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Before I die I would like to see Ron Swanson, Bud Foster, and Sam Rogers sitting in a room with multiple bearskin rugs sitting on leather couches drinking bourbon and eating turkey legs. It'd be the United Nations of Manliness
Awesome place to live my Hokie friend, my wife and I were there for 2 and a half great years at Barking Sands. We survived Hurricane Iniki and then got to help the island rebuild. 6 months without electricity, and the folks on the island really pulled together to get everything up and running again. Kalaheo Steak House was our favorite restaurant back then and I see that it is called Kalaheo Steak and Ribs nowadays. We miss everything about Kauai and would love to visit again. Hope you are enjoying your time there, and watch out for those north shore reefs, my son got a serious cut on the heel up there. Have a Lappert's waffle cone and some chocolate macadamias on me. Shaka Brah!
I'd say that the Florida defense and the VT defenses are very close but Florida will start giving up some yardage against the better sec teams. Our numbers should get better and better with duke, bc, and LOLUVA.
Wonder if his foot will hold up during the game..he will likely be moving around allot.
You're probably right. 3000 may be a huge underestimate. One wonders how Mama Fuller handled 4 Fullers on her own. Probably the greatest woman, ever. At least right up there with Joan of Arc, Madame Curie, Rosa Parks, Eva Peron, Florence Nightingale, and Queen Victoria.
I cannot begin to describe the amusement of reading a 45 post message board that is an intricate discussion of message board etiquette, balancing up votes and down votes and numerous uses of the word refuge. I think...I'm tickled, that's the best way to describe my frame of mind right now.
I wholeheartedly agree. I disliked the BCS, because having only two teams play for a championship is absurd, but I think it rarely did a bad job actually picking the two teams. Besides, having some standard ranking formula, even if it includes polls sets the rules for how to get in before the season. Now the rules, such as they are, will be subject to the whims of committee members
3) A LOT of fertile women willing to be surrogates for the Fullers - when this was done in mouse, after optimization, they had a success rate of 3.5% of mice being born from this method. Considering humans will probably be 100 times harder, I will need approximately 3,000 surrogates to get 1 Fuller
The underlying assumption here is that the womb of the average woman is capable of harboring a Fuller fetus. No small task, I would imagine. To properly create these superchildren, you'd probably need to up the estimate to 10,000 women per Fuller, if not more.
+1 for geeking me out. I don't get anywhere near iPS research, but with my biochem background, I always find it cool.
You know, I actually do research using induced pluripotent stem cells. So, as soon as I can get a skin biopsy of each fuller, I can actually make their stem cells. The problem is after that...
Besides the ethical violations which we won't consider, I will need the following:
1) money to do the project
2) Egg donors, which will have to be fertilized in vitro
3) A LOT of fertile women willing to be surrogates for the Fullers - when this was done in mouse, after optimization, they had a success rate of 3.5% of mice being born from this method. Considering humans will probably be 100 times harder, I will need approximately 3,000 surrogates to get 1 Fuller.
Let's get this going. Any volunteers?
If you're a dork like me, and actually want to read about how to make a living mammal out of skin cells from another living mammal, here's the news story from 2009:
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090723/full/460560a.html
I highly doubt that. The computer rankings are nearly worthless in the final BCS rankings unless the #2 and #3 are opposing in the polls. The committee probably wont even look at teams not in the top 5 or at most top 6 in the Coach's or AP polls.
UCLA - Going back to my old methodology for picking, they have way more attractive women. Covering the points and winning.
Florida State - Much like UCLA, lots of attractive women, will not cover the spread but will win
Miami - has seen how to stop GT, but does not have the athletes to do so. They will however score way more than we did, so Miami will cover and win
Ole Miss - Despite having their a-'s handed to em they're still better than Auburn. Ole Miss for the cover and win.
Ohio State - will cover and win... in spite of me and how much I don't like their pretentious "the"
Stanford - someone else said it, but they plan man football and will thus win and cover
*Edit* My drink will be water because I am week 2 into a whole 30
Ha! I was worried about that. Didn't look at the schedule and forgot to do this earlier... Glad I at least picked correctly, but I know I don't get credit, no drama.
I completely agree.
I cant wait for the s*** storm that follows a selection by the committee that would have been around 9 or 10 in the final BCS standings (if it still existed) as the the #4 team.
It will most likely be a historically powerful school with two losses - ie: Ohio St, or a 3rd place SEC team.
"Knife" Fuller??
I really got nothin
I saw what you did there.
This!
That's about as clever as I can get! Been here almost 2 years on the island of Kauai, The Garden Island! Being a Richmond guy never learned how to surf but have my first lesson scheduled for next week! Go Hokies!
this is awesome and exactly how I feel, we've gotta come out strong and intense and punch them in the mouth all effin game
Let's keep in mind that Andrew Luck redshirted at Stanford behind Tavita Pritchard who, you may notice, is not currently on any active NFL rosters (unless I really missed something). Even assuming Ford has clearly superior talent, you can't dismiss the value of college experience at the QB position.
So who picks the committee?
That's what the 6 at-large are for to be selected by committee.
Boo. So winning your conference is all that matters? Why even play OOC?
Archie Manning's name is popping up as possibly being on the committee as well.
More importantly, it would be insanely profitable, but try telling that to the NCAA, those brilliant guys who outsource the most profitable sports events in America. Massive mountains of money made in totally sold out home games in our massive campus stadiums filled with hyper-enthusiastic fans? No thanks, let's give it all to the fat cats at the bowl committees so that they can make us pay even more in guaranteed ticket sales at half-filled bowl games in ludicrous locations where almost all of our students and fans cannot attend. Sheer Brilliance!!!