unclevlad

You can help root against the Cowboys still…

DOLPHINS!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EDIT: oh my...ESPN gaffe! They had the score right but gave Dallas the win, for the records...took a few minutes to fix it on the scoreboard and in the standings. Skip Bayless must've snuck in...

The Detroit sports figure fans most want replaced is Tom Gores. (If that name isn't familair....he owns the Pistons. The team who just set a record for most consecutive losses in the same season...barely 1/3 of the way through.)

I thought you were gonna say they were Roman lions, playing in the Colosseum..... EDIT: on another note.......did we just forget about past offensive offsides calls in the past, and now, after the Toney play, they're sticking in our heads? There have been...gosh, I dunno, 4 or 5 since then? Another brought back a Prescott scramble for a red zone first down... OH...I see. Illegal shift cuz the receiver backed off after lining up wrong...that's motion...when another player was in motion. OK, that's not common, but it's something we've seen forever, the WR backing off....

Another major whoopin' down south. Did NOT see 30-0 Bucs happening. AFC is gonna have 5, likely 6 teams at 8-7, if Denver handles the Pats; NFC is gonna have 7 teams at 8-7 or 7-8. Pretty crazy finish coming up.

Zuerlein may have just saved Saleh's job. Jets blow a 20 point halftime lead, numerous questionable moves, but he does get the 54 yarder with only 5 seconds left to salvage the game. Lions clinch the division.

Yeah, but that depends on how the age testing takes place. That's also why I went with the chrono-psychometric as the authenticator...the assumption being that just because you jump it forward 100 years, after that? It'll STILL test out as coming from 1860-1870....or 1810 for the Napoleon cognac. Safety deposit box...probably not. Take an area you know to be geographically stable, build a *completely* waterproof vault, and store them underwater, preferably in ~ 50 degree water, or in a vault deep enough underground to maintain a highly stable temperature. I can also store more this way; most safety deposit boxes are rather small. I want to hold at least a couple cases, cuz I'm gonna drink some of it.

What color? Labyrinth blueprints, for that maze of death

Ehhh, you have to be careful. It's a bowl game, not a real game, so trying to draw firm conclusions is tricky. Transfer portal. Coaching losses. Players sitting out. Players never quite checking back into game mode after 3-4 weeks off...with major distractions along the way. I had that game on, altho I wasn't really paying much attention to it...but the thought struck me that the academies, when they *do* get into bowl games, are much less likely to have those problems. (A couple aspirin took care of the pain quickly, fortunately.)

Glitter bombs. Fire at your 'favorite' superhero, he/she becomes coated in the stuff. Make sure to do it when there's massive coverage, so the world can see their hero.....GLITTERIZED!!!

bath bombs...blood bath bombs, that is...

I'm irritated. Looks like that Bills-Chargers game woulda been worth watching. I may have to reconsider Hulu...especially given how cable prices keep skyrocketing.....

More info on just how incredibly devastating it was: https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/wine/wines-worst-enemy-phylloxera/ There's STILL no treatment. This is probably one of the reasons why California has *seriously* restrictive laws about fruit imports, altho there are more recent pests. But in today's terms, the damage would be in the multiple billions of dollars. For valuation? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/03/the-jefferson-bottles $157K in 1985 would be somewhere around $500K now...and actually, I'd tack another zero onto that. Both the wine market...I could get *good* California Cabs for around $25 back then, they're $150 or more now...and basically all forms of collectibles have exploded in the interim. Potentially less per bottle if you have quite a few, but a half mill per? Should be fairly easy...assuming they didn't get trashed in the time travel. It's also plausible to find Napoleon cognacs...as in, Napoleon I ordered them. THOSE would go for insane bucks. Remember that this voyage was one of THE events of the day, and the first class passenger list was glittering. The trick to all of this is...how the HECK are you gonna explain where they came from???? And to be sure: Provenance Is All. Because very obviously, a wine bottle that might be worth $100K has to be an *exceptionally* attractive forgery target. If there's an issue with the provenance, a question of the authenticity, items can and do get pulled. Plus, these days, the reach of auctions is much, much greater. Phillips' New York watch auction had reps handling calls from Europe, and another group handling Asian calls. Plus online bidding. Essentially, for those things that have intrinsically limited supply, in many cases, the price has skyrocketed because the demand has exploded...AND because the number of wealthy to MASSIVELY wealthy has exploded in the last...mmm..50 years or so. (Think tech money, for starters, but it's been true in many industries where mergers and acquisitions have created mega-corps. Or...in 1980, Michael Jordan was worth...next to nothing. Now? $3B. Jay-Z. LeBron. Magic Johnson. Bob Dylan's estimated to be worth half a bill. There's also the rise of the Chinese entrepreneurs.) An *extremely* valuable power for a campaign would be a form of psychometry focused on time of origin, and perhaps *general* history, to authenticate things/detect forgeries.

BIG!!!!! congratulations to Northwestern. They had a disastrous summer on par with Michigan State; Pat Fitzgerald got fired due to hazing issues. Tonight, tho, after going 7-5 and making it into a decent bowl...the Vegas Bowl...they beat Utah tonight.

If that is, in fact, a pine marten, we're going to have to put coal in your stocking......

So...I could safely anticipate that I'd get some Harry and David pears...and did. What I decided to do? https://confessionsofabakingqueen.com/pear-custard-tart/ Graham cracker crust, cuz I'm super lazy. No sugar...maybe a teaspoon of stevia instead. No almond extract, so around a teaspoon of Ceylon cinnamon. Oh, and the pears came with 4 oz of roasted, mixed nuts. Turns out I've got some tooth issues where they're not a great idea on their own...so, fine! Chop em up and toss them in too! It didn't look anything close to pretty, but my, my, the custard set everything up quite nicely! Tasty, not real sweet. Got the pears (and all other ingredients, including crust) to do another; may or may not use em. This one will last thru Christmas night's dessert, which means the pumpkin pie may be on hold until NYE. Might try a pear-berry smoothie or two....hmm........

If not the numbers per se, then arguing about SFX and what fits/doesn't fit with any particular power, or in some cases twisting things...or saying they can't be twisted...to get something additional out of them. Philosophically, I'm with LW here. Give me the CLEAN definition that doesn't need contortion, whenever possible.

Wow. Did NOT expect a Steeler beat down.......

Klaatu Barada Nikto?

Come on, we know what happens. If we ignore the foreknowledge, of course we do. If not...forget it! With the Tardis, well, MAYBE nothing bad happens. With the Titanic, it WILL happen. The Titanic is one of my "if you had a *small-sized* time machine...wearable unobtrusively, where would you want to go?" scenarios...after it starts to sink, either a) hit up the First Class bars and stash the booze...just because...or b) for value, hit up the purser's vault. There would be hundreds of millions in jewelry there. c) hit up the staterooms of the elites for furs, jewelry, etc....... In case you aren't familiar? The Titanic would have TOP end wines from before the disastrous phylloxera plague that did MASSIVE damage to the French vinestock. The only fix is to rip out the old vinestock and graft new, resistant vinestock...but that also means you've changed the wine. The value per bottle would be......incredible. This doesn't even create causality issues per se because in principle, no one would ever know what you took.

OK, so we can see where NBC's priorities are. Bengals-Steelers is the bigger game...but they've got Noah Eagle and Todd Blackledge on it. NOT their #1 crew, Tirico and Collinsworth...they're on the Bills-Chargers game, on Peacock. And prime time. Translation: lets try to push streaming............. My, my, a simple route over the middle, a bit of a missed tackle, and Pickens is GONE, GOODBYE!!!!!!! Steelers *explode* for 86 and 6, just like that.

I think Sunday's schedule is the sparsest since the league expanded to 32 teams. Thursday, 2 games today, 3 games Monday...how ragged off do ya wanna bet ESPN is, with 2 NFL games crashing into their Christmas Day NBA marathon? So only 10 games on Sunday...and only 9 on the OTA networks, cuz NBC has both games today (one on NBC, one on Peacock) so the Sunday night slot is NFL Network. Then again, it is Pats vs. Broncos, so hiding it as much as possible makes perfectly good sense.

Which shows the *real* truth with regard to the question, is Hero getting too complicated.

The only comparisons to Trump I could make, would draw the Wrath of Simon...

Because one successful PER roll by the predator is all it takes...given enough tries, even the 3- comes in eventually.........