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In Chinese, you need a cow if you want count articles of clothing.

Just got my confirmation email from The Onion.

Interesting matchup in the NFL, at least. Al Michaels might actually be able to care about this one.

In other news, a kitten adopted my daughter. He's doing well.

If you happen to go to the Onion's Membership page (https://membership.theonion.com/)... and while there, you happen to sign up and pay for it (although why you would do so is quite beyond me), you will get the following response in confirmation: i mean maybe the idea of 12 issues in print was just too much for me to pass on

Well how can you claim to know so much about your staff and so little about them raping little boys, eh, Joe? Could've had it out with us in the Cotton Bowl if you cared so much, too. Squareass bitch.

maybe they forgot the prop braces in the scene or something

her braces were shopped out in the "original 35mm print" I don't know how we've gone to "gaslighting people about mediocre Bond movies" but here we fucking are

Yeah that would rank for me as exceeding expectations to the point where I think he qualifies for this. The leader, in my mind.

Alex, yes. Ed, no. Ed has been described by nearly everyone as a "gentle soul." Yes, he had horrible issues and demons, but he's just not a scary guy in any circumstance. But Alex? Yep. 100%.

Yeah. I get that we had adequate expectations for him, but he's really performing at a high level on a team filled with achievers.

what year is Taafe, and why wouldn't he otherwise qualify

To-may-to, to-mah-to.

That's fun, too, but I want them to endure soul-crushing defeats against everyone, not just us.

I'M NOT SAYING THERE'S A LACK OF EVIDENCE

This doesn't make me laugh any more. Now it's just depressing.

So, because I can literally talk forever about this topic, now that I'm on a keyboard instead of a phone... Here's the thing. You and I, because we are complete nerds, can name some absolute legends at guitar that other complete nerds can also name. Guys like Jason Becker, for example. Now the point is not to say whether or not these guys are better than Ed, but to point out their relative obscurity. (And, you know, not just guitar; is Rick Wakeman a household name? You and I know who he is... but outside of old glam/prog rock nerds, who else has heard of him?) It was Dave who: Made them get out of t-shirts and jeans Drove them to the gigs Got them to write shorter, peppier songs instead of 17-minute long odes to Black Sabbath It's really hard to overstate Dave's 1940s dance hall tunes influence on VH's sound and how much that MADE their sound Put on the show every night Worked every bit as hard as the rest of them because he was 100% all in After Gene Simmons' band rejected them, gave everyone the pep talk to pick up their spirits and let them know that they were not. Fucking. Giving up. And it's not just those concrete things. Ed and Al's dad himself told them: "People don't go to hear the band; they go to see the band." They went to see the hollowed-out bomb effects mount and the flaming drumsticks and the finger tapping and the cute young men jammin' but above all they went to see Dave jumping and wearing assless chaps. Think about this, for a second. Right now, wherever you are, there's a symphony nearby. In that symphony is a principal oboist. This person slaved at their craft for decades before getting that role, surpassing countless other hopefuls, mastering an incredibly demanding instrument. They have more skill and musicianship in one hand than almost every so-called "great" guitarist we've ever heard of had in their whole body, and they're playing a much more difficult instrument on pieces of music that are orders of magnitude more complex and deep than anything any dumb pop/rock/blues band ever shat out, and they are absolutely crushing this amazing instrument 2 nights and a matinee every week... ...in front of an audience of sleeping pensioners. It's easy to see Ed the legend and think, Yeah of course someone that good was gonna be that famous without recognizing that there are people out there who surpass him on a daily basis, thousands of them, that you never hear about because they didn't have a marketing department, a bunch of roadies, a business manager, and above all a Dave who added just the right mojo to the music and to the show to actually make them famous. And if you want proof of that, all you have to do is look at Ed and Alex's Dad. Why, if they hadn't invited him to play on Diver Down, where would you find a recording of him? Would you have heard of him without them?

tell me you don't participate in the game threads without telling me you don't participate in game threads

btw counterpoint to the whole "don't want to say anything to make myself look bad in my memoir" thing is Steve Lukather, who is self-effacing, humble, and apologetic as shit.

Seems reasonable. Saw the same blindspots in Ted's autobiography about himself.

no no no this is no good, if they're all lesbians then I don't have a chance!

Well fuck you! I was agreeing with you too! You asshole! (I'm not even sure what's going on any more, just rolling with it)

consider me a fan of 529s especially Utah

Alex had nothing but nice things to say about Leffler, too. Same with Ed. Notice how the band more or less ended after he died?