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Post#441 » by dobrojim » Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:55 pm

I'm a lucky man. My kids rock. Details at 11.
A lot of what we call 'thought' is just mental activity

When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression

Those who are convinced of absurdities, can be convinced to commit atrocities
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Post#442 » by Severn Hoos » Mon Jun 21, 2010 4:43 pm

Hi kids, and welcome to game time! Today's game is a tricky one - it's a Match Game!

Do you ever find yourself reading the Sports page, trying to get information about the NBA Draft and Free Agency, but you just keep getting confused with all the Haywards & Haywoods out there? And looking at the NL Rookie of the Year standings just gets more confusing, so say nothing of that nasty spill by those mean old oil executives!

So to help you out, here's a game for you. See if you can match the picture to the name! No fair googling!!

1. G. Hayward
2. B. Haywood
3. J. Heyward
4. T. Hayward


a. Image


b. Image



c. Image



d. Image





Hey, would you like to try for some extra credit? See how many of the following you can name!


Image + Image


Image



Image



Image


Image


It's a trick question! One of them is one there more than once. Can you spot the duplicate?



Well, that's all for today's Game Time, boys and girls! Tune in tomorrow when we'll match the athletes with their namesakes whose names were just to tough for their mamas to spell. Bye!!!
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Re: Official Not So Random Thoughts Thread Version 2.2 

Post#443 » by fishercob » Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:25 pm

1-c
2-d
3-b
4-a

Haywood
Haywoode Workman
Spencer Haywood
Haywood Workman again
Haywood Jeffires (pronounced as if it's spelled "Jeffries"
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Post#444 » by Severn Hoos » Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:59 pm

Wow, fish - 100% Great job! Did you cheat?

Now start practicing all the variant spellings of Isiah/Isaiah to get ready for the next round!
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Post#445 » by fishercob » Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:09 pm

Didn't cheat (not sure how I could have). I'm simply the smartest man alive.
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Post#446 » by Severn Hoos » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:24 pm

Based on your avatar, I think you're just hoping for second...
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Post#447 » by fishercob » Mon Jun 21, 2010 9:28 pm

True dat. Is it bad that I left this on Ted's voicemail?

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Post#448 » by fishercob » Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:52 pm

I love this time of year, but the nonsense spewed in these parts makes the boards almost unreadable.
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Post#449 » by JWizmentality » Thu Jun 24, 2010 4:57 pm

fishercob wrote:I love this time of year, but the nonsense spewed in these parts makes the boards almost unreadable.


I thought high comedy was the best thing about these boards.
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Post#450 » by Hoopalotta » Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:00 pm

fishercob wrote:I love this time of year, but the nonsense spewed in these parts makes the boards almost unreadable.


I put everyone on ignore, including myself, and it's really just been a lot more pleasant.
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Post#451 » by JWizmentality » Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:01 pm

Hoopalotta wrote:
fishercob wrote:I love this time of year, but the nonsense spewed in these parts makes the boards almost unreadable.


I put everyone on ignore, including myself, and it's really just been a lot more pleasant.


Jokes aside. Ima try that right now.
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Post#452 » by LyricalRico » Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:38 pm

Just finished watching Seven Pounds, starring Will Smith and Rosario Dawson. Instant classic IMO (and not just because I absolutely love Rosario Dawson).
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Re: Official Not So Random Thoughts Thread Version 2.2 

Post#453 » by tkunit » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:33 pm

LyricalRico wrote:Just finished watching Seven Pounds, starring Will Smith and Rosario Dawson. Instant classic IMO (and not just because I absolutely love Rosario Dawson).



you must really love her, cause that was no instant classic.
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Post#454 » by jmrosenth » Fri Jun 25, 2010 8:36 pm

Some random thoughts on a Friday afternoon.

My friend is currently on a flight to DC from Chicago with no other than Gilbert on his plane. Gil is sitting 20 rows behind my friend in...coach. I told my friend not to pull out a deck a cards.

I thought our draft last night stunk outside of Wall. We shed all of our big contracts at the deadline to acquire Hinirch and Childress. Really? Wall deserves better. The draft was woefully weak in talent, but still - at least try to get a future pick or something.

Demarcus Cousins should have gone 2nd in the draft and no farther than third. Turner and Wes Johnson are nice pieces, but Cousins has legit skills and is 19. I'm not sure where all the character questions come from, but we'll see.

Gordon Hayward a lottery pick is a joke and speaks to how weak this draft was. I'm going to pull the race card here - if he was black, he'd be in the 2nd round. Seriously, did anyone watch the tournament? He sucked outside of the first couple rounds.

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Post#455 » by willbcocks » Sun Jun 27, 2010 1:30 am

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/109909/the-worlds-most-expensive-cities-2010

Tokyo rated world's most expensive city for expats who have no idea how to shop and want to live exactly as they do in the U.S.

Lunch 18? Tokyo is probably the best city in the world for lunch--great cheap restaurants and even the expensive ones have amazing lunch specials. 16 dollars after tax and tip gets you soup, bread, appetizer, main, dessert, and espresso at a nice Italian or French restaurant. 3 dollars gets you a nice lunch box off the street.

Rice is expensive but one kilo for 8.47??? Maybe super premium in a one kilo bag, but why not buy normal superior grade in a 5/10 kilo bag for $3.00/kilo.

Assuming this Foreign Service thing works out, I stand to make out like a bandit paying local prices while receiving a Cost of Living adjusted designed for clueless expats...
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Post#456 » by miller31time » Sun Jun 27, 2010 5:08 am

Just saw Toy Story 3.

Add another one to that absolutely perfect resume of Pixar films.
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Re: Official Not So Random Thoughts Thread Version 2.2 

Post#457 » by pancakes3 » Mon Jun 28, 2010 1:39 pm

i like dreamworks animation WAY better than pixar. my 14 year old sister agrees wholeheartedly.
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Re: Official Not So Random Thoughts Thread Version 2.2 

Post#458 » by Benjammin » Tue Jun 29, 2010 1:24 am

Strasburg deserves a better team behind him. First, they boot a double play ball. Then on a fly out they throw to the wrong base. Some really bad baseball from the Nationals. Plus, they haven't scored against the Braves.
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Post#459 » by pancakes3 » Thu Jul 1, 2010 3:46 pm

Millertime, curious, did you go to or do you know of delaney high in the towson area? i was just at a wedding there this past weekend and we stopped by a bar in towson called Hightops which apparently is the nexus of the towson young 20-somethings' drinking activity. there was another bar down the street that made beer-a-ritas (corona upside down into a pitcher of margarita). just wondering.
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Post#460 » by dobrojim » Thu Jul 1, 2010 7:27 pm

Jacqui's team is 3-0 after a scrappy come-from-behind W last night.
The other team was fiesty and gave them all they wanted but we
rallied down the stretch for the W.

Jacqui still needs work on her floor game but hit the one shot
she took so you gotta like that.
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