Dr. Tom

Picks coming in a few minutes.

100, 100, 93, 100 I call shenanigans on the third one. I must have misclicked.

Let's also not forget Richard Donner leaving midway thru the second movie. What probably would have been a tight and cohesive tale ended up being a mishmash. All the scenes with Gene Hackman in them were filmed by Donner. What Richard Lester gave us was Three Kryptonian Villains in the Boondocks LOL TEH PLANET HOOSTON~!!11!!!!1! There are a few other differences between the two directors' parts, but I can't help thinking the movie would have been a lot better if Donner had stayed on the whole time.

Solid review of the team. I'm very leery of Matos in CF, since he never showed he could hit worth a lick save 2003. My concern is that his 2003 season was a fluke, and the .240ish hitter we've seen the other times is the real deal. Considering his CF defense, he only needs to hit .260 to really contribute to the team. His baserunning ability helps, and he has some pop in the bat. I think the bullpen looks decent. BJ Ryan was pretty much unhittable last year, and if he's even close to that level this year, the Orioles will finally have a shutdown closer. Julio walked too many batters and lived too dangerously with the game on the line. He should be OK in a setup role. Kline and Reed can't do any worse than DeJean, whose execution in front of Boog's BBQ I would have fully supported. Maybe those of us in or near the Baltimore area can get to a game this year and see the team in person?

And Todd Helton for my second.

Bert Blyleven for my first of two successive picks.

Without knowing what you changed, it's hard to say what you should change back. However, regarding the printer: install it as a local printer on someone's PC and share it. You can then install it as a network printer on the other PCs, with an address/location of \\<ip address>\<printer share name>.

Bah, Bono's a moron. Forgive all third-world debt indeed. Go sing some more overrated "rock" songs, hippie.

Since the moniker I was going to use was taken, I think I'll be the Aberdeen Ironbirds.

I usually don't get delivery from pizza/sub shops unless the weather is really bad or I'm just feeling shitty. I live close enough to all the places I order from that it's only a 7-8 minute drive to the ones farthest away. For fast food, I don't do drive-thru unless I'm going there after hours and the drive-thru is all that's open.

Goddamnit, I was going to use the Elite Giants as my team. Shrug. Al, my pick is ready to go, and your presumption was correct. When do I actually have to make the pick?

If there's still room, I'd like in.

I will. Your friend is nuts.

Two things, CronoT: 1. It's fine to address problems to Dames, but some time ago, he left me in charge of the staff, so any legitimate complaints about the board staff should be addressed to me as well. 2. Get the sand out of your vagina. Just for carping about your post count, I've lowered it even further. Cheers.

If, by "that," you mean, "Dr. Tom being right, using parsimonious principles, and making sense," then I agree.

It does in the subsection of astrology that list refers to. It doesn't exist with traditional astrologers. So this is actually from some rogue offshoot of "traditional" astronomy? What, regular astronomy wasn't full of enough rubbish for these folks?

If you have to make a speech telling everyone how great you are, then you're not great. The UN is the pits. Kofi Annan is a chief reason why.

Apparently, I've gone from being an Aquarius to a Capricorn. Shrug. It's all bunk, anyway. Who cares what your "sign" is?

w00t, poker. Do you play online at all, Popick? Maybe we'll have to find a game sometime... Anyway, to the actual topic of the thread: I used to work with a fellow who was a Baptist preacher's kid. He had horrible social skills, and almost got his ass beaten on a few occasions. He was working because his parents were basically making him, IIRC. Anyway, he was definitely going to BJU; it was like his life's goal or something. I think he also wanted to be a preacher. So I suppose those are the people who go to BJU, or who send their kids there.

I was never a van of Thompson's style, but I can see how folks would like it. He struck me as a decent enough writer, even though I often disagreed with what he was saying. It's odd that he'd check out like such a wimp, though. If there's someone I expected to go out by snorting a hill of coke off a dead hooker's ass, then lighting his hotel room on fire and waiting on the bed for the flames to take him, it was Hunter S. Thompson.

2x nothing is still nothing...

I'm shocked you haven't done that yet, since you are a fairly big hockey fan. But I can't, you see. Will would yell at me because I didn't triple major in Business Ethics, Sports Management, and Labor Relations... Seriously, though, I'm not the hockey fan I used to be. I still tune into the playoffs, but I used to go to about 20 games a year. On the occasions I can score free tickets to a game, I go, but that's about it -- the NHL is absurdly expensive. And on the lockout issue, I side with the players. No one forced the owners to start and then perpetuate a system built around irresponsible spending.

I must say, I look smashing as the Joker... But Colonel... a PINK Riddler mask? For shame.

The General has dibs on E.L. Fudge cookies, hippie. Get in line.

Edited for accuracy. I thought you were above this sort of shit. Then again, I don't remember you having an economics degree... or a history degree... or any degree that gives you authority on the subject matter. OMG, I'd better not disparage a current box-office hit, since I don't have a film degree! And I'd better not offer thoughts about the NHL labor dispute, since I don't have a sports management degree. And I'd better not say I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night, since I clealry don't have a Hospitality Management degree, or whatever hippie degree you need to run a hotel. What I do have, though, is common sense. And common sense tells me that unions have been a very destructive force in the American workplace. Have they done good? Yes, unquestionably. But they've also done a lot of harm, And in my opinion, the bad has outweighed the good for some time now. Oh, by the way, I can write that because I have an English degree. Maybe you need a degree in Not Being Six Days Late Making a Reply.