Well, that sucked. Looks like my fears about the Bruins were well placed.
Watching Sherlock from the BBC and I don’t remember if I have seen it or not, but one of the best things about getting older is I can get a quarter way through a movie before realizing I have already seen it, and then I just say “ahh, to hell with it, I probably don’t remember the ending any more than the beginning” and then I know I have a solid 60-90 minutes before I start trolling netflix again.
BTW- Have you guys read the reviews about the new X-box? What they plan to do is kinda crazy, and people are going ballistic. My brother, who knows a lot but doesn’t always have strong opinions about things just couldn’t stop talking about how bad the changes they are making will be.
I’m hoping Mistermix will provide us a full report.
Just Some Fuckhead
New teams!
schrodinger's cat
Which season of Sherlock?
burnspbesq
Grant Hill announced his retirement tonight.
Wonder if his mom’s college roommate could be persuaded to follow his example.
Yatsuno
A certain Marine is gonna be very cranky when he gets off work.
ulee
It’s June. They should just finish this up with a game of street hockey.
Suzanne
Mr. Suzanne is pretty excited for the new Xbox, especially how it is supposed to be much quieter than the 360 and pretty close to an all-in-one unit.
Little Boots
the important thing is I’m still here.
that’s the important thing.
Big R
@burnspbesq: Why, who was Grant Hill’s mom’s college roommate?
Gin & Tonic
@Big R: Hillary Clinton.
rikyrah
love the new Sherlock. my favorite episode is the one with Irene Adler
Big R
@Big R: Was it Black Helmet?
TOP123
Just had the bizarre experience of accidentally watching about a minute of Fox News’ Red Eye. I had heard about it, but seeing it was surreal. At my widowed mother’s house, walked into the kitchen; FOX News no surprise, glanced at that turd of a guy with those glasses and those beady eyes whose name I don’t remember, nor want particularly to know, and I’m watching and thinking: something’s wrong… they’re all speaking in short sentences. And pausing. And looking into the camera. And raising their eyebrows, or smirking, or grinning… And then I got that those were their one-liners.
It was so alien and disconnected, and just plain terribly done, that I really didn’t get that it was humour until I saw the name of the show in the tv bug.
Little Boots
and where the hell is omnes?
Cassidy
http://imgur.com/s4rFvsn
ETA: opinion piece on xbox one
Odie Hugh Manatee
But the The One will have TV! Sports! TV! More TV! Wipe out Xbox gamers games so they have to buy more! TV!!
ETA: Oh yeah, can’t forget Call of Doggie!
Bruuuuce
Been debating the possibilities for the next actor (or actress) to play The Doctor, now that Matt Smith has announced he’s leaving during the next Christmas special. Nice early Christmas present for me, who doesn’t like his work (he never convinced me he was over 25 years old; consider that The Doctor is now going on 1,500 or so).
All sorts of names have come up, with the entire set of leading young men from the Harry Potter movies being the most mentioned names, along with Hugh Laurie and Viggo Mortensen (I don’t remember the female names; they must not have been in stuff I’ve watched).
That’s the news that redeemed my day after the news about Jean Stapleton and the Yankees getting murdered (and more to the point, my daily fantasy league pitching disaster).
MikeJ
@rikyrah: And just earlier this afternoon people were complaining about how they didn’t like Steven Moffat. Which is crazy talk.
Shakezula
Conservative Humor, like Peak Wingnut, is a myth.
Brandon
@rikyrah: I’m a big fan of the new Sherlock. Good acting, high production values, excellently re-scripted versions of the stories we all know and love with a modern twist. What more could you want?
Bruuuuce
@MikeJ: Sherlock is terrific. Many of us hate his work as showrunner for Doctor Who, however.
the Conster
@TOP123:
Sounds like it should be called Brown Eye.
Little Boots
@Shakezula:
sadly, so is leftist humor.
when the point is the politics, it just never works.
MikeJ
@Bruuuuce: I like them both. Of course I hated old school Doctor Who,
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@rikyrah:
That’s “A Scandal In Belgravia”, which I just watched for about the umpteenth time recently. Lara Pulver gets me all kinda riled up.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Shakezula:
Ahh, like the female orgasm for conservative men.
Bruuuuce
@MikeJ: De gustibus etc. (not denigrating your taste, just noting that I know people whose position differs, including mine — I like old Who, except those clowns Davison and Colin Baker, who destroyed the series).
Cacti
@burnspbesq:
Well, that’s only about 10 years overdue.
Arclite
I’ve watched all the BBC Sherlocks twice. It’s sheer genius. I’ll watch it again next year by the time I’ve forgotten the particulars of each episode.
MS is being stupid about the XBone. They’re basically handing this round to Sony, as long as Sony plays its cards right. Thankfully, I’m a PC gamer and don’t have to deal with any of that crap. Better graphics, better games, and I fix it myself if there’s an issue. PC FTW.
Yatsuno
@Bruuuuce: Davidson was smart enough to realise he really wasn’t right for the role and bowed out after a year. Baker was a complete disaster that not even Sylvester McCoy (who was fecking brilliant) could really salvage. Plus he had some really atrocious storylines as well. Ace deserved better.
dance around in your bones
I’m watching Randy Newman on Austin City Limits and he looks so old. Then they pan to a shot of the audience all oldsters and singing along. Then I realize I prolly look like that too.
Maybe I’ll forget about it if I go into the next room.
rikyrah
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
I feel ya. I know I’ve watched it a half-dozen times myself.
Bruuuuce
@Yatsuno: ::clicks Like about a thousand times to agree here:: I really missed Ace carrying the baseball bat after the Daleks ep, though.
Loved seeing McCoy in The Hobbit, and probably would have loved him had he been Bilbo in LotR.
Little Boots
still think omnes should show up.
ArchTeryx
@Arclite: The one disadvantage is that a good gaming PC is 10x more expensive and goes obsolete just as fast as a console. Of course, the gaming PC can also do a buttload of other non-game things, which is how I justified its $3K expense some years ago.
goblue72
BROOOONZZZ!!!!!!!!!
Stiv
“The Fall” a BBC crimer with Gillian Anderson just got put up on Netflix.
“When the Belfast police are stalled in their investigation of a spate of murders, Detective Superintendent Stella Gibson is drafted to investigate. Under her lead, the team uncovers an intricate web of lives entangled by the killings.”
They’ve got the whole season up, even before it’s finished over in the UK (I think they’re up to ep 3).
I’m on a marathon, it’s got a real creepy killer, and Sculley is as hot as ever.
Arclite
Also, too, this:
From this article. Because that’s what I always wanted in my living room, an always on, always connected to the internet smart camera just waiting to be hacked. And it will be hacked, just like PC webcams are routinely hacked.
goblue72
@Yatsuno: Peter Davison played the Doctor for three seasons under his original contract. He just didn’t renew past that.
Bruuuuce
It was Christopher Eccleston who left after one year, and it was because he hated the showrunner (technically “the working environment”). He didn’t think he was wrong for the role, from what I’ve read; he just couldn’t work with the boss.
mclaren
Microsoft jumped the shark with Vista. They’ve been going downhill fast every since. Now, with Windows 8 and the new X Box changes, the wings have ripped off and they’re headed into a supersonic powerdive toward collapse.
Arclite
@ArchTeryx:
Well, I disagree a bit. Six years ago I built a gaming rig for about $1400 (Core 2 duo, 8800GTX) that I only replaced last year. While that is about 2.5x more, (PS 3 cost $600 back then), I saved the difference easily in software costs over the life of the platform. Console games debut at $60, rarely go on sale, and take forever to drop in price. The same games on PC debut at $40-50 and are usually on sale for $10 within six months.
Here’s the kicker: when I upgraded last summer to a Core i5 and 670GTX, I saw very little difference in my games. I could easily still be gaming on that old system.
Arclite
@Bruuuuce: The season with Chris as Dr. Who was brilliant. He was so good in the role.
andrewsomething
Speaking of Doctor Who, Matt Smith is out: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/doctor-who/10093520/Matt-Smith-to-quit-Doctor-Who-after-Christmas-special.html
Bruuuuce
@andrewsomething: Which brings us all the way around (my glee over this news is what started the DW discussion). Rupert Grint as the first ginger Doctor? :-)
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Yatsuno:
Well, maybe because he became THE Doctor to most of the people in the world who knew the show in its original run, which made him a hard act to follow. The episodes in which he appeared have definitely been the best sellers from the original run. So I’m not really seeing the disaster.
Hell, I’ll admit that Baker can be both a ham and a hack, but the viewing audience loved him.
srv
Sherlock is great, Luther is better. Character development is on par with The Wire and BB.
mclaren
You’re not just getting older, Cole, American movies are actually all just rehahes of previous films now. Didn’t used to be this way.
Every U.S. film today is either a remake or a goddamn sequel.
That’s why I no longer watch films made in Shithole America — I’ve already seen ’em, usually 20 or 30 years ago when I was a kid.
If you want to see some good films that aren’t remakes or retreads or sequels or rehahes, check out:
War Witch (Chile, 2011) A young preteen girl in central Africa gets abducted by rebels and forced to become a soldier.
Headshot (2012, Thailand) An assassin gets shot in the head while carrying out his latest assignment but won’t let that stand in his way. Most of the movie is shot upside-down to reflect his brain damaged condition.
Lore (2011, Australia) As the Allies sweep across Germany, a child whose SS parents have been arrested for war crimes leads her siblings on a journey that exposes them to the truth of their parents’ beliefs. An encounter with a mysterious refugee forces Lore to rely on a person she has always been taught to hate.
Since Shithole America is collapsing and disintegrating, we can no longer produce watchable movies, just as we can no longer accomplish much of anything else, except for torturing helpless prisoners and raping prison inmates and and beating and tasing our own impoverished population when they demonstrate against the insanity and injustice.
scav
Or why not a quick watch and grump about Cushing’s “Doctor” which just had a new Blu-ray release so is also topical. Can also rant about colored Daleks and play find the Bernard Cribbins.
ETA: @Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): probably the other Baker.
srv
While not on par with the others, I do want mention the Murdoch Mysteries for the late night trolls trolling Netflix. Detective series set in 1900 or so Toronto. Interesting with episodes including Nicola Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle and HG Wells. Neat thing is that you learn some interesting things about these guys – that Doyle was all into mysticism and Wells was a eugenics fan.
Chris
@srv:
I didn’t know H. G. Wells was a eugenics fan.
Casts an interesting perspective on his description of the Martians in War Of The Worlds, who’re supposed to have evolved from being that were pretty similar to humans. I need to reread that book now. (Thank God for Internets and public domain, eh!)
srv
@mclaren: Am going to check out Headshot.
Seen the Australian flick called Noise? And all those South Korean flicks – amazing shit coming out of there.
Mnemosyne
I’m sure I will expose myself as a coastal elite with this, but I cracked up at this week’s New Yorker cover.
(It’s not my subscription, I swear.)
Higgs Boson's Mate
@ArchTeryx:
You can build an extremely capable gaming PC for less than half of that price. Use an AMD 8530 CPU, ASUS Sabertooth 990 FX MB, a couple of EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX550 Ti GFX cards in SLI and as much RAM as you feel like plugging in. Add a 256MB SSD for the working stuff, a regular HD for data, an OEM version of Win 7, case and power supply and you’re good to go with frame rates that will make you say “Damn!”
It ain’t like the old days. Assembling a PC is less work than building a model airplane now. I’m 65 and I did it. Bugger lit up with nary a hitch. A fun part is that I added Splashtop to my Kindle Fire HD and I can work the whole thing from wherever I am.
Yatsuno
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Bah. Should have been more specific. COLIN Baker. Tom Baker was quite brilliant and yes he was indeed the Doctor for a great many people.
Trinity
my Husband has been an xbox player since before we started dating in 2007. He has recently moved his entire set-up over to PS3.
#ThatIsAll
handy
Hearty Eight Clap for the Bruins, even if they’re the Boston kind! Still pulling for the Blackhawks to hoist the Cup in the end. Sorry John.
scav
Oh hades, how many geek points have I lost by not knowing Peter Cushing played a Sherlock Holmes as well? The doubling ups in these topics can be overwhelming. Was he a good one? How’d I manage to miss him or was Jeremy Brett just too locally dominating? (I so far have kept my senior moments to less important subjects such as eating and why I am in this room currently).
rikyrah
Just finished watching Hyde Park on Hudson
I gotta say…
FDR was a playa.
Man had a sidepiece for damn near everyday of the week.
Joseph Nobles
Karl Pilkington for the next Doctor. Because I’m tired of all these know-it-all frenetic Doctors.
Mnemosyne
@scav:
IIRC, technically the Cushing Dr. Who isn’t canon because he’s human, not Gallifreyan.
But don’t get me started on Cushing — he and Christopher Lee are two of my favorite actors, and I can go on and on (and on) about them.
Mnemosyne
@scav:
He also played Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Van Helsing. Lots of doctors!
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
Hell, I just built a good gaming system for a friend of mine for $1,500. He recycled his case but the rest is an i5-3570, Asrock Z77 Extreme4 board, 8GB. RAM, AMD HD 7970 3GB, TT Frio CPU cooler, 4 TB in drives w/2 TB mirrored and a TT Black Widow 850W. PSU. Installed everything and cranked it up to 4.5 GHz. Done.
It flat out hauls ass.
mclaren
@srv:
Hey, those sound cool! Thanks for the recommendationfor Noise. Will have to check that out.
Tons of cool TV shows and movies being made in the rest of the world.
BBC America has just started up a neat little mystery-thriller called Orphan Black about a bunch of identical women who are getting killed off one by one. It’s very well done. Only seen the first four eps so far, but it’s a real rollercoaster ride…
scav
@Mnemosyne: entirely not canonical, although for Bernard’s sake, I’d almost wish it (haven’t watched them, so can’t comment on his interpetation). Beyond the human bit, the duplication of stories seems cheap to me, which is at least reassuring evidence that movies pulled such rerun-heavy silliness earlier — they may recover from the current phase eventually. Wonder if McGann would have made it into the canon without the McCoy bit? Rather glad he did as his audio doctors are fine. It’s just odd / amusing figuring out what’s in and out sometimes.
NotMax
Much as I have a long-held uninterest in Dr. Who, would hold my nose and watch if Hugh Grant were roped into playing him.
re: earlier thread including some comments about people to be cast as Mr. Cole, realized I didn’t give my own pick: Jack Black.
(Although, would he add a few score pounds, Danny Smith might well be perfectly acceptable.)
lamh35
Welp, I’m off to bed, I just finished watching Thor on my TV (well my computer hooked to an HDMI cable, but bygones…) like I haven’t seen it before…smh. I’ve seen it beaucoup times, but I get so caught up in the yummy goodness that is Chris Hemsworth as Thor, I can’t turn the video off…LOL. Ah… Can’t wait til the new Thor movies come out!!!
mclaren
Trivia note: Arthur Conan Doyle, despite creating the quintessential logical deductive skeptical detective, was hopelessly gullible in real life. He fell for a fairy hoax in which some guy set up cardboard cutouts of fairies and photographed ’em.
And Doyle bought it. He actually believed that twaddle.
Oy.
A movie that might pique your interest is “Dr. Bell and Mr. Doyle: the Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes” (2000). Despite the title, it has nothing to do with Sherlock Holmes — instead, it concerns Arthur Conan Doyle as a young medical student, and hurls him into a fictional crime-solving collaboration with one of his teachers, the famous Dr. Joseph Bell, one of the earliest forensic pathologists, and reportedly one of the primary models for Sherlock Holmes.
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
Meh. I think Grant is too mellow to make a really good Doctor.
There’s a persistent rumor that they’re trying to get Idris Elba to be the next Doctor, but I think Chiwetel Ejiofor would be a much better choice. Elba is (IMO) too weighty of an actor. Ejiofor has a much lighter touch.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Good to hear from another builder. I was a long time user of AMD cards and I reluctantly switched to NVIDIA because my main 3D modelling app, as well as the better rendering engines at the moment, are chained to NVIDIA because of CUDA. My alltime fave for video was Matrox but they’ve gone into other things. I was part of the effort to get the Matrox “Millenium” video card to work under LInux. For those who give a shit, it was the fonts.
lamh35
@Mnemosyne: OMG, before going to bed, I’d just like to say I lost interest in the Doctor after Tennant left, but I’d be the first one at the door to see ANY Dr Who episode or series that starred Idris Elba!!!! Count on it.
But I’m pretty sure Luther has been renewed for another series and he’s either currently shooting it now or will begin shooting soon. He posted something about it on either his twitter or his Facebook page.
But to reiterate…IDRIS ELBA…ME LIKEY!!!
ETA: Oh and I love Chiwetel Ejiofor (not as much as I love Idris mind you but I do love him…lol). My fav movie of his is hands down “Kinky Boots”…shoot I own it and still wish I knew where the hell to find shoes for the “larger” footed women, of which I am one, like those worn by the drag queens in the movie… :-D
Gravenstone
@mclaren:
It also ended its run for the year tonight.
Mnemosyne
@lamh35:
Oh, don’t get me wrong, I luuurrrvvvvesss me some Idris Elba and would be happy to tune in to see him. I just don’t think he’d be right to play the Doctor.
But I never really liked the Eccleston version of the Doctor and I think Elba’s interpretation would be somewhat similar to that, so YMMV.
M31
@mclaren:
Not ‘some guy’ but 16- and 10-year-old girls. They insisted on the truth of it until the 1980s.
The photos are great, though I’m sure the girls were as surprised as we are that they were believed. I’m sure their embarrassment at fooling adults (and famous ones) was what made them never confess, poor dears.
Fort Geek
@Joseph Nobles: Tony Shalhoub, as he was in “Galaxy Quest”…a very laid back Doctor. “I’ll get one of the guys to look at it.”
NickT
@mclaren:
Conan Doyle was a passionate believer in spiritualism, yes, but hardly “hopelessly gullible” in everything he did.
Mnemosyne
@M31:
The older of whom had been working as a photographer’s assistant. Nope, no possibility of a hoax there.
They made a very credulous movie of the story in 1997 called FairyTale: A True Story, with Peter O’Toole as Conan Doyle and Harvey Keitel as Harry Houdini.
JGabriel
John Cole @ Top:
There’s a good article on Cracked about some features of the new Xbox that are about to ruin everything:
Mnemosyne
@NickT:
He was pretty hopelessly gullible when it came to spiritualism — the Cottingley Fairy hoax was not the only one he fell for. But he only got involved in spiritualism after his son was killed in WWI and Doyle desperately needed to believe in an afterlife. Before that, he was pretty hard-headed about the supernatural.
Ruckus
@dance around in your bones:
I hear it’s nice when every day is a brand new day in every way. All the old crap is gone and you get to start over with a clean slate. Of course all those around try to help you remember everything and won’t let you forget any of it.
JGabriel
I think it’s long past time we had a female Doctor. I wonder if Gemma Arterton or Tallulah Riley would be interested — although Riley is probably too busy jetting around with Elon Musk these days.
Yatsuno
@JGabriel: Eve Myles.
:: ducks ::
mouse tolliver
@mclaren: Actually, you’re coming in a little late. The first season just ended and won’t be back for a year. God dammit!
Tatiana Maslany should win an Emmy for this but probably won’t even get nominated because the Emmys are brain dead snobs when it comes to genre stuff.
NickT
@Mnemosyne:
Yes, I believe I noted that he was gullible about spiritualism. That doesn’t justify mclaren’s ludicrous exaggerations.
NickT
@JGabriel:
There’s always Megyn Kelly. We could have ErickbinErik as the Master.
Redshift
@NotMax:
If you can, find “Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death,” (done for Comic Relief), and you can see Hugh Grant, among others, playing the Doctor. It’s also the first Who script by Moffat.
Joseph Nobles
@Fort Geek: I could get behind that.
mouse tolliver
A Study in Scarlet, the very first Sherlock Holmes story, was the very first book I read when I got my Kindle. It was available for free. The book was banned in my neck of the woods because of its unflattering portrayal of Mormons.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Yatsuno:
Oh, yeah, Jebus. Blotted him outta my mind.
Seanly
Sherlock is a very good show.
Gillian Anderson in a new show? Me watch (stupid Kindle Fire won’t let me do misspellings).
Not sure about the new Xbox One…
The prophet Nostradumbass
What is it with idiots who talk about “Cindy” Crosby or the Sedin “sisters”? I can’t stand either the Penguins or the Canucks, and that stuff just fucking stupid. It’s like reading hockey commentary from Beavis and Butthead’s dumber relatives.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Speaking of Jebus, the Tebowners are an unrelenting lot, are they not? Have any of these people ever watched a football game?
Yatsuno
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): They cannot give up on their real touchdown Jeebus, because that means Sky Kid Jeebus failed, and Sky Kid Jeebus cannot fail, he can only be failed. Of course they’ll blame the unfaithful for tearing down their dear New Messiah, but hey what do football skills matter if they have faith?
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Someone needs to re-record the Deathtongue classic “Let’s Roll Over Lionel Ritchie with a Tank” and replace Ritchie with “Tim Tebow”.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
No shit it was the fonts (Matrox)! Old Matrox user here, I’ve owned the Millennium II w/ RR Studio, G-200SG and G-400DH Maxx cards. Plus I’ve owned both an RT2500 and still have an old editing system with an RTx.100 Pro card in it. I’ve been building custom systems since the early 90’s and been playing with computers since the PCjr.
No console gamer here, nosiree! :)
Anne Laurie
@mouse tolliver:
I’ll admit, when I first read Study in Scarlet at the age of nine or ten, I assumed the Mormon backstory was just a gullible Victorian invention about “murderous foreigners”, like highly poisonous trained asps and blowdart-wielding pygmies. I was a sophisticated NYC kid and read plenty of history, but the Mountain Meadows massacre was pretty obscure even in non-Mormon American texts in the 1960s.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Yatsuno:
Here’s what gets me: Half or more of these asshats seem to believe that Tebow is being chased out of the league over his beliefs, but none of them seems to be aware of the long, successful career of Kurt Warner, who was doing the existential bench press on TV (Dennis Miller was good for that descriptive phrase, at least) while Tebow was still in elementary school…Or being home-schooled in the Philippines, or wherever…
I like Warner. I think he should get into the HoF. I don’t give a flying fuck about him professing his faith loudly and publicly. I don’t exactly like Tebow, but I don’t begrudge him his faith. He’s a shit quarterback, though.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
It’s not so much Tebow to me as it is his cult. He’ll be gone soon, and they’ll still be playing the victim card.
Shinobi
I enjoyed this video of the XBox One Launch, if you haven’t seen it: http://kotaku.com/the-entire-xbox-one-reveal-summed-up-in-1-5-hilarious-509197649
Shorter Microsoft – “Gamers, please keep your money.”
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Oh, absolutely. They’re far more obnoxious than the guy himself. The NFL is chock full of guys who are just as annoyingly in-your-face evangelical Christian as Tebow, why did these clowns latch on to him?
burnspbesq
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
When the Lions signed Thad Lewis, I think that was the clearest possible signal that Tebow has reached his sell-by date.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@burnspbesq: If a team’s signing a Duke QB over you, it should be a bad omen.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@burnspbesq:
A fellow Packers’ fan in the comments of that thread suggested that we sign Tebow to back up Rodgers. I suggested Jim Del Gaizo or Jerry Tagge- sorta seriously.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): You know what would be hilarious? Tebow on the Raiders.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
HA!
IIRC, they went through something similar already, though, and that’s when they were still the Raidahs.
burnspbesq
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Duke will have stud QBs as long as David Cutcliffe is coach. If you’re a hotshot high school QB and the coach who developed and still mentors Peyton and Eli says “you’re my guy,” I imagine that has some impact.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): That’s one embarrassing NFL career.
burnspbesq
If neither Winnipeg nor Hamilton (the two teams that missed the CFL playoffs last year) is interested, that’s also not a good sign.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@burnspbesq: Why am I not surprised that you replied to me in a completely humorless fashion?
Punchy
Dudnt matter what the Pens do anyways. Whomever wins the East is gunna get curb-stomped by the Blackhawx. Winner of West Confy gunna take Lord Stanleys Cup.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
I recall that brief pre-season stint with the Packers. It was even worse than I’d expected it to be. We ended up going with Don Majkowski (who’d shown little majik the previous year, and wouldn’t show much in ’88) splitting time with Randy “Sacked” Wright, with Blair Kiel in the #3 spot. Yeah, Wilson couldn’t beat out Randy Wright or Blair Kiel for a spot on the roster.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I live in the Bay Area and don’t remember the guy, at all.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
He played most of his career in LA (argue with me if you will, but that team was still, in my mind, the Raidahs). It seemed like there was usually a small starting-QB controversy with Plunkett at the start of every season when they were both with the team. Not that there should have been, but maybe Plunkett wasn’t the best QB in practice and/or exhibition games (ETA: Or with the Pats).
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): I remember Dan Pastorini playing for the Raiders, probably because he went to my college alma mater, as did Doug Cosbie and Brent Jones. All as Division 2.
I overlapped with Jones.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Pastorini, huh? That guy never lived up to the expectations. A lot of it was injuries, but didn’t quite get it done when he was healthy.
Santa Clara U., football hotbed no longer. Buck Shaw is shaking his head somewhere…
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): For some reason, in the early 90’s, the NCAA decided that schools with Division 1 programs in everything else shouldn’t be allowed to have Division 2 football teams. Santa Clara decided to drop the team; their main rivals at the time, UC Davis and St. Mary’s, decided to jump up to 1AA. St. Mary’s eventually realized it wasn’t worth it, and dropped their team as well. The NCAA, in all their wisdom, did a good job of killing that tier of college football on the west coast.
Keith
Sweet Jesus, MS decides to hold off on showing games until E3 and think think MS is giving up on games. They try to out-flank Apple on the TV and people flip out more. Get a grip folks!
lojasmo
@Little Boots:
George Carlin would like a word.
Johannes
@NickT: Great. You’ve found the one worse possible casting for the Master than Eric Roberts. Yeah, cheers, thanks a lot. (Joanna Lumley for the Doctor…? Of course she’s done it, with Moffat writing….)
lojasmo
@mclaren:
Yeah, because that’s so fucking original, right?
Hypocrite.
Chet Manly
@Shinobi:
Word. Unless Sony takes the PS4 in an entirely different direction this is going to be the first generation of consoles in 30+ years that I pass on.
Omnes Omnibus
@mclaren: Shakespeare rehashed other people’s stories and did pure political propaganda. Was that a sign that shithole Tudor and Stuart England was collapsing?
different-church-lady
H-Cats… it’s amazing how badly the usual suspects can stink up even the non-political threads. It’s as though awfulness runs through their entire lives.
CaseyL
I couldn’t get into the original (pre-Moffat) Who, though I did try, as a lifelong scifi nut. Happened to tune in about a year ago, and fell in love. I do wish I’d started watching when Tennant was The Doctor, but Matt Smith is wonderful. Or maybe it’s the Eleventh Doctor’s storylines I’ve loved; specifically, Amy and Rory and River, and all the timey-wimey twists. (I like Clara; I just miss Amy and Rory.)
The season-end revelation sent me scurrying to on-line forums, and now I’m stoked for the 50th Anniversary special. I should try to find a Who Meetup and watch it with a boatload of Whoverians.
NickT
@Johannes:
And, good sir, I didn’t even mention Jim Hoft!
eataTREE
Smith is leaving Doctor Who? Oh thank Bog. I have nothing against Matt Smith; I have everything against every single Matt Smith Doctor storyline. The Twelfth Doctor has marked an era where the show was no longer about Doctor Who being clever, tricking the bad guy, and saving the universe, but about the endless angsty travails of Doctor Who’s High-Maintenance Girl Friend(s). Not Matt Smith’s fault at all, but I’m not ever gonna watch a Twelfth Doctor episode again unless somebody pays me actual money.