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Humbled Fan has requested a forum to talk about the end of Michael Scott's management of The Office. How about some links-- Michael meets David Brent A Michael vs David quizaroo A nice summation of...

When not watching scintillating baseball as played by the Hometown 9, doing all the usual daily stuff, and hoping that Spring will finally arrive, of late I have been filling my hours with the...

  A few things to tide us over until a real OT is fashioned. Rather cool story behind Ken Rosenthal's continued wearing of the bow tie, on-air. (I wonder where that blue silk one I used to have is...

So the February Snowpocalypse is upon us, and hence, what traditionally follows --- Danger Jim Foreman in a yellow parka and everyone checking the various news sites and weather forecasts. Is there...

As Kirby Arnold put it this morning, in an early-bird blog post: "Good morning from Peoria, Ariz., where the sun is rising into a cloudless sky and most of the action on the first day of the M...

So, they say that one of the 14 St Valentines was the first St. Valentine. And then there is all sorts of stuff about the Romans and Lupercalia and mid-February. Paper valentines began to be...

Wow, Almost 1300 comments ... so, here is another one to start filling up. FAN FEST! FAN FEST!  what to do, what to do... Swing Ichiro's bat, try on Chone Figgins' batting glove or hit a simulated...

Time for a new OT, and look!  Pictures from the awarding of the Cy Youngs, tonight in New York!   Felix and Roy with Bob Engle  and Felix' award, courtesy of @TheRealMariners   what else about...

It is Wednesday, in the middle of a topsy-turvy* week, and I am finding it hard to get my mind to work in a linear fashion. Some might say that is not an unusual occurrence, but be that as it may. H...

  Things I would like to see. A complete lunar eclipse ("which begins at 9:29 p.m. PST Monday with the peak of the eclipse set for 12:18 a.m. Tuesday morning. It'll be all over at 3:04 a.m.") ...

oh, how I wish that SCTV's "coming up later tonight" ad for their tv-movie Mr. Know-It-All: The Life of Nostradamus was available online (“I knew it! I knew that was going to happen!”)  H...

December 6th. Not the anniversary of an unprovoked attack on the United States. Not the birthday of chatty Terrell Owens, author of other kinds of unprovoked things. some different chatty...

  Looking for something else to discuss while the clock ticks down to 11:00 Pacific?   Well, as Larry Stone reminds us, November 18th is also the birthday of one Jaime Moyer: @StoneLarry  ...

You know, the world was a different place around the year 1240 ... A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva, and heads off to take on the Teutonic...

Jeff's post about Ichiro's birthday made me think-- what do you get a suave worldly fellow, who already pretty much has everything? (except a tasteful World Series ring of his own) .  Any shopping...

Very superstitious, writing's on the wall, Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall,   So, superstitions? sports or otherwise?   I turned on the tv, and as soon as I did, Jake Locker had the...

  Link-heavy as usual. Turns out that the AdFreak blog (who brought us the 25 most epic ads time-waster)  has other entertaining blog entries .. on  Focus groups, on the Utah State Fair vs Jared...

This OT features the Top 100 movie quotes according to the American Film Institute... "A statement, phrase or brief exchange of dialogue spoken in an American film; movie quotes that viewers use in...

I have no good questions to kick this off, so instead ...   100 Best First Lines from Novels   1. Call me Ishmael. —Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (1851) 2. It is a truth universally ...

It is still just Sunday afternoon, but the old OT is getting pretty full, so here is a new one to get the new week off and running.   When you see Pat O'Day, do you think "keep on rockin' dude",...

Amazingly, it turns out there are many guides to perfect eyebrows. The 'use our pencil and all will be well" method The "drawing eyebrows in a drawing" method The eyebrow tattoo The eyebrow dormer T...

I have a gifting question. I need to come up with a token gift (possibly jokey) for two young ladies soon to be moving into their first dorm rooms. They can't be big as they have to transport it &...

Any one else planning on going to the Dave Sims' Hat Night?     Dave Sims Hat Club Night White Sox vs. Mariners Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 7:10 p.m. Here's your chance to join Mariners...

  When is some columnist on a slow news day going to write humorous new lyrics to "Old Man River" in his honor? Is he really akin to Eppa Rixey?Can he get to  300 wins? (oh, and Incidental...

said Buster Olney this morning on the radio, about Frank Robinson being named to head the MLB umpires:   "Major League Baseball shuffled its Baseball Operations Department on Friday. And when the...

  Jack Zduriencik went to the News Tribune offices to speak the Associated Press Sports Editors Northwest chapter meeting yesterday. Larry Stone and Ryan Divish both have articles up about it,...

  The relative cheapness of the DVD has brought us many fine timewasters over the last few years, including the chance to (re)watch some of the more eccentric tv efforts of the last 40 years. For...

We have Felix ("Felix (Latin for "happy" or "lucky"))   And in ChiTown, they have Carlos Silva ("Carlos Silva added six crisp innings to his surprising comeback')   Of course, on the other hand,...