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What do you smoke, Pattycakes? I smoked Marlboro Reds for the first 2 weeks I was a smoker, but after I tried Newports, there was no turning back. Marlboros are nasty. With my head hung in shame, I have to admit that I went on a comparable smoking path as Mr. Young. Started with Reds, smoked them for about 4 years. Moved to Colorado, where every cowboy & stoner sees a box of Reds and asks for one. Next thing I know, I'm giving away half my pack each time. Make the switch to Newports, and the cowboys don't want them (because they're "black people cigarettes") and stoners don't want them (because the fiberglass and shit in 'em). I'd rather smoke 20 of my 2nd favorite brand than 10 of my #1 choice.

Hunter Tylo = Dawn Marie, Aaron Spelling = Vince & the WWE

I encourage you to hold onto that crown. Sorry, sfa, I'd already submitted my picks before you posted this. Watch, I'll win this week and space my picks next week, so I will be the nl-asshole again but it'll be too little, too late to help you.

What happend to TSM? This used to be a shallow, callous board. Now people are asking about personalities and shit. Who cares about their inner beauty, you emo nitwits. Date the hot girl until you either get too sick of her shit OR find a hotter girl to replace her. niskie <3's her hair cut.

Seconded.

The man has a 1-3 playoff record, & his one win was with the Cards. Until he shows that he can win consistently in the postseason, I'm going to be a non-believer. If you watch the highlights from the game these two teams played earlier this year, there are three Patriots that are shown repeatedly: Starks, Beisel & Brown. The first won't play at all, and the second two will play minimally, if at all. Other than the 3rd-stringer filled Miami game, the Pats D didn't give up more than 21 points after the Nov 7 Indy game. This is a noticably different team than the one that got shelled by SD or Indy, or lit up by Denver or KC. Plus, as I've argued before: +/- is a very misleading stat. A team could have a pisspoor record and still have a good point differential. Win 4 games by large margins, and lose 12 close games, and voila, a good point differential.

I had a buddy that worked as a beer-guy at the Fleet (they can call that building the Garden until they're blue in the face. That place will always be the shit-tacular Fleet Center in my eyes) and he said that it takes a year for the fanbase to react and stop coming to games. Even the year that they hit bottom & got Thornton, he made better money that year than they did the following year. I presume it's because people already bought tickets and don't want to not use them. They already gave Jacobs their money, why further the pain by wasting it altogether?

One of the best episodes of the season, IMHO, and up there with the first one or two as my favorite episode of the season. It didn't do much in terms of advancing the stories that I care about (e.g. I care more about the Michael/Walt thing in that it'll lead to the others than I care about them reuniting. And I'm pretty apathetic about the heroin/Charlie/Claire love triangle). Eko's story was insane, though. I loved it from soup to nuts, and I'm ready to say it's in the top three backstories on the show (up there with Locke & Sawyer). Charlie having the stash of Mary's was a definite Holy Shit! moment, and I thought Eko giving Charlie a statue to replace the one I broke was a cool twist: it showed that he didn't care about Charlie's H-habit, which would have been out of character for Eko. Lastly, I'm surprised that there's so little Lost-talk this morning. Normally there's 3+ new pages by now.

RE: the one armed man on the Wheel of Fortune. Methinks he'd use his foot, not his mouth. Sorry to be a buzzkill, but I just wanted to hopefully save you from some disappointment if/when you finally had your wish fulfilled with such an appearance on the show. RE: being born with no arms. I was in college, picking up a girl that lived in the dorms for a date. At CSU you needed an ID to get the doors to the dorms, and as I wasn't a dorm-resident I had no idea. I called her room, she said 'come on up' and didn't recognize that I was ID-less. So, I just knocked on the door until someone let me in the main entrance. The person that let me in was a full-on hippy (long dreadlocks, nappy beard, Phish tour shirt, the whole shebang) ... and this hippy had no arms, but two of those Terminator-esque metal arms & claws. He was quite obviously stoned when he let me in. One of my biggest regrets in life is not asking him to get high with me. Watching an armless kid light a joint/bong/bowl/whatever would have made my life more complete. I told my friend that's missing a hand that story, she was struck with equal amounts of pity (for me) and admiration (for the kid, for being an armless stoner).

Do I have to re-post that picture of the bunch of nerds to express my stance on the code talk? Or is asking that question a sufficient indication??

I could post it at the Pit if it's too hot for TSM. Do I dare?!?

While I don't necessarily disagree with some of the complaints, I do really need to point out that smarks aren't ever satisfied. "Cena should lose the belt" And when Cena finally loses it: "Not Edge! He sucks" They put the title on a good, liked wrestler: "Why a battle royal? They should have done ......" Jebus, if I was Vince & Company, I'd be doing things just to fuck with the IWC, too.

Sin City had a similar problem (although i guess Tarantino did direct a segment of that movie, so it's a bit more excusable).

This thread, and mole's link, is TOO hardcore for hardcore discussion. Delete, and ban mole, plz

There was no last time.

I couldn't get in from the random PC I was working on this morning (which doesn't have a skin saved, since it doesn't have a profile or cookie saved for TSM) but I can get in from my desk. So I don't know if we can blame the non-original skins as the cause. I'm getting in with a non-original but couldn't get in as a random, unknown, new user.

The Thornton "penalty" and misconduct were such bullshit calls. It was so obvious that Gill had seen the hit coming (making it obvious that it wasn't a hit from behind) and even more obvious that Thornton purposely skated to Gill's left before making the hit. How the ref could call a misconduct on that is stunning. I can only guess that they were afraid that the emotions would cause the game to get out of hand, and that the B's would be looking for payback hits. Or something. Because there's no other reason to 86 a guy for a hit like that. Thornton even went to the B's dressing room after getting kicked out to check on Gill, who admitted that he saw it coming and just did a piss-poor job of defending himself. Sadly, I hear that it's just a pinched nerve and he won't miss much playing time. You wouldn't be the only one. The place was almost sold out because Thornton's return, and the crowd was pretty noticably thinning out as the game wore on. The fact that the B's were getting shelled didn't help, but even when it was 6-1, if Joe was still in the game, people would have stayed. I contemplated buying scalper tickets, but saw how much over face value the scalpers wanted and passed on the idea. Paying $75 for cheap seats to a game between two 12th place teams? No thanks.

If I say, "Oh, I get it now" does it cover up my misunderstanding your attempt or does it make me appear even more dense?

Is that an inside joke that I'm not aware of or is there an extra comma in that sentence?

^ Muttered as the pants were re-zipped and the lotion was placed back on the shelf

Howe has played more games. Messier was like 10 or so behind him when he hung up the skates (I believe). Andreychuk most assuredly should have retired after winning the Cup. I understand having the fuel to play another year or two, but once you reach the pinacle of the game (Captaining the Cup winner) there's nowhere to go but down. He's a definite HOFer. And the max is MUCH more forgiving than I: Sturm's played better than I thought he would, Stuart's played worse (the guy was supposed to be the crown jewel of the trade, and if wasn't for the fact that the B's D is horrible he'd be a 3 or 4 d-man) and Primeau is another 3rd or 4th liner, which the B's already had 6 of. The team's played better, but I don't know if it's because the Thornton trade. If I was going to tonight's game, I'd be rooting for the B's to win, but for Thornton to light them up for like 5 points.

Dear TSM, Carnival states the obvious. Yours truly, nl5

I'm not going to bother listing them all out. (Lists are so 2005.) But I will make some comments on things that I really liked ... the other shit wasn't worth talking about. Acid: Liquid hits are good. Every other form is crap-tacular. If wanted a sore back and the urge to grit my teeth, I'd ... well, whatever one does to get a sore back and the urge to grit their teeth. Liquid hits, though: so pure you don't know that it's working until you find yourself tripping your nuts off on something random. (I <3 liquid hits.) Mescaline was always better than blotter. Mushrooms: Always gave me the feeling that I had to crap, even though I never did. And a group of friends I had in Colorado ate some mushrooms that had been recently picked in Tennessee, and after eating some of them, a few people noticed that a few of the 'shrooms had maggots in them. Which made ALL of them throw up. As one of the few people that wasn't shrooming that night, it was a funny site to see. Coke: is a lot of fun when it's good. Not a lot of fun when it's been cut to hell and is only good for a runny nose and an early morning shit. Crack was a lot of fun, too, but not worth the effort to smoke again and again and again. Pot: the only drug that matters in niskie-ville. I'd give up all the rest, forever, including booze, before I'd give up smoking.

Along with those three guys, the Pats were also missing Kevin Faulk (their normal back-up RB and the guy that's responsible for 3rd downs & receptions out of the backfield), Troy Brown, and had Duane Starks as a starting CB. Also, I believe this was before Hawkins stepped in as a dependable Safety. Dillon > Patrick Pass (who's serviceable as 3rd back, but not as a starter) Faulk > Amos Zerouoe Brown > Tim Dwight Hobbs > Starks (jebus, Terrell Buckley is better than Starks) Hawkins > Stone (who's so unimportant, I can't even remember his first name even though he's been a Patriot all year) I'm not saying the Pats will definitely win, and it'll be a close game even if they DO win ... but people are short-sighted if they think that the Denver/NE game from a few months ago is a good indicator of what'll happen on Saturday.

Amputated limbs > Tattoos? /glad I don't live in Mole's world.