Time for my annual prediction...

What about Tuesday???

Clinton, Obama, McCain and Romney win the most delegates.

OK... OK... I think Clinton and McClinton will have the most to smile about on 2/5. Though neither is my preference.

WmB

on 2/3/2008 5:43 PM WmB said the following:

Actually 17 -14. Manning goes home with the trophy. Brady goes home with Gisele Bundchen. Hmmm. Who gets the best deal?

willshak wrote: : : Actually 17 -14. : Manning goes home with the trophy. : Brady goes home with Gisele Bundchen. : Hmmm. Who gets the best deal? : The 1972 Dolphins. They are still the only undefeated team, and their arch rivals are NOT their neighbors, it is still a very exclusive neighborhood.

Biggest losers - the patsies. An undefeated season must be leaving a huge flavor in their mouthes, as they did not win the one game that counts.

Biggest losers - the Giants. Coughlin is still their coach.

Biggest losers - the 1972 Dolphins - Chris Berman can still target them for the champaign cork stupidity.

I thought Gisele was so last millenium? I thought he had moved on to some other doxie?

Bruce

Shame it's not real football ... or even pretend real football ...

on 2/5/2008 6:41 AM Andrew said the following:

Well, with our Football, all the violence is on the field, and not in the stands, which results in less deaths. Your Football, our Soccer, has never really taken off here in the US, even with the introduction of Pele in the American Soccer League of the mid- 70s, and it has been relegated mostly to school sports. On a related note, I don't know if Cricket is played at all in the US, unless it is Cricket in Darts, which I am very familiar with and have a s**tload of trophies from when I hung around in pubs 10 years ago, and I was vice-president of a dart league.

i've seen cricket played in boston. there is a small league. all guys from former british colonies.

on 2/5/2008 2:06 PM snipped-for-privacy@some.domain said the following:

It's a great game. Most of it is played in Pubs. My best games were after a couple of beers (more relaxed), but declined after that (more drunk). :-) Besides the accuracy of the throws, you have to have a very good grasp of math which comes into play before the second or third throws while you are standing at the line (hockey). I have a dart board in my basement, which I sometimes throw darts at while waiting for the computer to restart, but I don't really want to hang out in pubs anymore ( I used to have to drive 45 miles to get home) and there are no local pubs which play real darts (other than the electric soft tip darts).

ha? cricket inside a pub? the cricket i've seen needs a baseball sized field to play on. we talkin' the same game bill? or did too many pints cause a bit of confusion? never heard of cricket in darts. explain that one, ok?

Same in western New York. Most, if not all the players are instructors at the University and are from either India or Pakistan. And yes, they are all in the same club.

boston has some carribean island guys, too. they are intense when they play, wherever they come from.

on 2/5/2008 4:17 PM snipped-for-privacy@some.domain said the following:

ah, different fish entirely.

You want to hear about intense? The way that Soccer got introduced to Jamestown, North Dakota was the fall of the Shah of Iran, the Iran-Iraqi war, as well as the troubles in Lebanon. Well-to-do Iranians and Lebanese, as well as a few Palestinians got the hell out of the Mideast and ended up at Jamestown College. Where they cajoled a microbiology professor from India into starting a soccer team for them. This did not go at all well. A few days in the whole group had broken down into two opposing teams, these being Shiite and Sunni, and their feelings toward each other were not friendly. They decided that kicking at a opponent was even better than kicking at the ball, and in one of their first matches someone got kicked, drew a knife, and chased the person who kicked him down the field. After that they were searched for weapons before being allowed to play. Now these were _real_ Soccer rowdies. :-D They eventually moved on, but the game remained, and we now have quite a elaborate Soccer field right next to the college, bleachers and all. Another teacher from India wanted to start a cricket team with myself and my friends, assuring us: "The key point of the game isn't winning or losing...it's drinking while playing it."

Pat

yep, we aren't the only athletic retards....

Tea, right?

I'd rather watch soccer any day of the week than most of what passes for sports on TV. I sure had a lot of fun playing it in gym. That's probably why we didn't play it often. "Can't have any of you guys enjoying this stuff. This is school, after all!"

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Oh, no. Not by a long shot. The Distressed Gentlefolk's Wine Appreciation And Free-Thought Society was a group of old chums, much like P. G. Wodehouse's "Drones Club", or Arthur's "Round Table"... but neither expected the arrival of such a excellent and superb gentleman as Jeeves in the former, or Sir Lancelot in the latter. Thunderbolts struck then, and the very sky seemed to part with the propitious arrival of The Hero, ready to laugh and drink with the greatest legends of olde. Sing me a song of Sadu's arrival; fill it with friendship great, laughter full, and brotherhood like unto the heroic fallen that dwell in Valhalla. He was not only the greatest member of "The Club", he was the physical embodiment of a good time, and the very _idea_ of "The Club" made incarnate.You could sit around with Sadu and the cheapest bottle of booze in the world and have the best party of your entire life. Like Gandhi, there was a gigantic and majestic soul held in that small body, and it shown forth like the first sunbeam of a new-born summer day. Then he married. The rest shall not be spoken of. Whose soul the gods wish most surely dead, they first do tempt them to most surely wed. Chasing women is a lot of fun; actually catching one is fraught with perils undreamed of. Or, as W.C. Fields once said: "No man is truly complete until he's married...after that...he's finished." ;-)

Pat

I must point out that Jeeves, being a valet (or, as he termed it "a gentleman's personal gentleman") would never have been allowed into the Drones Club and indeed Jeeves would have been offended at the mere suggestion that he enter the place. Jeeves was far more at home as a member of the Junior Ganymede Club.

I'm sure Jeeves had to fish Bertie out of the place on more than one occasion, pour him into the car and get him back home again. He then probably immediately bathed and gave what he was wearing while he was "in _there_" to a clothing drive though. :-) I hate to admit this, but salamanders are actually quite interesting creatures and make fine pets that are easy to care for. One only has to remember to wash the poisonous slime they exude off of one's hands if they become agitated while handling them. I wish they'd shown more of the Junior Ganymede Club on the BBC series. Those were some hilarious shows. I'm pretty sure I dated Madeline Basset back in the late 1970s. In fact, I think I dated every one of those archetype women that showed up in the TV adaptations.

Pat