bob_barron

I'm sorry, I'm really turned on by Jim and Pam

Mole did respond with WTF in the movies thread, so clearly he didn't like it

I just watched this on YouTube and I was not impressed. This "Crazy Funky Hat" song you reference is a gag that's supposed to be funny but falls pathetically flat. What I saw was a couple of girls of about 14 years old acting half that, delivering a song/dance sure to make anyone with an age in double digits embarrassed for having seen it. The Cory theme song is amazing in the same way that Vanilla Ice's Hard to Swallow or backyard wrestling videos are amazing. Oh yeah, this is special. I love Lincoln tapping his toes.

I did not laugh out loud. And there's a thread for Terminator: Salvation. Because no one watches the SAG awards because they're on TNT. Not many people cared about the Globes when they were on TBS. Also, they serve alcohol at the Globes. For a while the show was hyped as a glorified Oscar preview and the fact that you don't know what will happen next.

Jam has been their pet name since Season 2

So.....scared

Hey now. They ran the ball a lot more in this game, and I thought he played better in the second half. I do agree though, he shouldn't be MVP since the Saints aren't making the playoffs. It's nice to see him finally come around, since he was awful at the beginning of the season. I still don't get what that 4th and 1 play was though.

Phyllis making that sad face and then turning around and announcing it to the whole office was great. I did hear from Cool Guy Paul that Toby took over for showrunner from Greg Daniels.

I was at the HHOF two weeks ago. Though after seven times, I think I've seen all I can see

When the Yankees haven't won in 8 years, and your team just won the World Series, it does make you sound a little stupid. I do think that the city bending over and allowing the Yankees to do whatever with their new stadium was bullshit, especially since they don't even need one to begin with. And I liked the idea of Citi Field being renamed Citi and Taxpayer Field.

The Yankees paid for the stadium through bonds that the city bought it sounds like. It's not like other stadiums, where the city foot the bill. This is what I got from wikipedia- Rather than the $800 million value affixed to the stadium (which is for the stadium and not for the parking garages, highway improvements and other items associated with the construction), independent analysts have set the tab for the complete project closer to $1.3 billion. The city's share includes allowing the Yankees to occupy 22 acres (89,000 m2) of Macombs Dam Park and John Mullaly Park (which is already used for stadium parking on game days), and to build parking garages on those parks. City-funded artificial surface will be placed on top of those parking garages to make up for the lost parkland. The city would retain ownership of the land, but would not charge the Yankees rent or property taxes. The city currently charges rent at Yankee Stadium; no sports teams pay property taxes in New York. In addition, the city would foot the bill for acquiring scattered parcels of land near the waterfront, about a half-mile away, and building smaller parks there, even though the project was precipitated by the Yankees' desire to acquire the current parkland. The cost of renovating the existing parkland would be about $25 million; building new parkland will cost $150 million. That cost includes demolition costs for the historic Yankee Stadium, which would be completely torn down. The building's destruction would be paid for entirely by the city and replaced with parkland. The city will also issue tax-exempt bonds for the Yankees' new stadium. The Yankees would repay those bonds with payments in lieu of taxes; the Yankees have not paid taxes. The Yankees have arranged for the lease on Yankee Stadium to be classified as an 'operating lease' even though many accountants think that the Yankees' early involvement in the building of the stadium should have precluded operating lease accounting. This is extremely important to the financing because it means that the Yankees will be able to keep significantly more revenue from the stadium and will not have to share it with the rest of Major League Baseball. New York state taxpayers will pay $70 million to help the Yankees build parking garages (as authorized by the State Legislature). The parking garage project would cost $320 million. City and State taxpayers will forgo up to $7.5 million annually in lost taxes resulting from the sale of $225 million in tax-exempt bonds authorized on October 9, 2007, by the New York City Industrial Development Agency (administered by the New York City Economic Development Corporation) to finance construction and renovation of the parking garages.[15][16] However, if the parking revenues are not enough to pay a reported $3.2 million land lease to the City of New York, the entity that will operate the parking garages and collect revenue will be able to defer that payment.[17] State taxpayers, through money that has accumulated from the MTA's budget since the 1980s, will also pay all of the costs of a train station on the Metro-North commuter railroad. In addition to the public subsidies and billions of dollars of increased revenue, the Yankees will benefit from a change to Major League Baseball's 2002 collective bargaining agreement (CBA), which allows teams to deduct new-stadium building costs from the revenue-sharing payments they make. For the Yankees, whose $200 million player payroll makes them the largest contributor to the revenue-sharing pool, this means 40 percent of their share of the price tag may be borne by the remaining 29 baseball teams. All told, the Yankees and the taxpayers can each expect to pay about $450 million, and the Yankees will cover the remaining costs from diverting revenue sharing payments that would have been paid to the other baseball teams. __________________ I didn't like the idea of the Yankees taking away parkland, and the residents having no say about it. Three minutes too late Cheech!

While it's not a theme song, the Crazy Funky Hat dance from Wizards of Waverly Place is something else.

Arrested Development- Pier Pressure

Apology not accepted. I want to eat a gun

I told Czech that at the beginning of January I was going to start a thread (or just make one in year) for people to list their top 5 or 10 movies of the year and then I can tally it up. It's too early though- I still have 10-20 movies left to see

The Yankees paid for their own stadium. As did the Mets.

This episode had me crying of laughter. The intervention thing wasn't funny per se, but it was nice seeing Michael try do the right thing in his own Michael way

NO

Hannah Montana is much better than Cory in the House. So, Ring of Hell

Snitsky's poem during the Edge-Lita wedding should've given him a job for life.

Agreed. The dicksucking 30 Rock gets is getting tiresome

I apologise if I'm coming off as salty, I've just never liked the Public Account thing

That's fine, I'd just rather it be done in the specific folder, and let posters star the topic. I hope so too. If a mod can't handle criticism or complaining and has to behind a shared account, they shouldn't be a moderator. I accept this

I have no idea what this means. I just don't like the idea of having big thread saying discuss the year end awards for this folder here! Let the posters do what they want in their folder, ya know?

The drafts were starting to clog up folders, had been so for months at a time, and there was no end in sight. Presumably, year end stuff doesn't last very long and should be done by mid-January. Plus, there can be actual discussion with year end awards, while a draft is just picking random things. So they should be used to bolster discussion in the folder it applies in, not a subfolder.