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Nope, this has become a cool thread that people can express anything on without leaving the football pages. I like it.
Nice driver. I have a Titleist 970d 9.5. I like to call it the Canon or the Big Dog, but I suck so bad that I usually leave it in my bag and hit the 3 wood. That one is a Goldwin.
Do you know of a free site to post pics here?
It's supposed to hit 50 degrees here this week. Thank you God...or Jesus or Allah, or Buddha or Zeus, or Odin, or Quetzalcoautl or the Force, or whoever wants to take credit. Keep it up. It's good work you are doing this year.
I have my own homepage and I just post them there, then here, except pictures like the one below.
I demo'd three drivers this weekend, Mizuno MP-001, Adams RedLine, and the Taylor Made. The Adams has a HUGE head, so that one got nixes. I wanted the Mizuno to add to my already impressive Mizuno collection, but the ebay price was too nice too pass up. I paid $227 for the TM, brand new. I'm soooo stoked!
The Mizuno is a very nice stick ...
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http://www.daily-3.com/golf/titleist/wood/975d.jpg
Oops. It's a 975d. My bad. I think Tiger Woods used one. I like it, but I have a wicked slice and have to hit it just right and it carries a long way for me. I got it used and had it regripped. It was $180.
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An Insolent Puppet Roils Canadian Politics
By CLIFFORD KRAUSS
Published: February 16, 2004
TORONTO, Feb. 15 — Conan O'Brien came to Toronto last week, and he nearly started a civil war. Just kidding, sort of.
On a taped segment on Thursday night's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" on NBC, the puppet Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visited the Winter Carnival in Quebec City and touched the third rail of Canadian politics by telling the Québécois they ought to learn English since they live in North America.
"So you're French and Canadian, yes?" Triumph asked a passer-by in a Continental accent. "You're obnoxious and dull."
If that were not enough teasing along the delicate cultural divide between Francophone and Anglophone Canadians, the puppet told another: "I can tell you're French, you know. You have that proud expression, that superior look."
And of a third, rather plump, man the puppet asked: "Are you a separatist? Maybe you should try separating yourself from doughnuts first."
Worst of all, perhaps, the Toronto audience laughed heartily.
Such dialogue was hardly what Toronto's tourism authorities had in mind when they invited Mr. O'Brien to bring his show here — along with Canadian comic stars like Jim Carrey and Mike Myers — to boost American interest in a city that is still hurting from last year's SARS epidemic.
The four-night production did fill an estimated 700 hotel rooms, and gave some part-time work to scores of stagehands who have had a lot less work in recent months because of SARS and a rising Canadian dollar.
But the seemingly harmless if crass remarks of a puppet created a blaze of protests on the floor of the House of Commons and became fodder for national politicians seeking to win Québécois votes. Canada is in the midst of the biggest political scandal in more than a generation, but the foul-mouthed puppet was still front-page news and heavily covered on national television.
"We can all make jokes about each other but you don't start telling people in Quebec they have to speak another language," said Stephen Harper, a Conservative member of Parliament who is a contender for Prime Minister in elections expected this year. "That's completely unacceptable."
Alexa McDonough, a member of Parliament from the social democratic New Democratic Party, demanded that the show return an estimated $750,000 it received in Canadian taxpayer's promotional money for coming to Toronto. She characterized the puppet act as "vile and vicious."
CHUM television, the local broadcaster, cut the puppetry act out of a rebroadcast of the episode and issued an apology. Leading Quebec politicians generally refused to comment.
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, a character created by the comic and writer Robert Smigel, appears often on "Late Night." Triumph has landed some controversial shots before, and his targets have included the rapper Eminem and "Star Wars" fans. But his latest television fray could be the biggest since the 1999 "South Park" animated movie "Bigger, Longer and Uncut" farcically depicted a war between Canada and the United States.
Some commentators expressed puzzled amusement at all the fuss. A headline in Saturday's Toronto Star read: "Oh, Canada! We let ourselves be baited by a dog puppet." Nevertheless an editorial in the same issue of The Star said the sketch "wasn't clever it was hateful and, yes, racist."
The editorial went on to say, "O'Brien would never have dared such a stunt at home in New York City with American Hispanics or Jews," and added: "Goodbye, Conan. Don't come back soon."
Political satire is a big part of Canadian culture, and it can be rather ribald. It can also be rather anti-American, with hefty helpings of insults about President Bush and American ignorance about things Canadian. Crude anti-French jokes are not uncommon outside Quebec, but they are generally told in private along with other ethnic humor considered politically incorrect.
One reason nerves became so frayed was that the Triumph the Insult Comic Dog routine came just three weeks after Don Cherry, the CBC hockey commentator and an hero among a certain class of rough-and-tumble Anglophone Canadians, poked fun at French Canadian and European players for wearing protective visors on their helmets.
That remark was one in a string of statements made over the years deemed unfair to Québécois players, leading the CBC to design a seven-second delay system to suppress any future insults before they are broadcast.
Tensions in Quebec have subsided since a 1995 separatist referendum went down to a narrow defeat, and laws designed to protect the French language have been effectively enforced. A pro-federalist premier was elected in Quebec by a landslide last year.
Mr. O'Brien stopped short of an apology, although in his fourth and final taping of the week, he said, "For those of you who don't know me, I'm the guy who was hired to make Don Cherry look good."
Marc Liepis, a spokesman for NBC, said neither Mr. O'Brien nor the network would have any further comment.
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God allmighty! What wussies.
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Worth every second. That was hilarious.
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I haven't seen the sun in a few days, so forgive me ...
http://lighthousegetaway.com/lights/MA/thatcher32.jpg
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JWTK,
It is 5:30 PM and a calm 64 outside. Yes, we had snow 2 days ago! That's the only good thing about Baja!
I wonder if this thread can last until football starts up.
Found another Baja student leaving the state for OU! :D Today was good!
Thunder you owe your wife - bigtime! Buying that club and spending all of your time online....... Buy some orange golfballs and go play.
Yeah, I now have 2 stars! Seriously!
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This thread will never die.
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If it does, it will have a special home ....
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JWTK,
It is 5:30 PM and a calm 64 outside. Yes, we had snow 2 days ago! That's the only good thing about Baja!
I wonder if this thread can last until football starts up.
Found another Baja student leaving the state for OU! :D Today was good!
Thunder you owe your wife - bigtime! Buying that club and spending all of your time online....... Buy some orange golfballs and go play.
Yeah, I now have 2 stars! Seriously!
Wow. You live right smack in the middle of Texas. What's out there? I've been all over Tx, but I don't think I have hit Baja.
Did you see my Faces of Maria Shriver gif? I am terribly proud of it. It's on the 'question that has plagued man' thread.
Have we filled our schedule yet?
Has everyone watched the Star Wars Nerds thing yet?
Get back to me on those issues.
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The Star Wars Nerd interviews is the television piece for the ages. How do you top Star Wars Nerd and Lord of the Rings Nerd confronting one another in broad daylight on a busy New York City street? And all for a dog-sock puppet's title of "Uber Nerd."
To top it off, Star Trek Nerd arrives at the end to give the Star Wars Nerds the bird. No, my friends, there is no better television...for me to poop on!
http://gscentral.net/triumph.jpg
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The Star Wars Nerd interviews is the television piece for the ages. How do you top Star Wars Nerd and Lord of the Rings Nerd confronting one another in broad daylight on a busy New York City street? And all for a dog-sock puppet's title of "Uber Nerd."
To top it off, Star Trek Nerd arrives at the end to give the Star Wars Nerds the bird. No, my friends, there is no better television...
for me to poop on!
http://thedoorlessstall.tripod.com/i...dy_triumph.gif
How'd you come up with The Fake Don Dokken anyway?
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I enjoy The Ticket's renditions of The Fake Jerry Jones, The Fake Mark Cuban, etc. I also enjoy wondering what happened to spare metal stars of the mid-to-late 80s.
So, I decided to combine the two.
There were several people to choose from. I flirted with the idea of being The Fake Klaus Meine, The Fake Udo Dirkschneider, and The Fake Kip Winger. But, each had its own problem.
First, few would know that Meine was the lead singer of the Scorpions and Dirkschneider was the lead singer of Accept. Additionally, I couldn't really throw anyone from the Scorpions into the spare category once I really thought about it. And, Accept and Dirkschneider were too obscure with just one America hit, "Balls To The Wall."
So, I figured I'd go with a recognizable American metal spare who had named a band after himself. Winger was obvious. But, really, it's even shameful to air the Winger name, even in spoof.
Finally, there was Dokken. I remembered how cheesy Dokken was...the cheesy motto "State of the Art Rockin' With Dokken!"...the ubiquitous trite metal lyrics such as "I'm alone again, without you."
To me, Dokken rose above the Wingers, Warrants, and Poisons of the 80s metal deluge, but never quite attained the status of the Van Halens, the Scorpions, the Metallicas, etc.
I knew, then, that The Fake Don Dokken would be perfect. And, so, here I am...The Fake Don Dokken.
Just as an aside...I change screen names about once a year. Last year, I posted under the monkier MC Humpty Sooner. My M.O. there was to establish a Travian Smith Fan Club.
I'll change moniker again sometime late in the fall or early in the winter. And, again, I'm sure it'll be something to preserve the great 80s cultural cheese. A cursory brainstorm has brought forth the names of Crimson Hasselhoff and Big Red MacGyver.
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http://gscentral.net/triumph.jpg
I can't believe they took the Triumph picture away! Tripod is a great internet host for me to poop on!
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The Scorpions in 1972, doing what all European bands do at some point or another...sit in a field of grass
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Ah, those creative Scorpions album covers of the late 70s/early 80s...
http://www.hughmcc.freeuk.com/Schenk.../lovedrive.jpg
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Klaus in the 80s heydey
http://home.t-online.de/home/f.weiss...scorpions1.jpg
Klaus today...playing to a different crowd.
Poor kid probably doesn't understand the lyrics to "Blackout."
http://www.dksb-hannover.de/Grafik/Bilder/klmeine.jpg
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Great tune, balls to the wall. I had Metal Heart on vinyl. Eeesh.
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Was that back in the days of Uli von Roth and Michael Schenker?
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Not near as creepy as Blackout.
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My friend, 1972 meant the Scorpions with both Schenker brothers on guitar - Michael and Rudolf!
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What irritated me about the Scorps is when they started making money and all of the tunes were ballads. Same with Aerosmith. Same with Def Leppard.
Ever notice how much Klaus, Ronnie James Dio, and Kevin Dubrow look alike? All three curly headed, balding midgets.
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My friend, 1972 meant the Scorpions with both Schenker brothers on guitar - Michael and Rudolf!
Mike was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better than Rudy. Jabbs was cool though. They always had at least one killer guitar player.
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Michael Schenker's tune "Attack of the Mad Axeman" is about as righteous as 80s guitar got.
Rudy was always basically a rhythm player. His lead were the slow ones (SEE, "Still Loving You" from Love At First Sting)
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Remember this group. they were pretty heavy in the day. Headhunter was there best disc by far IMO.
http://krokusonline.seven49.net/data...nter_cover.jpg
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I saw them during the Ballroom Blitz days. They were ok, but I really enjoyed the band that opened for them, ACCEPT!!!!!! Woooooohoooooooo!!!!!!
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I never saw Krokus. My favorite Krokus tune was "Screaming In The Night." Classic. 1983.
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I never saw Krokus. My favorite Krokus tune was "Screaming In The Night." Classic. 1983.
"Eat The Rich" on Headhunter, was excellent as well. Same disc as Screamin. They opened for Motley Crue once, when they both were relative unknowns, and it was quite a show. I think it was at the Diamond Ball Room or something like that.
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dont forget UFO and MSG when discussing the Schenkers
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dont forget UFO and MSG when discussing the Schenkers
Man, I can't think of one UFO tune, but MSG did some good things. Michael Schenker iis a very underrated guitarist.
Question for ya. On what album does Michael Schenker do his best work?
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UFO, No Heavy Petting or Lights Out, imho