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Dutch is also strangling cats while just wearing his underwear... I think that boy's got more on his mind than the Money Train.

I'm unfortunate enough to be watching the CliffNotes version of this POS on FX right now... I wish the goddamn thing would end so I could watch The Shield.

I'll go with auto-erotic asphyxiation for $100, Alex...

The writer's name is Roger Friedman and the article was originally from the Fox 411 e-mail column, which is a part of the Fox News site. I can forward the article to you if you need it, but the text of it is already posted here.

This didn't look too promising BEFORE I found this, so I can imagine what the reviews will look like on Friday morning. Have Ebert and Roper ever given any film one finger up before?

The ability to do it is made up of three parts. 1. Have a laptop 2. Have a VCR with a decent rewind function (this being the ability to rewind to exactly where you need or, failing that, pretty close to it without having a gap between hitting play and being able to hear again) 3. Try to know a lot about the subject going in. #3 helps A LOT when dealing with guys like Cornette who talk about obscure history. Stuff like that is when I listen to it once, rewind it, then try to translate it. BTW, the bad experience I had translating Muta's Engrish-language shoot interview is partly why I've been slacking lately. Having to strain that hard to get as little out of it as I did took a lot out of me.

He's not too popular with the IWC and the Neilsen ratings, either. I think part of the problem with Bruce Pritchard is that he's a blatant Vince McMahon kiss-ass and that he'll also push for himself to appear on TV as Brother Love for no obvious reason. (Remember the Smackdown Halloween party in late 2002? That was one of like 4 times Brother Love appeared on TV around that time.)

Islam; now Allah tells us to ruin the Olympics too~! Normally I wouldn't have to add this, but if you couldn't tell, it sounds stupid for a reason, as in it IS stupid. Eat me. The point being that the Algerians and other minorities in France have been pissed off for a long time and something like that would allow them to make their troubles known. This isn't "ALLAH AKBAR WE MUST KILL ALL THE INFIDELS ON PRIMETIME TV!!!!!" like you thought I meant. Think of it being more like the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle a few years back, except substitute loony hippie activists with a pissed-off minority group and a couple of guys from CNN with the entire world press.

Of the choices, I'd go with London. Paris may seem like a good choice but the city is a hell-hole and overcrowded, the people who live there don't even like their own countrymen, and I'm sure that the Islamic minorities (mainly Algerians) will make their presence known. London, OTOH, has friendly people, a good mass transit system, lots of places to stay, and the fact that it's isolated from the European mainland makes it easier to manage the influx of people into the country as compared to the relative lax borders within the EU. I'm sure the London games were also handled very well, as opposed to the 1900 Paris Games, which were the bastard stepchild to the French authorities because the International Expo was in town at the same time. The 1900 Games have their own entry in the Sports Hall of Shame series of books.

Used to work at the United Artists movie theater in Hattiesburg, MS. We got up to 2 free passes to a show per day and got some free stuff from certain places in the mall, such as gaming magazines from Electronics Boutique. It wouldn't have been bad except it was a 9-screen theater which had 3 screens of Episode One... which we weren't allowed to see for free (fucking Lucas).

Even if Iraq didn't have a fully functioning WMD program, stuff like this laying around certainly makes it look like Saddam violated the UN sanctions that said they were supposed to account for all of this stuff and then destroy it under controlled conditions.

I think the reason Bigelow was in the game was that this game had a LONG development period. Between early 1988 and the game's release, Bigelow went from "Great Tattooed Hope" to a WCW JTTS, Honky Tonk Man went from IC champ to complete jobber and Andre The Giant went from semi-retired to 75% retired.

Did I just drop some bad acid before watching this? I feel like I'm watching eXistenZ...

I wouldn't say the Bulls were loved as much as they were generally liked and there wasn't the anti-Yankee attitude of "Who's going to shut down the mercinary team this year?" As for specific players, Jordan was loved, Pippen was liked, and Rodman was generally detested for being a publicity whore. The Lakers are hated more because of Kobe's problems, the team's payroll, and the fact that the Lakers have gotten hugely overexposed in the past five years since it was the first time since Magic retired that they've been any good.

Yep, that's the one which had USC at 1, LSU at 2, Texas at 4, and Oklahoma at 5 for the final week's results. I think it also had Texas at #1 or #2 a few weeks prior.

For the proposed formula? Only to figure out what the computer rankings used to determine the last 1/3 do. 2/3 of the BCS numbers will be based on the AP and Coaches' Poll numbers, which don't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out. (LARRY Holmes could figure out THAT particular chunk of the formula) If the computer scripts are written properly, they'll all return the same teams in generally the same order, with some movement here or there. The problem is that the New York Times computer seems to be in a time warp, as their rankings are usually the outlying numbers that are thrown out for each team. The numbers, once examined, are heavily skewed towards members of the Big 12 as compared to the SEC, Big 10, Big East, ACC, and mid-major conferences. Every mid-major that appears on the list has the NYT as their lowest number by a WIDE margin (12 spaces for Miami of Ohio, 13 for Boise State, 17 for TCU, 14 for Utah, 6 for Bowling Green). Except Oklahoma, every Big 12 team listed has their lowest number from the NYT poll. The only reason Oklahoma was so low here was that this was right after K-State humiliated them in the Big 12 Championship. Out of the top 25 BCS teams on December 7, 2003, the NYT number was thrown out for 10 of those teams. That's by FAR the highest number of any poll thrown out, as the average computer poll was thrown out 4-5 times, although some like the Colley Matrix were thrown out only twice. On top of that, many of the thrown out ratings for every poll BUT the NYT were cases in which two or more polls agreed on a ranking. The only times where the NYT agreed with any other poll as the high number was in ranking LSU, which has 6 rankings of 2 and 1 ranking of 1, and Georgia, which had two #12 rankings coming off of an SEC Title Game loss to LSU.

It's only guaranteed for this year. There's a clause in the BCS contract that pretty much states that a league whose champion gets a bid despite being below #15 in the BCS standings is in danger of losing their automatic bid. Considering that the Big (L)East is losing Miami and Virginia Tech from the schedule this year and Boston College next year, it'll be hard to get someone, even semi-powers Syracuse and West Virginia, to reach that ranking by replacing them with mid-major power Louisville and two low-end mid major teams like Cincinnati and South Florida. At that point, I'd say that the BCS should take back the automatic bid and, instead, give out a 3rd at-large bid, with preference being given to teams from a conference outside of the ACC, Big 12, Big 10, Pac 10, and SEC.

Cleveland Indians: Julian Tavarez blows a lead in the 7th game of the 1997 World Series, which eventually allows the Florida Marlins to win their first title... then start dismantling the roster about 30 seconds later.

Want to hear something funny? A player using Hogan can just keep hitting the kick button until his opponent is worn out. Either someone at Acclaim had a sense of humor or it was a bug. Considering that it came out in late 88 / early 89 (I got it on April 1, 1989, the day of Wrestlemania 5), I don't think anyone was that smarkish yet.

Legendary bad trades- Mets send Nolan Ryan to the Angels for Jim Fregosi Cubs send Lou Brock to the Cardinals for a no-name (Ernie Broglio) Reds send Christy Mathewson to the Giants for Amos Rusie, whose career ended soon afterwards Reds send Frank Robinson to the Orioles for a no-name pitcher (Milt Pappas?)

If SOS and Quality Win Points are being canned, LSU may be SOL this year. LSU's schedule this year will be hellish, as Ole Miss, Alabama, and Oregon State will be coming to town and they'll have to travel to play Florida, Georgia, Auburn, AND Arkansas. (Talk about four road games from Hell). Considering that LSU would also have to play in the SEC Title game if they win out (either facing Georgia or Florida again or Tennessee), the AP and Coach's poll are based on perception as well as who lost when rather than to who and how badly, and there's no guarantee that the computer polls will reflect reality coughNEWYORKTIMESPOLLcough, it just got that much harder for an SEC team to contend for the national championship.

It still may have smaller plot holes than Battlefield: Earth...

The question shouldn't be "Why are so many people getting life sentences?" as much as "How many people in this list got life sentences instead of going to Death Row?" One of the big selling points of life sentences over the death penalty is that it's cheaper to confine someone for life than to fight legal battles for 10 years to get them executed. Considering the $1 million over 30+ years is hella-cheaper than probably $5 million over 10 years to get someone executed, that's a supreme bargain. If the people getting many of these sentences are violent offenders who would have received the death penalty under other circumstances, they got off easy with life and the state got a cheaper bill because of it.

The best way to get the UN's attention would be to pull all US funding (dues) from the organization and pull our support from endeavours that we feel are not worth our trouble, then just sit around using our Security Council veto to fuck over people like Russia did back in the 50s and 60s. The way the UN is set up, we may not be able to do everything by ourselves in the world but the UN CANNOT function without our cooperation on security matters. If some people are reminded that the US IS the backbone of the UN and that the organization cannot function without our cooperation, some of the shit we're getting may dissipate. Granted, certain countries will always hate us, but out "allies" like the French, Germans, and Russians need to realize that they have to play ball with us and not pitch a fit over every little thing we do.

Actually, The Sopranos has only had one shit season, the fourth season (last year). The third season wasn't perfect but it was still better than 90% of the rest of television and the fifth season (current) is going good so far. There haven't been any wide and unexplaned plot shifts, unlike last season (the wide swing in Meadow's behavior from whiny, selfish, bitchy "Hell-OOO! My boyfriend was killed!" Meadow at the start of the season to the well-behaved, idealist future lawyer Meadow about three eps later for example).