FB: Liberty League

[bigdvs]

bigdvs will be in attendance for the shoes '06 festivities. bigdvs will draw off 4 liters of the bigdvs homemade vino to add to the inebriation of the LLPP nation. But first...


MUST SMASH PUMPKINS!!!!

[Frank Rossi]

So, RT, how confident are you that RPI will beat Union?  'gro was too chicken to take a wager on the game...I've got the perfect wager for you, though.

Frank

phone it in Tank......RPI over Union

Loser buys seats for the 2007 Belmont Stakes.

hmm......RT could be convinced. However, RT would prefer to go to the derby once in his life. We could probably convince AJ to make the trip too.

Besides....is that really a tough wager? Belmont is enormous and seats probably are readily available. In RT's opinion, that's like wagering me on a $2 general admission entry to Saratoga....

Ever since the six Triple Crown tries, NYRA got smart and increased the face value exponentially for Belmont seats.  Of course, since the height of the increases, we've had no Triple Crown tries.  It's now $10-$20 to enter the park and seats average ~$50-$100 for the Clubhouse area.  So, it's a pretty good wager.  I understand, of course, if you're too scared to actually go through with it.  No problem.

By the way, the Derby is a pain in the ass to get to -- I mean, you gotta do it once in your life -- but you need to have seats unless you plan to use the "mosh pit" (a.k.a. the inner-track area -- where you can see NOTHING) or the backyard (in which you'll watch monitors all day for 8 hours).  Seats and accomodations and flights would run, on average, about $500 per person -- and that assumes you stay in Indianapolis.  My friend and I went this year, parked across from PAPA JOHN'S STADIUM (that one's for tlm), and walked to the track.  Before we placed a wager, we had spent $400 each to get there and stand all day long.

[Frank Rossi]

Frank, why don't you wager that hunting timeshare you told ZA about?

http://www.weaselcircus.com/funnypics/220.shtml

I would, but Dick Cheney is in the timeshare next to it.  I value my friendship with RT too much to risk his life in such a way.

[labart96]

BART FAN LLPP ALERT!!!!

UNION/RPI FANS ALREADY DROPPING PUMPKINS IN GENEVA ON HALLOWEEN?

TGP exclaims:

"Say it ain't so!"

Halloween at HWS: Gourds, Gravity and Galileo

The annual Pumpkin Drop, a Halloween ritual at the Colleges, gave dramatic proof of the laws of gravity long after most trick-or-treaters had gone to bed. At the stroke of midnight, Assistant Professor of Physics Steven Penn let two frozen pumpkins plummet down onto the Hobart Quad, and just as Galileo predicted, they fell at the same rate.

For Penn, the Pumpkin Drop serves as a powerful teaching tool intended to mimic the experiments of the famous scientist, who dropped objects off of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to prove his theory about gravity: that objects fall at the same rate regardless of mass. “Galileo is a key part of the switch in the history of science, and especially physics,” he said, “from irrationality to careful, scientific observations of the world. It’s a transformation in thinking.”

The formerly orange gourds took on a blue-grey hue after a bath in liquid nitrogen while a large crowd of onlookers waited for Penn and his assistants to ready the drop. Three helium-filled balloons provided about “45 pounds of force,” said Penn, enough to lift the frozen squash into the air. They were then released to land, with surprising precision, on a target in the center of the Quad.

While the annual Halloween pumpkin drop has previously been done from atop St. Mark’s tower, Penn moved this year’s event to the Quad to accommodate the growing legions of students who attend.

Penn earned a Ph.D. in nuclear structure physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington, Penn joined the experimental gravitational physics group at Syracuse University. There he joined the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) project, a multi-university collaboration headed by Caltech and MIT that is endeavoring to unravel the secrets of gravity.

[Regulator]

So, RT, how confident are you that RPI will beat Union?  'gro was too chicken to take a wager on the game...I've got the perfect wager for you, though.

Frank

phone it in Tank......RPI over Union

Loser buys seats for the 2007 Belmont Stakes.

hmm......RT could be convinced. However, RT would prefer to go to the derby once in his life. We could probably convince AJ to make the trip too.

Besides....is that really a tough wager? Belmont is enormous and seats probably are readily available. In RT's opinion, that's like wagering me on a $2 general admission entry to Saratoga....

Why can't you guys wager for something humiliating at the end of the game like the loser has to do an shot off the winners' dogs butt or something.....

[zachattack22]

ZA agrees with Reg.  Humiliating (within some scope of reason yet to be debated) is always the better choice for wagers....

The winner gets a date with:  http://www.weaselcircus.com/funnypics/326.shtml

The loser gets a date with:  http://www.weaselcircus.com/funnypics/187.shtml

Oh yeaaah!!!

[PBR...]

quick poll....hot dogs being served in pbr's work today for lunch as one of the hot entrees....3 toppings .....chili/cheese/sauerkraut.....which one does everyone like or a combo therein...

[icgrad87]

quick poll....hot dogs being served in pbr's work today for lunch as one of the hot entrees....3 toppings .....chili/cheese/sauerkraut.....which one does everyone like or a combo therein...

Grad would go with the Chili/cheese combo..Grad has noticed that cafe has been serving the same Pumpkin soup for 4 days now...Not sure if you can even get a spoon past the skin on the top of the pot to get the soup out, it's been sitting there so long.

[Rolevio]

Gro apologizes for endorsing the mountainegros last night... championship teams do not turn the ball over like that. Gro now hopes that Louisville runs the table, then gets denied a bid to the BCS championship game, giving yet another reason to have a 16 team playoff in DI-A.

Rolevio needs to apologize for endoring West Virginia as well, but since he is still bitter toward Louisville, he'll be supporting Rutgers to go undefeated.

[labart96]

TGP would appreciate some LLPP feedback on the following FF ?:

Sunday TGP must either start:

a) Palmer vs. BALT
b) Kitna vs. ATL

Although it would appear the obvious answer is a); TGP would be interested in hearing any arguments in favor of b)

Thank you.

[Jonny Utah]

So, RT, how confident are you that RPI will beat Union?  'gro was too chicken to take a wager on the game...I've got the perfect wager for you, though.

Frank

phone it in Tank......RPI over Union

Loser buys seats for the 2007 Belmont Stakes.

hmm......RT could be convinced. However, RT would prefer to go to the derby once in his life. We could probably convince AJ to make the trip too.

Besides....is that really a tough wager? Belmont is enormous and seats probably are readily available. In RT's opinion, that's like wagering me on a $2 general admission entry to Saratoga....

Ever since the six Triple Crown tries, NYRA got smart and increased the face value exponentially for Belmont seats.  Of course, since the height of the increases, we've had no Triple Crown tries.  It's now $10-$20 to enter the park and seats average ~$50-$100 for the Clubhouse area.  So, it's a pretty good wager.  I understand, of course, if you're too scared to actually go through with it.  No problem.

By the way, the Derby is a pain in the ass to get to -- I mean, you gotta do it once in your life -- but you need to have seats unless you plan to use the "mosh pit" (a.k.a. the inner-track area -- where you can see NOTHING) or the backyard (in which you'll watch monitors all day for 8 hours).  Seats and accomodations and flights would run, on average, about $500 per person -- and that assumes you stay in Indianapolis.  My friend and I went this year, parked across from PAPA JOHN'S STADIUM (that one's for tlm), and walked to the track.  Before we placed a wager, we had spent $400 each to get there and stand all day long.

Thats funny.  A freind of mine had this  grandfather that was from big money Kentucky that had one of those boxes with like a few seats at the Derby.  Anyway, he dies like in 1990 or so but for years later the family still had to pretend he was alive just to keep the seats......

[Rolevio]

TGP would appreciate some LLPP feedback on the following FF ?:

Sunday TGP must either start:

a) Palmer vs. BALT
b) Kitna vs. ATL

Although it would appear the obvious answer is a); TGP would be interested in hearing any arguments in favor of b)

Thank you.

As for reasons for b, if you go with Kitna and he's brutal, Rolevio will be losing this week along with you.  Rolevio is opting for Kitna over Rivers.

[Garnet]

EDDIE VAN HALEN's Son WOLFGANG Named New VAN HALEN Bassist - Nov. 2, 2006 TMZ.com reports that VAN HALEN has officially hired 15-year-old Wolfgang Van Halen — the son of guitarist Eddie Van Halen and estranged wife Valerie Bertinelli, and nephew of drummer Alex Van Halen — as the new bassist for the band.

Wolfgang replaces longtime bassist Michael Anthony, who left the band earlier this year. VAN HALEN spokesperson Janie Liszewski tells TMZ.com that Wolfgang, known as "Wolfie," has already joined his dad and uncle for rehearsals in the studio. Wolfie played dates with his father during the band's 2004 tour, and the song "316" on 1991's "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" was named for Wolfie's birth date that same year.

According to TMZ.com, the band is still without a lead singer, despite rumors that David Lee Roth might rejoin.

[labart96]

Anyone on LLPP ever have/see the old "VH - Live Without a Net" video?

Loved the scene when MA does the "Beer" call (Bud bass and all) and a beer can comes flying up from the stage and lands directly into MA's outstretched hand.

Perfect catch btw.

TGP was also a big fan of the classic Jack Daniels bass as well.

[labart96]

TGP would appreciate some LLPP feedback on the following FF ?:

Sunday TGP must either start:

a) Palmer vs. BALT
b) Kitna vs. ATL

Although it would appear the obvious answer is a); TGP would be interested in hearing any arguments in favor of b)

Thank you.

As for reasons for b, if you go with Kitna and he's brutal, Rolevio will be losing this week along with you.  Rolevio is opting for Kitna over Rivers.

Fortunately TGP has an overall favorable match up vs. opponent in Wk 9.  However, TGP is worried that CP could really have a rough day (maybe even more so than Kitna vs. Atlanta).