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'The Message'


Natter 41: Why Do I Click on ita's Links?!  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Laura - Jan 08, 2006 2:59:02 pm PST #8647 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.

It was my understanding that they called them bowl games because of the shape of the stadium.

The injury of your QB at the beginning of the game was quite a blow. Still a season they can be proud of, unlike say the Dolphins.


msbelle - Jan 08, 2006 3:02:32 pm PST #8648 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

bowl games

Yeah, I think it started with the Rose Bowl. It was the name of the stadium and then became the name of the game, then other "bowls" were built and post-season college games were all called bowls.


Sue - Jan 08, 2006 3:04:40 pm PST #8649 of 10002
hip deep in pie

The GA clip show was weird.

I have most certainly not been in a cleaning mood today. I cleaned the kitchen, then I cooked.


§ ita § - Jan 08, 2006 3:12:23 pm PST #8650 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Was it a clip show, or a recap show?

Thanks for the bowl info. So the Superbowl got its name from college sports, huh? Cool.

Kristen, I have not, but I'm making a list.


beth b - Jan 08, 2006 3:21:22 pm PST #8651 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

I swept and raked the back yard. Swept the garage. Moved a bunch of stuff so it won't get rained on . flattend and tossed cardboard and put in the recycle bin. srubbed the bathroom top top bottom - leaner than it has been in a month. Put the xmas decoratation ( with Dh's help ) in the garage. picked up the billions of empty water bottles in the house. Installed new window blocks for all the windows. put in a load of laundry. soon I will hang up clothes.


Steph L. - Jan 08, 2006 3:22:11 pm PST #8652 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

The injury of your QB at the beginning of the game was quite a blow.

Oh, Palmer was injured? I didn't start watching until halfway through the 3rd quarter, b/c I was at the movies.


Sue - Jan 08, 2006 3:23:59 pm PST #8653 of 10002
hip deep in pie

Well I only saw half of it, but it showed the essential soapy plot points of each episode, without any addition narration or scenes. Except for maybe a few vistas of Seattle.

There's nothing at all spoilery in that whitefont, unless you consider the format of the clip show to be spoilery.


msbelle - Jan 08, 2006 3:26:54 pm PST #8654 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

mmm, vanilla coke.


sarameg - Jan 08, 2006 3:28:50 pm PST #8655 of 10002

There was a clip show? Huh.

I got to see my dad again today. Took him to lunch and then to the train station to go down to DC. Even though it was only a couple of hours, we got in some conversations we haven't before , like the fact he could have retired 10 years ago under the University's plan. But he isn't planning to. It's something that concerns me because I can't imagine what he'd do retired, other than drive my mom nuts and join all sorts of death-defying volunteer organizations. More than he already does those things, anyway. Well, apparently he can't imagine either (other than get OFF of the management of various projects.) I think he's sort of planning on keeping up the teaching and research as long as possible and hoping that he'll avoid being forced to make a decision by instead falling off a cliff during rescue or training! Gee, dad, thanks for that thought!

Then he told me that the wife of an acquaintance of his is still in and out of the hospital a year after falling off Winu Picchu (sp?) and breaking just about every bone in her body. 4 days before he climbed it. And then ended up helping evac a british tourist who had a bad fall.

So now I don't have to worry about my dad's retirement, I have to worry about his cliff clinging!


Tom Scola - Jan 08, 2006 3:49:28 pm PST #8656 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

I'm drunk. I'm about to start dialing. Someone needs to stop me.