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@nfreeman apparently it isn't possible to send you a PM on this board? Is that because you're a mod?

Are you actually able to stop after watching just one episode? There's no way I could do that.

My neighbor who conducts mammograms was talking about how aging has some very bad effects on people who get implants. So you probably made the right decision by passing on your implants.

Could you imagine all the fun they would have had up in Toronto if Phil Kessel's last name was Skinner?

What if I leave your label at just overreacting and humorless? I'm not really sure what I might say it about, but I want to make sure I hold onto as many future options as I can.?

The personalized at bat or pitcher walk out music is so ripe for pranks. I've never seen it done, but since it's such a long season I'm guessing it does happen. There was a specific Red Sox pitcher back during their first world series run who was always wearing camo (no, not bloody sock) and I always wanted someone to switch his walk out music to "It's Raining Men", just to see how he'd react.

It took me a second to realize that it's the Punisher logo, but still, it looks like the Sabre logo is leaning over and bleeding.

What tipped you off??

I've posted this one a couple times, but since it's a different type of stupidity than most of what's in here, I'll post it again. The first event after Red Auerbach died in whatever they call Boston's arena now was a Sabres-Bruins game. Right before the anthem, they had a moment of silence for Auerbach. Seconds into that, some idiot yells out "Buffalo sucks!", and then it quickly snowballed from there. A moment of silence for one of the biggest sports legends your town has and you can't even make it 5 seconds. That sums up Boston perfectly.

Next week looks to be very high on imagery. It may very well be the perfect point for people who want to stop watching. Did you spot a certain someone in the scenes for next week?

I've never been a horror fan. I know they have such a huge following, but it has never done anything for me. About the best I can come up with is the ones that take a comedy angle on the whole thing. I don't even want to call them horror since they're probably more of an action-comedy... movies like Army of Darkness, Zombieland, and Shaun of the Dead. You can sign me up all day for that style of movie. And I've never really thought of it as a Halloween movie, but since it's been on tv constantly over the last few weeks, I'll mention Beetlejuice.

If I were the other guy, I'd refuse to pay on a technicality. They played 6 games.

I saw First Man this weekend. It was ok, but I felt like it jumped through the timeline a little too quickly. Not a single character from the NASA side of things was likeable at all. Well ok, there were a couple, but you really didn't want to be those guys (hint hint).

If he’s out for an extended vacation, I bet a certain unsigned RFA suddenly gets a contract.

Just about the only reason to call anyone up would be if Buffalo and Rochester are going to be far apart for an extended period of time. Obviously the Sabres west coast road trip just ended so one half of that equation is taken care of. You'll know the Amerk schedule far better than I would.

Nope, you have to be under 27.

Yeah, but Curry's not a rookie, so it doesn't matter.

Does anyone have the time to use this and see where they rank in terms of time tied? Other than last game, they've never come from behind and they've never blown a lead. Those goals seem to be coming early, so I'd imagine that they have one of the shortest time tied numbers in the league. I'm too lazy to do more than just eyeball it.

I feel like your entire message here is that it's flawed because people misinterpret or misrepresent it. How exactly is that on the writers? There's only so much they can do if people won't take the time to actually read it themselves. And no, the data is not flawed, it's the misrepresentation that is the issue. Again, it's tough to fault the authors for people being stupid. Hell, that right there sounds like a perfect reason to conduct further research into head injuries.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that. But that's how everything works now. Stuff only comes to light if someone's trying to sell something. I'm much more worried about how it gets spun and who is doing the spinning. This stuff gets bastardized in the public eye all the time. I'm much less worried about the public's force-fed interpretation of these results and just hope that the more knowledgeable people in the medical community are dealing with it properly.

All I can think of is how working out with Gary Roberts was all the rage around here years ago.

Bouncyball, not shooty hoops. Next you'll try to claim that Sabre fans in Carolina like to punch babies. I will not stand for this blasphemy.

The op ed suffers from the same exact thing as all the coverage of the original paper. Not once have I ever actually heard what their actual message was, just the constant reporting of the same numbers over and over. I suspect the the message was that it is something that needs to be investigated further. That's pretty typical for something like this. How the media chooses to run with it is another story all together. The line in the op ed accusing the authors of trying to bury the limitations of the study is pretty comical. That is something that is always listed in the discussion section of a paper, which is always at the end. To suggest that it was done deceptively is itself deceptive.

Come on. Who hasn't charged the field years after graduating? I'm actually planning on doing exactly that later this week.

Is it the credit card's policy or the lottery's? I stopped to buy some food earlier and threw in one ticket. It's too bad there isn't some leeway in the policy because obviously that's not the kind of purchase for someone who plans on buying a ton of tickets with no intention of ever paying off the credit bill.