DLD 11/17/09 - Nintendo 64 and a Nerd's top 10 Epic Movie Fights
by micdog2001 on Nov 18, 2009 7:53 PM PST
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PrintInspired by Sunday's release of the New Super Mario Bros. Wii, I will continue in my "series" of Nintendo console DLD's. If you didn't see in the last DLD, here was the "premiere" of the game in NYC. BUT I will save the Wii for another Daily Dump, keep your Wii discussions to "should I buy one" only. We can go in depth IF you want later.
Next up is the Nintendo 64. Ah 1996, such a good year :-)
I don't think I purchased my N64 until 1997 but I could be wrong. My older cousin owned it first and he would invite my friends and I over to play it and we would stay up all night playing. Obviously I wanted my own but I did want to sell my SNES for it. The N64 would be the first Nintendo system I actually paid for all by myself. My Dad owns a small construction company (he built a house for Rita Moreno in the Oakland hills a few years ago. That hill was steep and digging holes on it for planting trees and carrying the dirt up the hill in buckets SUCKED! I had a giant purple bruise on my bicep after that day but anyways) and I worked a couple weeks for him in the summer demoing the back of a house in San Francisco with my cousin. I used my nepotistic salary to purchase the new 3D Nintendo system, an extra controller, and Star Fox 64. Even though Super Mario 64 was a launch game and revolutionary, I never bought it. The N64 was the first Nintendo console to feature a analog control stick as the main way to control your character. In fact, I can barely remember using the directional pad (D-Pad) for anything except in fighting games? It also was the first Nintendo console to have 4 controller ports, come if different colors, feature controller extensions like the rumble pack and controller pack memory card, and it was the last home console to feature game cartridges instead of discs (to reduce piracy and give it faster load times). It sold well in North America but it wasn't as popular in Japan or other regions. It has been speculated the reason was the lack of role-playing games. The ability to have up to 4 people playing a the same time in some games was probably its biggest selling point IMO. I think it was the first home console ever to come standard with more than 2 controller ports. My greatest memories of playing the N64 were 4 player matches in Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64. Here is my list of the best Nintendo 64 games in alphabetical order;
**UPDATE** As JediLeroy pointed out, this isn't a best of N64 list but rather "My personal favorite N64 games"
- All Star Baseball 2001 (the last good ASB game)
- Army Men: Sarge's Heroes
- BattleTanx:Global Assault
- F-Zero X (not as good as the original but Death Match was a cool addition)
- Forsaken (this only makes my list b/c of the multiplayer)
- Goldeneye (one of my all time favorite games)
- Jet Force Gemini (I always think of Huey Lewis and the News with this game because I listened to them while playing it)
- Killer Instinct Gold (Ultimate Combo! I liked this way better than Mortal Kombat)
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (One of my all time favs and one of the best games ever made {after I finish the console DLDs I will do a best video game ever Link Dump})
- Mario Kart 64 (only on the list because my cousin liked it and we had a lot of group races and battles.)
- NBA Hangtime (basically an improved version of NBA Jam. Alley-oops and double dunks baby!)
- NFL Blitz (now this is NOT the No Fun League)
- Perfect Dark (basically goldeneye in a different universe. It had more multiplayer features like computers player with multiple personalities, and customizable weapon modes but somehow Goldeneye still holds an edge over it)
- Rainbow Six (a port of a PC game but still cool. more "realistic" FPS)
- Star Fox 64 (The rumblepack came bundled with the game)
- Super Mario 64
- Super Smash Bros. (classic nintendo characters fighting each other? SWEET!)
- Turok: Dinosuar Hunter (There were some awesome weapons in this game but parts where you had to jump were difficult)
- Worms Armageddon (technically I never played this on the N64 but the PC version was great)
In homage to the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, one of the game weapons is a Holy Hand Grenade, with a sound-effect reminiscent of the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah.
My personal top 5 Nintendo 64 games.
- Goldeneye
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Star Fox 64
- Killer Instinct Gold
- All Star Baseball 2001
And finally, I promised a top ten list of epic movie fights. These are the rules set forth by the editor.
All of the movies on this list have fight scenes that last over five minutes, consist of thousands of dollars of collateral damage, break bones, bust skulls and make our eyes bleed from sheer awesomeness.
I have never seen or heard of John Carpenter's They Live before. I might have to add that to my blockbuster movie queue.
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Sorry, but right now I don't give a damn about video games
I used to love Remote Control :-(
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
That's sad news
I loved Remote Control as well. Damn the people we grew up watching are starting to die I think that means we’re getting old or something.
That sucks.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
so did
Edward Woodward,star of the original Wickerman (which is awesome), and owner of an amazing name
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
I remember him mostly as The Equalizer
and you’re right his Wickerman is actually good compared to Nic Cage’s which is either the worst movie ever made or the funniest depending on your mood.
His Wickerman is good, compared to almost anything
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
Your top 5 is perfect.
Probably the three best games ever.
What you fail to understand in your joyless myopia is that baseball is the key to life-- the Rosetta Stone, if you will. If you just understood baseball better all your other questions your, your... the, uh... the aliens, the conspiracies they would all, in their way be answered by the baseball gods.
1 and 2 were easy
although some people might flip them. Most people would have Mario 64 up there but I just never got fully into that game.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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I'd probably flip them.
And that’s not a slight towards Goldeneye—Ocarina of Time was just that good. One of the best games ever made, for sure.
No, there's no light,
in the darkest of your furthest reaches.
it was WAY better than Majora's Mask
I couldn’t get into that game. I wanted to be adult link, not a zora/goron/deku. I also hated the 3 day clock where you had to keep going back in time.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Yeah, Majora's Mask was nowhere near as good.
To be fair, nearly anything would have looked bad by comparison, but Majora’s Mask was too short, and the dungeon design wasn’t quite up to snuff. The three-day clock was an interesting idea (things only occured at certain times), but being forced to repeat everything was pretty terrible.
No, there's no light,
in the darkest of your furthest reaches.
Mario 64 Blew my mind.
My Fav game easily for the N64.
"Carter's 25-game hitting streak isn't any normal streak. He's 46 for 97 (.474 average) during the run, adding 16 walks and compiling 81 total bases in the process. I'm out of superlatives for what he's doing." - Kevin Goldstein
2010 Chone projections are out
http://www.baseballprojection.com/2010/OAK2010.htm
I was gonna do a fanpost and stuff, but I’m lazy
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
woah... is it just me, or does that look pretty brutal?
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
what? were you expecting the A's to have a good offense?
But more seriously, does anyone know if that R150 column is runs above average, or above replacement?
Also, for the minor leaguers, those numbers are MLE, right?
It's runs above average
The minor leaguers are, well, what they’d be projected to do in the major leagues… (Not sure I’m understanding what you’re asking there.)
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
so they project Matt Carson to hit 15 HRs in the majors
IF he played there all year?
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Basically, yeah
although I find counting-stat projections to be basically worthless, so I’d not put much stock in that. Stick to the rate stats to be safe.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
what's especially weird
is how for one player who definitely will not see time with Oakland in 2010 (say, Josh Horton), they project 125 games and 376 at-bats, while for another (say, Larry Cobb), they project 80 games and 181 at-bats. Anyway, we all know that playing time projections are pretty dumb, so I won’t get worked up about it.
Yeah, I'm not expecting much, obviously
but to see them lined up like that… ouch
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
the fact they have Javier Herrera listed...
those projections lose credibility for me – he was cut long, long ago. C’mon, a little fact checking goes a long way!
"just a beating heart ... plasma that we'll put into our uniform." - Billy Beane
by athleticsBB4life on Nov 17, 2009 7:24 PM PST up reply actions
Dude, it's a computer program
Don’t be ridiculous.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
Dude, you haven't seen They Live?
Roddy Piper was great in that one. “I’m here to kick ass and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”
death to myspace!
by malikot on Nov 17, 2009 9:42 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
plus that fight scene
should be way higher than 7th on the list. It just keeps going — there is an absurdity to it after a while, but then you climb out of the canyon of absurdity to the promised land on the other side.
Rowdy Bobby Crosby
“I’m here to swing at sliders out of the zone and chew bubblegum. And I’m all out of bubblegum.”
So I went to add it to my blockbuster movie queue
and I found that I have Hell Comes to Frogtown on there, starring Rody Piper :-)
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Flat screens are part of a Walmart/Bestbuy price war
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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This was a good article..
Are you in the market for a new Flatscreen?
I already own a 55in HDTV from LG, so I want a smaller one for the bedroom and was going to go with plasma or something just like that 32inch for $246.00 at Target!!!
The foundational Western philosophical quote; "I think, therefore I am..." applies to everyone except Booby "the joke" Crozby
No, I just bought a 40 inch Sony recently
I just saw the article on the yahoo front page. LepoldBloom was looking at getting one a while ago.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Best fight scenes ever?
The 3 family guy fights between Peter and the Giant Chicken. Nothing can beat them.
Also, Goldeneye is still probably my favorite for that genre. The controls were so intuitive. So sleek. So simple, yet complex. I don’t think it’ll ever be beat, though Halo and Gears of War are up there.
Those are good fight scenes
but it is a TV show not a movie.
Reading the wikipedia page on Goldeneye was interesting. The multiplayer was almost an afterthought. Looking back on it now, the graphics are horrible but at the time they were awesome.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Rouge Squadron was a good game that you missed
but I spent the vast majority of my time with Zelda. What an amazing game.
"Since other people actually read these threads, though, probably best that your particular brand of wrongness not go completely unchallenged." - PT
There are differing opinions on me. According to Iglew "DFA is PT with a sense of humor. PT is DFA with introspective self-doubt. I like them both" but according to sirbed Im "The Stats Killer"
by designatedforassignment on Nov 17, 2009 10:38 AM PST reply actions
Oh yeah
I mostly played the Gamecube version of Rougue Squadron so I didn’t think of it.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Rogue* Squadron.
Played a lot of that and Shadows of the Empire. Everyone hated SotE but I irrationally loved it.
"We were shit, pathetic," Guillen growled early in spring training. "We hit too many home runs."
by lenscrafters on Nov 17, 2009 2:37 PM PST up reply actions
They Live is a fun,goofy movie
Not John Carpenter’s best by any stretch (hmm The Thing? or Halloween? or Escape from New York?….I’d go with The Thing)
As far as N64 games I never played any as I was a Playstation fanboy at the time although the PS1 is the only Playstation I ever owned as I switched to Xbox in the next generation of consoles.
I’m racking my brain but I don’t even remember any of my friends having a N64 but we played a heck of a lot of Madden on the Playstation.
none of your friends owned Goldeneye?
That makes Sad Panda sad.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
No most of my friends are either casual gamers or just play sports games
two of my closest friends are big time gamers but back in the mid 90’s they were playing PC games.
Of course Goldeneye is one of the most famous games of that era and God knows I’ve played plenty of FPS over the years but I never played Goldeneye.
Good news from Slusser
Ynoa
Beane recently returned from the Dominican Republic, where he saw top prospect Michael Ynoa, 18, pitch in a simulated game. Beane said that Ynoa, who was sidelined by an elbow strain most of the year, looked terrific, and is likely to start next season at extended spring training.
DLS
Another notable pitching prospect, Fautino De Los Santos, also impressed Beane in a simulated game. De Los Santos probably will work out of the bullpen in the minors next season after a slow recovery from Tommy John surgery.
Why is Ynoa still in the DR?
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
Chicago Report
This makes me think that last weeks report about DLS from the Chicago Times was probably accurate
by faninphilly on Nov 17, 2009 12:53 PM PST up reply actions
That DLS thing is bad news, not good news
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
I'm just glad to hear that he is pitching now
and that Beane is happy with the progress. Beginning next season in the bullpen does not exclude him from returning to starting after he fully recovers. Don’t you think?
I suspect that's what he says to his wife when she asks when he's going to mow the lawn
’I’m happy with the progress of the lawn’
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
How old is he going to be when he supposedly returns to starting?
25? 26? 50?
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
Wait. Nerds like movie fight scenes?
I would have guessed that for a jock thing. I can understand the video games*, but I don’t see what fight scenes in a movie has to do with being a nerd.
* Of course in my day, nerds played board games. And read books. Computers were only in the high school computer room. Nerds didn’t play games, we wrote them. And if you wanted any sort of animation, you had to write in 6502 assembly because BASIC was too slow. We called it “machine language”. Now where was I? Oh yeah, the important thing was I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time….
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
by iglew on Nov 17, 2009 1:17 PM PST reply actions 2 recs
Speaking of nerds back in the day...
Who the hell writes the Trivial Pursuit questions? Here’s one that I just saw during a game I was playing with my kids this afternoon:
What sci-fi board game is dubbed “D&D” by fanatics?
And yes, the answer is “Dungeons and Dragons”. Which is fine, except that a) D&D doesn’t have anything to do with sci-fi, and b) it’s not a board game.
"And Julio Franco is batting right-handed!" -- Wayne Hagin, A's radio play-by-play, mid-80s
That is seriously messed up.
I remember finding minor errors even in the original Genus 1 and Genus 2 of Trivial Pursuit, but nothing as ridiculous as that.
I suppose it’s hard to crank out thousands of trivia questions without slipping up occasionally, but you’ve got to do better than that. Makes me respect Jeopardy all the more. They’re not 100% perfect, but you can tell they’re serious about quality control.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Funny thing about Jeopardy
As many friggin episodes of that show that have been on, for as many years, you’d think that you may know a few people who were on the show?
Me, I know ONE guy and it’s through a fantasy baseball league.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
Maybe you just don't know that you know them
I mean, it’s not typically a life-changing event, particularly if you don’t win…
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
no, but I mean that sort of thing would come up in idle conversation eventually, you'd think.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
Some time in the mid-1980s
I drove down to L.A. and tried out. I passed the written test — they never do tell you exactly what the threshold of correct answers is to make the cut, but there were about 50 of us taking the test (of whom about half were serious, I’d guess) and only four passed. Then the four of us did a little fake game which they insisted was not a screen test, where we were supposed to buzz in with a little bell and answer out loud. I did terrible on that since I was on almost no sleep and was a total zombie. (It’s easy to answer written questions when zonked out but hard to be lively and alert.)
They said they may or may not call us, so soon after I went on home. I never heard back. At the time I assumed it really was a screen test and I had failed it. In retrospect I think it may be because I didn’t have an answering machine (this was 20 years ago, and I was trailing-edge techwise even then) so probably they did call during the day when I wasn’t home.
A couple months later I saw all three of the guys I had tested with, including one who was a five-day champion. (Back then they limited you to five.)
Some time around 1990 I realized that I’m getting dumber, not smarter, so the longer I wait to go back the worse my chances will be when I do get on the show, but I still just never get around to it. (My interview resume is getting better, though. When I was 20 I would have had nothing at all interesting to say about myself. Now I have plenty.)
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
You're not getting dumber, just more experienced
All the crap you store in your brain is still all there, just gets harder and harder to find. Kind of like a library and trying to find a specific page in a specific book out of a library with 20 rooms with a million books in each. Yeah the page is in there, just damn hard to find.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
I didn't mean dumber in real life,
only dumber in Jeopardy terms. I like to think I’m continuing to learn about the things that are important in life. But the ability to pull useless trivia out of my head on split second notice … not so much.
My memory has been declining since I was about 11, but for the next 10 years or so after that I was still learning enough to make up for it.
Anyway, more than 50% of Jeopardy is about being first on the buzzer. You can tell when watching that there are a lot of questions where all three of them know the answer. I once talked to a Jeopardy veteran (this was about 10 years ago, I think) and he told me stories about smart players losing solely because they couldn’t get their buzzer timing down. Apparently there’s a series of lights that go out indicating when the buzzers are live, which the contestants all see but you can’t see watching on TV, but you have to anticipate. He was in the tournament of champions and he said they altered the timing for the tournament which threw a bunch of people off and the ones who adjusted best won.
I’m quite sure than my hand-eye coordination and timing is not getting better with age.
(I would love to hear from EM about her experience with buzzer timing, by the way.)
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
You rang?
I’d tried out completely on a lark — a friend from work and her husband had signed up and invited me along. They watched the game a lot and were very excited about the prospect of getting on the show, and I didn’t particularly care, so of course I was the only one to pass the test. It was clear to me at the tryouts that they were looking for people who had some degree of warmth or personality on camera, but who weren’t too fidgety or chatty — who would answer Trebek’s questions nicely in the getting-to-know-you segment (which is completely staged, of course) but not start blathering in middle of the round about their cats or how they happened to know the capital of Pennsylvania because their parents had met there. A surprising lot of people did just that in the audition. The other thing that disqualified people in the audition was saying “Shit!” or “Motherfucker!” when they got a wrong answer, which also happened a lot. They tape five shows in a day, and ideally, they don’t want to edit or retake anything, so they want contestants who won’t make them have to do that.
Buzzer timing is definitely a big factor. The buzzer was a little funky to learn — it needed a firm pressure, not just a tap; some people had practiced with pens, but I’m not sure it helped. You can’t buzz in before Trebek finishes asking the question; if you try, you’re locked out for half a second or something which is usually long enough for someone else to hit their buzzer. So the returning player always has an advantage, because they’re already used to the buzzer. This becomes more or less of a factor depending who you’re up against. If the two other contestants have similar strengths and weaknesses to you, you’ll all be trying to buzz in right away on the same questions, so having the buzzer timing down is especially important. That isn’t always the case, but it was for me.
I was on an unusual all-female panel — Trebek mentioned that it had happened before, but only once or twice. All three of us knew the same answers, and were stumped on several, and our scores were pretty close. I don’t think it was necessarily because we were all women, but we were all bookish women with a good command of geography and world history, but who didn’t know much about chemistry and some other science or math category. As I recall, I was in the lead but not by much after the first round, and the returning champion was in the lead but not by much when we went into Final Jeopardy! I got the Final Jeopardy! answer wrong and the other two got it right, so I ended up in third place. This was fine with me because the third-place prize was a plain-paper fax machine (back in the day when fax machines were somewhat expensive) and the second place was an incredibly ugly bedroom set. The returning champion won, and then she got creamed in the next round by a man who knew both the literature and the science questions. She was a technical writer from Sunnyvale who was very fond of Jane Austen, and she ended up winning about $60,000. I wonder what became of her.
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
by Englishmajor on Nov 18, 2009 6:41 PM PST up reply actions
she probably squandered her winnings
and now is debt like Nicolas Cage.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Nicolas Cage is a dumbass
and I hope he dies penniless, unzipping hobo flies and going to town for booze money
"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 19, 2009 11:28 AM PST up reply actions
hobos don't have booze money for bjs.
They spend it all on booze.
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -Nevermoor
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 19, 2009 7:00 PM PST up reply actions
Awesome!
Thanks for the memoir, EM.
I remember many years ago there was a champion (I think he won the tournament that year) who always did the buzzer with two hands. He held it in front of him between his chest and his navel, with arms relaxed, so that the impulse comes from his pecs rather than his hands. In one of the interview bits Alex asked him about it and he specifically said it was for better timing. That made sense to me and ever since then I’ve always practiced at home that way. (Yes, I always click in when watching the show, but since I don’t know exactly what the timing is, I don’t know how much it helps.)
I don’t think I was a spaz during the (“this is not a”) screen test, but I was totally cold and lifeless. I’m definitely much more presentable and interviewable now. I hadn’t thought about the importance of not talking after answering a question. I do tend to babble, and I can see how a lot of the same people who would be good at Jeopardy might also be Aspergerish about not knowing when it’s appropriate. The swearing thing seems obvious, but I could see how if you are a habitual swearer it would be a hard habit to break even if you know better.
I’m honestly not sure if I say anything at home after getting a question wrong. I’m pretty sure I don’t swear, but I might go “D’oh!” or whatever. That would probably be another good thing to practice.
I’m convinced that the most important factor in winning is who you’re up against and how you all match up against the day’s categories. And especially the final question. There are times watching the show when all three miss the final but I know it, and I think “Today, I would have won.” Other days, I know it but so do others so then it’s a question of whether I’d have been in the lead, which might well come down to the buzzer.
I also wonder about betting on the daily doubles. I’ve observed that they are answered correctly well over 50% of the time, and I think I myself know the answer well over 50% of the time. That would suggest it’s probably smart to bet big on those. I think people are scared because there’s still that ~30% chance that it’s one you don’t know and if you’ve bet everything you’ve pretty much sunk yourself. But on the flip side, making a huge bet and doubling is very likely to give you the lead at the end, which is a huge determinant in who wins (since most finals either all know or all don’t). So really it’s pretty close to betting your entire game for the day on a single question. Do the odds support doing that? I think maybe they do.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
We play Drinking Jeopardy in my house
As a matter of fact, we’re about 10 seconds from playing right now. Anyway, your insight is intriguing. Thank you for sharing.
My roommates found your anecdote about people getting disqualified for cursing.
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My roommates found your anecdote about people getting disqualified for cursing.
Where was it hiding?
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
English Major was a contestant.
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -Nevermoor
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 17, 2009 4:42 PM PST up reply actions
Really? I've known several.
No one close, but counting anyone I had met or had some marginal contact with, at least a dozen. And probably a few more that I don’t know about because I wasn’t watching that year and/or they didn’t tell me.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Wasn't there a version (I don't know the evolution of it)
of D+D that was played on a board? With dice, and plastic doors and stuff? I seem to remember playing it.
When I was 7, obviously.
Ahem.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
DragonQuest?
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
there are endless fantasy board games
that range from traditional (i.e. Monopoly-ish) board game play to things that approach roleplaying. Besides PTs suggestion, I can come up with Talisman or DungeonQuest off the top of my head.
So, what your saying is, they came up with a similar name to dupe me into thinking it was the same thing?
DAMMIT CAPITALISM! I WILL BRING YOU DOWN
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
by bobnothing on Nov 18, 2009 8:27 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
HeroQuest is in that genre, too
although that’s technically based off of the Warhammer world, not the D&D world. Still, six of one, half a dozen of the other. Definitely fits bobnothing’s description, especially if he’s about the same age as me.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
well the website calls itself "nerd news"
that’s the only reason I said that. It seems like more of fanboy/geek website (since I go there myself) to me.
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Skywalking, a Tender Star Wars Love Ballad
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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One man a capella group does Ghostbusters.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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I wish he put on a shirt in that part
at least it was a tiny video box
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Breaking News
Late Monday night, the San Francisco Giants signed Free Agent Tutankhamen. Says San Francisco Giants General Manager Brian Sabean “I think its a good singing for the club. Tutty brings spunk, is already very gritty, and and despite his youth, I think he’ll be a great team leader, being a former member of the Pharaohs organisation.” Tutankhamen was signed for a price said to be between $1.333 Million and $1.324 Million BCE.
Don't believe in yourself.
Believe in Me who believes in You.
Shoulda went for Thutmose III
Doesn’t have the same name recognition, but man! Look at his conquering record!
I linked this a while back but now there are pictures
UK man building a full size house out of legos.
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well, there is a recession on
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
Them Crooked Vultures released today
Dave Grohl on drums + John Paul Jones (yes, that John Paul Jones) on bass & keyboards + Josh Homme on guitar & throat = Modern rock god awesomeness
Check it out if you consider music to be more than just background noise.
by Joey C. on Nov 17, 2009 6:36 PM PST reply actions 1 recs
so is Don't Stop, by Annie
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
wait is that the same annie that was at popscene last week?
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There are differing opinions on me. According to Iglew "DFA is PT with a sense of humor. PT is DFA with introspective self-doubt. I like them both" but according to sirbed Im "The Stats Killer"
by designatedforassignment on Nov 17, 2009 11:12 PM PST up reply actions
shitballs, I missed that
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
wait you go to popscene?
holy shit my baseball geek and awesome indie kid worlds are colliding.
"Since other people actually read these threads, though, probably best that your particular brand of wrongness not go completely unchallenged." - PT
There are differing opinions on me. According to Iglew "DFA is PT with a sense of humor. PT is DFA with introspective self-doubt. I like them both" but according to sirbed Im "The Stats Killer"
by designatedforassignment on Nov 18, 2009 6:57 PM PST up reply actions
sorry
I just googled popscene and confirmed that the same Annie played there last week. I’ve been living in Chicago for the last 7+ years, so not too many SF dance clubs.
yeah, but you get to see every cool band in the world
at The Metro.
Last Metro show I saw was Sonic Youth and Jim O’Rourke in 2002, right after a Cubs-DBacks game.
Awesome times…
"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 19, 2009 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
empty bottle ftw
I’m also pretty partial to the Hideout. But yeah, Chicago is an awesome place to see music. I think my last Metro show was Sleater-Kinney, so I have no cause for complaint there.
It was all about Lounge Ax, but that's been closed a long time!
"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 19, 2009 2:28 PM PST up reply actions
Oh, wow, I heard about it a while back, got excited, then forgot about it.
I’ll definitely have to take a look.
No, there's no light,
in the darkest of your furthest reaches.
True history nerd here.
When you say “yes, that John Paul Jones”, my only thought is “Huh? the naval hero of the Revolutionary War?” I know no other John Paul Jones.
I’ll bet I’m not the only one.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
(yes, you are)
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -Nevermoor
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 17, 2009 9:00 PM PST up reply actions
As far as I can tell, it's the return of the prog rock super group vanity project
but I might be wrong, obviously.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does
no, you're right...
They might as well be Blind Faith.
"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 18, 2009 2:43 PM PST up reply actions
No, you aren't
In what is probably the single least surprising revelation in the history of this site, I was also deeply confused by Joey C’s comment.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
And indeed I had you in mind, Paul,
but I refrained from actually naming you, just in case.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
okay, so there's two of you.
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -Nevermoor
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 18, 2009 4:47 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe three
I can’t tell about Colin’s response up there.
Having looked up the musical JPJ, I will acknowledge that he is notable and it’s fair to call it a gap in my cultural literacy not to have known him. But do all the rest of you really not know the historical JPJ? The guy who said, “I have not yet begun to fight”? I mean, come on, that’s basic grade school history. It’s not like knowing who Taft’s vice president was.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Oh, I'm well aware
All naval badassery aside, count me among those that worship at the altar of Led Zep.
Taft's VP
Sherman whose first name is……hmm I know he died in office and I want to say his first names was James.
Yes, James S Sherman
I memorized them after our last discussion. I was going to memorize all the losing candidates, too, but I never got around to it.
He didn’t die in office, though. He ran as Taft’s running mate again in 1912 in the three-way race won by Wilson. I remember this because Wikipedia had a line about how he was “the first incumbent vice president to be renominated at a national convention”, which is factually accurate but is stupid bar trivia that misleads more than it enlightens. Since national conventions began, the 1912 election was only the 20th, already a small sample size. But it’s really only a sample size of 8, because in the other 12 either the vice-president was dead, or had become president because the president died, or the vice-president was a running for president instead. (Plus one, as noted on the Wiki page, where the vice-president actually WAS the candidate again but technically was not nominated.)
This is a stupid meaningless stat, but of the sort beloved by presidential trivialists. It’s fine for trivia lists, but it’s bad for Wikipedia.
</rant>
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
there's something seriously wrong with all of you.
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -Nevermoor
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 19, 2009 9:01 AM PST up reply actions
No, I'm normal.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
You're not the first person to say that about me Bloom
I thought every 10 year old kid spent time wondering if William McKinley was an underrated President.
Got to get back to work….
Man, for me it was all about
watching baseball on TV and memorizing the 1969 World Atlas (in 1987) and wondering if MLB would ever expand to South Vietnam or the Territory Of The Afars and Isas.
"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 19, 2009 11:32 AM PST up reply actions
Issas.
I guess the Afars got along with the Issas better than the Hutus got along with the Tutsis, because I can’t recall ever hearing about any civil wars in Djibouti.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
*cough* Harding *cough*
Seriously, I’m of two minds about McKinley. If you accept the standard of greatness commonly applied to presidents — the one that loves Lincoln, FDR, Wilson, TR, etc — then I think you do have to say McKinley is underrated. By that standard he belongs in the second tier with guys like Polk and LBJ.
But I’m not sure I accept that standard, which seems to boil down to just who was most effective in expanding executive power. Is that really a good thing? I’m not sure.
Also, I wonder if the McKinley era wasn’t the key moment in our becoming an imperial nation. He wasn’t the first, and he wasn’t the worst, but it seems like that was when the trend became irreversible.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
My favorite was Jefferson
because he smoked pot,
answered the door of the WHITE HOUSE in his bathrobe,
and made little chocolate babies.
"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 19, 2009 2:30 PM PST up reply actions
They weren't very chocolate.
Octoroons.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
swirl.
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -Nevermoor
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 19, 2009 7:01 PM PST up reply actions
Choctoroon swirl!
"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 20, 2009 1:17 AM PST up reply actions
Bah, you two can keep your swirls.
Pure milk chocolate for me.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
I had to look it up but
Sherman did die in office. He died 3 days before the election so he was renominated but he didn’t make it to the election.
QOTM, November 1912
"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 19, 2009 2:31 PM PST up reply actions
Aha, I stand corrected.
Similar thing with Calhoun. He resigned, but not until after Jackson had tossed him overboard for Van Buren. Not that it was a surprise or anything.
Seems like a lot of vice presidents died in office. Even more than presidents, I think. Hmm, maybe I’ll have to do a count….
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
It's possible many of those VP's died of boredom
really until Nixon who was called into action because of Ike’s health problems most VP’s did little if anything.
It’s such an odd job as it’s really up to the President to come up for something for the VP to do.
The last three VP’s have had significant roles as advisors to their President but someone like Truman wasn’t even told about the Manhattan Project until he took over for FDR.
One of the things I learned in my
Wikipedia crash course in vice presidents is that McKinley’s first VP, Garret Hobart, was one of the rare ones who was actually active in the administration.
But he’s also one of the ones who died, which is how we got Teddy.
Another thing I learned is that John Nance Garner’s famous description of the vice-presidency as “not worth a bucket of warm spit” is a bowdlerization and he really said “not worth a bucket of warm piss”.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Also, I'd be less confused about the great divide between us, PT...
… if we weren’t roughly the same age. Doing roughly the same thing with our lives. Viva le difference!
...and they're cousins, identical cousins and you'
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -Nevermoor
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 19, 2009 7:02 PM PST up reply actions
ll find --
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
by Englishmajor on Nov 20, 2009 8:27 PM PST up reply actions
EM with the assist!
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -Nevermoor
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 20, 2009 9:09 PM PST up reply actions
Wow, no offense, but that's a terrible list
Space Station Silicon Valley
Banjo Kazooie (+Tooie)
Paper Mario
Blast Corps
Rayman 2
Ogre Battle 64
Donkey Kong 64
1080 Snowboarding
Tony Hawk
San Francisco Rush 2049
Waverace 64
Hangtime was horrible. Awfully cheap AI.
My top five is probably as follows:
1. Zelda: tOoT
2. Paper Mario
3. Mario 64
4. Goldeneye
5. Waverace
In order of hours played, here’s my top 5:
1. San Francisco Rush 2049
2. Mario Kart 64
3. Waverace
4. Goldeneye
5. 1080
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
Rush was pretty bad ass
"Since other people actually read these threads, though, probably best that your particular brand of wrongness not go completely unchallenged." - PT
There are differing opinions on me. According to Iglew "DFA is PT with a sense of humor. PT is DFA with introspective self-doubt. I like them both" but according to sirbed Im "The Stats Killer"
by designatedforassignment on Nov 17, 2009 11:13 PM PST up reply actions
A modern day warrior, mean mean stride...
No, there's no light,
in the darkest of your furthest reaches.
you obviously like racing games more than me
I only had 2 on my list and one I didn’t even own (MK 64).
I never played Waverace, SFR 2049, 1080, Tony Hawk, Blast Corps, Rayman 2 (I since have played the Raving Rabbid games on Wii), or SSSV. Paper Mario was alright but there is too much dialog for my tastes, DK 64 was alright but I didn’t play it much, Banjo Kazooie was a great game but not my taste is gaming. I played Orge Battle 64 once and got bored (I don’t like starcraft of WOW either).
At least we can agree on Zelda and Goldeneye :-)
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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I'm honestly more of an adventure/RPG fan.
The games I played the most were all multiplayer games. But the ones that I liked the most—that I think were the most well-made games of all, were the adventure/RPG/platformer type. Star Fox was wonderful, as well.
More than anything, I just was surprised that you included some titles that received average reviews while leaving off many of the system’s highest rated titles.
Your list seemed more like a “games that I owned or played” list than an actual “best games” list.
In my mind, Army Men (61.76% aggregate review score), NBA Hangtime (70.26%), Rainbow Six (73.71%), and Battletanx 2 (75.98%) have no place on a best-of list. They’re all good, but not great. It’d be like including War of the Worlds in a top 5 Spielberg movies list.
But then, I’m kind of an elitist prick, especially when it comes to media. Of course, I fully realize that everybody is entitled to their own opinion, and that yours is wrong. :)
Here are the GameRankings pages for a few more games:
San Francisco Rush 2049 (85.33% aggregate reviews)
Zelda: Majora’s Mask (91.80%)
Blast Corps (88.81%)
Wave Race 64 (91.93%)
Rayman 2 (88.91%)
Tony Hawk (92.12%)
1080 Snowboarding (90.49%)
Paper Mario (88.74%)
Space Station Silicon Valley (85.91%)
Donkey Kong 64 (87.39%)
Banjo-Kazooie (92.55%)
Banjo Tooie (90.68%)
You could also make a strong case for the International Superstar Soccer games, which were fantastic.
I’ve got no problems with the other titles you mentioned, as they’re all either good or great, in my opinion. I know that critical consensus doesn’t always mean that we’ll like something. But most well-made games get pretty good reviews most of the time.
Of course, these are all just opinions anyway. But you owe it to yourself to try those other games some time. They’re all very good.
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
you are correct
Your list seemed more like a "games that I owned or played" list than an actual "best games" list.
I guess I should have labeled it “My favorite N64 games” or “N64 games that I had the most fun playing”. the 4 games with low gamerankings you mentioned weren’t ground breaking but I had a lot of fun playing them with friends despite their shortcomings. That is why I’m not doing best of posts for Playstation, Xbox, or PC games because I rarely played them.
I correctly labeld my NES list and SNES list and I will edit this one to avoid further confusion.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Aww, I wasn't trying to change anything
Just giving you a hard time about it. :) And seriously, you should try those games some time.
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
Beane looking for young FA's
http://www.contracostatimes.com/athletics/ci_13810759
A’s general manager Billy Beane reiterated Tuesday that the A’s are targeting for acquisition young players who could fit into the team’s long-range plans.
And he gave his strongest confirmation yet that any additions this winter are likely to come through trades rather than free agency.
Though Beane says re-signing third baseman Adam Kennedy, 33, is “still an option for us,” he implied the A’s are looking to go younger there.
It’s also evident the A’s aren’t ready to anoint prospect Brett Wallace the starter at third — not yet anyway.
“It’s a position that other than Brett, we don’t really have a long-term answer,” Beane said. “Our first goal this winter, at the positions we need to fill, is to try and fill them with young guys first. If we get into January and we haven’t acquired a young player, we’ll consider guys to fill in temporarily (through free agency).”
A day after A’s closer Andrew Bailey was named American League Rookie of the Year, Beane said he thinks several of the A’s other top prospects could help Oakland in 2010.
Along with Wallace and highly touted first baseman Chris Carter, Beane mentioned second basemen Jemile Weeks and Adrian Cardenas, first baseman Sean Doolittle and outfielders Grant Desme and Corey Brown among players “you’re probably going to see at some point during (next) season. (Guys) that we may not think are quite ready to start the season, but you never know.”
Looks like Donaldson is out of luck
He’s the only upper level position prospect not mentioned.
This also seems to discourage against FAs period. The only “young” FA is Chapman. This strategy is probably the right one and I don’t think you’ll see much argument. But you probably won’t see much excitement either.
"Loyal? I'm the most loyal player money can buy." - Don Sutton
Part of that could be that Donaldson's
presumed position is clearly blocked by a relatively young player, which is not the case for any of the others.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
It says specifically that they're targeting young players via trade, not free agency
m*****f***ing c***s***ing peanut butter and jelly!! f*** f*** f***!!!
Nice article from
SFGate. It echoes some of what was in the CCTimes (Trainman’s link, above), and it also talks a bit about Bailey and Lieppman.
“He called a lot of minor-league personnel and thanked them for helping him. When you get a class individual like Andrew who understands the process, that’s probably the greatest reward.”
:) He sounds like such a sweetheart.
Oh, Bambi, I cried so hard when those hunters shot your mommy.
Not just sweet, but classy and smart, too.
Hard not to like that. OMGABKUTGW.
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
And I thought Antonio Walker spent a lot of money
Nicolas Cage is a moron for not having any money left
Levin claims Cage went bought new cars to replace the ones he sold and “set off on a spending binge of epic proportions.”
By July 2008, Levin claims, Cage owned:
15 palatial homes around the world
4 yachts (one for the following locations: Caribbean, Mediterranean, Newport Beach and Rhode Island)
1 island in the Bahamas
1 Gulfstream jet
Millions in jewelry and art
3 more homes worth more than $33,000,000
22 automobiles (including 9 Rolls Royces)
12 expensive jewelry pieces
47 artwork and exotic item purchases
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This is a confusing typo, not caught by spellcheck:
… with no funds available to pay the debut
I’m pretty sure they mean “debt”. (Unless he owes money to a debutante and they left off the “ante”….)
"Go ahead and overachieve, you scrappy Brett-Favre-colored walk-takers." —Rev Halofan
Er, Keith Lieppman wins Chief Bender Award.
No, there's no light,
in the darkest of your furthest reaches.
Wow, that might be the most unfortunately named award in sports
or maybe second to the Lady Byng Trophy.
Linda's in the cold ground, won't see her anymore
Somewhere out on the highway tonight, the drunken engines roar
It's just one of those things, one of those things
-- Al Stewart, "Accident on 3rd St."
In memory of Nick Adenhart and all victims of drunk driving
Sr. Rodriguez!
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -Nevermoor
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 18, 2009 6:44 PM PST up reply actions
A's baseball was on TV today :-)
MLB Network played the June 24th, 1997 game between the A’s and the Mariners. The headline is that Randy Johnson struck out 19 Athletics, including 3 each by Jason McDonald, Jose Canseco, and Patrick Lennon and 4 by Mark Bellhorn. BUT the A’s won 4-1 and Mark McGwire squashed a 538 ft HR, George Williams also went deep (just not as deep as Big Mac), and Rafeal Bournigal hat 3 hits. Steve Karsay started for the A’s and pitched very well, with 6IP, 5 K, 2 BB, 3 H, and gave up 0 runs. He threw some sick curveballs and was spotting his fastball well enough but he was pulled before reaching 90 pitches because he had been battling shoulder soreness (nothing new for him).
I also noticed that the A’s in 1997 were HUGE. Geronimo Berroa, McGwire, Canseco, Patrick Lennon, and Mark Bellhorn were all 6 ft tall and 200 lbs or more and very muscular. Led by Big Mac at 6’5" 225 lbs and Canseco at 6’4" 240 lbs. Lennon was a monster, Greg Papa said that he went from 15% body fat to 5% body fat. Too bad his muscles didn’t lead to more HRs, he only hit 2 in his major league career (he hit quite a few in the minors though).
I can only assume a lot of these guys were on steroids. Every guy in the lineup looked ripped (it was easy to tell because they were wearing their pants super tight!). Maybe it’s my imagination but I think players now are a lot smaller. I guarantee they don’t wear their pants as tight.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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I thought John Lennon's kids were musicians, not baseball players.
"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 19, 2009 11:34 AM PST up reply actions
hmm musician might be a stretch
to describe Julian Lennon unless you think it’s much too late for goodbyes
What about "warbler?"
as for the other kid, he can play bass a little…
"Flea Markets aren't just for blind dates anymore!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Nov 20, 2009 1:23 AM PST up reply actions
You remember the parody?
Sock puppets have never been able to successfully attack castles. -Nevermoor
by Leopold Bloom on Nov 20, 2009 7:08 AM PST up reply actions
Don't forget that Patrick Lennon used to swing a sledge hammer in workouts
"Who's this Seagon guy? Is he in A-ball or something?" - Billy Beane
by pickinmachine on Nov 19, 2009 8:59 PM PST up reply actions
yeah, I remember. In fact that was about the only thing I remembered about him.
One time I was at game by myself and Lennon hit a deep fly ball that made it to the warning track and was caught. The old guy behind me told his friend “he better hit them a lot farther if he wants to stick around”. Obviously he didn’t.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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You forgot WCW Revenge
Easily top 5.
"Who's this Seagon guy? Is he in A-ball or something?" - Billy Beane
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