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Scottie

And based on that I'm going to guess something old west frontierish where it would have been less likely to have a bunch of Philadelphia lawyers around. So I'll go with New Mexico.

Scottie

No idea. But I will guess from the way that question is worded that it was not someone who was ever elected but rather someone who inherited the position as a replacement for a governor that was thrown out or died or abducted by aliens or whatnot.

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Love seeing the A's and Dodgers with high o/u's. And the list serves as a reminder that the BlueJays will continue to be a disappointing trainwreck that will leave me and degenerasian bitching relentlessly about their bizarre unwillingness to fire hopeless John fucking Gibbons. Seeing Toronto duplic...

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Echo on Puig; hopefully his maturity level is higher than zero this season. You could take a chance on Cespedes? Or a gamble on Tanaka.

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The last time . . . they were, uh, booked into 10,000 seat arenas and 15,000 seat venues and it seems that now on their current tour they're being booked into 1,200 seat arenas, 1,500 seat arenas, and I was just wondering does this mean . . . the popularity of the group is waning?

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I visited the town where Groundhog Day was filmed about, oh, 12 years ago or so. Can't remember the name. It's just outside of Chicagoland. Funny thing is that the town didn't need much set decoration; it looks pretty much just what it looked like in the film. There was at least one shop that sold s...

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Jerloma wrote:Tim Minchin is writing a broadway musical for Groundhog Day.

Odds on I Got You Babe being among the first couple of songs?

Okay, campers, rise and shine and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today.

Scottie

By the way, it is STILL snowing here; it has not stopped even for a moment since I mentioned it yesterday. There is a lot down on the ground right now even though it is 37F. There is also a snowfall warning in effect . At least this guy is into it . . . http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b192/sportsf...

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Wonder if he noticed his shirt says "Hurley".

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Looking out behind the house . . .

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Just a heads up . . . over the last 24-hours or so at least a foot (maybe two) of snow has fallen here. Very unusual. Very sloppy. It makes for messing driving and walking. Snow rarely stays long in this vicinity but it is something you may wish to keep an eye on (and perhaps consider bringing appro...

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I wonder what the medal standings would look like if you threw out all of the rigged figure skating medals. It's such a liberal construct, mind you, that multiple countries can claim to have "won" the Olympics by either having the most gold, most total medals, most weighted value, blah bla...

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Isn't it (wasn't it) Great White?

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wlu_lax6 wrote:On this day in 1990, what phony artists won a Grammy for a song they didn’t sing?

Milli Vanilli were truly ahead of their time. These days every pop "artist" that gets a Grammy doesn't really sing either.

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Does this seem like a decent enough deal? It pretty much hits the sweet spot as far as brand, size and price for me. I'd also rather not have to deal with delivery. I don't game at all (just a Wii for the kids) so the 2 HDMI inputs is OK, though I might buy a switch anyway to allow for cable box, v...

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Eisenhower would certainly be closer to the top than the bottom. Ford was the greatest natural athlete to ascend to the Presidency, that's gotta mean something. Presidential history makes me hard. Was gonna make a Prime Minister thread but Scottie beat me to it. Who's the beastliest Prime Minister ...

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Heh. You don't have to tell me Alberta is better than BC (in every conceivable way). I've lived there. Twice! And I believe I read that the bars will be open here (a select few) but they aren't allowed to serve alcohol. Only in BC does that make any sense. ETA: . . . the Stanley Cup riots must have ...

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CNBC, flabergasted by how Americans haven't won any medals in speedskating, bring on the Dutch coach to ask 'how is it possible that the Dutch can dominate this sport?" The coach tells Americans how it really is. <snip> No idea who that guy is but, damn, doesn't anyone at CNBC identify what a ...

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Yasiel Puig has gained 26 pounds since last season

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For the record, I'm also an American citizen. And I'll be happy just to see that the gold medal game will have one decent hockey nation in it as opposed to a bunch of pussified Scandinavians. And I'm missing it live, PVRing it. Off to an on-site job over in Surrey today, a town virtually indistingui...

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Gerald Ford was a pretty good football player. I'd also vote for andrew jackson - sounds like he was a tough son of a bitch. Can we vote for a Canadian Prime Minister? http://www.onbeer.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/chretien-choke.jpg Pruitt, imagine the screeching from the media party if Harper d...

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It is a four hour drive or so from Montreal. That's about it.

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But they may have felt they needed help pre-competition, back when the deals were struck. But who knows what the motivations were behind the scenes? The one thing we do know is that the result was determined before the skating. And it is no accident that it is always the Russians in the middle of th...

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and the women's singles too? seems unfair that the US had to help Russia 3 times in return for just 1. Not if the Americans weren't really good enough to win anything in the first place this time around. Or didn't think they could finish ahead of the Canadian pair without "help" (newspape...

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was it rigged? I haven't seen it since it was all hockey north of the border and I can't imagine that Kim Yuna ever loses. It's the only "sporting event" in the world that comes with spoilers! People tend to forget that they can look back a few days to see what was said. So let's do just ...

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Tom 1860 wrote:
AB_skin_test wrote:Lockerbie
Also the hometown of the Scotland Men's curling skip, Dave Murdoch.

Fixed.

Anna Sloan, third position on the Scottish bronze medal winning women's curling team at the Olympics, is also from Lockerbie.

Scottie

I kinda assumed that the Metric clock fucked everything up.

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Just to ask what you meant, Sunday is the 2nd, Monday is the 3rd. Anyhoooo . . . reason I mention that is because on Saturday night, the 1st, the number-one ranked Junior team in North America is in town to play the Vancouver Giants if you're interested. This will give you an idea what sort of tix/s...

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Heh. It's a text version of the script; nothing will run. Quite safe, entirely so. It's a tinfoil-optional source code page!

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That's a great point. either those teams were epic, or we were in the right age bracket that they seemed like legendary teams. I came up with 7 out of 10, but couldn't tell you who won any specific year after that, other than 2003, because i grew up a 'Cuse fan. Used to watch a ton of their games f...

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Pretty amazing, when you think about it. We named 8 of 10 starters, and I'm fairly confident that everyone knew Laettner (the Jordan answer of the day, apparently). That game was over 20 years ago! I wonder if there are ANY other NCAA championship game where we could pull that off? I couldn't even ...

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I still maintain Amazon is the worst. I recently read Contortionists Handbook. I only posted it in the Swamp and discussed it on my hotmail account. Every amazon ad is for that book or one by another author. ETA: Just figured it out. I posted a link to a picture of the book cover from Amazon, so th...

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Degen, see Murdoch's raise double for the win in the 10th last night? Best shot of the Olympics so far. Scotland goes on to the 1 -v- 4 game. Norway goes back to dropping acid and designing pants.

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Who was it that had the off site swamp crash? Might it be easier for the people running the games to use something like that, or survey monkey to run the games? I know when I ran one or two it was a pain in the ass to score (and I just got a new keyboard and the spacebar clicking is going to drive ...

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Rush2112 wrote:Don't know why but I really like this photo . . .

Colorado has seagulls? Then again, they were all over the place in Edmonton.

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devilfluff wrote:Holy shit... What the hell happened on the OPEC question? I left Saudi, Iran, and Iraq on the table, figuring everybody would go there.

And nobody said Christian Laettner in the NCAA question? Yikes.

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Pruitt wrote:Did I win Canada?

Yeah, eh. By two field goals and a rouge.

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Anybody else confused at all by the wording? Not me. That's probably why I won. It's fine if one takes a solid look. Thanks for taking the time and effort to put that together, GPJ, and it does take a lot of time and effort. Excellent stuff! We sure could use more of Swampcrash. Great turnout, too.

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I'm winning!

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So the two guys that guess "Canada" incorrectly in the hundred-yard dash question both live in Canada. Well done, you two.

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