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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Refs
« on: March 17, 2011, 08:22:54 PM »
If the same refs that are calling the Belmont Wisconsin game call our game we could be in some foul trouble early, they dont seem very JYC friendly....
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Kansas State Football / Raheem
« on: January 31, 2011, 10:53:33 PM »
Head coach of the Bucs was spotted at the well this weekend by a former player, claimed to be in town for the game.
Any chance he grew to love Manhattan in his 1 yr here and wanted to come back?
Any chance he grew to love Manhattan in his 1 yr here and wanted to come back?
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Essentially Flyertalk / Wikipedia
« on: December 20, 2010, 10:08:13 PM »
Found these Gems under the profile for Joe Webb while watching the Vikings Bears game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Webb
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2010 NFL Draft
On April 24, 2010, Webb was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings 199th overall in the sixth round of the 2010 NFL Draft. He was originally drafted as a WR prospect, but former head coach Brad Childress announced that he will play QB exclusively for the Minnesota Vikings, even though Yahoo Fantasy insists on him being a WR. Subsequently, this injustice has caused many unfortunate playoff losses for fantasy teams far and wide. I hate Yahoo Fantasy Sports and denounce its incompetent management.[3]
Webb made his NFL debut on December 13, 2010. He completed two passes in five attempts for eight yards. He also had a sixteen-yard run.
Webb made his first NFL touchdown as quarterback on December 20, 2010, against the Chicago Bears. Jay Cutler is a cry baby.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Talking Sports with Non-Elites
« on: December 14, 2010, 11:55:50 AM »
Is there anything more aggrevating than being sucked into a sports conversation when you're the only elite there?
I had the following interaction at a gas station earlier today wearing some EMAW gear.
Arab guy behind counter wearing ku hat- "I see you like the wildcats, i have a wildcats hat as well"
Ben ji- "Cool"
Arab guy- "How are they doing this year?"
Ben ji- "Well only.....(Interupted by toothless pepsi rep stocking cooler in the back)"
Toothless pepsi guy- "KU is having a betta year than K-state, We done ranked 3rd in the polls now!"
Arab guy- "O really what is the wildcats?"
Toothless guy- "Wildcats are 4th, BEHIND the jayhawks! Ha I thought this wood be urs year!?!"
Ben ji- "Can i please just get $10 on pump number 4?"
Tootheless guy- "Aint no way KU dosnt win the big 12 AGAIN! You really think dem wildcats have a chance?"
After that I waited another minute while the Arab guy, who most likely doesnt understand the rules of basketball, and the toothless guy, who most likely has never heard of the internet yet alone BBS'ing, debated who was the better team. All the while I just wanted him to put the cash on my pump so I could leave.
Any advice on how to deal with said situation? I'm looking for quick one liners that will end the convo immediately so I dont get stuck at BP for 10 minutes.
I had the following interaction at a gas station earlier today wearing some EMAW gear.
Arab guy behind counter wearing ku hat- "I see you like the wildcats, i have a wildcats hat as well"
Ben ji- "Cool"
Arab guy- "How are they doing this year?"
Ben ji- "Well only.....(Interupted by toothless pepsi rep stocking cooler in the back)"
Toothless pepsi guy- "KU is having a betta year than K-state, We done ranked 3rd in the polls now!"
Arab guy- "O really what is the wildcats?"
Toothless guy- "Wildcats are 4th, BEHIND the jayhawks! Ha I thought this wood be urs year!?!"
Ben ji- "Can i please just get $10 on pump number 4?"
Tootheless guy- "Aint no way KU dosnt win the big 12 AGAIN! You really think dem wildcats have a chance?"
After that I waited another minute while the Arab guy, who most likely doesnt understand the rules of basketball, and the toothless guy, who most likely has never heard of the internet yet alone BBS'ing, debated who was the better team. All the while I just wanted him to put the cash on my pump so I could leave.
Any advice on how to deal with said situation? I'm looking for quick one liners that will end the convo immediately so I dont get stuck at BP for 10 minutes.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Swamp People
« on: October 13, 2010, 08:58:34 AM »
Great new show on History Channel.
Imagine these guys
Catching gators, reeling them up next to their boat by hand, then shooting them in the head with a .22
Amazing television
Imagine these guys
Catching gators, reeling them up next to their boat by hand, then shooting them in the head with a .22
Amazing television
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Social Security Stimulus
« on: October 08, 2010, 04:53:19 PM »
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704696304575538483156036168.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5
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The Social Security Administration sent about 89,000 stimulus payments of $250 each to dead and incarcerated people—but almost half of them were returned, a new inspector-general's report found.
The agency was charged with distributing the one-time payments, worth about $13 billion in total, as part of the economic-stimulus package passed in February 2009. Most of the payments were made in May 2009.
The inspector general found that about 72,000 payments were sent by electronic-transfer and as checks to people who would have qualified to receive them—had they still been alive.
The report Thursday said that of these payments, about 55,000 were sent because the recipients had died recently, and the Social Security Administration had not been informed of their deaths by states, families or funeral homes at the time the payments were sent.
The remaining 17,000 of the mistaken payments were attributed to the SSA failing to properly process death records that it did have.
Another 17,000 payments went to recipients who were in prison at the time the payment was made in May 2009. However, not all of those payments were necessarily against the letter of the law. While lawmakers intended to prevent payments to people in prison, the law included only a provision prohibiting payments to people incarcerated in the three months before the plan was passed—from November 2008 through January 2009.
There is a bright spot in the report: The inspector general estimates that about 41,000 of the payments were returned. It is illegal to spend social-security money issued to somebody else, but such actions are rarely prosecuted for small amounts. At least one person has been prosecuted for cashing a stimulus check not issued to them, in one of the few accusations of stimulus fraud to date.
The downside: The SSA says that the stimulus package didn't include a provision allowing it to try to retrieve funds that were mistakenly sent out, so it can't try to retrieve the rest of the money. Money transferred electronically may be sitting untouched in bank accounts of dead people.
The combined total of the mistaken payments is $22.3 million. About $12 million hasn't been returned.
The SSA said in response to the report that it was pleased with the overall finding that the "vast majority" of payments were properly issued. "In the short timeframe imposed… we issued economic—recovery payments accurately to more than 99.8 percent of approximately 52 million eligible Social Security and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries," it said.
The report drew criticism from Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a longtime campaigner against waste, who opposed the economic-stimulus package.
"This report highlights the broader problems with the Recovery Act itself," said Mr. Coburn, in a statement.
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Kansas State Football / Dodd with more KSU and DT love
« on: September 24, 2010, 05:11:50 PM »
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/14004629/wwl-tide-roll-into-unprecedented-stretch-with-arkansas
* in this case WWL stands for weekend watch list NOT world wide leader
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Three surprising 3-0 teams that will be a surprising 4-0:
Kansas State: Already beaten UCLA and is 1-0 in the Big 12. The Wildcats could be 4-0 for the first time since 2003 with a win over Central Florida.
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Nicknames for Kansas State's Daniel Thomas:
DT
D-Love
Thomas the Tank Engine
Barney the Purple Dinosaur
The nation's leading running back can't get enough props from WWL *...
* in this case WWL stands for weekend watch list NOT world wide leader
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / W
« on: August 20, 2010, 08:20:51 AM »
Totally had a dream last night about W. I was going to a movie(AMC 30 in olathe I think) and as I go to find my favorite seat in the back row who is sitting in it?
George and Laura Motha rough ridin' Bush. I wanted to shake his hand just for the hell of it but i was too scared
On a side note I cant remember what the movie was about but there was OIL in it.
George and Laura Motha rough ridin' Bush. I wanted to shake his hand just for the hell of it but i was too scared
On a side note I cant remember what the movie was about but there was OIL in it.
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Essentially Flyertalk / Oktoberfest(ATTN asava)
« on: August 19, 2010, 10:17:31 PM »
Apparently the #2 oktoberfest festival in the US of A is in Tulsa. Is it worth the road trip asava?
http://www.tulsaoktoberfest.org/happenings.php
http://www.tulsaoktoberfest.org/happenings.php
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Tannou spotting
« on: August 12, 2010, 02:47:00 PM »
Looks like Tannou is now posting on the Ecomomists Comments section under the handle "The Native"
http://www.economist.com/node/16791720/comments?page=1
http://www.economist.com/node/16791720/comments?page=1
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The native wrote: Aug 12th 2010 6:32 GMT .
how sad to see how far Great Britain has fallen.
Just a few decades ago it was the throne of the worlds largest empire. A white man could proudly show his son the world, and say, 'Well, son, these are all the nations we've conquered, and we've given these natives a bunch of rights and values and have improved their lives. our colonies are the biggest and best in the world.'
He could tell his son, 'Son, looked what we did to India. Before the British, the Indians were ruled by Middle East Muslim rulers with no respect for human rights at all. The British took over, and turned India into the worlds largest democracy. The British build roads, trains, schools, universities, hospitals--all foreign concepts to the Indians before. and the British outlawed wife burning.'
He could tell his son, 'Son, we build modern civilization in Africa.'
Now, a white gentile can only say to his son, 'Well, our nations are going to become Muslim or Hispanic majority in a few years, just learn to live like a minority in your own nation.'
All the great vigor and economic vitality that characterized the European race is now replaced by multiculturalism and socialism.
We have gone too far with the nonsense of womans rights, too. Now, woman abuse their husbands in public and no oone cares
Gone are the days when a man could slap his wife to put her in place, teach her about respect, protect his family, and teach his children values and morals.
We don't need just economic performance. We also need a return to pride and prestige in European civilization.
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Hilton Magic
« on: August 11, 2010, 01:54:46 PM »
Obviously doesnt include the ability to build sand bag barriers....
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2010/08/11/hilton-coliseum-an-island-surrounded-by-flood-waters/
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2010/08/11/hilton-coliseum-an-island-surrounded-by-flood-waters/
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Essentially Flyertalk / Southwest Airlines 39th anniversary
« on: June 22, 2010, 07:12:24 PM »
They have some ridiculously low flights right now, $39 $79 and $119 one way flights. Have to book by thursday and travel must be between Sep 8th and Nov 17th.
Bout to book a flight to New York for $250 roundtrip
Hey :aa: GTFOMF
Bout to book a flight to New York for $250 roundtrip
Hey :aa: GTFOMF
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Kansas State Football / Name our new conference
« on: June 08, 2010, 10:36:52 PM »
Obviously KSU KU ISU and BU will be the big dogs when we merge with the Moutain West Conference. As the big dogs it makes no sense to keep the Mountain in our conference name.
I suggest "FATLO"
Friday After Thansgiving Left Overs
I suggest "FATLO"
Friday After Thansgiving Left Overs
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Kansas State Football / Who would we use?
« on: May 19, 2010, 01:45:08 PM »
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=maisel_ivan&id=5200779
Condi Rice hits the recruiting trail for Stanford.
Who could we throw at recruits? Kristie Allie? Gen Meyers? OBz?
Condi Rice hits the recruiting trail for Stanford.
Who could we throw at recruits? Kristie Allie? Gen Meyers? OBz?
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Essentially Flyertalk / System Crashes
« on: April 30, 2010, 08:35:02 AM »
Suck Ass
So the system our entire office runs on has crashed and probably wont be back up and running today. I'm almost done answering angry voicemails from clients and I've already exhausted my supply of emails to answer. I will probably run out of things to do on the internet in the next hour or so.
Any ideas on how to pass the time?
TIA
So the system our entire office runs on has crashed and probably wont be back up and running today. I'm almost done answering angry voicemails from clients and I've already exhausted my supply of emails to answer. I will probably run out of things to do on the internet in the next hour or so.
Any ideas on how to pass the time?
TIA
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Essentially Flyertalk / Boondock Saints II All Saints Day
« on: March 29, 2010, 03:06:17 PM »
Just watched it and thought it was pretty good. Alot more backstory about their dad and how everything got started. Ending was pretty good as well.
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / SI Cover
« on: March 17, 2010, 10:43:29 AM »
First of all eff SI for making our guy so small, took me 5 minutes to find him.
Second of all eff SI for picking the worst player on our team to put on the cover.
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Essentially Flyertalk / BOOOM SHACKALAKA
« on: March 16, 2010, 01:21:01 PM »
http://www.neoseeker.com/news/13369-debut-nba-jam-trailer-looks-exactly-as-it-should/
New updated NBA Jams coming out for the wii. I cant wait to relive my college glory days of getting stoned out of my mind and having 2 hour long Jam sessions.
New updated NBA Jams coming out for the wii. I cant wait to relive my college glory days of getting stoned out of my mind and having 2 hour long Jam sessions.
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / ku wins if...
« on: March 12, 2010, 08:07:06 PM »
Collins shoots better from 3 than his infant mortality rate.
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / Cats seem to be enjoying Cerner
« on: March 10, 2010, 01:58:24 PM »
No word yet on how they smell, I would guess its a mix between old spice and caribbean jerk seasoning.
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The New Joe Montgomery Birther Pit / Inside view of the Government
« on: March 10, 2010, 10:10:45 AM »
So my lady friend (recent emaw graduate) works as a city planner for a local government.
In between chatting with friends and watching hulu for hours at a time she estimates she actually works about 2 hours a day. She doesnt want to ask her boss for more work because she's afraid he will realize how little time she actaully spends working.
When I asked her why they hired her if they didnt have any work for her to do she said "Well they if they didnt staff the position they would lose that money in their budget".
Granted she has a masters and is good at her job so she probably gets the work done quicker than the last person they had. At the same time I cant imagine a company in the private sector keeping someone around at full salary and benefits if they only really work about 2 hours a day.
Gotta love the government. I can only image what goes on at a federal level....
In between chatting with friends and watching hulu for hours at a time she estimates she actually works about 2 hours a day. She doesnt want to ask her boss for more work because she's afraid he will realize how little time she actaully spends working.
When I asked her why they hired her if they didnt have any work for her to do she said "Well they if they didnt staff the position they would lose that money in their budget".
Granted she has a masters and is good at her job so she probably gets the work done quicker than the last person they had. At the same time I cant imagine a company in the private sector keeping someone around at full salary and benefits if they only really work about 2 hours a day.
Gotta love the government. I can only image what goes on at a federal level....
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Essentially Flyertalk / EMAWer's in Los Angeles
« on: March 08, 2010, 09:52:41 AM »
So a fellow EMAWer I work with just moved out to Cali-Four-Nia and has had no luck finding a KSU bar to watch our ball club at. Any one know of any KSU friendly bars or alumni groups in the Los Angeles area.
TIA
TIA
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Essentially Flyertalk / GBSOAT
« on: February 22, 2010, 03:03:56 PM »
By far the Greatest Book Series Of All Time
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Jerome Tang Coaches Kansas State Basketball / KSU Telathon
« on: February 21, 2010, 06:31:16 PM »
KSU Telathon just called me asking for a donation.I donated $7.60 in honor of the pathetic 760K frank is making this year. Made her put in the "Comments" section that I would have donated more if Frank had a new contract.