Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

The revolution will be supervised.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

T R E 4 5 O N

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

Second rate reporter says what?

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The Puppy Bowl will be simulcast across Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, TBS, Discovery+ and HBO Max beginning at 2 p.m. ET (1900 GMT) on Sunday.

With first lady Jill Biden attending the big game, President Joe Biden says he plans to watch this coming Sunday’s Super Bowl at home on television, with a bowl of ice cream.

The first lady’s beloved Philadelphia Eagles play the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, and she is planning to attend with her grandson…


Even in an age of cord-cutting, streaming services, and a polarized, splintered American culture, more people will watch the Super Bowl this year than the combined populations of California, Texas, Florida, and New York. (And even that might be a serious underestimate.) Thirty of the 31 most-watched television shows of all time are Super Bowls, including the top eight (and soon to be top nine); only the final episode of M*A*S*H* prevents the list from being a clean sweep. The Super Bowl is as close to a monocultural moment as it gets.

Yet the stars of this particular show aren’t always household names, and that’s particularly true this year. Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is ubiquitous, mostly because of his State Farm ads, but he’s one of only two players in this game whose jersey ranks among the ten best-selling in the NFL. The other is Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts, whom I bet a lot of viewers at your average Super Bowl party haven’t heard of. Probably half the people watching on Sunday will ask at some point, “Where’s Gronk?”

But that’s fine. Football is popular because of the casual normies who watch it, not in spite of them. If you happen to be one of those casual normies — because there’s a helluva lot more of you than there are of me — and have no existing allegiance to either of the teams playing, you might be wondering where you should direct your rooting affections. Allow me to be of service. Here’s the case for both teams playing in Super Bowl LVII on Sunday. (It’s the Chiefs and Eagles, by the way. And the game is in Arizona.)…

Also (for those of us without actual ties to the sport), the KC team needs to change its racist mascot.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    instead of answering questions he busted out a 12 minute show for the media

    Isn’t that how Trump’s White House pressers went?

  2. 2.

    raven

    Oh joy, cue up the anti-pigskin crowd to tell us how horrible the game is. We’ve toned our party down to just three other folks. Back in the day we had a large group that would leave to watch Dowton Abbey!

  6. 6.

    Jeffro

    I am SO. PSYCHED. for this Super Bowl!  How often does a guy get to see his #1 and #2 teams play each other, much less in the biggest game of the year?  (never, in case you were wondering)

    Now I just need to get Fro Jr. to make a decision about where we’re getting pizza from tonight…

  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    I won’t be watching, but that is more because we don’t have TV than anything else. Well, that and the fact that I’m too lazy to drive into STL and watch the game with my KC loving son’s family. I’ll catch the highlights tomorrow

    As to Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts, I’m pretty sure that even the most casual fan of the game (me) knows both of them at this point. Which is not to say that there aren’t a number of husbands and wives who will “watch” the game just to make their football mad spouses happy and have no clue about PM and JH. And soon after the game will have forgotten all about them again.

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    @raven:

    Mind you, the gridiron sport is less dangerous than it was early in the last century, when fatal injuries were known to happen on the field.

  11. 11.

    David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch

    Happy birthday to the great vampire hunter himself, Abe Linkin

  12. 12.

    raven

    @Shalimar: So is our big party! The last time the Eagles were in it I made huge Italian dinner that was inspired by the mother of my buddy who played D-line for Illinois. His mom would cook these huge dinners and freeze them for the Sunday after Illini games. She made braciola, meatballs, chicken and ribs all simmered in “gravy”. She’s take the meat out and mix the “macaroni” with the the gravy and serve it with wonderful bread and tasty-cakes followed by Briosche!!!

  14. 14.

    raven

    @Jeffro: I went to LA for the National Championship but only one of my teams played! Go Dawgs.  I hope Jordan Davis and Nakobe Dean play some!

  17. 17.

    narya

    @raven: Tasty-Kakes FTW! When I was a kid, they were were wrapped in waxed paper. Peanut butter Tandy Takes, butterscotch krimpets, and my favorite, chocolate cupcakes filled with white cream filling.

  20. 20.

    Ken

    less crypto

    I saw an analysis that showed how, if you’d had $10,000 to invest last February, you could have made nearly a billion dollars with the crypto companies that advertised during last year’s Super Bowl.

    Mind you, it was by shorting every one of their stocks, to profit when they collapsed. It also required you to know the timing, so you could parlay your profits from each collapse into the next one. If you’d just spread the $10,000 among the companies, you’d only have made a few million.

  21. 21.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Ken: ​
     

    If you’d just spread the $10,000 among the companies, you’d only have made a few million.

    ‘Only.’ Petty cash, right? ;-)

  24. 24.

    eclare

    Excited for the game, too!  To my KC super fan friend, I’ll be rooting for KC.  But part of me wants to see the Eagles win because Hurts really got a raw deal at Bama, and he persevered.

    Got my snacks, large bag of white cheddar popcorn and a nice pint of ice cream!

  27. 27.

    Michael Bersin

    After going out to dinner last night for the first time in three years (to hear a trio/band of friends who perform at the joint every couple of months), I lost track of my partner as I was garaging the vehicle. I thought she had already gone into the house. It turns out she had been standing at the end of the driveway looking up at Orion. She reminded me that the comet was supposed to be visible. So, I looked up the location of the comet in the sky on an online astronomy site, set up the tripod on our south facing deck, slaved the camera to my laptop, and eventually, after a dozen attempts, managed the find it and get a couple of sort of in focus frames:

    Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF)

    Click on photos for a bigger image.

    The greenish smudge is supposed to be it.

  28. 28.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Amir Khalid: I see what appear to be far more grievous and life-threatening injuries in the other football regularly. But to the athletes’ credit, they seem to recuperate very quickly.

  29. 29.

    kalakal

    @Geminid: All these bans, taking away the fun. Rugby has never been the same since they banned edged weaponry in 1874.

    More seriously anything that makes sports safer is a good thing

  30. 30.

    Ken

    @lowtechcyclist: The reporters who write financial articles often have a warped perspective. I think it’s partly because they’re trying to sound like they have as few money worries as the CEOs they write about.

    (Except of course when they’re writing one of those sympathetic pieces about how difficult it is to live in New York City, where private school for your children can cost as much as $75,000 a year and the parking space for your limo costs over $2000 per month.)

  32. 32.

    lowtechcyclist

    @raven: Oh joy, cue up the anti-pigskin crowd to tell us how horrible the game is.

    Wasn’t gonna say anything, but if you’re going to slam us anti-pigskin people before we show up, hey, you started it.

    @raven: life is dangerous

    Tell me, how many other careers involve a substantial risk of massive brain damage?  That’s what you’re watching happen. That’s what you derive entertainment from.

    ‘Nuff said. I’m done.

  35. 35.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    My fellow grammar pedants might be interested in this from The Grammarian. It appears in regard to an argument over whether you should say “A SCH household” or “An SCH household.” I saw it at Kos.

    The difference between acronyms and initialisms is pedantic, but here, relevant. Acronyms can be read aloud as words on their own: NASA, AWOL, AIDS, FOMO. Initialisms are read letter by letter: FBI, CIA, YMCA. Some will add periods to initialisms (F.B.I.), but most who do that are psychopaths. Or the New York Times.

  38. 38.

    Spanky

    @lowtechcyclist:

    Tell me, how many other careers involve a substantial risk of massive brain damage?

    Politics, gauging by some auspicious current samples.

    (Low hanging fruit, and all that.)

  39. 39.

    Michael Bersin

    @eclare:

    I figure our planet’s isolation from the galactic community will continue. I envision the poor schmucks who were assigned to contact us saying: “They’re all crazy. They keep attacking and destroying our ‘We come in Peace’ messenger drones. Also, they can’t be that collectively stupid, can they?”

    That is if they’re benign.

  43. 43.

    Amir Khalid

    @Gin & Tonic:

    In American football, a play typically involves two groups of 250+lb men who line up to crash into each other. This is not a thing you ever see in association football, where challenges are always one-on-one and players tend to be smaller and less massive. Yes, you do sometimes see horrific challenges; but unless Roy Keane is involved, they’re generally not routine or intentional.

  44. 44.

    Ken

    @Michael Bersin: Well, at least that’s a sensible reason. I recall a short story where the aliens decided not to contact us after finding we’re made out of meat. There was another where humanity was wiped out as a danger to moral order, because of the filthy naked pictures we sent out on Pioneer.

  45. 45.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Spanky:

    Politics, gauging by some auspicious current samples.

    Nah, they were brain-damaged going in.

    Now watching Fox News and other RW media…well, that’s more of a lifestyle than a career, but yeah.

  48. 48.

    WereBear

    Until there is a kitten bowl, we will probably binge something, like the rest of Wednesday, which Mr WereBear has already seen and vetted for quality.

    In the meantime, I made be a day late and a dollar short in the Pandemic binge department, but I am catching up now. Ran through Mindhunter and suffered the consequences.

    It’s never coming back. Maybe we’ll get a movie.

    Sigh.

  52. 52.

    WereBear

    @kalakal: Yup. Gold standard for mayhem, and we have rugby tournaments every summer.

    Mr WereBear’s aunt was in charge of ordering, and she laid in the splints and such early.

  54. 54.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: In the computing world, there was a prevalent, very well-known initialism, from IBM: SNA. Everybody in the world sounded out each letter when talking about it – ess, enn, ay. Except IBM people, who said “sna”.  It was weird.

  55. 55.

    Ken

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Interesting. So if there were a word such as AWOL that can be spoken as either an acronym or an initialism, and began with a suitable letter, it could legitimately take either “a” or “an”.

    For example if people started pronouncing FBI as the acronym “fibby”, you could have “a FBI agent” (acronym) or “an FBI agent” (initialism).

  57. 57.

    Baud

    @Ken:

    How would you use a or an with AWOL?

    ETA: I guess if it’s an adjective.  An AWOL soldier.

    ETA: You would never use A

  58. 58.

    Van Buren

    I am just going to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with some traditional BBQ ribs, cheesesteaks, and guac. Doesn’t everybody do that?

    Also, I bet 5 bucks that a scoring play will be negated by a penalty.

  59. 59.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    The difference between acronyms and initialisms is pedantic

    It sure is – first you’d have to know that ‘initialism’ is a word.  Which I just learned right now.

  61. 61.

    Amir Khalid

    @kalakal:

    I have tried watching Aussie Rules. I was amazed that so much  physical violence between players was tolerated. As far as I know, neither rugby code tolerates that kind of thing.

  62. 62.

    Ken

    @kalakal: I forget if it was Australian or Gaelic football, but the violence was brought home to me when I saw a highlight from match where there was an injury, and they didn’t stop play while the injured player was removed.

    Which then resulted in one of the medical team being injured when the players ran over him while he was tending to the wounded player.

  66. 66.

    mali muso

    We don’t have TV in our house (well, obviously we have a TV screen but the only thing connected to it is Netflix and Prime, etc.) so no Big Game for us.  In more exciting news, we have plans to go to our good friend’s house to enjoy Chinese hot pot.  Interactive and tasty entertainment where you get to play with your food.  Winning!

  67. 67.

    Ken

    @Baud: Right, “A” would not be a suitable letter for the trick.  It would need to be one of the letters F, H, L, M, N, R, or S so the sound would change when pronounced as acronym versus initialism.

    (Maybe “X”, but I’m having trouble imagining an acronym beginning with X where people wouldn’t pronounce it “ex-whatever” or maybe “z-whatever”.  Actually I’m having trouble imagining an acronym beginning with X.  XLA, the Xylophone Lovers Association, which in tribute to their instrument they pronounce “zeela”?)

  69. 69.

    Cameron

    I stopped watching sports when I moved to Florida.  I don’t really know why; I have nothing against football or other pro sports.  Just…pfft.

  73. 73.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @Cameron: I lived in Detroit until I was about 50. I followed baseball and knew what was going on in the other sports. Then we moved to Iowa, which has no professional sport teams, and I lost all interest. It was like I’d been cut off

  76. 76.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Ken: Ray Bradbury (I think it was him) wrote a short story about aliens waiting to contact us as soon as we were ready to be visited. What was the signal? Nuclear war. Once we’d had one of those we would become a far less violent species.

    They waited. And waited and waited and…. After about 60 years of waiting they left in despair, knowing we were by far the most dangerous species in the galaxy but they themselves were such a peaceful species they couldn’t dream of pushing us into one.

  79. 79.

    Matt McIrvin

    There have been so many variants on this theme in science fiction. Isaac Asimov wrote a short-short called “Silly Asses”, just a few paragraphs long, where the trigger for being contacted by the Galactic Federation is the mastery of atomic power, but they think better of it once they learn that we never conquered space first and we did the bomb testing on our own planet.

    One of the lesser revivals of The Twilight Zone had a story about some extraterrestrial elder species contacting us with an offer of greater cultural exchange if we solved our problems and cleaned up our act. Some years later, a united and peaceful humanity, having made the Earth a paradise, receives their ambassadors… and it turns out they’re a Proud Warrior Race deeply disappointed that we gave up on our glorious capacity for violence, and they start sterilizing the planet.

  83. 83.

    Anyway

    @Baud:

    ’m pro-football and anti-Dowton Abbey!

    Oh my gawd, yes, I hate Downton Abbey.  Couldn’t understand its popularity.

    Go Iggles! 6:30 eastern time is too late a start for east coasters. I normally don’t watch the SB but it’s my home team — rooting for the Birds.

  85. 85.

    OzarkHillbilly

    The US fast-food restaurant chain McDonald’s has pledged to remove an advertisement for its new McCrispy chicken sandwich that was placed across from a crematorium in England.

    The McCrispy advertisement was placed at a bus stop in Cornwall, England, that is next to a road sign pointing motorists toward the Penmount crematorium, according to the local news outlet Cornwall Live.
    ……………
    In a statement to Business Insider, a representative of the Chicago-headquartered McDonald’s chain said the company was not aware that the McCrispy bus stop ad in question was so close to a crematorium road sign.

    “In light of the concerns raised by Cornwall Live, we have asked for our advertisement to be removed,” the rep’s statement added.
    …………………
    Some online users found the ad’s placement to be darkly comical. One wrote on Facebook saying: “My parents are in this crematorium. My old man had a brilliant sense of humour, so I’m sure he would have chuckled at this!”

    Someone else wrote, “Well it got them plenty of more notice didn’t it! Bad placement without thinking humm I don’t think so! I only recently lost 2 loved ones & to be honest if I’d seen that sign near the crematorium I would have smiled. I don’t find it offensive at all.”

    Meanwhile, another user said: “Thank God [it] wasn’t advertising Burger King and being ‘flame grilled.’

  86. 86.

    HinTN

    @OzarkHillbilly: I had that previously and agree. No steaming in this house. (Mrs H inadvertently streamed a movie through the Dish TV and it killed that month.) We’ve got Starlink and stream all we want now. I sure hope Leon don’t fuck that up.

    Go Chiefs

  90. 90.

    Soprano2

    I’ll be at the bar watching the game rooting for KC even though I don’t know much about the rules of football. I don’t know if we’ll be busy or not, it all depends on whether one of the regulars has a Super Bowl party. As for changing their name, I don’t know anyone here who thinks that’s a good idea. They do the Tomahawk Cheer here, to give you an idea of the attitude.

  94. 94.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @HinTN: ​We have Hughes right now. On the recommendation of an ex-coworker who now works at Starlink, my wife is working on getting us hooked up with them too. She makes all the tech decisions in our house.

    I hate the idea of putting even a penny into elmo’s pocket, but it will be a better deal for us.

  95. 95.

    Anyway

    @Soprano2:

    I’ll be at the bar watching the game rooting for KC even though I don’t know much about the rules of football. I don’t know if we’ll be busy or not, it all

    Sunday is a tough going-out night for me. I was out yesterday with friends and am partied out. Will walk over to the neighbors just before it starts and watch with them — I can bail if I don’t like the way things are headed ..

  101. 101.

    HinTN

    @OzarkHillbilly: It took six months for our application to bubble up to the top of the list. Bought the equipment ($100 down at application and $500 when accepted) and now it’s $110 per month and unlimited with decent speed (better than Hughes). Enjoy!

  104. 104.

    Citizen Alan

    In 2022, I remote clerked for two judges, one in Pennsylvania and the other in Kansas City. Obviously I bring a good luck, and so someone really needs to hire me in a hurry for next season.

  105. 105.

    Cameron

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: It’s a bit baffling to me.  The nearest city with pro sports teams is Tampa, and in the six years I’ve lived here they’ve all had outstanding seasons at one time or another.  I’ve just lost it.

  108. 108.

    OverTwistWillie

    Just because flat screens are cheap doesn’t mean a bar needs 30 TVs. So much non-live sports filler (mostly hawking gambling apps) on those feeds.

  109. 109.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    We’re in Philly at a B & B. We expect it will be noisy tonight, win or lose.

    Yesterday we watched “80 for Brady”. It’s very silly but absolutely adorable if you like those ladies, which we do. Rita Moreno is 91 and absolutely gorgeous! We found that out after the film and tried to remember if there had been anything that looked like a concession to age. Not that I recall.

  113. 113.

    NotMax

    Almost frequent enough to have become a tradition, power cuts out across wide swaths of the island about a minute after the game starts.

    5 a.m. and blustery winds and rain picking up outside.

  114. 114.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @Jeffro: I gave up watchingNFL regularly, years ago, but I still watch and enjoy the Super Bowl.  And having lived in Philly for 5 years I’m excited for Eagles fans.  I’ll be rooting for them, but won’t be crushed if they lose, just want a great game.  Also Rihana!

  117. 117.

    Leslie

    Reading this post is how I learned which teams are playing. I grew up with football, and I don’t have any holier-than-thou grudge against those who still enjoy it; I just can’t bring myself to watch it anymore. I’m not even sure if we could watch today, since all we have are various streaming services. We’ll be able to watch the Puppy Bowl if we want to.

    I have a friend in KC, though I don’t know if she pays any attention to the game, but I might join forces with the First Lady and root for the Eagles.

  118. 118.

    geg6

    We won’t be watching because we have no dogs in this fight.  But, much as it pains me to do it, I’ll be hoping for an Eagles win simply out of cross-commonwealth solidarity.

  119. 119.

    NotMax

    Abe’s natal day? “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the game?”
    //

    So old remember when we had separate holidays for Abraham and George.

  120. 120.

    CaseyL

    I’ve discovered that watching football is a social activity for me.  I used to go over to my neighbors’ house to watch with them, but since they’ve 95% moved to their house at the shore, that’s no longer a thing.

    I’ve tried watching by myself, but it’s not anywhere near as much fun.  Kind of sad, actually, me yelling at the TV all alone.  I could watch via streaming, but the ads – the never-ending ads – and the color commentary, which is usually brainless babble irritate me no end.  Again, being with other people negates that: we chat, we make fun of the ads (and the commentators.

    So, as much as this SB promises to be a barnburner of a good game, I’ll probably just sporadically follow it online.

    I may root for the Eagles, since I was a Philly girl once upon a time, and it’ll be fun watching the city celebrate; or for KC because Mahomes is just that much fun to see play.

  122. 122.

    prostratedragon

    @Baud: ​Was watching an old movie recently and realized that, e.g., “an history” is reasonable if you don’t pronounce the “h,” but not without that accent. Got me wondering whether there was some shift in spoken English where h became a consonant in some regions but not others.

  124. 124.

    Tony Jay

    I enjoyed the Superb Owl from a couple years ago when the Rams played the Bengals. Partly because I fell asleep before it finished, partly because the enormous men-shaped creatures providing commentary in the studio were, a) clearly loving it, b) very well informed, and c) willing and able to pass on that information to know-nothings like me in digestible chunks.

    Oh, and partly because the half-time show was awesome, if not in the same ballpark of awesome as Prince’s authentically faultless rock-out in the rain. Here’s hoping that Rihanna puts on a show that takes all the wingnut bullshit and shoves it so far up their collective colon they all end up with Princess Leia buns made out of their… opinions.

  125. 125.

    Suzanne

    I don’t care for football, but I like Rihanna, and I like guacamole.

    I am about to go start a pot of chili, and will make some nachos later this afternoon. Mr. Suzanne is not feeling awesome, so I want him to relax today.

  126. 126.

    Suzanne

    I will note that my colleagues, who are mostly in Philly, are melting down. They’ve had a good sports year.

  128. 128.

    Steeplejack

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Reminds me that some people spell out the database language “SQL” and some call it “Sequel.”

    (SQL = Structured Query Language.)

    Also, back in the dark ages when the NEC Spinwriter was the Cadillac of printers, some people spelled it out and some called it “Neck.”

    Finally, every place I ever worked that used SCSI drives they were called “scuzzy drives.”

  130. 130.

    p.a.

    Rooting for KC despite the idiot tight end.  Highly unlikely but I do hope Mahomes at least challenges Brady’s record (I’m saying this as someone who’s been a Pats fan since they drafted Jim Plunkett) because Brady &Belichick are, from my distance at least, just crap people.

     

    Also too, Philly fans are, shall we say, not nice: an acquaintance & her son are Eagles fans and went to a game there wearing Eagles regalia AND STILL GOT VERBALLY AND PHYSICALLY (shit thrown at them) ASSAULTED BECAUSE THE PHILLY ‘FANS’ COULD TELL BY THEIR ACCENTS THEY WEREN’T FROM PHILLY🤮

    Talking to her after the fact she still couldn’t believe it.  Had to leave their seats and walk around the whole game.  Never went again.

  132. 132.

    Jeffro

    I don’t know if anyone saw or read about this, but the Chiefs bar in Philly will be closed (to the public, anyway) for the Super Bowl.

    (sob)

    Next time I am up there or am passing through, I gotta stop and grab a cold one.  Provided that it’s still there after tonight, no matter who wins(!)

  133. 133.

    Layer8Problem

    @Steeplejack:  “Sequel” always sounded forced, like it was IBM Marketing driven.  Only the sales engineers used it around me.

    Now VTAM, there was a sexy acronym . . .

  134. 134.

    NotMax

    @Uncle Ebeneezer

    Will be the first to admit never heard of Rihana until this morning.

    My limited store of pop culture musical knowledge peters out somewhere around the debut of Green Day.

  135. 135.

    Scout211

    @OverTwistWillie:Iowa skews to Bears fandom, so yep, the lack of professional football checks out.

    I grew up in Iowa and was always a Kansas City fan, as were many people I knew. Ed Podolak, a star for Iowa football, made many Iowans into KC fans when he became a star there. Some stayed with “da Bers,” though.

    Moving to California made me a 49ers fan, but KC is my #2 team. I hope they win today, but did you see how the Eagles took the 49ers apart? Yikes. It looks like an Eagles win to me.

    For some reason, I’m not really much of a pro football fan anymore. If I do watch a game, I mute the sound and read a book at the same time. I may do that today but likely I will be in my garden.  My winter greens are begging to be planted.

  143. 143.

    Gvg

    Seems like a lot of people have nice plans. I never learned to appreciate pro ball, my acquaintance was with college ball. My main worry for this day has always been drunk drivers. In my youth i was a pizza delivery driver. I usually forget until almost the day of then, make sure i don’t have to drive anywhere that night.

  145. 145.

    Steeplejack

    I committed to go to Sighthound Hall for the game, but it is a raw, rainy day here in NoVA, and all I want to do is head back to bed for reading and dozing. Plus, my brother tried to entice me with “white bean chili,” which means chicken. I like chicken and white bean stew, but it’s not “chili” to me. Sort of like a vodka martini.

    Speaking of chicken, my Trader Joe’s friend is dog-sitting out near Dulles this weekend, so yesterday we got takeout from Wooboi in Herndon. Highly recommended for those in the area. (I haven’t been to the one in Alexandria.) Warning: their spicy is hot. I am spicy-friendly, but their “mild” is about all I can take.

  146. 146.

    Marc

    @Layer8Problem: “Sequel” always sounded forced, like it was IBM Marketing driven.  Only the sales engineers used it around me.

    SEQUEL was the original name of the first IBM relational database product. It turned out that name had been trademarked by another company, so they dropped all of the vowels.

  147. 147.

    eclare

    @Steeplejack:   To me “chili” refers to the spice, not a type of meat or bean.  So if it has chili powder in it, it’s chili.

    Vodka martini is just wrong.  Martini=gin.

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    kalakal

    @Marc: We always called it SQL then Microsoft brought out SQLServer they insisted on calling it SEQUELServer so we called it squirrelserver

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    Layer8Problem

    @eclare:  “Martini=gin.”

    And vermouth, in the correct proportion.

    No, barkeep, a dry martini does not mean “a big conical glass of gin.”

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    geg6

    @p.a.:

    Tell her to cheer for the Steelers.  We are welcoming to non-native Yinzers.  We are also generally friendly even to our rivals’ fans when here in the ‘Burgh.

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    Montanareddog

    @kalakal:

    Try watching Australian Rules Football. It’s the most violent game I’ve ever seen and I’ve played a lot of Rugby

    Never seen Calcio Storico?

    It is MMA without gloves, and with a ball, and centuries of Florentine inter-district rivalry

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    zhena gogolia

    @Layer8Problem: I wondered if there was gin in those tiny martinis Barbara Stanwyck was drinking in Christmas in Connecticut. But I just looked up the 1940 Stork Club recipe, and it was gin and vermouth and an olive, but IN A 3-OZ. GLASS.

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    mrmoshpotato

    @UncleEbeneezer: ​
     

    And having lived in Philly for 5 years I’m excited for Eagles fans. I’ll be rooting for them, but won’t be crushed if they lose, just want a great game.

    They’ll riot either way! Crazy bastards.

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    Steeplejack

    @zhena gogolia:

    I can see that. A standard pour of gin, ≈ 1½ ounces, a shmitz of vermouth, a modest-sized olive. You have to get to the ’50s to see people mixing up giant pitchers of martinis in movies and TV.

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    Jeffro

    @Gvg:My main worry for this day has always been drunk drivers. In my youth i was a pizza delivery driver. I usually forget until almost the day of then, make sure i don’t have to drive anywhere that night.

    truth – it’s one of the four or five worst nights of the year for that (New Year’s Eve, Super Bowl Sunday, July 4th, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving)

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    Jackie

    @Soprano2: I’m sure you have! It’s a great story, though. And the first SB featuring two Black QBs. Lots of feel good side attractions besides all the stats and odds.

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