MattPie

:w00t: Very nice to have you participate in the thread; mostly for that smile to brighten up the place but also to break up the sausage-fest.

I was one of those worried about bringing him in. My mind is changed, but my primary reasons for not wanting him didn't have to do with his play. One, he would be UFA after this season (solved with signing him long-term) and two, the Sabres should be spending assets on RW or D and not another LW/C or C/LW. I'm still a little worried about that but with him being so good, I'd find someone else to move.

That'd be some high comedy right there.

I didn't realize Carpenter was so wiry.

My neighbors across the street buy some candy, sit out until it's gone, and then go in a shut out all the lights. Until you have a feel for it that may be the best bet.

OTSMP has to be Terry Pegula in there. Old Terry "Someone's Meddling!" Pegula told GMTM to tell HCHDDB to play Home-boy Mike Webber. (GMTM is made up and HCHDDB is mine so I'm not typing them out. :))

I like the cut of his jib.

And a highway now too. A bunch of years ago I was planning on doing a ride up there with a bunch of friends. I bailed in the end as riding the 1000+ miles of dirt and gravel road on my street bike didn't seem wise at the time. On the plus side, I bought some nice camping gear before chickening out which I've used a bunch since then!

It's like the Viagra commercial with "I'm ready" as the background music. The lyric makes sense in context, but the rest of the song is about a guy getting hammered while carrying a gun and looking to shoot someone.

That doesn't seem like apples to apples unless I'm misreading it, I expect a nominee for president to miss votes in the election year. What was Obama's and Kerry's voting records in 2007 and 2003, respectively? That's the real comparison.

Someone referred to Johnson as Ocho Cinco, didn't they? I remember someone here being very excited by that.

Just to note, some 401ks have different matching that 100%. Mine, for example, matches 50%, up to 8% (so their max contribution is 4% if I contribute 8%). And they match with company stock, so every so often you should look at your mix and transfer money out of company stock if that's the case.

There's a regular IRA and Roth IRA, and the differences have to do with when the taxes are applied (on contribution or at withdrawal). I forget which is which, but generally you want taxes on withdrawal when you're young so there's more money in it to grow, and as you get older that switches so you pay taxes on the smaller amount now and don't get taxed on the larger sum at the end.

Sabres73, maybe? I remember the rants, and miss them.

RosePie is going as a panda, it's adorable. We're just walking acrosst the the street and hanging out the neighbors in the the driveway to give out candy. We'll see at least 200, maybe 300 kids. I live in a newer neighborhood less than a mile uphill from downtown Coatesville, which is a small city with big city problems. We don't have much trouble since the cops roll through regularly and the 5-7PM window is still light out for the most part. Definitely get the drop-off effect up here though, although I suppose some of the more enterprising kids might be hiking up (it's a good 200-300 ft. elevation change, so good on them).

Not really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_and_Labrador#Government_and_politics

Does that include Labrador too?

Maybe Nova Scotia is the Arkansas of Canada.

To be honest, I snicker at the person for mixing up deficit and debt. (well. not outwardly). :) The deficit is around 434B$ (or as I like to say, gigadollars), the debt is 18 teradollars. Since this is often confused (and I may get this wrong) he difference is the debt is what we owe currently (your total net worth) and the deficit is the net change over a period of time (income vs. spending). I'd respect the Republican position a lot more if they shut up about cutting taxes and just talked about cutting spending to get deficit spending under control. As it is, they seem to want to cut taxes and only marginally cut spending, which is going the wrong direction. It's like they've never had to budget money. "I'm going to take a pay cut, but keep spending money like before. It'll be OK because in the long run I'll make more money. Unless I decide to spend more too, which I ALWAYS do." The successful may not (often do not?) have the good of the economy in mind, just the good of their business. That's a tough one. In a way, you're not getting away from it anyway. Most (all?) financial institutions take the money you deposit and invest it anyway. You put $1000 in the bank at 1%. The bank turns around and invests that $1000 in something (the market, real estate, whatever), makes 7% on it, and pockets the 6% difference. At least that's how I understand it. I know you said no stock market, but how would you feel about an index fund? I'm a rube at this, but as I understand it they don't really try to play games, just spread money out on the market as a whole, which historically nets an OK yield (I think something like 7%).

Read that for a Philosophy class in college; I think I still have the book around because I liked it so much (along with another couple plays).

You know what the video needs at the end? "Oh, and the Pens Score! What a great play by Crosby there, he was on the bench but clearly had a large part in that goal."

As for the GT question, I think (at least in the old rules) that if you pull the GT and lose, you don't get the OTL point.

I wonder how long it takes before some coach puts out 2D and a center on the 3 on 3, in hopes they can trade 3 on 2 rushes coming where way to spring the center on a breakaway. Call it the trap for OT.

The Bills have to go 6-3 for the rest of the season just to get back to last year's record, which probably means missing the playoffs. I wouldn't say a word to anyone that gave up on them at this point; I more or less have.

Maybe this isn't a great parallel, but I used to do track days on my motorcycle (go to a track, ride around really fast). There was one corner at Thunderbolt Circuit that I just could not get; it's a long right hander that suddenly tightens up at the end. After I think two times there I couldn't figure it out; I even went off into the grass on one pass. Then I watched an AMA race on that track on TV and made it a point to watch whenever they showed that corner. Next time out? Nailed it. Turn 9, if anyone is interested. http://www.njmp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tboltmap.pdf