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That may explain the 15 ambulances I saw racing west on I-10 on my way home... (I work in downtown BR)

Rant, True on part of that... the Alamodome, the Astrodome, etc. are getting filled up. However, Tiger Stadium itself is *NOT* being used as a shelter, although the LSU Field House, the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, the Parker Agriculture Center, and other places on campus are being used as shelters and triage centers.

Grand Theft Auto: New Orleans <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Considering that last year I thought that GTA: San Andreas should have been replaced by GTA: The Big Sleazy after a particularly long and ugly trek through the city, I think this is a natural fit.

Reports are coming out that LSU vs. North Texas has been scrapped as well, considering that Baton Rouge is now a refugee camp for displaced New Orleans y'ats.

It depends what plants are shut down and for how long, and how many wells are wiped out. http://www.lmoga.com/reflist.htm Most of the refinery capacity is in Baton Rouge / Port Allen (in West Baton Rouge Parish) and Lake Charles. The only directly affected refineries are in Meraux and Chalmette, both in St. Bernard Parish, which is southeast of New Orleans and will probably get hit hard. I'm not positive but I think that Garyville, Convent, and Norco are in the corridor between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, towards La Place, and are not going to be hit as hard as New Orleans will. The bigger damage will be the loss of domestic oil from the platforms in the Gulf that couldn't be dismantled in time. Considering that New Orleans would be the logical jump-off point for any operations to fix those platforms, that might be a major concern for any operation to get them up and running again.

Reminds me of an old joke... "Why are storms named after women? Because, once they're gone, they've taken your house, your money, your car, and your dog."

Sat through Andrew, cleaned up afterwards, got the T-shirt. This motherfucker, barring a major change soon, is going to make the Louisiana damage done by Andrew look like a nice Summer shower. The big question is going to be whether the Worst Case Scenario everyone had been thinking of for New Orleans over the past 40 years comes to pass and, if so, how long it takes for them to recover.

Yeah, but I think a lot of *those* losses were by the famous Wide Left and Wide Right missed field goals for a 1-point to 3-point loss. Texas's losses, though, tended to be more of the "ass-rape" variety.

God is the Ultimate Terrorist. Anyway.. This whole thing is pretty freaky, considering that FX fake documentry Oil Storm had a Category 5 Hurricane hitting New Orleans the weekend after labor day 2005, knocking out several oil refineries and the offshore pipeline. Oil prices ended up going over $70 a barrel, leading to gas prices over $4 a gallon just about overnight. Eventually, a bunch of other stuff happened (terrorists take US citizens hostage in Saudi Arabia, they blow up several oil plants over in the middle east, a Tanker explodes in Houston, etc..).. Well... I think whoever was behind Oil Storm should be wondering if they have ESP or something.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Frankly, a lot of the events in Oil Storm aren't exactly unlikely... The *timing* of all those events, though, is. (For example, a *LOT* of Category 3 and 4 storms have been heading straight for New Orleans since 1998 only to take a last-second turn and/or lose a lot of power right at landfall)

It's kinda easy to underrate UT's accomplishments when they have All-World QB Peyton Manning STILL can't beat Florida... Seriously, UT wins a lot but sometimes they don't play up to the level of talent they have at their disposal. This wasn't a problem in 1998 when Tee Martin and company put that championship run together, but they've had a problem with coasting at times. You may want to put the blame on Darth Visor (Steve Spurrier), though, because Florida's success made Tennessee seem like the SEC East's B-squad for almost 10 years, as it took about 8 years since the SEC title game began before a team OTHER than Florida won the East.

I think that's exactly what he means. In 1996, Michigan was in the midst of a downturn and no one took them seriously. They went undefeated and got a share of the title. In 1998, everyone assumed Tennessee was just going to get rolled over and fucked by Florida as usual, since Peyton was in the NFL. In 2002, everyone said "Ohio State? They'll fucking choke against Michigan or Miami." They didn't. In 2003, LSU got no respect for most of the year despite beating down Georgia and several other teams. No one really watched them play until they beat Georgia in a rematch in the SEC title game then when they beat Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl.

Both Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Corolla said that it would be funny when this comes out on Video , in the video stores someone might go to rent the Aristocats and pick this up by mistake. That would be pretty funny actually. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Discs will be switched all across the country. No doubt in my mind. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Imagine the Parents going crazy over this, I can't wait <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's got me thinking of the infamous scene in Fight Club where Tyler takes family films and splices in single frames of big hard cocks to mess with people's minds. That, and the episode of South Park where the kids accidentally end up with a copy of the most hardcore porno ever and are wondering why everyone is so freaked out by their copy of Fellowship Of The Ring...

I need to check to see if any local theaters are running it... I've seen the South Park version of The Aristocrats about 6 months ago and I heard that wasn't even one of the top 10 versions of the joke in the movie.

My local Laser Tag arena had one of those machines... It was a good pinball game and tied certain things in the game (hitting certain ramps, knocking out all the targets, etc) to "defeating" the Street Fighter in question. When you beat that Street Fighter, you'd get your choice from two different bonuses, which ranged from an Extra Ball, to millions of points, to turning on Multiball or a bonus mode. It wasn't the best pinball game I ever played (Lethal Weapon 3, Adams Family, 3D Revenge From Mars, and others beat it out) but it was certainly fun... especially when you could get free games easily. Speaking of Revenge From Mars, I need to get some audio clips from that game... Specifically, there's a level where a giant martian is fought by the US's own Mecha... a giant Abraham Lincoln. When you win, you get a Mortal Kombat-style announcement that says "Robo-Lincoln... wins" or "Sixteenth President... wins"

I went with Watchmen because, as metr0man says, it's densely layered and you could read it over and over again and still discover new details that help fill out the story.

Valiant Comics: Eternal Warrior: A Highlander-like tale of an immortal warrior who fights evil and protects the Geomancer, an individual chosen to listen to the Earth and do its bidding. Harbinger: X-Men knockoff that had better writing HARD Corps: Paramilitary organization whose members had implants that allowed them to use Harbinger powers one at a time

My favorites not already mentioned: - Penn State/KRS-One They'll be the first to tell you how important they are in the scheme of things and new jacks need to give them respect, but that doesn't shake the fact that they haven't been relevant in years. - Nebraska/Notorious B.I.G. For a couple of years they were completely unstoppable, and then they had to go get freakin' killed. Incredibly poor post-mortem management. - Kansas State/Master P Experienced the terrifying lows, dizzying highs and creamy middles of the game and still managed to be a laughingstock at all points. Got fat off of appealing to the lowest common denominator, and will take every shady-ass piece of talent to continue doing so. - West Virginia/Three 6 Mafia Known for inspiring an inordinate amount of property destruction. - SMU/MC Hammer Parlayed a surprising run of success into an enormous facility they couldn't possibly continue to fill. Suffered so-called "death penalties" when the money finally ran out. Now mostly known for their religious wheelings and dealings. - Southern Miss/David Banner The gritty alternative to the magnolias & mint juleps reputation of Mississippi. Always just a little shy of blowing up on a nationwide level, but they've got the respect of nearly everyone. Have little problem hanging with the alpha dogs of the game.

I think it's sad that he had to be forced out like that but it was time for him to go. He'd become the "bad boy" posterboy of coaching ever since Bobby Knight got fired from Indiana and Tark the Shark left Fresno State and went into retirement. If he'd been able to show any form of control over his players, I'd be able to feel more sympathy for him.

More proof that San Diego has to be the most fucked-up front office in the NFL right now... Not that Gates has been making that much more sense in his explanations why he blew off the Saturday deadline to sign his tender agreement.

Les has some better help at LSU than he had at OSU... Defensive Coordinator Bo Pelini and Offensive Coordinator Jimbo Fisher both know how to win. Jimbo ran the offense for LSU the last few years, including the title year in 2003. (Saban was a defense guy, so Jimbo had a pretty free hand.) Pelini won a lot at Nebraska then was the Defensive Coordinator at Oklahoma, which is pretty good except for two particular losses in that timeframe (Against KSU in the Big 12 title game and the ass-raping they got from USC in this year's BCS title game).

Partly. But it is also last impressions and how many people you bring back. Look at Auburn, who lost zero games, and are ranked something like 20. Utah, while a somewhat different case, isn't even ranked. In Oklahoma's case, they lose a bunch of players, including a Heisman trophy winning quarterback, and the last time people saw, they were being destroyed by USC. Translation: Most people have less confidence in them so they will be ranked lower. The reverse is true for USC. Everyone is appointing them as an invincable juggernaut. Why? Because they return their Heisman winning quarterback and were last seen destroying an excellent Oklahoma team. Everyone forgets the close calls against Oregon State, UCLA, California, and Stanford. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Right on. LSU is on the rise because of the massive amount of talent coming back. 1. They return 3 RBs that could start at any top-line program but USC or Oklahoma (Alley Broussard (now injured), Justin Vincent, Joseph Addai) 2. They return 4 very talented WRs and a TE, including some that are much healthier now than last year. (Skyler Green, Dwayne Bowe, Xavier Carter, Early Doucet, and TE Davy Jones) That doesn't include Amp Hill, who only quit LSU this week to transfer to a different program where he had a chance to play. 3. They have 3 very talented QBs, although none have put it together full-time yet. (JaMarcus Russell, Matt Flynn, and #1 QB recruit in the nation Ryan Perriloux) 4. They return a very experienced O-Line that has at least 2 NFL prospects. The defense is a little more depleted, but I think there's a lot of raw talent that new Defensive Coordinator Bo Pelini can whip into shape. Also, 2 of their 3 losses were last-second defeats that could have been avoided if one player hadn't gotten a penalty at Auburn or blown a coverage against Iowa in the Capitol One Bowl. (The Georgia loss, however, was a total shitkicking revengefest by Mark Richt's boys, which was due to LSU owning them twice the year before) This puts them ahead of Auburn, who went undefeated but lost their entire offense and some of their top defensive players.

That 1 loss better be against LSU, Alabama, or a non-conference opponent because a loss against Florida or Georgia could knock them out of the SEC title game.

Probably, but they'd still have to beat LSU or Alabama again in the SEC title game to get to the Rose Bowl.

And the people who remember those three blown PATs by him don't remember that LSU had, the previous season, forced All-World kickers at Ole Miss and Georgia blow important field goals and had, initially, gotten Auburn's kicker to blow a PAT later that year. The Auburn kicker got another attempt due to a leaping penalty and hit it to put them up 10-9 for the win, but it was that close to LSU forcing yet another great kicker to blow kicks. This is almost like if people said "Eli Manning... isn't he the guy who fell down against LSU and cost Ole Miss the SEC West title?", which is based on one Play Of The Week by the LSU defense that forced an Ole Miss lineman to step on Eli's foot and trip him on an important 4th down.

I'd go with Williams because I don't think he has the injury history that Boldin has.