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Jury duty is a waste of your time -- I bitched about it once here and am too lazy right now to find out where it's posted... From this thread... OK, long story short. I was summoned during my final semester of college and I had a ton or so responsibilities in my everyday life. I went to the Pittsburgh courthouse and sat all day basically doing nothing. Then, with less than 30 minutes to go in the day this scumbag lawyer and prosecutor are looking over us. I pull out my most recent issue of National Review, making sure the scumbag defense lawyer would see it. However, it didn’t help because I was selected. The next three days were spent on a case where some guy with a beard about as long as I am tall fighting a DUI arrest. Well, only about 2 hours were spent actually hearing the case – most of the time we were all in this cramped little room doing jack sh*t. Oh I wish I had a Gameboy back then. Anyway, the highlight of the trial came when the defendant took the stand. When asked why he refused to take a breathalyzer or any other instrument to determine if he was drunk, the guy said all that was against his religion. Turns out he was part of an extreme Lutheran sect (BTW: I’m a confirmed Lutheran) that didn’t believe in breaking the skin (blood test) or doing whatever it is a breathalyzer is supposed to do. He also said his religion forbids getting pictures taken for driver’s licenses and proved it by showing his without a photo. When asked why is all this activity necessary the guy answered that these things are part of some New World Order plot. The Prosecutor then grabbed the guy’s pocket Bible and asked him to look up and justify what he just said. Later on, when the scumbag defense lawyer was questioning his client, the judge turned away to go over some paperwork for some other case and the scumbag lawyer went up to the stand and began whispering stuff into his client’s ear. I will never forget this exchange as long as I live. DA: Objection your honor. Judge: *looks up* On what grounds? DA: He’s talking to the defendant! Well, when we went to deliberate there was one woman that didn’t want to vote guilty because she felt bad for the hippie. Another woman didn’t want to vote guilty because she said all cops lie and didn’t believe the cop that testified against the defendant. Another woman didn’t even care what we did and spent the whole time saying how cute the prosecutor was. A guy that originally was to be our foreman didn’t want to be anymore when he found out that the defendant lived in the same community as him. Being the fearless leader that I am, I took the job because I wanted to get the hell out of there. All in all, jury duty was the biggest waste of time I have ever experienced and the only time I will ever be on a jury again is if it’s a big-name trial and I can get a book deal out of it. So when you get your jury duty summons write on there that you’re a card-carrying member of the ACLU or Fry Mumia fan club...

For a three-and-a-half hour movie it felt rushed, at least for me anyway. I was waiting for him to say "Hey you guys!" Not sure if this deserves the spoiler tags, but better safe than sorry. Spoiler (Highlight to Read): I don't understand why they did that first fade with Frodo and Sam surrounded by lava. On a personal note, my better half was really into reading this book before the movie came out and was always asking me stuff about what was going to happen to the characters. She asked me one time how Frodo and Sam get rescued and I just blurted out "Gandalf arrives in a hot-air balloon and saves them." She believed it. I couldn't help but laugh the hardest at that scene...

So that was episode eight of the current season?...

Ask them in a polite manner to stop? Or perhaps bust out the hippie-removal brigade...

Personally, I think he got a bit of a raw deal, but it's not my team... http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/6931588 EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Giants coach Jim Fassel informed his players during a Wednesday morning meeting the final two games of the season will be his last. "It's time. They need a change, I need a change. It's the right thing to do," Fassel said at his news conference Wednesday. According to players, Fassel informed the team he is not quitting but owners Wellington Mara, Bob Tisch and general manager Ernie Accorsi all agreed Fassel would be let go after these last two games. Though Fassel was upbeat addressing his players, he did show concern for the fate of his assistant coaches, players said. A meeting with team brass was initiated by Fassel. The coach, not ownership, wanted his situation resolved. Candidates rumored to be in line for the job include former Jaguars head coach Tom Coughlin, LSU coach Nick Saban and Patriots coordinators Charlie Weis and Romeo Crennel. Last week, Dan Reeves was given the opportunity to coach the Falcons' final three games of the season but declined. Instead, he decided to step down and allow defensive coordinator Wade Phillips to work in his place. Fassel told the players he would coach these last two games despite knowing his fate. He has one year remaining on his contract at an approximate salary of $2.7 million. Fassel should not be out of work long. He is expected to be a hot candidate in Arizona if Dave McGinnis is fired as well as Oakland if Bill Callahan is fired as coach of the Raiders. Fassel currently has a 58-51-1 record for the Giants plus a 2-3 postseason record. Last month Fassel talked to SportsLine.com about his place on the coaching hot seat and the tenous position that comes with the job. "I probably figured that out in my second year as head coach here in New York," Fassel said. "We didn't have a very good team that first year but we made the playoffs, went undefeated in the division and I was named Coach of the Year. Heck, I'm feeling pretty good about myself. "But three or four games into the next year we were struggling and I started to hear the negativity. I started to hear it from the fans and the media and I realized there are no passes in this league. "Considering the egos we have, none of us wants to hear about it. My job has been reportedly on the line in five of the years that I've been here. But if you can’t operate on the hot seat then you can’t operate. It's a very unwise man who thinks this job will be all rosy. "The only thing that isn’t on your contract when you sign it is the 'fired-on' date," Fassel said. "You look at it and those are the odds. I've heard more than one person say the shelf life of a head coach is down to three or four years. That speaks volumes of our profession. "What people do not realize about the position when they talk about our jobs being on the line, the day you sign your contract your job is on the line. It's almost like a game of musical chairs. There may be 32 guys who start when the music begins but when that 16th game rolls around there’s only about 18 chairs left for those 32 guys. That's just the nature of what we do."

They'll just think you're a rock star or rapper -- if you say your rhymes right you could probably shag a stewardess...

Now that's a Democrat I'd vote for...

If anything I'm Mike's b*tch. He bothers to debate the loony part of the TSM family -- I just read them and laugh. Now Mikey, did you go potty this time OK?...

Museum? You have no vision. I think it would make a dang fine amusement park...

Too bad those protestors didn't demonstrate in Hiroshima when the Enola Gay flew over that city...

No, you can't. Need a picture of Jesus in the jug first...

Wait a few years -- you'll shrug off your grades...

Okay, now that has to be the funniest thing I've ever seen BX do. Ditto. Bravo, BX -- I even scrolled down in fear once I saw his first "spoiler" tag. Once I read his next post, I knew it was a joke, and a bloody good one at that...

That's going to be at the end of the season...

Yeah, something like that. Who?...

Couldn't they have just picked one? Feels like that year Hill and Kidd got Co-Rookies of the Year...

Couldn't they have just picked one? Feels like that year Hill and Kidd got Co-Rookies of the Year...

Man, if we did that in America, nobody would want to play for the Cubs and Red Soxr...

Smart people got rich and stupid people own worthless bags of beans they paid hundreds of dollars for. Exactly. Although I own a "Republican" Beanie Baby (or whatever generic brand it's called) that I got from McDonald's years ago. Didn't wait outside the store for hours in order to get it though. I saw it, thought "neat" and bought it. Now the cats have yet another chew toy...

And whatever happened to the Beanie Baby fad? I hate people. Did you guys have signs in the store that said "limit 4 BB's per order"? I loved pointing signs like those to stupid customers...

He got fined $30,000 for that? Lame...

Had it done to me in eighth grade...

What ever happened to bathrooms, or, as Skironox said, peeing in a bush or something?...

I remember that promotion. It didn't seem THAT bad, but then I was 13 at the time. I don't think the following was "stupid" but I must have been the only person at my school that didn't like the Bird/Jordan game of horse...

Well, it should be another couple of hours before the first TSM reviews start coming in...