MattPie

Sorry to hear it. Wasn't she fighting back problems before this too?

Who's Kate Upton?

Two things, lately. Bought some Bulleit Bourbon (they were out of rye), makes a nice Rusty Nail (I'm trying to use up some year-old Drambuie). Also bought a bottle of Sage. It smells more "sagey" than it tastes, I get more of an Anise taste when drinking it.

I think one four below Premier (league 2). I spent a couple weeks in Portsmouth awhile back so I thought I'd represent. :) Ran into a bunch of Arsenal people on the train that were going to see them at Pompey on that trip.

Portsmouth FC!

Gotcha. What I was trying to say (and this is from an Engineering Major who didn't have to write in full sentences after the first few semesters :)) is that the ordering of the words may have been different between Gaelic and English, which could affect how the population speaks. A French speaker would want to translate "Le chat noir" ("the black cat") into "the cat black" before he was aware of the difference in word order. Hopefully that makes more sense. I do that all the time. Rob Ray: "Man did Scott fly acrost the ice, he was really skating quick." Matt, out-loud to TV: "Skating quickly!".

And think of the mild high everyone would enjoy!

For me, it was pretty easy to draw parallels to baseball. Last time I was in England, there was one of those 5-day matches (England vs. West Indies, I think) on TV every morning. Using baseball as a framework, it wasn't too hard to get the mechanics worked out. Rugby was the same same, there's parallels with American Football (league rules moreso than union rules).

Woah, woah, woah, resign? He's around for another year and I think in the Nolan time he's made it off the buy-out list this off-season. If anything gets offered for him though, I'd trade him. FWIW, Leino is the only person on the buyout list for me. I think he can be good in the right situation, but I'm not sure I keep him around for as many years as he's signed. If he only had another year (like Stafford), I'd keep him.

Lots of my Buffalo/Rochester friends did. I got Phoenix/Tuscon/Salt Lake City, apparently because I decided I use "tractor-trailer" more than "semi". They call them brew-thrus here in PA too, but the map didn't reflect that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic Most everyone speaks English, but it doesn't mean the local English dialect isn't influenced by the old sentence structures.

Some of the rural Marylanders pronounce it something like, "Ballmer".

Huh, I always remember him wearing 15 for some reason.

I'm trying to think of who has worn that number. Foligno the Senior, right? Seems like there must be more...

Not so much a complaint, as an "ewww": I walked into the men's room at work yesterday. There's two urinals and one on the right is occupied. Being a dude I barely register the person (although they were wearing khaki pants and mostly white sneakers). As I'm uncoiling the earthworm, out of the corner of my eye the guy next to me making erratic movements with his head (the publicly-acceptable one). Being that it's rude to stare and a men's room I didn't turn to look, but the movements made me think he had palsy or something. Anyway, he finishes, then I do, and as I'm turning around he's spitting in the sink and holding a toothbrush. I really have a hard time believing it, but he was taking a leak and brushing his teeth at the same time in public restroom.

You could probably argue that he's not in the right mind to make that kind of decision, given the circumstances.

What manner of cookies?

Perhaps it's because we feel a little guilty watching a sport that may result in a crippling, life-long injury for entertainment. Especially when the solution is "don't be a dick and drill people into the boards".

I'm fairly certain no one has suggested that. I don't think anyone is arguing that, I (at least) am arguing that there's hitting and then there's driving a player into the boards. If Wilson hits Schenn with 50% of the momentum he did, the result is the same[0] except Schenn isn't helped off the ice when he can't stand up. [0] mostly the same, Wilson might actually still be standing instead of flying into the boards himself and falling down.

Agreed. There's other ways to stop a player from progressing with the puck that don't involve hitting him at full speed into the boards. He went in shoulder first with the aim to launch Schenn, and took himself out of the play in doing so. A better hockey play would have been a more controlled hit where he ends up with the puck (or at least still standing with a chance to play the puck).

Ah, the old "Collapse to the Net" strategy.

Did he put the ring on the wrong hand?

I don't, necessarily, the Islanders might be even worse next year! :) My bad, read it too many times here.

As I understand it, the Islanders have the option to use or defer the pick and have to tell the Sabres before two (three?) picks before during the draft. If the Islanders use the pick this year, the Sabres get the 2015 pick. So if the Islanders pick is #8, they have to tell the Sabres before #6 if they're deferring or not.

Tahou is only the Anchor Bar of GPs, as I understand it. There are lots of other places, and a few versions. I've never had one, since half the stuff on it I don't want to eat (aversion to mayo and cold, starchy "salads").