MattPie

Rupert Grint in Into the White was a departure too, maybe it's Brits or kids today but there's hope all movies won't become serial-throwaways.

It looks like Radio Equipment Corp up on Vlulcan is closed, that was my best bet. You might have to go digging around on Digikey or Mouser

Hopefully not Tim Curry though. Actually, that'd be pretty awesome too, but maybe not for the Sabres. My Father-in-Law was flabbergasted that MrsPie and I invited him to the Polish festival in Sloan. He told me that when he was young, you hid the fact you were Polish as if your relatives were notorious criminals. Things change, sometimes for the better! (Fun fact: I asked him "permission" to marry MrsPie while we were there)

How about access to the Thruway? They are as far as the census are concerned!

West, actually. :) East Philly is a river, and then Camden NJ (which is also turning around along the river). The area where the arenas are in Philly isn't *too* bad, although I'd be in Yellow alert walking around there all the time. within a mile or two to the west are neighborhoods that I'd avoid driving through and certainly not walk through.

Boston spelling: http://www.asplundh.com/

I got it, although I figured it was a general Trump reference.

Megathreads vs. Threadnado. Or was is Dinothread?

Here's the actual ad: https://www.thestar.com/sports/2016/06/14/fake-phil-kessel-ad-fools-fans.html

Maybe we could put foam on the outside of the helmet. :ph34r: Helmets are really just a physics problem dealing with taking a mass (the head) and slowing from whatever velocity it's going to match the velocity of the object it impacts. There's no perfect solution as a helmet that's designed to slow a head from 20 MPH to 0 at less than 100G average acceleration won't help much if the head is going 30MPH. If the head is going 10 MPH, it'll slow the head down but not as gently as it could have if it were designed for that velocity. You have to estimate what most of the impacts will be and design it to work there, but there will always by outliers (a head hitting a knee, a deliberate elbow). The bigger the helmet the easier it is to meet the design requirements, but as d4rk mentions, people don't want to be a spaceman. (well, most; my previous motorcycle helmet was on the big side but got great test numbers which is why I bought it).

Nor was Frank Lone Tree, the first US Native American to win a pro hockey title as head coach.

No expert, but I think it's similar to how you can't sign a player to a new contract until 7/1 in the last year of their contract.

On average, they're correct. :)

Podcast about the Whalers, the Nordiques, and someones first hockey game (Pitts vs. Tampa in the playoffs). It's on "Surprisingly Awesome" so it belongs here. https://gimletmedia.com/episode/15-extinct-hockey/ The primary host for this one is John Hodgeman whom you may know from the Daily Show or as "PC" in those Apple commercials. Also, Surprisingly Awesome is an awesome podcast.

First sentence: I struggle to see a better solution. It could well be that everything would be worse had Obama antagonized the ME. Second paragraph: That may be, but ISIS seems to be losing ground in the middle east (at least in part from the constant drone attacks the US is sending their way) and international help for the Iraqi security forces. ISIS has made a splash with recent terror attacks, but you could argue those are desperate measures trying to provoke a response to drive recruitment. I don't have the intel so I don't know the truth of it (hint: I don't think the news does either), but my theory fits the facts just as well as yours that "people see ISIS as winning".

As someone up-thread, that's the way it works. If he starts going off on Islam, Muslims, etc. the Muslim world that isn't extremist either tunes him out or gets angry and becomes extremist. ISIS has already used US Right-wing anti-Islam statements in it's recruiting efforts. The President has bigger things to worry about than giving a bunch of people who already hate him warm fuzzies (which they'd undoubtedly find fault with anyway) if it means alienating the people in a position actually do some good.

re: electoral college and President and VP from the same state. I think it was worded oddly, but he was referring to the tendency that voters in a candidate's home state tend to vote for the candidate. You normally nominate from two different states in hopes you'll get a bump in two states rather than one. I was trying to think of a country that's as militantly Christian as the US, and I'm drawing a blank. Especially if you toss out the Catholic countries since the militant in the US tend to be Protestant and they don't get along with the Papists.

Sabres fans are among the luckiest in the league.

Prequel to "300"

Maybe, but you definitely can from Discover. :)

Down goes BOT! Down goes BOT!

I'm good with it being the end of Jim Rome.

Chester County PA does, I'd be surprised if Erie County doesn't. I don't want to be a jerk, but, you have no idea what goes into digital archiving based on this paragraph.

There's a trick question: "If you are drafted by the Sabres, what number would you like to wear?" Anyone who answers 7, 11, 14, or 39 (I'm not counting Lala and Danny), they're immediately shown the door. Anyone who picks another number gets a dirty look from Rick as he snickers.