Lavabe wrote:Today's ESPN's Outside the Lines did a 2-week-long study of Major League Baseball games, and analyzed with video replay 250 close calls. 20% of the calls were blown.

That's a big percentage!

Well - "close call" is in the eye of the beholder.

A little help please, if you would?

Other: Duke blue and white striped, and the stripes are about even in width.

Yeah, I really blew it on not including grain/Everclear.

lawgrad91 wrote: Sur la Table

Just reading the words "Sur la Table" makes me think of this.

I think our friend who makes jello shooters usually uses Vodka, but it might be Rum.

Jesus_hurley wrote:Other: Alcohol

+1. New poll about to go up.

colchar wrote: But seriously, pay attention to news coverage of the storm and you might notice how often it is mispronounced.

On NPR this morning, they pronounced it correctly ("call-in"). I might not have noticed except I read this thread last night.

EarlJam wrote:

captmojo wrote:Good enough for any thread.

I thought for a moment Ozzie was going to play off the term "shot to the face" from a completely different angle.

-EarlJam

That's called "giving a Cheney" after our sporting former VP.

I was sucker punched in the throat when I was in 6th grade, and that's the last time anyone punched me in anger that I can remember. My sons play punch buggy all the time. I will NEVER buy a Volkswagen. ;)

OZZIE4DUKE wrote:I just forwarded this to two of my mailing lists. I figure those on my Brunchgate list will read it here.

I sent it to some friends, too.

Have y'all seen old jews telling jokes?

CathyCA wrote:

Johnboy wrote:I can't believe I missed the Swearotronthe first time.

I can't understand everything he's saying. It is funny, however.

Yeah, it's all British swear words, some of which I'd never heard before.

I can't believe I missed the Swearotronthe first time.

CathyCA wrote:Isn't it fun to type those words and not have the word "wanker" appear instead?

Wanker Shit Demon

Shit up my Arse

Fucking Hostile

. . . and by way of apology, here's a kitten chasing string.

Ya got a regular Archie Bunker on your hands? C'mon there was even a softie in THAT one. Look for it today. It's there. It just needs cultivation. A therapist told me one time to take some time to carefully hunt all over his face......really, really look at him during a conversation and find that o...

Interesting. I voted $3M. I'm certain that $3M would change my life and that of my kids. $100,000 would be a really really wonderful thing, but I'd just be debt-free for a few years (I have 2 kids to send to college). I have a relative who settled a personal injury case for about $2M*. It definitely...

AM / FM / CD clock / radio, approx 10 yrs old. Clock is digital, radio is analog... how stupid is that? Not stupid, weird, odd or anything else out of the ordinary, nope not at all! Actually, it is something I noticed that a lot of folks (myself included) have some "aged" alarm clocks on their nigh...

Do I have to answer this from memory? Heh - I was thinking about posting what I think is there and then compare to what is actually there when I get home. OK - what I recall: Lamp Clock radio/iPod device Ceramic bowl full of miscellaneous unspecified objects (such as spare change, screws, string, b...

[T]here definitely is a piece forthcoming from someone asking, "What is it about lacrosse?" It's a sport that's widely associated with (north)eastern privilege, with too strong a "boys will be boys" mentality in many circles. The parallels absolutely exist, and in the right hands, exploration of su...

I didn't re-read the whole thread, but if it hasn't been posted, this short contains all the very worst in corporate-speak (starting about 1 minute in) - it's very funny.

It's not a term or cliche, but incorrect apostrophes ("cliche's" in the title of this thread) annoy me.