The "Totally More Random Comments, Questions, and Thoughts" Thread [R]

Nice article on the beautiful game in America:

http://www.thepostgame.com/features/201308/why-soccer-last-sport-grown-ups

 

all about them Strikers

 

I love this kind of news:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...naire-over-plans-to-mine-sacred-mountain.html

 

Suarez is a Minnion??

Damn it.

 

Yes, good news, nice to see the real people prevail over big money. Especially in a place where money talks..

The article was a little misleading with the "Defeat of British Billionaire header." They seemed to make it more in mind with this:
Colonel Blimp



Rather than an Indian Born national living in Britain.

 

A neighborhood just above DuPont Circle

 

Madam's Organ.

 

Chimaera, did you go to William & Mary? Two of my offspring graduated from there. My Daughter in 2005 and my son in 2012.

 

Yep. 06 graduate (well, should have been 05, but victory lap and all )

 

Damn fine school, that.

 

Fine place to go to school. Delis and that's about it.

 

Yeah, it's a nice place, though, I'm not sure I got out of it what I should have until Junior or Senior year.

The whole wishing you knew what you know now then and all. I'm certain I would have enjoyed it way more if I had been smart enough to realize earlier going to class 5-6 times a semester wasn't cutting it.

 

Well then you probably didn't know my daughter. She was a 3.8 in Government in 2005. My son started on the fraternity track -- went to class a bit more than you but he also didn't start really going til the end. He did get two 4.0s his last two semesters

 

That's one proud dad....

 

Sports Business
On American TVs, English Soccer Scores on Empty Net

 

"the Tottenham Hotspur" ....Pedantic of me to point out I know...but damn. Just get it right.

 

Ha, no probably not.

I've got a buddy who was a Govt/History double major. I just got the history degree.

I had a 3.8 my last two years, but before that, man, I definitely didn't do well.

All in all, it's a good lesson to have learned, that I needed to learn, but it was a bit tough to do it that way. I had to fail a bit to succeed, and I'm glad for it. Just many days I wish I could have started college again knowing what I know now. Once again, a youth wasted on the young type of a deal.

 

That's a great last two years. People here don't understand that William and Mary is a place where as my son says "William and Mary,where your best hadn't been good enough since 1696" . So the easy A doesn't exist.

 

I think they have made a smart bet. Fox Soccer was always hard to get. The NBC channels will draw in the kids who play the game but whose parents aren't paying a cable premium for soccer.

 

rub salt in the wound, why dontcha? jerk!

 

History degrees are great...I have one too. No idea why.

 

As do I. Helped me as a petty bureaucratic functionary.

 

only one out of every 5873 people who major in history end up as historians.

 

I had a go at it. It didn't work out.