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He's in Charles Barkley's Fave Five! The almost comically preferential treatment he received from the officials in the 2006 NBA Finals singlehandedly won the championship for the Heat! None of this means anything to you?

I'm going to assume that you'd know better than I would. So let's remove Miami from consideration and insert Atlanta. They have no viable option at QB currently on their roster.

There she is. I'd like to give her an R-rated experience, amirite? Also, the so-called "Midnight Cowboy" song is "Everbody's Talkin," popularized by the incomparable Harry Nilsson. He's also responsible for the popularity of "Without You," which was somewhat recently ressurected by Simon Cowell's awful Il Divo project.

That curly-haired blonde girl melts my ice-cold heart. Is it odd that they keep trying to establish the idea that this is the best top 24 ever, when all evidence is to the contrary?

This is why it's hard for me to believe that Ryan and Brohm will actually fall out of the first round. It's not like there's an embarrassment of riches at QB hitting the free agent market, plus it doesn't look like McNabb's going anywhere. Chicago needs a QB. Tampa needs to start grooming someone to replace Garcia. Minnesota can't feel that great about Jackson as their starter. All of the guys in Baltimore are question marks. The new regime in Miami apparently doesn't think highly of John Beck. And so on.

The Washington Redskins (BX) are on the clock. Tick tock.

Y'know, my girlfriend has no interest in sports and I doubt that she'd be familiar with anyone active outside of Peyton Manning, Shaq, and Kobe. It's generally pretty easy to avoid sports, if you really don't care at all.

Should the current reports about the falling stocks of both Brian Brohm and Matt Ryan come to fruition, I'd have to say that Tampa should grab one of them at #20. I just have trouble imagining that this would happen.

Fair enough, but have you heard of Dwyane Wade?

That's amazing. His name isn't even Larry! What a fraud.

Why do you have to ruin everything that I enjoy?

I saw Blink-182, Smash Mouth, Everclear, and a bunch of other crap at DC101's chili cookoff years ago. The crowd was openly hostile toward Everclear.

Yeah, and Lowe mocked the pose from the cover of "Heroes" years before that other prick that did it this decade. EDIT: Here it is. I stand corrected, actually...that isn't anything like the cover of "Heroes"

I've seen almost exclusively crap. Eve 6, Silverchair, Stone Temple Pilots, Bush, Veruca Salt, Collective Soul, Huey Lewis & The News, REO Speedwagon (twice). I just missed seeing Warrant and Nelson as a child.

There are spots where it sounds exactly like My Aim is True. Not to get too off-topic before actually saying anything about the album that I started a thread about, but it gives you an idea of how important The Attractions were to Elvis Costello's subsequent records. Anyway, this is a great record that was unfortunately out of print for a long time. "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass," "So It Goes," "Marie Provost," and "Nutted by Reality" are highlights.

Anyone else like this? I see that it's now getting the deluxe reissue treatment.

Larry the Cable Guy plays conservative commentator Glenn Beck in Hard Knocks: The Glenn Beck Story. This is the last Glenn Beck joke I will ever tell. It's out of my system.

But what of the Ann Coulters of the world who would sooner vote for Hillary than McCain? Who will cream their jeans?

I think that unsubstantiated rumor was dealing with a hypothetical situation in which Obama has the most delegates going into the convention but sees the nomination hijacked by Clinton and the traditional party elites. That will almost certainly not happen.

Why does Michelle Obama hate America so much? America gave her Ivy League schools, fancy cars, jet planes, beautiful women...I just don't get it.

With the 20th pick in the 2008 draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Mario Manningham, WR, Michigan. I also considered Early Doucet and Jonathan Stewart with this pick. The Bucs desperately need playmakers on offense to take some of the pressure off of their defense. Manningham can complement, learn under, and eventually replace Joey Galloway.

Well, you're from Kentucky. You have an intimate knowledge of the trucking industry. Ordinary folks'll eat this stuff up.

A serious role for Larry the Cable Guy. He plays the hero who returns from Iraq and takes over his father's trucking business in Tucson, Arizona. He soon discovers that the shippers are corrupt and want him to smuggle illegal loads of cigarettes and slot machines. When he refuses to load such commodities they load his trailer with manure out of spite. He then punches the loaders and they fall face down in the muck. The movie shows the struggles of the American trucker. It shows truckers as knights of the highways struggling against big business and politics. He must haul illegal loads or he does not work at all. The movie depicts the issue of driver fatigue, overworked tired drivers trying to stay awake driving all night. The climax of the movie is when the hero crashes his truck into the giant sign of the corporation who caused him to suffer as an independent trucker. The truck is totaled, the driver goes to the hospital, and then he and his wife drive off into the sunset.

Larry the Cable Guy stars as Buddy Pigfarm, the manager of a rodeo. A longtime lothario, Buddy has always been very content as a bachelor, but he has begun to feel lately that he'd like to experience fatherhood. His yearnings receive plenty of fuel from his best friends Clem and Dooley, and from his parental-mentor relationship with a young boy, Jimbo. So Buddy decides to seek out a woman who will bear his baby for a price, with no strings attached. He finds Loretta Mabler, a beautiful young music student working as a waitress and yearning for the financial resources to study in Nashville. She agrees to serve as Buddy's temporary companion, but as the months pass and her pregnancy progresses, Loretta begins to fall in love with Buddy, who doesn't return her affections -- at first. I call it Hillbilly Seed. It's based on this movie:

Cletus T. Periwinkle is an easy-going trucker and a great fist-fighter. With two friends - Dale, who promotes prize-fights for him, and Foxworthy, the orangutan he won on a bet - he roams the San Fernando Valley in search of cold beer, country music and the occasional punch-up. But he is floored himself by a dainty little country and western singer, who gives him the slip when she realizes he's getting too serious. Cletus, Dale and Foxworthy set off in pursuit, pestered by bikers. I call it Every Which Way But Good.