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by Shirley
Mon Nov 30, 2015 9:14 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: (The End of) Journalism Thread
Replies: 783
Views: 60228

Re: (The End of) Journalism Thread

I thought they liked states' rights?
by Shirley
Mon Nov 30, 2015 9:08 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: College Basketball - Nov/Dec '15
Replies: 55
Views: 2704

Re: College Basketball - November '15

Wake might squeak this game out against Rutgers. They started the second half absolutely asleep defensively. I'm pretty sure Rutgers scored on their first 8 or so possessions, quickly erasing a 5-point deficit. By the time Wake woke, Rutgers had the lead and a lot of confidence. Wake has battled bac...
by Shirley
Mon Nov 30, 2015 9:08 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: College Basketball - Nov/Dec '15
Replies: 55
Views: 2704

Re: College Basketball - November '15

Wake might squeak this game out against Rutgers. They started the second half absolutely asleep defensively. I'm pretty sure Rutgers scored on their first 8 or so possessions, quickly erasing a 5-point deficit. By the time Wake woke, Rutgers had the lead and a lot of confidence. Wake has battled bac...
by Shirley
Mon Nov 30, 2015 8:32 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015
Replies: 209
Views: 7565

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015

howard 13-8
Shirley 9-12


Close, but nope.
by Shirley
Mon Nov 30, 2015 8:30 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: WRGPT 25
Replies: 39
Views: 1932

Re: WRGPT 25

bfj wrote:
Sabo wrote:If I was botar, I would be PISSED. But hey, that's poker.
If you were him, you would've bet a lot bigger with a full house.
Or when he hit trips 7s. He tried to milk his hand and got burned for it.
by Shirley
Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:32 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: College Basketball - Nov/Dec '15
Replies: 55
Views: 2704

Re: College Basketball - November '15

Yeah, Monmouth is 3-1 against the power conferences, right?
by Shirley
Mon Nov 30, 2015 1:31 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: College Basketball - Nov/Dec '15
Replies: 55
Views: 2704

Re: College Basketball - November '15

Big 10 - ACC Challenge kicks off again tonight. Sort of. For some reason, they like to start the first night with completely uninteresting games before getting to the good stuff on Tuesday and Wednesday. As a reminder, the ACC won the first 10 challenges. The Big 10 then won the next 3 and it's been...
by Shirley
Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:57 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: College Football Coaching Carousel
Replies: 46
Views: 2308

College Football Coaching Carousel

So, take everything I wrote about Les Miles in that other thread and apply it to Mark Richt. Georgia is taking a hell of a risk. Has anyone seen a chart listing the highest winning percentages for coaches fired purely for performance reasons? Richt would have to be pretty high up there. Oh yeah, UVA...
by Shirley
Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:51 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2016 Presidential Race
Replies: 6046
Views: 286723

Re: 2016 Presidential Race

These people are always just about upload/copy/save/publish their incredibly damning videos.
by Shirley
Sun Nov 29, 2015 12:53 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NBA Season 15-16
Replies: 413
Views: 23021

Re: NBA Season 15-16

Rex wrote:"What Laws Did Jahlil Okafor Break Last Night?" is not a running feature I ever expected from this season.
Yeah, he did not give off that vibe last year.
by Shirley
Sun Nov 29, 2015 12:33 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Week 12
Replies: 127
Views: 4850

Re: NFL Week 12

My family's visiting this week to check out a school for my kids, look at houses, and generally sightsee. Microsoft put us up in a nice hotel in Bellevue and apparently it's the same hotel the Steelers are in. I had no idea until I walked out this morning and there are five buses and a bunch of poli...
by Shirley
Fri Nov 27, 2015 8:54 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015
Replies: 209
Views: 7565

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015

howard 12-8
Shirley 9-11
by Shirley
Fri Nov 27, 2015 12:37 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015
Replies: 209
Views: 7565

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015

howard 12-7
Pruitt 10-9
Shirley 8-11


I needed that one.
by Shirley
Wed Nov 25, 2015 8:58 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015
Replies: 209
Views: 7565

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015

howard 12-6
Pruitt 9-9
Shirley 7-11


No again.
by Shirley
Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:21 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Television (no longer temporary)
Replies: 6252
Views: 342482

Re: Temporary Television

Anybody watching (watched) Red Oaks on Amazon? I've watched most of it. It's a good, but not quite great show. Paul Reiser carries the show the rich asshole club president.
by Shirley
Wed Nov 25, 2015 6:19 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Animated GIF Thread (NSFW)
Replies: 477
Views: 60432

Re: The Animated GIF Thread (NSFW)

Man, I think our anniversary is tomorrow. What am I gonna get her? Oh shit!

Image
by Shirley
Wed Nov 25, 2015 4:20 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Walking Dead - Season 6 (Spoilers Inside)
Replies: 67
Views: 3264

Re: The Walking Dead - Season 6 (Spoilers Inside)

I finally caught up the other night. So far, Season 6 has been pretty strong, I think. Sure, there are the classic weak TWD points (like folks in the woods hiding from other people like 50 feet away and then running away for 30 seconds to lose them), but it's been a pretty compelling storyline. I wa...
by Shirley
Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:45 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2016 Presidential Race
Replies: 6046
Views: 286723

Re: 2016 Presidential Race

Thanks, guys. I guess there's no easy way to compare, given differences in time, culture, language, etc, but the rise of overt anti-Muslim sentiment is just striking to me. i can't recall in my lifetime hearing anything like it in the US. I guess the closest is how we used to talk about the Soviet U...
by Shirley
Tue Nov 24, 2015 8:20 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015
Replies: 209
Views: 7565

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015

howard 12-5
Shirley 7-10


Shit
by Shirley
Tue Nov 24, 2015 6:58 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2016 Presidential Race
Replies: 6046
Views: 286723

Re: 2016 Presidential Race

Holy shit, the stuff Trump is getting away with. Someone with more historical knowledge than me (that's most of you), how closely does his rhetoric match those of famous recent despots? David Duke comes to mind. One huge factor in the failure of the media/talking head community from calling out Tru...
by Shirley
Tue Nov 24, 2015 3:00 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: 2016 Presidential Race
Replies: 6046
Views: 286723

Re: 2016 Presidential Race

So the false racist crime stats that the Trump campaign tweeted out last week have been traced to a neo-nazi's unsubstantiated tweets. http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/45291_We_Found_Where_Donald_Trumps_Black_Crimes_Graphic_Came_From Am I alone in thinking that in years gone by, something li...
by Shirley
Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:25 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Barclays Premier League 2015/2016-and other Euro League talk
Replies: 539
Views: 30435

Re: Barclays Premier League 2015/2016-and other Euro League

I would hope that any manager who dominated the league just the year before (not to mention a career full of winning) would get the benefit of the doubt. Kentucky didn't fire Cal a few years ago when they missed the NCAA tourney. The EPL makes colleges look like the Pittsburgh Steelers, though, whe...
by Shirley
Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:16 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Science!
Replies: 322
Views: 33818

Re: Science!

Malaria infects 200 million people and causes a half million deaths every year. Cal-Irvine just mutated the mosquito that becomes resistant to the protozoa that causes it, and passes the gene to 99.5% within three generations. Science is awesome. That is awesome. If it works in the wild, it could b...
by Shirley
Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:11 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Barclays Premier League 2015/2016-and other Euro League talk
Replies: 539
Views: 30435

Re: Barclays Premier League 2015/2016-and other Euro League

I would hope that any manager who dominated the league just the year before (not to mention a career full of winning) would get the benefit of the doubt.

Kentucky didn't fire Cal a few years ago when they missed the NCAA tourney.
by Shirley
Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:29 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015
Replies: 209
Views: 7565

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015

howard 11-5
rex 11-5
Shirley 7-9


Not a chance.
by Shirley
Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:28 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: DraftKings and FanDuel: Irrational anger?
Replies: 70
Views: 4223

Re: DraftKings and FanDuel: Irrational anger?

What if a regular gambler just needs a kicker on Monday Night Football to not score more than 3 points to win million dollars on FanDuel? Or is that not how it works? I think that could happen, but it would probably be a pretty rare and unpredictable event. Likely the gambler wouldn't know of that ...
by Shirley
Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:22 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: SPOILERS Thread -- Dances with Dragons/Game of Thrones
Replies: 63
Views: 3302

Re: SPOILERS Thread -- Dances with Dragons/Game of Thrones

Since we're almost out of spoil-able material, and the show is basically making up its own shit at this point, this thread is mostly going to be speculation now. So I'll bite: I think Melisandre sacrifices herself to bring Jon back to life. It's the only way to give her character any sort of redemp...
by Shirley
Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:20 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Bensell
Replies: 77
Views: 5355

Re: Bensell

His last tweet, just four days before he died.
by Shirley
Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:11 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8885
Views: 410997

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

Didn't want to threadjack the Bensell thread, but I just got off the phone with my Mom, and a HS friend's brother was found dead in his apartment last week. No known cause of death. Autopsy showed nothing, waiting on toxicology report. He was 42. Just weird getting word of two deaths in the same da...
by Shirley
Mon Nov 23, 2015 1:38 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Bensell
Replies: 77
Views: 5355

Re: Bensell

Holy hell, that's awful. Man.

I don't know what to say.
by Shirley
Sun Nov 22, 2015 3:20 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Les Miles' coaching career at LSU
Replies: 4
Views: 377

Re: Les Miles' coaching career at LSU

I get that Miles is a quirky dude who has taken a few strange risks over the years, but I find the idea of running him off comical. Take a step back and look at how good LSU has been over his years there. They've been in the national picture nearly every year. And that's during a time when he's had ...
by Shirley
Sat Nov 21, 2015 11:44 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Images (now possibly NSFW)
Replies: 2145
Views: 181325

Re: Images (now possibly NSFW)

Pruitt wrote:Why do Canadians have sex doggie-style?

So they can both watch the hockey game.

Not The X-Files?
by Shirley
Sat Nov 21, 2015 11:40 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Great Goals thread
Replies: 388
Views: 111937

Re: The Great Goals thread

I'll save you guys the video, but for Chelsea fans, Diego Costa's goal today was beautiful.
by Shirley
Sat Nov 21, 2015 11:02 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015
Replies: 209
Views: 7565

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015

howard 11-4
Moreta 11-4
Pruitt 8-7
Shirley 7-8


Yeah, no.
by Shirley
Fri Nov 20, 2015 6:24 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette
Replies: 2777
Views: 90539

Re: CUBE LIFE! Office Etiquette

Who the fuck throws their gum in the urinal? At work? I mean, I'm at Microsoft, surrounded by highly educated white-collar workers. It's baffling to me.
by Shirley
Fri Nov 20, 2015 5:45 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
Replies: 8885
Views: 410997

Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random

I probably go about 10-15 wearings or 3-4 months before I wash my jeans. They are the only piece of clothing that I wear that does not immediately go in the dirty clothes bin after wearing. This is about my schedule too. I used to wash them after every wear, like all of my clothes, until I read abo...
by Shirley
Fri Nov 20, 2015 12:07 pm
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: NFL Week 11
Replies: 62
Views: 2018

Re: NFL Week 11

I like that the league made the teams dress up in those clown uniforms as punishment for their awful play.
by Shirley
Fri Nov 20, 2015 1:20 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: The Animated GIF Thread (NSFW)
Replies: 477
Views: 60432

Re: The Animated GIF Thread (NSFW)

Hello?

Image
by Shirley
Fri Nov 20, 2015 1:15 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015
Replies: 209
Views: 7565

Re: Final Jeopardy! Challenge November 2015

howard 11-3
rex 11-3
Moreta 10-4
Pruitt 8-6
Shirley 7-7


I've read that one!
by Shirley
Thu Nov 19, 2015 11:54 am
Forum: The Swamp
Topic: All threads are temporary. This one's about soccer.
Replies: 3030
Views: 250293

Re: All threads are temporary. This one's about soccer.

wlu_lax6 wrote:AC Milan has a 16 year old starting in the net for them.
http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/11 ... erie-italy" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
That's incredible. That kid would be, what, a junior in high school?