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- Thu Feb 13, 2014 11:31 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: MLB Offseason Thread
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8218
Re: MLB Offseason Thread
Anyone happen to hear the Dan Patrick Show today? And the comparison of Jeter with George Clooney? That was spot on. Clooney is a matinee idol, not by any stretch whatsoever a great actor, not remotely, but highly popular. Taking that a bit further, Clooney doesn't really act so much as he goes out ...
- Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:04 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Godless III - Completing The Trinity
- Replies: 2283
- Views: 222819
Re: Godless III - Completing The Trinity
Now then, just imagine if the situation was reversed - if a grade two class was told that God didn't exist. There'd be a picket line up within 12 hours. In the States, sure. Here, not so much. Confront the teacher with a copy of the diagram and ask point blank "Did you teach the children in yo...
- Thu Feb 13, 2014 3:53 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
Russian curler eats it http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/russian-curler-faceplants" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; In his defense, that was a hell of a move to avoid touching the stone. Wouldn't have mattered. The Russians were throwing yellow (if you touch one of your own w...
Re: Tinder
The condoms in Vancouver didn't have any Olympic markings on them. None at all. And that's why. They didn't want them taken home as souvenirs, they wanted the athletes to actually use them. The initial supply in 2010 was a generic no-name looking condom in a sort of barely blue tinted transparent pa...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 9:05 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: First Openly Gay NFL Player
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2971
Re: First Openly Gay NFL Player
That particular word choice was, it figures, the one I mulled the longest. And the second half of that sentence is ". . . doing so before the draft is the right way to do it" . True, I may well have said "Given that it is unavoidably a political issue . . . " but that would under...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 8:41 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: First Openly Gay NFL Player
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2971
Re: First Openly Gay NFL Player
hes from right down the street from my parents old house. Asking some people around here and apparently it wasnt a huge secret in hitchcock texas. good for him. I think its probably a stupid thing to do right before the draft, but im no expert in coming out. hope he gets drafted and doesn't have to...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 6:25 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: MLB Offseason Thread
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8218
Re: MLB Offseason Thread
Sweetfuck that is mindnumbingly stupid. But what do you expect from a guy that offers this as an entire paragraph: And there's the other stuff. Ughhhh. That we're even having this conversation tells you what Derek Jeter has meant to baseball What fucking conversation? It's a one voice blowjob piece....
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:59 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swampcrash Idea
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1715
Re: Swampcrash Idea
Ha! Didn't notice; just copypasted the first functional example I could find. Heh. (And I can save anyone who goes looking the trouble; none of those pages in the Google search results from the sportsfrog.net domain contain an explanation of the rules)
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:56 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swampcrash Idea
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1715
Re: Swampcrash Idea
Incorrect answer was changed to highest correct answer + 5. Ah, yes. Here's a sample question and answer(s) from way back: 1. Name any of the 10 most-visited National Parks in the United States in 2008 - a visit is defined by any trip into park property. (10) CORRECT Cuyahoga Valley (1) - Sabo Gran...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:38 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swampcrash Idea
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1715
Re: Swampcrash Idea
If I recall correctly . . . There is a number of questions. Say twenty. You get points for answering correctly but the points awarded is a slide based on the obscurity of your correct answer. So if the question is "Name a Canadian province" and you are the only one that answers "Nova ...
Re: Tinder
Olympic Village Hookups? Everyone's Using Tinder in Sochi One of the funnier and lesser known bits about Vancouver 2010 is that the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee supplied free condoms for the athletes, by the box load, and ran out! They had to cut a deal with a local medical supplier to ge...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 4:15 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: MLB Offseason Thread
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8218
Re: MLB Offseason Thread
Pretty sure that Kershaw led the National League in Ks. And, yeah, good points. Burnett is never going to go out and throw half a dozen complete games in a season. Mind you he has been a particularly healthy one over the last half dozen seasons when you consider that he is a senior citizen as far as...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:45 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
The US women were horrendous every time I turned on one of their matches. Just horrible. They can't figure out the ice or the rocks. Problem for Brown is that everyone else is figuring out the behaviors before they are. It takes a team effort to give up seven in one end. You only get eight rocks. F...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Swampcrash Idea
- Replies: 52
- Views: 1715
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:15 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
I know I'm no expert but it seems to me Erika Brown is killing the US curling team. And is there a good site to find the standings? Every site that came up on google (that I pulled up at least) just had a schedule/results page. Yes, it is seriously frustrating that sites like the CBC (or even the m...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 3:10 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: MLB Offseason Thread
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8218
Re: MLB Offseason Thread
I listened to and watched many Pirates games last season. I still see Burnett as a man carrying an antique tray of precariously balanced nitroglycerin tubes through a minefield during an earthquake; you know he's going to blow himself up at any moment. Granted he threw a couple of great games agains...
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 2:33 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: MLB Offseason Thread
- Replies: 171
- Views: 8218
Re: MLB Offseason Thread
The obvious comment surely has to be that . . . it's a typo, right? That's supposed to say one-point-six?
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:59 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Gunpowder's Gold Star Trivia
- Replies: 2147
- Views: 89519
Re: Gunpowder's Gold Star Trivia
I know that one. It's kinda a trick question. Kinda. In both cases it is the Spurs (David Robinson, Tim Duncan).
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:51 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
So much for that. The CBC coverage has been, unquestionably, the worst I have ever seen. It's been despicable.degenerasian wrote:Hate the CBC all we want and their shows really suck, but they know how to do Olympics.
And, really, ferfuckssakes Johnnie.
- Wed Feb 12, 2014 12:24 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: This 'Redskins' Thing
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15163
Re: This 'Redskins' Thing
It's funny, I had to explain White Guilt to a black coworker the other day. She was asking me why white people avoid talking about the differences between white and black people. She laughed at the concept, saying that she is from the South and that shit is just out in the open. Aboriginals are mor...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 6:01 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Hilarious Product Reviews
- Replies: 36
- Views: 3402
Re: Hilarious Product Reviews
A A Gill on Autobiography by Morrissey
THE SUNDAY TIMES
Wow. And . . . boom! I'm not going to spoil any of that by even quoting a single bit.
THE SUNDAY TIMES
Wow. And . . . boom! I'm not going to spoil any of that by even quoting a single bit.
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:43 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: This 'Redskins' Thing
- Replies: 132
- Views: 15163
Re: This 'Redskins' Thing
The name probably would have been changed ages ago if the people actually offended by "Redskins" were aboriginals instead of politically correct White assholes going out of their way to show how liberal they are and acting offended by something that could not possibly affect them any less ...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 5:12 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
Yeah, that's an advertising campaign. But apparently there is one real one in the Canadian House at athlete's village. Sort of. But not exactly like that. Athletes don't have their passports lying around where they can use them. During the Olympics, all passports are in the hands of the Canadian Oly...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 4:35 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
Not in person. She's a lovely lass. Your Swamp then-Vancouver contingent met her in 2010 at the World Juniors. And you can't go by those "wimminz of curling" glam photos or you'd start to think that Chelsea Carey really looks like this: http://tech.onwired.biz/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Ch...
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 4:13 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: College Basketball 2013-14
- Replies: 164
- Views: 7678
Re: College Basketball 2013-14
Say . . . has anyone noticed that Wichita State is 25-0?
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. . . at home to the Salukis this evening.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketb ... e-shockers" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
. . . at home to the Salukis this evening.
- Tue Feb 11, 2014 2:34 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
Erika Brown. She actually is very good; participated in the "World Curling" Vegas event Brian and Rams Fanny went to. Bear in mind she gave up seven in one end to the best women's team in the world: Eva Muirhead, Scotland (it's Scotland; there's no such thing as Great Britain in curling) a...
- Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:39 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Classic Baseball
- Replies: 2
- Views: 296
Re: Classic Baseball
Nice find! Thanks! Even though I have quite a few of those, I'll absolutely go after the rest. I've been using Any Video Converter to download and convert the YooToob vids. [url-http://sportsfrog.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?p=24128#p24128]Here is a more detailed explanation[/url] from a couple of months...
- Mon Feb 10, 2014 1:21 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: First Openly Gay NFL Player
- Replies: 66
- Views: 2971
Re: First Openly Gay NFL Player
Way to go Tham!
- Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:26 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
In Russia, "ballon prisonnier" has a whole different meaning.Johnny Carwash wrote:I've always sort of envied people who have that route available. Closest I could come would be if Quebec seceded and dodgeball was made an Olympic sport.
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:11 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
After a fashion, yes, they did, in fact.
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Politics
- Replies: 9304
- Views: 493815
Re: Random Politics
"If I blindfolded someone and took them at 2:00 in the morning into the airport in Hong Kong and said 'where do you think you are,' they'd say, 'this must be America, it's a modern airport,'" Biden is quoted as saying by the New York Daily News during a speech on infrastructure in Philade...
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:49 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
They may have edited in some rehearsal footage. VANOC and CTV should have thought of that while the Opening Ceremonies were being disasterified in Vancouver.
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:00 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
And heeeeeeeeere comes a collection of gigantic sex toys. Dildos, vibrators, anal plugs, buzzing phallics, strap-ons and...
Oh, hang on. Sorry. It's a tribute to Russian architecture.
Oh, hang on. Sorry. It's a tribute to Russian architecture.
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:42 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
I thought they abandoned that act because at one point both of them were pregnant. Apparently not. Well, it may not be them playing in the stadium but something that sounds a helluva lot like them.
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:36 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
Just watching the Opening Ceremonies now . . . the Russian contingent enters to music by the fake teen lesbian act TATU? Wow. Wouldn't have bet on that. (Unsurprisingly the CBC broadcasters don't pick up on this but, really, it is somewhat unrealistic for them to spot that one) ETA: I am hearing tha...
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 4:26 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Official Swamp Dating Thread
- Replies: 2060
- Views: 109167
Re: The Official Swamp Dating Thread
Can't say I've ever been suggested to buy a gift on a first date. Is that a Canada thing? No. And I'm from the (by far) most "traditional" part of Canada. It is archaic. However, a hundred years ago it was not uncommon; if anyone could afford anything (that's what made the gift significan...
- Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:26 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Olympics
- Replies: 653
- Views: 34236
Re: Winter Olympics
But it's just so invitingly flat and so easy to roll tanks across!brian wrote:As Poland's athletes are walking in to the stadium, the CBC announcer intones, "Poland and Russia have had their issues in the past." Ya think?
- Thu Feb 06, 2014 7:37 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Winter Reading Thread
- Replies: 105
- Views: 6160
Re: Winter Reading Thread
That'll keep ya' busy until opening day. Looking forward to what you have to say about Larson's book. I loved Devil In The White City but haven't read that one.
- Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Rob Ford deserves his own thread
- Replies: 98
- Views: 5482
Re: NBA 2013
Now they really need the name "Jazz" back.