MattPie

Interesting, the hospital we were at specifically banned everyone other than staff for that exact reason. I guess it's well founded.

SEASON PREDICTION! Someone a few pages ago said the Bills were going to go 8-12, which amuses me since it is plausible. So in that light: The Bills sweep the Jets and Dolphins, both being decimated by an Ebola outbreak. The Bills avoid the bug as since they worked one day in Toronto last year, Jon Bon Jovi pushes to have then vaccinated as part-time residents in Canada's socialized medicine plan. Rob Ford made the decision, saying to reporters "[suuuuckkkkk, cough, cough] yeah, why not.". The Pats win both games against the Bills, despite being down to cheerleaders and the Dropkick Murphys due to sickness. After week one, it's determined that the Pats have clandestinely bugged every NFL stadium and the entire coaching staff is suspended. The Bills hold on to win against Chicago. AFC East records: Bills 5-11, Pats 4-11-1, Jets 3-12-1, Dolphins 2-14. (Jets and Dolphins and Pats all split up their games). Buffalo is the worst team to ever make the playoffs, the league starts to rumble that next year the last divisional winner may have to play-in against the 3rd wild card. Lingering Ebola effects and freak weather allows the Bills to win all three playoff games, 15-14 over the Bengals, 3-0 (OT over the Colts), and 31-27 (over the Ravens). The Bills are the first team the make the Superbowl without scoring a post-season offensive touchdown. The 4 TDs in the Ravens game are a fake punt, a kickoff return, and 2 Pick-6 by Mario Williams. The Bills lose the Superbowl the Seahawks in record fashion, 75-21, all three Bills TDs on long drives by EJ. Final record with Playoffs, 8-12. Bills fans talk about how next year is their year as long as cholera makes a comeback. Cheers!

Congrats!

I think it's pretty funny you think someone calling out your bias is ad hominem given the first part of your post. In any case: yes, you can call Lenin a liberal if you like, since he did essentially the same thing as our founding fathers: threw off the chains of monarchy. Unfortunately his policies after that were full of ######. Stalin doesn't count, he's a class A bowel movement and he was just working in the same framework he was given. That's the problem with revolutions, it seems to be pretty rare that the folks that are so fed up with the government as to overthrow it often can't resist filling that power vacuum themselves and punishing those that disagree with them. The American revolution may be one of the few large-scale revolutions that didn't fall into that trap. The Brittish Civil war (Cromwell et al), the French Revolution, and Russia certainly didn't. If you'd like to talk about some positive liberal causes, we should be discussing Lincoln, the women's sufferage movement and the civil rights movement in the 60s. Those are unabashedly liberal, are you ready to say those causes were a bad idea?

PA texted me an update. All is said was: FLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH - sputter - sputter over and over again.

Perhaps you can start a hermitage. Bonus points if you put it in Hermitage.

I'm not entirely sure I'm reading this right, but a group of individuals that fight to create social change (especially in the direction of equality for "everyone") is pretty much the definition of liberal. Conservatives generally want everything to stay the same.

I'll sometimes do that to save my knees, but usually not. I almost always take the stairs up. Also, walk to the far end of the building to use the can instead of the one just down the hall. Every little bit helps. Complaint: baby time dilation. hours will pass doing tasks that should only take a few minutes without me noticing they've gone by.

Same here. Funny how that works.

I'm so glad I'm back to the board for this thread.

Just a quick comment on the All-star game. While that would be nice to have more, you have to figure Buffalo only sends one player to the All-star game, but Myers has a much chance as anyone. Just doing the math, there are 16 teams in the East. Each team seems to have one player (you have to keep the fans interested), so that's 16 players locked in with one Sabre. If another Sabre fills one of the remaining 5 slots (12 F + 6 D + 3G??), Buffalo is having a way better year than expected.

I think you're generally correct, but the big problem is corporate money for boxes and whatnot. There just aren't as many big companies in Canada that are going to buy-in.

Huh, I don't remember seeing that when I was there in the spring. It was the off-season though, maybe it wasn't open. Dog Street Pub wasn't bad though, ended up eating there twice since most of the other places were a bit too fancy-pants.

Congrats in advance! If you're a first timer (like I am), my tips for the hospital trip are: don't bother with "entertainment" stuff like books or even movies. We dragged a bunch of stuff in there that we never touched, you won't have time. The only thing we did watch were a DVD or two worth of Scrubs episodes (seemed apropos). Only take a change of clothes or two, you won't have time to shower every day. Ideally, have you hair cut in such a way that it looks good straight out of bed. I lucked out that my hair looks OK in all the first pictures even though I hadn't cleaned up or slept much in the last 24 hours. Since it was November or so, more like the Bills.

You can say all of that 100 times over. RosePie, 2 weeks old today (picture from about 3-4 days old):

I'm not sure I care what Johnny U. (Unitas) thinks about this. ;)

All things aside, the shadow is terrible. The light is coming from the upper-left, but along the bottom edge there's no shadow at all even though it should be a black line straight across. If you wanted to be extra-fancy, the shadow line could move up a little when it crosses the implied bevel on the star, but no shadow just looks wrong. I spent far too much time when I was younger playing with 3d-look bitmap icons and this is amateur hour. As someone said, it's like a photoshop where the people's shadows don't match the rest of the photo. Fix the shadow, and it's an OK logo. It may just be one of the best non-round logos. So who's left? Detroit, Phoenizona, BUFFALO!, Chicago and St. Loius. I don't see Buffalo coming in above 3rd on that list.

I don't like the word "overdue" in relation to the kiddo, so every time I hear that word I think "Ooooooovvvvvveeeeerrrrrtttttttiiiiiimmmmmeeeeee!" in my head's RJ voice.

I had heard rumblings of some ice bucket stuff, but haven't seen a video or really knew what was going on.

Actually, c-note is still the slang other than rap (of 15 years ago) in which they are "Benjamins". See: All about the Benjamins, although Weird Al's All about the Pentiums has better rhymes.

How about just not attacking anyone? If the only argument is a personal attack, there's not much of an argument at all.

How about the violence in the name of Christianity in the last 500? Some highlights: the conquest of the Americas, Salem witch trials, the endless wars between Catholic France and Protestant England, the British Civil War (or as we'd call it now, sectarian violence where a radical group of Protestants overthrew the government of England). In the last 100, I seem to remember learning that a lot of the KKK nuttery was wrapped in saving God-fearing white people from the heathen blacks and the long-running violence in Ireland is a perfect example your version of God is slightly different than mine so I must kill you. Now, you might argue that Christianity is just a cover for non-related political ambition in many of these cases, but you'd be foolish to think that it isn't the same deal with the current Muslim "problems". You give desperate, poor people something to believe in and they'll go all in. They got nothing else to feel good about. You talk about "providing for families", but the last I heard the vast majority of the ISIS folks are males 16-25. Probably not a lot of families there. Oh, and Clinton: I'd really rather see someone that's not a Bush or Clinton. We're dangerously close to building political dynasties and that's a really bad idea.

The hubbub is probably for those of us who don't have cable. I understand why the set up is the way it is, but it'd be great for me if I didn't have to figure out some way to watch 10-12 games (4 Flyers games are on Comcast sports, 4-6 on VS or NHL Network, and one or two on NBC) per year that I can't watch on the Gamecenter package that I paid good money for. I can watch the NBC games on antenna but it's old school to not be able to pause or have to catch the game in real time. :) Not to mention the only playoff games I can watch are over the antenna, as every other game is on cable somewhere. Another wrinkle is for awhile Comcast/The Flyers refused to license the games to any of the local competing operators (FIOS, Direct TV); if you were in this area it was Comcast or no Flyers (not that I particularly care, of course, but for my hockey-fan friends it sucked a lot). As someone said upthread, I doubt it'll change anything but it'd be great for me if it did.

Brush? Doubtful. Giving the kid a dirt-shower? Maybe. And maybe is the strongest way to say "probably" with absolutely no evidence or mind-reading.

http://www.thehockey...ers/#more-20230 Phlyers come up 10.