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All of the schools in the SWAC (Grambling, Southern, Prarie View, etc.) tend to have impressive bands. In the case of Prarie View, the band was tougher than their football team and actually got into a halftime brawl with the Southern band.

They said the same thing about this guy that came out of Southern Mississippi about 14 years ago.. The first month I went to USM, you wouldn't believe how many stories I heard that started "I saw Brett Farve last night. He was pissing on the bar, literally..." Yeah but did Farve do coke and have extreme battles with mental depression? No, but I think that Dimitrius Underwood at least had the serious depression problems. They were so bad that Nick Saban was actively telling teams "He's got a screw loose", but the Vikings drafted him high anyway.

They said the same thing about this guy that came out of Southern Mississippi about 14 years ago.. The first month I went to USM, you wouldn't believe how many stories I heard that started "I saw Brett Farve last night. He was pissing on the bar, literally..."

That POS Clarett got drafted in the first day? He must have REALLY impressed someone with his last set of workouts.

Wow... thought that Campbell would go in the 2nd or 3rd round.

JT Sullivan was the anoited one after they picked him up from the Saints. Don't know for sure who else they have, although I think they may have ex-LSU QB Craig Nall.

Looking at the remaining teams in the first round, it'll have to be the Packers or Raiders unless someone trades up to get one of the remaining first-rounders. I mean, look at these teams... The Seahawks have Hasselbeck, the Redskins have a lot of young QBs, the Falcons have Vick, the Chargers have Rivers and Brees, the Colts have Manning, the Steelers have Roethlisberger, the Eagles have McNabb, and the Patriots have Brady.

Question of the day- When will Aaron Rogers get drafted? I'm guessing that the Packers take him at #24 because Brett Farve's getting close to the end of his career.

NO trades up... 1st round swap this year and they give up a 3rd next year. Who dey get with the pick?

Here's hoping that the Saints can pick up an impact player with their first pick... or completely fuck over Washington if they trade down. Considering that the Saints have recently signed several defensive backs, this moves the biggest sore spots to the D-line, linebackers, and the O-line.

Part of why Flair's drawing ability dwindled was due to booker Dusty Rhodes intentionally fucking with him, from putting himself over Flair for the title to making Flair look like crap every night to booking put guys like Luger and Rick Steiner over him for the title. If Magnum TA hadn't gotten in a career-ending car wreck and was allowed to take over as the top face, Flair could have stepped back for a while and then come back fresh later on down the line. The same thing would have happened if Dusty and management had treated Sting properly from 1988 to 1990.

The thread over at DVDVR contained numerous instances where Bradshaw was accused of sticking his finger up someone's ass in the showers. This is separate from the infamous "Bradshaw's Baby Oil" instance which, supposedly, involved Duke "The Dumpster" Droese using home-made GHB on chicks. (I think I'm one of the people that thought it was Brian Christopher and associated his name with it. Considering that Christopher is a world-class ASSHOLE, it was a natural assumption. However, I've since been informed that it was probably Droese and that it contributed to him leaving the company.)

As long as it doesn't have neon on it spelling "Fo Shizzle", it can't be THAT bad... -edit- OK, now that I've seen it, it's not BAD but it's certainly not an improvement.

I'll second that... In my particular office's case, our catch-all is "That's the fucking vendor's core code, we can't touch it", as we bought a Customizable Off The Shelf package to handle our business process. Me and all the other programmers are supposed to tweak all this stuff to make it do just what we want, but sometimes that's easier said than done since some of the simpler stuff is done in the core code. Usually, we say "OK, that's what you want but, instead, this is what you're gonna get." I also used to be in the mail-processing area of that place and it was a fucking madhouse... let's just say there are a lot of complaints about missing checks, unprocessed documents, etc. As for my previous career, working at a movie theater fucking SUCKS. Cleaning up the theaters was pretty bad because I was in a redneck college town and I must have turned over quite a few cups full of tobacco spit by accident while sweeping up. Ushering in general wasn't bad, although it would have been less of a problem checking for outside food if we weren't part of a mall. People trying to sneak in a goddamn bag from Chik-Fil-A and so forth instead of the normal "bag of Skittles in the pocket" routine. Concessions fucking blew. The company took "idiot-proofing" too far on the registers so, instead of ringing up an amount for each item, which would make sense, you have to hunt and peck to find keys for the proper sizes of popcorn, soda, candy, etc.

You can get custom jerseys... they just have to pass a screening process for potentially offensive names and terms. It took a fucking Act Of God for an LSU professor to get a replica Patriots jersey with Gay on the back and Randall Gay's number. He pretty much had to call up the main office of the NFL's merchandising arm and get them to temporarily let the name "Gay" through the system since Randall Gay is a legitimate player (and Super Bowl champ!). Something tells me that "Mexico" and "R. Mexico" will end up on the banned list very soon as a result of this. This is also going to make for an interesting set of signs whenever Atlanta comes to town...

Copying most commercial tapes WILL work, as I have converted several of my WCW masters already. The only problem tapes I've had so far were some of the Coliseum Video tapes such as Wrestlemania 4 and Survivor Series 1987, both of which gave me a "Cannot copy this" error. There must be something encoded into these particular tapes because I copied Wrestlemania 2 and a bunch of early-90s Coliseum Video tapes and had no problems. Getting back to your original question, I think the best way to figure out what's going on is to: 1. Hook the DVD player up solely to the TV using a set of RCA cables and MAKE SURE you know which input it's plugged into. 2. Power up the DVD player and make sure that it's on. You may try putting a pre-recorded DVD into it and playing it as a test. 3. Check the batteries in the remote control to make sure they're charged up. 4. If the batteries are charged, make sure that the remote is working properly and try to power the player on and off with it. If the player WILL NOT power off through the remote but will manually, the problem is either with the remote or with the unit's sensor. Sorry that I can't go more in-depth than that, but this sounds like a case where the inputs from the DVD to the TV are screwed up or, alternately, the remote doesn't work.

Actually, your permissions mask is left over from when I was a mod. He's more than in his rights to change it if he feels like it.

12 hours are up, so I'm taking my pick now before Agent Of Oblivion can get back. With the 40th pick of the 2005 Draft, the New Orleans Saints pick... Adam Terry, Tackle, Syracuse 6'8, 320, unofficial 40 time of 5.22 seconds QUICK STRENGTHS: quickness, size, hand work QUICK WEAKNESSES: agility NFL COMPARISONS: Tall, quick and athletic tackle who can play the left side similar to John Tait. Analysis: Terry has a lot of ability and the skills to be a top lineman at the NFL level. Off the bat, he certainly passes the eye test. He is tall even for a lineman and has long arms. He shows very quick feet in pass protection. He comes off the ball well, sets up quickly and even though he has a lot of height, he plays low and has good knee bend. He is rarely beaten to the outside by speed rushers. He has good punch and is able to keep defensive linemen off balance and away from him with good hand work. However, he doesn't always show top flight agility. While he his quick, he lacks great balance and appears awkward when having to redirect. As a run blocker, he is a good seal blocker and also has decent enough strength to be an effective straight ahead blocker. He shows great aggressiveness and plays until the whistle. He will need to continue to improve his strength, which is good now, but he has the frame to add bulk and strength. He has shown decent foot speed and ability to get out into the open field and make blocks on screens. (The above stolen from www.draftshowcase.com) For the Saints, specifically, the offensive line has been deteriorating ever since perennial Pro Bowl choices Willie Roaf and Kyle Turley left. Their offense has all of the right personnel in the skill positions, with the possible exception of QB Aaron Brooks, so the O-line is one area on that side of the ball that could use some work. Terry is a better pass blocker than run blocker at this point, so this should hopefully give Aaron Brooks a little more protection and the confidence NOT to make stupid decisions. Once Terry learns more about run blocking, his size should help open some holes for Deuce to exploit, which should hopefully get them on the board early and not rely on the long-ball to get back into games.

Woohoo! C'mon Kentucky! Beat those Spartans tomorrow!

The second you miss one of your picks, I'll be lobbying Pinjockey to send him your way.

Now if Illinois can win tonight and Kentucky can pull it off tomorrow, I've got a legitimate shot of locking up the TSM Picks Pool win.

I refuse to believe anyone from a major conference should be allowed to be called Cinderella. It just goes against the whole meaning of the world. Cinderella is someone no one expects. A Big East team going to the Final Four isn't much of a cinderella story. I don't consider a 7 seed to really be a Cinderella... I consider a double-digit seed like NC State, a 10-seed, to be a Cinderella regardless of conference affiliation.

10th or 11th... LSU did it as the 10th or 11th in 1986.

We're in OT, BAY BEE! Go Cards!

If they miss their 12 hours, they should be subject to the same penalty that a real NFL team would get... getting skipped by any and all teams who would come after them that submit a pick before they put their pick in. It's not that Clarett would actually be on a team as much as doing a throwaway pick for the sake of being a fucking asshole skews the picks of everyone else following that choice. If, for example, you missed your first pick, it would have been bullshit for us to give you Clarett as the last pick of the first round because no one in their right mind would have picked him there. It would have meant that Channing Crowder would have still been available, which would have impacted subsequent choices by all other teams. If Crowder was still available, I'm pretty sure that Tampa or Oakland would have taken him over Blackstock or Ruud, which has a trickle-down effect throughout the draft of affecting choices made by teams.