Re: Noted without comment

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don King's list of Great American Events:

1. The Thrilla in Manila

2. The Bite Fight

3. Dubya Gets Elected 1

4. Dubya Gets Elected 2

5. The Trump Wedding;

Why does this guy matter?


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01-23-05 5:44 PM
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Are we sure that Trump is worth the bandwidth?


Posted by: Leuf | Link to this comment | 01-23-05 7:13 PM
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Er, is this "Noted without comment" in the same way as all those avant-garde paintings entitled "Untitled (whatever the real title is)"?

Ha ha, I kid. Please don't crush my career.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-23-05 8:42 PM
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Kinda off topic, but Weiner, do I not recall some trash being talked in October?

Maybe "crush my career" reminded me...


Posted by: baa | Link to this comment | 01-23-05 9:32 PM
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I'll get you for this, baa.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-23-05 9:38 PM
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I beleive the phrase in Pittsburgh is "wait till next year." (or is it "wait till McDowell clarifies himself"?)


Posted by: baa | Link to this comment | 01-24-05 7:06 AM
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Yeah, but I'm not in Pittsburgh. "I'll get you for this" leaves the timeframe nice and openended, and doesn't rest on any promises about a QB whose late-season performance will probably improve after he gets used to playing 16 games. As for the rest of your comment, see #3.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-24-05 9:07 AM
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Big Ben = not that good. Team can't rely on him. You can't ask the guy to throw 20+ passes. Defense let them down yesterday. I wasn't surprised at how bad BR was.


Posted by: tweedledopey | Link to this comment | 01-24-05 9:36 AM
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Dude, he's a rookie. He had the best QB rating of any rookie ever. Wait five years before you call him not that good. Sheesh.


Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 01-24-05 2:50 PM
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baa, you ascend into valhalla. McDowell jokes in a football thread-- it doesn't get any better than that.


Posted by: FL | Link to this comment | 01-24-05 3:06 PM
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mmmm... valkyries


Posted by: baa | Link to this comment | 01-24-05 3:34 PM
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baa's in Valhalla AOTW, so I can say this without having the thread revert to unseemly triumphalism.

I think I found a new candidate (via Weatherson's sidebar):

What sorts of truths are necessary but knowable only by observation and experiment? Kripke proposes two kinds of examples. The first might include Snoop Dogg = Calvin Broadus and Eminem = Marshall Mathers: true identities of the form a = b, where a and b are proper names.

Posted by: Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 02-20-05 3:03 PM
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