Comments on: The Name Game http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/ Curiously Long Posts Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:30:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Baby name meaning and origin for Horace http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-54473 Baby name meaning and origin for Horace Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:49:01 +0000 http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-54473 [...] The Name Game " Joe Posnanski [...] [...] The Name Game ” Joe Posnanski [...]

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]]> By: Steele http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45304 Steele Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:03:43 +0000 http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45304 Joe: You and I have the same movie taste. I hated that movie and now it's on one of our movie channels 12 times a day and my wife likes it. Watch "Run Fatboy Run" - I expected a 1 and got a 3, so +2. Margo might like it, too. Joe:

You and I have the same movie taste. I hated that movie and now it’s on one of our movie channels 12 times a day and my wife likes it.

Watch “Run Fatboy Run” – I expected a 1 and got a 3, so +2.

Margo might like it, too.

]]> By: Justin http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45287 Justin Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:26:32 +0000 http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45287 Joe - I think I am my friend's version of your friend; he hates pretty much every movie I like. Of course, he's a pretentious pr*ck that likes obscure "comedies," but hey, that's what friends are for: to make you feel like an unwashed heathen every time you mention an enjoyable, average movie. Just consider how it feels next time you look down your nose at your friend's taste in movies. It hurts, man! :( ps I liked Dan in Real Life! Joe –

I think I am my friend’s version of your friend; he hates pretty much every movie I like.

Of course, he’s a pretentious pr*ck that likes obscure “comedies,” but hey, that’s what friends are for: to make you feel like an unwashed heathen every time you mention an enjoyable, average movie.

Just consider how it feels next time you look down your nose at your friend’s taste in movies. It hurts, man!

:(

ps
I liked Dan in Real Life!

]]> By: Graphite http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45076 Graphite Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:37:10 +0000 http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45076 Phil You may very well be correct. But I'll quote Rule #9: The ultimate source of the truth is the Dead People Server. Castro's still alive on their site. For what it's worth, we tended to go with excess weight and bad lifestyles among the young and relatively young and a gaunt and drawn look among the ancients. We're feeling confident. Ghoulishly confident. Phil
You may very well be correct. But I’ll quote Rule #9: The ultimate source of the truth is the Dead People Server. Castro’s still alive on their site.
For what it’s worth, we tended to go with excess weight and bad lifestyles among the young and relatively young and a gaunt and drawn look among the ancients. We’re feeling confident. Ghoulishly confident.

]]> By: Phil http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45036 Phil Fri, 19 Dec 2008 03:26:13 +0000 http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45036 Graphite, Your example of Fidel Castro is a poor one since he has been dead for some time now. The Cuban government has yet to admit that fact but he has quite definitely ceased to be. Graphite,
Your example of Fidel Castro is a poor one since he has been dead for some time now. The Cuban government has yet to admit that fact but he has quite definitely ceased to be.

]]> By: Graphite http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45023 Graphite Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:38:55 +0000 http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45023 Amendment: That's 2359 hrs CST on December 31. Amendment: That’s 2359 hrs CST on December 31.

]]> By: Graphite http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45022 Graphite Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:37:05 +0000 http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-45022 My daughter has asked me to help her with a version of the Name Game, sort of. The rules are that each player picks 10 celebrities who, being alive at 0001 hrs CST on January 1, they think will be dead at 2359 hrs CST. Points are allocated by the formula: 100 minus age at time of death. F'rinstance, the first name that came to my mind, Fidel Castro (b Aug 13, 1926) will garner 18 points for his backers if he's gone in the first half of the year, 17 if he makes it past his birthday, 0 if he sees the year out. I won't go into the full set of rules, but the winner gets the right to use the letters MCB after their name in perpetuity. My daughter has asked me to help her with a version of the Name Game, sort of.
The rules are that each player picks 10 celebrities who, being alive at 0001 hrs CST on January 1, they think will be dead at 2359 hrs CST. Points are allocated by the formula: 100 minus age at time of death. F’rinstance, the first name that came to my mind, Fidel Castro (b Aug 13, 1926) will garner 18 points for his backers if he’s gone in the first half of the year, 17 if he makes it past his birthday, 0 if he sees the year out.
I won’t go into the full set of rules, but the winner gets the right to use the letters MCB after their name in perpetuity.

]]> By: Random http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-44947 Random Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:24:39 +0000 http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-44947 Baseball is cricket, simplified (a) to eliminate the need for scarce and complicated equipment (stumps and bales) and (b) to allow play with fewer people ( by reducing the 360-degree field of play to a 90-degree field). All other differences are consequent (or merely subsequent) minor tweaks. Simple. Baseball is cricket, simplified (a) to eliminate the need for scarce and complicated equipment (stumps and bales) and (b) to allow play with fewer people ( by reducing the 360-degree field of play to a 90-degree field).

All other differences are consequent (or merely subsequent) minor tweaks.

Simple.

]]> By: Paul O. http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-44934 Paul O. Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:31:29 +0000 http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2008/12/16/the-name-game/#comment-44934 Someone should remind Olbermann that the show, even though it was funny, failed miserably. Someone should remind Olbermann that the show, even though it was funny, failed miserably.

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