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Quote from: Slaky on May 23, 2010, 06:58:30 PM
The real story here is the tragedy that Weebs didn't get to play softball today.

Typical Chicago pieces of shit.

T minus 4 hours from Chuck, Pen and Weebs bitching about how it all ended.

I don't know if anyone else is watching the pre-End Lost special on ABC right now, but listening to Daniel Dae Kim talk is a trip. I already knew the guy was raised in the States, but he sounds nothing at all like Jin.

4.

Quote from: R-V on May 20, 2010, 09:11:27 AM
I don't get this thread inactivity at all.

We talked about it in the shoutbox a bit. We agreed that Desmond is the shit.

I think we also agreed that TDubbs may be very right that AltJuliet is AltJack's ex-wife, leading us to...

Quote from: R-V on May 20, 2010, 09:11:27 AM
Sure it was a setup episode for the reality-colliding finale...

Can't wait. There's gotta be a shitload of mirrors.

Whether she's AltJack's former missus or not, I expect AltJuliet to be at the concert tonight in some capacity so that she and AltSawyer (either dragged there by AltMiles or chasing down the fugitives) can have their AltHurley-and-AltLibby-style crossover love connection.

Who else will be at the concert and how will they get there?

AltJack will be there for David along with AltClaire. AltHurley, AltKate, AltSayid and AltDesmond are going together.

AltWidmore, AltEllie and AltPenny will be in attendence (their benefit), while AltFarraday and AltCholly perform. It's at AltMiles' dad's museum (that is, AltChang), for which AltCharlotte works.

I'd imagine AltHurley will have AltLibby for a date.

Will AltLocke be there? (And what of AltJack potentially helping AltLocke walk again in the alt-timeline even as Jack-ob fights EvilLocke in the original?)

Will we maybe see AltDogen again? Is AltAlex a musician? If she's there to perform, that could get AltBen and AltRousseau. Malcolm David Kelley's too old for 2004, but AltMichael? AltLapidus?

Finally, TEC and I agreed that, at the very least, there needs to be some excuse made for AltArzt to be there, too. (Maybe whatever gets AltBen there snags him as well.)

Am I missing anyone?

As far as the end game goes, I'm still holding out for a bit of ManInBlack redemption. I've never gotten to the point of wanting him to actually win (particularly now that the writers have gone to such lengths to make it clear that he's eeeeeeeeeevil). But I am more sympathetic to him as a character than I was to Jacob. So I need a little "there's good in him yet" moment a la Darth Vader at the end of Jedi or something similar.

Maybe even something as small as him embracing his own death (as the next best thing to "winning") by saying "thank you" when he finally goes, just like dear old crazy mom.

I also hope Jack is growing out a sweet beard again.

Quote from: CT III on May 22, 2010, 04:59:18 PM

Quote from: Slaky on May 22, 2010, 01:27:12 PM
So I really do not like Sarah Kustok and her terrible interviewing skills. Every time she does the postgame the first fucking question is "How about these fans?" We get it - fans are happy that the Hawks won. Learn hockey, dumpster.

This actually worked out well last night because Patrick Kane decided to turn into Hulk Hogan for the interview. Gold.

http://www.csnchicago.com/05/21/10/Kane-speaks-to-United-Center-crowd-after/landing.html?blockID=239440&feedID=661

And the second "question" is "describe what you're feeling right now".

What the fuck does that even mean?  Is Kane going to describe a heretofore unknown emotion to us?

Kustok is fucking useless.

Unless you have a use for blonde bohunk who talks like a deaf man.

Quote from: JD on May 22, 2010, 05:04:53 PM
I didn't like the ending.

I did. Annie's hot.

What...nothing?

One post? From Weebs?

I don't get this thread inactivity at all.

Or has nobody simply seen this episode? Granted, I typically catch it the day it airs myself but I happened to watch this one a day later.

/MAD-RV

So, aside from all the other hilarity in this episode (e.g., "am I black boobs?"), I actually managed to laugh out loud at two separate Chang lines: "I will find a loophole" and "Britta! Britta! Your lipstick looks better."

Quote from: MAD on May 22, 2010, 09:56:21 AM
That Jonathan Toews Stan Mikita is only twenty two years old gives me an exceeding amount of optimism for our future as Hawks fans.

If they win it now, we enjoy it now and the future will be what it will be'd

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1972721,00.html

QuoteIn his ads, Grayson is attempting to paint Paul as a kook whose beliefs are outside the mainstream. Which may explain why on several issues, Paul is edging toward the center: Pure libertarians, he says, believe the market should dictate policy on nearly everything from the environment to health care. Paul has lately said he would not leave abortion to the states, he doesn't believe in legalizing drugs like marijuana and cocaine, he'd support federal drug laws, he'd vote to support Kentucky's coal interests and he'd be tough on national security.

"They thought all along that they could call me a libertarian and hang that label around my neck like an albatross, but I'm not a libertarian," Paul says between Lasik surgeries at his medical office, where his campaign is headquartered, with a few desks crammed between treatment rooms.

http://www.frumforum.com/rand-pauls-personal-special-interest

QuoteRand Paul's libertarianism stops where his pocketbook starts, or so reports the Wall Street Journal today:

QuoteTea party favorite Rand Paul has rocketed to the lead ahead of Tuesday's Republican Senate primary here on a resolute pledge to balance the federal budget and slash the size of government.

But on Thursday evening, the ophthalmologist from Bowling Green said there was one thing he would not cut: Medicare physician payments.

In fact, Paul — who says 50% of his patients are on Medicare — wants to end cuts to physician payments under a program now in place called the sustained growth rate, or SGR. "Physicians should be allowed to make a comfortable living.

I guess this is what the original Rand meant by the morality of selfishness.

Both via: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/05/in-defense-of-rand-paul-kinda-ctd-2.html

Where Sully's reader notes:

QuotePaul is willing to bend the issue of pure personal freedom for drug laws, abortion, and even coal subsidies ... but he thinks telling a restaurant it cannot discriminate is a bridge too far?  I still don't think he's racist, but what he chooses to be ideologically pure about certainly raises my eyebrow.

DPD...

Quote from: MAD on May 20, 2010, 08:25:56 AM

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Quote from: MAD on May 20, 2010, 08:09:38 AM
The new guy at SCH with a must read.

Amusing, well-written, but rats did not, I repeat, did Not, cause the Plague.

Go split hairs with this nerd.

Hait-splitting fail. She wasn't calling Bolland "self-centered."

She said, "welcome to the self-centered world of Dave Bolland" after describing what she called the rat's "umwelt," or his "self-centered world."

Big time nerd fail.

Quote from: MAD on May 20, 2010, 08:09:38 AM
The new guy at SCH with a must read.

BANKSY! /artboner

(Also, what Fork said.)

Quote from: Bonk on May 19, 2010, 05:38:01 PM

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Quote from: Bonk on May 18, 2010, 09:33:29 PM
Wow, Hawks get dominated in the first 10 minutes...

Wait, what?

Looks like shots were 10-4 SJ before the Hawks' goal.

Looked like the ice was definitely tilted in the Sharks favor before that.

The entire first was about as even a period of up-and-down hockey you're likely to see. Action went both ways, fast, the whole way.

Shots never tell the whole story, but take a look at this...

http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20092010/PL030322.HTM

0:25 SJ shot
1:16 Chi shot
1:23 Chi miss
1:25 Chi miss
1:31 SJ shot
4:22 SJ shot blocked
4:40 Chi shot blocked
5:34 SJ miss
5:46 SJ miss
5:54 SJ shot
5:55 SJ shot
6:00 SJ shot blocked
7:06 SJ shot
7:11 SJ shot
7:35 SJ shot blocked
8:31 Chi shot
9:35 Chi shot
9:40 Chi shot blocked
10:01 SJ shot
10:09 SJ shot blocked
10:35 SJ shot
10:45 Chi shot blocked
10:58 Chi shot blocked
11:18 SJ shot
11:37 SJ shot
11:51 Chi shot
12:01 Chi shot blocked
12:05 Chi miss
12:34 Chi shot
12:48 Chi goal

There's about a 30-second stretch there at 5:30 where the Hawks had to weather a barrage of pucks towards their net, but beyond that it was pretty even through and through.

Hits were all but even at 9-8 Sharks. Face-offs, too at 5-4 Sharks. The Hawks had 1 takeaway to the Sharks' 0 and 1 giveaway to the Sharks' 3.

Agreed, shots aren't a tell-all stat, but 10-4 is still a significant margin. Blocked shots don't result in scoring chances.

But they do still indicate control of the puck in the offensive zone, which speaks to the 'tilt' of the ice.

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Quote from: MAD on May 17, 2010, 11:05:02 PM
Andy MacPhail's Baltiore Orioles currently sport the worst record in baseball (12-27)

Where have we seen this before?  I recall one time during the 0-14 losing streak in '97 and he coincidentally had a prearranged public/press outing and had to extemporaneously answer for his PANKness which was, as a result, more bloodlustily satisfying.  Anyway, the Cubs suck,  I'll take comfort in this.  It's all I have right now.

I'll take comfort in it when Hendry joins his old pal's organization and commences to drink himself to death while scouting the bus leagues.

Maybe that was a little strong.

Or at least take down the fucking "Jim Hendry Way" sign at the corner of Northwest Highway and Touhy Avenue in downtown Park Ridge. 

I pass that fucking thing every goddamn day on my way in to the office.  I pass the one on NW Highway and Oakton, are there really two of these up in the city?  I know he lives here, but fuck...

BTW- i am loving all the suburb love on the board today.  I feel less lame for going to TGI Fridays last night.

Did you double-date with CT? He's there most weekends, when he's not at the Olive Garden.

I seriously went on a double date to T.G.I.Friday's on Sunday night.  And I used a coupon.

Did you have the potato skins?

No, but a sampler was shared by all parties.

Kerm is becoming a swinger.

Quote from: Armchair_QB on May 19, 2010, 09:14:53 AM



THIS THESE

Scarlett's lady-bazzers'd