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oh yeah, 6, even worse. he went away and they were nothing, he came back and they won again. and, exactly WHERE did i say the star would get them the title? i said the one player can make the team. taks

and then he followed it up with 5 titles. duh. now the entire focus of the league is two kids that started out of high school. taks

uh, michael jordan. taks

if you were enlisted, you actually would have been a tech. unless you could have entered into OCS and gotten a degree, too. the navy regularly recruits officer candidates for their nuke program at engineering schools, btw. two of my fraternity brothers entered as well. the one apparently made his way up the ranks on a ship, the other got back on the plane after landing and said "hell no!" he had the same problem with authority that you and i have, hades. taks

good. i hate basketball. any sport where one person can make the difference between first and last place is not a sport in my book. taks

they do this based on test scores. not necessarily good/bad scores, but what they think you will do well in. it is sort of communist in its nature, really... a kind of "outcome based" education. it is also a matter of need. however, if you totally ace the tests (which are actually reported as IQ scores, btw), you get to pick and they won't mess with your MO. taks

yes, i heard on the way in to work a bit ago. looks like italy is winning, too. dang. taks

i tried to post this yesterday but our network dropped... anwyay, actually, it is THREE that get to kick: punter, QB, and field goal/kickoff and four if you want to separate the latter (they are different functions). i can't blame cleese for not knowing this as our version of football is not very popular outside of NA (kanadian football is very similar so i lump it with the US and refer the them in the same context). heck, i couldn't tell you squat about crickett and that's apparently very popular in other places. btw, basketball, another US invention, was actually invented as a practice for football when the weather was bad. taks

yes. i recall that it was like the first time even attempted in a decade or so and he scored... taks

yeah, but that's not what cleese said: which is what i was referring to. but i understand why it got mixed up between our posts, however, so sorry for the confusion. it is an unknown play, seen more in college and high school than anything. i'm not sure why, maybe because of the uncertainty since it is an awkward thing to do (hit the ground wrong and it is a fumble). taks

really, now, you need to learn what is and isn't a joke. which comment is so pedantic that you were referring to? i took the joke fine, but you keep harping on it... what gives? taks

aye, which is why i love it. it is murder. you should attend a game once. oh man is it painful. i've been to three now: KC v. San Francisco, Denver v. Rams and Denver v. KC. ugh. football is fun to play with friends, but of course, there are no commercial timeouts, either. that is why the rest of the world's opinion is jaded, IMO, because they don't play it, they only watch it (not that much from what i understand). of course, baseball is a lot of standing around, too. even moreso, actually. taks

again, not true. as noted, the QB can kick the ball any time. it just has to hit the ground first to be considered an attempt at scoring. taks PS: i believe that if it does not hit the ground, it is considered a punt, and possession would change sides. i'd have to defer to a higher power to verify, however, i.e. someone who likes football more than me. hehe...

my follow up to you was directed at that "somewhat pedantic" comment. i was laughing, which is why i added a smilie and said "don't answer these questions". lighten up dude. taks

lighten up moose, can't you see i was being facetious? hence the at the end of my post. the drop-kick comment, btw, comes from the likelihood that few outside of the US fan-base realize that it is a valid option. personally, i love john cleese. right or wrong, pretentious or not, what he said in that quote is funny. i think what i said, however, w.r.t. to europe and said nagging is funny as well. am i not allowed to bash them, too? taks

actually, that's not true. in fact, a QB actually did a drop-kick field goal just last year. it is certainly a rare occurence, however. taks

i was denied! network nazis at work. i don't blame 'em, however, since it is easy to backdoor a trojan in through streaming media. fwiw, i get a kick out of europe's constant nagging on US sports. granted it's all tounge in cheek, but you have to wonder - why are they so concerned with us "fitting in" with them? really, why does it matter? is that what they want, everyone running around thinking, and doing, the exact same thing because, well, that's the way it should be? uh, don't answer those questions as a) they are rhetorical and b) i already know the answers! taks

i'm making my way through the ravenloft module for NWN at the moment. it's pretty good though the standard NWN problems prevail. in particular, while i agree that it is nice to have a party not completely under your control, the AI is just not quite there for henchmen yet. nothing worse than trying to get the henchman theif to disarm a trap if she bumps into somebody on the way. ugh. run back and forth until they notice the trap again... somtimes i just blow through them because they are rarely fatal. taks

work network. anything streaming gets blocked. i was surprised, however, that our standard "access to this site not allowed" graphic did not apper. perhaps because it just couldn't insert it into the view pane. taks

given what little i know about you, this does not surprise me. the mindless tasks, btw, would bother me, too. it was a perfect fit for my brother, however, as he was a little lacking in direction at the time. his personality changed rather radically, too. a change that is still evident today (he's been out 10 years or so). of course, this was the marines, and they are decidedly more intense than the others. i think basic training was 11 weeks with about 5 weeks of advanced infantry training at camp pendleton afterwards. THEN he went to school for his MO. taks

dang. i can't see any of the vids from here. taks

wow. they even have one metallica song on there: master of puppets. my folks got me both MoP and ride the lightning for xmas, 1985. on vinyl no less. ahhhhh the glory days. taks

normally, yes. actually, in the US, it tends to lump social and economic into one pot. in fact, however, "liberal" in the US means socially liberal but economically socialist (to an extent) and "conservative" means socially conservative and economically capitalist, or economically liberal. it is an odd mix. the term conservative by itself is not really ever used w.r.t. economics. taks

the problem is that a) not everyone is capable of learning (as you've noted) and b) not everyone has the time to learn. my brother is a marine. served in the first iraq "war" as an amtrack mechanic. he's now a diesel mechanic for cummins. unfortunately, it's union work so the fact that he's the top mechanic in his shop is meaningless. he'll probably start his own business some day (i think they want him to take the shop steward's position when the current one retires). taks

that's true... at the very least, it confuses things as is. taks