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- Fri Apr 10, 2015 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 2015 MLB Predictions
- Replies: 12
- Views: 852
Re: 2015 MLB Predictions
sure, i'll embarrass myself: ALE Toronto Baltimore Boston New York Tampa ALC Detroit *Chicago Cleveland Kansas City Minnesota ALW LAAngels *Seattle Oakland Houston Texas NLE Washington *NYMets Florida Atlanta Philadelphia NLC Pittsburgh *St Louis Chicago Milwaukee Cincinnati NLW LADodgers San Diego ...
- Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:34 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
- Replies: 9064
- Views: 495460
Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
a) those eggs were much bigger 10...even 5 years ago b) i dislike milk chocolate but is that it? the chocolate in the last few years has made them sadly terrible ...yes, i realize i'm talking about a disgusting jizzy sugar egg. i get disappointed when junk food i like is changed or worse - discontin...
- Wed Apr 08, 2015 12:32 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Depression is awful, awful, awful....
- Replies: 294
- Views: 16335
Re: Depression is awful, awful, awful....
NOW i'm laughing.
(i absolutely hate horses btw. big ugly disgusting animals.)
:D
(i absolutely hate horses btw. big ugly disgusting animals.)
:D
duff wrote:At least no race horses were put down. We might lose more.
- Sun Apr 05, 2015 11:53 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Depression is awful, awful, awful....
- Replies: 294
- Views: 16335
Re: Depression is awful, awful, awful....
no word - i don't know what to expect or...? i suppose maybe check twitter but i confess to having watched the local news last night....that's grim isn't it.
- Sat Apr 04, 2015 10:39 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Depression is awful, awful, awful....
- Replies: 294
- Views: 16335
Re: Depression is awful, awful, awful....
Scott is his middle name, so he wasn't technically lying. :) I will not ever defend a lot of what happened here...that's not right: what he did to the Swamp. I never understood it. That being said, I have met him in person - first time years ago, and again after I moved here to Vancouver last year, ...
- Sat Apr 04, 2015 9:12 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Depression is awful, awful, awful....
- Replies: 294
- Views: 16335
Re: Depression is awful, awful, awful....
Kranepool tipped me off earlier...i don't tweet so it took me a while to hit the links etc...anways i left his address with the RCMP just now.
wtf. dammit.
wtf. dammit.
- Sat Apr 04, 2015 7:40 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Paging Travzilla. Mr. Travzilla (Stanley Cup Draft Game)
- Replies: 43
- Views: 5176
Re: Paging Travzilla. Mr. Travzilla (Stanley Cup Draft Game)
i kinda swore off fantasy type deals....but i'd be in if room. :)
- Mon Mar 30, 2015 10:53 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
Meszaros? Twice?? wtf
- Tue Mar 24, 2015 10:31 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
[...Max thanks Jimmy Howard for looking like he was in sneakers and Mylec pads in OT tonight...]
- Tue Mar 24, 2015 2:53 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
i think i'd rather give up one of the top 2 than see that jersey become real.
- Sat Mar 21, 2015 5:04 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
- Replies: 9064
- Views: 495460
Re: Random Thoughts About Thoughts Random
as always, YMMV. but my experience: 1) how "good" the guitar is will make or break you. "good" doesn't necessarily have anything to do with price at all - my first electric was something called a Gilbert Skylark, bought at Airport Music in Buffalo NY in the late 80s for about $10...
- Thu Mar 19, 2015 1:13 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
yup. have fun:
http://nhllotterysimulator.com/#/
crazy thing is of course that it's more likely one of the "bottom 3" teams do not get McDavid.
http://nhllotterysimulator.com/#/
crazy thing is of course that it's more likely one of the "bottom 3" teams do not get McDavid.
- Thu Mar 19, 2015 1:06 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
i'm not reflexively "lumping" LV in with anyone else as you're right, each market is different, but there are still gradients here....i think it's the expansion i'm more offended by than the market itself. 30 teams is enough (also said at 26...). there are more than a few existing franchis...
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:09 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
also this is complete and utter horseshit. 9000 people put in what, $50 maybe? after how many weeks? sorry i know you're in Vegas and all but putting a team there makes Phoenix look like Maple Leaf Gardens, sweet fuck. Hamilton sold something like 15000 not including all luxury boxes in no time and ...
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:01 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
fantastic.
sancarlos wrote:Coyotes.
- Tue Mar 17, 2015 12:01 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Cultural Blind Spots
- Replies: 524
- Views: 27517
Re: Cultural Blind Spots
hey...whoa whoa, now. Harry Potter is boss.
(but in with Pruitt; Zombies. although aren't they the same as Vampires? probably not but who fucking cares)
(but in with Pruitt; Zombies. although aren't they the same as Vampires? probably not but who fucking cares)
- Sun Mar 15, 2015 7:00 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Cultural Blind Spots
- Replies: 524
- Views: 27517
Re: Cultural Blind Spots
wow this could probably be a long list. quickly coming to mind: 1) anything related to the NFL post ~2000. I can name you Tom Brady, i've probably heard of someone else on the Patriots, and i might know 2 or 3 guys on the current Bills if their names were given to me. This is the more stunning since...
- Sat Mar 14, 2015 6:26 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: EPL 14-15, Home Stretch
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1508
Re: EPL 14-15, Home Stretch
Villa netting 4? away? in one HALF?
this Sherwood fella seems to be pushing the right buttons.
this Sherwood fella seems to be pushing the right buttons.
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 2:52 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: EPL 14-15, Home Stretch
- Replies: 29
- Views: 1508
Re: EPL 14-15, Home Stretch
indeed he was/is. :)
aside from last week which was shockingly awesome, between the Sabres and Villa i know how to pick the offensive powerhouses!
aside from last week which was shockingly awesome, between the Sabres and Villa i know how to pick the offensive powerhouses!
The Sybian wrote:Couldn't find an FA Cup thread, and figure I will be talking to myself with only Arsenal and Liverpool left. Someone was a Villa fan, Max maybe? ...
- Fri Mar 06, 2015 8:18 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Weather
- Replies: 2506
- Views: 135360
Re: The Weather
still no snow on the north shore mountains (minutes north of Vancouver) and no winter at all to speak of at all this year. have not worn my winter jacket once since last February.
- Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:21 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: 25 years ago today
- Replies: 4
- Views: 354
Re: 25 years ago today
shit. the small window in my life where i really followed basketball, i was in college at the time and living off-campus meant having cable so...it was TV (sports) 24/7. My memory is probably boosting him after all this time but he seemed larger than life to us, what a player/kid.
- Wed Mar 04, 2015 1:02 am
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Old Timey Music for Howard and DC
- Replies: 1597
- Views: 185213
Re: Old Timey Music for Howard and DC
ah, Rush the person is ok i guess. :P heh i never got into JCS for the religion (we were barely Catholic and that didn't last) - the story was weird and fun to me and the music creepy as hell. I do remember being "older" (what, 4?) and hearing Smoke On the Water all over the radio and thin...
- Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:47 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Old Timey Music for Howard and DC
- Replies: 1597
- Views: 185213
Re: Old Timey Music for Howard and DC
:) i kid, i kid. musical tastes, man!. I get that a lot of what i like is probably hated by a lot of people. Me, i cannot understand The Dead in any way - i won't say it's terrible, i just don't like any of it. different strokes - that's what makes it all interesting to me though. i love this thread...
- Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:15 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Old Timey Music for Howard and DC
- Replies: 1597
- Views: 185213
Re: Old Timey Music for Howard and DC
oh DC...you hurt me....
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 7:08 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Today I became a man.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2072
Re: Today I became a man.
i can parallel park like a motherfucker. something i've found to be a unique skill in BC; we often identify "The BC Parallel Park" here - so hilariously bad. (someone taught the entire province en masse to drive in head first...back up...forward/backward...pause....abort...crank tires...gi...
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 5:44 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
sucks...boy was he having a hell of a year.
will be even more tough for the Flames to fight off the Kings (and others)... i know this has been a bit of a bonus/unexpected year anyways but i'm still rooting for them to sneak in.
will be even more tough for the Flames to fight off the Kings (and others)... i know this has been a bit of a bonus/unexpected year anyways but i'm still rooting for them to sneak in.
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 4:58 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Today I became a man.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2072
Re: Today I became a man.
I don't know, B... at best i'll give you a tie but changing oil is also some sort of evil magic that i am only too happy to pay someone else to waste their time doing. Who knew door handles had screws? I'm with you. i would put money down right now that i know less about cars than not only any of yo...
- Mon Mar 02, 2015 4:55 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
Giordano out for the season.
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:24 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Today I became a man.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2072
Re: Today I became a man.
i would put money down right now that i know less about cars than not only any of you here but your significant others and probably your children and possibly pets as well.
Bapo!, changing a battery is like flying to the moon to me.
Bapo!, changing a battery is like flying to the moon to me.
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 10:22 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
wow. Angelo fn Esposito. the (former-then-not) consensus #1 overall pick? i saw him play in juniors that draft year. total meh.
speaking of having seen...James Sheppard was fantastic in junior. you just never know.
speaking of having seen...James Sheppard was fantastic in junior. you just never know.
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:48 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
Mats ZUC re-signs in NY. 4/$18M
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:45 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
not really - he's just on a good team now. he was actually pretty decent for the Sabres this year.
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:40 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
btw this Jets/Kings game was highly entertaining. I love these Winnipeg Sabres.
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Today I became a man.
- Replies: 49
- Views: 2072
Re: Today I became a man.
i used pliers today. I would give myself a B- on my performance.
you win.
you win.
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 6:13 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
slightly more rational after a few minutes...if Yandle can bring a price like that I'm hoping Stewart can bring back maybe as much.
p.s. f Arizona.
p.s. f Arizona.
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
f the Coyotes and hard. i hate everything about that entire franchise.
Shane Doan can smoke it too. dingus.
Shane Doan can smoke it too. dingus.
- Sun Mar 01, 2015 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
- Replies: 641
- Views: 32183
Re: THE 2014-2015 NHL Regular Season Thread
you're pre-barfing...? i'm starting a 6-week vomitorium in which i worry that Arizona steamrolls past the Buffalo tank...
- Sun Feb 22, 2015 5:51 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Scotch Thread
- Replies: 97
- Views: 6357
Re: The Scotch Thread
If pressed I'd have to pick Talisker or The Macallan. both quite different - Talisker for the peat. :)
- Thu Feb 19, 2015 2:00 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: Second place
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1073
Re: Second place
if i still lived in/near Boston I think at this point i might actually have purchased an A-Rod shirtsey for this season. I did receive Billy Joel albums for my birthday twice as a kid, so i'm not sure where that puts me in the rankings (52nd St / Glass Houses). I'm still low but if there's any "...
- Mon Feb 16, 2015 2:09 pm
- Forum: The Swamp
- Topic: The Scotch Thread
- Replies: 97
- Views: 6357
Re: The Scotch Thread
HA! although i had to review and think where did i recommend it? i actually didn't...i just told you all i was sipping it. :) I wouldn't buy it again either, it's fine, and i had a $50 gift certificate (!!) to a local liquor store and i'd decided to get something i'd never had. Interestingly enough ...