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2006 fucking sucked.  Juan Pierre.  Matt Murton.  Dusty Baker.  Jacques Jones.  Michael Barrett.  Todd Walker.  Ronny Cedeno.  So, there you go.  Sorry I blew through 1908 with such recklessness.  See you on the other side.

Yeti, I saw you playing The Saboteur last night.  How is it?

Finally, a list that labels itself correctly.  I think they actually did a really good job.  It's hard to argue against most of the games that show up here.  Discuss and battle it out.

Quote from: Shooter on December 29, 2009, 08:54:44 PM
I picture the Mike Leach's tenure at Texas Tech finishing up like George Costanza's at Play Now Sports.

That episode was just on earlier this week.

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Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on June 24, 2009, 01:01:02 PM
Coming to Northbrook across a parking lot near me.  Anyone tried it?  In Naperville and Bloomington.

http://www.meatheadsburgers.com/menu.html

Went there today. Similar to Five Guys, with better fries.

I agree that the fries are better, but the burgers aren't nearly as good.

I'm sure there will be more analysis in order to formulate a definitive resolution. I thought the burger I had was about as good, but am willing to revisit my findings.

It's odd, but the hot dogs at Meatheads are surprisingly good.  I think I like them better than the burgers.

I wonder if they're just not doing it right in Naperville...

As long as we're on the topic of surprisingly good, best bang for the buck is a burger at Portillo's.

It's not that they're BAD, but I wasn't blown away.  It's also possible that I picked the wrong burger both times.

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Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on June 24, 2009, 01:01:02 PM
Coming to Northbrook across a parking lot near me.  Anyone tried it?  In Naperville and Bloomington.

http://www.meatheadsburgers.com/menu.html

Went there today. Similar to Five Guys, with better fries.

I agree that the fries are better, but the burgers aren't nearly as good.

I'm sure there will be more analysis in order to formulate a definitive resolution. I thought the burger I had was about as good, but am willing to revisit my findings.

It's odd, but the hot dogs at Meatheads are surprisingly good.  I think I like them better than the burgers.

This was stupidly great.  Thanks to you guys, I was prepared for horrendous dialog, so I actually didn't think it was all that awful.  Even if it was, though, the visuals were incredible enough to make up for it.  I was in the front row of the Imax 3-D theater, and it was still amazing.  I want to see it again when the crowds thin out a little bit.  I bought tickets at 2:30 yesterday, and the 7:00 was already sold out.  The 10:30 was completely packed, hence the front-row viewing.  Definitely see this while it's still in the theater.  Imax, if you can.

There are plenty of cheap used games at GameFly right now.  Some of them are pretty decent.

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Quote from: Chuck to Chuck on June 24, 2009, 01:01:02 PM
Coming to Northbrook across a parking lot near me.  Anyone tried it?  In Naperville and Bloomington.

http://www.meatheadsburgers.com/menu.html

Went there today. Similar to Five Guys, with better fries.

I agree that the fries are better, but the burgers aren't nearly as good.

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Quote from: PenFoe on December 23, 2009, 12:18:14 PM
I've never wanted so badly to watch a terrible movie.

I still don't.

Me, neither.  I'd forgotten aboot the movie, actually.  But, now, after reading all of this, I'm actually thinking aboot watching.  If you could see me now, I'd be sitting here with my chin up to my face(which leaves my hands free to type and makes it a really super-terrific thoughtful pose, BK), thinking aboot watching this movie.


Nah.  I think I'll still skip it.  I just wanted a really stupid and elaborate way to point out Kerm's "chin up to her face" line, which I didn't even quote.

After she put her chin up to her face, she put her hand to her chin.  It was AMAZING.

Are they going to do another Christmas Eve firing?

Quote from: PenFoe on December 23, 2009, 12:18:14 PM
I've never wanted so badly to watch a terrible movie.

I can safely say that this one is actually worth watching.  It was just mesmerizing.  I kept thinking, "Okay, THAT'S the most ridiculous thing that they'll say or do," and I just KEPT BEING WRONG.  They run away from wind.  Wind!

Oh, and I found it absolutely hilarious that they never actually do figure out what's happening.  Like why those people were immune.  Or how the trees controlled the wind.  Or how bad the Philadelphia public high school system is that they hired Marky Mark AND John Leguizamo.  Seriously.  No explanation whatsoever.  I imagine M. Night was already so far into writing the script, he didn't want to throw it out just because he couldn't come up with a logical explanation for this nonsense.  I think that's how Stephen King ends every single one of his books.

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Quote from: TDubbs on December 21, 2008, 09:49:58 PM
There was no way that this movie wasn't made as a joke.  Marky Mark is a fairly decent actor, I think, but he was blatantly saying his lines like a tard.  It was weird.

THI.  It was on HBO over the weekend.  I had to record it and watch it.  It was absolutely hysterical.  Not just Marky Mark, but EVERYONE in the movie acted like a tard.  There was a moment at the beginning just after Zooey finished talking to Joey (IT WAS JUST TIRAMISU!) where she hung up the phone, yet the camera lingered on her, and she put her chin up to her face in the fakest, "I'm acting thoughtful" way I've ever seen.

Uncle Rico talking about how much he loved hot dogs was surreal.

Marky Mark's scene when he's trying to run through the steps of his completely wrong scientific method (aloud) was amazing.

The lady's reaction to the video of the guy letting the lions rip his arms off was hilarious.

Why did the people in the boarded-up house OPEN THEIR SLATTED WINDOWS AND DOOR to shoot the two teenage kids?

Marky Mark talks to a plastic plant.  My God.

R-V is all kinds of right about Marky Mark's, "I HEAR THE WIND IN THE BACKGROUND!" scene.  Outstanding.

Was the girl from first "happening" (speaking of which, didn't they call them "events" or something totally different in the movie?) and the guy from the last happening immune to the plantardation?  That might have been a useful angle to explore.

This movie just HAS to be a comedy.

I just caught the second half of it the other day, and now I really want to watch the first half.  Hilariously bad movie.  Also funnier, after Zoey has confessed her "adultry" to Marky Mark, he later gets back at her in this great exchange:

MM: "If we're going to die, I want you to know something. I was in the pharmacy a while ago. There was a really good-looking pharmacist behind the counter. Really good-looking. I went up and asked her where the cough syrup was. I didn't even have a cough, and I almost bought it. I'm talking about a completely superfluous bottle of cough syrup, which costs like six bucks."

Zoey:  "Are you joking?"

The first half is worth it, if only to watch Marky Mark teach high school biology and to watch John Leguizamo die a horrible death.

Quote from: Oleg on December 23, 2009, 11:47:42 AM
Man, I just wanna sit aorund, drink with some weird internet friends, and talk about the disappointments The Cubs are to us as much as we are to our parents.  Is that too much to ask for?

Possible HJE.  Probably no ghey stuff.

I don't even want to punch murcer any more.  Stupid Cubs have taken all the punching energy away from me.

We can all share a drink around CubbyJulie.

Quote from: TDubbs on December 21, 2008, 09:49:58 PM
There was no way that this movie wasn't made as a joke.  Marky Mark is a fairly decent actor, I think, but he was blatantly saying his lines like a tard.  It was weird.

THI.  It was on HBO over the weekend.  I had to record it and watch it.  It was absolutely hysterical.  Not just Marky Mark, but EVERYONE in the movie acted like a tard.  There was a moment at the beginning just after Zooey finished talking to Joey (IT WAS JUST TIRAMISU!) where she hung up the phone, yet the camera lingered on her, and she put her chin up to her face in the fakest, "I'm acting thoughtful" way I've ever seen.

Uncle Rico talking about how much he loved hot dogs was surreal.

Marky Mark's scene when he's trying to run through the steps of his completely wrong scientific method (aloud) was amazing.

The lady's reaction to the video of the guy letting the lions rip his arms off was hilarious.

Why did the people in the boarded-up house OPEN THEIR SLATTED WINDOWS AND DOOR to shoot the two teenage kids?

Marky Mark talks to a plastic plant.  My God.

R-V is all kinds of right about Marky Mark's, "I HEAR THE WIND IN THE BACKGROUND!" scene.  Outstanding.

Was the girl from first "happening" (speaking of which, didn't they call them "events" or something totally different in the movie?) and the guy from the last happening immune to the plantardation?  That might have been a useful angle to explore.

This movie just HAS to be a comedy.