MattPie

I believe most neighbor-states have some sort of reciprocity agreement where you only pay one states' taxes (the home state, IIRC). I know PA and NJ do, and I can't believe so many people live in NoVA but work in DC "because the taxes are cheaper" if DC and VA don't have something worked out[0]. I work a bit in VA each year, and when filling out my expense report there's a statement something like "if you plan on working in the state for more than x days (30, maybe?) on the same assignment, you may have to pay taxes in that state". But PA and VA wouldn't have an agreement in place since they don't share a border. [0] Incidentally, I hear most of the Flyers' players live in Camden, NJ since that's where the practice facilty is.

The scene: high-dollar steak house near State College PA. Big-wigs wining and dining. Terry P: Cliff, this is a fantastic fund raiser you got going on here. The house red is great! Cliff B: Thanks Terry! Hey, so Jerry likes feeling up little kids. Terry P: What, really? Do you think you should call the cops? Cliff B: Nah, JoePa is handling it internally. Terry P: Coo. I'm sure that's exactly how it happened. People can barely keep a trade secret in the NHL, how do you think the likely dozens of people you're hinting are involved could keep this secret for ten years?

I needed court shoes for volleyball a couple years ago (my Chuck Taylors weren't cutting it). You'd be surprised how hard it is to find non-ugly basketball shoes.

Saw a lapsed friend trying to defend this on FB the other day. I thought about replying "The only way this conversation goes is: "JoePa: He did what? ... Call the F'N cops."", but I don't know her well enough any more to bother.

I just want the shiny clothes the future is supposed to bring.

Darien Hatcher was tough and mean too, but that didn't mean guys wouldn't skate around him. McNabb is not an offense minded D, so if his D needs work, he's not going to make the team regardless of how well he hits.

I haven't seen any of my local friends in nearly a month. :(

It's 30 years each way, 1955, 1985, 2015.

I think it's a combo of the wings and beef, how many places can you get very good beef (I would probably say best) and very good wings?. The beef is the stronger of the pair.

I have one too. Actually, I might have tossed it in the recycling a little while back, I'll have to check. I was using it to scoop cat litter previously.

They picked up an 'elite' goaltender that had a definintion year of mediocrity. If you think Miller is average, you should really watch some of the Flyers games (which I did, due to location). I don't know Brzyz well enough to know if this was an aberration or his normal, but shakey goaltending is a quick way to sink a team.

Splitting time between 1981-1983 Honda GL500 Silverwing Service Manual, 2004 BMW R1150R Service Manual, Larry's Guide to Rebuilding CX/GL Carburetors, and Mark Twain's "Conversation, as it was the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors" (aka "1601"). I'm having a tough time keeping up with the Twain, the others are page-turners.

Unless Adam comes out of his slump a grittier, tougher, more defensivley sound centre (as your thrid centre should be), I'm not sure that was an idea to begin with.

He threw a check against Lucic on that play, didn't you see that? #BostonHomer

Haven't seen this mentioned: Ott - Leino - Pominville. Leino lined up as a LW in Philly who played like a center after the puck dropped (with Briere - Hartnell). Ott is a LW that takes a lot of draws. There would seem to be a natural symmetry there. I'm not sure you 'demote' Pommers though, unless you're embracing the Flyers model from two years ago (and Buffalo of 2005-2007) of having three scoring lines, each with defensive responsibility. Maybe Kaleta, but you're pretty much giving up on Leino's scoring at that point.

This is more in the neighborhood of the literal awesome, as in creating a sense of awe. So on Saturday, my gf and I were watching a lightning storm out of the back of my house. After a couple reasonably close strikes, lightning hits the pole in my back-neighbor's yard. Shower of sparks and whatnot, power goes out. Holy crap. A few moments later, the power comes back on and you can see arcing at the top of the pole, it looks like the ceramic insulator was fried. Power goes back out after a minute. Second time the power comes back on, more arcing, some smoke, then fire, then the box on the pole pops in a much bigger shower of sparks. (It wasn't a transformer, too small) I had tried to call the electric company previously, this time I called 911 to get the process moving. Figuring the power was out for awhile, we went out for a fantastic dinner and some craft beer (pea and mint risotto, SlyFox O'Rielly stout on cask for her, and a nice IPA or 3 for me). When we got back, the clocks were reading 12:21, so the power had only been on for 20 minutes. Awesome!

Maybe, but you could argue that economically, it's easier to draft talent and pick up gritty role-players than the other way around.

A nice stout or porter, perhaps?

In my defence, I wasn't watching the Amerks thread and didn't see it in the big club threads. :)

Which thread? I didn't see it.

Wait, Mark Mancari? http://sabres.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=637362&cmpid=rss-News

You didn't have internet at work and your productivity went *down*??? Yep, you sweat out a lot of sodium, which you need to replace. The technical term is hyponatremia, but it's commonly known as water intoxication or poisioning. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication Complaint: back to the office for the first time since June 21st, I could have used more time.

Looks like you're mostly correct on both parts, the purchase is kind of correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Land_Company And the name appears to be correct: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York I knew about the land company part, but I never caught the name. I guess the Dutch are lucky we let them keep Amsterdam, NY as-is.

My BMW R1150R. It just keeps going (knock on wood), 54k on it right now. The Honda is still in progress, I haven't gotten much time to work on it. You're telling me, riding all day in the 90s isn't a great time.