Mizzou Links, 1-4-12
by Bill C. on Jan 4, 2012 5:35 AM CST
in News
Email
Print
Mizzou Basketball Links
- Sweet Merciful Heavens
MUtigers.com: No. 7 Tigers Rout Oklahoma, 87-49
MUtigers.com: Post Game Notes
MUtigers.com: Post Game Quotes
The Trib: Tigers roll past Sooners in Big 12 opener
The Missourian: Missouri rides selfless shooting to lopsided win
The Missourian: Steals add spice to Missouri's win over Oklahoma
The Missourian: PHOTOS: Missouri stays undefeated with win over Oklahoma
Post-Dispatch: Mizzou mops up vs. Oklahoma
KC Star: Kim English scores 23 points as MU obliterates Oklahoma
KC Star: Ricardo Ratliffe helps Missouri dominate Oklahoma on boards
PowerMizzou: Game at a Glance: Nearly flawless
PowerMizzou: PHOTOS: The Baseline View
Fox Sports MW: No. 7 Missouri shows no signs of slowing down
Crimson and Cream Machine: OU basketball runs into a buzzsaw, gets destroyed @ Mizzou
Daily Oklahoman: Missouri routs OU men 87-49
Daily Oklahoman: Missouri dominates the boards in victory over Sooners - Green
The Trib: Kadeem Green will transfer from Missouri basketball program
The Missourian: Missouri's Kadeem Green plans to transfer
Post-Dispatch: Mizzou depth thins further with Green's departure
KC Star: Reserve Green to transfer from Mizzou
CBS Sports: Freshman Kadeem Green leaves Missouri
The Dagger: Freshman's transfer leaves Missouri even more shorthanded
ESPN.com CBB Blog: Somehow, Missouri just got smaller - Recruiting
Five-Star Basketball: Missouri-Bound Bull is Ready to Rep the Tigers - Gabs
Mocking the Draft: On Blaine Gabbert, and Why the Jaguars Won't Draft a Quarterback in the 2012 NFL Draft
Mizzou Football Links
- Combine
The Trib: Three Tigers headed to NFL combine - Recruiting
Rivals.com: VIDEO: U.S. Army All-American Game: WR vs. DB - West Tuesday - Oh, Mike
CougCenter: Mike Leach Thinks A Bear Fighting A Shark Would Be Awesome
Dr. Saturday: Mike Leach discusses a hypothetical fight between a shark and a bear, and other pressing subjects
Other Football Links
- Pre-Snap Read: Football Bridges the Generational Gap
SEC
- KC Star: Alden to meet KC officials on MU presence
Other Mizzou Links
- Mizzou Women's Basketball
MUtigers.com: Tigers Open Conference Play at No. 1 Baylor
The Missourian: Missouri women hope to surprise in conference play
215 comments
|
0 recs |
Do you like this story?
Comments
WOW!! No sleep for Bill C.?
You are on fire this a.m.!
by McZou on Jan 4, 2012 5:43 AM CST via mobile reply actions
So my fiance and I made the game last night (props jbecking)
My fiance had never heard of Steve Moore before the game. Before it was over she was saying
STEEEEEEEEEEEEEVE!
Along with the rest of the crowd.
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
by Fullback U on Jan 4, 2012 5:46 AM CST reply actions 5 recs
When you get her saying,
“we’ll reconcile that by winning” at work, you’ll know she’s hooked.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 8:48 AM CST up reply actions
I'm making shirts
Just you wait. What do you think, black with gold lettering or gold with black lettering?
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
How about some of each?
that way you, or maybe I should say we if they are available for purchase, have one to wear to any game including the blackouts?
Thank you Bill C.
and the other contributors of RockMNation.
Days like yesterday are why I love this site!
Proud Meth Aggie since 2011.
by Mac6uffin on Jan 4, 2012 5:55 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
It is a nice pat on the back to RMN when other sites on SB Nation and other sport blogs pale in comparison.
In terms of content and contributions. Go on many other sites and they are lucky to get a handful of comments. RMN seems to blow up on a regular basis in the volume and diversity. The fact of the level of class and intellect is nice and welcoming.
by McZou on Jan 4, 2012 9:17 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
you just said class and intellect
while we’re having a bear pie shark cake argument below. Awesome.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:29 AM CST up reply actions
What is sad for me at least
Is that I have such a compendium of related images saved to my computer.
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
I need to learn how to do this Tinypic thing.
I could be even more annoying than I already am.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:46 AM CST up reply actions
I
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
by Fullback U on Jan 4, 2012 9:56 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
(wow that was premature)
I’ve always used imgur, but I don’t know which is better
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
didn you
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:04 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
I guess he didn
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
by drewder on Jan 4, 2012 10:05 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
No.
As I pointed out above, she said:
STEEEEEEEEEEVE
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
what name she calls out
is your business, unless you want us to know about your monkey-business
Upholding fine Mizzou traditions in Maryland.
MvP, RoC official Nemesis
by Ausgiano on Jan 4, 2012 10:02 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
I really hope Fullback U's name is Steve
by SEC Supremacist on Jan 4, 2012 10:04 AM CST up reply actions 3 recs
to be honest
I wouldn’t mind if my wife started calling me Steeeeeve, even if it happened sometimes during some of the most intimate of moments. I’d have to take it as a great compliment.
his is after all, a very big man.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 11:25 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
P.S.
Though I wish we were playing in the B1G for football, that end of regulation score for MI St. – Wisconsin game (50-50) makes me glad we’re going to the SEC for basketball.
Proud Meth Aggie since 2011.
Yeah, although the fan passion will be much less
I seriously do not know if we will get any good fan crosstalk going outside of Kentucky and maybe Florida (or the Hogs if they ever come back).
Even with their 4-6 bowl record? Guess it would be easier scheduling...
by SEC Supremacist on Jan 4, 2012 9:00 AM CST up reply actions
Now they have bowl games for squeaky round ball?
Bring back the tournament!
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:02 AM CST up reply actions
Said he wanted the B1G for footbaw.
Not bounceysqueakhoops.
by SEC Supremacist on Jan 4, 2012 9:06 AM CST up reply actions
yeah
cause it’s easier and academics. I’m sure that meme will die after next year.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:13 AM CST up reply actions
it is funny that adding A&M and Mizzou to the SEC
doubled the conference’s number of AAU schools, and also eclipsed the Big 3/4.
also TCU and WVU
ugh
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:29 AM CST up reply actions
I see Mizzou Tigers on Facebook has posted the same article.
Nothing like plastering the words of Crimson and Cream all over Facebook.
by McZou on Jan 4, 2012 8:37 AM CST via mobile reply actions
I think that as the originator of this meme
you have the right to simply tell us what IS sordid, without needing a question mark. :-)
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 8:50 AM CST up reply actions
somebody has a manbocat crush
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:23 AM CST up reply actions
I just looked at the box score. OU got 2 points from the bench. OUCH!
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
we got more than that from
joooooooooooooooooooooooones!
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:14 AM CST up reply actions
So our football bench outscored their basketball bench?
[Checks jtesooner’s vital signs]
by MU'97 on Jan 4, 2012 9:17 AM CST up reply actions 3 recs
that is so unfair
I really want to read that thread. I thought you couldn’t make anything on the net disappear? Toupee, can we bring it back?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:33 AM CST up reply actions
if anyone on here is a BA i hate u
u schedule the worst meetings at the worst times.
I make bad decisions and people think my roller skating is hot.
#CakeForLife
by BillSelfsToupee on Jan 4, 2012 9:04 AM CST via Android app reply actions
was that a slam on Bammers?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:15 AM CST up reply actions
What's a BA?
Meetings pretty much suck.
Become self-employed & you won’t have to do it ever again!
by tigers and chiefs fan on Jan 4, 2012 9:16 AM CST up reply actions
haha
they are business analysts. in software development they just sit around and talk and tell the tech guys a bunch of pointless info we dont need.
I make bad decisions and people think my roller skating is hot.
#CakeForLife
by BillSelfsToupee on Jan 4, 2012 9:17 AM CST via Android app up reply actions
Because they usually have no idea what it actually takes to do something.
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
exactamundo!
two hour meetings feel like 2 years of torture
I make bad decisions and people think my roller skating is hot.
#CakeForLife
by BillSelfsToupee on Jan 4, 2012 9:23 AM CST via Android app up reply actions
We called the business school
the Engineering Graveyard. Only half jokingly. They do the boring stuff so I can do the fun stuff.
very true
theyre debating the wording on an issue that im fairly certain is a 5 minute fix for any dev. it takes 7 people to figure it out also.
I make bad decisions and people think my roller skating is hot.
#CakeForLife
by BillSelfsToupee on Jan 4, 2012 9:31 AM CST via Android app up reply actions
Ha! I switched from Engineering to Bus Mgt and got a Bachelors in that.
It only took me 10 years to realize that I would rather do something fun. Went back to school got my Computer Science degree.
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
I just went computer engineering.
I got to do a lot more low level stuff than my CS counterparts. PLCs are pretty cool.
I'm a web developer now.
I pretty much build web based applications with databases. I work for a very large insurance company and I build apps for small groups that don’t need the whole corporate IT department treatment. I only build things that I can work on myself and take less than 4 months to build and put into production. Our corporate software engineers hate us because we basically do whatever we want.
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
This was an actual email I got from my boss before Christmas
“Hi (jschooltiger), when you get back from vacation we should schedule a meeting to talk about HTML-5.”
… that’s kind of a large topic.
by jschooltiger on Jan 4, 2012 10:12 AM CST up reply actions
he
and really, I think he wants to talk about responsive design, which is actually part of the css spec (media queries for breakpoints, anyhow). But why bother to correct any of this?
by jschooltiger on Jan 4, 2012 10:19 AM CST up reply actions
just wait for html6
I make bad decisions and people think my roller skating is hot.
#CakeForLife
by BillSelfsToupee on Jan 4, 2012 10:31 AM CST via Android app up reply actions
i hear html6 is going to be all ball bearing based
/fletch
by jbecking on Jan 4, 2012 10:41 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
well, I'm one of 'them'
and very much understand what it takes to do something. Plus can state what exactly that means to a non-technical person in an understandable manner, which many technical folks can’t or don’t care to do.
Call me crazy, but requirements and design left purely to technical folks yields some really crappy products. As does doing zero business testing, which must be what many big companies do, as I continually see things that either don’t work or don’t work right. Have no clue how some of the things I see get out there- nobody bothers to test them in the end product. Which is CRAZY.
end rant—- :)
And we’re much cheaper than developers, even if the tech folks are good at the communication things too, it makes more sense to have us do the writing and business testing.
Just for comparison
at my company, we have engineers who specialize in requirements (integrators), developers, and testers (though most testers are developers). So technically, we’ve got technical people doing all of those, and we turn out relatively bug free products.
/exception, rule, plural of anecdotes, etc.
But a business analyst isn't a requirements analyst
At least not in my world. It is a much broader role that includes internal account management, developing business cases, connecting the dots across business units, etc.
A good business analyst has to understand both technology and the business and be an excellent communicator.
And that's what our managers handle.
Thus, the boring stuff. They take care of all that so I can focus on the fun stuff. It’s a great arrangement.
Become self-employed and invest in Prilosec and Ambien
And watch your CPA, Physician and Therepist get wealthy.
by McZou on Jan 4, 2012 9:23 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
it's still early
but Joey Brackets has Mizzou as a 2 in the south pod, with the first game against giant killer Fairfield.
Upholding fine Mizzou traditions in Maryland.
MvP, RoC official Nemesis
I don't care who we play I just want to be seeded in Omaha.
I get free lodging nearby
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
A little more than vaguely sordid.
by Babbalynski on Jan 4, 2012 9:28 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
oh my,
missed that one. Laid down by the jedi master himself.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:35 AM CST up reply actions
so we are just going to bury our heads in the sand regarding the Mike Leach
Bear v. Great White Shark discussion? This place has changed. It used to be for goodness and now it is for badness.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
I was afraid to read that link.
I didn’t want to read and it and catch myself nodding in agreement.
Top Heavy Beer Drinker
the unicorn
really is the x-factor
Upholding fine Mizzou traditions in Maryland.
MvP, RoC official Nemesis
I don't think grizzlies can use machine guns.
The rest of the pic makes sense to me.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:19 AM CST up reply actions
holy crap
there’s a howling wolf in the spray!
Upholding fine Mizzou traditions in Maryland.
MvP, RoC official Nemesis
If Dr. MVProc
ever produces an album, that should be the cover art.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:37 AM CST up reply actions
The wolf needs to be less see-through
and some where there needs to be a killer whale and a walrus with a monical…
but yeah pretty much.
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Jan 4, 2012 12:00 PM CST up reply actions
it is sorely lacking
a walrus with a monocle.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 12:45 PM CST up reply actions
Just start nodding now
On who would win a fight between a great white shark and a grizzly bear in waist-deep water.
“Let me see. That brings up an interesting point. I read somewhere that a bull has never lost to a lion or a tiger.
“If it’s fresh water, I think grizzly bear. If it’s salt water, I’m going to go with a great white. Grizzly could tap that joker on the head pretty good. But those great whites can get 10 yards long. That would be fun to watch. Can you arrange that? We’d all like to check it out.”
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
is your issue with the salt water qualification?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:17 AM CST up reply actions
It seems like depth would matter more than salinity
Unless freshwater would somehow kill a Great White, which I am pretty sure it wouldn’t (as they have wandered into brackish rivers and ponds before. And even if it did, than you;d have to give the victory to the fresh water, rather than the bear.
a little
I think he changed the question to limit it to a great white. A bull shark can survive in fresh water for a few days, so I don’t think a bear gets a huge advantage in the fresh water.
Also, what type of bear we talking about here? Black, Grizzly, Panda, Polar, Koala?
I think the question was too vague and the answer too specific.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
they specifically stated grizzly
I think 97 has it correct about the depth of waist deep being the factor. But whose waist, Danny Devito or the Grizzly?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:22 AM CST up reply actions
Great whites attack from below, not the side.
Therefore I’d imagine shallow water gives the grizzly the advantage, not the great white’s natural hunting strategy.
/toomuchsharkweek
by SEC Supremacist on Jan 4, 2012 9:23 AM CST up reply actions
the question referred to Grizzly
I think it depends on who win the initiative roll. Grizzly could swat down, stun the shark, perhaps deathblow on the natural 20. But if Shark wins, the first bite is pretty much going to hamstring the bear.
Upholding fine Mizzou traditions in Maryland.
MvP, RoC official Nemesis
Also, are both critters
equally starved and grumpy, or did Grizzly just eat 300 salmon and wants to go nap?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:39 AM CST up reply actions
I think the colder the water
the slower the shark. Amiright SEC?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:48 AM CST up reply actions
/ashamedtohaveopinionhere
I’d imagine so. Seems physiologically most likely. Problem is, slow shark + asleep bear = shark easy win.
by SEC Supremacist on Jan 4, 2012 9:50 AM CST up reply actions
Is it because Stephen stays away from water?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:57 AM CST up reply actions
In general, but I think great whites handle very easily "cold" water
as they are seen up the PNW coast fairly regularly.
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Jan 4, 2012 12:02 PM CST up reply actions
Undefeated
It’s gone to our heads.
by tigers and chiefs fan on Jan 4, 2012 9:19 AM CST up reply actions
it has if
we’re discussing where we’re playing on route to the Final Four already.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:23 AM CST up reply actions
Yea - that's pretty much unacceptable.
COTG.
by tigers and chiefs fan on Jan 4, 2012 9:25 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
COTG don't care on whose wood you're furiously knocking.
(can I get a sordid for that?)
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:42 AM CST up reply actions
Parade route?
"KU, you're nothing to me now. You're not a rival, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do."
Choose your side
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
by Fullback U on Jan 4, 2012 9:20 AM CST reply actions 2 recs
Shark
best movie about sharks: Jaws (runner-up Mega Shark v. Giant Octopus)
best movie about bears: The Edge
it’s not even close.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
not transmorphers
but all the giant animal v. giant animal movies I’m a fan of.
I think Piranha 3-D was the most entertaining movie I saw in the theater that year.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
and you have a problem with
the newer Star Wars and Transformer movies???
Jeebus!!
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:43 AM CST up reply actions
yes I do
Piranha 3D wasn’t trying to be anything other than a cheesy b-roll film. It wasn’t trying to develop characters. It didn’t try to involve you in the story. It just said, “these piranha are going to kill people and the people are going to try to kill the piranah.”
Star Wars was trying to develop one of the greatest villains in cinematic history. And it came up with that garbage.
Transformers wanted me invested in Sam witwiki, it wanted to do cheese ball crap like Prime giving that ridiculous speech about humanity and being the guardians at the end. It tried to frame the fight as something more than it was. With stupid lines about how humans are alwasy starting wars, etc etc.
If you want to make a movie that is nothing but eye candy, then just make it. Don’t try to blur the line. I don’t need a 10 minute scene of autobots being clumsy and hiding from his dad. Just have them fight.
Don’t bother with the sub-plot of the secret agents tracking these people. Or, if you really feel that’s what you have to do, then tell a decent story.
Piranha 3-D had a goal and it achieved it. Those other movies did not achieve their goal.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
by mizzou2396 on Jan 4, 2012 9:49 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
yes they did
They were purely for marketing and making money.
You’re just pissy because Megolashark vs Octomonster movies are only for people in your cult and don’t make the mainstream while the others make it rain dolla dolla bills y’all.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:55 AM CST up reply actions
I'm all for making money
I just don’t like my intelligence to be insulted. Don’t sell me a hamburger and tell me it’s a steak. Just market me the hamburger and sell me a hamburger and let’s both enjoy it.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
You do way to much thinking
Shut the thinker off and watch cool stuff explode and semi trucks turn into cool fighting robots
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
by drewder on Jan 4, 2012 9:56 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
My biggest issue with the transformer movies
is when they would try (unsuccessfully in my opinion) to inject humor with the family or whoever else. Just made it awkward and ruined whatever flow there may have been.
Big explosions were good though.
Top Heavy Beer Drinker
exactly
There was a cool thing going on. robot fights, special forces, the simple good v. evil story. But then they would cut away from that for like 15-20 minutes at a time to make me painfully aware what was happening.
And I’m not even sure who the humor was related to. A masturbation joke followed immediately by a “big robot is clumsy” joke? One is for (presumably) the older crowd, the other for the younger, but both crowds have at least one joke that falls just incredibly flat.
Also, how about you make the CGI Transformers very distinctive when they are in robot form so it is easier to figure out who is winning or losing the battle?
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
I thought Sam's parents and the secret agent guy were great
Cars shouldn’t be funny, though.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:07 AM CST up reply actions
My biggest issue with the transformer movies,
is the plot doesn’t change in any of the movies. At all.
"...I'm not trying to act giddy but the guy is a stud.'' - Terry McDonough, Director of Player Personnel, Jacksonville Jaguars
My biggest problem with movies
is that they all have 3 acts. I mean seriously, who needs that pesky conclusion anyway?
that's why they change the location.
I vote they make the next one in Lawrence and actually destroy it instead of using f/x.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 12:47 PM CST up reply actions
that's not true
In the 1st one the decepticons were after the all spark and were looking for their master (Megatron) to destroy the autobots and enslave humanity.
in the 2nd one the decepticons were after a piece the all spark and were hping to awake a new master to destroy the autobots and enslave humanity.
in hte 3rd one the decepticons are after some technology that will allow them to awaken some sort of master that will allow them to destroy the autobots and enslave humanity.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
I learned something today
never knew that was a Hitchcockian movie term.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 1:47 PM CST up reply actions
It's not the use of the MacGuffin
I liked the Harry Potter story and it was essentially just one MacGuffin after another. The difference being there were CHARACTERS in those stories. They developed. They grew. They learned. They changed.
Characters drive stories, Sam Witwiki is the flattest character imaginable. In no way shape or form is he different at the end of the 2nd one as he is at the start of the 1st (except for he’s been to robot heaven, I guess and now he dates Meghan Fox’s character).
The Star Wars plots weren’t exactly brand new. But the characters mattered. Luke and Han hated each other to start and they developed into friends. Chewie went from being annoyed with 3PO to sort of looking out for him.
Leia and Han grew into a relationship. Luke learned the flipping force. And Darth Vader found the good still in him.
The plot was the formula for almost every space movie (small rebels, giant imperial force, insurmountable odds, victory). But the characters mattered.
If you are implying the Dresden Files has the same type of characters as Transformers, I’m glad I didn’t take up your recommendation.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
Oh not at all.
And I totally agree about characters driving stories. If I just wanted a generic urban fantasy story, I wouldn’t be reading Dresden. I read it because Harry’s Sherlock Holmes crossed with “Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull, with a big leather coat and a .44 revolver in his pocket.” And the side characters of course.
Side note:
I’ve gone back and tried to re-read Jurassic Park (first read in middle school) and I’ve found I can’t finish it due to the fact that I have no picture of Alan Grant (book). It took me forever to figure out that Chrichton just wasn’t delivering an interesting character, and that the books I’d picked up since then had headed steadily towards the more character/characterization heavy side of the spectrum. It was a neat realization when it happened.
Interesting
I haven’t read JP since middle school either. I remember bits about the book that weren’t in the movie (the T-Rex and the waterfall) but, now that I think about it, I don’t think I could describe Alan Grant in any meaningful way. I remember he survived in a desert for a while on his own, but that was just something the reader is told.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
I thought the book
had him as a severe academic, and his quest to save the kids wasn’t as nearly as emotional as it was in the movie.
Upholding fine Mizzou traditions in Maryland.
MvP, RoC official Nemesis
Maybe that's right
I just don’t remember him as a character. I know what he did, but not who he was.
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
Yup.
And that’s why I can’t get into the book anymore. Dresden, Honor Harrington (most Weber characters for that matter), hell, half of the Star Wars EU are more developed than Alan Grant was in the book. Maybe Malcolm or one of the other characters in JP was better, but Malcolm annoyed me and I don’t remember any of the others enough to tell (a bad sign).
The Great Outdoors
good bear movie.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:26 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
if that's your representative for the bear side
I think Shark is running away with this.
Bruce – 5 human kills, 1 dog, 2 boats
Bald headed bear – 0 kills, fended off by John Candy twice
Busting Bill C since September 19, 2011 10:19 CST, 8:19 PDT.
just because you hate comedy
If it were MegaBear vs. Mastadon you’d be all over it.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:45 AM CST up reply actions
Kung Fu Panda rocked
and you can’t change my mind on that. The original Jungle Book was pretty good, too.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:01 AM CST up reply actions
I always thought
they should’ve done crossover episodes with Grizzly Adams and Little House on the Prairie.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:09 AM CST up reply actions
It's not like she didn't run into a bear or a mountain lion or snake
every time she went on a hike.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:26 AM CST up reply actions
Barnfires, wolves, runaway wagons, spooked horses, tornados
YES!
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:37 AM CST up reply actions
I've driven through Mansfield many times
I have never seen a bear or wolves there.
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
Plenty of beaver?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:49 AM CST up reply actions
NOT SO VAGUELY RACIST
Watched Jungle Book again about 3 years ago… holy crap it’s amazing racist when viewed as an adult.
by SEC Supremacist on Jan 4, 2012 10:05 AM CST up reply actions
Agreed
Saw it once in the late 80s and I was horrified. And I was 5.
by SEC Supremacist on Jan 4, 2012 10:19 AM CST up reply actions
Did this happen at a Broncos game?
Did the bear eat the monkey or the dog?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:27 AM CST up reply actions
Look what you have done...
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:24 AM CST up reply actions
BEARS and PIES
just like Yogi would want, right Boo Boo?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:25 AM CST up reply actions
Mmmmmm.....pie.
Pie and Coffee is approximately the third best social interaction a man can hope to have with a woman.
by Pie Beats Cake on Jan 4, 2012 9:45 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Wait?! is that a baby in the sharks mouth? I gotta go with the bear for humanities sake.
That's right Ice Man. I am dangerous
Pie Forever!
that's propaganda and libelous
we only discuss facts here, obviously!
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 9:50 AM CST up reply actions
I'm voting Shark and Cake.
Seeing a shark EAT a cake would be very funny. One bite, even a Costco sheet cake, and it would be gone.
Also, as proof of cake’s superiority over pie, when they want to catch a bear they bait the trap with honey glazed donuts and beer. Since we have established that donuts are in fact a derivative of cake (as tarts are to pie), this clearly shows most wildlife that matter (because they kill people) eat cake.
"When among evil companions, try to fit in." - Wild Bill Donovan
Rocky Balboa once told me, "Nothing is real if you don't believe in who you are."
Your logic is sound.
I’ve actually been to a birthday party where they served a Shark Cake. No complaints, even though I’m firmly team pie.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 11:06 AM CST up reply actions
Also rec'd for
Jack Harry going to 11!
KU will be lucky to finish in the top 5 [of the Big 12-2-1+1-1+1].
If you’re gonna rant, might as well RANT!
Come on. TCU is only a .5.
Why give them a full point?
by SEC Supremacist on Jan 4, 2012 9:54 AM CST up reply actions
I think you're ok
unless she played men’s bball or football.
In which case you’d have a whole other set of problems.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:02 AM CST up reply actions
It drives me nuts
It’s ESPN sports-shock taken local. Nothing substantive. And more ammo for the KU and Purdue fans.
Yeah I agree mostly but
Jack keeps it local which is nice and it’s usually something about Mu being better than ku so as it goes in KC that’s nice to hear anytime.
Anybody who could be driven nuts by Jack Harry was done so long ago
Jack’s Smack is about as informative as the KC Star’s comment sections. Actually, it would be pretty fun to secretly switch his text with a comment from the Star one week and see if he (or either of his viewers) noticed.
I don’t know if we’ll win the conference again (if it was our birthright, we wouldn’t make such a big deal out of it), but saying we’re lucky to finish in the top 5 just marks him as a loon. I don’t think we’re as good as the computer rankings say, but we’d have to drop about 70 spots to fall out of the top half of the conference in either kenpom or Sagarin predictor
"by KSinDC"
I wish that would be put at the top of your comment. I was confused about “we”
Top Heavy Beer Drinker
You know, I promised before that I would start doing that, and then I promptly forgot
I will renew that vow, for what it’s worth.
And I missed Oklahoma (currently 6th in the computer rankings under both KenPom and Sagarain Predictor) in my first glance, so I overstated how far KU would have to drop to be out of the top 5 in the conference: from 6 to 55 in Sagarin Predictor, or from 6 to 69 in the KenPom rankings.
what an atmosphere last night
Loved how they changed the in game music away from all band, to about 50-50 it got the student section going at the beginning
by jack.nowland on Jan 4, 2012 10:26 AM CST via iPhone app reply actions
If you like the funny sports gifs,
may I recommend this SBN 2011 Gif review
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:51 AM CST reply actions 1 recs
I think you've got the wrong crowd
This place doesn’t care much for .gifs
I thought Aldon's deserved to be much higher in the ranking.
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 11:03 AM CST up reply actions
I like Coach Kruger's comment...
“Their confidence is really high. We didn’t damage that tonight."
Yeah, I would say when you volunteer to put a coat of wax on our sexy metallic machine, you are doing the exact opposite of damaging it.
by M Krip on Jan 4, 2012 10:58 AM CST reply actions 3 recs
I just finished the second coat Mr. McFly!
We are DAVIDSON City!
by Gaknar on Jan 4, 2012 12:56 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
Now Biff, don't con me.
Upholding fine Mizzou traditions in Maryland.
MvP, RoC official Nemesis
by Ausgiano on Jan 4, 2012 1:16 PM CST up reply actions 3 recs
And we didn't even need to call timeout
to get him to jump early
by MU'97 on Jan 4, 2012 1:25 PM CST up reply actions 7 recs
I saw a twitter rumor that Osweiler might be transferring as well.
by Transmogrified Tiger on Jan 4, 2012 1:31 PM CST up reply actions
Is it because he needs to go to a lower altitude
for increased 02 exposure
by MarioVanPeebles Republic of China on Jan 4, 2012 2:52 PM CST up reply actions
The ASU stadium is too close to the airport
control towers were diverting traffic around his head
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 3:38 PM CST up reply actions
Hey since you're a Crimson and Cream member,
can you ask them what happened to the game live thread from last night?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 1:50 PM CST up reply actions
Does Andrew Clark swing a hammer there, too?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 2:14 PM CST up reply actions
I have to say it's been fun to watch him take some heat over there for it
Although he continues to pretend like I was some kind of crazy repeat troll, which is demonstrably false. He should just man up and admit that he banned me because I was ruining the acoustics in his echo chamber.
You now what else is kinda strange
In its original form, the post-game wrap-up referred to the live thread, but it has since been edited to take out that reference.
There was really nothing embarrassing about the thread, and no reason to troll it or anything (which I hope no one did). You can imagine how frustrating it would be to watch a game like last night’s from the opposing perspective, and it was just kinda funny to see jtesooner come to grips with it over time.
I didn't see anyone trolling and the thread seemed pretty tame
I wonder if it just smarted to see it show up here.
We are DAVIDSON City!
Yeah, really odd
I wonder if someone made some sort of “let’s burn this thread and never speak of it again” reference late in the game and jtesooner obliged.
by Transmogrified Tiger on Jan 4, 2012 2:55 PM CST up reply actions
this sucks
i really love meltdown threads. It’s been boring lately as many losing teams don’t have good SBN sites with commenters.
Even if the purple kitties beat kU tonight, there are only a couple people who use RCT so that wouldn’t even be fun to read.
Anyone suggest a good meltdown they saw recently? I guess I never checked the DWAGS site…
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 3:42 PM CST up reply actions
yes, but maybe I checked too early before they went full throttle
wasn’t impressed. But then their commenters aren’t very creative or funny. Perhaps it’s just nubbers that come off that way…
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 3:58 PM CST up reply actions
nothin better than a purple cat overdosing on meth...
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 4:42 PM CST up reply actions
u mean dwags?
I make bad decisions and people think my roller skating is hot.
#CakeForLife
by BillSelfsToupee on Jan 4, 2012 6:35 PM CST via Android app up reply actions
yes, was I not allowed to capitalize it?
Never forget Wolf Island, or pie! #AHAMF, it's vaguely sordid.
by Spider_Monkey on Jan 4, 2012 10:05 PM CST up reply actions
If you like a good meltdown thread, you can head over to Clemson's page and read their live Orange Bowl thread.
Supposedly Coach Dabo said this before the game was played, “They’ll be talking about the Clemson D after this Game”.
Here’s a link to their live game thread.
It starts off okay, there are a couple of people who are a bit offended that anyone would think that WVU has a chance in this game. By midway through they are seriously worried WVU might score fifty on them. Boy, were they in for a surprise.
Here's a couple quotes from before the game started,
I want it over by half time! GO TIGERS…
We’ll crush these guys. I’m not worried at all
To decry someone for picking Clemson when they’re the obvious favorite is just them doing their job. They recognize greatness when they see it. WV is going to get their ass whipped.
I felt sorry for these guys.
they are lucky Bob Stoops wasn't coaching WVU
because he would have kept his foot on the gas and laid a bill down on them
I could write a book on this one:
SOOOOOO GLAD I GOT INTO MED SCHOOL AND DO NOT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THIS SHIT NEXT YEAR. FUCKIN HATE CLEMSON FOOTBALL
by sendthemtotheGRAVE on Jan 4, 2012 7:15 PM PST reply actions
Chapter 1: The television of football games, even in cities with “Med School.”
Chapter 2: The freedom to not watch college football, even if you are not admitted to Med School.
Chapter 3: Picking an Internet handle with your future patients in mind.
by MU'97 on Jan 5, 2012 12:23 AM CST up reply actions 1 recs
So
Do you work nights or what?
You either die a Tiger, or you live long enough to see yourself become a Jayhawk.
Comments For This Post Are Closed
Secondary Sidebar
User Tools
Related FanPosts on Rock M Nation
Related FanShots on Rock M Nation
FanPosts
Community blog posts and discussion.
