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The King
I wonder if the King in your cartoons might have to ditch the purple cape next year due to the new color scheme.
\random thought
I dunno — the Ducks have never had a blue-duck color scheme, and yet this guy keeps persisting. They’re sort of their own characters now, I think — plus it’s a handy way not to get sued. :)
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I drew the duck blue because I’d never seen a blue duck before and to be honest, I wanted to see a blue duck.
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by PNK on Aug 9, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
That’s quacktastic.
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 9, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
he hasnt been drinking lately…he must be optimistic about the season
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 10:27 AM PDT up reply actions
He’s chugging here:
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 9, 2011 10:32 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
until teemu signs..all ducks and ducks fans should be chugging
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 10:39 AM PDT up reply actions
haha … we have gone a little wild here lately huh?
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by Angy on Aug 9, 2011 10:19 AM PDT reply actions 3 recs
So it's not so much an intervention as it is an imposition?
Call whatever you like…
I’d love to call it an imposition.
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by PNK on Aug 9, 2011 10:24 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Get out here, snail!
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Should probably link to Rudy’s post from last summer while we’re on the topic. That was great.
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hahaha….i love the toon….you could have painted the duck blue and white..for our addiction to fins
i still like “sharks gone wild”
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 10:26 AM PDT reply actions
Yeah, that occurred to me a bit too late after I did the scan — could have made the Duck all Oilers-ish and the King all Flyers-ish.
But the Wild design probably worked out better than the other two would have.
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The joke works better if only one of them is the focus.
by meetyourmako on Aug 9, 2011 10:37 AM PDT up reply actions
For a moment it looked like the Shark got a giant disc jammed into his skull and now he’s bleeding. That makes for just as good as a toon. =)
by ScottyKnows on Aug 9, 2011 10:38 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The Minnesota Wild logo is one of the coolest and most cleverly designed. It’s too bad they destroyed the effect with those awful Santa’s-little-helper jerseys
by meetyourmako on Aug 9, 2011 10:40 AM PDT up reply actions
You talking about their alt. jerseys?
Those ones do ook like Christmas, but I still like.
But I also really like the red ones too. Aside from some of the original six jerseys, which just seem like classic and quintessential hockey sweaters, I think Minnesota’s are my favorite.
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I love that picture
Completely epic, totally wild.
by Dermal Denticles on Aug 9, 2011 11:14 AM PDT reply actions
Okay I’m having a stupid discussion with someone that is wrong over which is cooler, cats or dogs. Correct answer is cats. They are independent, they cuddle with you, they fetch (yes they damn well do), and they love laser toys. Also you can leave for a weekend without worrying who is going to watch your cats, just leave them food and water and all is good. You can’t do that with a dog.
So boys and girls – cats or dogs.
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Dogs just annoy the crap out of you all the time because they’re smart. Cats just sit in front of the window, sleep and then meow incessantly when they want to eat.
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 9, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Why not? It’s better than a burrito discussion. :)
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That’s horrible. Both options should be served in a broth with a side of hot rice.
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Especially Thundercats.
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 9, 2011 11:40 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
OG Thundercats not anime Thundercats
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Egyptians thought cats were the guardians of the afterlife or something. That’s pretty cool.
by meetyourmako on Aug 9, 2011 12:44 PM PDT up reply actions
thunder…thunder…thundercaaats
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:12 PM PDT up reply actions
I loved that show.
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well all did ang..we all did
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
I cannot stand cats.
I know different cats are different, but out of the 3 cats I’ve lived in a house with… I hated their guts.
1. One of them used to scratch the bottom of my feet in my sleep (I usually have my feet hanging off the bed…) and it’s pretty annoying to have to be itching and bleeding on the bottoms of your feet…
2. Cat. Piss. IS SO STINKY. I mean, any piss is stinky, but jesus christ, that shit just smells nuclear..
3. I’m out to the knowledge that they are all plotting to destroy the world A la Stewie from family guy style…
Drew: 'Oh no.. That is certainly the meaty part alright, but it's not the thigh..."
Randy: "No... that bone is NOT connected to the thigh bone..."
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by SeanCrosby87 on Aug 9, 2011 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
I only read this much:
Okay I’m having a stupid discussion with someone that is wrong over which is cooler, cats or dogs.
Dogs.
Leslie Knope: "...but it has a lot of heart."
April Ludgate: "That's what people always say when something sucks."
Fear The Fin's Fifth-String Moderator !!
On-topic video: stupid fucking cat.
On-topic picture: my cat is an alcoholic
Cats are cooler.
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lucky’s?….what ever happened to those super markets?
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
i think theres one in hollywood still…yea i cant remember if I liked them or not..i love stater bros!! ohhh supermarket talk!!!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions
They've come back
at least around here. Some of the Albertson’s even turned back into Lucky’s.
Now if only Thrifty could make a come back…
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by PNK on Aug 9, 2011 2:20 PM PDT up reply actions
Lucky’s in Paso Robles used to carry your groceries out to your car. Sigh, that was nice.
Plus you could leave your dog in the car with the windows rolled down and everyone was ok with it.
Let's go Ducks.
all grocery stores will if u ask them…they just look at u stupid when you do
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait a minute, they don’t offer to do so when you check out? I know Safeway abhors doing it, but at the Lucky’s and Nob Hill by my apartment they offer every time I don’t use self-checkout. And I’m a 27 year old young man.
The thing is I don’t want them to offer, I just want them to do it. Makes me fell all special and squicky inside.
A week ago I was at Home Depot and bought 30 bricks at about 10lbs each. I had hurt my leg the day before and I asked for help loading into my car. It was like pulling teeth. The dude met me while I was limping to my car and asked “you want help” and then he just started back into the store. I had to call him back.
Let's go Ducks.
Now if only Thrifty could make a come back…
dont tease me
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 2:25 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah but my dog would fetch me that alcohol instead of hoarding it
by Dermal Denticles on Aug 9, 2011 6:27 PM PDT up reply actions
cats
Мы в любовь играли,
И как кровь из вены капает слеза.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BABY!!!!
by sleza on Aug 9, 2011 12:51 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Any post is not complete without sleza posting a cat picture.
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by Kevin Sellathamby on Aug 10, 2011 8:38 AM PDT up reply actions
I now vote cats!
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 9, 2011 4:18 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
i second that
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 10, 2011 5:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Which would you be more worried about hunting you, a wolf or a tiger? If you answered wolf, you’re a pussy. If you answered tiger, you realize cats are much better.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 11:41 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
They don’t need to hunt in a pack, that’s the point. :)
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I had to look that up.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Is it safe to look up?
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according to urban dictionary it means you are in agreement, like “mmmHmnn”
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
I was wondering about Dodger myself. Apparently, they have one of those “real lives”
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
I don’t even know — are the Dodgers winning these days? Or losing? Maybe that’s got him distracted.
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Yeah hopefully he hasn’t taken the shitty season too hard
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I vaguely heard that the team is bankrupt.
It’s a whole thing, I don’t even know anymore. All I know is that Kemp & Kershaw both own, Ethier & Billingsley are pretty cool, and everyone else sucks.
I hear they can’t make payroll and have cut back drastically on the security at the park, which somehow makes the whole coma incident seem even shittier.
by meetyourmako on Aug 9, 2011 12:49 PM PDT up reply actions
have cut back drastically on the security at the park
I think they did at the beginning of the year and then… yeah.
Frank McCourt is such a… something…
The more you drink, the less gruesome I look.
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i do from thursday nite till sunday…then back to the shithole with all you
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:16 PM PDT up reply actions
a single wolf wouldn’t be hunting you so the example was dumb.
Yeah, if you see you’re being hunted by a wolf you start worrying about all the wolves you don’t see.
by meetyourmako on Aug 9, 2011 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions
We need rest. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
by I.C. Wiener on Aug 9, 2011 1:01 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
thats awesome
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Woo hoo! The lazy effort even made Puck Daddy. :)
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 9, 2011 12:18 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Boy Wysh is pretty loose with the word “incredible” huh?
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realize I’m biased but I was pretty offended we weren’t mentioned in the conversation for first place
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hahahahaha and a double ha on top of that! :)
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by Angy on Aug 9, 2011 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
The only reason we (or you) wouldn’t be first is because the Northwest will still fucking suck next year so the Canucks will get a lot of easy points. That said, it should be easier in the Pacific next year (knock on wood) with out Richards and Bryzgalov
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I think Phx is going to find some amazing goalie just to screw with us all.
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Well it ain’t gonna be Labarbera or Mike Smith
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions
Although good news for the Coyotes, the last time Labarbera was used as a #1 goalie his team got to draft Drew Doughty
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
The Sharks and Kings are the two best teams in the conference this year, with the Canucks third.
Fuck the Red Wings and their arrogant fans.
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by Megalodon on Aug 9, 2011 1:03 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Sharks-Kings-Canucks-Hawks-Red Wings-Blues-Predators-Ducks
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
You have Blues in the top 8?
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They’re good.
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
hey were talking about hockey how strange?
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
Holy shit, better fix it quick.
So….I had a pretty good torta for lunch.
We need rest. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
it has to have avacado in it..or is not a torta!!
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:25 PM PDT up reply actions
hahaha…I always tell ‘em to hold the avocado. I’m so white.
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its ok…it was included..thats the important part…
um a pastor one sounds good right now
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
tortas aren’t good.
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
stop eating the ones they sell at am-pm nut..those dont count
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve only had my wife’s parents’ tortas, and they’re legit…but I don’t like all the bread. The mexican sandwich is about as good as white salsa (I can do Taco Bell but Pace fucking sucks)…Now a tostada with some ceviche on it…delish!
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions
i agree on the bread part…still its good..but rather go burrito…or sope!!!..
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
agreed
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:28 PM PDT up reply actions
They are scrappy yes, but in the top 8?
Not sure.
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They have more forward depth than the Sharks
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
They’ve got Kent Huskins!
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by PNK on Aug 9, 2011 2:22 PM PDT up reply actions
What I am hoping for is a good rivalry again this year like last where anything can go in the standings and it boils down to the last few games. Fun for all and all for fun.
Let's go Ducks.
You wimp.
You need to learn to appreciate the fine thrill of the game, the hands clinched, the knot in your stomach for every game that means everything! The nervousness of not knowing whether those playoff tickets are going to be used or just be a souvenier of what could have been.
Let's go Ducks.
You can get your manly man status back if you go toe-to-toe w/ George Parros. (We will all back you up from way back here)
:)
Let's go Ducks.
I would be terrfiied to fight Scott Parker. He’s from Hanford.
We need rest. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
…which means he has 4 kids and doesn’t believe in global warming?
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions
and lives in a trailer and fights with a tire iron.
We need rest. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is spongy and bruised.
Sounds about right.
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Why?
Why do people keep ranking the Canucks first?!?!? What part of losing Christian Erhoff and gaining Owen Nolan do you guys not understand xD
by Dermal Denticles on Aug 9, 2011 6:30 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
In my opinion the Kings and Sharks got way better here recently.
by Dermal Denticles on Aug 9, 2011 8:57 PM PDT up reply actions
yea there still good hate to say
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 10, 2011 5:14 AM PDT up reply actions
That just tells you how much crappier they were than the Canucks. ;)
by ScottyKnows on Aug 10, 2011 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions
What ticks me off is he called Nabby a choker despite haveing a respectable save%.
And then called Niemi a gamer for having a save% below .900 in last years playoffs. The fuck?! In my opinion, what cost us last year WAS NIEMI!!! If we would have had Nabby, we probably would have beaten Vancouver.
I'm warning you! I have ADHD and I know how to use it!!!
Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
THAT IS NABOKOV IN NET NOT NITTYMAKISHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!
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by Diamondback15 on Aug 9, 2011 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate the IF game. We don’t know what would have happened IF we had Nabby. We only know what did happen.
And Niemi did fine. That last goal was just fluky as fuck. No one knew where it was until one did. It’s just one of those things. You can’t dwell on the little things.
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that was one game wasn't it?
I'm warning you! I have ADHD and I know how to use it!!!
Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
THAT IS NABOKOV IN NET NOT NITTYMAKISHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!
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by Diamondback15 on Aug 9, 2011 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
We scored a shitload against Neimi and the Sharks after barely getting a goal a game without Kopi to finish the regular season. That said, Nabakov fucking sucked and they’re a better team without him. Also, Burns is way better than Setoguchi (who’s always sucked) and Havlat is better (at least when the games count).
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
That's why I said probably.
We could have had Hasek in net and it may not have made a difference. Half of the Sharks roster was being sent out to the ice in crutches and casts.
I mean Thornton and Clowe had seperated shoulders, how can they even play like that, I didn’t even know it was physically possible.
I'm warning you! I have ADHD and I know how to use it!!!
Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
THAT IS NABOKOV IN NET NOT NITTYMAKISHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!
San Jose: Being Kept save from ferocious enemies by the Sharks and Earthquakes since 91 and 96.
by Diamondback15 on Aug 9, 2011 1:42 PM PDT up reply actions
step out of the way of the excuse train scotty…its plenty full of riders
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions
On top of that the Hockey Gods hate San Jose, the refs are against and Garpenlov hates crossbars.
I'm warning you! I have ADHD and I know how to use it!!!
Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
THAT IS NABOKOV IN NET NOT NITTYMAKISHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!
San Jose: Being Kept save from ferocious enemies by the Sharks and Earthquakes since 91 and 96.
by Diamondback15 on Aug 9, 2011 1:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not making excuses. I said it’s just one of those things. You should read NM sometime, they are still going over what could have been.
For me, THIS SEASON !!!
GO SHARKS!
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Didn't want to miss this one
You can’t dwell on the little things.
Can I focus on the big things, like Antti Niemi’s playoff GAA?
by RudyKelly on Aug 9, 2011 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
wasn’t his playoff GAA a littler thing than his regular season one? Then quit dwelling on the little things Rudy. :)
Let's go Ducks.
You guys suck! And we still got further in the playoffs than the Kings and Ducks.
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Not true the Ducks beat Vancouver in the playoffs before.
"Thank you very much fans and let’s go for the next game together!"
— Lubomir Visnovsky
I rec’d that shit.
This season dear.
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You guys don’t know how to argue with Rudy.
Quick (regular season): GAA 2.44, Save % .918
Quick (playoffs): GAA 3.16, Save % .914
HE’S A CHOKER! TRADE HIM NOW!
Also this happened. We don’t need goalies at all to win playoff games.
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Not to upset Angy, but I would wager my balls that we would have destroyed you WITH Kopitar and WITHOUT Thornton. Well, maybe not my balls, but I’d wager your balls.
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:18 PM PDT up reply actions
HE’S A CHOKER! TRADE HIM NOW!
It’s a good thing I’m not retarded and don’t believe in choking! If Sharks fans didn’t either it wouldn’t bother them so much to admit that Niemi sucked in the playoffs this season.
Niemi had one amazing post-season and one poor one.
Quick had one terrible post-season and one okay one.
Both teams have great goaltending and don’t need to worry at all.
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Both teams have great goaltending and don’t need to worry at all.
Can we have this pasted somewhere so that when y’all is sucking up the ice we can point and laugh.
Let's go Ducks.
y’all
Can we have this pasted somewhere so we can point and laugh.
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by Megalodon on Aug 9, 2011 2:26 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Niemi had one amazing post-season
Quick’s okay postseason was better than Niemi’s amazing one.
Both teams have great goaltending and don’t need to worry at all.
True.
Both teams have great goaltending and don’t need to worry at all.
You have good goaltending
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Quick’s okay postseason was better than Niemi’s amazing one.
But Quick lost in the first round. Even if you think Niemi’s cup win wasn’t a REALLY great post-season for him, how do you make your case here?
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If Quick was on the Sharks, they’d prolly make it past Vancouver. If Niemi played for the Kings, they would’ve lost in 4.
The two goalies had almost identical stats over the sixty regular season games they played last year. That’s a strong argument that they’re pretty comparable.
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So your argument is that the Sharks were a better defensive team than the Kings last year? Because that’s the only way I see your point making sense.
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The Sharks spend so much time in the offensive zone that Niemi never sees as much action as the opposing goalie.
Just saying that Quick had to bail his team out more often than Niemi. When the Sharks forwards had off nights, so did Niemi.
The Kings gave up fewer shots against than the Sharks.
Niemi made about a hundred more saves over the course of the year and ended up with a slightly better save percentage.
You can say Quick is better, that’s fair, and I’d agree. But to say he is SO MUCH BETTER OH MY GOD is too much.
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Actually most of my point had to do with the Sharks being a better overall team and if Niemi was even a little better, it might have made the difference. =)
The Canucks brutalized us. Quick would not have been enough.
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But Quick lost in the first round. Even if you think Niemi’s cup win wasn’t a REALLY great post-season for him, how do you make your case here?
Quick faced 38 shots/game against one of the best offenses in the league while on a team missing their best overall player and put up respectable numbers. Niemi faced 29 shots/game against a variety of competition on a team that was never outshot once in the entire playoffs that year and put up numbers that were worse than Quick’s.
Quick has an incredibly small sample size and one could assume that his numbers would go up or down if he played more games, but if you had to pick one set of numbers to go with for your goaltender then you’d pick Quick’s.
Fair enough.
Small sample sizes suck. Over the last regular season the two goalies were basically the exact same dude. Yes they played on different teams, but Quick’s team was the one that was supposedly more focused on defense.
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Over the last regular season the two goalies were basically the exact same dude
This is true. I’m just saying that Niemi’s “Clutchness” isn’t a Thing, anymore than Nabokov’s “Chokeness” isn’t a Thing either. Niemi’s a good goalie who has both won a Cup and played poorly in a playoffs the past 2 seasons. That’s about all you can say about him.
That’s about all you can say about him.
Not true: he also has a delightfully cherubic face.
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Can you really say Quick’s okay post sesaon was better than Niemi’s amazing one considering that the amazing one got his name engraved on the Cup?
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Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
The Blackhawks were REALLY fucking good that year, and Niemi wasn’t as kick-ass against the other teams they played as he was against the Sharks. I don’t agree with Rudy, but I imagine that’s what he’s basing his craziness on.
Still though, it’s crazy.
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Mike Vernon, Chris Osgood, JS Giguere, Grant Fuhr, Bill Ranford, and Tom Barrasso all have there names on the Cup. Don’t mean nothin’.
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m going to wait in line to see the Cup and then put a sticker with my name on it so I can win all arguments forever.
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But he’s not a good goalie either. Mike Babcock is good at having good teams with shitty goalies
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:37 PM PDT up reply actions
He’s not a good goalie recently, but he’s had a pretty damn solid career. Not always behind phenomenal teams, either.
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I’d be great too if I wore bigger pads than everyone else. They guy can’t and couldn’t ever move side to side for shit
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Giguere’s not the only person ever to wear large pads. He is the only person ever to allow one goal in a series.
Shockingly, some of that even involved moving side to side.
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 9, 2011 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Against mighty Minnesota. Look out for Andrew Burnette! Point being, lots of goalies have a Cup without being great
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:45 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
And my point, not a lot of goalies have Conn Smythes on losing causes while not being good.
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It was Ducks vs. Devils. It was going to be a goalie. Everyone else sucked.
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Through two rounds of the 2003 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Minnesota Wild were the highest scoring team of the 16 qualifiers.
They scored 42 goals in 14 games, 3.0 per game. Then they met Giguere.
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Both teams have great goaltending and don’t need to worry at all.
lets not start sucking each others dicks yet
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Speaking of teams that need to worry…
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I am excited for duck season to start. Well except that I can’t afford to go see them in Europe. That would’ve been fun.
Let's go Ducks.
We’re all ready for duck season to start … I’ve got my rifle all ready to go. ;)
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Don’t tell me what to do. I’ll shoot a fucking duck with a rifle if I want. This is America.
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by Megalodon on Aug 9, 2011 2:49 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Fine a shotgun then.
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This won’t go well for any of our teams – Ducks are always at the wrong end, just see Elmer Fudd for confirmation of that. Sharks and guns aren’t friends either – we can thank Jaws for that. And Kings, hell someone is always trying to do away with the latest king – way too many shows to list for this one.
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this also assumes any of us can hit the broadside of a barn.
I remember the first time I shot an M-16. It was not a pretty sight. Then I had to qualify for a handgun, a M-7. I totally missed the target (I think I gave the dude on the next range over alot of extra points). I had to come back in the afternoon and shoot cans, I was better, but still don’t count on me at the OK corral.
Let's go Ducks.
I would only worry if there were Dodger fans here as well.
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by Angy on Aug 9, 2011 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I only shoot lasers. Ballistic guns are for pussies.
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by Megalodon on Aug 9, 2011 4:30 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Clearly you are impervious to my most powerful humor beams.
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SC Final and WCF appearance? I think our defense just sucked at points, though Niemi had a terrible series vs the Kings
by Dermal Denticles on Aug 9, 2011 6:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Probably not. But she chastised somebody above for talking about what might have happened and not what actually happened.
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
haha … just IF games are annoying. People start getting crazy with them. Next thing you know we all have Crosby and Ovie on our teams.
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ahem … destroyed is a bit strong there. Plus it was just bad luck, awful bad luck, bout Kopitar. It would have been interesting to see how the series would have played out with him in. And leave Thornton alone!
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You had the advantage of living with him. Plus I’m busy trying to convert an excel worksheet that has no consistency at all into something reasonable to load into Access so I can do some magic with it.
There is a time column, all they have to do is enter a time, instead they put in “by 5 pm” or some such crap. I have to filter out all this nonsense crap they put in. And not in this one column either. These people are ridiculous.
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I didn’t set up these excel files.
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whoa! my comment didn’t come out … anyways … I didn’t set up these excel files … I wouldnt’ set up something as horrendous as these files are.
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that's pretty much what Thornton and Clowe played with.
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Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
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by Diamondback15 on Aug 9, 2011 1:46 PM PDT up reply actions
So did Thornton. And Williams played 6.
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:03 PM PDT up reply actions
THORNTON’S FINGER WAS TAPED ON.
Never forget.
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That’s why he’s not “clutch”. You need all five fingers to do that.
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 9, 2011 2:19 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
I’ve always liked Justin Williams but after last years’s playoffs, playing with that brace, especially with his injury history, I have even more respect for the man.
If Kopi was healthy, the Sharks were toast for sure.
I loved his little nonchalant fist pump after he scored in Game 6, then I realized he did that because he couldn’t raise his arm any higher and I loved it even more.
If Kopi was healthy, the Sharks were toast for sure.
I don’t think that’s true.
by RudyKelly on Aug 10, 2011 1:23 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ahh, that was great.
I don’t know man, they gave the Sharks fits with their banged up roster. I imagine if they had Kopitar in there, it’d make a world of difference.
The Kings’ offense wasn’t really the problem, was it? They scored more against the Sharks than they averaged during the regular season.
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Kopitar was our best defensive forward last year
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Our best defensive forward had his finger TAPED ON.
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Unfortunately that doesn’t work on ankles
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Do we know for sure whether he tried? He is a soft European, after all.
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He is a soft European, after all.
I thought Europeans were comprised of cartilage too but apparently that’s not so.
They are actually composed of a system of fluid-filled bladders.
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Whatever you do, don’t touch their ungloved hands.
by meetyourmako on Aug 11, 2011 2:16 AM PDT up reply actions
I think I just thought of a new comic for Sleek to draw:
Shark: is drinking a lot of beers, nervous as Eric Lindros playing agains Scott Stevens
Duck: So let me get this straight, you thought by combining your own playoff curse with Minnesota’s mediocrity curse that you would win the cup?
I'm warning you! I have ADHD and I know how to use it!!!
Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
THAT IS NABOKOV IN NET NOT NITTYMAKISHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!
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Hahaha, and that plays excellently into my tendency for lazy cartoon recycling, too! :)
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You love those kind of cartoons the best.
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Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
THAT IS NABOKOV IN NET NOT NITTYMAKISHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!
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by Diamondback15 on Aug 9, 2011 1:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah, I liked his feature — glad they didn’t continue the downhill trend when they asked us to contribute early. :)
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wtf
why are you guys talking about hockey?
Leslie Knope: "...but it has a lot of heart."
April Ludgate: "That's what people always say when something sucks."
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I saw 80+ new comments and was hoping for a raging dog vs. cat debate.
Leslie Knope: "...but it has a lot of heart."
April Ludgate: "That's what people always say when something sucks."
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Which is better:
Dogs or burritos or the book 1984?
I vote burritos.
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Seconded.
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by Nut on Aug 9, 2011 2:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Depends on the quality of dog/burrito.
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Books about dog burritos.
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by PNK on Aug 9, 2011 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
anything but books…unless there dean koontz..cuz then i know what the fuck you guys are talkin about
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 2:46 PM PDT up reply actions
unless there dean koontz
Oh for fuck’s sake.
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by Megalodon on Aug 9, 2011 2:50 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
dont hate cuz he looks like burt reynolds
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 9, 2011 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Now that I’ve finished the fifth book of A Song of Ice and Fire I need recommendations for other epic fantasy novel series. Meg, Angy, I’m lookin at you!
Go with The Black Company series by Glen Cook.
Or if you want to take a quick break and do fantasy with detective with humor pick up Stalking the Unicorn by Mike Resnick.
Let's go Ducks.
They are good. I figured if you liked George R. R. Martin, then Glen Cook shoud be on your reading list.
Let's go Ducks.
Have you read anything from The Wheel of Time series?
by ScottyKnows on Aug 10, 2011 10:23 AM PDT up reply actions
Hmnn, seems like a lot of people are in the same boat. =/ Why’d you stop?
by ScottyKnows on Aug 10, 2011 12:21 PM PDT up reply actions
got bored with the story. And maybe I didn’t realize when a new book came out and didn’t care enough to look for one. I think I am over Jordan as a writer.
Did you ever read any of Robert Asprin? His early Myth series stuff is great fantasy/humor. Then he got writer block (aka drinking problem) and can’t write anything decent and his wife (Lynn Jody Nye) has tried to help him, but it isn’t the same since she is more of a writer like Anne McCaffrey and doesn’t have that humor ability as well as Asprin did.
Let's go Ducks.
I stopped reading Wheel of Time because I found the characters whiny and annoying, I realize that they’re supposed to be teenagers and therefore somewhat prone to that, but all the same…. Maybe the problem was that, in the first novel at least, there really wasn’t an older character who would tell them to just pull his socks up and deal with it.
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Thanks, Doug. All these responses are useful. I probably will give it a shot though. Everyone says that the first five are good and the rest have sucked. I don’t know if I want to invest my time knowing that it’s going to be crap later. The ending is the most important part and the original author isn’t even wrting it.
by ScottyKnows on Aug 11, 2011 10:22 AM PDT up reply actions
No, I don’t think I have. It seems that peope’s opinions are split pretty evenly based on the books quality.
I was looking for a nice mega series that would take up part of my summer. Series are the best!
by ScottyKnows on Aug 11, 2011 10:21 AM PDT up reply actions
I hated that book.
I read two chapters of Black Company, dropped it, and never looked back.
It’s like read a Tornado. There’s shit everywhere and it doesn’t make sense.
by Dermal Denticles on Aug 9, 2011 10:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Perdido Street Station, The Scar, and Iron Council by China Mieville. Some of the best books I’ve read in my life and more creative than 99% of any fantasy that has ever been written.
I just finished Finch by Jeff Vandermeer (not the Sharks defenseman) and that was great too. It’s a combination of The Big Sleep and the movie The Thing. There are a couple more books set in that same world I think.
Also every book ever written by Terry Pratchett.
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Yeah you can. Although chronologically it goes Perdido – Scar – Iron Council, they all deal with separate characters and storylines, just take place in the same world.
If you have the choice though, go with that order. No reason not to.
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I’m going to pretend this was a television request.
Showtime has a new show called Web Therapy with Lisa Kudrow as an underskilled online therapist that’s on tonight. I can’t decide if it’s really a good show, but I’ve liked all three episodes so far.
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Eh, I rather read than watch T.V. and now that the Game of Thrones is done, I’ve cancelled my HBO, Showtimes, etc..
Reading is great. If I take a book w/me and read it at an Angels game, the team wins. If no book, there is no joy in Mudville.
Let's go Ducks.
I hope nobody watched Web Therapy tonight on my recommendation — a very weak episode. Whoops!
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Damn you to the depths of Hades, Earl!
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Not so much fantasy
but did you ever read the sequels to Ender’s Game?
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by PNK on Aug 9, 2011 4:56 PM PDT up reply actions
They’re all garbage. Ender’s Shadow was good, unfortunately all of those sequels were garbage too…
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I have to agree. Ender’s Shadow gets a thumbs up, all the others are kinda sad.
by meetyourmako on Aug 11, 2011 2:17 AM PDT up reply actions
they don’t feel like sequels, it’s like a total reboot. And the characters just aren’t as compelling as adults. Instead of brilliant underdogs they’re just damaged.
But Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow are two of my favorites.
by sixteen.wins on Aug 11, 2011 11:06 AM PDT up reply actions
I think he wrote them separately and then made Ender the protagonist in order to have carry-over readership.
by meetyourmako on Aug 11, 2011 11:24 AM PDT up reply actions
I remembered another series that might be of interest:
March Upcountry (Prince Roger series) by David Weber is the first book of the series. More SciFi than fantasy.
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haha … I just bought a new book A Madness of Angels, but can’t say if it’s good or not, I’ll be reading it this weekend while camping.
My oldest recommends A Game of Thrones series. I read the first book, but then it disappeared on me – I know I’ve mentioned this before, but my oldest has the bad habit of stealing my books.
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Angy, I just said I finished reading it silly. The Game of Thrones is the first book of the “A song of ice and fire series.”
by ScottyKnows on Aug 10, 2011 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions
The Dresden books are entertaining.
Name of the Wind was great, though the 2nd one dragged a little for me.
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Now that’s just creepy
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Lightning is seven times as hot as the surface of the sun.
That’s still not as hot as Douglas Murray. -mymclife
I'm sure I'm posting this late
but it’s hard to sift through all the comments.
http://fans.sharks.nhl.com/community/blog/19/entry-1962-three-questions-three-answers/
This is the best thing I’ve read all day.
by Dermal Denticles on Aug 9, 2011 6:34 PM PDT reply actions
Why couldn’t the writer have grouped the different lessons together. I got confused trying to following history 1, 2, 3. and then to follow what that has to do with his answer. I need a zen diagram.
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It’s Jamie Baker, so he was probably drunk and/or stupid when he wrote it.
He makes good points though.
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probably drunk and/or stupid
making good points though.
He’s usually two of the three.
by meetyourmako on Aug 10, 2011 9:36 AM PDT up reply actions
The two are mutually exclusive?
drunk and/or stupid
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Now I’m so confused. Are you saying that someone can’t be drunk without also being stupid, and can’t be stupid without being drunk? What?
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drunk without also being stupid
Mike Richards
stupid without being drunk
Brad Richards (well, the concussed version) :)
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 10, 2011 12:15 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
When has he been accused of having a drinking problem?
by meetyourmako on Aug 10, 2011 1:13 PM PDT up reply actions
haha … glad it wasn’t just me … I was scrolling up and down to see what section I was in. :)
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http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=373566
What is it with Ducks and barstools?
Wait — Canada is suing the bar for what happened in a Boxing Day brawl? The bar should just sue Canada right back for having such an inflammatorily-named holiday.
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Wait, I should look through them? Only glanced at the first one quickly.
What’s the link?
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Oh my God yes. It’s on Kelly’s twitter
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Hey have you guys ever wondered what Corey Perry looks like when he’s pooping? Link!
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He always looks like you just walked into a room about 30 seconds after he finished masturbating.
by RudyKelly on Aug 10, 2011 4:53 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Speaking of lanky blonde dorks...
Brek Shea kicked ass as a sub in tonight’s friendly against Mexico. Juan Agudelo owned too.
This has been your yearly soccer update.
Who masturbates with an iron? :)
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 10, 2011 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
jesus perry..what the fuck is up with your face in these pics…your not fooling anyone..are all hockey players akward and nerds?…..good thing hes good at hockey
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 10, 2011 5:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Haha, poor Perry. He’s the human equivalent of Maggie on Halloween.
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by Earl Sleek on Aug 10, 2011 4:43 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
I was gonna say he doesn’t look at all douchey in the pictures and actually looks kinda good in them.
he looks like corey perry, there fore he is a douche
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Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
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by Diamondback15 on Aug 10, 2011 11:47 PM PDT up reply actions
yea i have no defense for any of this really…this is ridiculous
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 11, 2011 5:07 AM PDT up reply actions
Flip through them
while THIS is playing
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Kent Huskins cares.
"Don't fart on my chair mutha fuckah!" - Randy Hahn
I have been watching it. It is cheesy scify. Good for when you need a no-brainer nite. Just don’t analyze the “science” in it. Or think too hard on the plot holes. But it is ok.
Let's go Ducks.
Don’t do it. It’s like a really lame version of The Walking Dead that they put Noah Wiley in. He’s not a convincing counter-alien revolutionary, let me tell you.
by meetyourmako on Aug 10, 2011 7:36 PM PDT up reply actions
Somehow, in the very little I watched of both, I managed to watch two perfectly analogous episodes, where the good guys escape aliens/zombies, one of them gets caught by another, hostile survivor group which wants guns from them, then a daring rescue and a humanizing moment when you realize the hostile group ain’t so bad!
by meetyourmako on Aug 11, 2011 11:29 AM PDT up reply actions
I watched and stopped. Kinda boring.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
did you see that they are canceling Eureka after next year. Hopefully there is enough episodes left to shoot to have a “ending”.
Let's go Ducks.
“@bergopolis Amy Berg
Rumors are true. Syfy and Universal are giving us one additional episode so we can end the series on our terms. Working on it now! #Eureka”
by sixteen.wins on Aug 10, 2011 6:43 PM PDT up reply actions
I realize I don’t know what kind of “ending” I would like to have. I think if it ending with cutting of gov’t funding and the end being turn off the lights, the fans will revolt. I know, how about one showing all the character as they go forward, sorta like their futures, and then end it with them just going about their work. You get the ending, but you also get the opportunity for a movie(s).
Let's go Ducks.
Ey, so Lopez Tonight is cancelled too? That was fast. Spade must be a sad panda.
Low ride urrr
by ScottyKnows on Aug 11, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
he was horrible on that show…hes not much of a improvisor methinks…
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 11, 2011 11:04 AM PDT up reply actions
I agree, I found it boring and stopped.
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For instance, the Food Network is apparently starting their second season of The Great Food Truck Race on Sunday. I liked last year’s season, but particularly the early episodes. The shows got less interesting as the season went along and more and more food trucks were eliminated.
Moderately excited! :)
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Haha, i watched Dual Survival on your recommendation and was not disappointed.
You should do some more write ups with TV show recommendations like you did last offseason, I enjoyed em.
They irritate me for some reason, I don’t remember them bickering, but there was some kind of disfunctional interplay that was like nails on a chalkboard.
Let's go Ducks.
I started dvring it but haven’t watched a single episode. It looked interesting enough in the commercial. I don’t know about the aliens looking like the ones from District 9 though.
by ScottyKnows on Aug 11, 2011 10:31 AM PDT up reply actions
Someone linked this on FTF, but here is the important part:
****I had read already that Brent Burns is among the NHL’s more heavily tattooed players, but here’s something I didn’t know until today.
Among the tats is one of Harry Potter — "I’m a big fan," said the defenseman — with an intricately illustrated dragon nearby.
Can you get double points in Wiki-defense? What’s the ruling on this Meg?
Yeah, seriously.
I don’t have tats myself, never had the urge to get one, so maybe I shouldn’t talk. But it seems to me that getting yourself done up with a kid with oversized glasses and a magic wand kind of nullifies the point of getting tattooed.
"I think you just outed yourself as Dean Lombardi. I knew it all along." — Rudy Kelly
He tweeted a picture of it
(And yes, he took the picture upside down)
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Fear the Fin - NEEDS MORE DOVES
by mymclife on Aug 10, 2011 8:34 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Wow what a huge dork. Awesome.
He loves snakes AND Harry Potter.
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Do you think he’s tried to learn Parseltongue?
by meetyourmako on Aug 10, 2011 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
Do you think he pretends his stick is a wand during play?
He hates when they call Datsyuk a magician after he undresses him in the defensive zone.
He also tried purchasing the Minnesota Magicians AAA hockey club.
by ScottyKnows on Aug 11, 2011 10:36 AM PDT up reply actions
Did you also see that he tweeted that he was wearing superhero pajamas? (Spiderman and Hulk, FYI). So awesome.
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No
I like characters with personality.
"Douglas Murray is a humongous human being." – Drew Remenda
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by Evilducks on Aug 10, 2011 11:00 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Brent Burns is my new favorite shark. Screw you Captain Awkward!
by ScottyKnows on Aug 11, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Doug Murray says, “Aww, geez. I never hang out with these guys normally,” before punching out George Parros. Then he walks away as Marleau & Burns skip around him, singing, “Hark to the tale of Murray, and the boys he loved so dear! They all remained best friends for years and years and years!”
by RudyKelly on Aug 11, 2011 10:49 AM PDT up reply actions 3 recs
I love Harry Potter!
Best fantasy series ever. I was thinking about getting the same glasses as Harry Potter.
He earns a thousand wiki points for that.
I'm warning you! I have ADHD and I know how to use it!!!
Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
THAT IS NABOKOV IN NET NOT NITTYMAKISHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!
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by Diamondback15 on Aug 10, 2011 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Burns destroys just about anyone in the league on Wiki-strength. He has a literal ARMY OF SERPENTS.
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jesus hockey players what the fuck is a matter with you all…I remember ruslan salei is a big metal fan..hes not my favorite hockey player..re-sign him ducks
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 11, 2011 5:09 AM PDT up reply actions
*now
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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Aug 11, 2011 5:10 AM PDT up reply actions
No! We don’t need a european dude whodoes nothing but big hits and passing to the opposing team in his own zone
These are the demands and sayings of tohon
Getzlaf doesn’t give up the puck in his own zone, I always saw him making blind drop passes in the attacking zone
These are the demands and sayings of tohon
Imagine if your life for the next 20-25 years was mapped out by the time you were 16, and (hopefully) you were going to make a lot of money. Not a lot of incentive to broaden your horizons.
Really, we should be happy when a Brendon Shanahan or George Parros comes along—a hockey player who actually has an interesting thought now and again—instead of constantly being amazed at the idiot man-children millionaires and their leotarded tastes.
Somebody better be really clear about what kind of camp
Tommy Wingels has to show up for in September
@shampeon
Damn
I missed some talk about the SJ-Van series! That one was fun!
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