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Nope. No. And arrrrrgh. Way too much parsing going on here. 1. Murray never interviewed Nolan. 2. And Murray just said that there is not anybody that would do what he is describing. (Why would that not include Nolan) Murray stopped thinking about Nolan more than a month ago. (Unlike this board) If there is anyone not stuck in the past it is GMTM.

Perot did cost Bush the election. Perot was running infomercials on the Economy- and though Perot may not have siphoned off enough votes to alter the outcome - his presence in the race kept the focus of the election on the economy, a Bush weakness. Bush failed to control the debate, he wanted to make the election about foreign policy and his competence as commander in chief, but between Clinton's "it's the economy, stupid." And Ross Perot's "giant sucking sound to Mexico" he was left playing defense on domestics rather than playing offense on Clintons weak international record of the pot smoking Oxbridger. The polling was ridiculous - if asked who was best on the Economy between Clinton and Bush...about 45 percent were saying Bush. A bad but manageable number if you are in a head to head with other issues. The same question with Perot thrown in dropped Bush to 25%. Campaign death. Clinton knew it, Perot knew it, and they kept it a one issue Campaign.

:lol: Joe Battista Noir - Chapter One "A cold ass day in HarborCenter" Battista leaned in the doorway, his bold, cigar-chomping countenance wore a look of pain at the unusual ménage of life around Harbor Center. When the meaning of his interior disturbance became clear to him he placed a hand beside the jowls of his mouth to amplify the sound and shouted to his male secretary. "Has Terry returned my call?" A feeble clamor was heard in the other room. A meek, "No, sir. no messages at all, sir." Out the window he could see the FNC, on the wayward side Seymour Knox Plaza. He, the man that would be Lord Chancellor to a hockey empire was yet to take his rightful place. He knew he had his enemies in the "chattering circles" of the NHL. There were those that thought him only an aggrandized superintendent of a rented building, a warm seat if you will. Those people would count him wrong. He was after all, a Penn State man. There were moments he truly believed in his own resiliency - - - not merely a human heart beat in his ribcage, but that of a Lion. And not just an underfed, scrawny, circus lion with a touch of mange that one sees in bad sideshows--- but a real, goddamned real, beating heart of a Nittany Lion. Literally. "Literally Nittany," he mumbled to himself, and was awoken from his reverie by a ringing phone. "TERRY!," he answered, "I've been......." "No, no, chubs, its not TERRY!," he heard over the line with a mocking girl voice, "This is Black, you mamby-pamby sycophant."

This gets 8/10 stars on the conspiratorial tones meter. (Harrington's piece that is).

He seems to have a real knack on the left side dot in the offensive zone. Other dots, not so much.

1. In hockey 9 times out of 10 what you see at face value is what it is. – Tim Murray (True or False?) 2. In the wake of Babcock signing with the Tront, Dan Bylsma is the coach that would bring Buffalo the most league-wide credibility. (Agree or Disagree) 3. Do something with #21 in the 2015 Draft. Choose one: (A) Take Pick, B)Trade Up, C) Trade for Player 4. What are the odds of Terry Pegula resurrecting a 2017 version of the Empire Network (as a percentage % chance). 5. What recently successful NHL franchise is at the beginning of a downward trajectory? (Name Team)

I get visions of Lorne Green, Adama of the original Battlestar Gallactica, Patrick Stewart, Picard of the Enterprise, and Gordon champion of NASCAR. I hope that guy can compete with his own name.

Totally yummy.

They pay Lindy in Free Bowling tokens.

One thing about Carlyle is that he sends men over the boards like a turnstyle. He matches lines, moves lines, tinkers and cheats to get the one ice match-ups he wants. So he's not Nolan in that regard. I can see why that might be boring, but it never has been to me. He can frustrate the crap out of opposing coaches. Here's a piece from when Toronto hired him. http://www.torontosun.com/2012/03/03/randy-carlyle-28-things-to-know Not my favorite choice, but I could live with Carlyle.

Livid - who knows? They invested their emotions in this and came up 2nd. These are competitive people. You might have heard a or two.

Ummmm........not the hand-towels, please. We all use those.

Babcock is taking that pretty girl up the road to the prom. She's prettier. But we win on personality.

My lips are sealed.

We shall never surrender!!!

Is there a corollary to Godwin's .....when a thread reaches "meet them on the beaches" stage?

It's good with me, George. It's good with me.

It sounds dirty when you write it like that.

Easy there. Use hashtag narrative and that triggers the Manchurian Candidate sequence. The black and white one, with Angela Landsbury.

He read his Steinbeck junior year when you were taking Advanced Organic Chem.

Hot dog sales. Gotta go to Montreal. Weird, I know.

I give it an 800 in the Dewey system....fine literature.

Wasn't Karma a club in NYC. Upper West side? Or maybe it was a Canadian Ballet dancer? I'm old.

I'm thinking of adding an F..... X. Benefdict. It's feels kinda trendy.

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