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2 more field goals!!

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You know how when a kickoff goes out of bounds, the receiving team gets it at the 40? Well apparently that is also the rule if the ball stays in bounds but you step out of bounds and touch it. What a bizarre rule.

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There appears to be quite a mindfuck in progress in Houston.

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I like the old Merlin Olsen pic but I've always thought that the 70's-90's look was the best one for them. Especially in California.

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The general rule on email is that you should never send something that you wouldn't want to be seen by 1) your mom, 2) your worst enemy, or 3) a federal judge. A lot of folks would be very surprised to learn how easily the government can obtain your emails through means that involve no espionage at ...

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Actually, I didn't make my point too well. The post-mortem articles all make the HRC team out to be so disorganized and unable to execute a solid plan. The negligence with respect to data security being just part of that. For those of us who voted for her in part because they thought the other guy c...

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Rick Perry is Trump's new doctor?

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I'm pretty wary of "20/20 hindsight" thinking, but these stories about the HRC camp are proving to be more damning than anything that was actually thrown at her during the campaign. Rule #1 of running as a technocrat is you better deliver the techno.

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It is typically used to tranquilize elephants stronger than most other drugs.

I'm not sure exactly what that sentence is trying to convey, but it can't be good.

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Killing your customer base seems like a bad business plan, but then again, if I had better business instincts I wouldn't have gone to law school.

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rass wrote:
Brontoburglar wrote:I want to open a Cracker Barrel in downtown Philly or NYC for the hell of it.
If you can get in next to the Times Square(ish) Tim Horton's you would really blow Pruitt's mind.

This is what Epcot could have been.

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This is more like it (sorry no map):

http://www.belk.com/store/stores_view_all.jsp

(Congrats, Maryland)

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Cracker Barrel was known to the North long before the exporting of cheesy southern culture (Krispy Kreme, Waffle House, etc.) became fashionable. It's a fixture in Eastern PA, as that map shows.

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"be ready for some punts"

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I don't think this is a distinction between "more south" or "less south", and I definitely don't think there is a political distinction to be made here. More like two distinct visions of what the South is, one that is defined by its proximity to the northeast (and big Yankee tran...

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wlu_lax6 wrote:Atlanta also traded back to Toronto

That's not very Southern at all!

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There's another line I find to be relevant. It's a little harder to conceptualize but here's my best effort: http://imgur.com/pbOaVpm.jpg Essentially it is everything on the Atlantic coast and everything north of I-85 until Atlanta. I would say that this separates the South from the Deep South. The ...

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Hey Rex, I see that you drew a small circle around Atlanta, presumably to indicate its un-Southernness due to transplants, etc. Would you give Charlotte the same treatment? Richmond? I don't think the joke works for anyplace else in the South. Atlanta is southern in the same way that Los Angeles is...

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Good idea.

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My feelings on West Virginia are these:

1) It not only was on the Union side but owes its existence to being on the Union side
2) The only 32 miles that most people see don't feel southern at all
3) Their rival is Pitt

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Both Texas and Florida have regions that are very much the South. I believe Florida has toll booths, so technically it does not satisfy my two-part test. But I've also been to Destin.

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Personally, I think the South begins in Fredericksburg when you are traveling on 95, and somewhere around Winchester when you are traveling on 81.

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1) Were you on the side of the confederacy?
2) Do you have toll booths?

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brian wrote:Kind of a weird thing all the way around since the Giants and the Steelers are the two most closely aligned ownership groups in the NFL and possibly in sports history.

Like literally married to each other, as if they are 18th century European rulers.

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they should look at whoever engineered that Giants' shutdown of the Dallas offense last night.

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If Obama sat on this for fear of not appearing biased, then he shit the bed as the sworn-in president of the United States of America. If this were known prior to November, then the election should have been suspended, and a commission convened, and its determination on how to proceed kicked up to ...

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5 minutes ago I heard Red Zone make some reference to the field being unsafe, now I see the game has resumed. This is the NFL, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

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I suspected so. Enjoy that tainted win!

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Bradley...

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And I said that before Lonzo Ball hit one from 30+ feet to close the half out.

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There's been some surprisingly high level ball so far this year. The first half of this Michigan-UCLA game is taking the cake.

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From June: Assange/Wikileaks is in bed with Putin and Russia - and trying to get Trump elected. Drumpf and Putin are besties - how does that maker all you red-blooded anti-commie folks feel? To my outraged Progressive friends - be careful what you believe. We are now dealing with State Sponsored agi...

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Okay okay, so these guys may have been the last to find out, but let's not tease them. We've all been there before.

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http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-feds-can-really-spread-the-wealth-around-1481242385?mod=e2two I find this to be a legitimately interesting idea, though it's not so much a new idea as a policy goal. The federal government is already very much spread out in some areas (courts, prisons, military ba...

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sancarlos wrote:Ambassador Bobby Valentine?

Wouldn't he be better suited to doing some undercover intelligence work?

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I imagine many of the Raiders who came out in short sleeves are regretting that decision.

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Put Yeager in a bubble right now.

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Department of Exercise and Traffic Management

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I think the distinction should have gone to the id. No person loomed larger in 2016 than the id.

(No, not the ID, though that looks certain to have its day soon too.)

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