9 hours ago, Cygnia said:

Now the Romanian monolith has disappeared, just like the mysterious Utah monolith

Let us be honest, there is only one of them, and it is teleporting itself.🤯

3 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

Isn't that the Fallwell's school?

In VA here

My former workplace actually does a lot of business with the university.

I think more legit claim would be the inconsistency in punishment.

3 hours ago, Ternaugh said:

 

You should try Vegas in the summer.

I am built more for cooler.

Scooby Doo movies series

With Special Guest: Mike Tyson

Gibbon Gibbons. He is a talking gibbon with a Cockney accent. He wears a power armour suit.

If you can breathe you are wearing it wrong.😉

Just now, Badger said:

If you can breathe you are wearing it wrong.😉

Now that it is cooler I have done alright, I dont know if I can survive another summer like that.

Well, I think a college in D1 did have a female kick a couple extra points about 20 years ago. Hnida was the last name.

3 hours ago, Pariah said:

The Broncos and Saints combined for two completions for -8 yards in the first quarter of their game today.

Hinton ended up 1 for 9.

I did come across, a Bills/Jets boxscore in the mid 70s. Where the Bill's Joe Ferguson went 0 for 2 for the game.  Of course, OJ went for 150+, and the fullback Jim Braxton went over 100 too.

Also, probably helping them was Joe Namath who went 2 for 18 with 3 interceptions.

So, in that game defenders caught more passes than receivers.

Just now, Badger said:

Hinton ended up 1 for 9.

 

I did come across, a Bills/Jets boxscore in the mid 70s. Where the Bill's Joe Ferguson went 0 for 2 for the game.  Of course, OJ went for 150+, and the fullback Jim Braxton went over 100 too.

 

Also, probably helping them was Joe Namath who went 2 for 18 with 3 interceptions.

 

So, in that game defenders caught more passes than receivers.

Oh and Namath Qb rating was 0.

11 minutes ago, Old Man said:

Not gonna lie, I kind of want to see this game. Except for the injury risk to the players.   

Yeah it would be interesting, especially if they could've figured out some crazy scheme.

Hey maybe, the could put both those players in a shotgun and have the center random snap. Call it the double barrel.

On 11/15/2020 at 1:20 AM, unclevlad said:

I saw today that Rick Pitino, the current Iona basketball coach and past coach at Kentucky and Louisville, advocated for a delay in the start of the college basketball season, due to the difficulties with the pandemic and the procedures it's imposed.  I hope they take a long hard look:  15 games were impacted today;  that's after 10 last week.  And that doesn't consider games that were allowed to be played, but for which one or both teams were significantly affected.  I heard Miami very nearly missed having enough players at one position today.

 

So this college football season has been a massive joke...and it started when the case numbers were merely We Should Be Doing Better.  Yes, well, in many places it's HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  One out of every 300 Americans became a New Case *this week*.  It's *still* not clear to me, even as far into the college football schedule as we are, that it will finish with something close to New Years' bowls or at least the CFP.  

Lesson:  DON'T START the college basketball season in this utter MESS.

 

Not that they're terribly likely to listen.

Rick Pitino is still around? I thought they ran him off after his 22nd scandal

On 11/23/2020 at 6:38 PM, Cancer said:

... Despite our heroic efforts to teach the sun’s

motion throughout the year, on the final  (given in either December or May) I have never

gotten over 75% correct answers to the following question.  I challenge all of you fine colleagues

to ask it of your students, and if you get about 75% correct please tell me how you taught them!

 

1.     Right now the sun

A.    Rises in the east and sets in the west

B.    Rises in the northeast and sets in the northwest

C.    Rises in the northeast and sets in the southwest

D.    Rises in the southeast and sets in the southwest

E.    Rises in the southeast and sets in the northwest

My mother is in trouble. When we had a comet a few years ago and they directions to look for it in the sky, it turned out she was looking in the exact opposite direction 

Anyway, just a heads up, I might be around much for a month or so. Going to spend on some projects (gaming and otherwise) I have put for forever. Seems a perfect time, I need some time off from reality as much as possible, to get a rest, and freshen my perspective.

Just now, Badger said:

Anyway, just a heads up, I might be around much for a month or so. Going to spend on some projects (gaming and otherwise) I have put for forever. Seems a perfect time, I need some time off from reality as much as possible, to get a rest, and freshen my perspective.

Well, planning on Monday, my next day off, to have that full day for a good start you might say, so I may pop in tomorrow

On 11/26/2020 at 10:51 PM, unclevlad said:

So Lamar Jackson is out for the Ravens, which means 8 starters are out due to Covid.

 

Their practice facility is closed until Monday as a result, according to Adam Schefter, and that of course would seem to mean the game can't be played.  No statement so far.  Whatever the league does, seems to be a mess.  Play?  Ravens will be massively undermanned and poorly prepared.  My gut expects the league to say postponed, MAY be played in week 18 , but that's TBD.  If there are several such games, then maybe they mess around with the week 18 games.  If not, then perhaps the game's just declared a no-contest.  THAT, tho, raises the specter that the game result might be very significant for making the playoffs.  And if the Steelers have the #1 seed, and the Ravens are out, then the game can be cancelled with no real repercussions.

The undermanned, does make me think, too bad.  But, then there is a danger of the other team getting contagion and possible unnecessary injuries to the clean Raven players, if enough players cant be scavenged off the practice squad.

23 hours ago, unclevlad said:

3rd time's the charm?

 

Ravens-Steelers NOW scheduled for Tuesday night.  Which means Ravens-Cowboys gets dumped out of TNF to late Monday afternoon kick (5 ET).

 

Lamar Jackson's clearly out against the Steelers;  I think it's close if he might make it back for Dallas.  But with, what, 8 starters out, the game against the Steelers is almost a lost cause...and if they can't get the starters back, the game against the Cowboys becomes something of a toss-up.

Sort of good news for the Cowboys to get extra rest.

If the team wasn't a complete FUBAR at this point.

The Three Stooges meet Barbarella.

Mst3k favorites visit Middle Earth.

Ator:

"One does not simply glide into Mordor."

6 hours ago, Old Man said:

But I like minivans!

They like getting in front of me and drive 25 in a 35.

20 hours ago, Pariah said:

Hermione, anyone?

Luckily, I heard before I read.

Just now, Badger said:

Luckily, I heard before I read.

Though, when little Greek names were a problem.

Socrates became sock-rates 

Persephone became Purse-a-phone 

1 hour ago, Cygnia said:

Facebook is deleting evidence of war crimes, researchers say

You heard that my opinion of Facebook was so low it cant get any worse, and you got someone to hold your beer didnt you?

2 hours ago, Clonus said:

 

 

"Let's open the schools," the premier of Alberta said.  "It'll be fine..."

I wasn't aware Nunavut had 132 people in the province.

On 11/18/2020 at 5:34 PM, Cancer said:

Either that, or 2020 has worn them down and they have devolved into resigned acceptance of doom, in which case they may be seeking a quicker end.

I am signing up for Cancer's class next semester then.

This may end up mutually assured destruction though.

10 hours ago, Starlord said:

Never make fun of someone for mispronouncing a word, they probably learned about it by reading.

 

PS:  It's pronounced: /draʊ/ drow or: /droʊ/ dro 

I pronounced caveat as cav-eet for a decade.

And paradigm was para-dig-um.

And homogeny was homo jenny.

8 hours ago, pinecone said:

Did he lose a bet?

Cam Newton just thinks he is fashionable.

Everybody else thinks he is the 3 year old whose mother let him dress himself.

On 11/22/2020 at 2:06 PM, Hugh Neilson said:

 

I hear that.

 

Uphill all the way.

 

BOTH WAYS!

15 miles one way, right.

On 11/21/2020 at 11:56 AM, death tribble said:

One of the last remaining members of the French Resistance has died aged 100. RIP Daniel Cordier

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55028679

Excavation of Pompeii continues to yield results

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55029538

For, some reason when I read Resistance, my mind translated it to to Revolution.😦

10 hours ago, TrickstaPriest said:

 

It's this pattern to begin with why I deeply hate the Trump movement.  Slavish devotion to a man who threatens entire states (New York, California) that he is supposed to represent.

I agree about the movement, though I understand the people, a lot of them have been absolutely alienated by both parties. And they metaphorically spat on by both parties in general, and liberals in particular.

My feelings are also a bit mixed on the other side, being an independent. After 4 years of "the resistance" everytime I hear Biden call for unity, my ears want to bleed. It feels ridiculously hollow even for the Trump era.

I am ok with the result, but how we got there is a large part of my political frustration I am dealing with at the moment. To be honest.

I am pretty much just trying to shut down the political part of my brain for awhile (probably 6 months at least).