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The correct term is 'shitkickers', not "construction boots". God Jeremy, get it right. ...you obviously didn't grow up in the boondocks or you woulda gotten your ass beat for calling them construction boots.... For whatever retarded reason, rednecks took offense to their boots being called anything other than shitkickers. Go figure.

Both the Philadelphia section of the Delaware and the New York section of the Hudson are disgustingly polluted. Yeah maybe you can boat on it and stuff, but I would never want to swim or anything in either of those rivers' urban section.

I hate typing on anything that doesn't have 3-D keys. I need the tactile feedback that a laptop keyboard has but a flat, digital keyboard doesn't. When I got my first smartphone, it took me forever to get good at typing on it because I was so used to having a slide phone with 3-D keys.

The way we've done it in the past is by points I believe. You got 1 point for picking the correct winner in each series in each round, and whoever had the most point at the end wins. So it's not necessarily based on picking the right Stanley Cup winner in the end, but rather consistently right picks throughout the playoffs. So even if you pick the right champion, if your other picks were bad in previous rounds it pretty much screws you.

Playing For Change: An awesome compilation of street musicians doing songs for good. Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay- Otis Reading One Love- Bob Marley http://www.playingforchange.com

Well in the East, Boston and Montreal easily wrap up their series. The Flyers are giving New York a much tougher fight than I expected, and Pittsburgh can't seem to put down a mediocre team. The West is much tighter, except for the California matchup. LA went down 3-0, won game 4, and is now up 3-0 in game 5. As much as I would like to seem them win, I doubt they can come from 3 games down. I love playoff hockey!

A lot of homer picks this year.

Tuukka Rask, the goalie for Boston, is a Finn.

San Jose tends to have really good regular season runs, and suddenly come playoff time they become huge choke-artists.

Just submit your picks for each series and each round by Sunday. I was back to back champ in 2010-2011, so I'm going for regaining my throne.

Eastern Conference Quarterfinal Winners Boston, Pittsburgh, Montreal, New York Western Conference Quarterfinal Winners Anaheim, Colorado, Los Angeles, St. Louis Eastern Conference Semifinal Winners Boston, New York Western Conference Semifinal Winners Anaheim, St. Louis Stanley Cup Boston, Anaheim Stanley Cup Champions Boston Yes, I'm being a homer. Because we are just that good.

So is anyone interested in going in on the playoff pool again this year? The match ups are as follows... Eastern Conference (A1) Boston Bruins v. (WC) Detroit Red Wings (M1) Pittsburgh Penguins v. (WC) Columbus Blue Jackets (A2) Tampa Bay Lightening v. (A3) Montreal Canadiens (M2) New York Rangers v. (M3) Philadelphia Flyers Western Conference (P1) Anaheim Ducks v. (WC) Dallas Stars (C1) Colorado Avalanche v. (WC) Minnesota Wild (P2) San Jose Sharks v. (P3) Los Angeles Kings (C2) St. Louis Blues v. (C3) Chicago Blackhawks Series So Far Boston v. Detroit (0-0) Pittsburgh v. Columbus (1-0) Tampa Bay v. Montreal (0-1) New York v. Philadelphia (1-0) Anaheim v. Dallas (1-0) Colorado v. Minnesota (1-0) San Jose v. Los Angeles (1-0) St. Louis v. Chicago (1-0) I figure we should get our picks in by Monday maybe?

There are two things I don't like about Beau Biden. 1.) His last name is Biden. 2.) He came to campus when I was a sophomore to give a talk. He came across as the most insincere, automated politician I have ever heard speak. He got asked a couple of tough questions by those in attendance, and completely deflected each and every one of them. It was pathetic. Even if his dad is a douchbag with a big mouth, at least he is sincere in what he says and what he stands for. Obviously that quality didn't get passed down through the gene pool.

I love strategy games. The Total War series for PC is basically like my wet dream. The American Civil War is definitely my favorite board game. My dad and I had some epic, hours long matches playing this back in the day.

Touche.

What are you smoking to say that guy is "average"???

Do any of Mark's characters ever look normal, or are they all 9s and 10s?

I like my partners to have the ability to sexually function. But if someone is into an 80 year old granny with a vagina covered in dust and cobwebs, or a 90 year old dude with ED who hasn't had a hard-on since before you were born, then to each their own.

Well also, Manhattan is the economic center of the world, so it needs an endless amount of skyscrapers to support that. Also, there are more people crammed into Manhattan than there are in the entire city of Philadelphia, so it made sense for Manhattan to simply build upwards, where Philadelphia could still build out. The other thing about New York is, its pretty much extremely dense in every part of the city no matter what part you go to. Philadelphia is a very dense, packed together city also, but you have many of the outer neighborhoods (like Manayunk, Germantown, East Falls, Northeast, etc.) that have all detached homes and have much more of a dense suburban feel rather then a crowded city feel you get in South Philly, Center City, and University City. One person said to me that "New York is a city of high-rises, and Philadelphia is a city of row homes". I think this is absolutely true, and I've never seen a city anywhere that has as many neighborhoods of dense row homes as Philadelphia does. While I think the feeling of being in Center City (especially near Market Street & JFK Blvd.) is comparable to being in Midtown Manhattan, once you get out of those areas, the difference is night and day as to the feel of the neighborhoods.

Fair enough. Someone has to fight the good fight.

Yup that was Philadelphia, and up until the 1980s it had no real skyline like that of the other major Northeast cities. Finally in the early 80s, the "gentlemen's agreement" was scrapped, and they built One Liberty Place and Two Liberty Place. Once those buildings went up, it set off a flurry of high-rise apartment and office skyscraper boom that led to what is now Center City. The Comcast Center, the tallest building in the city, wasn't finished until 2008. It seems now that with the next Comcast building going up and several other possible buildings planned, Philadelphia will likely have another building boom in Center City. People are finally starting to move back into the city and gentrify once-decrepid neighborhoods, which means a bolstered tax base and plenty of room to grow. Its really exciting to be living in Philly and the Metro area right now. Now if only we could get the rural, redneck-catering politicians that represent the rest of Pennsylbama to actually fund public transportation, we could finally develop a decent subway system in the city. The one thing that really holds Philly back is the small subway system, and its over reliance on buses and trollies. I mean, what kind of East Coast city with more then 1.5M people only has two subway lines serving limited sections of the city? Boston, which has only about 1/3 of the population, has more and farther encompassing subway lines then Philly. But because the rest of the state (except Pittsburg Metro) is nothing but inbred hillbillies, they refuse to fund anything to do with Philly because they think its nothing but black and/or liberal, welfare-sucking, crackheads. Sometimes I think Philadelphia should just give Pennsylvania the middle finger and become a part of New Jersey.

Here is a pic that I think really demonstrate the beauty of both the University City and Center City neighborhoods. This picture was taken from the edge of UPenn's campus in the University City neighborhood of West Philadelphia, and looks east across the river into Center City where you see the skyscrapers. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S4CqfHctlrQ/ToYWPvqiCUI/AAAAAAAABec/6lfm1k4RjvI/s1600/

The whole "trophy kids" crap that so often gets labeled to my generation is complete horse shit. Despite what others think, we are not coddled or babied nearly to the extent that many older people think. And the ones who are coddled, you can blame the parents for fostering that kind of environment. To be expected to be coddled and lazy in today's economy is counter-productive to surviving. Finding and getting a job is a cut-throat competition with the way things are now, and only the strong make it. Not only do we face tough competition, we also have to be technically skilled like no other generation before us before we even start and without any formal training. We face more adversity than our parents did, and therefor have to be tougher. By your own admission you worked in a "fancy" LA high school. Well of course those kids are going to expect to be spoon fed everything. That is how their parents do it at home! They never had to face adversity. I've worked with inner-city kids from both New York and Philadelphia. I guarantee you would not be saying the same thing about them as you about the spoiled LA brats you work with.

James, why the hell do you stay in Mississippi?

"MassBro: Driving like an aggressive dick, throwing around homophobic insults like it's the early 90's." ​They should replace homophobic with racist. Boston was and still is the most racist/segregated city in the Northeast, and they don't go to much length to hide their disdain for blacks.