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Getting closer and closer

I eat sentimentality for breakfast, but stats stop me dead in my tracks

by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Aug 23, 2011 7:59 AM EDT reply actions  

Almost hockey season. It needs to hurry up and get here already

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by Cillo stache on Aug 23, 2011 8:48 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Personal interest in the Devils/Music/Copyright article. Art V. commercial application always fascinates me, as does copyright law. It will be interesting to see if they took the video on official channels outside of the arena. Also the wording was a little off I felt in some response, left a bit up to interpretation. Specifically if music incorporated into a multimedia presentation would need a synch license, as opposed to a silent video montage displayed while piping music separately through the sound system.

My son was born in Ottawa (Go Senators!) to a Father (Go Flyers!) and a Mother (Go Canucks!) who's families root for two different hockey teams (Go Habs!)(Go Bruins!) Little Maxwell is going to have such a confusing life.

by 02h32m01s on Aug 23, 2011 8:58 AM EDT reply actions  

seems to me like they were stoked and then a lawyer got ahold of them or a friend told them to sue them. IF the video was used on the website, then they’ll win the case, not for $10 or $30m however. They’ll get damages and a payment for royalties they didn’t receive. Either way I’d go out on a limb and say this band was never going anywhere and this was their only shot at fame. Embarrassing honestly.

A band doesn’t lose sales by getting promotion, so they won’t be able to argue that at all.
And honestly it’s their own fault for going with ASCAP who does the blanket licensing which reduces the amount the band get’s paid for the songs. Idiots.

http://restorations.bandcamp.com/

by Val_d'Or on Aug 23, 2011 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions  

Bryzgalov's New Mask


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by Mitchell Green on Aug 23, 2011 9:08 AM EDT reply actions  

see, that is what I’m talking about.

definitely taking off about 5 million for the historical mask. Next iteration will be Washington crossing the Delaware, calling it

I eat sentimentality for breakfast, but stats stop me dead in my tracks

by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Aug 23, 2011 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions  

Amen

Ed Snider is a crotchety old fuck.

That is all.

by EREX21 on Aug 23, 2011 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions  

Looks great

I would like to see NHL 12 actually put this helmet design into the game, instead of seeing the generic Flyers mask that has been in the game for Flyers’ goalies the past few years.

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by jbernat17 on Aug 23, 2011 10:01 PM EDT up reply actions  

Much better

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by hintzy64 on Aug 24, 2011 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

Credit for that photo goes to Amanda Buonvino. Good scoop by her in getting the photo. And no kidding about Bryz being a history buff…

I don’t think I need to even see the rest, this is great.

by tinmansstory on Aug 23, 2011 9:12 AM EDT reply actions  

Have to agree, I think I like it.

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by Mike B on D on Aug 23, 2011 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions  

I like it so far, but maybe I’m biased because I’m a history buff. At least the constitution is less overdone than the liberty bell, although I do think that’s Independence Hall on the left side.

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by DragonGirl0583 on Aug 23, 2011 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

I suspect the art museum (withy the rocky statue included) is on the right

by Prometheus74 on Aug 23, 2011 3:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

I think it’s pretty freaking sweet.

What kind of plane is it? Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big ol' Tylenol.

by doubleh on Aug 23, 2011 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’m not nervous if Jagr will fit on the team but rather what he has left in the tank.

This is my synopsis of the upcoming season for Jagr. Plays between 25 to 35 games, suffers at least two nagging injuries related to game shape and age and then the season ends with him in Czech Republic sitting on unanswered questions and conflict.

Arguing last week about Lilja will become a non-issue compared to giving a guy 3 million for what I believe was a career that ended 5 years ago.

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by MJDII on Aug 23, 2011 9:55 AM EDT reply actions  

Jagr has played more than 60 professional hockey games in a season for 23 consecutive years.

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by Ubiquitous on Aug 23, 2011 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions  

this is the equivalent of UB breaking out the truth whooping stick

I eat sentimentality for breakfast, but stats stop me dead in my tracks

by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Aug 23, 2011 10:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

I’d be more worried about Jagr getting the Zherdev treatment, because i can say with near certainty that it would end very badly.

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by Ubiquitous on Aug 23, 2011 10:41 AM EDT up reply actions  

don’t tease me with a head coach firing. It’s not fair

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Aug 23, 2011 10:56 AM EDT up reply actions  

If anyone on the team can get Lavy fired, its Jagr.

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by Ubiquitous on Aug 23, 2011 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions  

Come on Man! He hasn’t put 60 meaningful games together against NHL talent since 05. It ends badly. This is just my opinion.

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by MJDII on Aug 23, 2011 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Jagr played 82 regular season games and 10 postseason games for the New York Rangers in 2007-08.

Where are you getting your numbers from?

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by Snevik on Aug 23, 2011 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

Paul Holmgren?

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by Chemistry66 on Aug 23, 2011 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

Do games for the Rangers really count as meaningful?

by Eric T. on Aug 23, 2011 4:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

BINGO!

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by MJDII on Aug 23, 2011 9:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

Not talking about stats. Listen you can believe whatever you want but I stand on my prediction of how the season will go down.

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by MJDII on Aug 23, 2011 9:10 PM EDT up reply actions  

He hasn’t put 60 meaningful games together against NHL talent since 05

I think he meant these numbers.

If the FO’s logic is as bad as implied in the PuckUpdates article, then there really is no hope. However I sincerely doubt that Homer et al chased Jagr purely to piss the Pens off and reduce the Richards/Carter talk.

Mourning Gagne forever.

by ToddtheFox on Aug 23, 2011 9:16 PM EDT up reply actions  

I have no idea what this means.

You said he hasn’t played 60 meaningful NHL games since 05. He played 92 NHL games in 07-08, and somewhere stats were introduced?

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by Geoff Detweiler on Aug 24, 2011 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions  

Fight School

two things-

1. for the older set- I don’t ever remember broadcast’s cutting to commercials during telecast’s until Buttman took over, am I remembering this wrong or do you remember the broadcast’s cutting out? I actually remember getting mad that anytime a fight was about to start they’d go to commercial then you had to find out about it a minute later.

2. that the Montessori/Whole Foods set would sooner let their children watch Glenn Beck before teaching them these values- that’s rude. As a member of the Whole Foods set, and a liberal I’m offended. Also though I may be the only liberal in the world in favor of the death penalty.

3. Beman’s company, One Punch Sports Management, is registered with the PHPA, an agency that represents the professional players in the AHL, CHL, and ECHL. The listed business e-mail address has a hotmail.com suffix. — What in the crap does the email business suffix have to do with ANYTHING at all here?

I think the camp is a good idea but should be more focused on protecting yourself on the actual ice.

http://restorations.bandcamp.com/

by Val_d'Or on Aug 23, 2011 11:18 AM EDT reply actions  

or 3 things

http://restorations.bandcamp.com/

by Val_d'Or on Aug 23, 2011 11:18 AM EDT up reply actions  

On number one, that’s just Versus (or apparently Comcast) being a tad overzealous. I watch a lot of different feeds and, for at least a few of them, they’ve demonstrated the ability to cut off the commercials if something interesting happens.

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by Ubiquitous on Aug 23, 2011 11:43 AM EDT up reply actions  

Dmitri at Puck Daddy

Got an interview with Bob.

My favorite part:

This year you started training later than usual. Why?
I went to the gym in Greece, I kept myself in shape. In Novokuznetsk we played soccer…
Were you in goal?
No, I was running on the field scoring goals. When I arrived in Austria, I didn’t start working out from ‘zero.’ But you are right, now I am now in a hurry to get on the ice. Last season I started getting ready for the rookie camp that was held in July. I skated all summer. Right now one month of ice will be enough. I am going to Philadelphia on the 25th of August, and I will start skating there. I am going to the States with my mom. Olga will come over a little bit later, when she gets her visa. Now I am going to the US in a different mood. A rented apartment is waiting there for me. I have an idea about life in America. And I even know English more or less. I tried it out in Austria. I understood almost everything, and I can explain myself. Although I am not ready yet to give wide-ranging interviews.
[Note: I had to eliminate the paragraph breaks in his answer, because I can’t figure out block quote]

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by Snevik on Aug 23, 2011 11:32 AM EDT reply actions  

The trick with block quoting is that it’s set up to quote one defined paragraph, which is defined with “< p >” tags, and if you want to quote multiple paragraphs in one box, you have to fool it into thinking it’s all one paragraph. The easiest way to do that is to remove the existing paragraph breaks from the quote, like you did, and replace them with normal line break tags, ie “< br/ >” (without all those spaces). It’s annoying to have to do that manually, but I think it’s the most efficient way.

So to get

This year you started training later than usual. Why?

I went to the gym in Greece, I kept myself in shape. In Novokuznetsk we played soccer…
You’d remove the original paragraph breaks and do:

This year you started training later than usual. Why?<br/><br/>I went to the gym in Greece...


Did that explanation make any sense?

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by DragonGirl0583 on Aug 23, 2011 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yes, that makes sense, but I’ve never found it to be necessary. I just hit the enter key and it works fine for me.

This year you started training later than usual. Why?[enter][enter]I went to the gym in Greece...

This year you started training later than usual. Why?

I went to the gym in Greece…

by Eric T. on Aug 23, 2011 12:46 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ah, so the problem was the cut and paste. I could go back and put those in manually.

Thanks you two.

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by Snevik on Aug 23, 2011 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’ve found that sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn’t. It depends on the type of tags the site you copied from is using, whereas the other method works every single time. You can always try the [enter][enter] first and use preview, but there have been a lot of times for me personally that it hasn’t worked.

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by DragonGirl0583 on Aug 23, 2011 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions  

Given the excitement surrounding the Phillies and the Eagles and the complete blow-up of the Flyers over the off-season, I am having a harder time getting excited for this Flyers season than I have in seasons past. Am I the only one?

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by Justin F. on Aug 23, 2011 12:30 PM EDT reply actions  

On here? Maybe. I can’t wait for training camp and to see what the new guys can do, what the lines will be, etc.

by mantis toboggan on Aug 23, 2011 12:33 PM EDT up reply actions  

People say this every year, I feel.

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by Snevik on Aug 23, 2011 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

The Flyers season is also still a ways away.

A month ago, I bet you weren’t all that excited about the Eagles season either. By the opening puck drop, you’ll be into it.

by Eric T. on Aug 23, 2011 12:41 PM EDT up reply actions  

Not really. Don’t get me wrong I’m excited for the Phillies and I’m watching every game, but they aren’t mutually exclusive for me until there’s a time conflict. The Eagles don’t have much ability to distract me, and the Flyers off-season blow up is more like watching a train wreck and not being able to turn away… “will it all be okay?”

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by DragonGirl0583 on Aug 23, 2011 12:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’m really excited for the season. For the first time in a decade, it doesn’t look like we have to score 5-7 goals to win every night, and i am really excited to see if Schenn can make the step. I think Voracek is going to be the “holy shit” pick up this year, I really think he will be the goods….and we will all laugh as Leino flops in his bed stuffed with hundred $$$ bills. This Flyers squad appears to me to have a better work ethic already….but we shall see. I don’t regard the offseason as a trainwreck in any shape or form.

There is such a thing as “too much talent” on a team (I’ve been on two hockey teams myself, that had this very issue, albeit at a much lower level :)), and I think the Flyers were guilty of thinking they were “that good” last year. Boston, on the other hand, had no illusions, and they played their hearts out, unlike our sputtering Flyers, who just “expected” to have the engine start at some point.

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by dinkster on Aug 23, 2011 1:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

There is such a thing as "too much talent" on a team (I’ve been on two hockey teams myself, that had this very issue, albeit at a much lower level)

Professional hockey and amateur hockey are two different beasts.

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by Snevik on Aug 23, 2011 1:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

People are still people, no matter what.

Amateurs also stupidly care about the game they play. Professionals are sometimes wholly unburdened by such trivialities.

"Ocean: A body of water covering 2/3 of a world MADE for man....who has no gills."

by dinkster on Aug 24, 2011 1:12 AM EDT up reply actions  

Then the problem isn’t too much talent, it’s unprofessionalism.

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by Snevik on Aug 24, 2011 2:10 AM EDT up reply actions  

Rec’d

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by Justin F. on Aug 23, 2011 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions  

ditto. this is spot on.

http://restorations.bandcamp.com/

by Val_d'Or on Aug 23, 2011 6:54 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’ll be into them once the season starts, but I’m still unhappy about the offseason moves and hoping it all comes together minus a crapton of goals. Seeing Mike Richards in the LA sweater makes me want to hurt someone in the most violent manner possible.

What kind of plane is it? Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big ol' Tylenol.

by doubleh on Aug 23, 2011 1:06 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yes.

Voracek and Schenn and Simmonds may turn out awesome, but Richards and Carter tearing it up in different uniforms while idiots continue to lambaste their “attitude,” “lack of Heart,” etc. is going to eat at me.

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by Justin F. on Aug 23, 2011 3:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yes, entirely this. I am sick to death of the “addition by subtraction, lockerroom cancer” bullshit. It reeks of desperation on the part of the fans and analysts. It’s like Bobby Abreu all over again.

What kind of plane is it? Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big ol' Tylenol.

by doubleh on Aug 23, 2011 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

It’s like Bobby Abreu all over again.

Painfully so.

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by Justin F. on Aug 23, 2011 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yes, and yes.

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by ww2b on Aug 23, 2011 9:32 PM EDT up reply actions  

Ugh, yes. The other day one of my coworkers (most of them are Caps fans) was talking to be about off-season moves for the Flyers and Caps and he said something to the effect of “yeah, after they let Richards and Carter go, I started hearing all this stuff in the media about them partying too much and being a locker room problem.” It set me off on a pretty long tirade. Fucking revisionist bullshit.

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by hintzy64 on Aug 24, 2011 3:52 PM EDT up reply actions  

God, I can’t wait for the puck to drop. Already planning the trip to Boston for October 6th….

"Ocean: A body of water covering 2/3 of a world MADE for man....who has no gills."

by dinkster on Aug 23, 2011 1:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

Not me, because the Flyers are the only local team I care about.

Although I am pulling for the Phillies so Pence and Roy O get rings.

by jello44 on Aug 23, 2011 1:22 PM EDT up reply actions  

I can easily say that this is the least excited I have been for the start of the Flyers season in awhile. That mostly has to do with the fact that I do not think that, as of right now, the Flyers are good enough to even challenge for the Stanley Cup, let alone win it. I just have this awful feeling in my stomach that this whole new “era” in Flyers hockey is going to be a disaster.

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by Mitchell Green on Aug 25, 2011 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions  

I was bored last night.

And so:

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by Chemistry66 on Aug 23, 2011 12:54 PM EDT reply actions  

Haha… Visiting Pens fans will love that one.

by 92-74-99-96 on Aug 23, 2011 9:40 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions  

Okay people, I think NJ just felt that 5.8 earthquake that happened in VA 5 minutes ago… did anybody else feel that?

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by DragonGirl0583 on Aug 23, 2011 1:56 PM EDT reply actions  

OMG, my house started rattling for a moment and I had no idea what was going on. Is THAT what it was?

What kind of plane is it? Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big ol' Tylenol.

by doubleh on Aug 23, 2011 1:57 PM EDT up reply actions  

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html

5.8, Richmond VA, 1:53 pm

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by DragonGirl0583 on Aug 23, 2011 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

My asshole tightened up. Too real for me

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Aug 23, 2011 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions  

I just thought there was someone walking around on my second floor. I grabbed a bat. Then I saw DG’s message.

What kind of plane is it? Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big ol' Tylenol.

by doubleh on Aug 23, 2011 2:12 PM EDT up reply actions  

Someone on Japers thought that Albert Haynesworth had just left the city.

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by Ubiquitous on Aug 23, 2011 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

I thought someone on the other side of the cubicle was just writing very roughly on their desk. Thought for a second or two, then threw on my shoes and got out of there. People were trying to take the elevator, I lol’d

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Aug 23, 2011 2:15 PM EDT up reply actions  

My apt is on the second (top) floor, but it’s a very sturdy brick building. I was surprised for the first like 2 seconds, trying to figure out what was happening… but I realized what it was after that and just kind of stayed still since I was in a safe spot. Then when it stopped I ran outside with the rest of my neighborhood to all confer that we felt it, and when I came inside i grabbed my computer and went right to the usgs site.

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by DragonGirl0583 on Aug 23, 2011 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions  

I logged on to a geographical progression of SBN hockey blogs to watch people report the quake that i already knew was coming.

I’m awesome.

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by Ubiquitous on Aug 23, 2011 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

Did you feel it where you are?

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by DragonGirl0583 on Aug 23, 2011 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’m in DC, so yes. Though apparently it went as far north as at least toronto and there was one in Colorado at about the same time (not at all uncommon for this to happen)

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by Ubiquitous on Aug 23, 2011 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

I know someone else who lives in upstate NY and she said she felt it.

What kind of plane is it? Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big ol' Tylenol.

by doubleh on Aug 23, 2011 2:24 PM EDT up reply actions  

I was outside when it hit and didn’t feel shit. i feel ripped off.

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by Val_d'Or on Aug 23, 2011 6:56 PM EDT up reply actions  

Haha, I was driving, had no clue, was minutes before I got to the office which my boss told me was shaking. Feel the same.

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by JerseyDriver on Aug 23, 2011 11:03 PM EDT up reply actions  

That’s great.

I was eating lunch outdoors and had no idea it was coming.

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by Justin F. on Aug 23, 2011 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions  

I know we felt it at my job when there was a 5 point something in Ottawa last year, so the fact that we felt this wouldn’t be a huge surprise

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by DragonGirl0583 on Aug 23, 2011 1:59 PM EDT up reply actions  

Holy shit, I felt that and thought either Earthquake or an impressive neighbor.

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by Geoff Detweiler on Aug 23, 2011 2:11 PM EDT up reply actions  

Yup, it definitely was an interesting sensation.

by jello44 on Aug 23, 2011 2:17 PM EDT up reply actions  

If you haven’t seen on twitter, it made it to NYC and Long Island as well.

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by George E. Ays on Aug 23, 2011 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions  

I was in a meeting in an interior room of the 4th floor of my office building down here in MD when it happened. No rattling or noise, there’s nothing in that room to rattle. But it felt like we were sitting on top of a building made of jello. Bizarre.

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by hintzy64 on Aug 24, 2011 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions  

Sara Baicker tweeted

“We might have just felt an earthquake here. I’m hearing big news that there may or may not be a couple of aftershocks. If they happen, they’ll occur in the immediate future”

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Aug 23, 2011 2:18 PM EDT up reply actions   2 recs

LOL. Rec’d.

Seriously, though, aftershock will be coming within the hour. Could be worse than original shock.

What kind of plane is it? Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big ol' Tylenol.

by doubleh on Aug 23, 2011 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions  

I’ve got my Sketchers business class on. Think PF Flyers, but for big boys

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by CoburnsCuddleBuddy on Aug 23, 2011 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions  

Another
i was stirring sauce watching our FLA room shake as the quake struck. i thought it was a powerful wind gust as roof was shaking …

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by Geoff Detweiler on Aug 23, 2011 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions  

Wow, from real Panotch:
Obama was playing golf. wonder if he had a bogie when the quake struck?

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by Chemistry66 on Aug 23, 2011 2:34 PM EDT up reply actions  

What a douche.

What kind of plane is it? Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big ol' Tylenol.

by doubleh on Aug 23, 2011 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

It’s Panotch. Douche-tastic-ness is to be expected.

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by Chemistry66 on Aug 23, 2011 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions  

Its a good thing all the politicians are on vacation or we’d get a straight week of complaining from the lot of them.

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by Ubiquitous on Aug 23, 2011 2:39 PM EDT up reply actions  

Richie tweeted something about a fishing trip.

I’m just waiting for the hyperbole to start from the rumermongering writers.

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Chem and Gus to the restaurant.

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by Chemistry66 on Aug 23, 2011 3:09 PM EDT up reply actions  

Hey all! I live like 30 minutes from the epicenter of the quake!! i was outside at my school and the windows started shaking, then I realized I was standing next to our massive oil tank, and started getting away from it!!

by NoalB on Aug 23, 2011 2:32 PM EDT reply actions  

No theres a Tsunami watch....

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by sophiejo on Aug 23, 2011 2:53 PM EDT reply actions  

not really sure why there would be a tsunami watch. it was 3 miles underground and 60 miles from the coast. weird.

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by Val_d'Or on Aug 23, 2011 6:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

Because people are idiots, that’s why. I’m sure California was laughing at us all freaking out.

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by hintzy64 on Aug 24, 2011 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions  

they were. my best friend lives in oakland and was saying how funny it was that people gave her shit for moving there and the quake here was stronger than any she’s felt so far.

to be fair though imagine how SF or LA would react to a nor’easter or a hurricane. anytime you’re not conditioned to it, it’s gonna have people freak out.

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by Val_d'Or on Aug 25, 2011 12:53 PM EDT up reply actions  


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