This is about A Separate Peace, isn't it?
Broken collarbone, says the Twitterverse. Who's Buster? Why do I have to throw anyone off the cliff? Why are you so violent, heebie?
Wikipedia tells me Colt McCoy was a redshirt freshman, so presumably he got injured as the expendable party on an away mission from the Enterprise.
Sorry, rooting for Team Meteor.
Took me a minute but I finally figured out who Buster is referring to.
Matt Saracen just threw an interception.
guys, just go with it. Jammies, throw Buster off the cliff.
Well, since a buster is someone who cant hang or is just acting like a little punk bitch, I'd have to conclude that we should throw McCoy off the cliff.
McCoy's got a broken collarbone, so he can't hang either.
(Jammies says.)
6: I just found out a friend has several episodes of the new FNL season on DirectTV on-demand. Weekend plans confirmed.
6: Oh, so this thing I'm watching is! I was wondering when that show would be back on the air.
9: What, did Jammies read comment 2 or something?
No, Jammies was responding to 8 and I wrote (Jammies says) because I'm typing and he's generating the content. He originally got the info from 2.
Netflix has three seasons of FNL available via streaming. But I was ambivalent about it after the first few episodes, so I stopped watching. Should I have kept going?
I wish I had DirectTV right now.
Fuck Nigh-Life!
The Cramp-Pain of Beers?
Right now? But the big game's on!
15: Yes! Though, if the first episode didn't suck you in, maybe not. (One of my male friends describes FNL as a tv show about football for women - I'm not sure how correct that is.)
And isn't Jammies an Oklahoma boy? My knowledge of your local culture is admittedly rather incomplete, but during my one journey to those parts, I thought I correctly ascertained that OK and TX are, like, mortal enemies.
I think 19.last probably explains 18.
20: He is indeed! He doesn't really care who wins. Or rather, he would root against UT, but now that Colt McCoy has a broke-de-broke collarbone and Matt Saracen is in, instead, it's all kind of sad and not worth rooting against.
The freshman kid has a snazzy website.
He's not as cute as Matt Saracen. And I bet he doesn't live with his adorable grandma.
Honestly, I don't like Colt McCoy. My dislike for him makes my attempts to support Texas anguished. Also, I grew up in South Florida and the 1991 Cotton Bowl was awesome.
(Interception on an ill-advised shovel pass.)
And I bet he doesn't live with his adorable grandma.
Hawaiian Punch's namesake!
One of my male friends describes FNL as a tv show about football for women
It's not as if my taste in television runs toward the manly....
FNL: less manly than Veronica Mars?
Speaking of taste in television, these rankings are all wrong.
Oh, hey! The game is on OTA after all. I figured ESPN was bogarting, like with Monday Night Football.
Do you care about: Relationships - between fathers and sons, coaches and players, hot football players and hot cheerleaders, boosters and teams, principals and schools? Do you like: Long slow shots of Texas sun over fields? Football games in pouring rain? Perfectly art-directed suburban/small-town homes? Somewhat heavy-handed meditations on racism and class? The occasional really bad, ooops, we killed someone plot? Moms who know best, except when they don't? Hand-held camera work? Does Kyle Chandler's hair speak to you? Would you bear Tim Riggins' love child? If you can say yes to any of the above, you'd probably enjoy the show.
34: You forgot the question, "Would you like to watch an hour-long Explosions in the Sky music video, interspersed with football and junk?" question.
an hour-long Explosions in the Sky music video
The Earth is so a cold dead place.
You forgot the question, "Would you like to watch an hour-long Explosions in the Sky music video, interspersed with football and junk?" other Austin bands" question.
24: The freshman kid has a snazzy website.
I was feeling kind of sorry for him. Now I'd like to see him get handed a big slice of humble pie.
That there are now televisions with the sound on scattered throughout airports is the surest sign yet that the End Days are upon us. Seriously, it wasn't loud and stressful enough already, airport planners? Fix this, teo.
There's boots! And they are clicking their spurs!
Great, now a Hasidic Jew has chosen to sit next to me. Will the indignities never end? Moshiach, Achshav!
He is speaking to me. Oh no you don't, Jew boy. I will not be drawn into a conversation in which you ask eventually me to lay tefillin and daven with you.
Hand him the laptop and let him comment.
First I have to transpose "ask" and "eventually". Then I'll examine his cranium. After that, we'll daven.
TVs with sound on aren't new, are they? I remember having to hear about this at LaGuardia for hours.
After that, we'll daven.
But first…hello, Stanley.
Texas isn't horning in on a win so far.
I've told the story of my first-year-in-college neighbor from small-town Wisconsin who asked to see my horns, haven't I? It's not as good as my airport live-blogging -- but really, what is? -- but it's not a bad story.
I guess 'smasher is not a happy hooker.
It should be a law that the announcers have to call it "horn ball" whenever Texas takes possession.
I saw the hit and had no idea how that would have hurt him in any way. Explain? (I was at a bar.)
59: It really didn't look like much, did it.
Does anyone know if these people from Al Abama were allowed to board a plane to get to this game? It's a clear demonstration that Obama and the Democrats are weak.
57: Not any more. Mom sanded them down when I was just a kid. Or at least that's what I told Tric/ia Feke/te. She was a Nordic wonder: a bit over six feet, white blond hair to her mid back, and had been the Wisconsin state high school champion in the hurdles two or three years in a row. She was pretty nice, actually, and eventually (maybe? I think?) made the Olympic rowing team.
61: This is what I find confusing about watching football. Sometimes these guys walk out of some of the hardest hits imaginable, and then sometimes they're all "Oh someone looked at me very hard and my sternum splintered into bits." It's hard to see what's happening, even on slo-mo.
And yes, that "throw off a cliff" commercial was followed by endless groans from our end of the bar. As my friend said, "All this proves is that his commitment to drinking, right now, is terrifyingly strong."
Rats, delayed due to fog in San Diego. I guess I should have prayed with the guy, after all!
Maybe he was praying for you to be fogged in? Either way, Unfogged is probably the right place for you.
So, wait, the historians are all off to San Diego? We classicists are in Anaheim. I would gladly switch.
"All this proves is that his commitment to drinking, right now, is terrifyingly strong."
Ha.
This is going to become a boring game quickly if it's three-and-out for the rest.
Here's the video. Still looks like someone bumped him on the butt, and then when the play was over, a little on the head.
OK, a pretty decent hit on the back, but he was ready for it, not twisting around or anything.
Double yay Texas. We may not give you back to Mexico, yet.
This game was boring over a month ago.
Although maybe I should start watching it now.
That would be a really great game if we win. We should start catching these passes.
Yeah, but what would a Canadian know about football?
It doesn't take that much force to break a bone; it just has to be in the right place.
It's not clear that the bone was actually broken, by the way. There doesn't seem to be any confirmation of that beyond Twitter.
I decline to credit the existence of a human being named "Colt McCoy." Even Jack Kirby had some shame.
Doesn't a ball need to be catchable for pass interference to be possible in the college game?
Really, Lance Armstrong? You're shilling for Michelob fucking Ultra?
85: In his ear the whole time, "If it makes you happy / it can't be that bad."
If you're gonna bike drunk, you want a beer that makes you propel yourself by farting.
I saw the hit and had no idea how that would have hurt him in any way. Explain? (I was at a bar.)
What I saw was a 300 pound guy running at full speed propel his helmet into McCoy's back. Football injuries never surprise me.
I turned off the game at halftime because I've become too cynical to have any faith in plucky but overmatched rookies. But I was wrong!
Lesson in not getting all of your news from Unfogged: from this thread I thought that Texas won.
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Here's something that is such total ogged bait, I'm worried it was actually talked a lot about on a thread I didn't read. What if Oscar Pistorius were a hot chick in a bikini. What if she had interesting things to say about disability, like this.
In the not-so-distant future, designers will be able to build a prosthetic leg with a chip in it that they can program to accurately simulate human performance thresholds. (Since we know that no two "able-bodied" athletes have the same bodies, and therefore what they can achieve with their bodies are different, will they average out individual "able-bodied" thresholds to get those metrics? Will they cap how fast they imagine the fastest man on earth to be at 9.58? That time was unimaginable even 18 months ago, when Bolt then set the new WR at 9.72.)
The chip used in a prosthetic that will dictate "acceptable human" metric-based output is what will be allowed in the Olympic standard; meanwhile, the Paralympics will be no holds barred. In an ironic, amazing cultural flip, you will see runners in the Paralympics going faster than those in the Olympics. Now won't that be an interesting comment on "dis"ability?
via What sorts of people should there be?
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What if Oscar Pistorius were a hot chick in a bikini.
Or lingerie. Also, she was in Cremaster 3, with cheetah legs (NSFW).
Texas versus Alabama is a tough call, but you have to opt to cheer against the state with the greatest contempt for education, which I have to think is Alabama.
As advised, I called in sick yesterday. I had one meeting scheduled yesterday, which would supposedly be a minor status update meeting. I get in this morning and apparently someone in the gorup expects something massive and/or quick from me and it'll be a bottleneck for the project. His supervisor has already talked to my supervisor about it, and she could barely figure out what it was but seems like it might require reproducing all the work on something I thought was finished. Meanwhile I can't even log in to where the files are kept for another, unrelated problem.
Well, I hope you're all happy.
Just remember, Cyrus, if not for your brave actions millions would be dead.
I just added a 30 min excerpt from Cremaster 3 to my Netflix que, because I have a Netflix que, and can do things like that now.
98 to 97?
I like movies that make very little sense, but are over the top with the visuals and the weirdness. It seemed a logical choice.
100: Which you arrived at by a process of introspection.
Yeah I had to really look ue down on in there.
Back-up QB Gilbert had a tough night for the Longhorns. A couple times he honed in on his receivers but was literally steamrolled on the last fumble.
Don't think I won't hurt you just because you don't comment much, bill.
I inexplicably found myself rooting for Bama last night's game, which was odd since for all of Texas's flaws as a state, Alabama is worse, and also since Texas had an extremely compelling game narrative after the first few minutes.
But I just can't take the whole hook 'em nonsense. Or maybe, given my role in yesterdays grammar thread, I should just chalk it up to Loco Thursday.
