What Did You Watch? 2012-11-03 (Saturday)

[Obveeus]

I watched:

iCarly: The gang takes a road trip to Las Vegas to meet up with the people
from PAWN STARS...who do every bit a bad job of acting here as they do on
that show. The purpose of the trip was to free Sam's mom from jail, but
they never complete that task. I haven't watched this show much, but why
does Sam care if her Mom is in jail? In any case, the PAWN STAR guy drink
Michelle Obama's spittle and gibby takes his clothes off and almost nothing
in the episode has to do with Carly. Without Miranda Cosgrove to lead the
way, this show simply devolves into the myriad of other Nick/Disney shows
with characters doing stupid stuff.

NCAA FOOTBALL: the last 5 minutes + overtimes of the NOTRE DAME vs. PITT
game. PITT had to work really hard here to lose this one with horrible play
calling / clock management. I then watched parts of KANSAS ST. vs. OKLAHOMA
ST...and I really hope that KANSAS STATE does not make it to the BCS title
game. I also watched parts of OREGON vs. USC and ARIZONA STATE vs. OREGON
STATE where both of the northern teams kept their hopes for a quality bowl
game alive.

NASCAR: I watched parts of the Nationwide series race from Texas where the
track is wide, the points race stayed close, and ESPN continued to waste
time over-covering Danika Patrick.

What did you watch?

[JRStern]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:37:03 -0500, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com> wrote:

>NCAA FOOTBALL: the last 5 minutes + overtimes of the NOTRE DAME vs. PITT
>game. PITT had to work really hard here to lose this one with horrible play
>calling / clock management. I then watched parts of KANSAS ST. vs. OKLAHOMA
>ST...and I really hope that KANSAS STATE does not make it to the BCS title
>game. I also watched parts of OREGON vs. USC and ARIZONA STATE vs. OREGON
>STATE where both of the northern teams kept their hopes for a quality bowl
>game alive.

Dang, you should have watched Bama vs LSU!

I watched most of the Oregon/USC game, Oregon are all mutant droids or
something, there ought to be an investigation.

J.

[Mason Barge]

Football: Some of Notre Dame v. Pitt, some of Bama vs. LSU. I'll tell
you, it was an exciting day for college football.

BATTLESHIP (BluRay) -
Not exactly a cinematic epic, this had a lot of good technological
sci-fi imagination and the effects were great, but the human story-line
was right out of the box. If this were a tv show, the threads about
miscellaneous stupidities would go for hundreds of posts :) Geared for
teenage boys.
Still, it was an okay popcorn movie and I never felt a strong urge
to ff or to turn in off, despite a fair amount of eye-rolling.
Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna actually both did fine, although Kitsch
is pretty much a one-trick pony. Brooklyn Decker was terrible, although
her gigantic breasts were used to good (PG) effect.
But the star goes to Alexander Skarsgard (Eric from True Blood)
who has the potential for much better parts. He was, surprisingly,
outstanding. He could be getting leading roles soon.

Grade: C+

[Mason Barge]

On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 07:43:32 -0800, JRStern <JRS...@foobar.invalid>
wrote:

>On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:37:03 -0500, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>NCAA FOOTBALL: the last 5 minutes + overtimes of the NOTRE DAME vs. PITT
>>game. PITT had to work really hard here to lose this one with horrible play
>>calling / clock management. I then watched parts of KANSAS ST. vs. OKLAHOMA
>>ST...and I really hope that KANSAS STATE does not make it to the BCS title
>>game. I also watched parts of OREGON vs. USC and ARIZONA STATE vs. OREGON
>>STATE where both of the northern teams kept their hopes for a quality bowl
>>game alive.
>
>Dang, you should have watched Bama vs LSU!

Yeah, it was the game of the year.

>I watched most of the Oregon/USC game, Oregon are all mutant droids or
>something, there ought to be an investigation.

I want to see what Bama does to Oregon in the post-season. I predict the
monsters in the Bama defensive line are going to take them to school, SEC
style.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

On 11/4/2012 6:37 AM, Obveeus wrote:
> I watched:
>
>
> What did you watch?
>
>



The Haunting Hour - "Intruders" A girl who is unhappy with her home life
(and baby brother) jumps at the offer to join a group of forest faeries
but has second thoughts when they demand she give them her brother. It
was an inferior version of Labyrinth and only slightly better than the
previous episodes from this season.


Fringe - "An Origin Story" - I guess I liked this better than others. I
thought it was pretty good. This season seems to finally be finding
some direction. One thing that they didn't seem to consider is that
since the events on the other end of the wormhole are occurring in the
future, it's possible that had the attack worked then 100 or 200 years
later they could have rebuilt then continued the shipments to the exact
point of interruption in the past.


Elementary - "Lesser Evils" Sherlock investigates mysterious deaths at a
hospital. This episode suffered from a combination of recognizable
guest star and convolution to try and district from the recognizable
guest star.


Survivor - The tribes merge. OK episode with a pretty good tribal council.


Phantasm (DVD) - Late 70s horror film about a boy and his older brother
battling The Tall Man, an alien(?) from another planet or dimension who
steals corpses and turns them into shrunken slaves. It wasn't nearly as
good as I remembered it being.


Phantasm 2 (HD Cable) - The reason I found myself watching Phantasm in
the first place. Sequel picking up about 8 years later (which when you
think about it makes no sense other than the film was made 10 years
later) the kid from the first one is now a young adult freshly released
from a psychiatric hospital (due to the events of the first film which
may or may not have all been a dream) quickly resumes hunting the Tall
Man. I only made it through about half of it but I'm sure I'll finish
the rest sometime today.


Wreck it Ralph (theatrical) - Basically Toy Story with video games. It
was good but not as good as I was hoping. I liked the interactions with
classic game characters but there wasn't nearly enough of that. Of the
three original game worlds that make up the bulk of the film at least
half of the film takes place in the least interesting game world (a
candy themed go cart racing world) and none of the classic characters
come along for the ride in that world. Still, overall the movie was fun
and I wouldn't mind a sequel, which like Toy Story 2/3 would probably be
a lot better than the original.

[Ian J. Ball]

In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
wrote:

> What did you watch?

This was probably the *worst* Saturday EVER for TV viewing.
To wit:

- Chiller: no movies AT ALL (Chiller's increasing propensity not to run
movies on Saturdays is very disturbing...);
- Siffy: no movies until Primetime (they ran Siffy reality sh*t during
the day);
- LMN: no movies in Primetime (they ran sh*t like "Army Wives" instead)
- FX: college football, so no movies
- TNT: I can't remember (theatrical retreads, I think) but nothing good

Has cable, collectively, decided to just give up on running movies
during the weekends?! Yikes. A disturbing trend...

Luckily, I had grading to do, so I didn't watch much anyways...:

Haven (recorded) - "Magic Hour, Part 1". I had to start a separate
thread on this because my DVR recording cut out before the last minute
of the episode. Anyway, this one was decent.

Fringe (recorded) - "An Origin Story". Wow, this was even more painful
than I thought it'd be without Georgina Haig. Unrelentingly dark (and
not in the right ways). And then, to cap it all off, THEY NEVER DID
EXPLAIN why Peter's plan to blow up the wormhole failed - man, that was
really annoying.
It's going to be a real struggle to get through the remaining
episodes of this - next week: Peter rips off Neo from "The Matrix". :/

The Eleventh Victim (Lifetime) - Believe it or not, this was actually
the best (read: most fun) thing I watched all day! And it was based on a
Nancy Grace novel, of all things!! (Well, whatever else you want to say
about Nancy Grace, she can apparently put together a pretty engrossing
'potboiler'!! ;p )
In this flick, Jennie Garth plays a very thinly-veiled "fictional"
version of author/former prosecutor/talk show host/'D'-list celebrity
Nancy Grace (I loved that Garth's character was not only an awesome
former prosecutor, a la Grace, but also a lapsed therapist too!!)
Anyway, her nemesis is a serial killer (played by Colin Cunningham of
"Falling Skies", who's getting just too good at these kinds of roles!)
who she puts away on her very last case as a prosecutor (he tries to
strangle Garth to death after the verdict is read!!). Sure enough, his
slimy lawyer gets Cunningham's psycho popped out on appeal, and this
baddy makes a B-line to NYC to take down his nemesis Garth. Laughs (and
lots o' bodies!) result - of course, the local NYC cops think Garth is
the killer, etc.
Anyways, good times were had by all! Bless you, Nancy Grace!! :)

--
"Surf-crazed aliens... Of course." - Amber, "Alien Surf Girls",
Episode #1.1, "Wipeout".
Wait a minute... "Of course"?! "*Of course*"?!! Did I miss a step here??!!

[suzeeq]

Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> On 11/4/2012 6:37 AM, Obveeus wrote:
>> I watched:
>>
>>
>> What did you watch?
>>
>>
>
>
>
> The Haunting Hour - "Intruders" A girl who is unhappy with her home life
> (and baby brother) jumps at the offer to join a group of forest faeries
> but has second thoughts when they demand she give them her brother. It
> was an inferior version of Labyrinth and only slightly better than the
> previous episodes from this season.
>
>
> Fringe - "An Origin Story" - I guess I liked this better than others. I
> thought it was pretty good. This season seems to finally be finding
> some direction. One thing that they didn't seem to consider is that
> since the events on the other end of the wormhole are occurring in the
> future, it's possible that had the attack worked then 100 or 200 years
> later they could have rebuilt then continued the shipments to the exact
> point of interruption in the past.

That occurred to me to. It's not like they sent a new shipment through
15 minutes later on their side - could have been 15 years or 150 years.

> Elementary - "Lesser Evils" Sherlock investigates mysterious deaths at a
> hospital. This episode suffered from a combination of recognizable
> guest star and convolution to try and district from the recognizable
> guest star.

Guess I didn't recognize the guest star... Thought it was okay.

[suzeeq]

Ian J. Ball wrote:
> In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What did you watch?
>
> This was probably the *worst* Saturday EVER for TV viewing.
> To wit:

> Fringe (recorded) - "An Origin Story". Wow, this was even more painful
> than I thought it'd be without Georgina Haig. Unrelentingly dark (and
> not in the right ways). And then, to cap it all off, THEY NEVER DID
> EXPLAIN why Peter's plan to blow up the wormhole failed - man, that was
> really annoying.

I just figured that he did blow it up, but they rebuilt it on the other
side of it at some point later. Since they come from the future, they
could re-establish it again and send the shipment through a few minutes
later.

> It's going to be a real struggle to get through the remaining
> episodes of this - next week: Peter rips off Neo from "The Matrix". :/

I'm waiting for his hair to fall out...

[Obveeus]

"JRStern" <JRS...@foobar.invalid> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:37:03 -0500, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com> wrote:
>
>>NCAA FOOTBALL: the last 5 minutes + overtimes of the NOTRE DAME vs. PITT
>>game. PITT had to work really hard here to lose this one with horrible
>>play
>>calling / clock management. I then watched parts of KANSAS ST. vs.
>>OKLAHOMA
>>ST...and I really hope that KANSAS STATE does not make it to the BCS title
>>game. I also watched parts of OREGON vs. USC and ARIZONA STATE vs. OREGON
>>STATE where both of the northern teams kept their hopes for a quality bowl
>>game alive.
>
> Dang, you should have watched Bama vs LSU!

I did watch bits of that one too, when other games were in commercial.

> I watched most of the Oregon/USC game, Oregon are all mutant droids or
> something, there ought to be an investigation.

Maybe someone should investigate why Oregon seems to have a different
uniform every single game. At least the 'O' was back on the helmets this
week.

Speaking of helmets, it looks like the Washington Redthings can't even show
their logo on their helmets anymore. Not so much 'throw back' as 'throw
up'.

[Ubiquitous]

In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, Obv...@aol.com wrote:

>What did you watch?

THE UNIVERSE:
Several eps.

ADVENTURE TIME:
Several eps. Yay, new ep next week!

BATMAN:
The lamest Catwoman of this show teams up with The Joker to find a lost
treasure, or something really weak but at their trial, Batman fails as
prosecutor because the jury are all former henchmen of the criminals on
trial, so the dynamic trio beat them up. I do not think that's how our
legal system works.

BATMAN
Lame Louie the Lilac returns, announcing his plan to corner the market
on a new lilac perfume at the libary where Batgirl works when not
fighting crime. How come every villian in these eps seems obligued to
appear there? There was a funny bit where Barbra was interupted changing
into Batgirl by the building super, who was investigating complaints
about the sound the revolving wall makes but thrown off the trail by the
push of a button to make the room appear to be stacked with boxes and
crates and accessed by a door in the wall. What's the point of the
secret revolviong door, then?

LOST IN SPACE:
"The Galaxy Gift". Another retarded ep which I swear they've already
made in which an ugly alien fugitive befriends Penny and gives her a
belt with the power to destroy the galaxy(?) for safe-keeping. Dr Smith,
naturally, wastes no time collaborating with his pursers for passage
back to Earth for said item, then wonders why he got screwed after he
tried to pass off a fake one. Well, it turns out they tricked him into
thinking he was on Earth with a lame cheap-ass Chinatown set inhabited
by a couple guys dressed up like flies (because as The Robot says, "Dr
Smith EXAGERATES about things"). We never found out how this was
intended to be fatal, unless they intended on leaving him to starve to
death.

STAR TREK:
"And the Children Shall Lead". The one with several children who kill
their parents and take over The Entreprise with the help of the ghost of
F. Lee Baily. I wonder if they took those kids to Starfleet Juvie Hall
after the end of the show?

FAMILY GUY:
"Be Careful What You Fish For". While trying to salvage a bunch of
Mercedes-Benzes that sunk in the harbor, they meet a talking dolphin who
then moves in. Meanwhile, Brian dates the abusive young woman in charge
of Stewie's day care.

BLACK DYNAMITE:
"Panic on the Player's Ball Express or That's Influenza!". Black
Dynamite catches a nasty flu right before the train hosting an annual
gathering for pimps becomes a murder mystery. OK, I did laugh at the
pimp dressed like Captain Kangaroo and the Isaac (your bartender) killer
robots.

--
"Re-electing Obama is like backing The Titanic up and hitting the
iceberg a second time."

[Ubiquitous]

In article <k765jk$49t$1...@dont-email.me>, art...@alum.calberkeley.org wrote:

>Fringe - "An Origin Story" - I guess I liked this better than others. I
>thought it was pretty good. This season seems to finally be finding
>some direction. One thing that they didn't seem to consider is that
>since the events on the other end of the wormhole are occurring in the
>future, it's possible that had the attack worked then 100 or 200 years
>later they could have rebuilt then continued the shipments to the exact
>point of interruption in the past.

Perhaps that's exactly what happened? :-)

>Phantasm (DVD) - Late 70s horror film about a boy and his older brother
>battling The Tall Man, an alien(?) from another planet or dimension who
>steals corpses and turns them into shrunken slaves. It wasn't nearly as
>good as I remembered it being.

Hmm, I need to rewatch that some time. Lots of jump-out-your-skin momnets, if
memory serves. One of my favs.

[Ubiquitous]

ijball-...@mac.invalid wrote:

>Fringe (recorded) - "An Origin Story". Wow, this was even more painful
>than I thought it'd be without Georgina Haig. Unrelentingly dark (and
>not in the right ways). And then, to cap it all off, THEY NEVER DID
>EXPLAIN why Peter's plan to blow up the wormhole failed - man, that was
>really annoying.

Who's to say it didn't fail and The Observers resumed sending the
shipments immediately after the first wormhole was destroyed?

[KoshN]

On Sunday, November 4, 2012 9:37:04 AM UTC-5, Obveeus wrote:
[snip]

> What did you watch?

Svengoolie:
The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) - The son of a servant assaulted by a beggar becomes a wolfman in 18th-century Spain.
Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller, Anthony Dawson
10:00 - 12:00 AM WPXIDT2 (11.2)

....in the background.

KoshN

[KoshN]

On Sunday, November 4, 2012 1:31:39 PM UTC-5, suzeeq wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>
> > On 11/4/2012 6:37 AM, Obveeus wrote:
>
> >> I watched:
>
> >>
>
> >>
>
> >> What did you watch?

[snip]

> > Elementary - "Lesser Evils" Sherlock investigates mysterious deaths at a
>
> > hospital. This episode suffered from a combination of recognizable
>
> > guest star and convolution to try and district from the recognizable
>
> > guest star.
>
>
>
> Guess I didn't recognize the guest star... Thought it was okay.

Same here.

KoshN

[Arthur Lipscomb]

On 11/4/2012 8:04 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What did you watch?
>
> This was probably the *worst* Saturday EVER for TV viewing.
> To wit:
>
> - Chiller: no movies AT ALL (Chiller's increasing propensity not to run
> movies on Saturdays is very disturbing...);
> - Siffy: no movies until Primetime (they ran Siffy reality sh*t during
> the day);
> - LMN: no movies in Primetime (they ran sh*t like "Army Wives" instead)
> - FX: college football, so no movies
> - TNT: I can't remember (theatrical retreads, I think) but nothing good
>
> Has cable, collectively, decided to just give up on running movies
> during the weekends?! Yikes. A disturbing trend...
>

At least you get Chiller. I'm still waiting for Comcast to get around
to adding it. I have Fearnet but only though OnDemand. I'm still
incredibly annoyed Fearnet has yet to post the series finale of Todd and
the Book of Pure Evil on OnDemand.

>
> Fringe (recorded) - "An Origin Story". Wow, this was even more painful
> than I thought it'd be without Georgina Haig. Unrelentingly dark (and
> not in the right ways). And then, to cap it all off, THEY NEVER DID
> EXPLAIN why Peter's plan to blow up the wormhole failed

The plan would only work if he successfully reassembled the device. He
thought he had based on the eye movement of the Observer but it turns
out he didn't. It's not clear to me why there was any negative effects
at all.

- man, that was
> really annoying.
> It's going to be a real struggle to get through the remaining
> episodes of this - next week: Peter rips off Neo from "The Matrix". :/
>
> The Eleventh Victim (Lifetime) - Believe it or not, this was actually
> the best (read: most fun) thing I watched all day! And it was based on a
> Nancy Grace novel, of all things!! (Well, whatever else you want to say
> about Nancy Grace, she can apparently put together a pretty engrossing
> 'potboiler'!! ;p )
> In this flick, Jennie Garth plays a very thinly-veiled "fictional"
> version of author/former prosecutor/talk show host/'D'-list celebrity
> Nancy Grace (I loved that Garth's character was not only an awesome
> former prosecutor, a la Grace, but also a lapsed therapist too!!)
> Anyway, her nemesis is a serial killer (played by Colin Cunningham of
> "Falling Skies", who's getting just too good at these kinds of roles!)
> who she puts away on her very last case as a prosecutor (he tries to
> strangle Garth to death after the verdict is read!!). Sure enough, his
> slimy lawyer gets Cunningham's psycho popped out on appeal, and this
> baddy makes a B-line to NYC to take down his nemesis Garth. Laughs (and
> lots o' bodies!) result - of course, the local NYC cops think Garth is
> the killer, etc.
> Anyways, good times were had by all! Bless you, Nancy Grace!! :)
>

I don't know. It just doesn't sound that appealing to me. A movie
about Nancy Grace, written by Nancy Grace where she casts herself as
the hero talk show host/attorney. But you did say it's a comedy right?

[Arthur Lipscomb]

On 11/4/2012 10:33 AM, suzeeq wrote:
> Ian J. Ball wrote:
>> In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> What did you watch?
>>
>> This was probably the *worst* Saturday EVER for TV viewing. To wit:
>
>> Fringe (recorded) - "An Origin Story". Wow, this was even more painful
>> than I thought it'd be without Georgina Haig. Unrelentingly dark (and
>> not in the right ways). And then, to cap it all off, THEY NEVER DID
>> EXPLAIN why Peter's plan to blow up the wormhole failed - man, that
>> was really annoying.
>
> I just figured that he did blow it up, but they rebuilt it on the other
> side of it at some point later. Since they come from the future, they
> could re-establish it again and send the shipment through a few minutes
> later.

That's what they *should* have had happen but they decided to go with it
didn't work.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <k76esb$54e$1...@dont-email.me>,

Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

> In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, Obv...@aol.com wrote:
>
> >What did you watch?
>

It's like ME-TV was having a 'worst of' marathon

>
> BATMAN:
> The lamest Catwoman of this show teams up with The Joker to find a lost
> treasure, or something really weak but at their trial, Batman fails as
> prosecutor because the jury are all former henchmen of the criminals on
> trial, so the dynamic trio beat them up. I do not think that's how our
> legal system works.

And the Catmobile! Oy vey!

>
> BATMAN
> Lame Louie the Lilac returns, announcing his plan to corner the market
> on a new lilac perfume at the libary where Batgirl works when not
> fighting crime. How come every villian in these eps seems obligued to
> appear there? There was a funny bit where Barbra was interupted changing
> into Batgirl by the building super, who was investigating complaints
> about the sound the revolving wall makes but thrown off the trail by the
> push of a button to make the room appear to be stacked with boxes and
> crates and accessed by a door in the wall. What's the point of the
> secret revolviong door, then?

I like how she told the maintenance guy that she keeps several guns in
the apartment and would shoot him dead if he ever used his passkey again!

> LOST IN SPACE:
> "The Galaxy Gift". Another retarded ep which I swear they've already
> made in which an ugly alien fugitive befriends Penny and gives her a
> belt with the power to destroy the galaxy(?) for safe-keeping. Dr Smith,
> naturally, wastes no time collaborating with his pursers for passage
> back to Earth for said item, then wonders why he got screwed after he
> tried to pass off a fake one. Well, it turns out they tricked him into
> thinking he was on Earth with a lame cheap-ass Chinatown set inhabited
> by a couple guys dressed up like flies (because as The Robot says, "Dr
> Smith EXAGERATES about things"). We never found out how this was
> intended to be fatal, unless they intended on leaving him to starve to
> death.

And, you know, it had to be easier to just freaking send Smith to Earth
than to build a duplicate of Chinatown on an asteroid in deep space.

>
> STAR TREK:
> "And the Children Shall Lead". The one with several children who kill
> their parents and take over The Entreprise with the help of the ghost of
> F. Lee Baily. I wonder if they took those kids to Starfleet Juvie Hall
> after the end of the show?

Well, Kirk was at one point planning on just killing them.

Did they actually kill their parents? If not, who did? None of this
made sense.

--
"Every time a Kardashian gets a TV show, an angel dies."

[Arthur Lipscomb]

David Costabile from Suits.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182345/

I don't think he's made it to the level of famous face yet. Despite his
body of work, if it wasn't for Suits I probably wouldn't have recognized
him.

[Arthur Lipscomb]

Seriously?

>>
>> STAR TREK:
>> "And the Children Shall Lead". The one with several children who kill
>> their parents and take over The Entreprise with the help of the ghost of
>> F. Lee Baily. I wonder if they took those kids to Starfleet Juvie Hall
>> after the end of the show?
>
> Well, Kirk was at one point planning on just killing them.
>
> Did they actually kill their parents? If not, who did? None of this
> made sense.
>

I thought it was made clear in the episode the kids killed their
parents. Didn't they use their powers to force their parents to kill
themselves?

[anim8rFSK]

In article <k76esb$54e$1...@dont-email.me>,
Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

> In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, Obv...@aol.com wrote:
>
> >What did you watch?

All four new eps of ALIEN SURFGIRLS, discussed in other threads.

COX guide says Wednesday will be another new ep, HEARTBREAK, followed by
CONNECTIONS. The rest of the week is random reruns.

MERLIN season 5 episode 5. They actually address the 'why the heck is
Merlin keeping his magic a secret' issue and ... he screws it up. Next
week, hot Morgana action!

[David Barnett]

In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, Obv...@aol.com

says...
>
> What did you watch?

Yesterday, I subsequently watched:

BOARDWALK EMPIRE: A Return to Normalcy
The final episode of Season 1.

This morning, Mon Nov 5, I watched:

MERLIN: Another's Sorrow
A couple of posts re this elsewhere, and after reading
them, will reply.

I am about to watch:

HOMELAND: New Car Smell
There are posts elsewhere about this one also.
Behind the US on this one too.

--
David Barnett

[KoshN]

Well, that explains it. I don't watch "Suits." I don't get USA (Yes, I follow "Burn Notice" but only because I buy it on DVD.). Ditto for "Justified" on FX. I'm strictly OTA these days and I completely avoid FOX broadcast. I buy "Bones" on DVD, though I'm a couple seasons behind, right now.

KoshN

[BTR1701]

In article <k76hg6$mne$1...@dont-email.me>,

Arthur Lipscomb <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

> On 11/4/2012 8:04 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> > In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> What did you watch?
> >
> > This was probably the *worst* Saturday EVER for TV viewing.
> > To wit:
> >
> > - Chiller: no movies AT ALL (Chiller's increasing propensity not to run
> > movies on Saturdays is very disturbing...);
> > - Siffy: no movies until Primetime (they ran Siffy reality sh*t during
> > the day);
> > - LMN: no movies in Primetime (they ran sh*t like "Army Wives" instead)
> > - FX: college football, so no movies
> > - TNT: I can't remember (theatrical retreads, I think) but nothing good
> >
> > Has cable, collectively, decided to just give up on running movies
> > during the weekends?! Yikes. A disturbing trend...
> >
>
> At least you get Chiller. I'm still waiting for Comcast to get around
> to adding it.

I have it, but it's only in low-def and unwatchable.

[Ubiquitous]

anim...@cox.net wrote:
> Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
>> In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, Obv...@aol.com wrote:

>> BATMAN
>> Lame Louie the Lilac returns, announcing his plan to corner the market
>> on a new lilac perfume at the libary where Batgirl works when not
>> fighting crime. How come every villian in these eps seems obligued to
>> appear there? There was a funny bit where Barbra was interupted changing
>> into Batgirl by the building super, who was investigating complaints
>> about the sound the revolving wall makes but thrown off the trail by the
>> push of a button to make the room appear to be stacked with boxes and
>> crates and accessed by a door in the wall. What's the point of the
>> secret revolviong door, then?
>
>I like how she told the maintenance guy that she keeps several guns in
>the apartment and would shoot him dead if he ever used his passkey again!

Oh yeah, forgot about that part! LOL

>> LOST IN SPACE:
>> "The Galaxy Gift". Another retarded ep which I swear they've already
>> made in which an ugly alien fugitive befriends Penny and gives her a
>> belt with the power to destroy the galaxy(?) for safe-keeping. Dr Smith,
>> naturally, wastes no time collaborating with his pursers for passage
>> back to Earth for said item, then wonders why he got screwed after he
>> tried to pass off a fake one. Well, it turns out they tricked him into
>> thinking he was on Earth with a lame cheap-ass Chinatown set inhabited
>> by a couple guys dressed up like flies (because as The Robot says, "Dr
>> Smith EXAGERATES about things"). We never found out how this was
>> intended to be fatal, unless they intended on leaving him to starve to
>> death.
>
>And, you know, it had to be easier to just freaking send Smith to Earth
>than to build a duplicate of Chinatown on an asteroid in deep space.

If they wanted to kill him, just teleport him in the middle of deep space.

>> STAR TREK:
>> "And the Children Shall Lead". The one with several children who kill
>> their parents and take over The Entreprise with the help of the ghost of
>> F. Lee Baily. I wonder if they took those kids to Starfleet Juvie Hall
>> after the end of the show?
>
>Well, Kirk was at one point planning on just killing them.
>
>Did they actually kill their parents? If not, who did? None of this
>made sense.

I don't recall if the ghost of F. Lee Baily said it outright, but it clear
that the kids used their powers to take control of everyone on the colony in
the same manner as on the Enterprise.

[Mason Barge]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 14:01:44 -0500, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com> wrote:

>
>"JRStern" <JRS...@foobar.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:37:03 -0500, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com> wrote:
>>
>>>NCAA FOOTBALL: the last 5 minutes + overtimes of the NOTRE DAME vs. PITT
>>>game. PITT had to work really hard here to lose this one with horrible
>>>play
>>>calling / clock management. I then watched parts of KANSAS ST. vs.
>>>OKLAHOMA
>>>ST...and I really hope that KANSAS STATE does not make it to the BCS title
>>>game. I also watched parts of OREGON vs. USC and ARIZONA STATE vs. OREGON
>>>STATE where both of the northern teams kept their hopes for a quality bowl
>>>game alive.
>>
>> Dang, you should have watched Bama vs LSU!
>
>I did watch bits of that one too, when other games were in commercial.
>
>> I watched most of the Oregon/USC game, Oregon are all mutant droids or
>> something, there ought to be an investigation.
>
>Maybe someone should investigate why Oregon seems to have a different
>uniform every single game.

And they're all uggly.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <k76ihn$tsf$1...@dont-email.me>,

Yes. She said something like "I keep several guns in the house so you'd
better be careful because something awful could happen to a maintenance
man who caught me by surprise" and he vowed never to use his passkey
again.

>
>
> >>
> >> STAR TREK:
> >> "And the Children Shall Lead". The one with several children who kill
> >> their parents and take over The Entreprise with the help of the ghost of
> >> F. Lee Baily. I wonder if they took those kids to Starfleet Juvie Hall
> >> after the end of the show?
> >
> > Well, Kirk was at one point planning on just killing them.
> >
> > Did they actually kill their parents? If not, who did? None of this
> > made sense.
> >
>
>
> I thought it was made clear in the episode the kids killed their
> parents. Didn't they use their powers to force their parents to kill
> themselves?

It made no sense, but it was cut to ribbons too.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <55985d06-f624-4f61...@googlegroups.com>,

I gave up halfway in. Was there some reason Reed becomes a werewolf
other than being the bastard son of 1000 maniacs?

[JRStern]

On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:17:28 -0500, Mason Barge <mason...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>>> I watched most of the Oregon/USC game, Oregon are all mutant droids or
>>> something, there ought to be an investigation.
>>
>>Maybe someone should investigate why Oregon seems to have a different
>>uniform every single game.
>
>And they're all uggly.

Maybe that's the point.

Next stop: Lucha Libre masks.

J.

[suzeeq]

Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> On 11/4/2012 11:43 AM, KoshN wrote:
>> On Sunday, November 4, 2012 1:31:39 PM UTC-5, suzeeq wrote:
>>> Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/4/2012 6:37 AM, Obveeus wrote:
>>>>> I watched:
>>>>> What did you watch?
>> [snip]
>>
>>>> Elementary - "Lesser Evils" Sherlock investigates mysterious deaths at a
>>>> hospital. This episode suffered from a combination of recognizable
>>>> guest star and convolution to try and district from the recognizable
>>>> guest star.
>>>
>>>
>>> Guess I didn't recognize the guest star... Thought it was okay.
>> Same here.
>>
>> KoshN
>>
>
> David Costabile from Suits.
>
> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182345/
>
> I don't think he's made it to the level of famous face yet. Despite his
> body of work, if it wasn't for Suits I probably wouldn't have recognized
> him.

He hasn't got famous enough yet. I haven't watch cable TV shows in years
except for a few on dvd - Eureka, Burn Notice, in Plain Site, Saving
Grace... anything else I don't know the actors.

[KoshN]

On Sunday, November 4, 2012 5:37:22 PM UTC-5, anim8rfsk wrote:
> In article <55985d06-f624-4f61...@googlegroups.com>,
>

> KoshN wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Sunday, November 4, 2012 9:37:04 AM UTC-5, Obveeus wrote:
>
> > [snip]
>
> >
>
> > > What did you watch?
>
> >
>
> > Svengoolie:
>
> > The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) - The son of a servant assaulted by a beggar
>
> > becomes a wolfman in 18th-century Spain.
>
> > Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Catherine Feller, Anthony Dawson
>
> > 10:00 - 12:00 AM WPXIDT2 (11.2)
>
> >
>
> > ....in the background.
>
> >
>
> > KoshN
>
>
>
> I gave up halfway in. Was there some reason Reed becomes a werewolf
>
> other than being the bastard son of 1000 maniacs?

Sorry, like I said it was on in the background. Most of my attention was focused on the PC. I looked up at it many times, but not enough to form a cohesive picture of the storyline. I didn't record it.

KoshN

[Ian J. Ball]

In article <k76hg6$mne$1...@dont-email.me>,

Arthur Lipscomb <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

> On 11/4/2012 8:04 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> > In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Fringe (recorded) - "An Origin Story". Wow, this was even more painful
> > than I thought it'd be without Georgina Haig. Unrelentingly dark (and
> > not in the right ways). And then, to cap it all off, THEY NEVER DID
> > EXPLAIN why Peter's plan to blow up the wormhole failed
>
> The plan would only work if he successfully reassembled the device. He
> thought he had based on the eye movement of the Observer but it turns
> out he didn't. It's not clear to me why there was any negative effects
> at all.

Nah, that really doesn't cut it as an explanation: the cube *worked*
(for all I know, The Observer dude was lying about misleading Peter) -
we *know* it did because the crates were coming through from the future.

In any case, they did a really bad job with the whole sequence - either
the cube did work, the Observer was lying (but that wasn't clear, esp.
with the misleading(?) flashback), and so we have no idea why the plan
failed; OR, it didn't work, in which case there's no reason why the
crates would have come through, and... my head hurts.

> > - man, that was really annoying.
> > It's going to be a real struggle to get through the remaining
> > episodes of this - next week: Peter rips off Neo from "The Matrix". :/
> >
> > The Eleventh Victim (Lifetime) - Believe it or not, this was actually
> > the best (read: most fun) thing I watched all day! And it was based on a
> > Nancy Grace novel, of all things!! (Well, whatever else you want to say
> > about Nancy Grace, she can apparently put together a pretty engrossing
> > 'potboiler'!! ;p )
> > In this flick, Jennie Garth plays a very thinly-veiled "fictional"
> > version of author/former prosecutor/talk show host/'D'-list celebrity
> > Nancy Grace (I loved that Garth's character was not only an awesome
> > former prosecutor, a la Grace, but also a lapsed therapist too!!)
> > Anyway, her nemesis is a serial killer (played by Colin Cunningham of
> > "Falling Skies", who's getting just too good at these kinds of roles!)
> > who she puts away on her very last case as a prosecutor (he tries to
> > strangle Garth to death after the verdict is read!!). Sure enough, his
> > slimy lawyer gets Cunningham's psycho popped out on appeal, and this
> > baddy makes a B-line to NYC to take down his nemesis Garth. Laughs (and
> > lots o' bodies!) result - of course, the local NYC cops think Garth is
> > the killer, etc.
> > Anyways, good times were had by all! Bless you, Nancy Grace!! :)
>
> I don't know. It just doesn't sound that appealing to me. A movie

> about Nancy Grace, written by Nancy Grace, where she casts herself as

> the hero talk show host/attorney.

No, she actually cast herself as the hero former prosecutor/current
therapist! Played by Jennie Garth!!

> But you did say it's a comedy right?

No, but you can pretend it is, if you want. ;)

[Ian J. Ball]

In article <677d18db-a32e-4136...@googlegroups.com>,

KoshN <macthe...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, November 4, 2012 3:12:43 PM UTC-5, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> > On 11/4/2012 11:43 AM, KoshN wrote:
> > > On Sunday, November 4, 2012 1:31:39 PM UTC-5, suzeeq wrote:
> > >> Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
> > >>> On 11/4/2012 6:37 AM, Obveeus wrote:
> >
> > >>> Elementary - "Lesser Evils" Sherlock investigates mysterious deaths at
> > >>> a hospital. This episode suffered from a combination of recognizable
> > >>> guest star and convolution to try and district from the recognizable
> > >>> guest star.
> > >>
> > >> Guess I didn't recognize the guest star... Thought it was okay.
> > >
> > > Same here.
> >

> > David Costabile from Suits.
> >
> > http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182345/
> >
> > I don't think he's made it to the level of famous face yet. Despite his
> > body of work, if it wasn't for Suits I probably wouldn't have recognized
> > him.
>
> Well, that explains it. I don't watch "Suits." I don't get USA (Yes, I
> follow "Burn Notice" but only because I buy it on DVD.). Ditto for
> "Justified" on FX. I'm strictly OTA these days and I completely avoid FOX
> broadcast. I buy "Bones" on DVD, though I'm a couple seasons behind, right
> now.
>
> KoshN

Actually, I'd argue he as famous, maybe more, from "Damages".


P.S. Please start fixing reply formatting, or I'm going to have no
choice but to killfile you.

[Obveeus]

"Mason Barge" <mason...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Nov 2012 14:01:44 -0500, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com> wrote:

>>>>NCAA FOOTBALL:

>>Maybe someone should investigate why Oregon seems to have a different
>>uniform every single game.
>
> And they're all uggly.

Agreed. I don't like that 'wing' symbol at all...and are they trying to
give it a hologram look as well?

[Arthur Lipscomb]

On 11/4/2012 3:12 PM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
> In article <k76hg6$mne$1...@dont-email.me>,
> Arthur Lipscomb <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>
>> On 11/4/2012 8:04 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>>> In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Fringe (recorded) - "An Origin Story". Wow, this was even more painful
>>> than I thought it'd be without Georgina Haig. Unrelentingly dark (and
>>> not in the right ways). And then, to cap it all off, THEY NEVER DID
>>> EXPLAIN why Peter's plan to blow up the wormhole failed
>>
>> The plan would only work if he successfully reassembled the device. He
>> thought he had based on the eye movement of the Observer but it turns
>> out he didn't. It's not clear to me why there was any negative effects
>> at all.
>
> Nah, that really doesn't cut it as an explanation: the cube *worked*
> (for all I know, The Observer dude was lying about misleading Peter) -
> we *know* it did because the crates were coming through from the future.
>
> In any case, they did a really bad job with the whole sequence - either
> the cube did work, the Observer was lying (but that wasn't clear, esp.
> with the misleading(?) flashback), and so we have no idea why the plan
> failed; OR, it didn't work, in which case there's no reason why the
> crates would have come through, and... my head hurts.

There were two cubes. For reasons I no longer recall, the Fringe team
had to activate theirs first. Presumably the Observers still activated
their own cube which caused the wormholes to join together. As I
recall, the Observer detected something was wrong and teleported himself
to Peter's location. By doing so he may have stopped whatever
interference Peter's cube was causing allowing the other Observer to
activate their own cube.

I can see your confusion because now that I think about it, I'm starting
to experience it myself. My guess is, Peter did correctly assemble his
cube well enough to cause some interference but not well enough to
detonate like it was supposed to.

[Obveeus]

"Arthur Lipscomb" <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

> On 11/4/2012 8:04 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>> The Eleventh Victim (Lifetime) - Believe it or not, this was actually
>> the best (read: most fun) thing I watched all day! And it was based on a
>> Nancy Grace novel, of all things!! (Well, whatever else you want to say
>> about Nancy Grace, she can apparently put together a pretty engrossing
>> 'potboiler'!! ;p )

>> Anyways, good times were had by all! Bless you, Nancy Grace!! :)
>>
>
> I don't know. It just doesn't sound that appealing to me.

Very few people would here 'written by Nancy Grace' and not instantly change
the channel.

[Obveeus]

"Arthur Lipscomb" <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote in message
news:k76i7r$rn0$1...@dont-email.me...

> On 11/4/2012 11:43 AM, KoshN wrote:
>> On Sunday, November 4, 2012 1:31:39 PM UTC-5, suzeeq wrote:
>>> Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>>>> Elementary - "Lesser Evils" Sherlock investigates mysterious deaths at
>>>> a
>>>
>>>> hospital. This episode suffered from a combination of recognizable
>>>
>>>> guest star and convolution to try and district from the recognizable
>>>
>>>> guest star.
>>>
>>> Guess I didn't recognize the guest star... Thought it was okay.
>>
>> Same here.

>

> David Costabile from Suits.
>
> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0182345/

Sure, SUITS...but more memorable from BREAKING BAD.

[Jeremy]

On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 12:00:04 -0800, Arthur Lipscomb
<art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>On 11/4/2012 8:04 AM, Ian J. Ball wrote:
>> Fringe (recorded) - "An Origin Story". Wow, this was even more painful
>> than I thought it'd be without Georgina Haig. Unrelentingly dark (and
>> not in the right ways). And then, to cap it all off, THEY NEVER DID
>> EXPLAIN why Peter's plan to blow up the wormhole failed
>
>The plan would only work if he successfully reassembled the device. He
>thought he had based on the eye movement of the Observer but it turns
>out he didn't. It's not clear to me why there was any negative effects
>at all.

He did successfully reassemble the device, as the Observer said. Peter
was a good engineer with the right instincts, but he lacked
confidence, which he got by seeing what he wanted to see in the
Observer's reactions.

There weren't any negative effects to the anti-matter bomb, either.
The portal opened up successfully with Peter's device, the bomb worked
as it should. What we don't know yet, and what Ian's complaining about
above, is *why* the results didn't stick. I figure the consequences of
the bomb might be as Walter predicted, and the devastation could very
well have taken the Observers tens or hundreds of years to recover
from, but since they can time travel, they could simply send those
boxes through again immediately. Which made it *look* like the
anti-matter bomb had failed. But that's just my guess, and remains to
be seen.

It's gotten really interesting. Peter's resemblance to Walter this
season has been fun to watch. I'm guessing he's going to turn out to
be the man who "turned" September, or the man who split the Observers
into two factions -- one that thinks of humans as ants, and another
that actually has sympathy for the humans. Best episode of the season
so far. The show is really rewarding its fans, and not caring about
the casual viewers who don't care enough to pay attention, which is a
rare thing to see.

[Tony Calguire]

"Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com> wrote in news:k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me:

>
> NCAA FOOTBALL: the last 5 minutes + overtimes of the NOTRE DAME vs.
> PITT game. PITT had to work really hard here to lose this one with
> horrible play calling / clock management.

Am I the only one who experienced NBC weirdness following the Notre Dame
game? I was in a restaurant in Wisconsin watching the end of the game, and
after the conclusion of the football broadcast, there was a commercial
break that was easily ten minutes long, almost all of them political ads in
the contentious Baldwin / Thompson Senate race. Thankfully, I couldn't
hear the TV, only see it. Finally, they moved on to horse race. I know
commercial breaks seem to go on forever, but I've very rarely seen anything
like that. It just went on and on.

And did NBC really show "Rudy" on Saturday night? Was that scheduled, or a
last-minute thing?

[William December Starr]

In article <anim8rfsk-AFF16...@news.easynews.com>,
anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> said:

> Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:
>
>> LOST IN SPACE:
>> "The Galaxy Gift". Another retarded ep which I swear they've
>> already made in which an ugly alien fugitive befriends Penny and
>> gives her a belt with the power to destroy the galaxy(?) for
>> safe-keeping. Dr Smith, naturally, wastes no time collaborating
>> with his pursers for passage back to Earth for said item, then
>> wonders why he got screwed after he tried to pass off a fake
>> one. Well, it turns out they tricked him into thinking he was on
>> Earth with a lame cheap-ass Chinatown set inhabited by a couple
>> guys dressed up like flies (because as The Robot says, "Dr Smith
>> EXAGERATES about things").

Okay, that's actually a bit clever. Or at least, it actually looks
that way in print.

>> We never found out how this was intended to be fatal, unless they
>> intended on leaving him to starve to death.
>
> And, you know, it had to be easier to just freaking send Smith to
> Earth than to build a duplicate of Chinatown on an asteroid in
> deep space.

It's a little thing called 'style'. *Anybody* could just send the
idiot to his home planet; it takes a higher level of villainy to
hoax him instead.

-- wds

[Ubiquitous]

anim...@cox.net wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 11/4/2012 12:12 PM, anim8rFSK wrote:

>> > Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

>>>> STAR TREK:
>>>> "And the Children Shall Lead". The one with several children who kill
>>>> their parents and take over The Entreprise with the help of the ghost of
>>>> F. Lee Baily. I wonder if they took those kids to Starfleet Juvie Hall
>>>> after the end of the show?
>>>
>>> Well, Kirk was at one point planning on just killing them.
>>>
>>> Did they actually kill their parents? If not, who did? None of this
>>> made sense.
>>
>> I thought it was made clear in the episode the kids killed their
>> parents. Didn't they use their powers to force their parents to kill
>> themselves?
>
>It made no sense, but it was cut to ribbons too.

Ah, so I didn't imagine there was a scene missing with Kirk and Spock checking
out a cave near the colony and the oriental kid complaining about getting
chocolate ice cream!

[Ubiquitous]

macthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
>On Sunday, November 4, 2012 9:37:04 AM UTC-5, Obveeus wrote:

>> What did you watch?
>
>Svengoolie:

I kinds wish MEtv had picked up Elvira's show instead of this one,
although her new material isn't nearly as good as the original.

[KoshN]

On Monday, November 5, 2012 5:46:12 AM UTC-5, Ubiquitous wrote:

> KoshN wrote:
>
> >On Sunday, November 4, 2012 9:37:04 AM UTC-5, Obveeus wrote:
>
>
>
> >> What did you watch?
>
> >
>
> >Svengoolie:
>
>
>
> I kinds wish MEtv had picked up Elvira's show instead of this one,
>
> although her new material isn't nearly as good as the original.

Can't we have both? I LOVE Elvira. :D Bought two of her DVDs before Halloween.

KoshN

[Michael Black]

THisTV was airing Elvira on Friday or Saturday nights last year,
relatively late. I kept meaning to tune in, and never got around to it.
Then it disappeared, I assume after a long run before I'd noticed the
sub-channel existed.

Odd, last year they seemed to have a series of Halloween themed movies,
this year not so much. But I guess they did, just not the ones I'm
interested in.

Michael

[Mason Barge]

On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 14:48:46 -0800, JRStern <JRS...@foobar.invalid>
wrote:

Haha. A lot of different horror ducks.

[Jim G.]

Mason Barge sent the following on Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:26:06 -0500:
> I want to see what Bama does to Oregon in the post-season.

As countless past Rose Bowl matchups between PAC-10 and Bigger Ten teams
have shown, speed and finesse will beat size almost every time. If
Oregon had only one offensive weapon, then yeah, I could see Bama
shutting down that weapon. But that's not the case here.

> I predict the
> monsters in the Bama defensive line are going to take them to school, SEC
> style.

Since when does "SEC style" have anything to do with going to school? :)

--
Jim G. | A fan of the good and the bad, but not the mediocre
"I'm really ready for this day to be over." -- Duke Crocker, HAVEN

[Jim G.]

Ian J. Ball sent the following on Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:04:41 -0700:

> Has cable, collectively, decided to just give up on running movies
> during the weekends?! Yikes. A disturbing trend...

You may actually have to watch non-West-Coast college football or ... or
... or ... um, actually venture out into the sunlight on weekends. :)

[Jim G.]

Obveeus sent the following on Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:37:03 -0500:
> I watched:

>
> NCAA FOOTBALL: the last 5 minutes + overtimes of the NOTRE DAME vs. PITT
> game. PITT had to work really hard here to lose this one with horrible play
> calling / clock management.

This was what I watched, as well. And since I could only half-watch the
second half (I left at halftime to go to a 25th anniversary gig for my
brother and his wife, where I could more or less only *see* what was
going on), I didn't *hear* any explanation for that one time-out, in
particular. All else being equal, when you have the lead with very
little time left and the clock is your friend and the other team is on
its heels and low on (or out of?) time-outs of its own, it's beyond
moronic to use one of your *own* time-outs, which stops the clock and
lets the other team regroup. So what explanation, if any, was given for
Pitt doing something so stupid?

The ND game was it for me, unless you count looking in once or twice to
see Illinois getting pummeled by Urban and his thugs.

[Jim G.]

suzeeq sent the following on Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:33:48 -0700:

> Ian J. Ball wrote:
> > In article <k75uif$mql$1...@dont-email.me>, "Obveeus" <Obv...@aol.com>

> > wrote:
> >
> >> What did you watch?
> >

> > This was probably the *worst* Saturday EVER for TV viewing.
> > To wit:
>

> > Fringe (recorded) - "An Origin Story". Wow, this was even more painful
> > than I thought it'd be without Georgina Haig. Unrelentingly dark (and
> > not in the right ways). And then, to cap it all off, THEY NEVER DID

> > EXPLAIN why Peter's plan to blow up the wormhole failed - man, that was
> > really annoying.
>
> I just figured that he did blow it up, but they rebuilt it on the other
> side of it at some point later. Since they come from the future, they
> could re-establish it again and send the shipment through a few minutes
> later.

Agreed. Time is relative, and all that.

[Obveeus]

"Jim G." <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:

> Obveeus sent the following on Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:37:03 -0500:
>> I watched:
>>
>> NCAA FOOTBALL: the last 5 minutes + overtimes of the NOTRE DAME vs. PITT
>> game. PITT had to work really hard here to lose this one with horrible
>> play
>> calling / clock management.
>
> This was what I watched, as well. And since I could only half-watch the
> second half (I left at halftime to go to a 25th anniversary gig for my
> brother and his wife, where I could more or less only *see* what was
> going on), I didn't *hear* any explanation for that one time-out, in
> particular. All else being equal, when you have the lead with very
> little time left and the clock is your friend and the other team is on
> its heels and low on (or out of?) time-outs of its own, it's beyond
> moronic to use one of your *own* time-outs, which stops the clock and
> lets the other team regroup. So what explanation, if any, was given for
> Pitt doing something so stupid?

I don't even recall the time out in question. I do remember Pitt having
several really short series late in the game in which they bumbled the
snaps, threw and incomplete pass to stop the clock rather than take 5 yard
loss sacks. Threw forward passes to the sidelines so the reciever could run
out of bounds and stop the clock. It was ridiculous.

The only weird timeout call I remember seeing this weekend was one in which
a coach had to call a timeout to stop the clock after the referees
incorrectly started it rolling. I don't even remember which game it was,
but the teeam didn't get their timeout back.

[David Barnett]

In article <ijball-NO_SPAM-1B2FDB.16122304112012
@news.eternal-september.org>, ijball-...@mac.invalid
says...

>
> In article <k76hg6$mne$1...@dont-email.me>,
> Arthur Lipscomb <art...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Fringe (recorded) - "An Origin Story". Wow, this was even more painful
> > > than I thought it'd be without Georgina Haig. Unrelentingly dark (and
> > > not in the right ways). And then, to cap it all off, THEY NEVER DID
> > > EXPLAIN why Peter's plan to blow up the wormhole failed

It sure was painful, but being a masochist I will see out
the concluding episodes.
Hopefully the cube failure will be explained in the next
episode, but I am doubtful.

<snip, as I don't want my own head to hurt!>

--
David Barnett

[Mason Barge]

On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:56:03 -0600, Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid>
wrote:

>Mason Barge sent the following on Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:26:06 -0500:
>> I want to see what Bama does to Oregon in the post-season.
>
>As countless past Rose Bowl matchups between PAC-10 and Bigger Ten teams
>have shown, speed and finesse will beat size almost every time. If
>Oregon had only one offensive weapon, then yeah, I could see Bama
>shutting down that weapon. But that's not the case here.

You think Bama's *slow*? Okay, we can have a virtual bet, if the game
happens.

>> I predict the
>> monsters in the Bama defensive line are going to take them to school, SEC
>> style.
>
>Since when does "SEC style" have anything to do with going to school? :)

Pfft. Wanna' talk about U. of Oregon "academics"?

[Ubiquitous]

macthe...@yahoo.com wrote:
>On Monday, November 5, 2012 5:46:12 AM UTC-5, Ubiquitous wrote:
>> KoshN wrote:
>> >On Sunday, November 4, 2012 9:37:04 AM UTC-5, Obveeus wrote:

>> >> What did you watch?
>> >
>> >Svengoolie:
>>
>> I kinds wish MEtv had picked up Elvira's show instead of this one,
>> although her new material isn't nearly as good as the original.
>
>Can't we have both? I LOVE Elvira. :D

It was one of my fav kate night shows in the 80's.

>Bought two of her DVDs before Halloween.

Do you mean the movies?

[Ubiquitous]

et...@ncf.ca wrote:

>THisTV was airing Elvira on Friday or Saturday nights last year,
>relatively late. I kept meaning to tune in, and never got around to it.
>Then it disappeared, I assume after a long run before I'd noticed the
>sub-channel existed.

I noticed it on my local ThisTV channel, but it played on Sunday (or was it
Monday?) morning at 4 AM. It just wasn't worth the effort.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <c23g98hl0a5baaph3...@4ax.com>,

Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:

> Ian J. Ball sent the following on Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:04:41 -0700:
> > Has cable, collectively, decided to just give up on running movies
> > during the weekends?! Yikes. A disturbing trend...
>
> You may actually have to watch non-West-Coast college football or ... or
> ... or ... um, actually venture out into the sunlight on weekends. :)

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/430575_10152252572195534_5406
49654_n.jpg

--
"Every time a Kardashian gets a TV show, an angel dies."

[Ian J. Ball]

In article <anim8rfsk-6DDFC...@news.easynews.com>,

anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> wrote:

> In article <c23g98hl0a5baaph3...@4ax.com>,
> Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
> > Ian J. Ball sent the following on Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:04:41 -0700:
>
> > > Has cable, collectively, decided to just give up on running movies
> > > during the weekends?! Yikes. A disturbing trend...
> >
> > You may actually have to watch non-West-Coast college football or ... or
> > ... or ... um, actually venture out into the sunlight on weekends. :)
>
> https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/430575_10152252572195534_5406
> 49654_n.jpg

Never!
Not if I'm breathing!!1!

;p

[Jim G.]

Obveeus sent the following on Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:27:36 -0500:

>
> "Jim G." <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Obveeus sent the following on Sun, 4 Nov 2012 09:37:03 -0500:
> >> I watched:
> >>
> >> NCAA FOOTBALL: the last 5 minutes + overtimes of the NOTRE DAME vs. PITT
> >> game. PITT had to work really hard here to lose this one with horrible
> >> play
> >> calling / clock management.
> >
> > This was what I watched, as well. And since I could only half-watch the
> > second half (I left at halftime to go to a 25th anniversary gig for my
> > brother and his wife, where I could more or less only *see* what was
> > going on), I didn't *hear* any explanation for that one time-out, in
> > particular. All else being equal, when you have the lead with very
> > little time left and the clock is your friend and the other team is on
> > its heels and low on (or out of?) time-outs of its own, it's beyond
> > moronic to use one of your *own* time-outs, which stops the clock and
> > lets the other team regroup. So what explanation, if any, was given for
> > Pitt doing something so stupid?
>
> I don't even recall the time out in question.

There was something like two minutes left in the game, if that. And this
was *after* a Pitt receiver had already made a catch and then gone out
of bounds on an earlier play, which also stopped the clock. Granted, ND
missed an earlier field goal and a PAT to make things interesting, but
those weren't *mental* mistakes.

> I do remember Pitt having
> several really short series late in the game in which they bumbled the
> snaps, threw and incomplete pass to stop the clock rather than take 5 yard
> loss sacks. Threw forward passes to the sidelines so the reciever could run
> out of bounds and stop the clock. It was ridiculous.

I have yet to get around to reading some of the recaps of the game, but
I can't imagine that they won't be questioning (at the very least)
Pitt's head coach's game management there at the end of regulation. But
I got a "deer in the headlights" vibe from the guy almost every time
they showed him on the sidelines, so I'm really not surprised by any of
it.

[Obveeus]

"Jim G." <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:

> Obveeus sent the following on Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:27:36 -0500:

>> >> NCAA FOOTBALL:

> I have yet to get around to reading some of the recaps of the game, but
> I can't imagine that they won't be questioning (at the very least)
> Pitt's head coach's game management there at the end of regulation. But
> I got a "deer in the headlights" vibe from the guy almost every time
> they showed him on the sidelines, so I'm really not surprised by any of
> it.

The coaching definitely blew it with some poor play calling, but they should
not have been dumbfounded to be in the position to possibly win the game.
Pitt beat a Top20 (at the time) Virginia Tech team earlier this year.

[KoshN]

On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 5:22:54 AM UTC-5, Ubiquitous wrote:
> KoshN wrote:
>
> >On Monday, November 5, 2012 5:46:12 AM UTC-5, Ubiquitous wrote:
>
> >> KoshN wrote:
>
> >> >On Sunday, November 4, 2012 9:37:04 AM UTC-5, Obveeus wrote:
>
> >> >> What did you watch?
>
> >> >Svengoolie:
>
> >> I kinds wish MEtv had picked up Elvira's show instead of this one,
> >> although her new material isn't nearly as good as the original.
>
> >Can't we have both? I LOVE Elvira. :D
>
> It was one of my fav kate night shows in the 80's.
>
> >Bought two of her DVDs before Halloween.
>
> Do you mean the movies?

Yeah, but it turms out that I only *rented* “Elvira, Mistress of the Dark” (1988), which I loved, via Netflix on Sept. 18th. Then, I impulse bought “Elvira’s Haunted Hills” (2002) when I saw it on the shelf in Wal Mart, but it wasn’t very good.

KoshN

[~consul]

No, I think Peter did assemble the cube correctly, regardless of what the Observer said. The point of the cube was to draw a wormhole to their controlled location, which they did. It was the anti-matter explosive round which was a supposed to collapse the wormhole on the other end. And he shot it off, and it blew up. It just meant that the Observers at the other end did something to stop it and reopen a new one, maybe 10 minute later, maybe 10 years. And then they resumed the shipments on schedule in our time.

It is confusing, at what the Observer said. I didn't think they would go for bullshitting someone like that.
--
"... respect, all good works are not done by only good folk. For here, at the end of all things, we shall do what needs to be done."
--till next time, consul -x- <<poetry.dolphins-cove.com>>

[Jim G.]

Mason Barge sent the following on Mon, 05 Nov 2012 18:58:31 -0500:

> On Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:56:03 -0600, Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid>
> wrote:
>
> >Mason Barge sent the following on Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:26:06 -0500:
> >> I want to see what Bama does to Oregon in the post-season.
> >
> >As countless past Rose Bowl matchups between PAC-10 and Bigger Ten teams
> >have shown, speed and finesse will beat size almost every time. If
> >Oregon had only one offensive weapon, then yeah, I could see Bama
> >shutting down that weapon. But that's not the case here.
>
> You think Bama's *slow*? Okay, we can have a virtual bet, if the game
> happens.

Sounds good. And really, I don't follow 'Bama, but I have a hard time
imagining them being *faster* than Oregon. Time will tell, and it would
definitely be a fun game to watch.

> >> I predict the
> >> monsters in the Bama defensive line are going to take them to school, SEC
> >> style.
> >
> >Since when does "SEC style" have anything to do with going to school? :)
>
> Pfft. Wanna' talk about U. of Oregon "academics"?

To be fair, I don't want to talk about the academics of *most* football
players outside of a handful of teams.* The SEC just makes it so easy,
as they don't really even *try* to hide it.

* Every week, in addition to being embarrassed by the latest whupping
that the Illini take, I have to read a "We didn't play good" comment or
twelve from various players in postgame press conferences. Which is why
it's so nice to hear the kids at, say, ND or Stanford giving an
interview. Night and day.

[Jim G.]

Obveeus sent the following on Tue, 6 Nov 2012 15:56:37 -0500:

Yeah, but it's since become painfully obvious that VaTech is a joke this
year. And the Pitt coaches and players follow this stuff just as much as
anyone, so they would know that, as well. Much of the confidence that
they gained from that win (which seemed like an accomplishment at the
time) would have evaporated with the subsequent VaTech losses.

[Obveeus]

"Jim G." <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
> Obveeus sent the following on Tue, 6 Nov 2012 15:56:37 -0500:
>>
>> "Jim G." <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> > Obveeus sent the following on Mon, 5 Nov 2012 16:27:36 -0500:
>> >> >> NCAA FOOTBALL:
>> > I have yet to get around to reading some of the recaps of the game, but
>> > I can't imagine that they won't be questioning (at the very least)
>> > Pitt's head coach's game management there at the end of regulation. But
>> > I got a "deer in the headlights" vibe from the guy almost every time
>> > they showed him on the sidelines, so I'm really not surprised by any of
>> > it.
>>
>> The coaching definitely blew it with some poor play calling, but they
>> should
>> not have been dumbfounded to be in the position to possibly win the game.
>> Pitt beat a Top20 (at the time) Virginia Tech team earlier this year.
>
> Yeah, but it's since become painfully obvious that VaTech is a joke this
> year. And the Pitt coaches and players follow this stuff just as much as
> anyone, so they would know that, as well. Much of the confidence that
> they gained from that win (which seemed like an accomplishment at the
> time) would have evaporated with the subsequent VaTech losses.

I agree with all that. I'm just suggesting that if these coaches are the
type to get 'deer in the headlights' over the prospect of beating a better
team, it should have happened when they found themselves ahead of Virginia
Tech.

[Mason Barge]

On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:51:03 -0600, Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid>

Yeah, they get football players who would be legitimate students at, say,
LSU.

Georgia Tech used to have pretty smart athletes but it seems to me that
that has changed just over the past five or ten years.

I'll tell you the big surprise, is the U. of Georgia. It used to be on
the level of LSU/Auburn academically. But they dedicated all the lottery
money to scholarships, so that anyone with a B average from a Georgia high
school can go to UGa for $1500. That raised admissions standards
*enormously*.

I don't think it will turn into UNC or UVA overnight (or in my lifetime),
but it's definitely become something better than it was.

[Jim G.]

Obveeus sent the following on Wed, 7 Nov 2012 16:10:36 -0500:

I'm saying that, to me, the "deer in the headlights" look was there all
game long. It wasn't just limited to those times when Pitt was ahead.
Put simply, the Pitt coach that I saw on the sidelines is not one who
would inspire me with confidence if I were one of his players out on the
field who was looking over at him in the hopes of a shot of confidence
in my team's chances. The facial expressions, the body language ... it
was just all wrong. From start to finish.

[Obveeus]

"Jim G." <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
> Obveeus sent the following on Wed, 7 Nov 2012 16:10:36 -0500:

>> I agree with all that. I'm just suggesting that if these coaches are the
>> type to get 'deer in the headlights' over the prospect of beating a
>> better
>> team, it should have happened when they found themselves ahead of
>> Virginia
>> Tech.
>
> I'm saying that, to me, the "deer in the headlights" look was there all
> game long.

Ah, ok. I only watched the end of the game so if the playcalling was inept
earlier/throughout, I did not see it.

[Jim G.]

Obveeus sent the following on Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:25:51 -0500:

He reminded me of the Zook years at Illinois. Some coaches just don't
look comfortable or confident on the sidelines on game day. And often,
as with Zook, it's for good reason.

[Jim G.]

Mason Barge sent the following on Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:21:57 -0500:

They've been known for their engineering school for as long as they've
been on my radar. But they're not SEC. :)

> I'll tell you the big surprise, is the U. of Georgia. It used to be on
> the level of LSU/Auburn academically. But they dedicated all the lottery
> money to scholarships, so that anyone with a B average from a Georgia high
> school can go to UGa for $1500. That raised admissions standards
> *enormously*.

Wait--are you telling me that they made high school academic performance
a consideration? And that it was for *everyone* with a certain GPA,
rather than basing it on skin color, or some such thing? Craziness! :)

> I don't think it will turn into UNC or UVA overnight (or in my lifetime),
> but it's definitely become something better than it was.

In that case, it's only a matter of time before the SEC kicks them out.
They should become friends with the Aggies in a hurry. For mutual
support, and all that.

[Mason Barge]

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 14:20:51 -0600, Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid>

Yeah, it's really become a pretty good name. It's right at the top of the
"second tier" in the east -- the first tier consisting pretty much of MIT
and Princeton.

You know, when I was a kid, Tech was actually in the SEC. Not only that,
they tried to get back in in the 70s -- and UGA blocked their readmission!

>> I'll tell you the big surprise, is the U. of Georgia. It used to be on
>> the level of LSU/Auburn academically. But they dedicated all the lottery
>> money to scholarships, so that anyone with a B average from a Georgia high
>> school can go to UGa for $1500. That raised admissions standards
>> *enormously*.
>
>Wait--are you telling me that they made high school academic performance
>a consideration? And that it was for *everyone* with a certain GPA,
>rather than basing it on skin color, or some such thing? Craziness! :)

The Georgia General Assembly is desperately looking for a way to screw it
up.

A rare thing -- a government educational program that works.

>> I don't think it will turn into UNC or UVA overnight (or in my lifetime),
>> but it's definitely become something better than it was.
>
>In that case, it's only a matter of time before the SEC kicks them out.
>They should become friends with the Aggies in a hurry. For mutual
>support, and all that.

The Aggies? I don't get it.

[Jim G.]

Mason Barge sent the following on Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:20:31 -0500:

I really want to visit the Princeton campus someday. There is just *so*
much history there.

> You know, when I was a kid, Tech was actually in the SEC. Not only that,
> they tried to get back in in the 70s -- and UGA blocked their readmission!

Why? I would think that an Athens-Atlanta rivalry could be a lot of fun.

> >> I'll tell you the big surprise, is the U. of Georgia. It used to be on
> >> the level of LSU/Auburn academically. But they dedicated all the lottery
> >> money to scholarships, so that anyone with a B average from a Georgia high
> >> school can go to UGa for $1500. That raised admissions standards
> >> *enormously*.
> >
> >Wait--are you telling me that they made high school academic performance
> >a consideration? And that it was for *everyone* with a certain GPA,
> >rather than basing it on skin color, or some such thing? Craziness! :)
>
> The Georgia General Assembly is desperately looking for a way to screw it
> up.

They're politicians. It's what they do.

> A rare thing -- a government educational program that works.
>
> >> I don't think it will turn into UNC or UVA overnight (or in my lifetime),
> >> but it's definitely become something better than it was.
> >
> >In that case, it's only a matter of time before the SEC kicks them out.
> >They should become friends with the Aggies in a hurry. For mutual
> >support, and all that.
>
> The Aggies? I don't get it.

Texas A&M has a pretty good academic reputation, IIRC. Or at least they
did the last time I paid much attention to such things.

[Mason Barge]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:28:15 -0600, Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid>

Princeton's beautiful, to boot.

>> You know, when I was a kid, Tech was actually in the SEC. Not only that,
>> they tried to get back in in the 70s -- and UGA blocked their readmission!
>
>Why? I would think that an Athens-Atlanta rivalry could be a lot of fun.

Back then, it was taken quite seriously by a lot of people. They really
*hated* each other.

[...]

>> >In that case, it's only a matter of time before the SEC kicks them out.
>> >They should become friends with the Aggies in a hurry. For mutual
>> >support, and all that.
>>
>> The Aggies? I don't get it.
>
>Texas A&M has a pretty good academic reputation, IIRC. Or at least they
>did the last time I paid much attention to such things.

Okay, I'm typing this before I go look it up, because as soon as I hear
"A&M" I think, glorified trade school.

. . .

Well, US News & World Rept has them at #23 (out of 115) for public
universities. So, not terrible by any means.

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public

[Jim G.]

anim8rFSK sent the following on Tue, 06 Nov 2012 06:59:11 -0700:

> In article <c23g98hl0a5baaph3...@4ax.com>,
> Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Ian J. Ball sent the following on Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:04:41 -0700:
> > > Has cable, collectively, decided to just give up on running movies
> > > during the weekends?! Yikes. A disturbing trend...
> >
> > You may actually have to watch non-West-Coast college football or ... or
> > ... or ... um, actually venture out into the sunlight on weekends. :)
>
> https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/430575_10152252572195534_5406
> 49654_n.jpg

In the Better Late Than Never category, let me say that I love this. And
relate to it *way* more than I probably should.

[Ubiquitous]

In article <k77jdf$p46$1...@panix2.panix.com>, wds...@panix.com wrote:
>anim8rFSK <anim...@cox.net> said:
>> Ubiquitous <web...@polaris.net> wrote:

>>> LOST IN SPACE:
>>> "The Galaxy Gift". Another retarded ep which I swear they've
>>> already made in which an ugly alien fugitive befriends Penny and
>>> gives her a belt with the power to destroy the galaxy(?) for
>>> safe-keeping. Dr Smith, naturally, wastes no time collaborating
>>> with his pursers for passage back to Earth for said item, then
>>> wonders why he got screwed after he tried to pass off a fake
>>> one. Well, it turns out they tricked him into thinking he was on
>>> Earth with a lame cheap-ass Chinatown set inhabited by a couple
>>> guys dressed up like flies (because as The Robot says, "Dr Smith
>>> EXAGERATES about things").
>
>Okay, that's actually a bit clever. Or at least, it actually looks
>that way in print.

And that's where it ends.

>>> We never found out how this was intended to be fatal, unless they
>>> intended on leaving him to starve to death.
>>
>> And, you know, it had to be easier to just freaking send Smith to
>> Earth than to build a duplicate of Chinatown on an asteroid in
>> deep space.
>
>It's a little thing called 'style'. *Anybody* could just send the
>idiot to his home planet; it takes a higher level of villainy to
>hoax him instead.

Well, not if they do it half-assed.

[anim8rFSK]

In article <l2j5a8pevh2f6ag1o...@4ax.com>,

Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:

> anim8rFSK sent the following on Tue, 06 Nov 2012 06:59:11 -0700:
> > In article <c23g98hl0a5baaph3...@4ax.com>,
> > Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid> wrote:
> >
> > > Ian J. Ball sent the following on Sun, 04 Nov 2012 09:04:41 -0700:
> > > > Has cable, collectively, decided to just give up on running movies
> > > > during the weekends?! Yikes. A disturbing trend...
> > >
> > > You may actually have to watch non-West-Coast college football or ... or
> > > ... or ... um, actually venture out into the sunlight on weekends. :)
> >
> > https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/430575_10152252572195534_5406
> > 49654_n.jpg
>
> In the Better Late Than Never category, let me say that I love this. And
> relate to it *way* more than I probably should.

:)

I had seen it on Facebook literally no more than 2 minutes before I read
Ian's post, so I knew right where it was and had to share it!

[Jim G.]

Mason Barge sent the following on Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:23:25 -0500:

So I've heard. It's definitely the first one I think of when I hear "Ivy
League."

> >> You know, when I was a kid, Tech was actually in the SEC. Not only that,
> >> they tried to get back in in the 70s -- and UGA blocked their readmission!
> >
> >Why? I would think that an Athens-Atlanta rivalry could be a lot of fun.
>
> Back then, it was taken quite seriously by a lot of people. They really
> *hated* each other.

All the more reason to beat up each other once a year on a Saturday. :)

> [...]
> >> >In that case, it's only a matter of time before the SEC kicks them out.
> >> >They should become friends with the Aggies in a hurry. For mutual
> >> >support, and all that.
> >>
> >> The Aggies? I don't get it.
> >
> >Texas A&M has a pretty good academic reputation, IIRC. Or at least they
> >did the last time I paid much attention to such things.
>
> Okay, I'm typing this before I go look it up, because as soon as I hear
> "A&M" I think, glorified trade school.
>
> . . .
>
> Well, US News & World Rept has them at #23 (out of 115) for public
> universities. So, not terrible by any means.
>
> http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/top-public

That's right about where I'd have put them off-the-cuff, and I'm
*guessing* that that puts them well above most of their new SEC
brethren. OTOH, having spent time in College Station on a couple of
occasions in the past, I can say that it's not gonna win any Best
Setting awards anytime soon. The campus itself is okay, but the
surrounding community and land are nothing to write home about. Even
though it was some two hours away, I still spent my days off in Austin.
:)

[Mason Barge]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:34:45 -0600, Jim G. <jimg...@geemail.com.invalid>

Florida and Georgia just above it, Alabama and Auburn a bit below.
Vanderbilt would have to be a cut above all those, but it's private.

As much as I have a prejudice against Auburn and Alabama as "dumb"
schools, the people I know who have gone there are often fairly bright.

Georgia and Florida have the advantage of, off the top of my head, the
cheapest flagship state universities in the country for in-state students.

[Jim G.]

anim8rFSK sent the following on Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:33:38 -0700:

And at this time of year, it's especially appropriate for me.

Actually, I don't really *dis*like socializing in the "real world" once
I'm there. What bothers me is dropping everything else that I *could* be
doing instead so that I can go out and socialize. But unless I want to
become a complete hermit during my free time, written off by everyone I
know in the "real world," I know that I have to suck it up and endure it
once in a while.