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I thought the renovations before joining the WAC made Bobcat Stadium bigger.

Ahh, Kap, how can you not agree that Perry's strength is stump speeches and TV ads? He's avoided debates all these years because he sucks at them. Sanchez crushed him when they got side by side so Perry stopped. Hell he even paled next to Bill White. He gets elected by stumping and media spots.

MMM good!

I'll bet they both are pretty close. Middle of winter, packed in a gym, the noise deafening . . . These kids are on TV constantly, fans can tell you about freshman and sophomores who are expected to make an impact.

Just do it!

Help!

Last night I was at our game and was thinking how different it is from my days in Illinois. First off, the town where I teach has a population of 30,000, the football stadium seats 15,000. Tickets are $7, reserved seating. Jumbotron scoreboard. Instant replays. Giant custom inflatables for the players to run through. Sixty or so players on the side with 16 coaches. 30 or so cheerleaders (boys and girls). The marching band has about 80-100. Various other dance and pom pom groups. Everything is sponsored, first downs, red zone, stops, you name it. Away teams arrive in 6 to 8 school buses, often times with custom graphics on the vehicles and a police escort from their town with sirens and lights blasting.

Correction, the new seating capacity is 15,000 and it is sold out for tonight's game.

Best seats in the house for tonight's battle of two undefeated football teams. 11th row, 50th yard line. The 10,000 seat stadium is sold out.

Zippity Doo, we won the pep rally

Just about finished the lesson on propaganda and the FSU traditions. Love the synergy

/best thread in a long time

Seems that the tribe gave their consent, so it's all good!

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 08:12 AM) the odds are still that you will leave a loser. All those games guarantee a loser because the house removes some of the "points". I do agree that the skill factor is highest in poker than the other games. My point is in all these games, if everyone played perfectly every hand, there will still be losers because of the house cut. Whether the house takes a cut by altering the payouts (Craps) or just skimming each hand (poker) they guarantee a loser. And in all those games there are winners and losers. The big difference is poker is the only game (+ parimutuals) I can think of that also guarantees a winner. Since the house limits their cut, someone has to win something. In Blackjack, craps, etc. it is possible for the house to bankrupt everyone.

I'll buy two. One to drink and one to save.

LOL it's pep rally day and I'm teaching my students the Seminole War Chant and Tomahawk chop. We're divided into University teams and ours is FSU. Unconquored and Chief Oceola will ride today.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Oct 14, 2011 -> 06:30 AM) I'm not aware of there being "computer opponents" at the major online poker sites. Poker rooms, real or virtual, make their money differently than other casino games. You don't play poker against the house, you play against other players and the house makes their money by taking a cut of every pot. It's the only game in a casino where you do actually have a fair shake at winning, unless you are an expert card counter playing blackjack. The house takes a cut in every game, it just varies how they are taking it. Functionally there really isn't much difference. Players put in $X and are competing for $X-Cut. The players as a group will always lose to the house.

Unless each day can be looked back upon by an individual as one in which he has had some fun, some joy, some real satisfaction, that day is a loss. We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The best morale exists when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy. Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides. All from Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890 - 1969

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 07:08 PM) QFFT Also the worst part about those online poker sites (which I always suspected anyway) is that the games were rigged to allow computer opponents to win hands. You literally didnt have a fair shake at winning. Which isn't much different than every game, computer or dealer in Vegas.

I was trying to frame a post that showed that K-Dubya and Dunn were screwed and they actually should have been placed much higher, but, 8th is about right. With another .150ish season, and he moves up to the top 3.

LOL at wanting a guy addicted to painkillers and more worried about signing an extension than his team's chances/

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 12:43 PM) Oh the irony. Message board posters talking about all it takes to manage a team because we are such experts while at the same time saying a guy whi played 2000 games wouldn't know how to deal with such issues. Nicely played sir.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 13, 2011 -> 03:44 PM) I'm going to have to pick up this book... It's pretty clear to me, and I consider myself to be a reasonably intelligent person, that to write off the Native Americans, or any of the ancient cultures, for that matter, as ignorant or unsophisticated is incredibly ignorant in and of itself. Yet don't we do that with many cultures and countries today? Don't we look down at other countries in so many different ways. I'm recalling something as simple as going outside of the US for medical treatments that are not approved of here. When someone does that (cough Maggs) we assume it can't be for the quality of the care but some other reason. And please don't ask me to go find the thread. We seem to believe that all the great advances will come from the US. Our form of government is the best for all people. Our religious, social, sexual, and whatever other freedom we can think of is the best for all cultures.

Or, like many companies, in brain storming you create a list of every possible idea and start looking from there. I would hope they started with a list about 100 names deep.

A lot of the cotton that got around the Union blockade came through my area of the world. Once they shipped it to Texas it was fairly easy to smuggle it into Mexico and once on Mexico flagged ships, it was safe passage east. I know I was surprised when I learned that the US was about the last country to ban slavery. That gave us the competitive advantage, combined with Slatter stealing textile mill trade secrets, to build great wealth. It was also stolen tobacco seeds that started that industry and slaves that kept it going. Drop a couple bombs on Japan and invent a practical computer and you have the greatest country in the world.