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    Davis-- played a fun card game with friends last week called "The Great Dalmuti." Lots of fun-- gameplay is reminiscent of Hearts, but wrapped up in a medieval hierarchy story. Have you played it?
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    Quote Quoting D_Davis (view post)
    I hate that they call it Mixed Martial Arts. Just adds a douchey taint to the phrase "martial arts." They should just call it Ed Hardy Tapout Fighting or something.
    When UFC first started, mixed martial arts meant it was different martial arts against each other. Over time it evolved, and the phrase mixed martial arts came to mean taking different aspects from different martial arts and blending them together.
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    Quote Quoting Mara (view post)
    Davis-- played a fun card game with friends last week called "The Great Dalmuti." Lots of fun-- gameplay is reminiscent of Hearts, but wrapped up in a medieval hierarchy story. Have you played it?
    I've played that! It's pretty fun.
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    Quote Quoting Spinal (view post)
    I've played that! It's pretty fun.
    We played it bare bones, but when they get together in groups to play it, my friends go all out. The peons have to fetch everyone drinks and the Dalmuti gets to sick on a throne and eat cookies.
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    Quote Quoting Mara (view post)
    Davis-- played a fun card game with friends last week called "The Great Dalmuti." Lots of fun-- gameplay is reminiscent of Hearts, but wrapped up in a medieval hierarchy story. Have you played it?
    I have not. I'll have to check it out.

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    I found a picture of Spinal's last game of The Great Dalmuti.


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    Dear sweet heaven, I own that jester cap. YES, I OWN A JESTER CAP. I'm not even joking. It's in my costume chest. YES, I HAVE A COSTUME CHEST.
    ...and the milk's in me.

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    That's Spinal on the far right with the green hat, right?
    "All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"

    "Rick...it's a flamethrower."

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    Quote Quoting Mara (view post)
    Dear sweet heaven, I own that jester cap. YES, I OWN A JESTER CAP. I'm not even joking. It's in my costume chest. YES, I HAVE A COSTUME CHEST.
    ...and the milk's in me.

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    Quote Quoting D_Davis (view post)
    I hate that they call it Mixed Martial Arts. Just adds a douchey taint to the phrase "martial arts." They should just call it Ed Hardy Tapout Fighting or something.
    It's disappointing that the stereotypical fan has this appeal, but it's basically true. There's the dedicated fans that almost make me interested in the sport that discuss fights like we discuss movies here. It's pretty interesting to hear them talk.

    Sometimes makes me forget that I get bored when fights end on the ground with each man holding each other until the ref tells them to stop it.

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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    Sometimes makes me forget that I get bored when fights end on the ground with each man holding each other until the ref tells them to stop it.

    That's how most real fights end.
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    To me, MMA is entertaining. Its better than boxing (I remember when boxing used to be awesome, but that was before most of the great fighters retired and Don King raped the sport for personal gain), but in the end I'm not an overally huge fan. Can I name UFC fighters, and do I often watch the fights? Sure, which I guess makes me a casual fan of violent machoistic entertainment.
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    I used to watch UFC before it became the WWF.
    "All right, that's too hot. Anything we can do about that heat?"

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    This crap makes me sick.


    People who were watching the Cincinnati Reds' victory on TV called in and complained that the team and coach were smoking cigars in celebration.

    Give me a fucking break.
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    Quote Quoting number8 (view post)
    Thank fuck for free coffee at work.
    I hope you appreciate that you have drinkable free coffee at work. Every month or two, I give the coffee here another shot and it's downright undrinkable. Thing is, it's Pete's Coffee, so it should at least be decent, but our industrial coffee machine looks like it's from around 1977 effectively destroys every ounce of flavor while it's brewing.

    Quote Quoting D_Davis (view post)
    I hate that they call it Mixed Martial Arts. Just adds a douchey taint to the phrase "martial arts." They should just call it Ed Hardy Tapout Fighting or something.
    :lol:

    Couldn't agree more.

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    Dear sweet heaven, I own that jester cap. YES, I OWN A JESTER CAP. I'm not even joking. It's in my costume chest. YES, I HAVE A COSTUME CHEST.
    I always assumed you had a costume chest and that you dress up and perform for your niece. Am I right?

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    Quote Quoting Derek (view post)
    I always assumed you had a costume chest and that you dress up and perform for your niece. Am I right?
    I rarely dress up, even for Halloween. I like to throw amateur theatrics, which is why I have the costume chests. I'll rope my friends into performing improv, or have all the kids at a family gathering put on a song-and-dance number.

    I actually have no gift for performance. I can read aloud well, but not dramatically, and I can sing. I can't dance to save my life.
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    Baltimore is so beautiful today I want to cry and give someone a hug. And I'm not a hugger.
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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    This crap makes me sick.


    People who were watching the Cincinnati Reds' victory on TV called in and complained that the team and coach were smoking cigars in celebration.

    Give me a fucking break.
    They weren't complaining that they were smoking. They were smoking in a facility that it is illegal to smoke in. Just because their millionaires doesn't mean they should be above the law.
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    Quote Quoting EyesWideOpen (view post)
    They weren't complaining that they were smoking. They were smoking in a facility that it is illegal to smoke in. Just because their millionaires doesn't mean they should be above the law.

    They're still tattle-tales in my opinion.
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    Earth-sized planet with livable climate found 20 light years away.

    "Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say, my own personal feeling is that the chances of life on this planet are 100 percent," said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, during a press briefing today. "I have almost no doubt about it."
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    Quote Quoting EyesWideOpen (view post)
    They weren't complaining that they were smoking. They were smoking in a facility that it is illegal to smoke in. Just because their millionaires doesn't mean they should be above the law.
    They just won a sports game (though a very boring one, baseball should still count as a sport, I think) and are drinking champagne and celebrating. What kind of person has the disproportionate amount of spare time to rat out on a thing like that?

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    Quote Quoting Grouchy (view post)
    They just won a sports game (though a very boring one, baseball should still count as a sport, I think) and are drinking champagne and celebrating. What kind of person has the disproportionate amount of spare time to rat out on a thing like that?
    A typical right-wing American.

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    They committed a minor legal offense, it was reported, and the worst that can happen is that they'll be fined $100 if they do it again. Why is this sickening?
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