On topic FanPost of the Day 8-5-08...
by Gomez on Aug 5, 2008 8:08 AM PDT
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Print... because life is always on topic.
We can discuss Morgan Freeman getting in a car wreck, musical choices, whether getting up on Tuesday is harder or easier than getting up Monday, the ingredients your mom uses in her pancakes, whether or not hating someone for being judgmental is meta-stupid, and whether you agree more or less with Pat O'Day after waking up with a bad hangover... or none of those. Your call, as always.
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Needs more tags like the Mariners need a player named 'Jetsy'
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JET
With the wind in your hair of a thousand at-bats
Step on up and I’ll hit your suck pitch to the sky
And Jet… I heard the owner… was Nintendo… Executives
JET
WOOOOoooOOOOooOOOoo
For your sake I hope he becomes a AAA All-Star over the next three years
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I was trying to wedge that into the Jet Song from West Side Story
and failed.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Wings was an awesome, underrated band
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And a great, underrated show.
Wait, did I just say that?
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Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
It was a fantastic show.
As was the almost-never-seen Ned And Stacey, starring Lowell from Wings.
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I once saw a filming of a Wings episode
And an Arsenio Hall episode on the same night. No, I did not go woof, woof, woof.
I'm glad someone finally agrees with me on this...
I LOVE PM & Wings…
My layout.spellcheckDefault goes to 11
by PositivePaul on Aug 5, 2008 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
I wonder if this accident is going to force Morgan Freeman into narration full time...
How much will it cost me to have him narrate my every move?
Morgan Freeman isn't as good an actor as people say.
His voice is cool, but I don’t get the hype. It’s like Samuel Jackson.
For those that want proof, see Wanted.
I was watching Deep Impact last night, and only Morgan Freeman can make a "we're all gonna die!" speech seem awesome.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
What was with that summer?
Wasn’t Armageddon that summer too? What, we need two movies about space objects coming hurtling towards earth?
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 10:16 AM PDT up reply actions
Competing production companies tend to like to put out a similar movie when they lose out on the better script.
Happens all the time and I think it is hilarious.
Well
There was that one year that they made White Chicks instead. Or how about Little Man? Do we really want to encourage them to keep doing ORIGINAL works?
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
How about just barring them from making movies?
The first season of In Living Color was the peak. It’s been a long, long downhill stretch from there.
Some of the characters were pretty funny
But they beat them into the ground over those final seasons.
By far
None of the sketch comedy I’ve seen since has come close to how funny In Living Color was at its peak.
I miss Handi Man
He was always one of my favorite characters on that show.
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
They ran at the same time
but Kids In The Hall (which actually started earlier, but they both ended in 1994) was the only thing that’s funnier than In Living Color.
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Back when Jim Carrey was James Carrey!
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Fantastic movie
I was disappointed with The Science of Sleep as a let down of a follow up, though.
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
Oh I'm not complaining.
Some of his latest work has been great.
Some…not so good.
Yeah, I just wanted to make sure that Eternal Sunshine
did not get lumped in with The Number 23.
Although I didn’t actually see that, but I assumed it sucked.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
If anybody watched American Gladiators this season:
I started calling Tim (who was this year’s male champion) Fire Marshal Bill because of his scary neck tendons.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
Is he as crazy as Evan (the guy who won Season 1)?
That guy ROIDED OUT… No chance he bulked up that much that quickly without the help.
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Happens commonly, actually
Studios solicit and buy up scripts based on whatever they think the hot draw will be at the box office that season. Armageddon and Deep Impact. Saving Private Ryan and The Thin Red Line. The Queen and Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
Smokin' Aces was one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 10:35 AM PDT up reply actions
SPR yes, The Thin Red Line I really didn't enjoy...
The Queen was good, too—though looking back on it now I might just feel that way because Helen Mirren’s performance was so off the charts awesome.
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
Funny, I was the opposite.
I liked the Thin Red Line more than SPR.
Is it just me, or is this AJ trade looking worse every day?
by The Alaskan on Aug 5, 2008 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Saving Private Ryan and the Illusionist were very good.
Haven’t seen the Prestige, and I fucking loved Lucky Number Slevin
Go Nova
Prestige is ay better than the Illusionist.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 5, 2008 12:20 PM PDT up reply actions
You're on the edge of the quarantine.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll be gone for three days in a week.
That can be a defacto quarantine.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 5, 2008 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Alicia Keys being hot made that movie worthwhile
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by seattlebruin on Aug 5, 2008 12:22 PM PDT up reply actions
with a Z.
That’s what makes it hip.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Doom and ......
Oh wait, they haven’t done Duke Nukem yet. If they ever do this movie, it better kickass and chew bubble gum.
Ahahahahahha
So the Duke Nukem is based on this guy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso
I have never heard of this movie before, but I want to see it!
This movie looks awful.
Seriously, Tremors grade awful.
Don't you dare say bad things about They Live.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
Seconded.
Is it just me, or is this AJ trade looking worse every day?
by The Alaskan on Aug 5, 2008 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Resident Evil was okay.
Nothing spectacular.
Doom was…awful.
Way back when it was "Abyss" and another movie that were both "Sealab" kind of movies.
I can’t remember the other one though. But that was the first time I remember noticing this phenomenon.
The kicker is, one of the two is always a dramatically better movie than the other one.
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Abyss and Leviathan.
Leviathan was more straight up creature-horror, but yeah, two sealab movies, both in 1989.
Leviathan.
Thank you. Not exactly the same, but close enough to get my attention.
Also, I’d like to apologize for the horrible structure of my post above. I think I reverted back to being eight years old for a second.
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Leviathan ruined my childhood.
Soooo many nightmares from that fucking movie.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
One of them freaked me out, I can't remember which one.
Which one had the liquid you could “breathe” in it?
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Abyss.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
I had too high of expectations for Sphere.
I love Crichton novels.
It helps that he has a lower limit for what gets cuts out for the movies.
My biggest annoyance was that Jurassic Park didn’t have the chick doctor flinging herself through a tree to get away from the raptor.
Wrong.
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Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Didn't that come out around the same time as the film adaptation of Sphere?
I honestly can’t remember.
One is always better than the other because one production studio works on its project for 6 months.
The other has to push their movie out in 3 months to catch the wave.
But sometimes the second group gets lucky and signs Aerosmith to sing the main song.
I’ve got to figure that Deep Impact was the better script, just from the previews I saw, and that Armageddon was the special effects side.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 11:02 AM PDT up reply actions
I thought Armageddon was the better movie, but I saw it first (in the theater).
Then I saw Deep Impact later on DVD.
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Both pretty much sucked.
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Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
It also had the crazy fucker who's name I can't remember right now.
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Steve Buscemi?
He’s awesome in pretty much anything he does.
I just watched Paris Je'Taime
which is a series of 5 min films about Paris, done by some notable directors and some less so. The Coen Brothers did one, and it starred Buscemi, and it was probably the funniest one of the whole film, even though Buscemi didn’t really say a word the whole time.
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It's a really, really charming movie
At first I thought it was going to be a pretentious exercise in film school wankery – one 5 min film for each Paris arrondisement, done by a different director? yawn – but it is actually a really good film. There’s one or two stories that kinda make you scratch your head and go “huh?”, but the rest are all really quite good.
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American version coming soon
“New York, I Love You” is coming out next year. Great cast list and …. interesting list of directors, including Scarlett Johanssen, Natalie Portman, and …. Brett Ratner?
by edgar is good on Aug 5, 2008 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Buscemi, that was it.
His character alone made this a better movie than Deep Impact.
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I'm not saying it was great.
I just thought it was better. Of course much of that could have been because the special effects in Deep Impact were so horrible.
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I think The Queen and Elizabeth are pure coincidence.
They’re not at all similar.
Is it just me, or is this AJ trade looking worse every day?
by The Alaskan on Aug 5, 2008 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Movies are like that.
You can see the lag time in between a headline about the discovery of a million or so objects in space that could ruin life on earth, for instance, and those movies coming out.
Same thing with the reports about the rising water temperature starting to get traction in the media, and whatever the fuck that horrible movie was about NYC flooding and freezing in the span of a week.
The Day After Tomorrow
Only thing it had going for it was Emmy Rossum.
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
I liked The Day After Tomorrow......
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
Movies and terrible science tend to go well together
who’da thunk it?
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I know, it's crazy!!
Still, movies like The Core and Day After Tomorrow are so ridiculous that it can sometimes be annoying. Like when they are able to run from the -150 degree temps (because of course temperature is like a wall and if you stay 2 feet in front of the -150 degree part it’s room temp) and then the ridiculous cold is stopped simply by shutting 2 old wooden doors.
Go Nova
Dude, everyone knows that wood doesn't conduct heat and thus will stop a raging inferno behind it
I mean look at fires!
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I guess this was the first time I noticed it
come to think of it, Lake Placid and Deep Blue Sea came out the same year too. Weren’t those movies also functionally the same?
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions
And also can be linked to a bunch of divers "finding nessie" a year before.
Damn, I wish I could remember the site I found that time line on.
Deep Blue Sea is a great popcorn/wasted movie.
The science sucks but sharks eating everybody=me being entertained.
Lake Placid was retarded. I think the crocodile kills like 2 people the whole movie. There are soo many boring parts.
Go Nova
An ad for a dating site?
Hmmmmm. I’ll take the unicorn burger with a side of braised harp seal, please.
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I had a girlfriend once who seemed to glitter everything in her apartment.
I would come back to my place tracking in glitter every day. Glitter is overrated, and we should not pick up its option for 2009.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
What about puffy paint?
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Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
We can offer arbitration to puffy paint.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
I'd rather let puffy paint go to Pittsburgh
there’s no need to have puffy paint if you don’t have glitter. And there should, indeed, be no glitter.
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You're right about that; and a fan favorite, too.
Krylon really puts butts in the seats.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
I can't find the Johnny Bench commercial that would be a great link here
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What the heck is "puffy paint"?
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Paint that is puffy.
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Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Ummm....
Okay? What the *&%$ would you use that for? Some kind of body paint or something?
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Nah.
A lot of people use it to decorate things like hats and sweatshirts.
Mostly kids and sorority girls.
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Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
They should get the hell off my lawn then.
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Pardon me if the game thread hit this last night
But Prince Fielder and Manny Parra fought in the dugout last night.
Also, Dave Bush looks like a righthanded Matt Thornton. Not, not pitching wise, I mean physically looks like him.
Subjectively, there's been a lot of fights this year.
Is there an objective stat for that? FGT%
That wasn't even a fight.
If it was, Prince would have eaten Manny Parra, even though he’s a vegetarian now.
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Manny Parra's made entirely of tofu.
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Parra wasn't exactly pitching lights out.
Common sense tells you not to mess with someone who has their own gravitational pull.
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Actually he just kind of sat there on the bench looking confused.
Which made me confused because I sure would have gotten the hell out of there.
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It's not really up to the pitcher when he leaves, is it?
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That's what I'm saying.
How can Prince be pissed at him, when it’s the coaching staff that pulled him?
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No, he was going from the dugout to the clubhouse.
And Fielder supposedly wanted him to stay out and cheer on his team trying to bail out his worthless ass.
I can see that.
But don’t pitchers usually go get some ice on their arm, or something like that at least?
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Then Prince should have eaten him.
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Perhaps the best prank ever if this is real:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eckoYQqdk28&NR=1
(if you are at work, make sure you have headphones)
Hilarious.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
At work, no headphones.
Damn.
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Silly girls who play WOW.
against Vegas reliever Casey Hoorelbeke, whose ancestors clearly couldn't spell Hurlbeck properly.
Besides the reasons to date a unicorn, this thread feels like deja vu.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 11:46 AM PDT reply actions
Wrong.
She was talking about the crappy movies post, and mentioned a crappy movie.
I-RON-Y!!!
Hey look!
It’s the Robot Devil! 
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I guess nobody understood the "irony" reference.
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I did.
I just didn’t think it needed a response. Most jokes are better when they are left as-is.
This is why the internet can suck sometimes.
There’s no way to just nod like “I get it”.
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and fuck, I misspelled "circle"
the wrongness didn’t worry me so much, so long as I chose my wrongness with conviction.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
As long as you've identified the problem, you don't need to be quarantined.
And happy birthday.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Is it Carroll's birthday?
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NOLA needs to read her facebook better
but happy birthday tomorrow Daniel
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by seattlebruin on Aug 5, 2008 12:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I work tomorrow night, which is made of suck.
But I am going to go out for a drink afterwards, you know, at 1:30am.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 12:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Where the heck are you going to score a drink that close to closing time?
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I got to the Hurricane Cafe after work a lot
and the restaurant area stays open 24 hours, so I just chill there for a while as I’m chatting.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 12:40 PM PDT up reply actions
You should call ahead and have them line up about six shots (of your choice).
Then you can just run in and CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG!
Happy birthday to me!
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I am not prepared for that.
More like have a rum & coke and maybe a shot of rumpleminze in good company.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 5, 2008 12:45 PM PDT up reply actions
In all seriousness,
now you’re talking. Pat O’Day would have to have a chat with you if you did it the other way.
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He makes me feel so guilty.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
If I'm hungover, he usually pisses me off.
He makes me feel worse on days I’m in a good mood.
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Would it make you feel better to know that Shick Shadel
practices quackery?
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 5, 2008 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions
Is that what the commercial is for?
I can’t get past the part about how would I feel if someone asked me to give up alcohol for 30 days.
Then I look at the beer in my hand and the guilt begins.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 2:07 PM PDT up reply actions
That's exactly what the commercial is for.
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If you were really an alcoholic they couldn't cure you in 10 days anyways
Nothing about those commercials is good. They’re both lying by saying addiction is a cakewalk to get through and making normal drinkers feel like shit for no good reason.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one getting pissed.
I also love it when in the next inning, they follow it up with the don’t drink trendy microbrews spot.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Huh, that works two ways.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Don't drink micros?
I haven’t heard that one.
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The Budweiser Commercial.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 2:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh, that one.
Budweiser can kiss my American butt.
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It's called aversion therapy.
They take you into a room and have you smell your favorite drink, then feed you syrup of ipecac to make you throw up. After ten days of doing that, it becomes a natural reaction to feel nauseous when you smell alcohol.
They’ve got an astounding success rate, but now syrup of ipecac is in VERY short demand, so they’re sweating it.
They could substitute iocane powder.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Screw that.
If you’re really an alcoholic, you’ll just switch to a new type of alcohol.
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I know that would not work for me
In my younger days a good puke was just a way to hit the reset button on my drinking for the evening.
Puke and rally.
Ah, the old days.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I remember being at a party with a buddy who was hammered.
We were talking to these girls, and he was in mid-sentence when he said, “hold on a sec,” turned and threw up in the bushes, then turned around, took another swig of beer, and said, “where were we?”
The girls left.
Yowza.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Been there, done that
Somehow they didn’t leave.
by Graham MacAree on Aug 5, 2008 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
That's desperation.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
This story belongs in the neighborhood of "things I did this weekend"
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My older sister still does that on Friday nights.
I’ve never understood it. Once I puke, I’m done.
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Yeah, puking is the flashing neon sign
saying that my night is over.
Also, weirdly, I rarely throw up during the night while fully conscious. I almost always either throw up while blacked/browned out or throw up the next morning.
Go Nova
That's a problem right there.
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Sort of like A Clockwork Orange?
That’ll end well.
But really, what stops you from switching to a different drink? If you’re enough of an alcoholic to need aversion therapy it seems like you could find a way to get around it pretty easily.
Even then though
You could probably dillute it to the point of not triggering your gag reflex if you really wanted to.
You’re still addicted to alcohol, is the point, you just have a harder time keeping it down. You’re still an alcoholic.
They don't actually treat the problem, though.
Only the symptom. The vast majority of people who are diagnosed as alcoholics aren’t really; people with actual chemical dependency problems need much more extensive treatment; other people just need to exercise greater restraint.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 5, 2008 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
But they promise a quick fix and tell you you're cured.
The problem will manifest itself in some other way soon enough.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 5, 2008 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
The only thing that saved my Dad was almost getting killed flipping his car.
that’s aversion therapy for you right there.
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The thing is, though
there’s a big difference between a drinking habit and alcoholism, but our culture doesn’t really distinguish between the two. Sure, aversion therapy is probably a great way to “cure” a drinking habit, but there are other, far cheaper ways to do so. It doesn’t cure addiction, and it could end up making things much, much worse.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 5, 2008 2:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head.
I have a pretty wicked drinking habit. I go out more than I should. But my Dad was addicted. He couldn’t get up in the morning without a big chug of Scotch, and he carried a cooler of booze in the car with him everywhere he went, so he could drink during the trip.
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I keep screwing up making one word bold.
What the hell? I’m doing it just like I always have….
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But...then you're not really cured in 10 days are you?
Because you need probably months of psychiatric therapy to get over your addictive behaviors as a “follow-up”, like you would in any other treatment program.
So the commercial is greatly oversimplifying the process and the disease and how easy it is to cure it.
Well, for their part of it, you are. I'm sure they hold groups and counsel you on where to seek the mental portion of the therapy.
However, I only know about their practices from the clinical side. I work for the Poison Center, and we have plenty of contact with them.
So do I when I'm drunk.
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Three wisemen and liquid cocaine over and over!
that won’t run your bar tab up at all either ;)
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by seattlebruin on Aug 5, 2008 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
NOLA swears it said today.
Maybe the Central Time Zone is really ahead today.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 12:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Fucking wormholes
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by seattlebruin on Aug 5, 2008 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Huh, that word does say tomorrow.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Overheard at the casino after a friend was bitching constantly during a blackjack session
Dealer: You said you were from Napa Valley, right?
Friend (confused): No…. I never said where I was from, I’m from LA though
Dealer: Weird. I could have sworn you said you were from wine country…
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Haha, that's AWESOME!
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
Somebody's not getting tipped.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
Blackjack player Arnold Snyder once said
that if a person ever has a problem taking bad beats in poker, that person should play Blackjack for a few weeks, because a Blackjack player takes so many bad beats during a typical session that he just gets used to them.
Of course, that belies someone whining about bad blackjack hands, but there you go
I hit post about a sentence too early.
I've always said, that a smart player goes in expecting to lose a certain amount of money.
That way, when it happens, you aren’t pissed off, and if you walk away with some cash, then it’s just a bonus.
Gambling should be treated like any other form of entertainment. You pay a certain amount of money to have fun for a certain amount of time.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
Craps is the best thing that was ever invented
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I hate Craps. Hate it.
Then again, from an Observer’s perspective, I hate any game that has players passing their hands over their bets as frequently as Craps. Not enough game protection.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
Ohhhhhh that's right...
what’s your job again? You’re like a pit boss, right?
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Surveillance.
But I’ve been a Pit Boss on a few occasions, as well as Security in the almost 5 years that I’ve worked in the casino industry.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
Speaking of the casino industry, hey Gomez weren't you a cage cashier?
I forget what said you did.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
I was a clerk for the Bally's Las Vegas casino cage on the night shift
Not the worst job in the world.
I could never be a cage cashier.
Holy crap those people are under some intense pressure sometimes not to have any variances.
I’ve always said that I could do pretty much any job on the casino floor(that involved gaming), with at least some level of competency. But if you threw me in the cage I’d be doomed.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!
I'm back to liking midgets too much.
Indeed
If you’re a dollar off, you’ll be lucky to have a job the next day. My mother’s done it for 25 years, and for people who have been looking for every excuse to write her up and fire her. I don’t know how she does it.
I almost feel bad when I write up cashiers for MICS violations.Though I take great joy in writing up Dealers.
Whats funny is that 70% of the time, it’s just a paperwork error. Like last week, our Main Bank had a $76 dollar variance that she couldn’t fnd. They spent 45 minutes looking for it, thinking it was in one of Class III or Class III drawers. Turns out they just forgot to include the paperwork for the Deli’s tips.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
I'm sorry, but as a person who works in accounting, that cracks me up.
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And there's paperwork everywhere in the cage, for just about everything they do
I don’t know how much paper the Washington Gaming Control Board requires, logs and such, but Nevada always required a shit-ton. In fact, a good portion of my job (and I worked a 40 hour position) was just reconciling all the paperwork we had in the cage.
And it’s 100% accurate almost 100% of the time too (well… except for the occasional thief, but they get dealt with quickly). Amazing.
It varies depending on your Tribe's Compact and MICS(or your card room's MICS), but it's alot.
And most of it is in triplicate forms to boot.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
I just enjoy knowing the etymology of this word.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Please elaborate for someone who doesn't know the etymology of the word
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According to Dictionary.com
the etymology isn’t all that exciting.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
The game actually derived from the French word for toad, which is crapaud.
It gained popularity in New Orleans (but of course) and my street used to be named Craps—before the man who named it lost his fortune on, what else, gambling.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Sweet!
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I find it pretty cool.
But I’m also glad my street name changed…
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
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Indeed, the key to smart/happy gambling is a strict stop-loss
You bring in $100 that you can afford to lose, and if you lose it, fine, but if you win or at least break roughly even, hey, great.
Fuck I did it again
... and if you lose the $100… you stop at $100. You don’t go back for more money and keep plugging.
Yep.
Going to the ATM in a casino or the cage to get more money is pretty much the worst thing you can do.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
I only made that mistake ONCE..
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When I was growing up, my mother always came home with horror stories
of working class people practically losing their shirts, rich people losing astonishing sums of money. Listening to those repeatedly was more than enough for me to learn the lesson. The house ALWAYS wins.
I also learned to avoid gambling when your hammered.
That’s when you tend to get really stupid.
I'm back to liking midgets too much.
A casino's best friend is a drunk gambler.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
That's why they give you the free drinks!
I'm back to liking midgets too much.
That's not true
we all know it’s out of sheer generosity!
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Heh... I do that all the time
but then of course the limits I set tend to be time-based, so if I have a particularly galling craps session (like I did last week grrrrrrr) I just won’t go to the casino for a month and a half or so
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I had to read this a couple times to understand but now I'm giggling.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Who else is ridiculously excited for the new Xbox 360 game Left 4 Dead?
Check out some of the game play videos:
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 1:44 PM PDT reply actions
I'm not.
But then again I still don’t have an X360.
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Have you played Portal or Half Life 2?
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
No.
I’ve heard good things about Half Life 2 though. I was going to get an X360, but then the GF wanted a Wii, so we got that. Then I had some medical and vacation expenses come up, so I haven’t had the disposable income to go get the Xbox yet (not to mention do the hard wiring I want to do to have it in my living room).
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Is that across the board?
I heard that the Arcade 360 (no harddrive) was going to be cut to $199, but I hadn’t heard about the 20 gig or the Elite being cut.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait until the PS3 gets its cut in for a couple weeks.
They’re dropping, so XBox is never far behind.
I don't know anyone playing PS3.
All my friends are on X360 now.
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I'll be honest.
My PS3 is a glorified blu-ray player.
I keep hearing the same thing, so I'm kind of holding off.
Plus I’ve been (and will be) either out of town or extremely busy for about the next 6 weeks, so I don’t see the point in rushing out to buy something I won’t be home to use.
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Best idea.
The cuts look to be pretty substantial.
That's what my buddies have been saying. I think I can be patient enough to wait for the price drop.
I still have to hardwire internet access into my living room anyway.
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Yeah, go with a hardwired CAT5 connection.
I hate gaming online via wireless.
Agreed.
I hardwired my Xbox after starting with a wireless connection and I couldn’t be happier. All it took was me drilling holes in my floor, and crawling under my house through cobwebs dragging the CAT5 cable to my Xbox. It wasn’t so bad really.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 3:21 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't think it'll be too tough, my internet comes in right on the other side of the living room wall (in the family room).
I should just have to punch a hole through to the other side.
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I'm actually tearing out the old CAT3 in my house right now to run some CAT5e.
Total pain in the ass, but it’ll be worth it. The old CAT3 is actually bottlenecking my FiOS connection.
You're going a bit over my head,
but I think I’m going with CAT5. That’s what everyone has recommeded.
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CAT5 is perfect for what you're doing.
Don’t forget to get a punch tool and some keystone jacks, though.
CAT3 is basically the same thing as CAT5.
Just a lower quality, and therefore lower speed. It’s all Ethernet.
I wish I had FiOS.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 6:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Which means PS3 price cuts should follow shortly thereafter...
Good. Good.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 5, 2008 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Me too.
Though knowing Valve this game (which is scheduled to come out November 4th) probably won’t be out until the end of next year.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:09 PM PDT up reply actions
No kidding.
Will Duke Nukem Forever ever see the light of day?
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:14 PM PDT up reply actions
To add to the awesome news of Morrow making the move to starter, the Dbacks have reportedly signed Dan Haren to an extension.
Supposedly 3 years-$45 Million. Nothing official yet.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
That's a good deal for the DBacks.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Details coming out
The Arizona Diamondbacks have signed pitcher Dan Haren to a two-year extension with a club option for a third season that could keep the right-hander in a Diamondbacks uniform through 2013, reports Sports 620 KTAR’s John Gambadoro.Haren has two years left on his current contract and the two additional years will be for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. The deal is worth approximately $31 million dollars with the club option in 2013 worth $15.5 million dollars.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
Even better.
I didn’t realized he was already signed through 2010.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:42 PM PDT up reply actions
That was alot of the reason why he cost as much in talent as he did.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
Now, Mariners, lock up Felix NOW.
I reject your reality and substitute my own!
Also, I'm always down for some online Grand Theft Auto IV or Rock Band. Gamertag: Phildopip
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Aug 5, 2008 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Nick Piecoro, the Dbacks main beat writer, has different details.
The contract, which nullifies Haren’s previous deal, is worth $41.25 million over the next four seasons and includes a $15.5 million option for 2013 with a $3.5 million buyout.Haren will be paid $7.5 million in 2009, $8.25 million in ’10, $12.75 million in ’11 and $12.75 million in ’12.
Haren’s previous deal, which he signed with Oakland in September 2005, called for a salary of $5.5 million in 2009 with a $6.75 million option for 2010.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
Official Press Release confirms this one.
"All I’ve ever done is be Juan Pierre when I wear this jersey. They’re sticking it to me this year for whatever reason. "
.280/.324/.316
~Juan Pierre
We need more genocide.
Let’s start with anyone that posts comments on YouTube.
I would say go see the funny, but it just makes me sad.
I see a new tag for the future.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 5, 2008 6:38 PM PDT up reply actions
So it turns out that waking up on Wednesday is the hardest of all
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I find that Thursday is the worst.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 7:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Thursday is my Friday this week
so I think Thursday won’t be so bad
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You must be one of those 9/80 types.
But Friday I get to leave for vacation so I have no room to complain this week.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 8:02 AM PDT up reply actions
Thanks to my damn vanpool schedule, I also have 1.5 hours of offset to use up on Thursday, so I'm planning on working 8:30-4 and still getting paid for a full day
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