Duck-Billed Catechist

Stay away from Pokemon!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjMHyq2vrQk&feature=related

Ok, I give up. What does that song have to do with Pokemon?

Sorry that the merge is icky. For some reason it did not put the posts in chronological order.

I'm merging this with the other Afghanistan thread.

I'm not convinced that non-violent resistance couldn't have stopped Hitler. It would have had to have been at the right time. Most all of the churches fell in line with the Nazis. Of course people would been killed and tortured. Thus

both sacrificed their lives for taking this stand.

As it was, plenty of people were killed and tortured.

And so instead we fight in Afghanistan against the remnants of the mujahideen, who were funded as part of the cold war, which was a result of World War 2, which was a result of World War 1. And on and on. And yet, surely Obama must be right. Surely if we fight enough good and just wars someday we will have peace.

He more or less guaranteed a build-up in Afghanistan during his campaign (unfortunately). That is not a flip-flop of any sort.

They're supposedly about to get a power hitter (DH I assume). I'm sure the PTBNL pitchers in the Pierre deal will be nothing worth noting.

Toronto is going to trade Michael Taylor (one of the 'spects they got from the Phillies yesterday) to Oakland for Brett Wallace (the latter of the Holliday trade and the very large posterior).

It's satire folks.

Yeah, but it's D-U-M, dum. And there's like a jillion jokes along those lines out there.

http://twitter.com/TBrownYahoo/status/6699446791

White Sox get Juan Pierre! Just the power-hitting corner-outfielder they needed!

This is probably non-random enough for the big boy forum. I will move it there so it gets a wider audience.

Retiring during off-seasons only is annoying. I mean, even Roger Clemens was at least "retired" for parts of seasons during his fake-outs. Something something vegetarian between meals something something.

Well the Orthodox church celebrates Christmas in January. I don't think anyone really has the date or even the year pinned down.

I heard a story on the radio recently about the pre-helmet days of football. They mentioned that the ivy league schools used to have elite teams, but the players were all hired goons.

They did have Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me. That was pretty good.

I edited my post about the song earlier, but I clicked the wrong button.

It was something about being allergic to Bono's recent lyrics

24

Not making sense

Kept a diary

of my experience

*cue generic piano riff*

That movie is out. Kate said it was really good and the song was decent.

Who's going to be the one to step up and visit Burma and/or North Korea?

Big three-way trade

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20091208&content_id=7774288&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

The D-backs, Tigers and Yankees reportedly agreed in principle Tuesday on a deal that would send Tigers center fielder Curtis Granderson to New York in the first major deal of this year's Winter Meetings.

 

 

In the seven-player trade, SI.com's John Heyman reported that the D-Backs would receive right-handers Edwin Jackson and Ian Kennedy from the Tigers and Yankees, respectively, while the Tigers would get pitchers Max Scherzer and Daniel Schlereth from Arizona and outfielder Austin Jackson and left-hander Phil Coke from New York.

Assuming (and it's a huuuuuge stretch) that there is such a thing as "street candy," who the hell would know if it came from the street or straight from Wonka's factory (wherever the hell he's based...never been able to find that, either)?

Street candy would surely glow and groove with the spirit of the street.

You're wrong! Ignorant bastard. FUUUUCKK YOOOOUUUUUU!

NO ONE BUYS DISCARDED STREET CANDY!

I am infuriated at the criminal lack of belief in the candy aspect of this story which is INFECTING this thread. The candy part is real, goddamnit.

Fuck you.

Fuck you fuck you fuck you

FUCK YOU!!!!

I'm calling bullshit on most of the specific details of the story now that I think about it. I know it has been reprinted in several reputable papers. However, aren't there something like 100 people who that wealthy in the world? How many of them were women and recently died in Germany? It seems like the lawyer's secrecy would be ineffective and that one of these news organizations could do some research and figure out who the aunt could possibly be.

I'm calling bullshit on "selling candy they found on the street."

Manheim Steamroller and The Manhattan Transfer both have always made me kind of itchy.

I'm serial..

 

Hey solace - Why did I have several people on my ignore list, when I definitely did not put them there? Some kind of forum bug, or can VCers somehow force me to ignore them?

There was a bug that caused that when the board was upgraded. I had the same thing happen to me. I don't think it has to do with other people putting you on their list.