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Kimmel on Snowpocalypse "It's the Toyota of storms, it just won't stop" -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 12, 12:00
Georgian Luger injured in crash has died. -- nm - mara Feb 12, 11:56 28
- FWIW - CTV is still reporting it as an accident -- nm - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 12:02 1
  - well, unless they can prove that the track had a motive... -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 12:03
- I'm reading that over a dozen Olympians have crashed on this course just in pre-competition training. - Diva Feb 12, 12:01 2
  - yah, there have been stories about it being too fast, with the longest drop of any in the world. -- nm - b. Feb 12, 12:03
  - wow. -- nm - Andie Feb 12, 12:02
- There have been 3 crashes in the last 24-48 hours, apparently. Maybe more. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 12:01
- the video is coming on ctv right now. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 12:00 3
  - this will be taken down, I'm sure; but for now.. here's video. nm but: -- (link) - b. Feb 12, 12:01 [youtube] 2
    - It's gone already -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 12:02 1
      - they're right on top of olympics footage, even if it doesn't use the name. -- nm - b. Feb 12, 12:05
- who?? -- nm - peglegpete Feb 12, 12:00 2
  - His name was Nodar Kumaritashvili. -- nm - Diva Feb 12, 12:02
  - the person who was doing the luge from Georgia. -- nm - Andie Feb 12, 12:00
- Oh f*ck. That's awful. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:59
- that's not good. I bet they try to make some sort of change to the track. - zork Feb 12, 11:59 1
  - I would hope so. That's just terrible. -- nm - Krusty Feb 12, 12:01
- Yikes. -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 12, 11:59
- went off the course and hit a pole... horrible. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 12, 11:59
- did i ever tell you about my friend who luged . . .? -- nm - loosi si Feb 12, 11:59 2
  - is there a recent post that these are ripping on? - zork Feb 12, 12:00
  - did they eat fruit and then luge? - Andie Feb 12, 11:59
- it was a horrible crash. I'm not surprised. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:58
- oh no. -- nm - Diva Feb 12, 11:57
- dang. -- nm - b. Feb 12, 11:57 1
  - (~140mph. geez.) -- nm - b. Feb 12, 11:59
- horrible. -- nm - Andie Feb 12, 11:57
- jeebus -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:57
- Wow, that's no good :( -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:56
Phillipe's, creator of the french-dip sandwich, closed by health dept for 48 due to cockroach infestation. I don't think I can eat there again. -- (link) - CrankYanker Feb 12, 11:55 3
- they're still one of my favorite eating spots in LA -- nm - peglegpete Feb 12, 11:59
- meh, i'd eat there right now -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:56
- 48 hours, that is. -- nm - CrankYanker Feb 12, 11:56
LYC: I watch the Olympic events I don't see normally. So no hockey basically. - Krusty Feb 12, 11:55 7
- What if they combined the gun shooting WHILE downhill skiing? -- nm - Cuzzin Todd Feb 12, 12:00 2
  - That I'd watch. -- nm - Krusty Feb 12, 12:03
  - The best strategy would be to start slow, then take out your competition. -- nm - the wrong element, bad guy Feb 12, 12:02
- Women's figure skating is the women's beach volleyball of the Winter Olympics. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:57 3
  - I guess I don't see it that way. - Krusty Feb 12, 12:00 1
    - I don't think I've ever thought one of those beach volleyball athletes was hot but some of the skaters definitely are. -- nm - zork Feb 12, 12:02
  - no Sasha ? - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:58
Serious Olympic torch guess: Michael J. Fox. He's a Vancouver native. - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:50 16
- a non-athlete or anyone not related to sports/athleticism is a sucker bet -- nm - Reagen Feb 12, 11:54 2
  - heh -- nm - Spawn Feb 12, 11:55 1
    - Like, here's the list of people that have done it. -- (link) - Reagen Feb 12, 11:57
- apparently on the today show this morning, they were discussing Terry Fox (showing his picture) then Meredith called him Michael Fox. - Andie Feb 12, 11:54
- tasteless comment - Spawn Feb 12, 11:52 6
  - Ali did it. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:52 5
    - And he was an athlete. -- nm - Spawn Feb 12, 11:55
    - just barely IIRC - Danedukenuuk Feb 12, 11:54 3
      - That's why it worked (overcoming adversity to light the torch). But I guess the Ali comparison would be inevitable. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:55 2
        
        it made me more sad then anything else - Danedukenuuk Feb 12, 12:00
        
        too similar maybe -- nm - zork Feb 12, 11:56
- That was what I was thinking. -- nm - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 11:52
- Easy money over here! Easy money! -- nm - Roger More Feb 12, 11:51 3
  - C'mon, if not TFox's mom, then his brother. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:53 2
    - TFox's mom. heh. -- nm - Diva Feb 12, 11:57
    - but, his father ran this morning, right? that might be strange to have two of them on the last day -- nm - Andie Feb 12, 11:54
or some connection to Tom Cochrane's Big League - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:50 3
- also Graham Greene - not Tom Green -- nm - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:57
- You know "Life is a Highway" is gonna make it into the Opening Ceremony at some point. - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:51 1
  - or something like back in the summer of '69 - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:53
Wait, wait, Bery had some news. Congratulations in order? - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 11:50 4
- Yeah, his lunch was awesome! -- nm - Spawn Feb 12, 12:04
- Indeed I did :) thanks! -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:55 [flickr] 2
  - Congrats bery, its ah, its a garnet -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 12, 12:18
  - Cpngrats again!!!! -- nm - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 12:02
deevs: with Sasha watching from home, i may have to actually root for a Canadian or some other country's skater -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:48 2
- I try to enjoy everyone when I have no clear cut fave from the US. I like that a hole in Yu-Na Kim's armor was exposed during the Grand Prix season. - Diva Feb 12, 11:54
- my advice: pick a potential international choker....nm - x Feb 12, 11:52
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- Roshambo -- nm - oblique Feb 12, 11:51
- for 6 teams: 2 3-team round-robins, top 2 in each group advance. semis, finals. -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 11:50
- No experience to offer, but you can Google tournament brackets and get PDFs ready to use. -- nm - mara Feb 12, 11:50
- Roundrobin format. -- nm - Krusty Feb 12, 11:50
- Five teams is a good "everyone plays everyone" set up. It'd be 10 prelim matches, and then the two best records play for the title. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:49 12
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    - You could do semis for the top four, with the winners playing a final -- nm - Roger More Feb 12, 11:51
    - yeah, unneeded. might as well just start over. with six, you could split into two divisions of three, everyone plays everyone, then champions play. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:50 9
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        stopwatch. combined time as a tie-breaker. -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 11:52 2
        
        not for all the games, dumbass. that's a pain in the ass. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:53 1
        
        it's okay, I can be the ref... - znufrii Feb 12, 11:54
        
        (are you talking flipcup? if you're talking flipcup, if a tie, do stopwatch time trials to determine the tiebreak.) -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:52 4
        
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        yeah, then you could do, say margin of victory as a tiebreak? tiebreaks are game dependent. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:56 2
        
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ALAN THICKE! -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:48
If the Van. Olympic organisers saw Strange Brew then they've likely booked Bob and Doug for the closing ceremony to extinguish the torch -- nm - zork Feb 12, 11:45 5
- The Sydney Games had a comedy act in their closing ceremony, involving an IOC official being knocked off the stage by a ride-on lawnmower - Roger More Feb 12, 11:52 2
  - I don't remember that at all. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:53 1
    - The closing ceremony was pretty forgettable. Another part was they got a bunch of Australian celebrities like Paul Hogan, Elle Macpherson etc and - Roger More Feb 12, 11:57
- Ooh, think of the size of the brew vat they'd need. -- nm - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 11:47
- beauty eh ? -- nm - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:46
So I want to face a fear of heights and or falling. Not gonna skyjump (ever!). But I'm thinking zip line. So went looking for a locator. -- (link) - mara Feb 12, 11:44 27
- I know a person who's best-friend's 4th cousin's wife went zip-lining and died. -- nm - loosi si Feb 12, 11:50 2
  - well, technically she died 13 and a half years later but still ... -- nm - loosi SI Feb 12, 11:54
  - actually, the zip line gave her cancer. then she died before she reached the bottom -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:51
- They're ranked by least number of deaths. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:47
- skydiving was so much less scary than ziplining (but I'm not afraid of heights). much less sense of speed. wind whipping by, but you're so removed - mafic Feb 12, 11:47 11
  - Skydiving kicks ass. I've only done one tandem jump ever, but it was amazing. -- nm - Shaun Feb 12, 11:52 4
    - Indeed. I paid the extra hundred bucks and had the guys hold onto my arms until I pulled the cord. - Dr.Vermin Feb 12, 11:55 3
      - I jumped by myself with a static line. Not much free fall that way, but I preferred the ride after the chute came out. - pmb Feb 12, 11:58 1
        
        We were high enough that we had 30 seconds of free fall. Just. Awesome. -- nm - Shaun Feb 12, 11:59
      - I think Shaun is talking about being in the air, not a hotel room. - crash davis Feb 12, 11:57
  - thats a good way of putting it -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:51
  - Whoa, really? Ack. -- nm - mara Feb 12, 11:48 1
    - for me anyway, but I have zero trouble with heights. a beginner course at a climbing gym is good. - mafic Feb 12, 11:52
  - and yet, easy to tell that your ass just fell out of a friggin plane. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:47 2
    - it might have been just fractions a of a second but there was a disconnect between the time I stepped off & the time I realized I wasn't in the plane -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:52
    - good point. dude did a flip when I went, so I got to see the plane shrink to nothing extremely quickly. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:49
- We did a great one in Cancun. Selvetica. Tons of fun -- nm - oblique Feb 12, 11:46
- I too want to do a zip line -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:45 9
  - used to set them up all the time when I still climbed. ours were maybe a little less safe than they should have been. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:48
  - *snip* -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:47
  - I'm also thinking climbing wall. One of those indoor places that really coddle beginners. :-) -- nm - mara Feb 12, 11:46 6
    - I've done a tandem skydive (my instructor strapped to my back). Actually the experience is quite magnificent. -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:48 2
      - Well, now you and mafic are making me rethink. I wonder if it would be more expensive, harder to find. Plus, I gotta think it's more potentially - mara Feb 12, 11:52 1
        
        it definitely did cost more than the zip line site I'm looking at right now. I figure that the instructors have a very vested interest in safety -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:56
    - oh those are fun... -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 11:47 1
      - I'm almost more nervous when I'm belaying than when I'm actually climbing... -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 11:47
    - Those are fun. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:47
yo Bery, before the kid is born, I say you organize an ST salmon fishing trip for June -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:44 2
- My dad's boat can only fit about 3 or 4 guests comfortably ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:53 1
  - Charter! -- nm - mara Feb 12, 11:54
TTIS; where does Drexel University rank in the field of Colleges? Number One son applied there without telling us. - landbeck Feb 12, 11:42 16
- My brother went there 20 years ago - it was a wee bit cheaper then - Harry Lime Feb 12, 11:50
- Is 20/30k for one years tuition? -- nm - Loyola Feb 12, 11:45 12
  - First year, on-campus housing, is just under 50K -- nm - landbeck Feb 12, 11:47 9
    - holy heck. it's philly. you sure can live off campus for less...nm - x Feb 12, 11:54 6
      - The base tuition is probably in the 36k range. It's not going to cost much less overall. -- nm - pmb Feb 12, 12:01 1
        
        Yeah, meals is where the dorms are a good thing. - Spawn Feb 12, 12:04
      - some campuses have rules against that, or opt-out penalties, to guarantee the dorms fill. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:55 3
        
        a tip from someone who works at a college: there is ALWAYS a way out of the dorms, regardless...nm - x Feb 12, 11:58 1
        
        interesting. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 11:58
        
        *some* - Spawn Feb 12, 11:56
    - Geez. -- nm - Loyola Feb 12, 11:49
    - *plugs his alum, good old Frostburg State* -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:49
  - tuition, room and board, for a private college? easy... -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 11:46
  - Yep, college isn't cheap here. Especially private schools. -- nm - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 11:46
- It's a very good school and is highly regarded locally. -- nm - decline Feb 12, 11:45
- Wikipedia always has that info. -- (link) - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:43
puppies are awesome! -- nm - poochinski Feb 12, 11:42
I say reward two of Canada's greatest contributors to its health and fitness - Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod. - Reagen Feb 12, 11:41 4
- ugh. he apparently is quite a prick. Say, how about that fired Can. Tire guy or the pedo- spilly beer dork. -- nm - zork Feb 12, 11:46
- I say whoever the subject of Courage by The Tragically Hip is -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:42
- moustache! -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 11:42
- Body Break! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:42
the Beachcombers on the flame ? -- nm - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:41 2
- I enjoyed those photos you linked on B2, especially the stretch one :) -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 11:42 1
  - there shall be more - lone canadian leafs fan Feb 12, 11:45
Click it and see! (The Hazel Bloom is kare's lovely blog about cooking, gardening, home decor.) -- nm - mara Feb 12, 11:41 8
- It's a fun blog. Lots of good recipes and, the latest, a good story about a rescued dog. -- nm - flavorize Feb 12, 11:43
- I see Hazel now and all I think of is Keeley. -- nm - Shaun Feb 12, 11:43
- Now this is just going to reinforce my confusion. ;) But it is an excellent story about her buddy. -- nm - the liioulu with less leggings Feb 12, 11:43
- It's Sunset, Kare style! -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 11:42 1
  - I was gonna go with, a west coast relaxed Martha Not so F;n uptight Stewart -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 12, 11:45
- i was going to put a hover caption on it, like there is over the little link icons (and usernames, and post dates/times), but I haven't got to it yet -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 11:41
- I saw a doggie -- nm - oblique Feb 12, 11:41 1
  - A kind of special entry -- there's very little about dogs, pretty much zero about "personal life" type stuff. -- nm - mara Feb 12, 11:46
I forgot what I was going to first with -- nm - oblique Feb 12, 11:40

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