Re: USC-Texas

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What channel is it on? That could affect the over/under for how many actors from the network's other shows are shown in the stands.


Posted by: Mo MacArbie | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 1:05 PM
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USC total offensive yards vs. days between Tivo resets.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 1:12 PM
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How do you determine who wins these proposed X vs. Y bets?


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 1:16 PM
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well, ogged's tivo will win no matter what. i don't think a college football team has put up 1,000 yards in recent memory. so, combined yards v. ogged's tivo?


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 1:18 PM
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How about USC first downs in the first half vs. Ogged's total count on first resetting the tivo?


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:20 PM
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Who else remembers when comments around here were funny?


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:24 PM
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comments here were funny?


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:24 PM
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Posts, too. Those were the good ole' days.


Posted by: Urple | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:29 PM
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Talk to Labs, I'm the serious one.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:32 PM
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Mo MacArbie: What channel is it on?

Channel 7.


Posted by: Ugh | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:36 PM
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Aren't channels different for different people? Or do you know where Mo lives and how he gets his programming?

It's on ABC at 58pm Eastern.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:40 PM
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We survive a thousand arguments about Iraq but are torn asunder by the Rose Bowl.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:43 PM
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Other than Armsmasher, does anyone really have strong feelings about this game? Both schools seem irritating to me (or rather, USC is irritating and the state of Texas is irritating).


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:48 PM
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Wait, 5 Eastern?


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:48 PM
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torn asunder by the Rose Bowl

Actually, you called me a premature ejaculator, but historical revisionism is in for 2006.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:50 PM
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Sorry, sorry 8 ET.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:50 PM
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[redacted]


Posted by: [redacted] | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 2:58 PM
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Aren't channels different for different people? Or do you know where Mo lives and how he gets his programming?

I work for the NSA (either that or it was a lame attempt at teh funny).


Posted by: Ugh | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 3:09 PM
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Oh, shit, then that was kinda funny.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 3:13 PM
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Wooooo! Woooo! Hook 'em woo awesome!


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 3:25 PM
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Number of beers consumed tonight > Ogged's pre-reset numbers + total first downs. I've already started.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 3:28 PM
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is indeed, as Smasher of Arms points out

Wouldn't that be "Smasher of Arm," or "Masher of Arms" or even "Asher of Armsm"?


Posted by: Ugh | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 3:32 PM
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No.


Posted by: silvana | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 3:42 PM
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It is an insult to his pseudonymous pseuperpowers to think that he would be incapable of smashing more than one arm. Shattered ulnas litter the battlefield like discarded popcorn in a movie theater. Beware, for his vengeance is swift and terrible.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 3:44 PM
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It's a pseudonym?


Posted by: Ugh | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 3:50 PM
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The last good bet of this type that I had was whether the Knicks would score more in the third quarter (of a game they had been playing quite well so far, if memory serves) then the Bills would in an entire game. So what other games will be on simultaneous with this one?


Posted by: washerdreyer | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 4:20 PM
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Well, w/d, we just happen to have a young woman tied up on some nearby astroturf...


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 4:34 PM
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This is why I generally don't watch college sports: dumb dumb dumb. A lateral?! (Not to mention the Texas late hit earlier.)


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:13 PM
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Those are the kind of plays that make me wonder about academic eligibility.

(In fairness, I've seen more than one NFL quarterback spike the ball to stop the clock on 4th down.)


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:15 PM
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Yeah - fuck. I'm waiting to get up two touchdowns to start razzing 'Smasher.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:15 PM
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That lateral was one of the silliest decisions I have ever seen a Heisman Trophy winner make.

Aside from OJ cutting off his wife's head, obviously.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:17 PM
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Also, the announcers suck. It's a real tribute that Texas fumble so often that it's good at recovering the ball? WTF?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:19 PM
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That raised my eyebrows too, Tim.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:19 PM
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I thought that was just a Fouts-style joke.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:20 PM
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Dan Fouts: too funny for Unfogged.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:22 PM
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Sloppiness aside, USC looks a lot better than Texas. We should be working on art-related putdowns for 'Smasher. So far: "Guernica come to life."


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:34 PM
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There's not one particular arm he smashes.


Posted by: ben w-lfs-n | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:35 PM
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USC looks better, but if they keep turning it over every time they get close to scoring, it will all be for naught.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:38 PM
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Sloppiness is important; I'd actually be surprised to see USC win.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:46 PM
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I'd say neither qb is going to win this game throwing the ball deep.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:50 PM
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Oh, and the TE from Texas will end the game with 10+ catches.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:51 PM
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I'm just killing myself for not betting on Texas. I knew that line was too high....


Posted by: baa | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:52 PM
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I bet my boss lunch on this game. I'm now wishing I bet him my bonus against his. Oh, and I took Texas.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:53 PM
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Good lord, they're missing some big calls.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 7:57 PM
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Where's Smasher? I want to try to estimate his BAC by analyzing his comments.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 8:00 PM
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He's at a bar in Austin, I think. See the link above (#36).


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 8:04 PM
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i could care less about either of these teams, but i remember a few saturdays this fall turning on the tv after the internets told me usc was losing at halftime.


Posted by: matty | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 8:40 PM
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Fuck. Please toggle USC and Texas in all of my comments, ogged.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 8:54 PM
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White has been awesome, but holy shit.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 9:29 PM
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Do sports announcers regularly make references to fantasy novels, or was that something of a first?


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 9:32 PM
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That was pretty cool, actually.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 9:33 PM
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i keep wanting to hate keith jackson, but it keeps not working at all.


Posted by: matty | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 9:36 PM
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If I were an announcer, I would totally do that. "WHOA! He's running that ball to the endzone like Frodo taking the one ring to Mt. Doom!"


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 9:37 PM
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Idiot.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:07 PM
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Ah...Caroll's an idiot, not Michael.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:08 PM
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they could do such a good job with mst 3000 on the announcing of this game.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:13 PM
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I wonder if Smasher's died of a heart attack yet?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:14 PM
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hmm, only if he follows apo's bacon-only diet.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:17 PM
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Jeebus. He walked in.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:18 PM
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Wow, what an ending.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:19 PM
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Wow. Fitting, really. He's amazing.

Still 19 seconds left!


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:19 PM
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You think Pete Carroll is familiar with the defensive concept of the quarterback "spy"?


Posted by: baa | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:19 PM
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But the first tackler never brings him down.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:21 PM
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SC still does have a sliver of a chance.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:22 PM
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I'm just saying it might have been something to try. Although running past him on the cornerback blitz everytime was working great too.


Posted by: baa | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:24 PM
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Sweet game. Congrats, Smasher.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:25 PM
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Also, is Reggie Bush a big Rey Mysterio fan?


Posted by: baa | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:26 PM
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Not Bush's best game, but it seemed like every Texas player was determined to stop him, and let anyone else beat them. He did edge out their QB for the Heisman, after all.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:28 PM
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Leinart - what a dick.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:28 PM
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she called him vince!


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:28 PM
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Yeah, that's the one thing you can't say. His coach was classy; too bad.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:30 PM
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she called him vince!

Also fitting. His arm is weaker than I realized.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:32 PM
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mack brown, outclassing usc one qb at a time.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:32 PM
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These sponsored ceremonies are so lame.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:34 PM
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get a real pa announcer at least.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:34 PM
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Yeah, Saunders: also lame.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:35 PM
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For those of us who missed the end of the game, what'd Leinart do?


Posted by: Josh | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:36 PM
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lee corso needs to... i dont know... lay off the botox?


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:36 PM
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leinart -- "I still think we're the better team."


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:37 PM
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what'd Leinart do?

In the post-game interview, he said he thought they were still the better team.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:37 PM
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so in ogged's tivo v. vince young's combined yards (467) who won?


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:38 PM
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I predict Smasher will next be sober on Sunday afternoon.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:38 PM
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ug, poor taste on my part. feel free to delete this and 81 ogged.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:39 PM
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Don't worry about it.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:40 PM
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I chalk it up to too much rogue dead guy.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:41 PM
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I predict Smasher will next be sober on Sunday afternoon.

What's the spread on that?


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:41 PM
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I'll give it +5.5 hours from noon.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:43 PM
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also, the o/u on his bac right now is .2


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:43 PM
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Formula for liking college football: keep track of score, watch last three minutes of game. Otherwise, wind up screaming that you don't pass on third and five from the nine.

ash

['Game over: turn off the TV.']


Posted by: ash | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:44 PM
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Anyone want to give odds on Smasher having his first gay experience tonight?


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:44 PM
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well, we have to quantify

the o/u is tongue and mild groping.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:46 PM
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Also depends on how many guys named "Vince" there are where he is.


Posted by: ogged | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:47 PM
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You guys don't think he'll feel obligated to memorialize the win somehow? "Well, it's either this or a tattoo. I'll be the top, Jimmy."


Posted by: | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:50 PM
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Me.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:51 PM
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Oh holy fuck. My TV's gone to local news, and there was just a graphic read "Baby Death," with the letter's formed to look like children's toy blocks. How cute!


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:51 PM
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Sorry, go back to gay jokes.


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 10:55 PM
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[redacted]


Posted by: [redacted] | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 11:03 PM
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He should get a lot of shit for all the 4th-and-1 decisions, even if the players were supposed to call time the first time around.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 11:18 PM
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Wait, they got a touchdown on one of those, didn't they? Maybe I should take that back.


Posted by: eb | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 11:19 PM
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Hmmf! Young Michael should count himself lucky if he gets away with mild groping!

Oh, I'm sorry. You all were talking about soccer, was it?

100!!!!!


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 01- 4-06 11:22 PM
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Oh, I'm sorry. You all were talking about soccer, was it?

Now, for really important news, the Stars scored 2 goals in 98 seconds in the 3rd to top Vancouver 3-1.

Thank god.

ash

['Losing to the Kings is really chapping my ass.']


Posted by: ash | Link to this comment | 01- 5-06 12:18 AM
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Young Michael should count himself lucky if he gets away with mild groping!

Wait, how'd I get involved in the gay orgy? I'm confused and don't know how I got here!


Posted by: Michael | Link to this comment | 01- 5-06 1:02 AM
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. I stopped watching the game in the third. What a snoozer.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 01- 5-06 9:20 AM
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I have some incoherent voicemail that says different.


Posted by: tom | Link to this comment | 01- 5-06 9:24 AM
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how'd I get involved in the gay orgy?

We all end up asking that question eventually.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 01- 5-06 9:27 AM
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