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Soul Plane discussion should go in the "O.R. Polk, Jr." folder where NOBODY will read it

And when do we start charging registration fees?

Like the prevailing opinion has been, it's no crime to take a day off after a stretch of games in mid-July Houston, Atlanta, St. Louis (a really freaking hot city in the summer), et al.

Why would they be finishing after the Conference finals? (Canadian here, for the record) Well part of it is that coverage shifts to ABC I guess, the other half is that I think the show got cancelled? Seeing as there might not be an NHL in October maybe ESPN cut the show from the schedule just to be safe. They all said their final goodbyes in a really final matter.

Who caught the finale of NHL2Night? They ran old clips, got all misty-eyed, and turned out all the lights on the set. So I guess they don't know if they're coming back or what. Hm.

I was just looking at an old globe and apparently there used to be a country between Mongolia and Russia called "Tannu Tuva." Sounded like an interesting word, sort of like "Zoroastrianism." And then I figured, if some guy can found a briefly successful religion that included drinking bull piss, what's stopping me? Granted, the spread of Islam to Persia and Armenia killed it dead, save for part of present-day Bombay, India, but hey, it's worth a shot. I figured I have some ideas. Look at L. Ron Hubbard. He made up a bunch of crap about how aliens invaded the earth which cause us to have negative thoughts, which can only be purged and dispelled through buying a series of even wackier books and donating money to the church. That's the biggest bunch of malarkey I've ever heard, and Tom Cruise lives by this! So what do I have to do? Get my ideas streamlined, and then take the big risky step of declaring myself a prophet? I mean, once you do that, you've crossed the Rubicon. If you're wrong, you're going to hell. If not, you win! I don't know what I'm going for with this. But I'll jsut keep going.

Whoa! I pulled off the upset of the year. Too bad I drew AOO in round 2. Even I'm voting for him over me.

Graduation is the 30th, my last day of school is the 26th.

I think that TSM has to be open to the public or else rumors of strange Benoit-oriented rituals and the such will begin to circulate, we'll be ostracized from the rest of the IWC, they'll try and connect us to Freemasonry, and before you know it, Dames was the second shooter on the grassy knoll.

Around here, we refer to those things as a "Flip 'n Fuck." I couldn't picture what Frigid was talking about, then you called it a Flip-n-Fuck and I was like ooooooooooohhhhhhhhh....

Flames in 6, I think.

When did they rename The Ballpark In Arlington? Now it's "Ameriquest Field."

Yeah they were about 25 years late on that one.

Oh my god, it's a miracle. Let's not get too excited: he may have a hard time hating Dontrelle, but I'm sure he musters up the energy that it takes to hate him anyway.

So far, I'd have trouble disagreeing with a Wood-Prior-Clement-Zambrano-Rusch rotation.

Graduating high school. Should be an obnoxious, rednecks-with-airhorns experience.

They're not the greatest! They're behind the Yankees, Celtics, Canadiens, Dodgers, Cowboys, and 49ers. As opposed to what, the greatest Burger King franchise in the history of sports?

So even if if Calgary beats Philadelphia, Primeau still gets it over Iginla or Kiprusoff? This isn't like Giguere, where he came in goaltending for the #7 team and swept Detroit, won the 5OT game with Dallas, swept Minnesota allowing one goal, and dragged New Jersey to 7 games. That was a feat that deserved the Conn Smythe. The Flyers would have to win the Cup for Primeau to deserve it over either Flames guy. Oh and Martin Gelinas too, forgot about him. He's a contender.

Return To Oz was sorta creepy, giving Dorothy electroshock therapy and all. And there's The Gump! That thing was f'ed up, man. Sandlot was a classic movie. In fact I shall watch it now. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory owns you and your future children.

Maybe they should have a Mormon wrestler who tries to convert everyone to being missionaries...give him one of those wacky Mormon names like LaKrebs or Brigham J. Kimball.

As if Paul Wight being booked as the son of Andrew The Giant wasn't offensive enough, claiming lineage from a prominent historical figure, especially the emperor of Japan at the time of the atomic bombing, that's just asking for trouble. Did they not think people would be upset with naming a wrestler Hirohito? What's next? The Bolshevik gimmick gets brought back with a guy named "Ivan Stalinov," who gets revenge against rivals by having his lackeys ice-pick their heads? Or maybe Steve Hitler, who's popular in the locker room as long as introduces himself as Steve, and everyone is willing to appease his requests, but everyone freaks out when they find out he's Steve Hitler? Tony Mussolini, who promises to make the matches run on time in Stamford? P.S.: Maybe I'm on to something with Steve Hitler. Nah.

He is...Plaschke, Paige, and Mariotti are almost always there, while they usually rotate various Dallas people through and Boston puts up a whole litany of writers besides Bob Ryan.

Actually, with the Kings and Lakers possibly doing some rebuilding after the playoffs, especially if L.A. loses to the T-Wolves, then I think Golden State has the door wide open for them to contend in a smaller, five-team Pacific Division, where they should finish third ahead of the Suns and Clippers, at the very least. The ball is in their court. Ha ha ha.

Now THAT'S comedy!

I understand what it's like to miss them for six...