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Posted on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 12:08:11 PM EST
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One of those days.

For those keeping score, I'm having a good college bowl season, with my major plays (Boise, Alabama, Miss St., Notre Dame, and Wisconsin (+3)) coming through. I am +20 units so far. Tonight, I have Stanford (-3.5) over Va. Tech (4 units).

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    What are your thoughts on Tebow? (none / 0) (#1)
    by magster on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 12:39:59 PM EST
    Impressed, or should the Broncos pursue getting Andrew Luck and dump Tebow on the highest bidder?

    I think Tebow should stick btw, and the Broncos should draft only defense.

    Are they high enough for Luck? (none / 0) (#2)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 12:55:39 PM EST
    I thought the Panthers had the first pick.

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    2nd pick overall (none / 0) (#3)
    by magster on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 12:58:14 PM EST
    Probably wouldn't be too hard to trade up.

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    Poor Clausen (none / 0) (#5)
    by lilburro on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 01:01:53 PM EST
    it's not like he played that well, but that whole team is a disaster.

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    It would be very hard (none / 0) (#8)
    by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 01:11:53 PM EST
    actually. Probably 2 number 1s, a 2 and a 3 at least.

    Luck is easily the most coveted player in the draft.

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    Forget the Giants... (none / 0) (#11)
    by kdog on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 01:33:45 PM EST
    the Bucs got robbed...I'm with my man TMQ, the NFL needs to look at changing to a seeded playoff format...keep the divisions for rivalry scheduling, but top 8 teams in conference make the playoffs, or top 16 regardless of conference.  No automatic qualifiers for 7-9 squads with 6 games against the Rams/Cards/49ers.

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    And a home game to boot (none / 0) (#19)
    by republicratitarian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 02:47:35 PM EST


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    Actually... (none / 0) (#41)
    by kdog on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:29:58 PM EST
    I'm just a knucklehead who can't handle first grade math...16 teams, that's basketball and hockey:)

    I'd like to keep it at 12, best 6 records in each conference make the playoffs.  Hard to argue that the Bucs are not 3 wins better than the Seahawks, eh Don?

    Not to sh*t on Seattle, they could use a sports gift after the Sonics were stolen from them...but they're one and done, lock it up.

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    ok, this is creepy (none / 0) (#4)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 12:59:15 PM EST
    Massive fish kill blankets Arkansas River

    Arkansas game officials probe mystery of falling birds

    maybe its related to this (5.00 / 1) (#35)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:22:47 PM EST
    End of Days in May?

    RALEIGH, N.C. -- If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she'll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here.

    Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011.

    and I just got my house the way I wanted it.
    wouldnt you know.

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    I think she is correct! (5.00 / 1) (#40)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:26:51 PM EST
    The end of the world will absolutely begin on May 21, 2011.

    When the end of the world will end is the big question.

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    yeah (none / 0) (#44)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:36:42 PM EST
    I noticed that.

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    She obviously (none / 0) (#38)
    by Zorba on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:25:34 PM EST
    has not paid a bit of attention to the Mayan calendar.  She got her date wrong, by over a year and a half.

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    I saw that this am and was wondering (none / 0) (#6)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 01:04:57 PM EST
    if it will turn out to be oil spill related.

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    I can believe disease for the fish (none / 0) (#7)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 01:09:16 PM EST
    but its hard to swallow that "stress" caused 5000 birds to fall out of the sky.

    I doubt it would have anything to do with the gulf oil spill.  to far north.  the fish were in the north west part.  which happens to be the most beautiful and mountainous part of the state.

    the bird deaths were not that far from my hometown.

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    They were suspecting some disease (none / 0) (#13)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 01:49:57 PM EST
    got the birds. I thought maybe they ate some oil-soaked food. But yeah, probably not that far north.

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    still (none / 0) (#14)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 01:56:17 PM EST
    even if true it would be odd for them to all just fall out of the sky at the same time.  it was like they were stunned.  in fact one of the suspects supposedly was lightening or some other weather related thing.

    I think its both happening at pretty much the same time that have people worried.

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    Delayed fallout from the November elections (none / 0) (#20)
    by republicratitarian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 02:50:10 PM EST
    killed them. They were obviously Democratic birds that decided life with a Republican controlled House again was too much to handle.

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    Most likely (none / 0) (#15)
    by CoralGables on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 02:13:03 PM EST
    a mad farmer taking matters into their own hands. It's done to starlings legally at times. Here is an example from a year ago.

    Dead Starlings

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    monoprice.com (none / 0) (#10)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 01:33:04 PM EST
    am in the process of cableing and mounting my christmas present to myself so I was shopping for deals on things like mounts and cables and the IT guys here turned me on to this place.  its GREAT.

    I have been looking around and the prices here are by far the best I have seen.

    Btw Capt (5.00 / 1) (#56)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 07:14:33 PM EST
    Don't cable and mount your present to yourself. That might make for awkward viewing angles.

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    Wow (none / 0) (#16)
    by sj on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 02:16:43 PM EST
    Those are pretty good prices.  Still the shortest coaxial cable they have is 3 feet which makes me crazy.  I'd like to get 3 each 18 inch cables but I've only found them on the internet and they're really expensive for short bit of cable.  Add in about $7 shipping and it's enough to make you cry.  At least it almost makes me cry.

    Although I was tempted to patronize SJ Media System just because, you know...

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    do you know anyone (none / 0) (#17)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 02:23:32 PM EST
    who works for a cable company?  or a satellite tv installation company.  they can make them really easy.

    and if you know them would probably do it for free since they have rolls of cable and the end things they just squeeze on.  

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    I wish (none / 0) (#21)
    by sj on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 02:54:41 PM EST
    I'm just kicking myself, because I missed an excellent opportunity.

    I moved recently and my new home was in chaos when the Comcast guy arrived to set up my cable.  I didn't even think about how I could have asked for them when he was there until a couple of weeks later when I was setting up the rest of my components.

    A couple of times I spied Comcast trucks in the neighborhood hoping to make my case, but I never managed to catch the driver.  But that's my plan so far -- stalk the drivers.

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    I'll see what I have in the way (none / 0) (#23)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 02:58:26 PM EST
    of coax cables too. I'm pretty sure I used to have some really short ones, but I may have purged them at some point.

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    Truly awesome (none / 0) (#51)
    by sj on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:57:56 PM EST
    What a great site this is.  Thanks!  (I mean if you don't have it, you woulda sent it, you know?)

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    Dang, mine are 3 ft as well (5.00 / 1) (#57)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 07:25:07 PM EST
    But yeah, I would absolutely have sent it - I'm not that nice, I  just hate to waste things.  I also hate to throw things away and then pay even $5 to replace it if I find I need it.

    Maybe I'll just save one of each kind of cable. Ok, maybe two.

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    LOL (5.00 / 1) (#58)
    by sj on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 07:56:46 PM EST
    Two are better.  But maybe you shouldn't listen to me.  I'm the same way.

    Oh well, thanks for checking.  Now it's back to stalking the drivers.

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    I have so many RGB cables, audio cables, etc (none / 0) (#22)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 02:56:53 PM EST
    sitting unused in a closet since I switched to HDMI. I was thinking I would put them on Craigslist or give them away to someone, but with prices like that I might as well just throw them away. Couldn't stand to do it in my great closet purge last week, but if anyone needs any please let me know and I'll send them off.

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    I have a (none / 0) (#26)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:03:08 PM EST
    gigantic (checked that spelling twice and it still doesnt look right) box in the closet.  but the way I am setting up the new one with a tilt swivel wall mount I need all extra long cables to be able to hide them and have them long enough to extend the tv out from the shelf it is to be mounted in.

       

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    Good for you doing it yourself (none / 0) (#37)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:24:30 PM EST
    One thing I did not think about before I had mine installed - they were not allowed by building code to put the power cord behind the wall. I guess I was supposed to hide the power cord by having a new power outlet placed at the level of the TV. So now I have all the video cables nicely hidden and about a foot of one stupid power cord visible. I hide it behind a book or a pillow on the credenza beneath the TV.

    If I ever have to have an electrician in for something else I will rectify that too!

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    Booman (none / 0) (#12)
    by lilburro on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 01:39:54 PM EST
    made me chuckle a little bit...

    Alex Bolton has an odd list of "Senators to Watch" in the 112th Congress. I mean, obviously we should expect to watch the leadership of both parties, so it's hard to understand why they are included. The one exception is Chuck Schumer, who will now be basically in charge of managing the floor for Harry Reid. And, despite my differences with Schumer on a variety of issues, I can only give a gasp of relief that he will be in charge of strategy and messaging. I look forward to a new brass-knuckles style, although I know it will be tempered by the sad reality that we have about twenty vulnerable members and the Republicans have, at most, three. [emphasis supplied]

    This from the 11th dimensional chessmaster!

    wow (none / 0) (#18)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 02:25:19 PM EST
    check out these fashions of the 60s and 70s.

    just wow.  were we cool or WHAT.  make sure you notice that at the bottom of each page is a "next" button or you will miss lots of good stuff.

    I especially like the boots page.

    LOL! (none / 0) (#24)
    by Zorba on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:00:37 PM EST
    Yes, fashion (or what passes for it) always looks stupid 40+ years later.  I was more of a jeans and poncho and tie-dyed T-shirt type of dresser in the late 60's.  Long, straight hair.  Granny glasses.  Think "hippie."

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    maybe I am (5.00 / 1) (#30)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:13:07 PM EST
    prejudiced but I still think most of it was pretty cool.

    at least compared to wearing your pants around your thighs.


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    Ain't that (5.00 / 2) (#32)
    by Zorba on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:17:06 PM EST
    the truth!  Not only do I not want to see other people's underwear, I can't imagine how they can walk.

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    Charlotte Rampling -- (none / 0) (#25)
    by brodie on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:01:47 PM EST
    the babe of that bunch.

    Other worthies:  Angie Dickinson, Chér,  Raquel Welch (star of the infamous 1970 flick Myra Breckinridge).

    Fashion-wise, the best period was 1965-7 for both sexes, '65 the first year when the 60s clearly escaped from the rather blah and ugly 50s look, '67 the psychedelic, hippie and mini look.  

    70s fashion began to go south when the horrendously clunky maxi dress was introduced.  Then a couple of years later, even worse, the introduction for men of the double-knit polyester leisure suit, ridiculously wide ties and broad lapels -- all of which I associate with Republicans like Gerald Ford and Bob Hope -- and the open-shirt-to-the-navel with medallions look from the latter part of the decade that I associate with disco and cocaine and middle-aged unhip people trying to be hip like Bob Guccione, Robert Evans and the crowd who hung out at Disco 51 or whatever it was called.

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    The late 60s fashion for women (5.00 / 1) (#46)
    by MKS on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:41:15 PM EST
    is classic....

    The 70s got to be so tacky...Platform shoes and polyester everything.....I remember taking off my shirt to throw on a campfire--some kind of prank to make the fire a lot bigger--and my shirt just melted.....

    Today is so minimalist....

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    Late 60s I recall as a (none / 0) (#50)
    by brodie on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:55:18 PM EST
    sort of "back to nature" woodsy, country kind of look for both sexes, with less emphasis on neatness and symmetry in the clothes and increasingly longish and wild hair.  

    Sadly though, from my male pov, the 1964ish topless swimsuit for women that that Rudy designer guy created never took off ...

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    are you kidding (none / 0) (#27)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:04:13 PM EST
    Emma Peal from the top of the boots page I posted.

    I wanted to BE Emma Peal.

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    I can't say that (none / 0) (#33)
    by Zorba on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:22:38 PM EST
    I ever wanted to be Emma Peal.  Joan Baez or Judy Collins, though- yes.

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    it was (none / 0) (#36)
    by Capt Howdy on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:23:40 PM EST
    the leather.

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    Ah (none / 0) (#39)
    by Zorba on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:26:47 PM EST
    But of course.   ;-)

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    Okay, easy, I only (none / 0) (#34)
    by brodie on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:22:40 PM EST
    looked at your first site.  

    Fine -- yes, I remember Diana Rigg and that cool leather outfit, though that pic doesn't do her face justice.  She was much lovelier and sexier in action, on the show, back in the mid-60s period.  One of the first Brit tv series that appeared on US tv, iirc, back when network tv was full of shows featuring attractive and intriguing spies and detectives.  The Beatles+ James Bond Era of cool fashion combined with danger.

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    Ha! Me too, for sure (none / 0) (#43)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:35:41 PM EST
    I was too young to be able to pick my look. I just remember the spring of '72 the big fad in my 8th grade class was purple bell bottom jeans. All the cool girls had them for the rare times we did not have to where uniforms to school. My mom would not let me wear jeans so she got me these purple wool bell bottom pants instead, with some kind of needlework around the bell bottoms and a matching vest. It was actually very pretty, but not at all what was called for! I'm tragically unhip, to this day!

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    I managed to (none / 0) (#29)
    by Zorba on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:09:40 PM EST
    mostly avoid the mini-skirts.  Jeans were more practical for going to protests and anti-war marches.  And for sitting on the grass, with grass.....

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    This calls for some Steppenwolf... (none / 0) (#48)
    by kdog on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:51:28 PM EST
    Don't Step on the Grass Sam

    I dig your styles, but I adore and am eternally f8ckin' jealous of your music...the golden age!

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    Oh, lordie, Dog (none / 0) (#53)
    by Zorba on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 05:15:15 PM EST
    Yes, Steppenwolf.  We did have some really great music back then, didn't we?  Being a "dirty f*cking hippie" even back then, although I certainly listened to and loved rock, I was more into the folk song and protest song scene.  Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, Judy Collins, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Pete Seeger, and so on.  It was a different time.  (And, BTW, nobody I knew was ever hassled or arrested for smoking or possessing pot.)  Peace out, bro'.  

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    Remember the 'qiana' disco dress material? (none / 0) (#47)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:44:16 PM EST
    I never had one of those either. I was in college during the disco craze - too poor to go disco'ing!

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    best thing (none / 0) (#49)
    by CST on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:52:52 PM EST
    about going to college in pittsburgh instead of, say, boston/ny -

    50 cent drinks, dollar drafts, $8 pitchers, get in for free before 11, etc... etc... there was inevitably some deal somewhere every night of the week.

    A 19 year old with a fake ID, a minimum wage job, and a bus pass could do a lot with that :)

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    I remember (none / 0) (#42)
    by Ga6thDem on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:32:50 PM EST
    those. I wore some of them when I was probably 12 years old. LOL. I like the Christian Dior outfits.

    Some of that is coming back. Have you noticed that makeup now is uncannily like the 60's and Michelle Obama's makeup looks like Diana Ross' when she was with the Supremes?


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    I saw 'The Tourist' over the weekend (none / 0) (#45)
    by ruffian on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:36:48 PM EST
    and Angelina Jolie's hair and makeup could be Nancy Sinatra's.

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    MT: are you lurking? (none / 0) (#28)
    by oculus on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 03:07:32 PM EST


    I hope so (5.00 / 1) (#52)
    by The Addams Family on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 04:16:13 PM EST
    she should come back

    one heated disagreement does not enemies make

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    I agree (5.00 / 3) (#54)
    by Zorba on Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 05:16:54 PM EST
    We're all adults here, and I hope that we can all agree to disagree.  Tracy, we still love you, and I hope you're reading this!

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    Cripes...what did I miss? (none / 0) (#59)
    by oldpro on Tue Jan 04, 2011 at 01:16:50 AM EST


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    Pretty much (none / 0) (#60)
    by Zorba on Tue Jan 04, 2011 at 05:41:04 AM EST
    the entire "Don't Blame it on the Baby Boomers" thread.  Let us just say that people felt strongly about their respective positions.

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    Thanks, Zorba. One can't even take a (none / 0) (#61)
    by oldpro on Tue Jan 04, 2011 at 11:39:02 AM EST
    day off around here, much less get sick...

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