Czech please!

Let's pause as we check with the war room in Binghamton.

I don't know if it's reassuring or disappointing to see that the United Kingdom also worships white trash from reality shows like we do. Where's your superiority, guys? This is getting ridic. George Orwell would be sobbing if he saw what you guys have done to his fair country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

About 78 wins when someone gets hurt. It's really a poorly constructed team.

I don't mind it. The tournament is supposed to go to chalk, it ensures the best matchups It's not too good from an entertainment standpoint, though. They sell this tournament in part on the Cinderellas and the amazing upsets, which are sorely lacking this year. I would think it's better from an entertainment standpoint to have the top teams play one another?

Get off your fat fuck of an ass and go do something with your life?

Why is it "serial pillist" instead of "serial piller"?

This is totally gone! I'd love to work at Dunder Mifflin now. It'd be like working in a sitcom.

I and others have been w/r/ting for at least four years.

Both shows are completely outlandish now and have been for some time, but at least 30 Rock is up-front about it and isn't putzing around with the last vestiges of the documentary conceit like The Office is. Both shows have completely unrealistic characters engaging in broad physical schtick, and yet one strikes me as on point and the other as a show that lost its way as it wrote itself into corners and dead-ends. I know I'm gonna take shit for the "Czech hates anything popular" meme that doesn't actually exist, but having to carry the NBC Flagship Sitcom torch has almost certainly had a lot to do with the descent from subtle poignancy and surrealism into fanboyist dramedy and zaniness. Even though The Office has sort of picked up where Arrested Development left off w/r/t popularity and Internet meme propagation, I think 30 Rock better captures the spirit of that show, and has been the funnier of the two shows as The Office has found itself looking for the Friends crowd.

cabbageboy and Enigma.

FUN FACT: there was a Robyn and a "Robin S" who each had a song called "Show Me Love." I prefer the Robin S one. It reminds me of something from Donkey Kong Country, with that bouncy little synth line.

In a similar vein. Even as a kid I knew this was cool. A nice by-product of the '90s tournament has been my rediscovery of legit pipes. Too much Waits and Dylan, you lose apprecation.

Not athletic enough. It's badminton. Not lesbian enough, either.

Non-story. The only people who should be legitimately up in arms over this are the people who have worked with special needs kids and take deep offense to the word "retard" in casual usage (hi, Mom!) and this wasn't even that bad. Stop feigning outrage. Personally, I wouldn't have risked upsetting the Special Olympics folks and instead opted for "yeah, I suck at bowling" but then you get the evangelicals in a tizzy claiming they had to explain to their children what sucking is. I can't bowl for shit, so Obama and I are tenuously aligned on this issue.

Well, I'm irritated that this discussion has been allowed to grow into whatever this is because he kept evading a simple "who and how do you like Duke" question. Few arguments on here genuinely honestly frustrate me beyond whatever sort of bluff and bluster I type up, but this has been one of them. Another one you may remember is when Massito kept giving me a bunch of two-bit obfuscation on how the Mormon Church can ethically profit from immoral and sinful behavior. I didn't appreciate that.

Advertisements for NCAA student-athlete awareness perennially rank among the worst. I'm not impressed that some girl who played badminton at Penn State is now working in marketing. The hell else is she going to do?

I liked the time Chris Duhon skipped a Bulls game to watch Duke play. Character guy.

you ain't dippin' you must be trippin'

I am woman beating leader?

Don't you hate it when people pronounce it "egg-zavier"? That's the mark of a broadcaster who hasn't done his homework.

Who changed your life more: J.J. Redick or Tim Tebow?

They let me pay in home-baked cookies instead of cash.

What's your favorite thing about Duke, Cowboy Numbers? That's they've been really good for the last 20 years? The screaming idiot who hypes every white guy that passes through their ranks? Their fuckwad coach? The atmosphere that there's no way you could ever be part of as long as you live? What's not to love?

I wonder if Cowboy Numbers leaned back in his swivel chair and crossed his arms after that Marbury post. Also, I could've sworn he was a Gators fan, but there are like nine or ten vocal Gators fans on this board and it's possible I'm confused.

Whoa, I got that Wisconsin game right? Sweet.