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Superbowl XXXVII
So, if you're a good, patriotic American, you're certainly watching the Superbowl right about now. The dot-com ads should be pretty much absent this year, but perhaps there will be something more interesting than ads for recycled movies. Maybe even the game will be worth watching. :) Update: 01/27 17:02 GMT by T : Chardish writes "If you didn't catch the trailer for The Matrix: Reloaded on the Superbowl last night, it's now available for download."
Cos I hate football! (thus I'm not busy watching the game)
Since there's nothing much to discuss right now, who wants to be the first to place a bet?
"So, if you're a good, patriotic American, you're certainly watching the Superbowl right about now."
Thank God, I'm not an American. I don't know anyone willing to sit through 4 hours of "Pre-Game", 3 hours of the game, then another 2 hours of "Post-Game Wrap-up".
Is all that really necessary?
Putting the romance back into necromancer.
If you're watching super bowl alone, you're watching super bowl with Hitler! Or Saddam. Or bin Laden! Or perhaps Saddam again. :-)
What are you, a terrorist?
...according to Pacino:
Super Bowl! Superior Bowl! Suuuuuperfluous Bowl! Whoo-Hah!
Remember kids, Osama Bi^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSaddam Hussein doesn't watch the superbowl.
Unless you want to be like Osa^H^H^HSaddam, you better watch the Superbowl. Especially the ads, since otherwise you're stealing.
I am waiting to see Agent Smith and Neo break out into a twenty-five-on-one, Shaolin-style gang fight.
The what? (you insensitive clod)
Washington, DC: It's like Hollywood for ugly people.
You're right; football-watching isn't particularly patriotic. On the other hand, insulting anyone who likes soccer (ie. the rest of the world)is.
"Oh no... he found the
Right now I think it's a tie between FedEx and the matrix trailer, but who knows what will happen. It's wide open.
And why oh why can't they just get John Madden stuffed. No one wants to hear what he has to sais. It's his face and his fat ass that he gets paid for.
I do security
Good point!
As we all know from various movies and television shows (Revenge of the Nerds?), geeks don't like sportts.
Its a natural extension of our general hatred of the Jocks...
Lets go back to building our robots and reading about math.
Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
I never watch it. I did tune in for that XXX rated one they advertised about seven years ago, but I didn't find anything even mildly erotic about it.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
american culture?
nice oxymoron.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
Thats awesome! I too find the mating habits of drosophila melaogaster (the fruit fly) to be awfully intriguing. I first observed their mating ritual while trying to confirm the results of T.H. Morgan during a routine test cross.....
Opinionated Law Student Strikes Again!
I agree. The Superbowl is the most overhyped football game of the year and is completely boring (IMHO) unless your home team is one of the teams playing. Personally I'm waiting for the war in Iraq to begin so I can cheer on the home team (Americans) in their fight for freedom of the Iraqi people. Goooooo Yankees! I remember watching the Gulf War as a young teenager and it was the best time. I never watched CNN that much in all my life before then and only September 11th had me watching it like that again. Wars are excellent to stimulate the patriotism of a nation. It's like a national football game.
I didn't see the U.N. pass a resolution, and I didn't hear an "Axis of Evil" tag attached to it.
In this post-columbine, post-9/11 time, we must think of the children!
If you don't watch the superbowl, you're supporting terrorism!
You know you want to watch, because it's what jesus would do...
Did i forget any?
I am hosting a small Superbowl gathering at my residence. However, I have come upon a true crisis:
We've run out of Nacho Cheese Dip.
Now, let me explain the situation a little further. I am posting from my kitchen, and outside are two pregnant ladies, three 250+ pound men, and an eight year old child, with his paintball gun that his oh-so-intelligent father was so quick to buy him.
If I don't come back with something, there will be a "conflict". And by "conflict" I mean it in the same way the Israeli-Palestinian situation is a "conflict".
This is where you come in: Send Nacho Cheese.
My girlfriend and I are armed only with a few cans of Keystone Light. Please. We don't want to die.
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
That's Al Michaels.
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
Well done, you've picked two sports more boring than american football.
Hail to the king, baby!
You've been here since Slashdot really was NFN, STM, and yet you're just now figuring out that Michael's an idiot?
How about deselecting his name under "Exclude stories from the Homepage" (Preferences -> Homepage) and saving yourself the grief?
To within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury. -- Tom Duff
2 hours of "Making of Lord of the Rings", then 3 hours "Lord of the Rings" followed by an hour of "Behind the Scenes of LOTR" on cable.
I just spent two valuable minutes looking for this on TV, you insensitive clod!
The best I could find was FOTR on Starz.
Dammit.
Is it just me or does Shania Twain look like she's wearing a Star Wars costume? Is she Darth Slut?
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Yeah,I pretty much agree,who wants to see grown men,hump over smell each others ass,then get up and fight like hell?
No, it's not unpatriotic to skip on the Super Bowl, but it should be if you don't grasp hyperbole.
Get a life.
This was a plot by /. editors to see who the big losers are that are on their nerdy computers rather than getting drunk, eating nacho cheese and hanging with girls
Ha ha! You all failed by posting and reading comments here! Ha Ha.. err.. ha.. err... *cough* err..
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Sittin' back, cleaning my new assault rifle, havin' a couple of beers and keeping and eye on the game.
Now, what's more American than that? I got a gun, my beer, and a football game.
Terry Tate: Office Linebacker
Classic. Worth watching the whole game just for that commercial.
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I want a function to skip the football game so I can watch the commercials.
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Keanu Reeves: I know Kung Fu.
Alex Trebek: For the last time, no you don't.
And finally, Hilary Swank in a commanding lead with zero.
Connery, Reeves, Swank
Alex Trebek: Welcome back to Celebrity Jeopardy. I thought we were done with this, but Regis Philbin, that mongrel idiot, decided to do a Celebrity Millionaire, and network competition being what it is, I stand before you, a broken and miserable man. Let's take a look at the scores. Sean Connery has set a new Jeopardy record for futility with...
Sean Connery: Suck on it Trebek. Suck it long, and suck it hard.
Alex Trebek: That's beautiful. You kiss your mother with that mouth.
Sean Connery: No, but I did something to your mother with this mouth! [ points to mouth ]
Alex Trebek: Why? Keanu Reeves has an impressive -$32,000.
Keanu Reeves: I know Kung Fu.
Alex Trebek: For the last time, no you don't. And finally, Hilary Swank in a commanding lead with zero.
Hilary Swank: Did I win? Because there's some people I need to thank.
Alex Trebek: Let's just take a look at the board. And the categories are: "Potent Potables"; "Foreign Flicks"; "Things Trebek Sucks"-wait! [ Connery is laughing. ] All right. [ Trebek walks over and takes down the hand-written "Things Trebek Sucks" sign. ] Let's continue..."Potpourri"; "Hot or Cold"; "What Ears Do"; "Is This A Hat"-that's where I name and object, and you tell whether or not it's a hat. And finally, "Colors That End In Urple". Hilary Swank, you're in the lead, so we'll start with you.
Hilary Swank: I'm a girl you know.
Alex Trebek: [ shakes head ] Let's just go with Foreign Flicks for $800. [ Connery buzzes in. ]
Sean Connery: Ursula Andress.
Alex Trebek: What?
Sean Connery: Ursula Andress, Catherine Deneuve, and Charo, twice.
Alex Trebek: That's Foreign Flicks, Mr. Connery. Foreign Flicks. Mr. Reeves, why don't you pick?
Keanu Reeves: I shall take Balloons for $800, if you please.
Alex Trebek: That's not a category.
Keanu Reeves: My mistake. I shall choose Balloons for $600.
Alex Trebek: I tell you what, let's do Colors That End in Urple. For $800. This color ends in "urple". [ Swank buzzes in. ] Hilary Swank.
Hilary Swank: What is light urple?
Alex Trebek: [ shakes head ] Wow. [ Reeves buzzes in. ] Keanu Reeves.
Keanu Reeves: I will venture a guess. Who is Jaleel White?
Alex Trebek: What?
Keanu Reeves: Is that not the gentlemen who played Urple, the humorous fellow with the glasses who loves cheese?
Alex Trebek: That's Urkel! [ Connery buzzes in. ] Oh good, Mr. Connery wants to say something.
Sean Connery: I thought of some more foreign ladies I snogged.
Alex Trebek: Let's just go to Hot or Cold for $400. And it's a Video Daily Double. Here goes nothing. Please take a look at your video monitors. [ screen shows Ricky Martin and two dancers. They start dancing. ]
Ricky Martin: It's me! Come on, Ricky Martin! Come on! [ music starts ] Oh my! In this cup there's some hot tea! It's hot hot hot! Watch! [ takes a sip ] Yow! Hot hot hot! So the answer is: Hot hot hot! or cold. Hot hot hot! or cold. Come on! Hot hot hot! [ video fades ] [ no one buzzes in. ]
Alex Trebek: None of you knows. No one can figure out if the hot tea is hot or cold. [ Reeves buzzes in. ] Thank God! Keanu Reeves.
Keanu Reeves: Is it iced tea?
Alex Trebek: [ agitated ] No! It's hot tea!
Keanu Reeves: Well, then I have no idea.
Alex Trebek: Let's just go to Final Jeopardy. The category is...oh come on, why would they do this? The category is Famous Mothers.
Sean Connery: [ laughs ] My day has come! [ keeps laughing ]
Alex Trebek: [ rips card ] I'm not going to give you the satisfaction. [ Connery stops laughing. ] The new category is Anything. Write anything. [ music starts ] Just write. Use your arm, hand, and special pen, and move the pen around. Scribble if you want to, just make some kind of mark. [ music stops ] OK, let's get this over with. Sean Connery, you wrote down: Below. I don't know why you wrote that, but technically that's a correct answer. You did write something. Let's see what you wagered: Me. Below Me. [ Connery laughs ] Below Me...I don't get it.
Sean Connery: Oh, I'll bet you do, you Canadian ponch. [ slaps Trebek on the head. ]
Alex Trebek: Proud day for you and your family. Keanu Reeves, you look rather pleased. Let's see what you wrote down: [ a blank screen is revealed ] Nothing. The question was write anything, and you got it wrong. I'm speechless. Let's see what you wagered: Eleventy billion dollars. That's not even a real number.
Keanu Reeves: Yet.
Alex Trebek: That's simply amazing. And finally, Hilary Swank.
Hilary Swank: Thanks Alex. I'm so honored to have been here today, there's so many people I have to thank. [ camera shows a sobbing Chad Lowe in the audience. ] I couldn't have done it without Alex Trebek, the incredible cast and crew of Jeopardy, my publicist who is a beautiful human being...that's it.
Alex Trebek: Touching. That's all for Jeopardy; Regis, you can have them. Good night. [ Connery pushes Trebek as he walks by. ]
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Hemos is like...sci-fi fans;he thinks technology is cool, but he hasn't bothered to understand the science it's based on
I downloaded this off kazaa like 2 weeks ago, duh.
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Not all who wander, are lost.
not giggling like a retard if a female looks in my direction
So what? you have a problem with gays now? Friggin biggot.
The Superbowl is wierd. Celine Dion sang "God Bless America", and she's Canadian. If an American started singing "God Save The Queen" he'd probably be shot and then called a terrorist.
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there's a "rest of the world" now?
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What's so great about a game with only one ball and no flying?
Seeing how the average nerd is treated in the corporate world it is probably good to occasionally provide talking points for them to use in the office. This may avoid them getting beaten up at the water cooler and having their lunch money stolen. :-D
To this point I offer the following.
Sports survival phrases for the average nerd:
1) So, did you see the game last night? (This one is almost always safe there is usually at least some game playing. Change to "last weekend" and you're doubly covered.)
2) Man, I can't believe how bad the ref blew that call. (Again, safe. Just let them start talking about "the call" and nod and look wise.)
And if all else fails...
3) I just watch to see the cheerleaders.
--- I wish I could hear the soundtrack to my life. That way I'd know when to duck.
You were watching her mouth?