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Give me the old classics from Warner Brothers like the Looney Tunes with Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner any day of the week.

You win the internetz. Classic!

Finished our state and federal taxes. Refunds for both! Booyah!

I would flip the Clippers and Rockets as well as the Mavs and Suns, but otherwise it looks good to me.

And neither my wife or I had any trouble keeping track of them. Seriously LC I don't get it. Luz, Buck, Malarkey, Heffron, Popeye, Roe, Bull, Blythe, Winters etc. ... are as distinctive a group of guys as you could create. Apparently not since it is made abundantly clear that Guarnere does find the letter accidentally - he picked up Martin's jacket by mistake during a movie before the jump. Martin and Lipton discuss whether to tell Bill about Henry's death before the jump and Martin ultimately decides against it. Bill even apologizes to Martin for grabbing his jacket by mistake. Multiple awards for Best Television mini-series including an emmy and golden globe would indicate otherwise. Let's just agree to disagree.

The chart wasn't intended to solve either of those problems but this one: Seriously, I have no idea why you have so much trouble keeping track of the characters. Guys like "Gonorhea" who loses his brother in Italy at Monte Cassino and goes postal on a German patrol or Lt. Spiers who ends up replacing Dike and makes a mad dash thru German positions. Or Roy Cobb who gets hit in the butt by shrapnel on the night of the D-Day jump and can't make the jump, and then later craps all over a couple of replacements because they are wearing the Regimental Citation medal for the Normandy jump only to be reminded that he didn't make the jump either. Maybe it's a guy thing .....

Thanks. Or this one: http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/278/e/c/band_of_brothers_banner_by_social_iconoclast-d5gthsa.png The only characters I can think of that are missing from either of those pics are David Schwimmer as Captain Herbert Sobel and Peter O'Meara as 1st Lt. Norman Dike. Sobel appears in the beginning episodes as well as later on. Dike appears in later episodes (particularly "The Breaking Point" at the Battle for Foy) and is infamously incompetent. I can't wait for the next series: MASTERS OF THE AIR: The Mighty Eighth Air Force. http://mightyeighth.org/ I didn't even know this was coming, its exactly what I enjoy watching. I imagine its going to be sad .... The series is based on the book of the same name by Donald Miller. http://sites.lafayette.edu/millerd/other-publications/masters-of-the-air/

ROTFL I want to see it played in a raging snow storm .... more fun that way.

Thanks. Or this one: http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/278/e/c/band_of_brothers_banner_by_social_iconoclast-d5gthsa.png The only characters I can think of that are missing from either of those pics are David Schwimmer as Captain Herbert Sobel and Peter O'Meara as 1st Lt. Norman Dike. Sobel appears in the beginning episodes as well as later on. Dike appears in a later episode ("The Breaking Point" at the Battle for Foy) and is infamously incompetent. I can't wait for the next series: MASTERS OF THE AIR: The Mighty Eighth Air Force. http://mightyeighth.org/

maybe you could make some kind of wall chart to help others? Like this?

Super Bowl XLVIII - the Snow Bowl?

Carmelo's reaction says it all ....

Even the greatest have an off day .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJTjGgcEUDo

ROTFL Pera didn't hire Hollins in the first place. Michael Hensley, the previous owner, signed Hollins starting with the 2008-2009 season. Pera then bought the team in June 2012. Hollins had one year remaining on his contract at the time. Once it became clear during the 2012-2013 season that Hollins couldn't co-exist with the new owner and management, the team decided not to renew Hollin's contract when it expired on June 30, 2013. What should Pera have done? Fired Hollins before they gave him a chance to work with the new management? Sorry. See that Leferd got this before me. @Leferd - fair enough about the PER. I think it's a bit harsh to judge the validity of PER with only one year of results. But I understand the skepticism. I'm also not arguing that Hollinger didn't step over the line with the playoff incident. I'm not sure what Hollins issue was but he made it clear even before that incident that he wasn't buying into the metrics. I think that one incident is overblown. YMMV. As I said earlier, I think Hollins was good coach and his firing surprised me at the time. Now that I know more about the background story - not so much. There is also some debate over whether Hollins or Joerger (who was Hollins assistant) deserves credit for Grizzlies defense. You might ask Dave Hecker about his take on Hollin's people skills. Hecker was an assistant coach for Hollins until Lionel fired him - during the playoffs.

True enough. But Hollins never gave the statistical approach a shot. He criticized it on multiple occasions from day 1. So yeah Hollinger crossed the line once, and Hollins over-reacted. It was clear that Hollins was NEVER going to buy in to the approach that Owner Robert Pera wanted to install. Hollins' vocal criticism in the media made his departure inevitable. As for Rudy Gay - he was traded with 37M$ left on the last two years of his contract and every statistical analysis showed that he simply wasn't worth that type of money anymore. Plus Memphis is a small market city that had invested 55M$ in long term contracts to Gasol, Conley, Z-Bo and Gay and they were pushing the cap limit hard. Gay was a cap casualty. Harsh reality but true. Don't get me wrong, Hollins is a good coach but he was a bad fit with Pera's approach and he went out of his way to make sure everyone knew about it. I find it a little surprising that you seem to be criticizing Hollinger's analytics when you are a supporter of analytics elsewhere. Maybe it's just the particulars of Hollinger's PER?

Yeah, this is an example of John Hollinger's hubris. Where are they going to get their scoring? In consecutive years, they've gotten rid of their best scorer and their very successful coach, because they don't buy into his pet PER stat and he had the audacity to meddle into the coaching realm. There is a huge difference if you are Jerry West and give a few pointers to players, but who the hell is John Hollinger??? The real issue is that Hollins and Hollinger are old school / new school and Hollins didn't buy into Hollingers stats-driven analysis. They also had a history dating back to 2011 when Hollinger was just a media hack for ESPN. In fairness, who the heck was Bill James until Billy Beane started applying James' advanced statistics in the late 90s (~20 years after James started).

Do people skate clockwise in the southern hemisphere?

Browns training camp ......

Broncos are doing the same thing: http://blogs.denverpost.com/broncos/2014/01/12/broncos-vs-patriots-playoff-tickets-go-on-sale-monday-in-denver/25020/

Whitner's interception seals the win. 49ers 23 Panthers 10

Take your meds Jim

It's A Bird! It's A Plane! It's Ahmad Brooks!

seconded - Colston must have suffered brain freeze because ... damn

Blake Griffin throws down poster dunk on Celtics’ Kris Humphries https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDtyhv4TFXQ