get shot 9 times you tend to take your health pretty seriously...i would assume.Quote:
Originally Posted by marketdawg
Unfortunately, that makes sense to me. BTW: The movie industry is sure helping out us small guys in Shreveport.
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Originally Posted by marketdawg
Ross, you are tragically white, lol. 50 is one of those hard core guys by rep that seems to have softened up a bit except when he is playing the role of the hard core rapper. Glad to hear you are reaping the benefits of the movie biz in S'Port.
http://www.sptimes.com/2003/02/13/Ta..._is_free.shtml
I'm not sure how I feel about this. Sure, she's old and stuff, but she's never admitted to committing the crime.
http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news?slu...ters&type=lgns
Ha!
So, I met a girl who just got accepted at the University of Tampa, a private school, and will begin efforts to get a degree at their movie/film school and wants to focus on silent movies.
Please refer to the crazy/hot scale.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYrZSjpiIK4
As a famous poet once said:Quote:
Originally Posted by RockNRoll Warrior
The reason Ken & Barbie's marriage is a failure,
Is cause neither one of them has any genitalia.
Beer - helping white men dance for over 200 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by RhythmDawg
rhythmic gymnastics belongs in the special olympics.
don't forget artisticQuote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
I don't know which is worse. The quality of football being played by sunblech teams Middle and Troy or the quality of the announcers on CSS. Can't take it!
Neither. It is the fact that you are subjecting yourself to both.Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
It is the true sign of a junkie when they begin ingesting toxic substances just to get a fix. Hate to see it happen to a true blue Tech fan like maddawg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
"This is your brain. This is your brain on college football. Any questions?"
Almost 20 others like me were visiting BBB at 4:45 this morning. Only a few more hours guys. When I get into my vehicle to head to Ruston in a little over 24 hours, the anxiety starts to subside.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Brian96
Are u really gonna play golf today . . . or will u be at the Rotney Pekingfest at lunch?Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
I watched 2 series for Middle Finger State and had to change the channel. That was worse football that will be at the scrimmage over in Funroe!!Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
Should've switched over to Wake Forest and Baylor, the Battle of the Baptists! Instead of a 15 yard penalty for dancing after a TD, you go to hell.Quote:
Originally Posted by DocMarvin362
My brother is an alumni from Miss St. (and even played in their band) and I still haven't called to do the victory taunt because I haven't decided on the perfect thing to say.
Why am I at work right now?
So you can be on BB&B.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
Sometimes (rarely) I get on when my models are running if I've already written the parts of the report I can write without the results of said models. At least I've got THAT going for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by GonzoDawg
Welcome to the working class AG. Now tell me about these models you have running around at work:laugh:.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
So, I've been dating this girl for a bit now and she came over straight from work to say hi before joining some group outing through her school to see the two shuttles that are up on the pad and learn about the stuff they do at Kennedy (she's a student at St. Pete College studying to be a science teacher). Unfortunately, she forgot her change of clothes from home and borrowed a shirt from me. While the shirt was massively too big, I made it a point to give her a Tech shirt.
So, the students were in a group as this guy comes up to give his talk, but the guy immediately notices the Louisiana Tech shirt, asked if she went there, and gave props to our school. For some reason, I think it's funny that a NASA guy told a bunch of St. Pete College students that Louisiana Tech is a good school.
Anyway, long story short, NASA recognizes our State-T.
I think this guy did some work with NASA.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/genera...=9780195035674
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Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
No way!!! ....that you have been dating a girl. :icon_wink:
I got that guy to sign that book when I took that class. I needed a 100 on the final for an A in the class. So, as it turns out, I smoked the final, but got something wrong in an intermediate step. He took off a point and gave me a 99 which yielded a score higher than 89.5B. I tried to get my A and told him, "you know, I only needed one more point on this final to get an A in your class" to which he replied with a sarcastic excitement, "you also only needed one more point to get a smiley face sticker."Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
She's a science teachering major that I met at a baseball game. It would only get better if she actually had graduated from Tech instead of just wearing the shirt.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Until I was a jr. or sr. at Tech, Subway always cut the top of the bread in a little triangle. It worked great. All the meat and cheese and veggies went in evenly and you pretty much got the same bite all the way through the sandwich. Then, all of a sudden, they started cutting halfway in. They even bragged about the brand new great test-marketed features like this (I think they expanded the bread options about the same time). They were boasting that they had made their product worse!
This has always puzzled me. I can't fathom how someone could think the newer way of doing it is better than the older one in this case. I just can't see it. It's not even a preference thing like "you like mayo, I prefer mustard." It just seems so clearly worse.
For a while, you could still ask for the "old school" cut. But I doubt any one of the high school students at my local Subway is even aware that there ever was another way.
I just don't get it.
Maybe someone who has worked there can straighten me out.
The classic "I need a T shirt" move. Well played, AG.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
I was actually having this same argument the other day with a co-worker. I say the old V cut is better because you don't have meat, sauce, etc. falling out of the sandwich while you eat. His response was that the new cut is better because it allows the "sandwich artist" to put more stuff on the sandwich. My solution for that was to cut a bigger V.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Then another co-worker came along and did not remember Subway ever using the V cut.
A driver's license should be issued based on your ability to drive. THAT is the extent to which the DMV's power should extend. That's all that thing is for. It shouldn't take an act of congress to get a stupid license because the DMV is trying to do something it isn't designed for.
A Social Security number is for work purposes. It is not related to driving. I understand that they want to know who you are, but I think it is a little over the top. Why should I give them my SS #?
If we are headed towards a big brother real ID, then fine, make a real ID, but right now the driver's license should be driving related only.
THANK YOU!!! DOWN WITH SUBWAY... GO TO QUIZNO'S!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
When I unfortunantly have to go to the ugly yellow store, I ask for the old cut and 90% of the time, they look at you like your dumb and can't figure out what you mean. Dumb move by the yellow store in this man's opinion.
Bwahahahahahaha kimbo slice
hahahaha!!!!!
I saw today the most attractive postal carrier I believe I have ever seen in my life.
This is a real doctor:
http://www.healthgrades.com/director...D-FD3B8B34.cfm
:laugh:
:shocked2:
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Originally Posted by RhythmDawg
I would like to know how these two people are doing today (or in the case of the first one, how he was doing when he left the hospital).Quote:
Originally Posted by Abominable Gorilla
On a less serious note, I'd also like to know how this turned out.
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Originally Posted by Luminaire
I appreciate you asking.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Every single day is an adventure. She's no longer going through the chemo, which is good, but she has to actively monitor what she eats. Some days are better than others. The good news is, she got to go home and she's starting to do school work and stuff.
Madonna is worth over $600 million and ARod didn't pick her for her money. What's that all about?
Missionary position?Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
One of my shower curtains has a map of the world on it (if you are wondering why a clear plastic shower curtain from Wal-Mart isn't cutting it on its own, then you will learn when you marry). This map is in English. That is to say, it says Japan, France, Germany, and Turkey instead of Nippon, La République Française, Deutschland, and Türkiye.
But it lists a certain west African country as Côte d'Ivoire. This puzzles me.
Although I do see now that wikipedia says the government officially discourages the English usage. I wonder how they say the name of our country? Seems only fair that this should work both ways.
Would an Ivorian say, "La superficie des United States est de 9,4 millions de km², ce qui en fait le quatrième pays le plus vaste du monde derrière la Russie, le Canada et la Chine."
I bet not.
Sounds like you need a bathroom book.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
That's what SI is for. The map is on the inside, so you only see it while in the shower. I'm trying to learn the 'stans.Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
Talking head terms that need to be changed...
"Mid Major" - Who are the Minor Majors? Sunbelt teams? Major Majors? BCS?
"He's a Division 1 prospect" - This one was wrong before they did away with 1A and 1AA, but please change it to "FBS prospect" or "other".
I don't know about the second one, but I believe the first one is a media euphemism for "bottom dweller," and refers to any school that is not in a B(c)$ AQ conference. Sort of like "working class" instead of "poor."Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
Which is why I hate the term so much. It hurts more to hear one of our own use it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian96
Maddawg,Quote:
Originally Posted by maddawg
I don't like it either (but, I have to admit that I have used it on occasion). What do you think is a suitable replacement? It would be nice to have a word that shows the arrogance of the BC$
Non AQ?Quote:
Originally Posted by StrayDawg
Probably the most accurate term (unless you want to add the "football" specifier), but not much of a dig against the B(c)$'s arrogance. :icon_wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
I'm a dummy. What does AQ stand for?Quote:
Originally Posted by Guisslapp
Automatic Qualifier, BCS.Quote:
Originally Posted by StrayDawg
I'm often surprised at the variety of places I find references to G. K. Chesterton.
so strange to see an actual conversation on this thread i actually forgot which thread this was. then i saw this and thought it was the most out-of-left-field hijack i had ever seen. "what on earth does g.k. chesterton have to do with the bcs?" i asked myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
:D
Well, now that you mention it, his distributism is what some are hoping for in college athletics (though a form of wealth-redistribution a la Marx is what most are hoping for). :icon_wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
i'm not hoping for any such thing. i only hope for an end to the monopolistic rules that college athletics are now governed by. just level the playing field for capitalistic competition. that's all i ask.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian96
what we have now is more of a stalin-type animal farm socialism, where supposedly everyone is equal, while in reality the few elite are "more equal than others."
No, we have good old-fashioned American capitalism, where a few super-rich control the means of production and limit access to the market by eating up marketshare, and the rest of us hope to get a trickle-down effect that we can all benefit from. The rich get richer and the poor fight for the scraps.Quote:
Originally Posted by arkansasbob
The B(c)$ schools own the means of production and have dominant marketshare, so they are going to be on top anyway. They just added a layer of autocracy on it. :icon_wink: