December 2010
51 posts
Words With Friends, anyone?
feel like playing?
@ PittDan
“We’ve become a nation of wusses. The Chinese are kicking our butt in everything. If this was in China do you think the Chinese would have called off the game? People would have been marching down to the stadium, they would have walked and they would have been doing calculus on the way down.”
—Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, expressing his displeasure with the NFL’s decision to cancel Sunday’s football game on account of snow.
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Secret Sandwich
- DAD: can u bring me my sandwich into my room? Dont tell anyone i asked you this.
- DAD: please, dont tell any one. please dont tell. Please dont say anything.
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Phoenix Coyotes sign amateur goaltender on emergency basis →
sports.espn.go.com
I love when these stories happen. When Ilya Bryzgalov went down with the flu, there wasn’t enough time to call someone up from the minors. The Coyotes searched the New York area and got ahold of Tom Fenton, who hadn’t played since 2009 in his senior year of college.
Here’s the best part:
Fenton was asked if he knew how much money he’d make for his NHL appearance.
“Oh, I don’t know. I just signed the paper,” Fenton said, according to the Coyotes site. “I don’t care if there is anything involved there. Great story just to go home with for Christmas.”
He did get one thing. The team let him keep his jersey. Oh, and another thing … he can always say he was on an NHL team, if only for a night.
ESPN preview of MLB 11:The Show →
espn.go.com
I don’t get too excited for video games, but The Show is simply outstanding every year. Who’s going to play co-op with me online?
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Clapton In North Korea? →
pollstar.com
Among the recent trove of diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks is a May 2007 message from the U.S. ambassador in South Korea to Washington in which it was revealed that North Korean officials had “suggested” that a performance by Eric Clapton in the hermit kingdom would be “an opportunity to build goodwill” between the two countries.
Help.
How can the wife and I get to Key West for a wedding and somehow not spend $1000 in the process?
“Any of the delights of this world are abundantly sweeter when taken temperately than when taken immoderately, as he that at a feast feeds with temperance has much greater pleasure of what he eats and drinks than he that gluts himself and vomits it up again.”
—Jonathan Edwards, “Pleasantness of Religion,” reminding you to not eat a whole container of Breyers tonight.
