There can never be hard feelings, I just dont like people getting chances to succeed at life called slaves.(And the people that say athletes dont get free stuff is a liar, all my meals at a local resteraunt were "comped")

Thanks for the tip! I saw their booth so soon after spotting the Young Republicans that for a moment they just seemed much less creepy than normal.

You saw the other NAMBLA. I was referring to the North American Marlon Brando Association.

Isnt there two namblas?

This could very well be the greatest thing I've ever seen in my life. An ultra-exclusive Rowdy Roddy Piper G.I. Joe action figure to commemorate his appearance at JoeCon 2007. And seeing as that I'm a G.I. Joe fanatic and that Rowdy Roddy Piper is my all time favorite wrestler, I must have one of these. Unfortunately, only 1000 were made. Anyone wanna lend me 500 bucks so I can buy one?

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The question of collegiate athletics is a very peripheral one for me. I'm mainly amazed at how much money ends up being involved -- never having been a real sports fan and not getting caught up in the excitement of it. What I'd worry about would be the athletes for whom the sport becomes a sort of defacto job at school, and whether or not they're getting more than an education strictly on paper.

That so many of the payments are indirect, and that's not even counting the things slipped in through loopholes, it seems to me that perhaps the main problem with not having them be officially paid is that there's such a premium attached to their "amateur" status that investigations and allegations can cause disruptions. It almost certainly causes even more money to change hands with respect to some of the top prospects than we see in the millions involved in the programs themselves.

I couldn't remember the joke, and I couldn't bring myself to Google the acronym.

Good call!

Happy belated birthday!

Yeah, much more relaxed now. Thank heavens! heh heh Tomorrow we go exploring a bit.

That is freakin' awesome!

Then I screwed it up. It was suppose to be North American Marlon Brando Lookalike Association. I'm just off my game today.

Yeah, but the first person to send in an action is guaranteed to survive the night. And if two people are cutthroat playing, they can very easily force someone to vote for themselves then kingmake them and silence them. I expect a lot of fun at the very beginning with lots of people dying N1.

Last bit first: Sorry, no.

I only know Roddy from THEY LIVE and a couple character appearances on shows over the years. The wrestling bits are just something I'm distantly aware of.

G.I. Joe to me was 12 inches tall, started out in the military and then became more interesting via things like a space capsule and other "Adventure Team" elements. However, that was just after the point when I had moved past those toys, but as my brother is 5 years younger we still had more of them coming into the house.

The whole "Real American Hero"/"Go, Joes!" era with the tiny guys and cartoons, though, is pretty alien to me.

Were I a millionaire, I would ; I don't care one bit about G.I. Joe or Roddy's wrestling, but he was great in "They Live", and for this alone he gets all my respect.

On an unrelated note, the Paris Saint-Germain football club is still the leader of the French football league, it's sweet.

Still off-topic, I'm going to watch "Good Bye, Lenin !" tomorrow night, a bittersweet movie will be perfect these days.

I just watched Double Indemnity. It is a great film noir movie!

I also watched a British version of Bram Stoker's Dracula with David Suchet as Van Helsing.

Double Indemnity is a great film =]