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New York Knicks - Random Topics
Why even call it a "Patrick Ewing trade"? That implies we actually got something for him. Can anyone name a single player who was worth a plug nickel that we got in that "trade"? It was more an "Exit...Stage Left" deal, but that could also apply to Jeff Van Gundy, Larry Johnson, Alan Houston, GM Ernie Grunfeld, President Dave Checketts, etc. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 3:15 pm

National Football League (NFL) - Random Topics
You are all now witnessing what will eventually be known as "the beginning of the end" of the NFL. I predict football will either be abolished or greatly toned down in my lifetime. I see the next generation being indoctrinated already. I never thought we'd see the day that grown men would say stuff like "I wouldn't want my son playing football". I don't think a father existed when I was a teenager that would say that. Now I hear potential, just-married, dads saying this before they even have any spawn to worry about. Makes me sad for the emasculated generation of men now coming of age. Also, has anyone noticed that now whenever one of these retirees commits suicide it's automatically the ill effects from a previous concussion? They don't even wait for it to be determined anymore by a coroner. They just automatically assume the guy didn't have some other motive for doing it. "Group think" in the US is out of control. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 3:01 pm

NASA - Random Topics
I think NASA boned for me when I realized they were never going to come remotely close to achieving what I saw depicted on many of my favorite Sci Fi series of the 1960s. Lost In Space was supposed to take place in 1999. Did people actually believe such space travel would be possible by 1999? Seems that mindset had to come from somewhere. History has shown we were way off on that one. Truth is, space travel beyond the moon is largely impractical, and our knowledge of space beyond the moon is progressing at a snail's pace. Even these theories they come out with don't hold water, like the "other Earth" they discovered. How does anyone check the validity of a claim made about a planet umpteen light years away? Don't even get me started on the Mars rovers. What is "Curiosity" supposed to accomplish that the last umpteen rovers didn't again? Finding water that doesn't even appear to exist where their polar icecaps would be? Sure! As for the "technology" this brought about, there's too many unknowns there. For one thing, there's no guarantees that other types of "demand" wouldn't have spawned these things anyway. For another, what affect has all that additional automation had on jobs and the economy? Are we so sure it was a good thing in light of all the downsizing and outsourcing we read about? Are we so sure it's been worth this ridiculous price tag, that we're still afraid to send even lab rats to Mars? Phooey on NASA and the space program. When "The Jetsons" have more creative ideas than you do, man you're a failure! -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 2:54 pm

Napster - Random Topics
Boned when they lost the case. The party was over. On the other hand, they made a super-corrupt industry that was inundated with gangsta-rappers marketing obscenity to children, quake in their boots, and gave rise to other file sharing services with offshore servers that are not subject to US copyright laws. The industry never recovered, but I'm not sure they deserve to after the way they've been ruining music since the mid-1980s. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 11:59 am

MTV: Music Television - Random Topics
MTV wouldnt show MJ's videos originally, because they felt his style didn't fit the "rock" genre which they mainly catered to at the time. They did show black artist, such as Hendrix, The Busboys and John Butcher Axis, as those were considered "rock". MJ didn't want to accept this, so he played the race card. MTV relented and proceeded to increasingly suck throughout the remainder of its life. I stopped watching altogether in the mid-1980s, but I stopped enjoying it around 1984. I also credit MTV with being the main catalyst behind the epidemic of "Swelled Head Syndrome" that pretty much sabotaged popular music in the mid-1980s. Funny thing is their ratings declined during this period, but instead of seeing the truth for what it was (they alienated their original audience by showing Michael Jackson, Billy Ocean and other lame Top-40 crap videos), they decided to launch "programming" like "Remote Control"....another fish boning moment. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 11:55 am

Monopoly - Random Topics
I'm something of a traditionalist with Monopoly. I'm not bothered by the alternate versions so much as I am by people who like to play by their own implausible rules to speed up the game. Sorry, but there's nothing about landing on "Free Parking" being a metaphor for a payout. How often do you park in a free lot finding money lying around? Implausible? You bet it is, and that's why it's not in the rules. Then it seems almost nobody is aware of the rule that when you opt not to buy a property, the remaining players, and yourself, get to bid on it before the next player's turn. Of course, everyone can opt out if they want, but how often would they choose that if they knew they had a choice? If you really want to speed the game up, follow that real rule and put the fake Free Parking payout silliness to rest. It's about winning by getting a real estate monopoly, not by falling ass backwards into a free parking space. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 11:47 am

Moderators (Internet Forum) - Random Topics
Day 1. If the owners of a site are offended by certain words, they can implement software that censors those words, but I'm not a fan of censoring thought even when it's objectionable. Sometimes people can be patently offensive without ever uttering a single obscenity or racial slur, so it's all in the eye of the beholder anyway. Never been on a strictly moderated forum that was worth sticking around. Those are usually humorless, nancy-girl forums where nanny-statists reign supreme. I gotta be me, and not on someone else's terms. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 11:41 am

McDonalds - Random Topics
When they discontinued the Cherry Pies. Loved those real cherries! -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 11:36 am

Major League Baseball - Random Topics
Someone please explain to me why baseball expanded into Miami, Tampa, Colorado and Arizona instead of moving existing teams there, especially when this happened at a time when baseball owners were incessantly whining about the need for a salary cap to protect small market teams. They couldn't find four small market teams to move to these locations and cut their losses instead of creating four new franchises (Montreal, KC and Pittsburgh come to mind right off the bat - and two of those are 60s-ear expansion teams which shows MLB has always sucked at expanding)? You don't expand when you're poor. You expand when you're rich. It's one reason I never backed the owners during the '94-'95 work stoppage. That and the scabs. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 11:32 am

MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) - Random Topics
Thank God we live in a country so paranoid over drunk driving that schmucks like this can create public policy that affects us all. Next time you're stuck in traffic for an hour and find a cop checkpoint at the front of it, thank MADD. They didn't single handedly turn the USA into a "once great nation / now police state", but they sure helped. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 11:26 am

Macarena, The - Random Topics
The Yankees actually did a "Macarena Night" at the stadium in 1996. They also briefly replaced "YMCA" as their 7th inning stretch grounds crew dance song with "The Macarena", and immediately embarked on a lengthy losing streak. Rumor has it George Steinbrenner himself, who was notoriously superstitious, ordered the song changed back. This song always bit the wire, but when a song makes your favorite team suck, it has truly BTF. What gets me is, why "Macarena Night"? Is this a common thing to do for one-hit wonders? Maybe we can have "Kung Fu Fighting Night" or "I Eat Cannibals Night"? Makes me wonder why George Costanza got so much ridicule for proposing "Jon Voigt Day" at the stadium on Seinfeld. At least ol' Jon had more than one "hit." -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 11:23 am

Little Drummer Boy - Random Topics
Never liked this song. The Christmas special was passable when I was a kid, but doesn't get repeated much, probably because it had no staying power, and I'd probably see that now if it was rerun. However, the all time low point that made this song BTF for me is seeing / hearing that lamely done Bing Crosby / David Bowie duet from the late 1970s. Gag me with a friggin' chain saw on that one! Bing sounds like Don Imus is trying to sing it. Bowie does a decent job, but it's still lipstick on a pig. However, I did also consider voting that it "boned back" when a guitar distortion riff in The Chambers Brothers' song "Time Has Come Today" (LP version) sampled it. Few people notice that, and it's kinda cool, but it long pre-dates, and is well offset, by the Crosby / Bowie atrocity. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 11:14 am

Lifetime Movie Network (LMN) - Random Topics
I know Seth McFarlane isn't the most popular guy here, but his assessment of Lifetime was spot-on......"Television for Idiots". -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 11:04 am

Jar Jar Binks - Random Topics
Why yousa no likey Jar Jar? -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 10:46 am

IT Department At Any Company, The - Random Topics
I think IT departments would make great Born Again Christians. They seem to know what's best for us better than we do. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 10:41 am

Islam - Random Topics
I think it boned when people who tasted actual freedom and should have known better began converting to this idiocy. Examples of this are musician Cat Stevens, and that idiot former club girl who married El-Sayid Nosair. Converting to Islam is an automatic bone. A woman who does it double-bones with no chance of boning back ('cause if she ever does they'll stone her to death....hence why she's an idiot for sigining up in the first place). I will say that I'm not a fan of any religion, but I'm especially not a fan of this one, and double especially not a fan of anyone dumb enough to convert to it. Just volunteer for slavery while you're at it, because there's little difference in terms of subserviance. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 10:40 am

Internet, The - Random Topics
I think it boned when sites and companies began charging for content that had been free. We have seen this happen with MLB radio broadcasts and many news publications. It's almost impossible to find an old news story on the internet anymore without being asked to pay for it. Why should I pay for news that's 30 years old? Classmates is another example of a site that overplayed their hand with this. Even reverse phonebooks charge money to find out who's calling you now. In short, when it changed from an information superhighway to an information toll road, it boned. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 10:34 am

Insanity pleas - Random Topics
It boned when rising baseball star Lyman Bostock was assassinated by a jealous lowlife named Leonard Smith in 1978 or 1979. Smith was found not guilty by reason of insanity, did a few months in a mental hospital and lived free for the rest of his life. May still be. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 10:29 am

Independence Day (USA) - Random Topics
Boned when states (like NY, where I live) started banning fireworks because certain morons can't, or won't, learn how to use them responsibly. Then you have c-words like Mayor Bloomberg (remind me to put him up as a random topic if he's not there already, because I want to vote "sucked from the start"), using such laws as an excuse to take people's cars who try to bring them in from Pa. So it's a few extra dollars for me to rent a car once a year. BFD. Stick your fireworks ban / car thefts BloomTURD. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 10:25 am

Hotels - Random Topics
Some people will not like this, but I think hotels in general boned when the more reasonably priced ones got taken over by foreign (and by "foreign" I mean literally off the boat yesterday) ownership who seem to have no standards regarding cleanliness, maintenance, and what qualfies as a "comfortable" bed. I try to always book in advance online, and read the reviews thoroughly, but even then I find it's hit or miss. -- Submitted By: (ParkerTillman) on August 27, 2012, 10:18 am