Feb
07

Super Bowl Open Thread

By Gordon Smith

The Great American Holiday is upon us.  I’m wearing pants made out of pretzels and sporting a fancy hard-hat beverage device.

While no judgement will be cast if you errantly support the city that stole a storied football team from old Baltimore, I urge you to consider the multiple character flaws you might accidentally embody by doing so.

Geaux Saints!

Use this thread for all your trash-talk and prediction needs.

Categories : Open Thread

19 Comments

1

I don’t care. In fact the amount I don’t care can only be measured by extremely tiny and expensive instruments that have to be special ordered from the year 1756, and as we all know, shipping is a bitch.

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bud light and clamato cares.

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Now would be a perfect time to go to the movies. Surely the theaters won’t be full of beer-swilling, Velveeta-Chili-Dip-eating hoi polloi who laugh at farting horses and are suddenly Saints fans after years of ignoring them, including the season when Heath Shuler was a benchwarmer.

Besides, watching large men in tight pants jump all over each other is kinda… um… what’s the word I’m looking for?

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My non-digital tv no longer recieves such tripe, a government benefit I can’t deny. Back to fun with pentatonic scales, my fingers needed a rest.

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I bet there was a lot of P.O.’d people in King N.C. when there was no alcohol sales allowed today until the declaration was amended… http://www.wxii12.com/weather/22487153/detail.html

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Pro-football is violent, jingoistic, militaristic, antichoice, gang creating, deforesting, character destroying and must be boycotted, and certainly not emulated by high school coaches at great taxpayer expense.

I think Alan just set a world record for Most Association Fallacies Ever Packed into a Single Sentence.

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No digital TVs here, either.

Cruising the net. Big industrial accident at a gas turbine plant (under construction?) in Middletown, Connecticut with mass injuries: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WEwxx9sh0Q

Palin’s beauty pageant responses aren’t bad enough? She’s writing crib notes on her hand? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcVMTZkTZQ

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The New Orleans Saints are athletic, fraternal, strategic, disciplined, inspiring, exciting, and now they are Super Bowl Champions!

Even if you aren’t a football fan, you know it feels good to have New Orleans win one.

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11

I caught about 15 seconds of the Who by accident. Does that count?

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tst tst

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16

Alan,

You’re not being censored. I can understand you just fine. However, it looks like Admin has temporarily disemvoweled you.

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17

Tea Bagging for Jesus

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19

I can’t remember on which thread Jim Reeves was asking for a link to the CAFR ‘09.

Jim, if you’re listening, here it is: http://www.ashevillenc.gov/departments/finance/default.aspx?id=3824

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