Doohickie
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Inexcusable, but it happens.
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I won't come out and accuse him of it because I don't know. But my assumption is significantly higher than 0.08 if he 1. hit a building and 2. fled.
I don't see either one of those as necessarily meaning a high blow. He may be have just been a bit careless in the first instance, and in the second he just kinda freaked.
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We are in the process of gathering facts and have no comment at this time.
....I'm picturing Hoss and/or Sizzle walking down a garden path carrying a basket, tossing mushrooms into it occasionally and calling them facts.
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My dog had that problem. The vet prescribed pumpkin. It worked. Every week I buy a couple cans of pumpkin (the kind you make pie with) and put a tablespoon or two in his food at every feeding. He hasn't had a recurrence of the blockage since then. Don't know how or why it works, but it's cheap and it's worth a shot.
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More riding. Last night I did 37 hilly miles on the bicycle.
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Meh. It's all speculation at this point. Kind of interesting to look at the lineup in his absence though... I suppose Larsson would be the primary beneficiary of any missed time by ROR.
I think in the long run this will be a barely noticeable bump in the road if ROR succeeds with the Sabres. If he doesn't do so well, everyone will point back to this incident.
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Le Tour
...de Fort Worth.
The mayor's office sponsors a bicycle ride series that coincides with the TDF. Our mayor has ridden different parts of the city during the TDF for many years before she became mayor, and now she's using her bully pulpit to share her cycling enthusiasm with the rest of the city. Last night was my first chance to ride in the Tour de Fort Worth this year and wouldn't ya know it, it's one of the few rides the mayor has missed this year. Altogether I rode 36 miles last night- 10 miles from my house to the ride start, 16 miles with the group, and 10 miles home (including an impressive sprint inspired by a huge dog that was loose last night... maybe I need to start avoiding the barrio on the way home).
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??? You want to pay me the same amount in 2 years that I'd make in 3, leaving me open in getting paid more in year 3? Sign me up!
It isn't $7.5m each year, it's $7.5m total ($3.75m per year)
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I guess following the ROR saga could kill some time
I know. Thank GAWD someone did something wrong over the summer.
My wife is trying her damnedest to fill my time with a honey do list. She's got one taped to the fridge and as I complete each task she checks it off the list. Problem is she keeps adding to the list. I know. Hand in my mancard. You got to take the good with the bad I guess. I can't wait for this season to start.
Keeping your woman happy is the ultimate in mancard points. Carry on.
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Actually the thing that bugs me (and part of it may be due to in-car distractions) are people who just drive stupid. You know what I mean- They need to make a left turn in a half mile, but wait until a block before and try to move across three lanes of traffic from right to left to get to the left turn lane. Or people who don't know how to drive traffic circles. There's one on my daily commute and in the afternoon it's pretty crowded. Three lanes approach the circle: The first peels off just before the circle and makes an effective right turn. The next one over goes to that same right turn, or can go "straight". The last one (most to the left) and go "straight" through the circle or "turn left". The number of people that enter the circle in the incorrect lane and have feel the need to change lanes blows my mind.... for instance a lot of people start out in the right lane, force their way into the center lane, then turn right immediately. If they just stayed in the lane they started out in, they would have ended up in the same place (an effective right turn). Why they felt they needed to force a lane change just before the split is beyond me. That stuff drives me nuts.
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This thread is going south fast.
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She's not a good Baptist wife; they're supposed to honor their husbands and acknowledge them as THE HEAD of the household. (A friend actually left a music faculty position at the Baptist seminary a few miles from my house because he and his wife refused to sign a document to that effect mandated by the school.)
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Sabres=Most Money
Stars=Best Chance to Win Sooner
My concern with a fourth year would be that is the first year after Eichel's and Reinhart's ELCs are up
Um guys, the Stars aren't all that. They've dropped like a stone the last year or so. Acquiring Sharp, Niemi and perhaps Oduya would pull them back into "meh" shape. Their back end is a mess.
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http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/sports/hockey/nhl/leafs/2007-09-12-bell-suspension_N.htm
Don't have time to really read into this, I have to be somewhere, but I had heard of this incident before
15 games. My impression is that in that case it was more severe (rear ended another vehicle, maybe people injured?) So that's probably a worst case. It also mentions "Stage 2" which I'm not sure but it looks like that wasn't the first incident for that player.
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Ever since o'reilly signed, the atmosphere has been......intoxicating.
:flirt:
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Why would he be suspended or have any punishment at all from the league or the Sabres? Was there some precedent set before this or some morals clause they have to adhere to?
I'm sure there's a personal conduct clause in the contract.
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Maybe that $15m over 3 years is looking better....
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Of course, nothing wrong with doing some community service in Ontario, and some more in Buffalo. He'll probably end up doing it anyway in the Buffalo area, but they could turn the sour taste into a positive PR move by saying he's got X00 hours of local community service mandated by the team and then he has to hang out in children's hospitals and stuff. Maybe kick it off during his (presumed) suspension.
Maybe they suspend him during the preseason and he's good to go when the regular season starts? Who knows what GMTM will do.
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ERIE CANAL
That gives a segue into a second team mascot.... A Mule Named Sal.
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I certainly don't think he should he crucified, but I feel an actual penalty is appropriate.
Yeah, ditto here. A couple games or something.
In terms of a penalty or discipline, I think maybe some community service would be a good idea -- get him out there talking to the high schools about what an idiot move it is to drink and drive.
I think that might be part of the legal penalty.
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Didn't say that. Many accidents not involving alcohol could have been prevented. Alcohol played a major role in the 9,000 killed. There's no denying that. It's why there are strict laws on it and heavy penalties.
Totally different tangent, but why aren't non-alcohol-related collisions where one person is clearly at fault not penalized as heavily? I would say someone who was in full possession of their faculties and ran over a pedestrian in the crosswalk or t-boned someone at a red light should be more liable and subject to penalty because it was a more deliberate act. (This is of particular interest to me as a cyclist; it is rare for a motorist to face severe penalties for hitting a cyclist properly operating on the road, unless the driver was drunk... it's called an "accident" even though the driver is fully at fault for the collision.)
I got hammered in the morning on mimosa's last weekend, I don't think you can do that in Buffalo, they don't start serving til noon right? I think in California they can't serve from 2am - 6am.
Interesting little loophole in Texas: You can be served beer in a bar before noon *if* you also have food in front of you. Buffalo Bros., which hosts Bills Backers events here in Fort Worth, serves a lot of orders of chips & Bison brand French onion dip just before noon on gamedays ;)
Fellow transplant-
I'm not a transplant *to* Buffalo; I grew up there and moved away when I went to college.
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Just remember who called it first when he becomes great.
Or forget this thread if he washes out.
Whatever. ;)
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Yeah, maybe it's east coast versus heartland/west coast.
Or maybe it's north versus south. When it's cold and miserable, people tend to drink more I think.
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A co-worker mentioned to me today that our drinking culture in this area was a shock to him when he moved here from California. He just doesn't understand how WNY is so casual about it. I think there's something to be said for how we're socialized to think about drinking in this region.
It was a shock when I moved to Los Angeles in the 1980s. I thought it would be party city but except for a few areas that are famous for partying (Hollywood, etc.), most of the city and its bars shut down by about 10 pm. Still, it wasn't uncommon to have a beer with lunch on a work day, and every once in a while the whole office would get tanked at lunch and take the afternoon off.
Then I moved to Fort Worth which is fairly Bible Belt-y. If I have a drink at lunch I can get fired from my office job. Not that people don't drink,* but it just isn't a part of the primary culture. (Luckily I've "tapped" into the local brewpub subculture.)
I also lived in Detroit for a time. That was probably the most like Buffalo, but still, nowhere is like Buffalo but Buffalo when it comes to drinking. Seriously.
*There's a joke that's pretty famous around here: "How do you keep a Baptist from drinking your beer when you take him fishing? Have him bring another Baptist." So a lot of people drink but it's not necessarily socially acceptable, at least in some churches.
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A friend and I were discussing getting older and (at that time) soon to get "the exam." He expressed great trepidation about "the exam." I asked if he'd ever had "the exam" before and he said no. So I followed it up with, "Then how do you know you don't like it?" :angel: