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Re: Sports
by Almighty Doer of Stuff on Sun Feb 05, 2012 11:49 pm
If only my mother had given me Patriots blue rug yarn to practice crocheting with instead of Giants blue, the Pats would have won!
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Re: Sports
by black bart on Mon Feb 06, 2012 8:49 am
What a very good weekend:
West Brom 1 Swansea 2
and
Ireland 21 Wales 23 (what a game!)
West Brom 1 Swansea 2
and
Ireland 21 Wales 23 (what a game!)
The smoke wafted gently in the breeze across the poop deck and all seemed right in the world.
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Re: Sports
by PKMKII on Sat Feb 11, 2012 12:32 am
We've got an underdog-to-wonderdog story going on in NYC with the Knicks. This guy, Jeremy Lin, who just a couple months ago was playing in the D-league (NBA equivalent of the minors in MLB, or League One/Two in the EPL), got called up on waivers as the third string point guard. Since then, he's become the hottest scorer on the team, and just out-shot Kobe Bryant in a win against the Lakers, scoring a career-high 38 points.
"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré
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Re: Sports
by ET, the Extra Terrestrial on Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:25 am
Lin's another Tebow-esque god-squadder. Just what I needed. 
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
OK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.
-- Dr. Joy
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
OK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.
-- Dr. Joy
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
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Re: Sports
by PKMKII on Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:35 am
ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:Lin's another Tebow-esque god-squadder. Just what I needed.
He's not as bad as Tebow. He can actually go through an entire interview without invoking God, Jesus, or his faith.
"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré
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Re: Sports
by Roy Hunter on Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:13 pm
Glasgow Rangers FC start proceedings to go into administration.
I always thought 'LMAO' was hyperbole, and that it couldn't possibly happen. If I don't stop laughing soon, it might become a reality. How will I go to the toilet then?
I always thought 'LMAO' was hyperbole, and that it couldn't possibly happen. If I don't stop laughing soon, it might become a reality. How will I go to the toilet then?
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Re: Sports
by daftbeaker on Mon Feb 13, 2012 1:06 pm
Roy Hunter wrote:Glasgow Rangers FC start proceedings to go into administration.
The BBC wrote:The revenue could stand to lose out on any tax due if Mr Whyte chooses to collapse the company.
Mr Whyte is understood to be the club's main secured creditor via a floating charge over its assets.
This would allow him to pursue other avenues such as receivership or pre-pack administration to satisfy the debts which the club owes him.
These would involve transferring Rangers assets out to another company or companies to satisfy outstanding debts to the floating charge holder and leaving the club behind with the debt.
In such scenarios, it would be likely that Rangers FC - formed in 1873 - would be formally wound up.
So what you have to decide is whether a tax bill of almost £50million is worth losing Rangers for
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Re: Sports
by PKMKII on Mon Feb 13, 2012 5:39 pm
I wonder if the Rangers back office is being serious, or just playing a game of chicken with the tribunal.
"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré
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Re: Sports
by Roy Hunter on Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:37 pm
It's not the Court of Session that they're playing chicken with, it's Revenue and Customs. They've put a few clubs into receivership already in the last few years, and as well as severely denting their credit-worthiness and their ability to hang onto players, it loses them ten points straight away. That means Rangers conceding the league championship to Celtic right now. This does not sit well with the creditors, the taxman, the shareholders or the fans.PKMKII wrote:I wonder if the Rangers back office is being serious, or just playing a game of chicken with the tribunal.
Conspiracy-mongers on the football forums (in the USA, you have conspiracies about UN black helicopters invading Kentucky and the like, in Scotland we have conspiracies about referees, Masons and plots to throw football matches) are already talking about how Rangers want to lose the ten points this season rather than next, because they've privately already given up on the league. They will 'miraculously' come up with some finance over the summer and be back in business come August.
I don't know what to think: Craig Whyte, the majority shareholder was described this week as providing 'Wholly unreliable' evidence in a court case involving a company which he may-or-may-not have been a director of when it collapsed and called in the administrators. He's dodgy as hell, the rest of the Rangers board (who ran up £50M in unpaid taxes) are dodgy as hell, the stuffed blazers at the SFA are both thick as shite and dodgy as hell, and the taxman is the taxman.
I'm glad I support a daft wee first division club. We've got no money, so we've got no troubles...
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks.
"To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine.
"One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln.
"If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.
unkle vanya
"To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine.
"One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln.
"If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.
unkle vanya
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Re: Sports
by ET, the Extra Terrestrial on Mon Feb 13, 2012 10:01 pm
Roy Hunter wrote:We've got no money, so we've got no troubles...
Hear, hear. (Or, to quote Everystinkingmoronintheworldwhotriestosaythatonfailbook: "Here, here".)
"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
OK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.
-- Dr. Joy
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")
-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K Dick
OK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.
-- Dr. Joy
English isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."
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Re: Sports
by PKMKII on Mon Feb 13, 2012 11:00 pm
ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:Roy Hunter wrote:We've got no money, so we've got no troubles...
Hear, hear. (Or, to quote Everystinkingmoronintheworldwhotriestosaythatonfailbook: "Here, here".)
Well, they're pretty much the same, for all intensive purposes.
"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré
"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré
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Re: Sports
by pieces o'nine on Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:14 am
^ 
Sounds like those board members are just towing the party line and keeping the populace on tenderhooks...
Sounds like those board members are just towing the party line and keeping the populace on tenderhooks...
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Re: Sports
by daftbeaker on Tue Feb 14, 2012 7:02 am
DavidH wrote:Where will the Weegies have their fights now?
Partick Thistle
Edit - An excellent in-depth analysis of Rangers' priorities
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Re: Sports
by Roy Hunter on Tue Feb 14, 2012 8:45 am
We've already started a hate campaign against Kilmarnock FC:daftbeaker wrote:DavidH wrote:Where will the Weegies have their fights now?
Partick Thistle
To the tune of "One Man Went to Mow":
I can't read, I can't write, It don't really matter
For I am a Kilmarnock fan and I can drive a tractor
Also, how do you know that the Elephant Man was a Kilmarnock fan?
Because he looked like one.
Oh come on now - that's not true!daftbeaker wrote:Edit - An excellent in-depth analysis of Rangers' priorities
Oh - wait - yes it is...
"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks.
"To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine.
"One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln.
"If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.
unkle vanya
"To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine.
"One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln.
"If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.
unkle vanya
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