Where has the magic gone?

Thanks Croom. MState football is even deader than how you inherited it.

(Editor's note: this is in the 3rd quarter. Rain had a small part of causing the stands to empty. Croom and Henig had a larger part.)

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It is here.

Taken from the archives of the legendary 2 Daves Pick The SEC (thanks guys):

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I still think CANCUNASS summed it up best:

I LOVE FOOHBUHL. LOVE IT. LUV. IT. LUUUUUH. UHHHHHV. 1T!!1

I LOVE FOOHBUHL. LOVE IT. LUV. IT. LUUUUUH. UHHHHHV. 1T!!1

I LOFE TO PLAY FOOHLBHUHL.

LOFE TO SMELL FOOHBUHL.

LOFE TO WACH IT ON TV. LOVF TO TAPE RECURD AND WACH IT AGAIN AND AG1N!!

LOFE TO TOUCH FOOHBUHL WHILE I SLEPE.

FOOHLBUHL SMEELLS GOOD. LETHER. UHM. DID I MENTION THAT I LUHV

FOOHBLUFUBUL!!!11 KAN'T 1IWAIT111

I LIKE TO DRAW PITCHERZ OFF FOOHBUHIUL

PITCHER -> (editor's note: this is as close as I could get it to appear normal online)
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(     +++++      )
\                         / <- LI3K TO SMELL THIS.
 \________/ <- L1EK TO FONDLE THIS.

FOOH!! BHULLHL!!!!
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Thank you, CANCUNASS.

Yes, it's time for football. Or as Crazy Ed Orgeron says, FOOBAW!

Tonight, I'll be in Starkville watching LSU scrimmage as they prepare for Virginia Tech ... I mean, as Mississippi State takes on LSU in the season/SEC opener for both teams. Hopefully, my cell phone won't crap out on me and I can snap a few good pics.

Since the 2 Doof, er Daves are retired, I thought about doing a weak attempt at copying them. Well, I've got eleven weeks to perfect it. So here goes.

2 A's Picks The SEC (and Weir High)

Alabama vs. Western Carolina

The first of Saban's 36 national titles at Bama begins with this cupcake. By the way, those 36 titles will come in only 5 seasons. He's that good.

Row Tahd 38, Non-SEC Directional Carolina 10

Arkansas vs. Troy

The Pigs are good and Troy isn't the pushover they used to be. But still ...

sasnakrA 31, Boys 17

Auburn vs. Kansas State

Interesting match-up. K-State is working to get back to winning, something they aren't used to. Auburn is looking to stay healthy through their first four games (sigh).

Plainstigereagles 42, Little Apple 17

Fl*rida vs. Western Kentucky

Zzzzzzzzzz, huh? Oh, the game. Maybe we'll see some camera shots of Tim Tebow's woman.

Urban warfare eleventy billion, Patsy 3

Georgia vs. Oklahoma State

Another Big-12 opponent for the Hairy Dawgs. Should show UGA where they are right off the bat.

Hunkering down 28, Pokes 20

Kentucky vs. Eastern Kentucky

Wow. An inter-squad scrimmage.

Big Blue 49, Directional Blue 14

Ole Miss at Memphis

Two SEC teams open the season on the road. I don't think this one counts.

Yaw yaw yaw 13, Tiger High 12

South Carolina vs. La-Lafayette

I miss the directional Louisiana school names.

Cock-n-Fire 38, La-La 7

Tennessee at California

Now this is what you call a road game. It's also what you call either really confident or really stupid (see: MSU vs. West Virginia).

Wine sippers 35, Shine sippers 28

Vanderbilt vs. Richmond

If this were basketball and about 6 years ago, maybe. But it's football and now. Plus, it's Vanderbilt. Oh, that's right. I can't talk smack about them.

GPA 21, Spiders 0

Mississippi State vs. LSU

I've seen a couple of sites play simulations of this game on the new NCAA Football '08 video game. Most of them all result in the same thing: LSU domination. Unfortunately, I can't link to them since they are member subscription sites.

But I can post results from my own video game experiences on this game. The day I bought the game, I put it in the PS2, set the game to the hardest settings and simulated the upcoming season. The result? MSU 33, LSU 21. My boy VHDawg said the game was defective and I should return it. Later, I ran another simulation and it had MSU winning a defensive battle 10-7.

What should we take from this? Video games programmers don't know diddly poo about football.

Corndogs 41, Whipped Dogs 17

And as a bonus pick, the Mighty Weir Lions (my yang to MSU's yin) begin their quest for a seventh state title. This time, they have to go through the south part of the state. Doesn't matter.

Weir vs. South Leake

I don't know anything about South Leake. But I do know that Weir has a new head coach and a new offensive coach. The head coach, well, all he has to do is manage the game. The offensive coach is former head coach Joe Gant. Coach Gant only has 5 of those state titles.

It's a home game. It's smash-mouth football. It's a thing of beauty.

Big Red 34, Drippy 21

Now let the games begin.

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Take a geography quiz

Hosted by the newest expert on geography: Miss Teen South Carolina.

And if you don't get it:

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Another missed opportunity

It's bad enough I missed out on the beer-drinking armadillo, now I had another opportunity pass me by.

Earlier this week, I notice a sign posted on a tree out in our neck of the woods. Yeah, you see that every day, right? Well, not a sign like this. It wasn't a political sign. It was advertising a business. And not just any business.

Yard Ninja. It had a drawing of a ninja with sword!

Each night I passed it, I said I'd stop the next day and snap a photo. Well, today, it was gone. Just like a ninja, poof, into thin air.

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Things I wished I had a photo of.

On the way home yesterday, my sister noticed a dead armadillo on the side of the road. No big deal around here, right? Well, someone took the time to place a beer can in the dead dillo's rigored front legs. I missed it on the way there, but on the trip back today, sure enough it was still there.

It was raining and traffic on the highway prevented a safe chance to snap a pic. But it would have been so cool.

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Mr. Bean as you've never seen him before.

Rowan Atkinson Live. This contains one Bean segment. The rest is un-Bean-like, but still high-larious.

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The end of another long work week.

Projects getting me down. Trying to draw blood from a stone.

Just another week at work.

No better way to end it than with a pint of Ben & Jerry's Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream.



Mmmmmmmmmm, taste the truthiness.

After finishing my 'thank-goodness-it's-Friday' snack, I'll be getting ready to head out for a couple of days. And by 'getting ready', I mean 'goof off on the computer before going to bed'.

Tomorrow is a big day. Going home to 1. go home so my mom will be happy and most importantly 2. celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday. I think the plan is to go out to eat in Starkville. If her big sister lived here, we'd double the celebration. Sunday is my great aunt's 95th birthday.

I'll share any leftover birthday cake. And by 'share', I mean 'eat it while taunting you'.

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The Summer of Monkey

Oliver the monkey made national headlines a few weeks ago when he picked his lock at the Tupelo zoo and escaped. Well, he did it aGAIN. Apparently, he got out so he could update his MySpace page.

Rock on, Oliver. Rock on.

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Lunch today

Hamil's. First time I've been there since they built the new building.

For a modest price, you can take what you can eat, but you better eat what you take.

And just for the record, the number of people shown in this photo is not indicitive of the number of people in the building. The old location (the shack) was big enough to hold maybe 75 people. The new building, all two floors of it, holds over 200 easily. The place was packed.

The first time I went, some years ago, they had just changed their hours of operation from M-F at lunch to M-Sat. at lunch. Now, they are open Thursday-Saturday evenings, 5-8.

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For the few wondering ...

The blog has been quiet for a while. Perhaps too long. I just haven't had much time, nor excitement, to put anything up. Maybe it's the projects at work. Could be the lack of social life getting me down. Football season is fast approaching, but that contributes to the projects and even some depression knowing I'll likely not see competitive football unless I watch it on TV.

Guess I should take Chris Rock's advice: "Why don't you go get kidnapped so you can have some new sh*t to talk about?"

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Good news, everyone!

http://videobusiness.com/article/CA6464173.html

Fox continues Futurama with four DVD premiere movies

By Susanne Ault -- Video Business, 7/30/2007

JULY 30 | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is resurrecting canceled TV series Futurama on DVD.

The studio is set to release four made-for-DVD full-length films extending the animated series. The first, Futurama: Bender’s Big Score, will debut on Nov. 27.

The movies will represent the first new Futurama content since 2003.

Bender’s Big Score features the Futurama characters fighting nudist alien Internet scammers in order to save the planet Earth. Notable guest stars include Al Gore, Coolio and Sarah Silverman.

Fox has slated the remaining three Futurama films for 2008.

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