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HAHAHAHA
That's one less manager to replace McLaren with in the unlikely event he is discharged.

HAHAHAHAHAHHA POOR HOMER BAILEY

by Corco on Oct 13, 2007 8:57 PM PDT reply actions  

POOR BOBBY LIVING-
oh wait, his arm's already shredded.

by Gomez on Oct 13, 2007 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions  

What the fuck?
I mean, I cracked up upon seeing it, but what the hell is ist?

by Corco on Oct 13, 2007 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions  

Ist?
"Kruger! My sun tells me, your company shtinks!"-Frank Costanza.

by Coach Owens on Oct 13, 2007 9:44 PM PDT up reply actions  

Speaking of which
I just saw a guy with a hitler stache.  It was real hair.  Can you do that?  I mean really?

by Edgar for Pres on Oct 14, 2007 1:50 AM PDT up reply actions  

You can
in the way that you can walk through a neighborhood with swastikas on your t-shirt.

In other words, not advised.

by Gomez on Oct 14, 2007 10:26 AM PDT up reply actions  

Well we all know
that if Hitler didn't have his trademark 'Stache, then the Holocaust and maybe even WWII wouldn't have happened since the people at the art school he didn't get into were too jealous.
"Kruger! My sun tells me, your company shtinks!"-Frank Costanza.

by Coach Owens on Oct 14, 2007 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions  

nitpicking
So you're saying that without his mustache, the Holocaust definitely wouldn't have happened, but WW2 might have not happened? That's impossible.

The Holocaust was an extension of Hitler's goal when he went to war (lebensraum). Not to mention the fact that a number of concentration and extermination camps were located in countries such as Poland, and as we all know, Hitler's invasion of Poland instigated the official start of the War.

Germany couldn't have performed the Holocaust without starting WW2.

I know your post was a joke, but I can't help but point out the fallacy behind it.

by Katal LM on Oct 14, 2007 11:10 AM PDT up reply actions   1 recs

Well, was it a war
when the Spanish invaded the New World?
"Kruger! My sun tells me, your company shtinks!"-Frank Costanza.

by Coach Owens on Oct 14, 2007 11:22 AM PDT up reply actions  

I've never said this before
but John Olerud sucked.

Just stop yourself. Right there.

by Katal LM on Oct 14, 2007 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions  

I disagree
He needs to keep going. This is a legendary thread in the making.

by Robert on Oct 14, 2007 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions  

See, this is what I don't get.
If you guys said this everybody would be laughing and such, but since I said it, you guys have to correct every little mistake. It's very annoying.
"Kruger! My sun tells me, your company shtinks!"-Frank Costanza.

by Coach Owens on Oct 14, 2007 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions  

No
No one else makes weird, historically inaccurate jokes about Hitler's mustache.

by Katal LM on Oct 14, 2007 12:00 PM PDT up reply actions  

I actually side with you on this one
Not that it was particularly good (we can't all be superstars), but I recognize what appears to be a satirical attempt.

by Matthew on Oct 14, 2007 12:34 PM PDT up reply actions  

What?
The Spanish never "invaded" the New World. They DISCOVERED it.

by Corco on Oct 14, 2007 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions  

funny
you don't usually have to send an army when you "discover" a place.

by Matthew on Oct 14, 2007 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions  

Which is like saying...
That I have "discovered" McCall, Idaho.

Srsly. Hello, millions of people who were living in the North and South American continent in 1492 say "Hi, we discovered this place LOOONG ago".

And that's entirely aside from the Vinland colony and the regular trips the Greenland Vikings took to Labrador...

by eponymous coward on Oct 14, 2007 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions  

The Vinnish
never existed.

The world as we knew it was rooted in Europe. When Europe discovered America, that's exactly what it was, a discovery.

by Corco on Oct 14, 2007 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions  

David....
Please explain the Norse artifacts found in the US contemporaneous with Norse accounts of Vinland, then.

There's direct physical evidence, man. Just give up.

http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/voyage/subset/vinland/archeo.html

by eponymous coward on Oct 14, 2007 3:07 PM PDT up reply actions  

What do you mean "we"?
Tell that to someone of Chinese, Japanese, African or Indian descent- that the world in 1500 revolved around Europe. Hint: you're REALLY looking stupid now.

It didn't. Really. And the Mesoamerican and Incan cultures were going strong.

YOU might think it's this way because of the books you've been taught history from, but honestly, there's a lot more out there than European history. Native Americans are not just hired actors in a Western.

by eponymous coward on Oct 14, 2007 3:11 PM PDT up reply actions  

I'm still amazed
That I was taught that America won 1812 in AP US History.

by Graham MacAree on Oct 14, 2007 3:51 PM PDT up reply actions  

well
we sort of won if you take a long term view of it. My understanding of it is that we declared war on you because:
  1. You were not recognizing American citizenship status
  2. You were impeding our trade with France
  3. You were helping the Indians
After the war(s), 1 and 2 stopped and we all know how 3 worked out in the end.

by Matthew on Oct 14, 2007 4:11 PM PDT up reply actions  

My understanding of it
Was that the war was started because Madison insisted on interfering with the wars in Europe, but managed to time the cessation of food deliveries to England just in time for the conclusion of the Penninsula campaign, when we didn't need your food anyway. In retaliation, Whitehall made life more difficult for American shippers.

The incidents involving the retaking of our sailors were the spark that caused the declaration of war were a bit dodgy, but you shouldn't mistake that as the reason for the war itself - it simply acted as an outlet for the pent up tension.

Anyway, 1) and 2) were not stopped by the treaty on Ghent, but rather by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, which lifted any requirement to hurt the French by annoying her allies and relieved the pressure on HMRN to maintain full manpower.

by Graham MacAree on Oct 14, 2007 4:36 PM PDT up reply actions  

I know
if they were stopped by Ghent, then I would call it a full victory for our side. As is, considering our main foci were all eventually achieved, I'd chock it up as more of a win than a loss. Though it's clearly more of a draw than either.

And let's be realistic about this, the impressments were not restricted to just actual british deserters.

by Matthew on Oct 14, 2007 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions  

Yeah, I'm not saying the impressments were right
Especially the whole Leopard-Chesapeake incident.

I'd say that the war was an embarassment on the US side and an expensive pain in the ass from ours, which is why it ended so meekly.

by Graham MacAree on Oct 15, 2007 12:16 AM PDT up reply actions  

About right
luckily no one on either side gives a shit about it.

by Matthew on Oct 15, 2007 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions  

All things aside
Mr. Jackson and several thousand dead Britons in New Orleans including a field commander say hello.

I think it was thousands...

Willie is ours, and you can't have him

by spittle8 on Oct 14, 2007 8:00 PM PDT up reply actions  

Several thousand?
385 killed.

Also, Capt. Phillip Broke of HMS Shannon says 'lolz frigates'. Well, he probably wouldn't have said that, but the sentiment would be close.

by Graham MacAree on Oct 15, 2007 12:17 AM PDT up reply actions  

Why theeff
did I think it was thousands?
Willie is ours, and you can't have him

by spittle8 on Oct 16, 2007 5:32 PM PDT up reply actions  

Yes
but see, I'm of European descent. So by "We" I mean my people. My people discovered America.

by Corco on Oct 14, 2007 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions  

I mean, I realize all the history
but as a European, I have to see things from the European perspective and that is the perspective in which I see things. If I were Japanese, I might see things from the Japanese perspective. That doesn't make anybody right or wrong.

by Corco on Oct 14, 2007 4:05 PM PDT up reply actions  

I'm wrong for
rewriting the knowledge of my ancestors? Shouldn't we be respecting our ancestors' decries? If that's wrong in this day and age, then there is something seriously fucked up about this world

by Corco on Oct 14, 2007 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions  

I'm not
I know what they are, I know they exist, and I respect them.

But when push comes to shove you gotta stand up for your ancestors.

by Corco on Oct 14, 2007 4:59 PM PDT up reply actions  

No you don't
and by your statements you clearly do not respect them.

by Matthew on Oct 14, 2007 6:36 PM PDT up reply actions  

I was saying no
to having to respect your "ancestors". That's crap.

by Matthew on Oct 14, 2007 9:13 PM PDT up reply actions  

so they're endowed with special
powers of rightness over everyone else?

And hell, we're nearly all family anyways

by Matthew on Oct 14, 2007 10:08 PM PDT up reply actions  

I'm only commenting here
To see how tiny the comment is when it is shoved against the right side of the screen.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 15, 2007 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions  

Pretty freakin' Tiny
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 15, 2007 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions  

1600 resolution
I don't even get a horiz scroll bar for this thread.

by Matthew on Oct 15, 2007 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions  

I'm not on scroll yet either
The more replies the smaller the tab size between them, by the way.

by Graham MacAree on Oct 15, 2007 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions  

No scrolling here either
Although I think after I post this the following words may be too large to even show:

Sesquipedalian, Polysyllabic, Rowland-Smith, Magnanimous, Yuniesky Betancourt

Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 15, 2007 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions  

Oh wow
It grew.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 15, 2007 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions  

Nice.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 15, 2007 3:53 PM PDT up reply actions  

Yes it does
I wonder if this just keeps expanding forever or if it loops back a la Skifree?

by Corco on Oct 15, 2007 8:24 PM PDT up reply actions  

It looks like it keeps expanding
Here's too the widest post ever! Take that Beer diary!
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 15, 2007 8:50 PM PDT up reply actions  

Dag nabbit
This is such a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious post

by Corco on Oct 15, 2007 9:00 PM PDT up reply actions  

Dusty Baker
is-a-proven-clutch-freaking-awe-some-manager-who-just-happens-to-have-that-one-little-issue-where-he -runs-pitching-staffs-into-the-ground-He's-not-a-bad-tactical-guy-just-a-moron-with-pitchers-so-yeah -I-agree-with-you

by Corco on Oct 15, 2007 9:38 PM PDT up reply actions  

Wait, that was weird
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by Corco on Oct 15, 2007 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions  

I think I just found the width limit
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by Corco on Oct 15, 2007 9:39 PM PDT up reply actions  

Test
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by Corco on Oct 15, 2007 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions  

Last.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 12:07 AM PDT up reply actions  

Trying to be last.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 8:32 AM PDT up reply actions  

You just want to be last yourself.
But you've been blocked.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 5:47 PM PDT up reply actions  

Last will be Mine!
I am younger than most of you and should outlive all of you! I will not rest until I am last!

by Corco on Oct 16, 2007 6:47 PM PDT up reply actions  

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by Corco on Oct 16, 2007 6:48 PM PDT up reply actions  

A DISCOVERY
NEW KNOWLEDGE IS GAINED.

FROM NOW ON, I HEREBY DECLARE THE NON-BOLDING OF A HEADER "CORCO-ING"

by Corco on Oct 16, 2007 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions  

BY T HE WAY
I DECLARE THIS NEW GROUND "THE CORCO PHENOMENON" NOT CORCO-ING

by Corco on Oct 16, 2007 6:53 PM PDT up reply actions  

62 SUBCOMMENT LIMIT
AND NO SIGNATURE INT HE FINAL POST

LIFE IS GOOD

by Corco on Oct 16, 2007 7:03 PM PDT up reply actions  

Last
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions  

I don't plan on losing.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 7:22 PM PDT up reply actions  

This isn't the end of the sub thread
For that you have to scroll to t he edge, go to the last corco post, and click "Parent"

by Corco on Oct 16, 2007 7:22 PM PDT up reply actions  

I told you.
Last.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 7:23 PM PDT up reply actions  

Sadly, no
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 7:24 PM PDT up reply actions  

yes
I have too much time on my hands. Remember this

by Corco on Oct 16, 2007 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions  

I have a good memory.
One week from now, you've lost.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 7:26 PM PDT up reply actions  

I eat healthy.
And I wasn't a premature drinker.  So you best start exercising.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 7:41 PM PDT up reply actions  

Are you sure?
Sometimes I worry about you, man.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 8:17 PM PDT up reply actions  

Touche.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 8:39 PM PDT up reply actions  

You caught me.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 16, 2007 10:21 PM PDT up reply actions  

this is the dumbest thing ever
and it's over, at least here. Go continue this elsewhere and I honestly hope you get banned for it.

by Matthew on Oct 16, 2007 10:42 PM PDT up reply actions  

That's what she said.
Jose Vidro (DH - Ms) was arrested today in an Idaho Bathroom for having a wide stance and sucking.

by CapSea on Oct 15, 2007 8:51 PM PDT up reply actions  

And can one not say that
one respects and honours one's ancestors if one acknowledges the mistakes those honoured ancestors made, and will try to correct them?

Taking your argument to an extreme, shouldn't the descendants of say, the Japanese who participated in atrocities in WW2, to use a non-nazi example, stand up for their ancestors?

visiting A's fan.

by rfloh @ Lookout Landing on Oct 15, 2007 12:44 AM PDT up reply actions  

I turn my back on these diaries
and Flame Wars erupt over the War of 1812.

by Paytheline on Oct 14, 2007 5:42 PM PDT up reply actions  

Yeah
I bet this never happens on McCovey Chronicles.

by Gomez on Oct 14, 2007 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions  

Well
African societies didn't compare at the time. The Japanese were strict isolationists, which I think disqualifies them as the center of anything, and China wasn't advancing at the same rate, IMO. India didn't have physical force projection. Europe was capable and physical and cultural domination, something only China probably could have otherwise claimed.

Native American societies outside of the Mayans and Incans weren't really good for much, and the forementioned societies were outrageously bloodthirsty. Any society so violent and perverse can't fairly be called a "civilization". Also, besides certain areas of dramatic advancement, the Mayans were essentially stone age.

Willie is ours, and you can't have him

by spittle8 on Oct 14, 2007 7:59 PM PDT up reply actions  

One might even say
that it was the Europeans' burden to civilize those cultures.

by Katal LM on Oct 14, 2007 8:56 PM PDT up reply actions   1 recs

Uh, are you serious?
"Any society so violent and perverse can't fairly be called a "civilization"."

You realize that Europe during the middle Ages and Renaissance wasn't exactly a walk in the park, right? Hell, at the time of Columbus the English had just gotten through 30 years of bloody civil war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses

Oh, and Columbus's monarch? Responsible for this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_of_Castile

If you are expecting "civilization" from Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, you're going to be sadly disappointed. It only gets uglier once we get to the Thirty Years' War.

by eponymous coward on Oct 14, 2007 10:17 PM PDT up reply actions  

Ah, Oliver Cromwell
My college's most famous alumni - the man who banned Christmas.

Sidney Sussex is a weird little college.

by Graham MacAree on Oct 15, 2007 1:01 AM PDT up reply actions  

Civil war isn't indicative of wickedness
and they are always intensely brutal, so that point is null and void.

Europe wasn't a nice place then, but that is to be expected in a land of immense power and fractional seats of power. Either way, Europe was better off than the rest of the world. Either way, the most blatantly disgusting act, the inquisition, was seriously overblown -- it didn't claim the lives of more than a couple thousand all told.

Willie is ours, and you can't have him

by spittle8 on Oct 16, 2007 5:56 PM PDT up reply actions  

And your point is?
That Columbus discovered America because the "perverse" Mayans and Incans weren't really good for much and can't fairly be called a civilization?
visiting A's fan.

by rfloh @ Lookout Landing on Oct 15, 2007 12:53 AM PDT up reply actions  

Excuse me?
Willie is ours, and you can't have him

by spittle8 on Oct 16, 2007 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions  

Just like the damn Californians
discovered McCall, Idaho evne though there were already a couple thousand happy folks living there

by Corco on Oct 14, 2007 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions  

Yes.
Next question, plz.

by eponymous coward on Oct 14, 2007 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions  

Ever heard of...
...the Madagascar plan? A holocaust of sorts, but not in the same way. Lebensraum could have been achieved without mass killings. Mass exodus could have sufficed, though that would have indirectly caused many deaths.
Willie is ours, and you can't have him

by spittle8 on Oct 14, 2007 7:52 PM PDT up reply actions  

And this post is why
... you're the pimp you are today.

by eponymous coward on Oct 14, 2007 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions  

It's not like the Reds have any good young
pitchers to ruin anyway.

Plus, Shawon Dunston and Neifi Perez aren't going to hire themselves.

by JI on Oct 13, 2007 9:05 PM PDT reply actions  

Aaron Harang says "Hi".
I'd be investing in insurance for my arm if I was him.

by eponymous coward on Oct 14, 2007 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions  

I'm telling you
Harang needs to manage himself and learn how to say "I'm tired/My arm hurts" after 100-110 pitches.

by Gomez on Oct 14, 2007 5:38 PM PDT up reply actions  

He says
"Hi, I'm 29 and therefore not that young anymore."

by JI on Oct 15, 2007 11:39 PM PDT up reply actions  

Bye Bye Adam Dunn too.
You know, because he always clogs up those bases.
These pretzels....are making me thirsty!

by Goose on Oct 14, 2007 4:56 AM PDT up reply actions  

Look what Dusty Baker has done
to this diary!!

Tangents everywhere...disrespected ancestors!  Hitler visiting a Jewish South African mine!

I fucking hate you Mariners

by kentroyals5 on Oct 15, 2007 1:54 PM PDT reply actions  

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