OT: Insignificant Things Open Thread (NO POLITICS)

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November 6th, 2012 at 11:06 PM
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OT: Insignificant Things Open Thread (NO POLITICS)

**NO POLITICS**

Seeing as there are no significant news stories unfolding tonight, I wondered if we could get a POS bang together about what you are doing to bide the time.

I, for one, haven't turned on the TV or browsed the internet at all, assuming that I would be disappointed by the fact that nothing is happening tonight.  I may play some Sudoku in a bit, I'll keep you updated.

What menial things are everyone else doing on such a run of the mill November evening?

**NO POLITICS**

Seriously, NO POLITICS! One month Bolivia trip for any mentions timestamped after 10:31 EST. [zl]

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November 6th, 2012 at 11:07 PM | reading mgoblog (Score:5 Normal)
sheepman
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reading mgoblog

"Are you Bluish? You don't look Bluish..."

November 7th, 2012 at 4:48 AM | Is it just me or... (Score:5 Normal)
trublue616
Joined: 10/01/2009
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Does anybody else want to eat a f*cking deer right now? It's almost 4am and all I can think of right now is eating a g*d damn deer!! F*ck!!

November 6th, 2012 at 11:09 PM | I went hunting tonight, (Score:5 Normal)
ReadYourGuard
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I went hunting tonight, bagged a deer, and am currently chilling on the couch with my daughter while we watch "How It's Made".

"the Spirit of Michigan...is based on a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways....and a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours" - Fielding Yost
November 6th, 2012 at 11:44 PM | Wait you're awake an (Score:3 Normal)
WMUgoblue
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Wait you're awake and watching, "How it's Made"? That was my go to background noise while taking naps in my dorm.

Blank.....Blank......You're not looking at the big picture here.

November 7th, 2012 at 2:39 AM | Since the other guy (Score:5 Normal)
Clarence Beeks
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Since the other guy completely ruined your post, I just wanted to say congratulations. Sounds like a great night. Don't let people who will never understand get in the way of that.

November 7th, 2012 at 2:54 AM | "Clarence Beeks"... (Score:0 Offtopic)
November 7th, 2012 at 12:16 PM | Thanks! I certainly (Score:3 Normal)
Clarence Beeks
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Thanks! I certainly understand what you mean; my positions are my own and I don't just follow the crowd. Doesn't always make me the most popular. Thank you for the kind words. Same goes for you, though. I really enjoy your insight, too.



Severely underrated movie. :)

November 6th, 2012 at 11:10 PM | I'm doing some readings for (Score:5 Normal)
QVIST
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I'm doing some readings for my History of Michigan class (unfortunately not History of Michigan Football) while partaking in MACtion.

November 7th, 2012 at 11:33 AM | That was one of my favorite (Score:2)
jonny_GoBlue
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That was one of my favorite undergrad electives.  Very interesting material.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:12 PM | Ball St vs. Toledo is very (Score:5 Normal)
NFG
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Ball St vs. Toledo is very significant.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:12 PM | Just played some wonderful (Score:5 Normal)
Southern Blue
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Just played some wonderful mgoblog created NCAA13 dynasty.  Looks like some exciting MACtion going on. Thanks for the tip

November 6th, 2012 at 11:42 PM | Playing NCAA 2008 (Score:3 Normal)
LSA Aught One
Joined: 08/24/2011
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Just beat ND 70-6 in five minute quarters. Mike Hart ran like his pants were on fire.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:12 PM | HALO 4. (Score:5 Normal)
pasadenablue
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HALO 4.

This is home...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgijdypJUEQ

November 6th, 2012 at 11:13 PM | On Demand and Netflix are (Score:5 Normal)
LongLiveBo
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On Demand and Netflix are providing much entertainment.

The Team, The Team, The Team.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:13 PM | Watching Flight of the Conchords. (Score:5 Normal)
Daniel
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I loved the Youtube videos and saw them when they came to Ann Arbor, but hadn't seen the show at all. It's pretty great.

 

Formerly 'mgoblaniel.'

November 6th, 2012 at 11:42 PM | I saw them when they came to (Score:2)
Southern Blue
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I saw them when they came to Detriot a few years. It was the most fun I have ever had a concert.  Oh such wonderful banter!  The first season of their TV show is one of the funniest things ever produced.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:15 PM | ARE YOU SERIOUS?? This is one (Score:5 Normal)
Gobluegr
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ARE YOU SERIOUS?? This is one of the most important days of the year, one that will not only have a great effect on the following months, but the rest of our lives!

 

I can't believe you would snub the Toledo vs Ball State game like that, shame on you.

Tremendous 2014 rankings

November 6th, 2012 at 11:42 PM | no doubt (Score:1 Normal)
ohioblueblood82
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did you see who is doing the commentary

" The team The team The team "

 

November 6th, 2012 at 11:42 PM | no doubt (Score:0)
November 6th, 2012 at 11:15 PM | Playing through the new Halo (Score:4 Normal)
MGoPietrowski
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Playing through the new Halo campaign and keeping an eye on the election returns on my laptop.

fomerly known as "hailtothe"

hailing from Evansville, IN...

To hell with Notre Dame.
November 6th, 2012 at 11:17 PM | Watching some Trailer Park Boys (Score:2 Funny)
NGoBlue
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Followed by FUBAR.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:18 PM | Playing chess with myself so I don't read/watch anything else (Score:2 Informative)
brooktrail
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except Mgoblog.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:18 PM | So thankful for this blog (Score:5 Normal)
BOX House
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So thankful for this blog today! Thank you mgoblog, for being a safe haven from politics because social media sites are the absolute worst today.

Life and Loss with Michigan Basketball

November 6th, 2012 at 11:19 PM | SOA (Score:3 Underrated)
Fhshockey112002
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Dinner and some hockey before turning on SOA. 

November 7th, 2012 at 12:28 AM | SOA = highlight of my night (Score:2)
Jskohl88
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SOA = highlight of my night

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is never get into a land war with Asia. But only slightly less well known is this: never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!

November 6th, 2012 at 11:19 PM | Sitting here (Score:2 Normal)
Top dog 4578
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drinking a beer, just watching the weather change..

Go Blue !!

November 6th, 2012 at 11:20 PM | Counting flowers on the wall, (Score:5 Normal)
chitown.victor
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That don't bother me at all.

Playin' Solitaire till dawn,

With a deck of 51.

Smokin' cigarettes and watchin' Captain Kangaroo,

Now don't tell me, I've nothin' to do...

"One man. Goodbye! Hello Heisman!"

November 6th, 2012 at 11:22 PM | I'm watching election (Score:3 Normal)
Greg McMurtry
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...

















The Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon movie.

...confidence is the stain they can't wipe off...

November 6th, 2012 at 11:22 PM | Raiding my 8 year old's candy (Score:3 Normal)
mGrowOld
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Raiding my 8 year old's candy stash (he got over 9 pounds of candy on Sunday-trick or treat got weather delayed) while on Mgoblog.   TV is on in the background....news or something.....

The GOOD news  for me is I live in Ohio and finally the damn ads have ended (both sides).  And I'm not kidding when I say that tonight, at 7:20pm (10 minutes to polls closing) there was a Presidential ad on the radio.  Battleground states like ours get freaking slammed with ads morning, news and night.  About something......

 

 

November 6th, 2012 at 11:45 PM | Ha! (Score:2 Normal)
StephenRKass
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Raiding your 8 year old's stash. Funny. And what does Mrs. Mgrowold say about Halloween candy? 9 pounds? Wow!

"It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up." Vince Lombardi

 

November 6th, 2012 at 11:23 PM | Pistons (Score:4 Normal)
NFZ
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At the pistons-nuggets game. Drinking $9 beers.

No Fly Zone!

November 7th, 2012 at 12:53 AM | $9! (Score:5 Normal)
HartAttack20
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Now that's a price I'd like to pay for beer.

I can only continue to reference the fact that I live in an onion factory.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:27 PM | I went running. (Score:4 Normal)
MGoClimb
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I went running.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:27 PM | Shorts Pandemonium Pale Ale (Score:4 Normal)
coldnjl
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Shorts Pandemonium Pale Ale

November 6th, 2012 at 11:28 PM | I should be doing my law (Score:0 Normal)
November 6th, 2012 at 11:50 PM | Sadly, I have to be keeping (Score:2 Normal)
justingoblue
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Sadly, I have to be keeping an eye on the stuff everyone is joking about not seeing: internet, TV, I'm probably supposed to keep track of telegraph and tin-cup telephones as well, per the wishes of my professors (tough to avoid as a public policy student). However, none of them said anything to discourage heavy drinking whilst watching non-Toledo play non-Ball State, so I'm having a better time than I would have thought.

The girlfriend was taunting me saying this fifteen hours of watching was payback for her bigger load as an engineer-to-be until she came home and found a twelve pack and bottle of wine in the fridge. That was worth a pretty good laugh, at least I thought so.

Go Blue!

November 6th, 2012 at 11:35 PM | Drinking. Why not on Tuesday? (Score:5 Normal)
Indy Wolverine
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Drinking. Why not on Tuesday?

November 6th, 2012 at 11:38 PM | Insignificant Things Indeed... (Score:5 Normal)
LSAClassOf2000
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I have MACtion on the TV and I am playing Civilization V on the laptop as the Germans. Yes, in this particular simulation, I plan to win the Franco-Prussian War. I am sipping Woodchuck Granny Smith hard cider too, and by sipping,  I mean about six bottles in. 

"Funny isn't it, how naughty dentists always make that one fatal mistake."

Follow the random tweets of a Michigan alum - http://twitter.com/#!/LorneEC3

November 7th, 2012 at 2:25 AM | Six bottles? Doesn't all that (Score:1)
TWSWBC
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Six bottles? Doesn't all that sugar turn your stomach inside out?

If I tell you it's Easter, you better start looking for eggs.

Some folks call it a sling blade, I call it a kaiser blade.

November 7th, 2012 at 4:08 AM | Ouch.. (Score:1)
trublue616
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It would kill mine. Just like good ol' Mikes hard lemonade.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:38 PM | Watching (Score:5 Normal)
MichiganMan20
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Watching the second best basketball team in the state of Michigan take on the Denver Nuggets.

I hate ohio. Thats all you need to know.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:40 PM | At work admitting (Score:4 Normal)
SAvoodoo
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At work admitting patients...kids don't stop getting sick just cause the MAC is on.  

November 6th, 2012 at 11:43 PM | Watching a contest between a (Score:2 Normal)
FrankMurphy
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Watching a contest between a turd sandwich and a giant douche. 

On a related note, what was the MAC thinking scheduling a game on election night? Tuesday is a weird day to play a college football game to begin with; of all Tuesdays, they pick election day?

FACEPALM.

November 7th, 2012 at 12:11 AM | Be thankful. At least there's (Score:2 Normal)
Lionsfan
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Be thankful. At least there's something on TV that doesn't have to do with Politics.

If you're doing nothing, how do you know when you're finished?

StraightDave owes me a steak dinner

November 6th, 2012 at 11:43 PM | - (Score:4 Normal)
maizenblue92
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Working on an accounting crib sheet and watching the most important red vs. blue battle in Ohio. Ball State vs. Toledo.

"I tried to but a pencil in the light socket but it was too wide and didn't fit so I used a paperclip."-Terrelle Pryor, Future Rhodes Scholar

November 6th, 2012 at 11:50 PM | Is that the gimmick? They (Score:2 Normal)
FrankMurphy
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Is that the gimmick? They can't have just neglected to consider the fact that today is election day when they scheduled the game. 

November 6th, 2012 at 11:49 PM | I love watching the Toledo vs (Score:3 Normal)
joeyb
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I love watching the Toledo vs Ball State game every 4 years. I fell asleep on the couch watching it in 2000 and have done the same thing each time this game has come around since.

November 6th, 2012 at 11:50 PM | Maybe he thinks if you ask the deer nicely enough (Score:1 Normal)
bo_lives
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it'll let you slice off a slab.

Hunting is a far more humane way of attaining meat than shopping in your local grocery store.

"That's right. It's an off-tackle play. It's coming right over you. And there's not a thing you can do about it."

November 6th, 2012 at 11:51 PM | Intended as reply to above convo (Score:1 Normal)
bo_lives
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...

"That's right. It's an off-tackle play. It's coming right over you. And there's not a thing you can do about it."

November 6th, 2012 at 11:50 PM | Xbox (Score:2 Normal)
goblue1213
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Just got Halo 4, so I am breaking that in. Too bad I am through half a bottle of J&B. I am doing worse with each drink

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