Hamsterdam Hosts First Annual Fiesta De La Beluga
by Adam Jacobi on Aug 3, 2011 7:00 PM CDT
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Mariachi Connecticut Serenades a Beluga Whale (via captainkickstand)
This is the Internet. This right here. A three-man Mariachi band serenading a beluga whale, who's got positive vibes for days in that pool of his. And before anybody at Carlos O'Kelly's gets any idea, no, you are not allowed to serve whale tacos so just forget it and jam out like the rest of everybody here.
Here's your Hamsterdam post for the night. Hamsterdam origin and policy is here. Do with this thread what you will, and if you're as chill as the mariachi players and ol' Bryan Beluga over there, so much the better. If not, forget it, Jake. It's Hamsterdam.
Me, I'm going out for sushi tonight, so mayhaps I'll come back and report to y'all how it was (prediction: not very warm!). What are you having for dinner? Is it human flesh? The most dangerous dinner of them all? It better not be human flesh. You promised those days were over.
OK fine, if you ate a human, I hope it was someone you didn't like.
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If Triple H and WWE Creative go forward on this bullshit
I’ll definitely eat them. And I won’t even have the decency to butcher first.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 3, 2011 7:06 PM CDT reply actions
Just when you think you've seen everything on the internet.
You get a mariachi loving Beluga thrown at you, who then appears to want to come out and jam with the guys.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 7:10 PM CDT reply actions
mariachi is...
supersonic!
(sorry)
(that was awful)
(no really)
(it was)
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
Sorry.
Wandered off, then didn’t get the joke when I got here.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 8:10 PM CDT up reply actions
NO
I am just drunk. It wasn’t funny.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
It might have been funny.
I truly have no idea where you were going with that though, I suspect there’s a gap in my pop culture encyclopedia.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 8:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Coherent enough to spell and punctuate correctly.
Moar adult beverages.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 8:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Excellent.
Just remember, should you be hung over in the morning, the wisdom of Frank Sinatra. “I feel sorry for people that don’t drink. When they get up in the morning, that’s the best they’ll feel all day.” That and the water jug.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 8:30 PM CDT up reply actions
I have a tailgate shirt form 2004 that says that on the back.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 8:49 PM CDT up reply actions
from 2004
I’m not trying to sell you shirts by filling out form 2004
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 8:49 PM CDT up reply actions
That's a great quote
It might have just inspired me to start drinking tonight
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research." - Albert Einstein
"Consider them rolled." - Jim Delany
by 6 seconds of hell on Aug 3, 2011 8:50 PM CDT up reply actions
Glad to hear it.
Should I receive any static from the War Department, I’ll tell her my interwebz friends also drink on Wednesday.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 8:54 PM CDT up reply actions
The War Department?
The guy I work with just calls her “boss”
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 3, 2011 8:55 PM CDT up reply actions
Meh.
I didn’t say she was particularly effective. I won the Battle of Toilet Seat Down, been smooth sailing ever since.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:05 PM CDT up reply actions
The movie Ironclad
I liked it.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
I'm not sure I could eat someone I didn't like.
The thought of receiving nourishment for my body from someone who actively tried to make anything at all as difficult as possible, would likely ruin my supper. It would be like taking a little fuck you in every bite.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 7:17 PM CDT reply actions
Guess I should've read the first five posts before making my "joke"
If you want to see your post in joke form, look down.
Sorry.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 7:33 PM CDT up reply actions
When I eat people I don't like, my food never agrees with me.
/no instant rimshot’d
//gets no respect
Tip the band, folks.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 7:31 PM CDT reply actions
So it’s a LOT harder to win the Big XII in NCAA 12 without divisions.
Hooray for replayability and futility?
I have the same fashion sense as Tom Arnold.
So is the CyclONE thing supposed to be intentionally ironic?
Or is it just coincidentally referring to conference wins?
If you had to eat another human...
would you pick a veggie, an omnivore or a full on fatty?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 7:45 PM CDT reply actions
This is morbid, but...
I’d say veggie. Only based on the fact that beef comes from a veggie. I can’t think of too many straight carnivores that we eat on a regular basis.
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research." - Albert Einstein
"Consider them rolled." - Jim Delany
by 6 seconds of hell on Aug 3, 2011 7:51 PM CDT up reply actions
Perhaps what I mean is eating a human based on the quality of their diet
If you are on a first-name basis with the Taco Bell drive through team, then no, I would not want to eat you because your flesh would be greasy and gross. But an omnivore leaning toward vegetarian? Well, then, you might be tasty.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 8:00 PM CDT up reply actions
i concur. might be leaner, although potentially with a gamey taste
What say there, Fuzzy- Britches?
I do believe
that free range is the way to go.
So vegetarian runners.
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 12:41 AM CDT up reply actions
Trick question
Eat the one who worked in a BBQ sauce factory. He/she is pre-marinated.
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 3, 2011 8:03 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I'm actually really hungry right now.
Too hot to cook. Thinking ‘bout a turkey sub from Zio Johno’s
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 3, 2011 8:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Capt. Karl's Pizza Ship, anyone?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 8:06 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm in
I like my sandwiches “piled high”
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 3, 2011 9:12 PM CDT up reply actions
With Cheetos?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 9:15 PM CDT up reply actions
i used to eat cheetos all the time
so when i was working cadaver lab and my hands smelled like… well… death – i used chopsticks.
get some
by metcalfrhymeswithblodbath on Aug 3, 2011 10:05 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm trying to figure out
if I should be happy or dismayed that we made it 3 nights of Hamsterdam until we got to cannibalism.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 9:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Necrophilia is Friday night.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm out
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 9:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Working the graveyard shift?
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 9:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Currently?
Were you in a minute ago?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:50 PM CDT up reply actions
I'll eat a dead person, but I won't bone them
I have standards.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 9:58 PM CDT up reply actions
So where does that put you
in regards to performing cunnilingus on the deceased?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 10:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Welcome to "This is BHGP"
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Still out
But I will perform cunnilingus on any lady named Connie Lingus.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions
Was mouth-to-mouth ever performed on "Heart to Heart"?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 10:13 PM CDT up reply actions
No. Robert Wagner always kept it classy with the broads
But one time he did pay $1,000 to have a streetwalker beat him with a rubber baseball bat.
Or was that Robert Plant?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Bears fans
I’m wondering how you feel about Lovie Smith? And the whole sign everyone the Cowboys no longer want routine.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
I feel better about Lovie Smith
Than I could ever feel about Fraiser, Schwartz or Spagnuolo. But not that other guy.
I feel good about Lovie calling timeouts
Calling them in appropriate situations? Not so much
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 12:43 AM CDT up reply actions
I feel like he's horrible yet somehow keeps his job.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
You just described Jim Hendry.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:40 PM CDT up reply actions
You just described Chicago sports...
/starts sobbing
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
by ClaybornSmash on Aug 4, 2011 8:43 AM CDT up reply actions
I think the pro game is a crap shoot
So the margin between genius and bumbler is so narrow that it almost doesn’t matter who coaches.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 8:05 PM CDT up reply actions
I think it's the exact opposite.
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Yale
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Boston fan
More than a feeling
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 8:59 PM CDT up reply actions
My cousin is a die hard Bears and Hawks fan.
And he was talking about not watching any pro ball this year. I’m not sure how much weight to assign this, as we didn’t grow up near each other.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 8:13 PM CDT up reply actions
I think Lovie
is an average coach at best. Dime a dozen. When the game goes to shit, he always looks baffled. I swear one time late in the game he looked like somebody who just wandered out of the tunnel and was surprised to find a football game going on.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
I'm not a Bears fan,
but I think Lovie is decent. I don’t give Rex Ryan much credit for making two conference title games, but I do give Lovie some credit for doing that.
Personally, I think Marion Barber may have some football left, and could be good if the Bears’ line isn’t shit-tastic (and he’ll be sharing carries with Forte.)
While I’m not optimistic about Roy Williams, he still has all the physical measurements you’d want, so if they motivate him and he decides to give 110%, it might be good.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 9:15 PM CDT up reply actions
He does JUST enough to keep his job.
Angelo is really the terrible one in Chicago, although Lovie’s game management (timeouts, challenges) leaves much to be desired!
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
I have no attachment to the Bears
and, yes, Angelo is the problem.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Meh. I don't think it's him making the calls.
Save Archuletta and maybe a few others, I think Angelo easily has the last word.
meh
What a disaster that was
Whoops. He just missed another tackle.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 11:53 PM CDT up reply actions
A mariachi band makes everything better
just ask Brock Lesnar
by hawk6894 on Aug 3, 2011 8:15 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
NERRRRRD.
/KIDDING. I totally dug the reference!
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 3, 2011 9:02 PM CDT up reply actions
My Kind of Town Hamsterdam is,,,,
(with apologies to Frank Sinatra)
Now this could only happen to a guy like me
And only happen in a town like this
So may I say to each of you most gratef’lly
As I throw each one of you a kiss
This is my kind of town, Hamsterdam is
My kind of town, Hamsteram is
My kind of people, too
People who smile at you
And each time I roam, Hamsterdam is
Calling me home, Hamsterdam is
Why I just grin like a clown
It’s my kind of town
My kind of town, Hamsterdam is
My kind of town, Hamsterdam is
My kind of razzmatazz
And it has all that jazz
And each time I leave, Hamsterdam is
Tuggin’ my sleeve, Hamsterdam is
Reading Rambler, Hamsterdam is
Ross, Hamsterdam is
Boilerhawk, Hamsterdam is
Carfino, Hamsterdam is
Jebushcrhist, Hamsterdam is
Energizer, Hamsterdam is
Bellanca, Hamsterdam is
Mexian’t, Hamsterdam is
Blackheartnopants, Hamsterdam is
SaturdayMorningKegStanzis, Hamsterdam is
SomeJerkPoster, Hamsterdam is
HoyaGoon, Hamsterdam is
Chaz, Hamsterdam is
Fucking Pellican Whore Forever \, Hamsterdam is
One town that won’t let you down
It’s my kind of town
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
by OhioHawk on Aug 3, 2011 8:37 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
It really makes me feel good that I'm the third one mentioned.
OhioHawk, Hamsterdam is
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Does anyone here watch Madmen?
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research." - Albert Einstein
"Consider them rolled." - Jim Delany
by 6 seconds of hell on Aug 3, 2011 8:44 PM CDT reply actions
I'm just starting it
I’m watching episode 5 right now and the list of questions I have about Don Draper is growing rapidly. Does this go for awhile, or do we start getting answers at some point.
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research." - Albert Einstein
"Consider them rolled." - Jim Delany
by 6 seconds of hell on Aug 3, 2011 8:48 PM CDT up reply actions
goes on
The complexity of characters of that show is almost unparalleled. The only show to match it (and probably surpass it) is, ironically, The Wire.
Don Draper is one of my top 3 favorite characters in anything, ever.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
Good to know
It’s off to a good start. I don’t know if I love it yet, but it has potential.
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research." - Albert Einstein
"Consider them rolled." - Jim Delany
by 6 seconds of hell on Aug 3, 2011 8:51 PM CDT up reply actions
You do get some answers about him in the first two seasons.
I think all of the first three seasons were darn good. I have to re-watch season 4 before I make a final verdict on it, but I lean toward it being good.
While part of me wishes the seasons were longer than 12 or 13 episodes, it also keeps things moving a bit, so that’s probably good.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 9:20 PM CDT up reply actions
you and jebus seem to think so
never watched it.
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
It really is that good.
I still give The Wire a narrow edge, but Deadwood takes characters places you would never have guessed given their beginnings.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Swearengen goes from bona fide villain in the first season to really the hero in the second and third seasons.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Well, you've ruined that for everyone.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:45 PM CDT up reply actions
sorry I guess, though the show has been off the air for 5 years.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
A Song of Ice and Fire has been on bookstands for 16 years.
I’m rather thankful nobody spoiled those for me. Seriously, though, it’s not as though I’m actually upset.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:48 PM CDT up reply actions
okay. I get excited talking about that show. The cussing is Shakespearean.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
That's exactly how I describe it.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:50 PM CDT up reply actions
And the violence is... well...
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 12:39 AM CDT up reply actions
Would that necessarily kill you that fast?
I mean, yeah it would hurt worse than anything youve ever felt, and probably kill you eventually, but im thinking you get at least a few hours of living through it.
"Your spelling and grammar errors belie a seriously skilled thought process"- therealCatnuts
by justsomehawkeyefan on Aug 4, 2011 1:29 AM CDT up reply actions
Well, it's television, so there's that.
But to actually answer your question, I think it would. Extreme penetrating trauma would occur, and the molten metal would almost certainly find it’s way through the skin and skull quickly. The trauma would be severe enough that shock would set it, especially since the trauma is affecting the head and brain in addition to causing fatal burns. Viserys likely died here from cardiac arrest due to shock.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 1:57 AM CDT up reply actions
Plus, you can't cook a brain and keep living.
Molten gold would certainly raise the brain temp above 107 very quickly, which seems to be about the limit for brain temperature.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 4, 2011 7:58 AM CDT up reply actions
We were describing Deadwood.
GoT is just ridiculously good in every way. After having finished the books to date, though, I’m very nervous about HBO’s ability to not only pull off the rest of the series, but about their capacity to actually afford it.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 4, 2011 3:07 AM CDT up reply actions
They spent upwards of $60M on season 1 if i remember correctly.
I haven’t read the books yet but I suspect that with the extreme popularity of the show, they may expand said budget.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 4, 2011 7:21 AM CDT up reply actions
They've also said that if they are fortunate enough to get to season 3, they'll start splitting the books.
Apparently, SoS has far too much going on to wrap into one season.
by The Mexican't on Aug 4, 2011 7:40 AM CDT up reply actions
Apparently, you haven't read SoS
Because… wow… That book gets crazy
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
by ClaybornSmash on Aug 4, 2011 8:49 AM CDT up reply actions
No. I was 50 or so pages into Clash of Kings and got derailed by homework.
I haven’t yet made time to get back on track.
by The Mexican't on Aug 4, 2011 8:53 AM CDT up reply actions
Also a favorite in this household.
My wife bawled at the end of Season 1.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 4, 2011 3:07 AM CDT up reply actions
Because she didn't know what was coming?
Was Caesar’s death a surprise? Who taught her history?
/totally knows what you’re referring to, decides to be a dick anyway
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Rome is pretty awesome. That show cost a ton of money.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Yeah, it was disappointing that it only lasted what? 2 seasons?
But I’m sure it was expensive.
Watching the DVD’s was great because of all the little facts and such.
Who liked “I, Claudius”?
meh
I was there a month ago.
Toured the old Roman Forum area, Palantine Hill and all that. Saw the spot where Caesars body was burned. Walked on the road the returning Legions marched down. Just a bunch of really old piles of ruins and rocks now… but in it’s day the place must of been tit’s wiggle.
by Stay thirsty, my friends. on Aug 4, 2011 11:23 AM CDT up reply actions
I made a valiant effort to get into Mad Men
Probably got through 6-7 episodes. Didn’t work out. Irreconcilable differences, I guess.
by Hayden Fry's Moustache Ride on Aug 3, 2011 9:35 PM CDT up reply actions
They only smoked weed that one time.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:43 PM CDT up reply actions
Maurice Gameofthrones makes him look like a jerk.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Has anyone in here every listened to the Beatles?
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
They're bigger than God but smaller than a german people's car.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
Have you seen the new model?
I can’t tell the difference, but VW swears they’re not the same.
by The Mexican't on Aug 3, 2011 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions
it's sexier
supposedly. I bought the Fiat 500 but everything is in Italian. So now I am taking a Berlitz course to learn how to drive the damn thing. It smells like Oregano too.
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
Yes.
I regret ever listening to it.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions
Wait, were they the real
Ruttles?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 10:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Repeatedly
Backwards, even. The latter was, however, a waste of time.
My 15-year old daughter loves the Beatles. I am thankful.
FOUR. THREE. COVER. TWO.
I would buy a BHGP "take it to Hamsterdam" t-shirt
anyone else with me?
is there anyway i can redeem myself, i was not sure if i should say "we" at that moment
by Skins4ever on Feb 2, 2010 7:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yes! WE GOTTA MAKE THAT CHEDDAR!
Perhaps my best years are gone... but I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.
twitter.com/jebushchrist
Slightly related:
I have cheddar cheese curds. They are delicious.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 3, 2011 8:52 PM CDT up reply actions
That's always related
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research." - Albert Einstein
"Consider them rolled." - Jim Delany
by 6 seconds of hell on Aug 3, 2011 8:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Unfortunately, those are unavailable in Kentucky.
Damn you, sir.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 8:53 PM CDT up reply actions
DAMN YOU for being in KENTUCKY!
That there state makes some fine bourbon.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 3, 2011 8:54 PM CDT up reply actions
I will trade you for the cheese curds.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 8:55 PM CDT up reply actions
They are both excellent for your liver.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 9:23 PM CDT up reply actions
My liver is a finely honed machine.
But if you say cheese curds will help, I will contact Harker’s immediately.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:31 PM CDT up reply actions
By definition, they make the only Bourbon.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:45 PM CDT up reply actions
DETAILS.
We’re in Hamsterdam. Do details matter?
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 3, 2011 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions
So does Cedar Ridge Distillery in Swisher.
Not only is it close to home, but it’s better than most of the stuff that’s made in Kentucky these days.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 12:49 AM CDT up reply actions
Bout 45 minutes from Lexington.
South, and east a little.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 8:56 PM CDT up reply actions
3 hrs from lex,,
ashland is like 45 minutes
ought to meet you at Rupp for some hoops
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
Commonwealth for non-hoopyball action?
I mean to get up there and watch Kentucky play somebody worth seeing, having done it yet.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 8:57 PM CDT up reply actions
my buddy god rest his soul
had season tickets
theres is nowhere
and i mean nowhere
bettter to watch hoops than Rupp,,,
unfortunately i cant stand their current cheating coach,,
maybe we will make it loooeyville
but the new place doesnt have the charm
of the old,,,,
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
Looaville would be closer to half way for both of us driving.
Give me a shout on here should you feel the need to watch some bad football, I’ll likely be up for it.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:02 PM CDT up reply actions
god forbid i would watch little east football
i am resisting barfing
because i have to go to OMHR
to watch the hawks this year
and resit the temptation to watch the morgantown mob
but the stadium is near churchill downs
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
Maybe meet up in the town that doesn't exist?
I was tossing around a trip to OMHR.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:20 PM CDT up reply actions
I've been looking at that.
Trying to figure out a way to work the finances and a hotel and adult beverages and quite a bit of gas into a college student budget. I’m looking though.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:26 PM CDT up reply actions
As for the hotel
there’s the reason we’re doing a coach bus thing from Chicago; with %15 of Iowa’s student population coming from Chicago and even more or its graduating body relocating there almost everyone should have a couch to crash on for $0.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:47 PM CDT up reply actions
i got some awesome tickets last week
its about five hours from here
not quite as close as indiana
we will drive over in the morning
then come back as far as comfy after the game
but i often drive the ten hours back from IC after a game
so west LA may be a piece of cake
Long Live the Pellican Whore - like FOREVER
I can do 10 hours on my head.
I would like to partake in adult beverages, some grilling, some bags, etc etc. Comes right out of the tailgating time.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:27 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm in WI for the summer & eat them at least once per week
That & the drinking are hell on my mostly in-shape bod but they are oh-so-good. It’s a running joke here that we spend fall/winter/spring working out just to let it all go to hell during beach season.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 3, 2011 10:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Norwegians, arrrr!
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
You would be quite happy here, as a matter if fact
Scandinavians everywhere you turn: Icelandics, Danes, Fins, Swedes & lots of Norwegians.
My children will be participating in the annual Scandinavian Fest this weekend- wearing authentic costumes & performing dances with over a hundred other kids & adults. There’s even a fighting one with swords!
Ok that’s really off-topic from the cheese curds. I felt weirdly compelled to share this. It must be the Hamsterdam.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 3, 2011 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions
That sounds pretty cool. I went on a road trip with my uncle this weekend and we talked about my Great Great Grandad, who got off the boat from Sweden and came out to Iowa to farm, and my Great Grandad who ran the farm from France during WWI.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Had a similar convo yesterday regarding my husband's family
Apparently there’s quite a large Norwegian contingent in Chicago & lots of them descend from a group that came over together way back when, my husband’s grandmother being one of them. A good number of them somehow decided that this odd little island we’re currently on would be a great place to spend those hot Chicago summers.
It’s fascinating to me that so many years later the descendants of all these folks (the vacationers & the ones who settled here straight from their various Scandinavian countries) continue to keep this relatively small place functioning & wonderful.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 3, 2011 11:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Washington Island, right? I’m visiting my parents in Baileys Harbor next week; thank god. It’s going to be 110 here, again, today, and we’re on day 33 straight of over 100. Not to be all whiny, but it’s just stupid hot. I walk my dogs at 10:30 after the sun has been down for 2.5 hours, and the air temp is still near 100. Fuck.
I am appreciating the dryness of west Texas. Just visited Iowa last week and I wanted to kill myself with an ear of corn because of the humidity.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Baby!
What, gone soft, have you?
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:21 PM CDT up reply actions
No!
I still dislike this place immensely, but I’ll take the dry heat over that sweaty morass in Iowa
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
No, you've gone soft. You grex as if it's heavy.
Now you’ve gone and made me fershpritzed.
I take all of the glorious Northern weather as it comes. Adversity is good for us.
And I would never take something from, shudder, down there over something from up here. Take that traitor secesher Mike. He used to run his mouth about them womenfolk down there, “Oh, they’re such schmootzers when compared to women up North.” Ugh!
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:32 PM CDT up reply actions
In light of your internet marriage, I read this a much different way.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 11:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Good memory!
It’s been awfully sweltery here as of late. That & an absurdly large alewives die-off 2-3 weeks ago made our end of the island almost unliveable till the last 5 days. (We’re lucky the in-laws put in central air a few years ago- blocked the heat, humidity & fish stench.)
That said, it’s still WAY better here than being in Chicago this summer. Enjoy Bailey’s Harbor. Weather’s looking pretty good- sun & 70s/80s. Give a wave if you boat up this way!
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 5, 2011 12:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Have fun!
Are there any Faroe Islanders?
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Don't know but it's easy enough to find out
Pretty much everyone here has some familial connection to the original settlers (it’s a small island so not a ton of outsiders infiltrate).
FUN is all we do! (So long as by fun you mean eating, drinking, boating & beaching. It’s a rough life we lead here.)
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 3, 2011 11:03 PM CDT up reply actions
We have a good friend who speaks Faroese.
Oddly, she also gives Swedish massage. I am not making this up.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 4, 2011 3:09 AM CDT up reply actions
I’d love to visit the Faroes. I generally prefer treeless, grassy landscapes.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
And you are a tree biologist
Keeping work and play separate.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 10:34 AM CDT up reply actions
I like tundra plants. I work on trees because I am getting paid to. I get claustrophobic in forests and I love the tundra.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
I love forests
I used to work with a guy who got claustrophobic in forests. But he was a Lucas County farm kid who spent a year in Vietnam, so I cut him some slack.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 11:14 AM CDT up reply actions
There's another group that did something similar.
I’m trying to remember the name. It was “something Youth.”
Haggler Youth?
Adler Youth?
I can’t think of it at the moment.
/yes, I’m pretty much kidding. I have some Swedish heritage.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 10:43 PM CDT up reply actions
Marvin Haggler Youth?
Sweet!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 10:45 PM CDT up reply actions
No, marvelous.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 4, 2011 3:10 AM CDT up reply actions
Northern European lasses, FTW!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 10:41 PM CDT up reply actions
If you ever see a guy walking around the Hampton Roads area of Virginia
with a Friend of the Pants t-shirt and a Penn State hat on, that’s most likely me
is there anyway i can redeem myself, i was not sure if i should say "we" at that moment
by Skins4ever on Feb 2, 2010 7:56 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
by ckmneon on Aug 3, 2011 9:06 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
It ain't right
for whales and dolphins to live in tanks.
by Swessdawg on Aug 3, 2011 8:55 PM CDT reply actions 2 recs
I wish I could rec this about a thousand times
I’ve come to hate zoos in general.
"If you need a rah-rah speech at halftime, you’re playing the wrong sport." - Pat Angerer
As a species, we do some upsetting stuff
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
We do terrible things to each other
we should expect no less of the things we do to other species.
I believe very strongly in the quote from Calvin (Calvin & Hobbes) “Sometimes I think the surest sign of intelligent life out there is that none of it has tried to contact us”
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 12:47 AM CDT up reply actions
Is it “The Cove” that is about that huge dolphin slaughter in Japan?
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Yes. Awful. That movie made me so damn angry.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 10:37 AM CDT up reply actions
dogs and cats living together...mass hysteria!
What say there, Fuzzy- Britches?
Methinks they're actually squatting.
Has anyone seen their papers?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 9:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Hatemonger.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 9:57 PM CDT up reply actions
/sarcasm font fail
Obviously I’m not serious. Just to be clear.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions
Zen.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 12:50 AM CDT up reply actions
YES PLEASE
let’s discuss this!
#teamct
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
Okay, I'm totally on #TeamCT,
but my favorite character might be Michael. That kid is hilarious!
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Mike and RoyLee are a close 2nd
they are an alliance, which doesn’t surprise me
"Don't talk about me like I'm not here!" Shelby
twitter.com/dmbmeg
Mike and "RoyLee" are my favorite team.
Mainly because they’re doing a damn good job of lying low. That’s how you play The Challenge as rookies.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
My secret guilty pleasure
I really hate myself for liking this show. But I do, I really, really do.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Is FIU a reputable school?
Semi-reputable? Phoenix Online level? I met somebody that was going to school there today, and really didn’t know what to say. Condolences, snicker, kudos, I was just stunned for a minute.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:14 PM CDT reply actions
Met as in date? Met as in at the office copier?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 9:17 PM CDT up reply actions
Neither.
Intern that I came into contact (not in the Biblical sense) goes to school there. She may be totally lacking in any way, shape, or form, people skills. Like any of them. She’s managed to irritate or offend pretty much everybody she’s come into contact with, yet is in a masters level program there.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:22 PM CDT up reply actions
I guess the quality would depend on what program she is in
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
She hasn't volunteered, mentioned, or let slip in 2 months.
Makes me think underwater basketweaving. The only thing I’ve been able to discern she’s interested in is her sorority and the local mall. And she’s 26.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:29 PM CDT up reply actions
My boss went there.
Nice guy, knows more than I do about the web business.
I don’t think the school’s reputation as a whole is that great, but both he and I were good enough for CBS Interactive, so I figure that counts for something.
Ceci n'est pas un blogue.
If you'll vouch for him, I'll reserve judgement.
But I’m not impressed so far, FIU.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:34 PM CDT up reply actions
I am bummed to report
that Hightower from Police Academy,
aka Bubba Smith,
passed away.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/6831506/bubba-smith-ex-baltimore-colt-turned-actor-dies
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
Anyone else watching Deadliest Warrior?
Army Rangers vs. North Korean special forces.
U-S-A! U-S-A!
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
How do we even know what the NKs are?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 9:40 PM CDT up reply actions
I think the experts are actually South Korean.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
No, they're South Korean actors kidnapped
and forced to play North Korean soldiers for the show. Duh.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
we probably know a hell of a lot
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
I feel sorry for the North Koreans
That country is its own circle of hell.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 9:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Sudan may actually be worse.
I read a nice, charming article about the medical situation in that country that made me feel more overwhelmed than when I read about the Battle of the Somme.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 9:49 PM CDT up reply actions
Ouch.
I read an article about the situation of women in Rwanda that had the same effect.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Aug 3, 2011 9:50 PM CDT up reply actions
Sudan seems pretty terrible. Congo is no picnic either.
Have you seen the new book on the Somme?
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
No, I have not.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 9:52 PM CDT up reply actions
“three armies on the somme” William Philpott
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Probably won't see it for a while.
I’m busy reading everything decent I can find at the local libraries.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 9:55 PM CDT up reply actions
I have it, but I won’t get to it until after I finish the Roman stuff
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
In my mind, you never stop reading "the Roman stuff".
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 9:57 PM CDT up reply actions
How long do you plan on living, Mr. Kurzweil?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 9:59 PM CDT up reply actions
A draw in hand-to-hand combat?
I’m pro-USA and even I think that’s kind of a stretch.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
the US military has some pretty efficient martial arts
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Absolutely.
I’m not convinced they’re equal to the North Koreans’ martial arts here, though.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
they should do a Gable vs. the Waffen SS. One has a stuermgewehr and the other has the most deadly chicken wing on the planet.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Gable, R1, via total OWNAGE.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Marine Corps Martial Arts Programs.
First of all, it’s the Marine Corps. Second of all, it’s the Marine Corps. Even Chesty Puller’s corpse could kick a communist’s sorry, scrawny, underfed ass.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 9:50 PM CDT up reply actions
Fuck both of them.
Krav Maga owns all.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 1:03 AM CDT up reply actions
Also, I don't give a shit about Final Destination 5.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
by BoilerHawk on Aug 3, 2011 9:37 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I didn't give a shit about any of those films.
But, I do think Rise of the Planet of the Apes looks like it could be decent.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 9:57 PM CDT up reply actions
sigh
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 9:58 PM CDT up reply actions
seconded
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 10:03 PM CDT up reply actions
super-snark’d
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions
My personal oath is to stay away from all movies with monkeys if Charlton Heston isn't there to call them damn dirty monkeys.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:07 PM CDT up reply actions
They are noble future members of the great ape family.
Show some respect.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 10:12 PM CDT up reply actions
Soooooo
throw some poo instead?
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 12:50 AM CDT up reply actions
I accept the "no Charlton Heston" reason for dissing the new flick.
I haven’t really seen a good excuse yet from Eyeheart about hating on the film.
I think it is kind of like my friend who knew the new Captain America film was going to suck, without having read any reviews or seen the film.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions
Nah, I sigh when my parents talk about the "great" new Schwarzenegger flick, too.
It’s just my personal taste.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 10:09 PM CDT up reply actions
The truth is that Arnold is physically incapable of appearing in a great movie.
Like, if he was in a film directed by John Ford and co-starring, oh, I don’t know, Jimmy Stewart and Maureen O’Hara, Arnold’s flesh would eat his insides.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:10 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes.
I know absolutely nothing about the Americas before Columbus.
I know very little about the total, massive history of Pennsylvania because I can’t find enough books, something that frustrates me to no end.
I don’t know much about the Crimean War.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:16 PM CDT up reply actions
I'll remember that next time I walk by the monument at G-burg for great granddady's regiment.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:23 PM CDT up reply actions
Have you ever felt from a distance someone's eyes upon you?
In particular, have you felt the eyes of someone filled with holy rage ?
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:25 PM CDT up reply actions
...I'm feeling them now.
I apologize for touching a sore subject. Bad joke.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Terminator and Terminator 2.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Terminator 2 is good only for the part where he's in the bar and there's a Dwight Yoakam song.
I happen to like Dwight Yoakam.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:16 PM CDT up reply actions
That whole movie was pretty bad-ass.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 10:18 PM CDT up reply actions
You are full of wrongness.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Good, perhaps.
Great? No.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:23 PM CDT up reply actions
No, it was great. Especially when the time it came out is taken into account.
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
No, no, no, no.
No.
Terminator 2 makes The Hunt for Red October look like a masterpiece.
I’m not saying it’s bad, but, 1) There were good movies back then, and 2) Come on!
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:26 PM CDT up reply actions
No, Rambler, it is you who are mistaken.
I’ll grant that there were good movies back then, but nothing like T2. The special effects alone were ground-breaking.
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
Go back to the shadows, George Lucas!
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions
The medichlorians will not avail you
flame of Lucas!
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 1:07 AM CDT up reply actions
Ugh. Special effects does not a "great" movie make.
Dante’s Peak would have been better (*never actually seen it).
And, okay, so I said Aaaanold film, so you got me, but I’d counter by saying that none of it is because of Schwarzenegger. He’s robotic and muscular. The only reason he was cast over someone with actual acting chops is because he was famous. Casting someone famous does not a “great” movie make.
He has made some great popcorn flicks though.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 10:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Tell that to all the Avatarians.
/note: I’ve not seen avatar, so I don’t even know if this is accurate.
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
I saw Avatar once.
It had Kevin Costner and a bunch of Indian dudes who said they were Lakota.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:35 PM CDT up reply actions
So it's like Dances With Wolves, only more colorful and takes place somewhere other than the frontier?
Good to know.
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
Uh, yes.
Also, it was written by a four year old and a computer.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Dances with Wolves was a great movie
the hour or so where it was just scenery.
Then they let Kevin Costner into it.
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 12:53 AM CDT up reply actions
See my sig.
It’s from a RiffTrax episode, and is, of course, humorous when pronounced like Arnold.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Well, it was the first movie to cost more than Blues Brothers
so I dislike T2 for that.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 10:28 PM CDT up reply actions
I wish it were just "Rise of the Apes".
The extra “of the” really pisses me off.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Glad I'm not the only one
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research." - Albert Einstein
"Consider them rolled." - Jim Delany
by 6 seconds of hell on Aug 3, 2011 9:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Jinx.
Mah bad.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 1:04 AM CDT up reply actions
No movie should be allowed
to insert “of the” in it’s title twice.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 1:04 AM CDT up reply actions
You mean, Fiv(e)al Destination?
Or even 5al Destination.
by The Mexican't on Aug 3, 2011 10:00 PM CDT up reply actions
that mouse from American Tail is in it?
What say there, Fuzzy- Britches?
Nothing says USA like overkill. BOOM BOOM BOOM
Holy shit.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIT!
I will haunt your dreams and eat your children.
Claymore go BOOOOOOOOOOOOM
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
We had a brutus fan at BSD today. Or maybe it was yesterday. Warbuckblahbunchofnumbers was his name.
Anyway, here’s what he said in a fanpost asking for our opinion: “But, let’s admit it: wins are all that really matter.”
Welcome to the machine. Enjoy your stay.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
GENGHIS KHAN vs. HANNIBAL next week.
Yes.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Wake me when they get to Grant vs. Grant.
Note: Only Grant can compare to Grant.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 9:57 PM CDT up reply actions
Comparing ancient generals to modern ones is, for the most part, folly.
But Grant owns Scipio and you know it.
Grant owns all but for The Iron Duke, Eisenhower, Pershing, and perhaps Creighton Abrams. His equals.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:00 PM CDT up reply actions
And, no, I'm not dissing Washington, God rest his soul.
But Grant owns him too.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Also, I love flirting as I do.
You know, flirting with professional military history while keeping my love for internet terminology and pure amateurism.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:02 PM CDT up reply actions
I love Grant
but I also love Scipio, Pompey, Belisarius, etc.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Scipio was strategically brilliant. I think that military genius translates to any age. They still teach Cannae at the War College.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Yes, but Grant has more application to the modern age.
If you want to win a war, you call for Grant. His skill-set was so profoundly excellent that he could probably succeed in World War 2. That’s how good he was.
And the best thing of all was that he always kept his head. Grant was the very living example of the Marine motto, Semper Fidelis, in everything he did.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:04 PM CDT up reply actions
Scipio resurrected a nation in defeat and took the war to the front door of the most celebrated general since Alexander. I would take Eisenhower as supreme commander over Scipio and Grant in a great two pronged attack. Fuck Monty.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Grant is unquestionably just as good a supreme commander - better, actually - as Eisenhower.
Sorry.
Grant resurrected several armies in defeat, gave the nation hope many times when it seemed lost, destroyed the army of the general who had influenced a spell of sorts on many Union generals and who possesses the biggest cult in Western culture (John Keegan astutely pointed out that the only general in British or American culture with a true cult around him is Robert E. Lee because his was the only society in Britain or America to suffer calamity) and took the war to the aristocrats and, yes, common people of the region that started it all,
A better selection would be Lincoln as President, Grant as His Most High and Gupreme Grantness, with three army groups commanded by Scipio (Fine, whatever), Patton, and THE IRON DUKE.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:21 PM CDT up reply actions
Gupreme is a superior word.
It sounds kinda Indian to me. McCann’t?
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:21 PM CDT up reply actions
I don't know what that means.
Apparently my brain isn’t working properly tonight, because I’m pretty sure I should know what that means.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh.
Yeah.
You know, cool thing about Sherman: In 1863, before Grant’s last push to Jackson, thence to Champion’s Hill, and finally to Vicksburg, Sherman, by way of letter, let Grant know that he was vehemently opposed to Grant’s idea of cutting loose from the supply lines and using the bounty of the MS countryside to sustain the army. Such a thing was radical. It hadn’t been done much before, and it couldn’t be done at all today FWIW. But Grant eventually persuaded him. And Sherman became the most famous user of Grant’s ideas. Still, while Sherman was burning Atlanta and letting everyone know about it (“I will make Georgia howl!”), Grant was quietly going about the business. In his letters to many other generals, he made it quite clear, in simple and unemotional language, that he wanted the South’s ability to wage war gone forever.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:30 PM CDT up reply actions
best LSU president ever.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Can you say trump card?
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Lou Grant
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 10:00 PM CDT up reply actions
elephants win against horse cavalry
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
No, they don't.
Elephants are highly overrated as a military force.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 9:58 PM CDT up reply actions
They lost.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:24 PM CDT up reply actions
They lost!
My bet is that enough arrows from good archers would kill them eventually. Think those things wouldn’t be vulnerable if their infantry support were removed? Same deal with tanks.
Also, who’s going to feed them? Heck, who’s going to breed them? And how in the world are they going to produce faster elephant jockeys than can be produced horsemen?
That thing doesn’t do as much as it seems and it does it only with massive supply requirements.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:33 PM CDT up reply actions
you won’t need a ton. They scare the hell out of the horses, which would turn in terror and cause complete confusion among the ranks, then your Numidian cavalry and infantry can mop up the scene
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
But according to the movie, they *didn't* scare the horses.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:37 PM CDT up reply actions
were there elephants in T2?
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Arnold is an elephant by many standards.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions
He has an excellent memory and will put his trunk in any wet hole, apparently
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
by Lycurgus on Aug 3, 2011 10:40 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
That was easy enough, yes.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:41 PM CDT up reply actions
This isn't meant to be political, but I had to do the GIS:
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
by BoilerHawk on Aug 3, 2011 10:40 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Legolas took one down single-handedly
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 3, 2011 10:38 PM CDT up reply actions
If a fruity elf can do it, then anyone can do it!
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions
I do love that fruity elf
I was very sad when I realized he wasn’t blond in real life.
Sorry. As you were, gentlemen.
The University of Iowa: the best 6 years of my life. My parents are very proud.
by HawkeyeGirleye on Aug 3, 2011 10:48 PM CDT up reply actions
I was very sad confused when I realized he wasn’t blond she in real life.
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 3, 2011 11:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Was that after you got him back to the hotel room?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 4, 2011 3:12 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
BUT GANDALF TOOK DOWN DURIN'S BANE.
THAT’S WAY COOLER.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 12:58 AM CDT up reply actions
Khan. Easy. Next.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 10:00 PM CDT up reply actions
The Rangers beat the North Koreans (barely), in case you were wondering.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
This is why I'm always more favorable to the Marine Corps.
Seriously, Chesty Puller’s corpse > 50,000 KPA
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions
What I'm wondering
is if you’re ready to be outed as a comic geek in a public forum? By the way, “Moon Knight” is proof Brian Bendis has been phoning it in for a few years; he’s taken a terrible character and made him fantastic in only four issues. Guy has game when he feels like it.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 10:07 PM CDT up reply actions
That doesn't surprise me (much).
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Hey (SUBJECT LINE FOR ATO AND FOR MINIMIZING COMMENT)
Can someone somehow combine these two pictures?
I mean, combine them into one person? It’s my dream, you see.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
Is the top one Christopher Lee?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 10:20 PM CDT up reply actions
It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
I love you.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions
If I had an 80s era punk band, I would use that as an album cover.
With some hostage note lettering.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 10:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I defy anyone to come up with a better band name than The Iron Dukes.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Perhaps The Dukes of Grantzard?
An outlaw country tribute band.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:37 PM CDT up reply actions
What was that Gable band name that someone around here was considering?
Was it Robo-Gable? That’s pretty good.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 10:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes, Robo-Gable.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions
Ooh, Shiloh and the Duke.
There, I’ve beaten myself.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 3, 2011 10:40 PM CDT up reply actions
As in, for example, Conan's old Late Nite bit:
“If They Mated”?
"I've never seen a supernova, but if it's anything like my old Chevy Nova it'll light up the night sky." - Philip J. Fry
Since this is Hampsterdam,
Is anyone from here gonna be at the Pitt game? That’s the game I was able to procure tickets for and would be down to have a beer with youse guys before the game!
"No I'm not going to 'limber up'. You ever see a lion stretching before it takes down a gazelle?"
FIRE IT UP, TIMBER JOEY
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Jackyl, fingers crossed
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 3, 2011 10:19 PM CDT up reply actions
Hey, it's right there after no porn and no politics.
No MLS!
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 3, 2011 10:36 PM CDT up reply actions
Funwrecker.
I think you’re just mad because you could hide in Timber Joey’s beard.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
If there were any room left, I could.
However, there’s such a build up of dried chewing tobacco, ticks and nesting owls that all the good spots have been taken.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Aug 4, 2011 3:14 AM CDT up reply actions
Oh, god, that is such an awesome goal celebration.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 3, 2011 10:38 PM CDT up reply actions
What is?
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 10:40 PM CDT up reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1cjtU0sayk
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 3, 2011 10:45 PM CDT up reply actions
No prob.
There’s probably a better clip where the crowd is in it more, and when his chainsaw exhaust is smokier, which makes it cooler. I caught the Portland/Seattle match on ESPN a few weeks back-what an atmosphere! And I’m certainly not a soccer fanatic, but soccer haters should be given tickets to this matchup and see if that changes their mind.
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 3, 2011 11:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Since he was brought up in a thread a couple months ago,
Iowa treasure and my childhood across-the-street neighbor Leo Greco passed away today:
http://www.wmtradio.com/pages/rememberingleo.html?feed=434168&article=8916252
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 3, 2011 10:14 PM CDT reply actions
I just listened to The Victory Polka in memory of Leo.
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 10:22 PM CDT up reply actions
You need to see this.
Absolutely fantastic goal from the Barca-Chivas game tonight.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!
Sorry if I took a simple quip that was meant as a rebuke for a single-minded poster and turned it into a completely uninteresting and inconsequential tangent.
-McCann't
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Aug 3, 2011 10:23 PM CDT up reply actions
I want a Chivas jersey.
Just because the goddamn Bimbo bear is so cute.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 12:45 AM CDT up reply actions
FIRE IT UP AGAIN, TIMBER JOEY
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I just want to thank Mr. Jacobi for helping me finally find a fantasy football team name.
I was really struggling, but Beluga Mariachi should do just fine.
My favorite line:
“Maybe you’re a shitty cameraman”
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 3, 2011 10:33 PM CDT up reply actions
as the camera starts to bob and weave.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 10:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I think I dislike everyone in that video.
And the interviewer has a great rack, but I’d bet she is a Fox-news-esque tool.
Teachers don’t need billions upon billions. We do need some respect, and to not be used as a political hot potato during a bad economy.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 10:34 PM CDT up reply actions
He was kind of funny there,
but I have a distrust for someone who spent pretty much his whole childhood in Massachusetts.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 3, 2011 10:39 PM CDT up reply actions
How is that in any way relevant?
Seriously? What, your opinion is only valid if you come from the “correct” state/region/town/place? That is senseless.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
I just don't really trust eastern public education as the frame of reference for everything.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 6:43 AM CDT up reply actions
It's better than education in Texas.
Or at least that’s what I’ve been told.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 4, 2011 7:23 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah.
To be fair, I’m not sure Iowa’s educational system is as good as it was once thought to be.
If this list is at all believable, maybe Massachusetts has improved. But is New York really in the top 3? Iowa at 26, behind Arkansas, Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, and Alabama?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 8:58 AM CDT up reply actions
I love how you can tell Matt's wheels are turning at the beginning.
There aren’t many smarter people in Hollywood right now. And there also aren’t many more people with bigger balls in Hollywood. The world needs more actors… hell, people like Damon.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 1:11 AM CDT up reply actions
As the son, grandson
nephew and cousin of teachers, nothing gets my blood boiling more than when people try to use teachers as a political hot-button wedge issue. Seriously, FUCK ANYONE who disparages teachers generally.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
Unfortunately
it has become the game du jour. I don’t get it at all.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
As the husband of a teacher
I’ll disparage them whenever I want. There’s nothing quite as fun as complaining about how lazy teachers are to an angry ginger who got the shit kicked out of her by her autism students.
(Yes, we have a very comfortable couch.)
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 4, 2011 8:43 AM CDT up reply actions
It seems like there is just enough truth in that comment to make me not rec it.
But please tell your wife to keep fighting the good fight.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 9:00 AM CDT up reply actions
Will do.
My response to people who complain that teachers get 3 months off a year is that some of them need the time for offseason surgery to get ready for the next year. At some places, it’s more true than anyone would want to admit.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 4, 2011 9:11 AM CDT up reply actions
I definitely need it for "mental health."
Although, one of these years, I’ll probably have to find a summer (and part-time during the school year?) job if I want to start saving real money for anything (retirement, home, possible family).
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 9:18 AM CDT up reply actions
After his great triumph at that little place in Belgium, the Iron Duke wept for all of the good men gone.
One of the marks of true masculinity is gentleness and love for one’s fellow man.
Goodnight.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
another true mark of masculinity is peeing out in the open on a golf course
"I wish you luck with a capital 'F'" - The Real Elvis.
Mmm hmm.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 8:29 AM CDT up reply actions
Philip of Macedon did something similar after beating the Thebans
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Probably because he was secretly gay.
Actually, it wasn’t really a secret, who am I kidding.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 8:29 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, not at all. The Theban Sacred Band that he defeated was made up of male couples
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
I know, hence my semi-joke about Phillip not wanting to fight them.
But that is, of course, ridiculous since the majority of elite males in Greece were bisexual.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 10:24 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't even like rap,
but after hearing Childish Gambino in last week’s INPIYLTI I’ve gotta say…
Shit. This guy is just swell.
CUDDY SMASH
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
A moment of silence for Professional Pinch Hitter Matt Stairs
He lived as we all wish we could. He came. He sat. He dingered. He left. May his memory live on in the hearts of us all.
I will toast his departure.
If he is indeed gone, he will not be able to homer a 23rd time against the Twins, his favorite victim.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 3, 2011 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions
There is no shame in this
To be homered on by Matt Stairs is an inevitability that we all must face. It is a force that binds all of baseball and indeed all of humanity. To have been witness to a Matt Stairs dinger is to have lived.
Is that from James Earl Jones' speech in Field of Dreams?
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 3, 2011 11:40 PM CDT up reply actions
He cracked my starting lineup (TWSS?)
on All Star Baseball ‘01(ish) for PS2. I was the Cubs and the alternative 1B, Julio Zuleta, wasn’t exactly a world-beater.
"Hi, I'm Bob Executive. Which way to business?"
by IPeeBlackAndGold on Aug 3, 2011 11:34 PM CDT up reply actions
Who's stayin up?
this guy. I’ll tell you what (hank hill), bhgp doesn’t close, dammit
GAY BACON STRIPS, GAY BACON STRIPS
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 12:51 AM CDT reply actions
Worst Arena Football League logo ever.
Can anyone tell me what the hell is happening in this logo?
Bloggin' at JoePasDoghouse.com
A bull having bloody vomit, while engulfed in a fire?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 9:01 AM CDT up reply actions
Buffalo wing?
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 9:29 AM CDT up reply actions
The bull's home was set on fire, and he's so angry about it that he's vomiting pure rage.
by The Mexican't on Aug 4, 2011 9:01 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
He's a Red Lantern?
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
No, he's angry because his leg is a drumstick.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 10:24 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
From bucketochicken on Twitter,
possible person with gun on Va Tech campus. I’m tuned into MSNBC. They’re doing a search, and haven’t found anything yet. No reported shootings or injuries.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
Shit. I just heard this myself.
I really hope it’s just a case of someone seeing something, and it doesn’t turn into another shooting.
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 10:10 AM CDT up reply actions
Seems to be according to three kids (there for some sort of camp).
Sounds like a handgun, but early reports were a possible rifle or shotgun.
Yeah, I hope it is just a big misunderstanding.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:19 AM CDT up reply actions
And the 9 game conference schedule is official
Just announced by Big Ten
by Captain n Diet Coker on Aug 4, 2011 10:10 AM CDT reply actions
Wow. That feels like forever away.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:19 AM CDT up reply actions
No kidding
by then 2 or 3 expansion-calypses will have happened
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 10:20 AM CDT up reply actions
I feel there is at least a 33% chance of it happening by 2018.
But, Delany is a gambling man.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:25 AM CDT up reply actions
According to Morehouse,
Iowa gets five conference home games in 2017, four in 2018.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:21 AM CDT up reply actions
Thanks, Big Ten.
I look forward to Penn State never playing a good team in OOC play ever again.
2030 Penn State schedule:
Temple
Illinois State
Akron
Note: Replace latter two teams with any cupcake of your choice.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 10:25 AM CDT up reply actions
I imagine Iowa will soon sign a long-term deal with UNI to play in Iowa City on even years.
by The Mexican't on Aug 4, 2011 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions
I feel like we probably should have done that already.
The real snag on that possibility is what kind of deal UNI has with Iowa State. UNI doesn’t like to play two FBS teams in one year, if they can help it.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions
Well, you could call and see if Pitt wants back on the schedule.
LOL/LAWL
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions
Yep, we're the same way
stuck with ISU. In the years when we’ll only have 4 home conference games, that means all 3 of the out of conference games will have to home games. ISU currently fits in there, but that basically means we won’t be able to get another home and home series with another BCS school. Cupcakes galore. I can’t imagine this will fly, and it may be the beginning of the end of the ISU series (at least doing it every year).
by Captain n Diet Coker on Aug 4, 2011 10:30 AM CDT up reply actions
I bet we keep that series as long as ISU is in a BCS conference.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions
But we also like those other BCS home and home series
1. For ‘prestige’ or whatever you want to call it. Having a game other than ISU adds to strength of schedule instead of just filling it with cupcakes, and
2. For recruiting. Kirk likes to go areas where we recruit and/or there’s a huge Iowa alumni area (in the case of Arizona/Arizona St)
by Captain n Diet Coker on Aug 4, 2011 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions
True.
I just don’t think Iowa gets away with making the decision not to play ISU each year. Too much politics, too much in-state sentiment.
Plus, while I like avoiding a ton of cupcakes, I also haven’t seen these BCS non-conf. games help our recruiting all that much. The Arizona schools, Pitt, Syracuse. Maybe getting waxed by Nebraska in 1999 and 2000 was most valuable to our recruiting, and now we have them on the schedule every year.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:42 AM CDT up reply actions
Iowa could still have a home & home with another BCS school.
They just have to ensure that the games in Iowa City are on the same year that Iowa State visits. It’s unlikely, but definitely still possible.
by The Mexican't on Aug 4, 2011 10:33 AM CDT up reply actions
But that also means the year we visit Iowa State
Is the same year we’d have to visit the other BCS school, making it only 6 home games.
by Captain n Diet Coker on Aug 4, 2011 10:36 AM CDT up reply actions
I would guess we'd go with @ISU and other BCS opponent coming to Kinnick, and
vice versa.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions
But in the year we'd have to go to the other BCS school
that’s the year (the even year) that we’d have to have all 3 of our non-conference games at home
by Captain n Diet Coker on Aug 4, 2011 10:42 AM CDT up reply actions
Yeah.
Unless they do something wacky, like with the Pitt contract, where two games are spread over four years.
Or, maybe we’ll just have to have 7 home games every other year (I’m not sure they’ll give up that money, but who knows?)
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:43 AM CDT up reply actions
This is all under the assumption they’ll stick to a 12 game schedule. By 2017, that’ll up upped. 13 or 14. More games = more $
I kind of hope so, as long as it doesn't mean even more cupcakes.
I’m okay paying $400+ to see decent teams, but not more EIUs or Lousiana-Monroes.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 11:44 PM CDT up reply actions
USA Today Coaches' Poll
Iowa listed in the “Others Receiving Votes” list. 5 B1G teams make the list, with Wisconsin & Nebraska nearest the top at 10 & 11, respectively.
My reaction to the bottom of that poll?
/furious wanking motion
It’s good to have a big brand name.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
WOOO ND IS BACK!!!
Also, fuck Boise.
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 10:27 AM CDT up reply actions
I don't understand the Penn State rank
But maybe I’m just out of the loop.
by The Mexican't on Aug 4, 2011 10:28 AM CDT up reply actions
My thought:
Alabama wants to add the polish of a “Road Win Against a Ranked Big Ten Team” on his schedule, so he worked back channels to put a 7-6 team with QB issues in the Top 25.
Bloggin' at JoePasDoghouse.com
Iowa/Bama home and home
Make it so
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 10:50 AM CDT up reply actions
I was more annoyed by the Texas rank.
5-7 last year and ranked in the preseason top 25? GTFO.
It’s not like Vince Young is coming back foro ne more rodeo.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Because we've got a lot of good young guys and good juniors and seniors.
Penn State is going to be good this year. Even the stats from last year will probably show that. There’s a whole lot of addition by subtraction going on there.
As for Texas, well, Penn State may very well have blown out Texas last year. So let’s rank them higher than Penn State because they’re Texas!
Anyway, this stuff is all a lot of garbage and I hate talking about because it makes me feel like a silly person. OH WAIT
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Why is Florida State so highly-rated?
And Texas A&M in the top ten?
And Arkansas at 14?
Didn’t all these three teams lose their best players from last year? (Well, maybe Ponder wasn’t FSU’s best player, but was their QB).
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:35 AM CDT up reply actions
Many of the people who vote this poll don't pay close attention
It’s about as based in knowledge as the NCAA pool sheet filled out by that guy in tech support who wears skinny jeans, carries a man purse and “doesn’t follow sports.”
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 10:45 AM CDT up reply actions
that guy in tech support who wears skinny jeans, carries a man purse and "doesn’t follow sports.
You mean, that guy that usually wins the NCAA hoops bracket pool?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:46 AM CDT up reply actions
Arkansas and FSU return a lot, sans their QBs.
And Arkansas has a new starter who played in place of Mallett last year a few games and looked great.
A&M was red-hot at the end of last year and returns quite a guy players (esp. on offense).
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Does Missouri really return more than Iowa?
That’s what I don’t understand.
"...take it to Hamsterdam."
Good morning.
I stayed up last night translating some Japanese yakuza cell phone game.
The currency in the game is BLING.
I had to call one of my Japanese friends for help and he spent two hours with me on skype explaining various roles / jobs in the yakuza world.
Tired!!
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Aug 4, 2011 10:31 AM CDT reply actions
That sounds kind of fun/interesting.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:32 AM CDT up reply actions
It was fun, just frustrating,
I had one of those moments where I could understand it perfectly in Japanese but when I tried to put it in English I was like, huuuuh?
The various job “titles” and stuff. Lookout, scout, dealer…
Then I got to a job title that meant “brute force” and I still don’t know WTF to call it. Basically it’s the dude who comes at you with a gun or beats the shit out of you to get you to do stuff.
Whay do you call that?
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Aug 4, 2011 10:37 AM CDT up reply actions
Brute force sounds right to me
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 10:37 AM CDT up reply actions
Well, all the other titles refer to the people who do the jobs, while brute force describes the action.
I’ve been racking my brain to find a people equivalent, but I dont know anything about gangs.
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Aug 4, 2011 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions
I dont' either
but I’d refer to a person like that as a “heavy”
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 10:39 AM CDT up reply actions
Thug?
Or, this next one is an adjective, but strong-arming?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:45 AM CDT up reply actions
You call that “muscle” or “enforcer”
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
OOOHHHH.
That’s great!! Thank you!!
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Aug 4, 2011 10:42 AM CDT up reply actions
As in, Rambler is muscle for the Pennsylvania Dutch butter cartel
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
While we're on the subject, is there any more gang appropriate lingo for "middleman"?
I was going back and forth between that and negotiator.
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Aug 4, 2011 10:44 AM CDT up reply actions
Street boss, street captain, etc
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 10:47 AM CDT up reply actions
go-between?
connection?
hook-up?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 10:47 AM CDT up reply actions
"My guy."
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 11:02 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
What is he in the middle of?
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
by ClaybornSmash on Aug 4, 2011 11:04 AM CDT up reply actions
I'm guessing deals.
I just went with Middleman as it’s the most vague.
When I get sent these game translations, all I get is a bilingual text file with with completely out of context in-game text.
So far I’ve only done small projects so I’m terrified to get a huge project like an RPG where context is absolutely necessary!
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Aug 4, 2011 11:37 AM CDT up reply actions
You made the right call
Middleman is the best term when you don’t know the context.
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
by ClaybornSmash on Aug 4, 2011 11:40 AM CDT up reply actions
Yes. I sure knoach the little jonijumbubs who order from the boss.
That’s a nice, looshtich house you’uns have got. Be a shame if something if happened to it. You know, if it got gabootz’d or roppled a little.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions
I kinda want to re-learn the language.
You should be my tutor!!
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 11:08 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
I think I'm a pretty shitty teacher.
But my recommendation to people who want to learn a second language is to take formal classes and immerse yourself in the language.
I took Japanese I-V and have watched hours of Japanese TV, listened to Japanese music, made a bunch of Japanese friends, etc.
Lately I’ve been spending more time speaking Japanese than I have English!
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Aug 4, 2011 11:38 AM CDT up reply actions
There was a time when I could actually say that as well.
But my professors in my first year of college ruined it for me. All of them taught in the hyper-sterilized traditional Japanese way that diverged pretty greatly from how I was taught the language in high school (by an American teacher, no less). It took the fun out of it, especially since they rarely if ever incorporated popular Japanese culture and “fun” learning tools.
Some of my favorite memories of my entire life are from my trip to Japan and when I hosted students from Washington High School’s sister school in Okinawa. For instance, I was driving to Iowa City to bring the student I was hosting at the time, Masataka, to Coral Ridge so he could buy gifts and Beyonce was on the radio, and he looked at me and said “What means… jump up on it?”
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 12:56 PM CDT up reply actions
HAHAHA!!
Unfortunately, Japanese is one of those languages that is so complex that most of it can only be learned via rote memorization. Especially kanji- the simpler ones can be learned with fun mnemonic devices, but once you get past elementary school level kanji you just have to practice it until it’s ingrained in your memory. Reading and writing kanji are two separate skills- I can read hundreds more kanji than I can actually write, but I like to blame that on the convenience of computers, where you type in hiragana and the list of kanji just pops up.
Grammar and verb conjugation is basically the same. For simpler structures our teachers taught us songs to help us remember, but once you get to shit like causative-passive or uber-polite Japanese it’s all dependent on memorization.
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Aug 4, 2011 1:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, I think saying my teachers drove me away
is my way of saying I wasn’t interested enough anymore to carry on with the really intensive, memorization heavy part of learning. I remember going through my second term of intermediate ⽇本語 and learning the formal and polite conjugations, prefixes and suffixes and just hating it. I know that part of it was how sterile the way my professor taught, who was the personification of “late-middle aged bulldog-ish Japanese feminist”, but I just wasn’t into it enough and didn’t see it as something that was worth the great attention to detail, since I wasn’t gonna major in it.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 2:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Couple things ...
I’m old enough to remember when U.S. fans would have killed to have a player in the EPL, let alone several thriving in that league.
I love the pretense of calling USA/Mexico a “friendly.”
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 1:08 PM CDT up reply actions
WTF does Hercules Gomez have to do to get another call-up?
Is Chicharito still going to be concussed for this game? If so, we might have a shot.
/rememembers they beat us 4-2 at the Gold Cup final and Chicharito didn’t score
… fuck.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I blame the Gold Cup loss entirely on the back 4.
If Klinsmann can get his group of defenders to play proper defense, 4 goals should be completely out of the question for Los Tricolores. We’ll know in a week.
by The Mexican't on Aug 4, 2011 1:29 PM CDT up reply actions
Logical point
Goalkeeping a strength for the U.S., so it makes sense to reinforce that with a stable screen of defenders.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 1:37 PM CDT up reply actions
Also helps if they play in their natural position.
IIRC, at least one defender was playing on the wrong side of the field. Lichaj I believe.
by The Mexican't on Aug 4, 2011 1:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, because Cherundolo got hurt.
That didn’t help, for sure.
I just want more Herc anyway.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I want four Partizan fans
Armed with log chains.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 2:25 PM CDT up reply actions
It's interesting to see Adu still getting a call-up.
He played well enough in his last couple appearances, and I wonder if he’s finally found the proper form to earn consistent caps.
by The Mexican't on Aug 4, 2011 2:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I think it was because of his strong play in the last two matches at the Gold Cup.
It’s hard to deny that he doesn’t deserve another shot after those games.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Probably still better as a sub, though, right?
Does he have the fitness to play 60+ minutes?
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 11:47 PM CDT up reply actions
Lean like a Cherundolo.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 2:54 PM CDT up reply actions
30 days until kickoff, 30th movie according to IMDB users: Forrest Gump
He may be stupider than hell, but he can sure run
by hawk6894 on Aug 4, 2011 1:37 PM CDT reply actions 1 recs
Could have used an Evy picture
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Run, Forrest, run!
And then AIRBHG struck him down.
It never gets to be easy.
Why the fuck doesn't it ever get to be easy?
by chitownhawkeye on Aug 4, 2011 6:35 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm a little behind on football news lately, but I read that Moeaki was put on the physically unable to play list.
Anyone got any more info?
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Aug 4, 2011 1:47 PM CDT reply actions
Rumblings were that it means little-to-nothing.
Apparently it’s not uncommon for some players to start camp on the PUP list and it isn’t a huge red flag. It’s certainly less than ideal, but it shouldn’t be a significant issue.
I do seem to recall more serious news coming out of New Orleans, though. I think Jeremiha Hunter was placed on IR. I didn’t look into it and know nothing more about it, though.
by The Mexican't on Aug 4, 2011 2:24 PM CDT up reply actions
PUP means nothing in preseason, I think.
Guys can be pulled off with no problem. It’s a little more complicated during the season, as I recall.
Hunter, unfortunately, screwed up his Achilles pretty bad, so he’s likely out for a while.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I was just worried about Moeaki because he's had so many injuries in the past.
He needs to stay healthy so he can catch Stanzi’s passes!!
by stanzi's ex-girlfriend on Aug 4, 2011 5:20 PM CDT up reply actions
in practice.
:(
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 11:48 PM CDT up reply actions
College wrestling fans
Imagine for a moment you are a pretty successful, but not yet elite, high school wrestler who walks around at 6’ 2" or 3" and 200 lbs with 15-20 of muscle to gain pretty easy. You have some good interest from DI programs as well as the likes of Wartburg and Coe. Would you guys still push to see what you could do at Iowa/UNI/ISU or would you go DIII?
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Iowa/ISU/UNI all the way.
At that weight, I think 197 is a good bet for your weight in college, which is fortuitous because that’s a weak weight. I don’t think you need to be as elite at that weight as you do at other weights to have comparable or greater success.
Also, hypothetical you should really come to Iowa because we need a 197 guy (both now and in the future) in the worst way.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
This is what I am thinking
My brother is deciding if he should go talk to Brands. I am encouraging it. The kid is a flat out natural looking 197 lber, he could be a jacked 215 pretty easy.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Does he like to actually wrestle?
Cause if he’s planning on moving up in weight and likes to work then Iowa isn’t the place for him. He’ll be taught to bore the opposition to death, which is a prevalent winning tactic right now, but just sucks if you’re actually a guy with an offensive move set and you like to scramble.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 2:33 PM CDT up reply actions
Not exactly following.
He is generally a slow down kind of wrestler and is very strong on top. He cradles everybody. He is becoming more offensive.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
All right, send him here, he sounds like Frank the Tank.
Only hopefully he won’t choose bottom ever. Ugh. Anyway, send him here.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:36 PM CDT up reply actions
You don’t have enough good corn out there. He won’t go to Pennsylvania.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
It's over here.
And our corn is better. Also, I’ve never once seen a tanker with “High-fructose corn syrup” written on the side sitting at a railroad siding here, so suck it!
Also, we grow the best apples here. Suck it!
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Ha. Much like our wrestlers, I will put our sweet corn up against anybody’s.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
And much like our wrestlers, our corn will get more entrants at nationals than any other state.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions
The national corn championships?
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Yes.
You’uns can win the national pork processors championship or whatever.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions
We’ll take whatever you have
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Only if you'uns you say please.
So arrogant out there, I guess. I tell ya, ya just can’t go west of the Alleghenies and not find jerks.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:43 PM CDT up reply actions
It is the rich soil. It makes us arrogant.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Then how comes foks from the Cumberland/Shenandoah Valley from Camp Hill down to Lexinton, VA are so humble and nice?
I think you’uns ought to see a doctor.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:46 PM CDT up reply actions
Our soil is better.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Oh, no, it's not.
The Shenandoah owns all. Even I, a lover of fine Adams County cherries, will admit that.
The Shenandoah is the prettiest place on Earth.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions
Nothing is prettier than an eastern Iowa cornfield after harvest in November.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Are there mountains in the background?
I thought not.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions
Justified has taught me that mountains are full of hillbillies, coal miners, and criminals.
No thank you, sir.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
and a pretty horny Natalie Zea
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
That is one point in favor of the mountains, yes.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Sounds like a Brands, or more so, a Kurt Backes kind of guy.
Definitely encourage him to go for it then. I shouldn’t have painted that as “not wrestling”… I just don’t like to watch boring heavyweight matches. If he can hang at 197, even better.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 2:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Are you sure you're talking about Iowa?
I’m pretty sure the coaches tell Rasing to shoot. Unfortunately, they can’t get out there on the mat and do it for him.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I am looking forward to seeing Telford and Evans wrestle
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
*nods head vigorously*
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
There was that little scare with Evans in the spring, but it seems that things are back on track
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Yeah.
Hopefully there’s a spot for him in the lineup.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I think he will find a spot. In other rumorous news, when I was home I heard that McDonough is talking about eating a little and going up to 33 this season and Trizzino is beating Ramos fairly regularly in the room. Could be an interesting line up shake up at the low weights this season.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Interesting.
I’m not sure that’s a good idea or not. It depends if you think McD is a for-sure top-4 guy at 133 and whoever goes at 125 can also be a top-4 guy. I’m not sure about that. I know I like McD’s odds of winning a national title at 125 a LOT more than I do his odds of doing the same at 133.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I think that whoever goes to 25 will be top 4. Ramos won’t see the length, that gave him so many problems last year, at 25 (if he is the guy).
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Hope so.
I’ve heard other chatter that McD is staying at 125, too. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.
I wish Iowa would get around to releasing the 11-12 schedule already.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I agree. Anything particular you are interested in with the schedule?
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
No.
I just want to do a post charting out when Iowa might break the record for longest unbeaten streak (they’re 6-7 away, I think) and I can’t do that until they release a schedule.
So they’re just inconveniencing me. The bastards.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
The record dual will be awfully close to the National Duals.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Yep, which could be exciting.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
No shit.
The BHGP-a-Thon is gonna happen this year. No questions asked. I’ve already looked into small party packages at a few places. I wish Short’s did parties, cause that would be a no-brainer, but we could make a post-meet trip there in the name of tastiness.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 3:38 PM CDT up reply actions
Would anyone consider going to Midlands this year?
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
That would be fun, but the timing is rotten.
I always travel around Xmas and I usually don’t want/am unable to travel again for Midlands.
Also, Midlands are in Evanston and I refuse to go back to that hellhole after last year’s football game. I may reconsider when their facilities have upgraded beyond Civil War-era amenities.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Oh, god, please don't let this turn into a Civil War thread.
The Midlands are cool, but you’re exactly right. The timing is off and it’s in Evanston.
My inclination was to aim for the home meet against Okie St. It’s a terrific rivalry and Jordan Oliver is gonna get major heat for the shit he pulled last time he was in CHA. I’m thinking BHGP’s wrath could be unleashed on the little bastard.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 3:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah
It is just that I am only near Iowa over Christmas and so, Midlands are usually the event I can attend. Also, as much as I loathe that arena it is moderately better at Midlands, because there are not as many people.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
I think the answer is clear.
You just need to move out of West Texas, man.
(I know, easier said than done.)
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Within a year ya'll be saying the same thing to me.
Except replace West with South.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 4:10 PM CDT up reply actions
I've been in Southeast Texas for almost 3 years
I’d jump at the chance to move back to the midwest.
by EnergizerHawk on Aug 12, 2011 7:01 PM CDT up reply actions
Gah, Civil War flashbacks.
I just think the amenities there (especially at Ryan Field) really were conceived and approved in the Civil War.
Although they probably had better food in certain places during the Civil War. I imagine the s’mores and roast pig that was readily available in Atlanta after Sherman went through were far better than the can o’ soup and z-grade nachos at Ryan…
Okie State is always intense. I wish Penn State was in Iowa City this year. Those meets are going to be absolutely molten for the forseeable future.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
A slit trench would have been a more effective toilet facility than what they had for the Big Tens last year.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
It's slightly amazing that an Armani university has Pinto sports facilities.
But that’s jNW for you.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
A bunch of jNW broskis were complaining about the toilets extensively
before I visited you guys in the south endzone, and several Iowa fans including myself essentially said “It’s your fucking stadium, fix it!”
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 4:09 PM CDT up reply actions
I am interested to see how Nebraska does this year
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
I think they'll be good, not great.
The upper crust in the Big Ten is Iowa, Penn State, and Minnesota.
Wisconsin is at the tier below that (although having Howe and maybe Rutt take Olympic redshirts this year hurts them a lot) and I think Ohio State and Michigan are pretty close to that level, too.
And then there’s everyone else. Most teams usually have 1-2 guys who are good, but no depth like the top teams.
I’m not sure where Nebraska will fit in yet. Probably at the “everyone else” tier.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I agree
by the way, I ran across an interesting wrestling blog over at HR. It is about a guy who went to train at Iowa in the 80’s. Don’t know if you saw it.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Wisconsin
may be looking to the 2011-12 season anyway. Their two best recruits will be at the Olympic training center this year. The badgers will be dangerous in another year. The Buckeyes might re-emerge as a power again this season. They have some studs in the wings.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Yeah, Wisco could be dynamite a year from now.
Considering how young Iowa, PSU, and Minnesota are (I think most of the starters from all those teams will still be there), the Big Ten race will be dynamite.
Agreed, re: Ohio State, too. They took their lumps last year, but they should be much better this year. I heard they got some killer new tanning beds in the off-season, too.
Thanks for the pointer on that blog, too.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
It may be more of a function
of coaching to Rasing’s strengths, cause I remember several times last season when watching meets where Brands and Co. would congratulate Blake while he stalled the fuck out his opponent and squelched all their momentum. Which is cool, cause it was a winning formula for him, I just don’t like to watch that style of wrestling.
But, you’re probably right. Rasing isn’t exactly indicative of the way Brands and his guys coach, big guy or not.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 2:59 PM CDT up reply actions
I'll take your word for it.
But I also recall him screaming his ass off at Blake to take a fucking shot, too.
Unfortunately, heavyweight wrestlers in general are big, slow turds. It’s exciting when there’s an exception to that rule — like Danimal or Telford — but by and large, they are what they are.
I’d still kind of rather see the big fat heavyweights given their own superheavyweight division (if you insist on having those guys anyway) and have a weight class around 205-220. I think those would be far more entertaining matches.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
100% agreed.
I don’t see any reason to have that astronomical of a jump in weight limit, especially for the guys who fall in the lower 200’s and can’t cut down to 197.
I remember those times of Brands yelling too. I’m probably just focusing on when I noticed the coaching staff encouraging his molasses-wrestling because I was always screaming my ass off for him to shoot.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 3:14 PM CDT up reply actions
I think he has called him out more than once in press conferences too.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Might be "easier" for him to get to nationals
at UNI than at Iowa or ISU, because of competition. Also, you might be getting in on the ground floor of something rather special at UNI.
Wartburg makes good wrestlers, but I’d think it would be pretty boring to spend an extended amount of time in Waverly. More parties at Coe, but their wrestlers might not be as good.
Obviously, we’re all Hawk fans here, but can he hang with the guys in Iowa’s room? Might not be much fun to ride bench for 2 or 3 years and then have to consider a transfer. Then again, academic opportunities might be good at Iowa or ISU.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 4, 2011 11:54 PM CDT up reply actions
In most years I think you would be right about the competition, but UNI might have more depth at the upper weights than Iowa does. Also, in getting to nationals it might help you if you had to go through some studs in the room to get to the 1 spot.
Parties at Wartburg weren’t tame. My dad has some stories from that place in the early 70’s that make Animal House look like a children’s story.
Hanging with the guys at Iowa is the question. He knows better than I do and he has a healthy ego, which you would need to walk into that room. He is a tough kid, works hard and learns fast. I think he would be alright. I think wrestling is different in that, if you are turned off by too much depth at a weight Iowa probably didn’t want you anyway. The guys that win National Championships are never the guys that look at a roster and think “I am going to be sitting for a couple of years before I get my shot”.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
If you have time and room to grow, do that
Jucos offer a good route, too. Squads make room for experienced Iowa preps.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 2:28 PM CDT up reply actions
I'd go to Penn State.
They’ll make a man out of him. Rum, sodomy, and the lash have a way of doing it!
Wait, did I just air that out loud? Damn it, not again!
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:34 PM CDT up reply actions
You guys have a 97 and he hates the Lions. I was talking to him when Taylor lost in the finals. We both laughed maniacally at his misfortune
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Yeah, well you tell him I said he's a giant pussy.
He can stay out there and eat his damn subsidized field corn.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:37 PM CDT up reply actions
I’ll tell him. He probably won’t understand.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
McIntosh is better anyway.
First of all, Morgan McIntosh sounds like a hot chick’s name. Pretty cool, huh?
Second of all, you’uns are maggots.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:39 PM CDT up reply actions
TUMBLEWEED!
I DRAW FIRST! BANG! YOU’RE DEAD
I WIN AGAIN!
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions
I will get you some day. Rascal!
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Right now the record is 2-0.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions
It is looking bleak for me
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
You are Stonewall Jackson and I am friendly fire.
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:42 PM CDT up reply actions
An unfortunate coupling?
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:44 PM CDT up reply actions
Marty wrote your whole biography.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
When he tried to match the Rambler
With the big mousey on his desk
Big mousey on his desk
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:48 PM CDT up reply actions
To the town of Iowa City rode a stranger one fine day
Spoke a lot to folks around him, had too much to say
No one dared to ask his business no one dared to make a slip
for the stranger there among them had corn stalk on his hip
Corn stalk on his hip
It was early in the morning when he rode into the town
He came riding from the east side quickly lookin’ all around
He’s an outlaw loose and running came the whisper from each lip
And he’s here to do some business with the corn stalk on his hip
big iron on his hip
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
ANOTHER TUMBLEWEED! I DRAW FIRST! BANG! I WIN AGAIN!
3-0!
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions
McIntosh is definitely better
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
YES ADMIT IT RUM SODOMY AND THE LION'S LASH FTW!
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 2:41 PM CDT up reply actions
Your just jealous cause you know
how good your Amish butter is on our tasty ass corn.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 2:40 PM CDT up reply actions
This situation is almost exactly what Papa Grigs went through.
He was still developing as a senior and finally found some success at the varsity level, but had no offers of any kind from any DI school and only a handful from DIII’s. He chose to go to Augustana College in Sioux Falls, filled out, and became their top heavyweight his last two years, placing 3rd at Nationals his junior year (he got derailed by injury his senior year but would’ve placed again). He got a great education there and made a name for himself on the Greco circuit, and found a place in Gable’s room when he went to med-school at Iowa. 3-time intramural heavyweight champ, my dad!
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 2:36 PM CDT up reply actions
It's a tough decision
though he might be closer to starting at Iowa than he would be at Coe. Wartburg will be without a 97 after Byron Tate leaves and UNI is loaded.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Coach Oostendorp is awesome.
If Coe is an option, which it sounds like it is, I’d encourage him to pursue that. He’d get a great education and be on a great campus with a great, tightly knit community.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 2:53 PM CDT up reply actions
He is thinking hard about Coe. My dad and I both went to Wartburg and had similar experiences to what you just described, plus they won another national championship and had 10 guys in the conference finals.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Coe has a terrific program right now.
I’m interning at Coe right now and I’m very excited to have a real vested interest in their team. Another school he should check out if Elmhurst College outside of Chicago. My fiancee went there and she reported extensively on their wrestling program when she worked for the Elmhurst student newspaper. They were solid then and I’m pretty sure the program is still pretty good.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions
He is getting recruited by Maryland, Air Force, Cal Poly, and Columbia as well. He has some options and if he improves this year I am sure the list will grow a bit. He has talked to Clayton Rush and definitely looks favorably on Coe.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Clayton was a goddamn badass.
Cal Poly has an excellent program. If he likes it and ends up visiting out there, shoot me an email. I have family in that area that have ties to the athletic department out there.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 3:07 PM CDT up reply actions
Thanks
We will see. My dad is not high on him going to far from home. You also worry about those California programs. They have been dropping like flies, though Cal Poly just hired a new coach so maybe that isn’t as much of an issue.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
This is all very true.
SLO is an incredible place, but it’s really expensive and would definitely be far from home for an Iowa boy.
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by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 3:11 PM CDT up reply actions
In fact, I was thinking about school there
and trying to walk-on to their water polo team, but decided against it despite loving the place simply because it was too far. So I can totally sympathize.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 3:11 PM CDT up reply actions
Didn't Chuck Liddell go to Cal Poly?
Maybe they can ask him for some coin the next time they’re hard up.
I think that’s where Mark Perry was coaching at for a while, too.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Yes
that is where Perry was. He is the reason they hired a new coach. They have a pretty decent program.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
They have (had?) Boris Whatshisface at 141.
The Mad Russian was the only guy not in the Big Ten to be ranked in the top 5 last year, as I recall.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Yep
He won it didn’t he?
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
No, Russell (MICH) beat him, 3-2.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
That's Kellen Russell for you.
I really hope Montell gets him this year.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
If Montell tightens things up he can beat anyone.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
If we could put McD's brain in Marion's body... lights out.
I hope he can get the mental game sorted out this year. It would also be nice if he could stop digging himself big-ass holes in matches, too. Which I guess is related to the first point.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
There is no reason he should ever lose to that Thorn asshole again.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
All of this wrestling talk
and I missed it all because of stupid fucking work… damn it!
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
by ClaybornSmash on Aug 4, 2011 4:45 PM CDT up reply actions
I think Thorn was a senior, so he won't see him again anyway.
But, yeah, Marion should be able to get his head together and not lose to assclowns like that guy.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Another Thorn just won his first state title.
The good news is that he was only a Freshman.
Everyone fails. The successful learn from their failures. I just wish we'd quit giving ourselves so many learning opportunities.
by WhiteSpeedReceiver on Aug 4, 2011 6:01 PM CDT up reply actions
There's another one on the Minnesota team, too.
They’re like weeds.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
My 5 cents worth...
He should enjoy the process. Sounds like he’s at a place in life where he gets to write his own plan. That’s a great spot to be in. Visit Iowa? Why not? Hit UNI, too.
Coe sounds good. I like the AFA. World class education, life changing opportunities, you learn where we’ve hidden the aliens, the whole deal.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Aug 4, 2011 6:48 PM CDT up reply actions
I agree
unfortunately the old man is being something of a hard ass with all of this. Anyway, it is kind of cool to see him get to experience some of this. He is pretty damn good.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Yeah, but if we still have many troops in Afghanistan, Libya, or anywhere else
in 5 years, he might end up running around with a gun.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 5, 2011 12:02 AM CDT up reply actions
Oostendorp?
Did his family come from Hamsterdam in Hamsterolland?
"Nein, ich bin Schnappi das kleine Krokodil."
by ReadingRambler on Aug 4, 2011 3:01 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm pretty sure Coach Oo is a Dutchy.
IIRC, Papa Grigs always points that out since my mom is 100% Dutch, and Dutchy’s tend to like to know when there’s another predominantly or full-blooded Dutch person around.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 3:05 PM CDT up reply actions
in case a dam needs to built in a hurry. Or if they need to find the best dealer for a tulip emergency
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
Or if they need their wooden clogs tailored.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 3:15 PM CDT up reply actions
Hey, Ly, it sounds like Dake is going at 157 this year.
What do you think of Dake v. DSJ?
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Well
shit.
I don’t know. I thought DSJ might be going up with Taylor to 65. Dake is a power, but DSJ has the ability to wrestle with anyone and he would have the advantage of probably being the bigger wrestler. He really would need to avoid being taken down and getting Molinaro’d. I think it would be a toss up
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
I don't think it's set in stone that DSJ is staying at 157, but it sounds like that's the lean.
I think it would be an interesting match-up. Dake wouldn’t be longer and stronger than him the way he’s been against so many of his foes at 141 and 149. It would still be very difficult, but I think St. John would have a pretty good shot against him.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I just really wanna see DSJ
piledrive David Taylor off the CHA rafters. A weight class change would prevent that from happening.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 3:55 PM CDT up reply actions
That would be sublime.
I think they’ll eventually wind up in the same class (unless Taylor bulks up to 174, maybe), so we’ll just have to delay that particular fantasy.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Based on the kid's physique
I wouldn’t be shocked in the slightest if he moved up. I just wanna see his little bitchass Bieber doo get yanked off by the mat when someone is force feeding his skull into it.
Templeton Rye'd the Lightning.
by Smokin Herb Grigsby on Aug 4, 2011 4:11 PM CDT up reply actions
It would be fun to see if Mike Evans could ride him like a My Little Pony if Taylor does make it up to 174.
(Assuming Evans gets the spot there, of course.)
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I agree
Like I said last spring (you and CW were a little incredulous), I think DSJ had the ability to beat Taylor at Nationals. He is good enough if he just gets his mind right.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
I am about equally excited for wrestling season and football season to start. Also, I want some damn fall weather already.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
by Lycurgus on Aug 4, 2011 3:59 PM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
I cannot rec this enough.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Agreed
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
by ClaybornSmash on Aug 4, 2011 4:47 PM CDT up reply actions
And DSJ was pretty close (despite what Rambler says) against him in the quarters.
So you were a bit more right than I was there.
I think Dake is a slightly better match-up for DSJ than Taylor, too.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Agreed
It will be interesting to see Taylor up a weight. I wonder if he will be able to overwhelm people on his feet or dominate in the ride like he has been able to do.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
I fear he could be Burroughs-esque on his feet at 165.
Although he doesn’t have anything as unstoppable as Burrough’s double-leg takedown.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
You are right
he has some slick moves, but his success comes, much like Metcalf’s, from multiple reshots. He just overwhelms people with his offense. It is not that any one move is unstoppable, it is just that he strings six of them together. The way to beat that is to be aggressive and work offense of your own. DSJ did better when he worked some offense on Taylor and got mean with the kid. There was an intimidation factor there at 57 last year I think. I don’t know if guys will sit back so much at 65. Maybe they will.
"To bottomless perdition, there to dwell, in adamantine chains and penal fire" -Milton
"I don’t know if guys will sit back so much at 65."
Let me just put in the tape of Andrew Howe v. Ryan Morningstar for you…
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Burroughs was automatic in neutral
He was waaaaaay too good to be wrestling for Nebraska
"He lowballed us and said: 'Take it or leave it. If you don't take our offer, you are rolling the dice.' I said: 'Consider them rolled.' " - Jim "Huge Brass Balls" Delaney
by ClaybornSmash on Aug 4, 2011 4:47 PM CDT up reply actions
I feel like Hampsterdam is the perfect place to announce
that I just found out my current roommate played middle school basketball with none other than LIL JOHN. Probably some of the best news I’ve ever received.
Cool.
Sadly, Lil Lick probably only grew 3 inches in height from then until now. Unless you count the pope hat.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 5, 2011 12:04 AM CDT up reply actions
The best part is his style of play didn't change either.
My roommate said he enjoyed jacking up ridiculous three pointers…
Well, that's what dad wanted him to do.
/I don’t hate Lil Lick. I actually was very happy when he had a decent Purdue game.
We will become more intensity!!! --What Reading Rambler thinks Tom Brands should do.
by WaterlooChazz on Aug 5, 2011 1:55 PM CDT up reply actions
I miss Hockeybear.
"Mom, just get me a Pepsi! Please, all I want is a Pepsi!" And she wouldn't give it to me! All I wanted was a Pepsi, just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me! Just a Pepsi!
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