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Strider

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  1. Cool list...my first choice would be to get the Forum show I went to December 30 of that year.
  2. Here's a Nirvana concert I was at: October 27, 1991 Hollywood Palace. http://youtu.be/PGXnSpfAnug
  3. ^^^ Thanks for your enthusiastic review, Sue. I saw Nirvana a bunch of times back in the day, but with the exception of the Unplugged, Live at the Paramount '91, Live at Reading '92, and the Del Mar '91 bootleg, I don't have much live Nirvana in my collection. Whenever I go to my usual record store haunts, it always seems to slip my mind to check for Nirvana boots. Reading your post provides a reminder to check the next time I go for some good In Utero-era shows.
  4. Kobe could be done for good...career FINITO. Paul, it's looking more and more like Miami's year again.
  5. Strider

    Golf Talk

    ^^^ I didn't say "Ally's hatred for Tiger"...so I wasn't ever specifically calling you out, Ally. Plus, I don't see how politics enters the picture when discussing Tiger, so I didn't understand your 'political farce' reference. You seem to think I am mad at you, when I am not.
  6. Technically, the 3-dimensional ones are pyramids not triangles, so for the purposes of the quiz, they shouldn't count towards the answer. But, according to my count of 37, you're still missing a few.
  7. Strider

    Golf Talk

    Yep, I triple-bogeyed that one. Ooops.
  8. Lucky you!!! One of my favourite steakhouses to go to...there are two of them here in L.A: Beverly Hills and Pasadena.
  9. Strider

    Golf Talk

    From everything I have read, the rules were applied in regards to Tiger. The rules having been changed, there was no need for Tiger to withdraw or be DQed.
  10. Hopefully Sigur Rós this Friday April 19 at the Santa Barbara Bowl.
  11. ^^^ Now, I would pay $300 to see that tour again! But barring the invention of a time-machine, that ain't gonna happen.
  12. Once a classic, always a classic. The great Donald O'Connor from "Singing In The Rain".
  13. Strider

    Golf Talk

    ^^^ I was speaking more of the Tiger-hate from the general public, not just specifically limited to this forum. Even so, I still detect a bit of schadenfreude from some people here when it comes to Tiger Woods. Bring on The Open. Muirfield, here we come!
  14. Well, from the choices on your list, the best ones were "Amour", "Django Unchained", "Rust and Bone", "Zero Dark Thirty" "56 Up", and "West of Memphis". The worst ones I saw were "Let My People Go!", "Les Miserables", and "Playing for Keeps".
  15. It was a cold and rainy morning, so I felt like some comfort food for breakfast: McCann's steel-cut Irish oatmeal with blueberries and bananas and brown sugar. A glass of orange juice, a glass of tomato juice, and a cup of coffee.
  16. Ha! They'll continue to get your money...you can't help yourself. I'll bet on that.
  17. Because they don't allow puffing? Completed your survey Dario. Saw 31 of the movies listed in the theatres.
  18. Strider

    Golf Talk

    In my opinion, the second-dumbest decision Tiger has made recently...I think it is obvious what his #1 dumbest decision was. Congratulations to Babs(our original victor) and ebk(our revised pool victor)! It couldn't happen to nicer people. My team has been taken out back and summarily shot for their disgraceful performance. Congrats to Adam Scott on his first Green Jacket! Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! As for the whole Tiger Woods thing, after finally seeing what happened on that 15th hole Friday, I think some of the Tiger-haters are overreacting. First, considering how great he hit his third shot, he already was assessed a penalty by the Golf Gods when it had the bad fortune of bouncing into Rae's Creek after hitting the pin. Secondly, Tiger lives for the Masters...there is no way he is going to jeopardize a chance to win and risk disqualification by intentionally breaking the rules. Thirdly, nobody in his playing group thought Tiger broke any rule on his drop; nobody among the Augusta officials on the course saw anything wrong with what Tiger did that would warrant a stroke-penalty or DQ. No, what happened was that some television viewer called in long after the fact and complained. Which would be like Rick watching a Bills or Orioles game and being able to call in and complain about an infraction and having a penalty assessed after-the-fact. In short, it's complete lunacy on the part of the PGA that they allow some schmuck at home to play tattle-tale. The NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, FIFA, F1, NASCAR...nobody else allows such shenanigans on the part of the tv viewer. Why the PGA does is a mystery. All of you whining that Tiger signed an incorrect scorecard, I beg to differ. The scorecard was correct at the time he signed it; nobody in Tiger's playing group raised objections to Tiger's drop and score at the end of the round, and even a review by the Augusta officials gave the all-clear to Tiger's drop. So his score was correct at the time he signed the card. It wasn't until after, when Bozo the TV-Viewer called in and they assessed the two-stroke penalty the next day, that Tiger's scorecard technically became incorrect. Sorry, I know Tiger is a polarizing figure now, and many want to see him fail, but he didn't deserve to get a DQ for that...the two-stroke penalty was enough. Which, when you consider the two-strokes he lost on the shot when it went in the water to begin with, meant Tiger lost four strokes on a nearly perfect approach shot to that 15th hole. Bubba Watson, who is a fan-favourite these days, also thinks the fact some guy can call in from home and have a player penalized is bogus. This was from ESPN.com: Bubba Watson: Viewer input not OK AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Defending champion Bubba Watson bristled Saturday at the idea a TV viewer can change the course of the Masters by calling in with their observations, saying "it shouldn't be allowed." Watson, after shooting a third-round 70 on Saturday to climb to 2 over, said unlike the TV viewer who raised the issue of Tiger Woods' ball drop Friday with Masters officials, he wouldn't even know who to call if he saw someone breaking a rule. "So I don't even know how these people get a number to call," Watson said. "And obviously they got more time on their hands than I do, because I don't know the number and I'm playing in the golf tournament." Watson said he was glad Rule 33 was adjusted. Masters officials decided to penalize Woods two strokes instead of disqualifying him. Woods was deemed to have taken an improper drop on the 15th hole during the second round at Augusta National on Friday when his approach shot hit the pin and bounced back into the water. "It should protect us," Watson said of the rule adjustment. "The sad thing is the high-profile player gets the camera on him at all times. A guy could break a rule and not know he broke the rule. Like me today, there's no cameras on me today, everybody could care less what I was doing." "So when somebody calls in like that, yeah, it shouldn't be that way, it shouldn't be allowed," Watson said. "Nobody calls in during the a basketball game or a football game." But Watson said TV viewers shouldn't be able to affect how players make rule decisions. Fred Couples called the rule adjustment "a blessing for every golf pro in the world." "We all know that we'll get the same ruling if it happens to one of us," said Couples, 1 shot back entering Saturday's round. Graeme McDowell, who at 5 over missed the cut by 1 shot, tweeted Saturday morning that he agreed with the penalty. "Take the fact that it was Tiger out of the equation and it is a fair ruling," McDowell posted to Twitter. Information from ESPN.com's Bob Harig was used in this report.
  19. Somebody needs to buy a 'Y'.
  20. I see 31...or was it 33? I may have to recount. 37...and that's my final answer.
  21. I tried to do it but the survey wouldn't load on my phone.
  22. Sez who? And just think of the new skiing opportunities if North Korea is opened up to the world.
  23. It is liner notes, not linear. My favourites are those early Bob Dylan albums and those fantastically loopy Andrew Loog Oldham-penned notes on the London/Decca Rolling Stones albums in the 1960s. Great reading those while listening to the wax.
  24. Strider

    Golf Talk

    Thanks for the second-chance, fishy! Reading the sports page this morning and there's nothing about Tiger's penalty. I didn't see the first two rounds, so can someone please explain what Tiger did? Was his improper drop done on purpose to gain an edge or was it an inadvertent mistake? In light of what you all are saying about rules and how they should apply to all, I am sure you'll appreciate the irony in Tiger's statement yesterday when asked to respond about Tianlang Guan's one-stroke penalty for slow play: Tiger Woods: "Rules are rules. We've had a case of slow play from some of the guys out here on tour, and we have our policies."
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