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I saw a Corgi/Shar-pei mix at the vet the other day. It literally looked like they took the head of a Shar-pei and put it on the body of a Corgi.

This is something that has always bothered me. In the first Friday the 13th movie, his mother wants revenge for the camp counselors allowing her son to drown in the lake. Yet in the sequel it was revealed that he didn't die. What happened to him that his mother thought he was dead and how the hell did he survive all those years in between?

As per our yearly tradition we were out shopping on Black Friday. Er... Black Thursday night. We actually started at the local mall because my wife's favorite clothing store had everything 50% off starting at midnight. We got there at about 11:40 and had to wait in line behind 2 people. Mostly because the store isn't actually connected to the mall itself. It's in a separate building just across the parking lot. Meanwhile we watched the hundreds of people lined up around the various entrances to the mall. One of the ways to get into the mall is through a Barnes and Noble store... that didn't open at midnight. So it was kinda funny to watch the huge line of people suddenly disappear when they realized they weren't going to get in that way. After the clothing store we headed to Best Buy and waiting outside in line for about 3 minutes. This was after we got yelled at by somebody accusing us of stealing their parking spot even though we had been waiting far longer than they had. The person leaving the parking lot had to do an 8-point turnaround to finally get out. We picked up a 40" LCD TV for about $400 and Sons of Anarchy 3 on Blu Ray for $12(?) and again only waited in line about 15 minutes or so. The line in the TV department was really short. Then we moved on to Target and picked up a few movies and a Wii. No line at all at the checkout. We stopped at Wal-Mart to pick up some 8 GB Sandisk flash drives and SD cards for only $9. It was around 5AM and the place was mostly empty. One last stop at Lowe's to grab a Dewalt 72-piece drillbit set for $20 and then we headed for home. Overall we got everything we wanted to get and hardly had to wait in any lines at all.

For us it's usually both. I have a little 3-foot tall black tree that we put up in our kitchen. It's my White Sox tree. I put all my Sox Christmas ornaments on it, some baseball lights and a baseball tree-topper on the top. Then we sometimes put another fake tree on our front porch. Then we'll have a real one in our living room that we actually put the presents under. We actually have a couple of fake 6-foot trees that we put up in the years we don't get a real one. We thought that getting a pre-lit tree was a pretty good idea. Until the lights stopped working. We ended up taking them all off and throwing them out. We got it really cheap on clearance one year after Christmas so it was a good deal though.

This should be surprising... But it really isn't.

QUOTE (JoeCoolMan24 @ Nov 18, 2011 -> 04:01 PM) I had no idea either. Must just be one of those weird random facts that I heard one time and have never forgotten. I'm full of useless random information like that.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 18, 2011 -> 10:46 AM) I had no idea it was supposed to be set at Comiskey originally. Really? I thought that was pretty common knowledge. I'm pretty sure Hughes has said he's a Sox fan before.

My daughter got out my old SNES and we were playing Super Mario World over the weekend. This is probably the easiest Mario game they've ever made because between the two of us we ended up completing all 96 "worlds" in less than 24 hours. It's really amazing how easily all the little tips and tricks came back once I started playing. I even remembered where all the secret exits where. Then I got out my game genie and put in the codes for infinite lives and unlimited invincibility. It's hilarious to just blast through the levels running all the enemies over.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Nov 1, 2011 -> 09:50 PM) Maybe not 500x, but it's way more difficult. The average person is a much better bowler than they are a golfer. Plus, bowling is repeating the same exact thing for the majority of the game - 10 pins, same shot, nothing changes. You don't have the same exact shot in golf very often, if ever. There are plenty of things you can list that have "a very specific set of skills" but it doesn't make them require the skill golf does. I admit that I have never actually golfed except for mini-putt but I can't imagine that golf is that much more difficult than bowling. At least to the degree you're taking it. Bowling isn't the exact same shot every time. The oil actually changes/moves the more you throw. You have to adjust your shot accordingly. In golf if you play the same course multiple times the tee shot will be the same every time except for the wind. As far as the average person, being a better bowler than a golfer, I don't even know how you would judge something like that. If you take someone that's not a regular bowler and let them bowl a game they might get a score around 100. Which is pretty bad. I'd guess the average league bowler would be somewhere between 160 and 180. Although I know people that have been bowling 20+ years and can't get their average above the 130s. I'm guessing we are both under-estimating the difficulty of the opposite sport.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 28, 2011 -> 06:41 PM) Because it takes 500x the skill to golf well compared to bowling well? I don't think that's true at all. Each has a specific set of skills that are required to master the sport. Sure any joe blow can pick up a bowling ball and heft it down the lane or smack a golf ball down a fairway but at the professional level either one takes a lot of practice to really be good at it. I know the pros on TV make it look really easy but to maintain the averages/handicaps they do it requires a ton of skill. I've been bowling for about 25 years and usually maintain right around a 200 avg give or take 5 pins or so. The pros usually maintain 220+. Plus they bowl on much more difficult oil patterns.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 28, 2011 -> 04:14 PM) Yes, it's happened to a number of players, including Ryan Braun, Ian Kinsler and Jay Bruce. Braun had his wind up as a triple. The Kinsler one wasn't so bad because it wound up being foul. I'm curious how they decided to put Braun on third though.

Reviewing fair and foul balls via instant replay could be tricky. If a ball is called foul and it turns out to be fair where do the baserunners end up? How many bases does the batter get? Although I could see the same thing with home runs. Has a situation ever occurred where a ball was ruled a HR and it was later overturned via instant replay?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 28, 2011 -> 12:29 PM) Little Giants was a staple for anyone our age, Rowand. That scene where they "pitch to Johnny" gets me every time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCildVCn2No Very few things in life compare to watching your kid doing something good while playing a sport.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 28, 2011 -> 01:07 AM) I'm sorry, but comparing golf to bowling, skillwise, is ridiculous. How so?

Interesting that they were pretty spot on with some things. I'm still waiting for that whole "completely automated" house and the ability to no longer need roads.

QUOTE (Cali @ Oct 27, 2011 -> 12:37 PM) And certainly don't tell people in interviews and press conferences that you had to be talked into it. Doesn't inspire much confidence. I'm pretty sure I've heard Robin himself say that he DID NOT have to be talked into it.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 27, 2011 -> 02:06 PM) So pretty much every year that the Sox were clearly out of it after 3 months KW traded away some veterans. IIRC, he traded Durham away simply because he thought that he was going to lose him at the end of the season and get nothing back. He thought that upcoming changes to the CBA would eliminate draft-pick compensation. Of course the changes were never made.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 27, 2011 -> 05:45 AM) Why is it that no other writer has bothered to talk to Frank? With all the ex players hired you would think that Frank would be a hotter topic. No other writers consistently post here?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 26, 2011 -> 03:05 PM) Why wouldn't it be on your lists, though? I mean, even I voted for it despite hating Notre Dame. I left it off my list as well. I basically put my list in order by how likely it would be that I would stop and watch it if I found it on TV while channel surfing. I actually saw it on TV the other day. I watched it for a few minutes and realized it's actually a pretty boring movie.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Oct 26, 2011 -> 11:35 AM) What is bowling, then? Golf certainly takes more athletic ability than bowling. I'd say they are about the same as far as athletic ability. They pretty much only require you to be able to walk a little bit and swing your arm(s). Whether or not your actually good at either one depends on skill.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 26, 2011 -> 11:39 AM) IMO The Big Lebowski should not be on this list. Bowling is just a backdrop of the movie, it isnt the focus of the movie. Superman Returns isnt a sports movie just because he saves a plane from crashing into a baseball game. I love the movie, but it does not belong here This. Same thing with Jerry Maguire.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 26, 2011 -> 11:19 AM) Oh yeah. The original GTA on the original playstation for the win. I've never played any of them before GTA 3.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Oct 25, 2011 -> 02:19 PM) Can you remember ever hearing a story and thinking how incredibly unlikely it was? JUST GIVE ME SOMETHING TO WORK WITH, PEOPLE! My in-laws have a newspaper that shows the listing of their house when they bought it. On the exact same page there is a listing of my parents' house. We lived there until I was in the 3rd grade.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 25, 2011 -> 03:11 PM) If hitting coaches truly matter and I'm not sure they do, then Frank would be perfect. The man's style of hitting is my favorite of all time. He had great great patience at the plate. He hit home runs but he also hit line drives and smashed it to all fields. I would LOVE for him to be Sox hitting coach. He had a really good eye for balls and strikes and he hit with his back foot off the ground. The first thing isn't really something you can teach and the second thing isn't something you probably should teach.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 24, 2011 -> 10:10 PM) Damn, Breaking away didn't even cross my mind. Should have definitely made my list. I've never even heard of that movie.