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There was no Glass Tiger? -- nm - Dano Feb 28, 20:52 1
- any Chilliwac? - jingoist pixie Feb 28, 20:57
also, i know the nature of the game doesn't lend itself to it, but just once I'd like to see a TAR team that blows all the other teams away - jingoist pixie Feb 28, 20:40 15
- team Cha Cha Cha -- nm - peglegpete Feb 28, 20:58
- "How did you get behind us?" "We're lapping you." -- nm - Max Feb 28, 20:47
- minimal use of motor skills would be a blessing to many of them -- nm - peglegpete Feb 28, 20:47
- They were named Rob and Amber. -- nm - David Feb 28, 20:46 5
  - sorry, a "team i don't hate" -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 28, 20:51 3
    - You want a likable team on TAR? Good luck. -- nm - David Feb 28, 20:58 2
      - Cowboys are doing good so far, in my opinion. for now. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 20:59 1
        
        Last year's winner was statistically dominant. -- nm - David Feb 28, 21:00
  - That was such a great season. -- nm - nubby Feb 28, 20:49
- Mirna and Charla did it in the All Stars season -- nm - Roger More Feb 28, 20:41 2
  - that . . . astounds me -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 28, 20:42 1
    - Charla was good at bullying airline agents, and IIRC got the only tickets available during some religious festival in Tanzania - Roger More Feb 28, 20:46
- I think, thus far, that's the part that annoys me the most. That you seem to totally lose your margin of victory day to day. -- nm - TFox Feb 28, 20:41 2
  - The first season, teams got a day behind, and it took out all the suspense. - psilotum Feb 28, 20:47 1
    - I understand the production reasons for it. But it's also the main reason I never watched the show before. - TFox Feb 28, 20:48
i love sunday nights when i have absolutely nothing to do -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 28, 20:29 6
- I know! That happens so rarely for me. Tomorrow spring break ends. :( Back to class. Starting neuroscience. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Feb 28, 20:33 1
  - why did you have Spring Break in the winter? also, why do you start new classes in the middle of the semester? -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 28, 21:00
- you got time to lean, you got time to clean. -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 28, 20:32 3
  - oh i need to clean. next sunday -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 28, 20:35
  - damn managers, always breaking up our socializing time -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Feb 28, 20:33
  - *hides* -- nm - Loosi Feb 28, 20:33
I gotta say, I think those were my best Olympics ever - Guigue Feb 28, 20:25 2
- I agree, except for that closing ceremony. That might have ruined it for me. -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 20:32 1
  - You're just jealous they didn't work in a urination joke when Salt Lake City hosted -- nm - Roger More Feb 28, 20:41
so Trish, you prefer Idaho over Gallatin now? :( Gallatin weeps for the loss -- nm - i'm not dead yet ! Feb 28, 20:12
That turned into one hell of a rave. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 28, 20:01
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief: A - Hotkiss Feb 28, 19:59 3
- what sport were they competing in? -- nm - zork Feb 28, 20:06 2
  - *confused* -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 28, 20:23 1
    - isn't this the Olympic board? -- nm - zork Feb 28, 20:34
OK, k-os needed to be way further up in the show. -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:55 2
- something like that should have been buried between ... umm ummm - zork Feb 28, 20:03
- Agreed. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 28, 19:56
I think they took this chick away from her shift at Chez Paree. -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:52 2
- I'd never heard them before ... that band sounded pretty cool, despite my lack of understanding of french -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 19:54 1
  - Actually it's just her (I guess her band follows her but it's a solo act) -- nm - Guigue Feb 28, 20:00
What's Mitsou up to these days? -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:50 8
- last I heard she was working at a radio station. I miss her. - zork Feb 28, 19:53 5
  - She's still very very hot -- nm - Guigue Feb 28, 20:05 4
    - damn you. now I won't be able to think of anything but her for the next week. I never did see that video ... - zork Feb 28, 20:08 3
      - Sorry, I don't know what video you're talking about -- nm - Guigue Feb 28, 20:14 2
        
        This one? -- (link) - Guigue Feb 28, 20:15 [youtube] 1
        
        Oui, although ... - zork Feb 28, 20:23
- Doing a stupid cooking show on Radio-Canada. She also has a Magazine - Guigue Feb 28, 19:52 1
  - Office Christmas Party I mean -- nm - Guigue Feb 28, 19:53
Evil Dead done in 60 seconds in Claymation -- (link) - Facto Feb 28, 19:50
oh jeebus god no not these guys. Bring back Nickelback. -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:47 4
- for those who don't know (i.e. Americans), the lead singer of Hedley got pretty far on Canadian Idol a few years ago. -- nm - zork Feb 28, 19:51 1
  - Like I said, American tv ended coverage when Nickelback was mentioned. -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 19:55
- Wow I'm just now discovering Hedley! - Guigue Feb 28, 19:48
- The only band that could make me say that is... oh shit. -- nm - nubby Feb 28, 19:48
WWE future endeavored CHarlie Haas. -- nm - Remlik Feb 28, 19:46
your five dollar bill has a picture of kids playing hockey on a pond? - jingoist pixie Feb 28, 19:44 7
- Plus you can turn Laurier into Spock. -- (link) - Reagen Feb 28, 19:47 3
  - that's hilarious, thanks -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 28, 20:09
  - Redmond alert: Bacon Magazine -- nm - Roger More Feb 28, 19:57
  - that's freakin' hilarious - zork Feb 28, 19:50
- Well, that's really like the sub-currency. The real currency features Sandy McTire. -- nm - TFox Feb 28, 19:46
- Yes, it does. No, it isn't messed up. Kid, your FACE is messed up. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 19:45 1
  - (... from playing hockey) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 19:45
that looks like a wardrobe malfunction waiting to happen -- nm - zork Feb 28, 19:38 3
- Sadly, we switched away as soon as Nickleback was mentioned. -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 19:52
- Sadly, we switched away as soon as Nickleback was mentioned. -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 19:51
- "We've secretly replaced Alanis with Sofia Vergara. Let's see if anyone notices." -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:40
This is party-clearing music if I've ever heard it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:38 1
- You know what they need to play to get this party started? -- (link) - Beryllium Feb 28, 19:42 [youtube]
*click* -- nm - Qale Feb 28, 19:33
Good thing I started watching again. That was awesome :) every Canadian stereotype in the known universe ... followed by Nickelback. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 28, 19:29 9
- And Avril! -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 19:31 1
  - she can be *my* girlfriend -- nm - zork Feb 28, 19:34
- Is a pyro accident too much to ask for here? -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:30 6
  - The fourth torch pylon finally emerges from the stage, lighting the whole band on fire. -- nm - TFox Feb 28, 19:31
  - I really don't like Nickelback, but I don't totally hate that song... -- nm - Guigue Feb 28, 19:31 4
    - at least it wasn't the song about him getting oral, or the song about something funny being on a dude's head -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:32 3
      - Yes, that's a good thing. Couldn't it have been one of their earlier songs, though? or, like, not them playing at all? :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 19:40 2
        
        We've heard their earlier songs so many times, it would have been worst - Guigue Feb 28, 19:42 1
        
        hence the second part of my statement :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 19:43
And now the Games are ruined. -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:28
No! -- nm - Roger More Feb 28, 19:28
I wonder if even half of that translated. -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:27 6
- I liked it - Guigue Feb 28, 19:30 4
  - Yikes, I'm typing while doing my taxes and watching the show, I'm not always that bad, I swear! - Guigue Feb 28, 19:34
  - "we enjoy makig of ourselves!" -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 19:33 2
    - It says that, Alanis aside, Canadians get irony -- nm - Roger More Feb 28, 19:36 1
      - heh. good timing -- nm - zork Feb 28, 19:37
- Canadians are gay? -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 19:28
so when do they start pouring the maple syrup down over everyone? -- nm - JenBro Feb 28, 19:27
Lumberjacks! - Spawn Feb 28, 19:25 3
- they still have time for Rush! -- nm - Remlik Feb 28, 19:26 2
  - Poisin Ivy has me confused. -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 19:27 1
    - yeah I'm, at a loss for that one. -- nm - Remlik Feb 28, 19:28
it's like a big hokey variety show -- nm - mara Feb 28, 19:25 1
- I am trying to understand the international significance of a flying moose. -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 19:26
This is... something. -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 19:24 5
- I'm expecting Johnny LaRue any moment - zork Feb 28, 19:27 3
  - give him his crane shot! -- nm - jingoist pixie Feb 28, 19:28 2
    - you get 100 rare zork points for that one -- nm - zork Feb 28, 19:29 1
      - Polynesian Town is Canada's Citizen Kane - jingoist pixie Feb 28, 19:52
- It's like that Simpsons couch gag with the dancing elephants -- nm - Roger More Feb 28, 19:26
This week's NPR Sunday Puzzle challenge - nubby Feb 28, 19:23 1
- 2: House? -- nm - Max Feb 28, 19:28
the wide shots look like a giant snow globe -- nm - zork Feb 28, 19:23
TFox, were you still at Vandy when the F5s hit Nashville and Sumner County? I still lived in Sumner County. The first one took out our electrical sys - Trish, Eveni Plushenko lover Feb 28, 19:22 1
- My freshman year was the year the tornado touched down in Centennial Park and killed one of my classmates. - TFox Feb 28, 19:27
One of our markets has baby asparagus for 79 cents/lb this week. I think I may try freezing some. -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 28, 19:22
Mount...ies. -- nm - Spawn Feb 28, 19:19 2
- nice mounties. -- nm - Remlik Feb 28, 19:19 1
  - I don't see the FBI or CIA pulling that off - zork Feb 28, 19:21
ahh, the other national anthem -- nm - zork Feb 28, 19:19
I understand when Britney Spears lipsyncs but that's just insulting... -- nm - Guigue Feb 28, 19:17
I'm hoping they do the Lumberjack song -- nm - Roger More Feb 28, 19:14 1
- Did they do it? - psilotum Feb 28, 20:43
very nice! -- nm - Remlik Feb 28, 19:14
hmm ... catherine o'hara made me lose interest -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 19:09
FUCK YEAH! -- nm - Remlik Feb 28, 19:07
Congrats, Canucks! I was really pulling for y'all by the end. - Dr.Vermin Feb 28, 19:06 2
- Costas needs some learning. Nothing's close to Henderson in '72. -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:10
- she's really serving them up -- nm - zork Feb 28, 19:08
Ha! Sh!t My Canadian Dad Says! -- nm - zork Feb 28, 19:06
The Shat! -- nm - Reagen Feb 28, 19:05
I've heard this song performed before, I just don't remember where. -- nm - Buzz Feb 28, 19:03
could the announcer just shut up so we can hear Neil Young and not him? - JenBro Feb 28, 18:59
on to the Goodwill Games of 2011! - Remlik Feb 28, 18:56 1
- Up With People! -- nm - Redmond Feb 28, 18:58
People, she said CYCLONE, not TORNADO! - Subversive Feb 28, 18:49 6
- I didn't say they were... LIR -- (link) - Cuzzin Todd Feb 28, 19:22 [Backboard]
- I thought they were only referred to as cyclones in the Pacific and Indian Oceans -- nm - zork Feb 28, 18:52
- I knew there was a difference. I knew very well. However, the Wizard of Oz used the words interchangably. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 18:51 2
  - Maybe it's a regional Midwestern colloquialism but the term "cyclone" is used to describe a twister in a dust-storm type of thing. - Cuzzin Todd Feb 28, 19:28
  - Because the Scarecrow didn't have a brain, dummy -- nm - Redmond Feb 28, 18:52
- One is a fence, one destroys a fence -- nm - Redmond Feb 28, 18:51
I think we found th e one person on the planet who has worse french pronunciation than I do -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 18:48 3
- I missed it, who was it? -- nm - Guigue Feb 28, 18:49 2
  - I think it was John Furlong, organizer of VANOC ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 28, 18:50 1
    - His french was remarkably bad during the opening ceremony, so that is not shocking. - Subversive Feb 28, 18:51
Speaking of new foods: I tried curry for the first time last night. - kelly Feb 28, 18:47 10
- I do a traditional British (Indian) curry. Any leftover meat, raisins, and chopped apple, over rice. -- nm - MojaveMeg Feb 28, 19:13
- mmmm I love curry - Stephen Feb 28, 19:05
- cool! I would say not typical (for Indian food). Peanuts in curry is more of a Thai thing. -- nm - loosilu Feb 28, 18:58
- There are lots of variations. I love Indian food. -- nm - Subversive Feb 28, 18:50 4
  - This was Thai, actually. - kelly Feb 28, 18:53 3
    - FYI, there isn't a curry plant. Curries are just blends of various spices. -- nm - zork Feb 28, 18:55 1
      - fenugreek, coriander, cumin, turmeric, red pepper, garlic - psilotum Feb 28, 19:10
    - galang - jingoist pixie Feb 28, 18:55
- love curry. even our dogs love it. -- nm - zork Feb 28, 18:49
- Far Out! -- nm - Redmond Feb 28, 18:49

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