This 8-6-08 FanPost is absolutely Off-Topic
by Gomez on Aug 6, 2008 8:23 AM PDT
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Print... as if there is any gray area between on topic and off topic.
Some of you are not big fans of the off-topic threads. Look at it this way: given the 300+ comments in yesterday's thread alone, and the hundreds of comments in each of the previous threads, there's definitely a use and demand for the threads. Don't sweat it. The game and recap threads are still fun, and discussion's hardly curtailed. If anything, these threads open the door for discussion on more topics.
And a late Happy Birthday for Two R's and Two L's! He'll be celebrating by... working 13 hours. Sounds like my birthdays :P
So anyway, go for it.
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I like the off-topic threads
there’s still the traditional LL weirdness going on here and we actually talk about baseball elsewhere
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Hey look at that.
Grand Theft Auto IV is coming to the PC this November.
Perhaps instead of the "Off-Topic FPOTD" we should call it the "LL Free for all OTD"
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I don't think it should be free for all.
Only select posters, and make the rest pay for it.
There should be a bouncer.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 8:46 AM PDT up reply actions
NOLA would get in for free
everyone else pays cover though =(
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Damn straight.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 8:57 AM PDT up reply actions
I think we are treading dangerously down the path towards Club LL
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It's too early in the morning for that.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Party all day and all night
that’s how we do it here at Lookout Landing!
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Needs more poines and SDSU RHSP #37s
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Needs more cake.
We have a birthday today.
And I actually read that correctly this morning.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 8:58 AM PDT up reply actions
?It's Wednesday!
New Zero Punctuation in ten minutes!
Wednesday is also new XKCD day.
I want them to come out with a new version of this movie for the awesome effects they could put into it, but at the same time I;m so very afraid they’ll ruin it for good.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
By the way, Ghostbusters 3 is going to be in videogame form.
Someone will pick it up.
That’s too good of a marketing tool not to acquire.
Agreed.
Plus they’ve already gone so far with it (including demos and screenshots released to magazines).
From what I’ve seen it looks 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 6, 2008 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
What are you talking about?
Rape is never funny, unless you’re raping a clown.
I always wondered where clown rape fits on the chart.
Annnnnnnnnd….. SUBTHREAD CLOSED
Furry clown rape.
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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 6, 2008 9:06 AM PDT up reply actions
What is is abotu SUBTHREAD CLOSED do people not understand?
I make a simple Carlin joke, and then a chart joke, and now we’re into DRB territory.
What went so wrong?
vitor artinez
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JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
You’ve ruined me.
This is excellent.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
You'll need quarantine time too soon.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Especially the is is
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm watching the original series of Star Trek (in preparation for the movie, of course)
and, holy shit, there are some great episodes in the first season. There are some real stinkers, too, but so far I’ve come away impressed.
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 6, 2008 9:11 AM PDT reply actions
May 2009
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 6, 2008 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions
Day game today!
I think that will at least somewhat curtail our off-topicness in this thread, no?
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 9:21 AM PDT reply actions
According to NOLA this thread needs more cake
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It does.
I hope it’s chocolate.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:25 AM PDT up reply actions
I was thinking mint chocolate chip ice cream
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How is that cake?
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Mint chocolate chip ice cream cake...
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Ice cream cake is ok as long as there isn't the decorative frosting on the top.
Because it gets all cold and congealed and nasty tasting.
the other angels fan
I prefer the Baskin-Robbins style
Where there’s actual cake, not just ice cream. Then the icing goes atop the cake part.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions
Baskin Robbins Winter White Chocolate cake rules
My wife’s family gets one every year at Christmas (when you grow up in the desert, ice cream cake at Christmas isn’t really that insane), and it’s all kinds of awesome.
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by pdb on Aug 6, 2008 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm a bit biased since I used to work at one.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions
If I worked at BR
I would have been 450 lb before I knew what happened. I can’t really have ice cream in the house because I’ll generally hork the whole container down in one sitting.
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by pdb on Aug 6, 2008 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions
Ice cream is dangerous for me as well.
I can’t stop eating the stuff.
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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 6, 2008 9:44 AM PDT up reply actions
It's extremely dangerous when they tell you that you must sample every flavor.
It probably wasn’t the brightest decision of my teen years.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
I'll get a little Haagen Daas container every now and then
but only one of those, and only every once in a while… because yes, then the whole container disappears in 1-2 sittings.
Or Coldstone.
Although that tends to disagree with me the next day. Might be too rich for me.
I'm back to liking midgets too much.
Do you have a hatred of it like I do of mayo?
I worked in food service as a teen and funnelling mayo from a big tub into those squeeze bottles has made it impossible for me to like mayo. Even the smell is awful.
No, but I have a fear of walk-in freezers.
I am also an ice cream shop worker’s dream customer, because I know enough to not tell them just the flavor, but cone or cup, and what type of cone.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Working at Reser's ruined potato salad for me.
Not that there was anything wrong with it, I just can’t stand it anymore.
KFC Coleslaw, on the other hand…
I found out recently that you can get dry ice
at one of the BR’s in Salem.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
The one on South Commercial.
God, I still know that.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Want their phone numbers, too?
My brain is full of useless knowledge.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Where'd you go to HS?
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by pdb on Aug 6, 2008 9:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh no, another Salemite?
South.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Not really a Salemite
but I spent my freshman year at McNary before relocating back to Seattle (parental job fluctuation).
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by pdb on Aug 6, 2008 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
Ah...well, nothing really bad to say about McNary, so you're safe.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I was there in 1983
so say all the bad stuff you want, I barely remember what it looks like at this point.
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by pdb on Aug 6, 2008 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Probably for the best.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I'm in no hurry to return there
My last contract gig was at Regence, and I did a couple stints in their Salem office, and it kinda creeped me out. Salem’s strange.
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by pdb on Aug 6, 2008 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Salem is a black hole.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Don't say that.
That sort of stuff makes me feel so young. I was born in 83.
;P
I'm glad one of us feels young.
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by pdb on Aug 6, 2008 9:52 AM PDT up reply actions
as long as you turn down all that hippity-hop music.
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by pdb on Aug 6, 2008 9:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Consarnit
Look at this lawn!? You call this a lawn? In my day, we took pride in lawn maintenance. But the kids these days, they just use the lawn as a convenient place to rut their trampy girlfriends, or as an ashtray for all of their goofball-joints.
Cut your lawn, then cut your hair!
by marc w on Aug 6, 2008 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Damn hippies.
and rec’d for the use of the phrase “rut their trampy girlfriends”.
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I had to read that a few times
because my mind couldn’t process all of the awesome.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 6, 2008 10:19 AM PDT up reply actions
It's yours!
Or would you prefer ice cream cake? It’s your call today.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh yeah - happy birthday 2R2L!
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by pdb on Aug 6, 2008 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Except that it's totally not my call today.
I’m putting in 13 hours between two jobs. The only calls I’m going to be making are the ones from the bowling alley to league bowlers.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions
On second thought
I really shouldn’t have calculated the number of hours. That’s depressing.
I am fixing to watch “The Last Dragon” and “Godzilla Raids Again” tomorrow with some friends, but my guess is that we don’t need another random movie thread.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 9:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Don't do that to yourself.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:47 AM PDT up reply actions
In 13 hours.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh, I thought you were hating on The Last Dragon / Godzilla.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 9:51 AM PDT up reply actions
No, the countdown.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 9:54 AM PDT up reply actions
It's too early for Club LL.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 10:30 AM PDT up reply actions
We've got a day game today.
Return of Club LL tonight?
I beat you in the Billy Joel reference section last time.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
This goes the distance.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
"Short skirt, long jacket" used to be so good.
Before the radio got ahold of it.
I still love that song
As well as pretty much everything by Cake (except for, ironically, “Going the Distance” – which I think of as the most sinfully overplayed Cake song by radio stations)
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
It is. But it is still awesome to drive along to.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I will survive.
I'm back to liking midgets too much.
A semi-baseball topic
Bravo, Jim.
Why do teams do this when this is such a readily apparent poor use of resources?“I’ll tell you why,” Oakland general manager Billy Beane says. “It’s the same reason more football coaches don’t go for it on fourth-and-1. Because when it doesn’t work, 30 of you guys come storming in wondering why the manager didn’t go to the closer. It’s turned into a situation where a lot of emotion is tied to that decision, just as a lot of emotion is tied to the fourth-down decision. Even if you know the odds, it’s more comfortable being wrong when you go to the closer or the punter.
“The position has become very media-driven. It became a national story when Boston announced it would go with a bullpen by committee.”
God I wish a smart team would go back to the Fireman role and use their best reliever for that.
the other angels fan
I mean, that's got to be worth an extra 1-3 wins over a season
if you use your best pitcher in the highest leverage situations.
the other angels fan
Caple seems to think so.
The restricted role of closers not only is an inefficient use of their talent, it renders them useless during a prolonged losing streak because the team never has a lead in the ninth inning to protect. Putz “saved” 40 games last year with a 1.38 ERA, was named the team’s best pitcher by the local writers and the reliever of the year by the league. Yet when Seattle was in the midst of losing 13 of 14 games in late August and early September to tumble from the wild-card lead to hopelessly out of playoff contention, Putz pitched only twice. So when the team was floundering at a make-or-break point of the season, its supposed best pitcher - the league’s alleged best reliever - was of no help because the Mariners were not in official and proper “save situations.”
PET PEEVE ALERT:
I hate when writers use the word “floundering” instead of “foundering.”
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 6, 2008 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Either word works in this context
I mean, I’m with you, but I think it’s fine here….
Losing 13 out of 14 isn't floundering.
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 6, 2008 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
"Floundering at a make-or-break point of the season"
is perfectly acceptable. At least to me.
If it was “floundering their way to 13 consecutive losses” or something, maybe so. THIS season, they’re foundering. Last year, at the point described here, I think either would work.
Yeah, I saw that yesteday
Keiran Darcy and Jim Caple have written a lot of good articles over on Page 2 recently
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This is so refreshing.
Beats the hell out of the usual ESPN garbage.
I remember when Boston did that and I thought they were so dumb
God I was dumb back then. Atleast the Devil Rays were the ones to benefit from it.
Yeah it was very good.
Also, Jonah Keri tears apart the idea of K-Rod for AL MVP. The link is in the Caple article.
It’s great to finally get stuff like this from ESPN.
Go Nova
Hahaha
Yeah. He blew another save two nights ago, though it was partly Tex’s fault for booting a ball. Good old Frankie, making things interesting even after being up by 4 and with two outs, lets them tie the game.
At least we got a walkoff walk! WOO.
the other angels fan
I was helping my roommate install a new blow-off valve and we came into the living room with it 0-2 on Roberts
he was not a very happy camper about five minutes later
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The comments section of this story is 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 6, 2008 9:30 AM PDT up reply actions
Absolutely.
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 6, 2008 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions
This is why I love Greasemonkey
there’s a greasemonkey userscript that prevents ESPN comments from loading – as the script’s author puts it, “ESPN’s “conversation” beta does nothing more than frustrate me that people can be that dumb. I am not interested in what bgh4321xx2’s opinion on the Patriots trading for Randy Moss is.”
Exactly.
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by pdb on Aug 6, 2008 9:35 AM PDT up reply actions
ESPN comments are always a fun read.
Amazingly there were a few who got it…and then a million who are godamned idiots.
Go Nova
YouTube
at least ESPN comments have a few insightful ones every once in a while
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I can't even troll that stupidly.
And I’ve ruined some perfectly good websites that way in my younger years.
But they could do what took me days of work w/o even trying. It’s a good thing they hole themselves up there. I don’t know what the internet would do if they dispersed.
YouTube BY FAR.
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 6, 2008 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Sometimes I'll thumbs-down all the crappy ones in a thread
and hit my quota for the hour 1/3rd of the way through.
There's a limit on the number of times you can give comments thumbs-down?
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 6, 2008 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Youtube.
Every single video will have terribly racist comments and at least 10 people who are only there to piss off everyone else. ESPN commentors are just stupid.
Go Nova
OMG! Dere izz no qwestyun! BYATHCES!
I fucking hate you Mariners
How is babby formed?
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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 6, 2008 1:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Recipe: Baby (Servings: 1)
Combine:
One Prom night
Three wine coolers
Four Miller High Lifes
Place mixture in oven for 9 months. Proceed to resent and neglect baby for 18 years.
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Logan isn't an idiot.
He’s just horribly…horribly…horribly misguided.
He used to stop by SportSpot here and there. I think people ran him off the site.
This is currently my signature.
Did he ever provide you with his scouting reports?
He claims they exist. They say that Shin-Soo Choo is a first ballot hall of famer and that Bryan LaHair hits lefties better than righties.
Ever see his claim that Bill Bavasi was ordering the team to tank so he could move them to another city?
Or that he was mentally abusing Jose Lopez?
I really miss some of the trolls we've had around here
F’nA’s and ASUBoyd for starters, and the guy who thought that Felix should be able to pitch through heat because he was from Venezuela
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I still think it's going to be awkward when football season starts
and he has to interact with people at FGs that he got into it with here.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 6, 2008 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Scruffy Lefty will deal with him.
And it will be glorious.
Scruffy loves you.
He told me this to my face.
against Vegas reliever Casey Hoorelbeke, whose ancestors clearly couldn't spell Hurlbeck properly.
I am dead serious.
He adores you.
against Vegas reliever Casey Hoorelbeke, whose ancestors clearly couldn't spell Hurlbeck properly.
I'm not quite sure what I did to earn his adoration.
I’m kind of frightened. Honored, but frightened.
He just told me that he wishes there was a way
on LL where he could get a notice that whenever you were in an argument, he would get a notification so he could watch.
against Vegas reliever Casey Hoorelbeke, whose ancestors clearly couldn't spell Hurlbeck properly.
My arguments with people here often result in me looking like a complete moron.
I don’t know if I like where this is going.
Just repeating, not stating fact.
Take it for what its worth, but if we ever do a FG vs. LL flag football game, you should come.
against Vegas reliever Casey Hoorelbeke, whose ancestors clearly couldn't spell Hurlbeck properly.
Are you sure we're not talking about Graham?
Because the arguments he gets in are made of pure awesome.
He said you.
against Vegas reliever Casey Hoorelbeke, whose ancestors clearly couldn't spell Hurlbeck properly.
I'll be at Field Gulls this season.
Let him know that my policy of kissing moderator ass applies there.
I will let them all know.
against Vegas reliever Casey Hoorelbeke, whose ancestors clearly couldn't spell Hurlbeck properly.
After this season, I need John and Scruffy to softly caress me
and whisper soothing words of comfort into my ear.
There there…it’s okay…You’re safe in Timmy Ruskell’s hands…
And this is why you keep winning.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:52 AM PDT up reply actions
I had to stop before there was a political scandal.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:55 AM PDT up reply actions
It involves hearts, I'm sure.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
Have you not been ever caressed by Shrug?
Thats when you know you have arrived.
against Vegas reliever Casey Hoorelbeke, whose ancestors clearly couldn't spell Hurlbeck properly.
You're now kissing up when the mods aren't even actively involved?
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
Graham does seem to possess magical powers of knowing when he's being talked about,
So this was probably a good move.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Wait,
It’s magical power to set up an RSS feed pulling a search for your name on LL? :)
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
I prefer to think of it as Graham's magical powers.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Isn't the point of ass kissing
To suck up to the higher ups without letting your peers see your brown nose? You seem to be doing the opposite of that…
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He's showing me up.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
And you know that I can't.
Hence, showing me up.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I found him hilarious
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
(unintionally hilarious but...)
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 10:17 AM PDT up reply actions
He's a mod on the ASU site.
From what I’ve read so far, not much has changed.
The site is up now?
We should go over there
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh my God SBN made him a moderator?
What the hell?
Maybe they didn't have a large pool.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 10:34 AM PDT up reply actions
I got turned down for a NJ Devils site.
Wow, what does that say about me…
I'm really sad the UCLA site was taken
I think I would have done really well at that
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Although I would probably be too nice to posters and too mean to our team
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
Good cop/Bad cop
Find an annoying troll who is rude to everyone and evangelizes the team. If nothing else it would make for some interesting threads…
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
I've been tempted
To try and get one going for Wazzu, but at the end of the day it equates to work. And I’m not a huge fan of doing that.
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
I would love to host it, but it would be completely a fan site.
I could see their point, I don’t know enough about hockey to have a better than beginner level discussion of strategy or anything besides basic rules.
Wazzu has a hockey team?
I was thinking about our beer drinking team.
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
Sorry, I was still on my topic.
Were you talking about something? ;P
This would be well visited.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
I think I'll choose to cover the Seattle Cascades.
I mean, they’re a small market ensemble, but dammit they know how to find cheap, undervalued talent!
If and when we beat them this year I am going to go make fun of him mercilessly until I get banned
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
I wonder what it would be like to have gone to a school that actually cares about sports...
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Don't look at me.
All we had was a kick-ass marching band. Our sports teams sucked.
You do not provide this information in my typical stalking places so I cannot determine whether you were one of the places I used to hate.
Oh well, I shall get past it.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I've given up on clarity.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:36 AM PDT up reply actions
It is a state of mind.
Rapidly alternating between dry, lousy humor and OH MY GOD FURRIES I WILL KILL YOU STABSTABSTAB DIE DIE DIE YOUR ENTRAILS SHALL BE SPILLED
This is changed from a place I used to hate to a place of which I'm truly frightened
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
JI posts furries?
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Wait til he sees your taste in women comment.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:48 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh he hates these off-topic threads.
I’m safe.
Or so you think.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:50 AM PDT up reply actions
Would've been more so had he responded at that instant.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:53 AM PDT up reply actions
Please do not elaborate.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Wouldn't that be Slappy the Frog?
I'm back to liking midgets too much.
That guy was fucking annoying
His personality summed up:
ASUBoyd: “Hey my name is ASUBoyd let’s friends”
OtherPerson: “Hey nice to meet you”
OtherPerson: “Nice weather we’re having huh?”
ASUBoyd: “What are you implying?”
OtherPerson: “Ummm….that the weather is….nice out today?”
ASUBoyd: “You know what, fuck you buddy I don’t have to sit here and take this”
OtherPerson: ”.......ooooookay”
You forgot Steroids = HGH.
One of my favorite discussions of all time.
I've always wondered about this infamous conversation.
Anyone know where to find it, or should I archive search steroids = HGH?
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Oh dear lord
According to his SBN profile he wants to be a lawyer. Can you imagine having your attorney represent you in court with the same debate skills he displayed in that subthread?
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
I thought the same thing.
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions
Actually you didn't
Because my thought was in my head and your thought was in your head. How could they POSSIBLY be the same thing? According to the FBI, NAACP and USDA they are fundamentally different!
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
Please do not imitate.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 10:56 AM PDT up reply actions
Couldn't resist
But that’s the one and only time you’ll see it. Out of my system now.
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
Hm..
ASUBoyd: Your honor, the defendant is clearly guilty of murder. The video surveillance tapes show it.
Defense attorney: Object your honor. This is a trial for shoplifting, not murder.
ASUBoyd: SHOPLIFTING = MURDER FUCK YOU!
Judge: Objection sustained. Sit the fuck down, son.
He's in law school - read that thread, he told us
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 10:52 AM PDT up reply actions
Read his SBN, he wasn't actually in law school then.
He’s a liar on top of everything else.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Someone should post
this comment on his ASU site. Two recs to do it
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 11:18 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm done with you and your rec bribes.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Wow, Alex B is a prophet.
Strasburg
Poor lad is going to be a dead meme before he even gets drafted.
by Alex B on May 12, 2008 3:38 PM MDT
Late...
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by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:54 AM PDT up reply actions
What's funny is that had he said
“look, I know they’re different; ‘steroids’ has just become shorthand for PEDs; my bad, I’ll try to refrain from making that oversimplification in the future,” everything would have been fine.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 6, 2008 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
But nooooo it had to launch into a big old pissing contest.
Don’t get into pissing contests with Graham. You will never win.
Part II
Jeff/Matthew/Graham: “Stop being stupid.”
ASUBoyd: “What the fuck, I didn’t do anything wrong!”
Jeff/Matthew/Graham: “Wrong.”
ASUBoyd: “FUCK YOU!”
Jeff/Matthew/Graham: “Penalty box.”
::20 minutes later::
ASUBoyd: “So whats up, everybody? How’s the game? Having a nice day?”
I'm still unconvinced F'n'A's was a troll.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 6, 2008 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
He seemed so earnest at first.
When he posted that F the A’s picture he made, he was really sad that people didn’t like it.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 6, 2008 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm still upset I closed that thread.
I wanted to know his other sociocultural arguments.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Also, FanGraphs is amazing what with the auto-exporting to Excel of gamelogs and such
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Brilliant, as always.
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 6, 2008 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions
Track listing for Metallica's "Death Magnetic" is out
‘That Was Just Your Life’
‘The End Of The Line’
‘Broken, Beat & Scarred’
‘The Day That Never Comes’
‘All Nightmare Long’
‘Cyanide’
‘The Unforgiven III’
‘The Judas Kiss’
‘Suicide & Redemption’
Unforgiven III? Really Metallica? You know, I was actually considering giving this album a chance, because when did that cover of Iron Maiden’s “Remember Tomorrow” they sounded really really good(though that could of been because it’s a Maiden song, so the awesome could of rubbed off). But Unforgiven III? Uh oh’s.
The album will be available to download in the coming weeks.
"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
Hah.
Another album to dl, copy, and give to everyone I can in response to their crappy RIAA shilling buy at full price and listen to quietly by myself while not letting anyone else hear, so I don’t make them go broke and lose their gigantic fucking houses.
They should be locked in a room and forced to listen to nothing but their first three albums for two weeks.
They should then be allowed to make an album, and if it sucks, they should be shot.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 6, 2008 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
They may be complete douchebags, but if this new album sound like the first three, I'll buy it.
Or download it. Maybe just borrow it from a friend and rip it.
This is currently my signature.
I'll never pay money for anything they do.
They owe me. I bought Load for crissakes.
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 6, 2008 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
That album should have had a sticker that read "Warning: This is shit."
This is currently my signature.
They named it Load, what more do you want?
"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
Semen on the cover?
Oh wait, they did that, too!
J.K.L.
by Aaron Campeau on Aug 6, 2008 12:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I really don't care if it's good or not, but after seeing that documentary,
I want a film crew following their every move, and capturing each unintentionally hilarious line.
ALERT ALERT!
We have a winner for the most prescient comment in LL history.
I hereby submit Adam B for the newly-named “Adam B Prognostication Award” for this comment.
Dammit.
I read too much AdamB on DKos. So when I see his name, I change it around.
I was just wondering how someone unfamiliar could be so prescient.
Makes more sense now.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:01 AM PDT up reply actions
this goes in off topic since it's drivel, but FYE.
STOPPED TO see the Angels before taking a red eye to St. Louis to hang with Manny, and heard Mark Teixeira say his three favorite places to play are New York, Seattle and Anaheim.Is it safe to assume he will sign next year with New York, Seattle or the Angels?
“I said my three favorite stadiums are in those places,” Teixeira said.
I don't think so - wouldn't it be Dodger Stadium and their world famous Dodger Dogs?
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 11:03 AM PDT up reply actions
Ugh.
Those are some of the worst hot dogs I’ve had.
Surprisingly, the best one are in Yankee Stadium, out of the 13 stadia I’ve visited.
Is this actually plural, or did you make up a word?
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:46 AM PDT up reply actions
Also an instrument or rod used to determine differences in elevation.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:59 AM PDT up reply actions
Wikipedia never lies
We all know that Jarrod Washburn was traded for Phil Hughes and Kei Igawa and then flipped with Adrian Beltre and Raul Ibanez for Manny Ramirez
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Stadia = Stadiums
Equally admissable plurals, it just depends upon whether you prefer the latin derivative or the Anglo. (ref).
The english Mariner who isn't EnglishMariner --- P3 W1 L2 (.333)
Sponsor of Jamie Burke's baseball-reference page
But in the next couple years he'll still be good.
And if we get a smart FO, we can offload him after that.
Is it so much to want a decent 1B for once?
Here's an off-topic request
Anyone have that screencap someone took earlier this year of zombie groundskeeper at Wrigley Field?
I just saved someone else from walking into a pane of glass.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 11:30 AM PDT reply actions
Is this an every day occurrence?
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:37 AM PDT up reply actions
Not quite daily, but maybe once a week or once every couple of weeks.
I get really fidgety when people sit over in the lobby area.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 11:43 AM PDT up reply actions
Fidgety as in you know you'll have to get up and save them?
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:47 AM PDT up reply actions
It's more shouting than getting up.
If I don’t recognize them, I’m pretty sure that they’re about to be in peril.
Really, I should just set up a video camera to tape them from my desk and send it in to AFV or something and make a little cash.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 11:57 AM PDT up reply actions
$100k is more than "a little cash"
you just to add funny video effects and a music track
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
And then Tom Bergeron pastes his head on your videotaped victims, utterly ruining your clip.
This is currently my signature.
I wonder if anyone still sends them VHS tapes
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by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
It's crazy. I've seen probably three people walk into the glass
(though they don’t faceplant) in the two-and-a-half months or so that I’ve been here.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 11:45 AM PDT up reply actions
He's a superhero?
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 11:51 AM PDT up reply actions
I don't understand, that would be hilarious to me
I would even actively encourage it by cleaning the glass every few days.
Great, I need a secret identity now.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 11:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I'd go with Any one of the Mariners' names other than Ichiro or Felix.
No one will know who you are.
This is currently my signature.
Way to be a superhero.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 12:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Now you need a name AND music.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 12:12 PM PDT up reply actions
BWAHAHAH, im going to have an interview with one of the creators of a new adult swim show.
I have eight watches. None of them are fake.
by RafaelCarmona22 on Aug 6, 2008 12:12 PM PDT reply actions
As in an interview to work with him on the show,
or interviewing him for something?
I'm back to liking midgets too much.
Interviewing him for our podcast.
Im excited because i like the show so much.
I have eight watches. None of them are fake.
by RafaelCarmona22 on Aug 6, 2008 12:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I think Carl from ATHF needs his own show. Maybe a talk show like Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
This is currently my signature.
Dave Willis had a search for a live action Carl in San Diego at comicon, one of the most pathetic things ever.
Carl is the man though.
I have eight watches. None of them are fake.
by RafaelCarmona22 on Aug 6, 2008 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
All i know is Ball, Good... AND RAPE.
I’ve interviewed the voice of Shake before, we are trying to get Dave who does Carl and Meatwad in soon.
I have eight watches. None of them are fake.
by RafaelCarmona22 on Aug 6, 2008 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I Don't expect good reviews, but here is the site for it. The interviews are in season 2.
I have eight watches. None of them are fake.
by RafaelCarmona22 on Aug 6, 2008 2:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Same guy does Carl and Meatwad?
Wow.
I'm back to liking midgets too much.
That would be hilarious!
I'm back to liking midgets too much.
Since there's no gamethread yet, this will be ON topic
but….
Ibañez is playing LF and Reed is the DH.
Hilarious.
the other angels fan
I don't think I like you.
It’s one thing when we make fun of our retarded team, it’s another when fans of the better teams makes fun of our retarded team.
Oh come on you don't get to have all the fun.
You don’t have to be a Mariner fan to feel the hate turn into pity and amusement.
the other angels fan
I enjoy the use of the tilde
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I think 0191 is the exclamation upside down.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 12:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Dang. I moved over to mac a year ago, and I forget these things. 2357 is something else, too, if memory serves.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 12:53 PM PDT up reply actions
ñow if only someone would tell me the command for the little heart.
I’d be dangerous.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
That I don't know.
but every time someone tries it, it only shows up as a line to me.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 12:59 PM PDT up reply actions
shit!
I forgot that SBN hates it when you try to use greater thans and less thans. < 3
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 1:04 PM PDT up reply actions
What character encoding are you using?
I’m using Unicode and the hearts work with that.
the other angels fan
Testing, testing
It’s doing nothing.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I shall now rule the world.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Another way to do the hearts is:
& hearts ;
With no spaces.
♥
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 6, 2008 1:08 PM PDT up reply actions
&hearts.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah ha.
♥
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Needs more colon.
I'm back to liking midgets too much.
Oh this is fun.
I switched it to western, and now I get a lowercase a with a hat, the trademark symbol, and the yen symbol instead of a heart.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I went to unicode-16 and everything went kanji on me.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
It works in Safari but not in Firefox.
Is there some plug-in that I need?
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Now I'm running Firefox 3, and it works.
by Two Rs and Two Ls on Aug 6, 2008 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I really should have replied to SOMETHING with that...
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I like it better this way.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
You should make that your signature.
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 6, 2008 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I this your signature should be:
“I really should have replied to SOMETHING with that…”
This is currently my signature.
No, but that's funny too.
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 6, 2008 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
How's this
The ♥ Jose Lopez ♥ Watch - 140 H, 16 BB, 49 G Left
by seattlebruin on Aug 6, 2008 1:11 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Rec worthy.
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 6, 2008 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
I ♥ this.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:28 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm taking away this rec if the ♥ s are already gone.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions
.... fine hold up
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This is like on FB when you get married to someone you're not actually married to
it’s funny at first, then it gets less funny
The ♥ Jose Lopez ♥ Watch - 140 H, 16 BB, 49 G Left
Just leave it for today.
And yes, the questions that come when suddenly you’re single and your ex is listed as married to his cousin…and everyone who is friends with both of you questions what the hell is going on.
That’s why it only needs to be for today.
Finally, some recognition.
by Kirsten Schlewitz on Aug 6, 2008 1:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Worst use of Facebook ever:
A friend from college changed his profile every single day to say it was his birthday. After about a month he was still getting “Happy Birthday!” comments from people.
Free Stephen Awesome Strasburg!
Can someone tell me what the hell is going on with Jeff Karstens?
He’s the Jorge Campillo of August!
Still not really striking anyone out, but no one can hit the guy.
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