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BMG Sweet(er) 16

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March Madness is again upon us.  Let’s name the BMG Sweet 16!

Apologies in advance for misclassifications, errors, and omissions.  Off top of my head.  

Criteria: Quality 70%, Quantity 30% (else we wouldn’t have much to read).  

Eb3 Top Seed – Bye to Finals

ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY BRACKET

(only 2 competing)

Sabutai

vs

KBusch

BROOKLINE BRACKET

BrooklineTom

vs.

StomV

BIG HEART CONFERENCE CHAMPS

Judy Meredith

v

AmberPaw

COUCH FIGHT

Lynne

v

Mr. Lynne

K-12 SHOWDOWN

(*Among people who don’t seem to work for schools, and nonetheless like this stuff)

RyePower12

vs.

Petr

RED REGIONAL “MATURE” BRACKET

Peter Porcupine

vs.

JohnD

RED REGIONAL YOUNG BRACKET

Bilixi

vs.

JoeTS this comment should garner votes

TOKEN CENTRIST

EdgarTheArmenian ?

v

Mike From Norwell

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  2. I put LynPB and BitB in the couch fight bracket.

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    p>And you may as well have an “Editor’s Bracket” with David, Charley, Bob, and (let’s face it, as he’s pretty much given the privileges of one) Ernie.

    • …billxi is over 40.  That may still qualify him as a “young” Republican.

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      p>I’d vote for CentralMassDad for token centrist over Edgar.  ETA would make a fine entry in the “lovable curmudgeons” bracket, though.  Not sure “Mike From Norwell” is a centrist, either.  Perhaps Pogo?

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      p>Other brackets: Cambridge, Cape, and “flatout loony” (I think LastHorseMan is  a shoe in, though).

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      p>Oh, and most posts per day…

        • full list [here]:

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          1) Isn’t that the issue, though? [0.00 / 0] Replies: 0
          posted by: CentralMassDad on Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 14:34:04 PM EST
          attached to: Patrick’s Vacation Pay Hypocrisy-Rules are for other people!
          2) Short version [6.00 / 2] Replies: 1
          posted by: CentralMassDad on Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 11:04:57 AM EST
          attached to: Put price tags on Health Care – simple, but great.
          3) I very strongly recommend [6.00 / 1] Replies: 1
          posted by: CentralMassDad on Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 10:56:03 AM EST
          attached to: Put price tags on Health Care – simple, but great.
          4) It does [0.00 / 0] Replies: 0
          posted by: CentralMassDad on Tue Mar 09, 2010 at 10:50:07 AM EST
          attached to: Put price tags on Health Care – simple, but great.
          5) Northern Virginia must be drifting north then, as well [6.00 / 2] Replies: 1
          posted by: CentralMassDad on Mon Mar 08, 2010 at 17:06:20 PM EST
          attached to: Red Mass Group blows up “Red Noreaster”

      • i thought the same thing.  i wanted to give CMD the nod.  he’s gold, jerry.  gold.  but in exile for so long.  just back recently.  does he still have the stamina to comment frequently?  maybe he’s KG, good for first 10 minutes of game, but then the knee kicks in.  c’mon CMD.  leave it on the floor.  

      • should be somewhere in this mix, for all his creative efforts.

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        p>At least an honorary exhibition match?

  5. KBusch over Sab.
    Stomv over BrooklineTom.
    AmberPaw over Judy.
    Lynne over Mr. Lynne.
    Ryan over Petr.
    PP over JohnD.
    Me over Bill (bill’s young?)
    Edgar over Mike.

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    p>KBusch and stomv is a tough match.  Stomv goes after KBusch with a barrage of science, math and green technology but KBusch defends with a shield of philosopher-king rhetoric and overloads stomv’s soybean-powered math robot.  In a last ditch effort, stomv tell KBusch that Immanuel Kant was right!  KBusch, temporarily stunned, takes one to the dome.  Not to be outdone, yells back “global warming is A LIE!”  Stomv, suddenly angered, turns into a giant green creature, cross between the hulk and the green giant.  Seeing an oppurtunity (and aware of stomv’s secret alter-ego, the Green Monster) he pulls out a bottle of round-up and sprays it at stomv.  KBusch to the final four.  

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    p>All Amberpaw had to do was tell Lynne some stories of the people she works with an Lynne breaks down and cries.  Then Amberpaw steals Lynne’s wallet just for good measure.  Amberpaw to the final four.

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    p>Ryan and PP have a battle using their respective methods of art.  Ryan belts out a surly ballad about social responsibility and government. He sings, he croons, he lullabies.  At the end of his performance, instead of confetti and balloons falling into the auditorium, newspaper pages fall.  The crowd is engulfed by editorials.  Ryan attempts to sing his way out but can’t stop the crowd from reading.  In a desperate attempt to secure victory, Ryan tosses a match into the audience, causing a gigantic fire.  All of the newspapers are destroyed, but the smoke damages his voice.  Ryan barely makes it to the final four.  

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    p>Flash to a smoke-filled room.  Edgar is sitting at a table in the back, surrounded by beautiful women.  The place goes quiet as a man enters.  It’s too dark to see the man’s face, and he makes no noise but the click as the metal heel of his boots hit the floor.  He walks slowly to the back.  “Edgar, I have finally found you” he rasps.  “For 7 years I’ve followed your trail.  It wasn’t easy, having nothing to trace but half-smoked chewed up Cuban cigars and beaten Turkish men who feared to speak of the Armenian who fought back.  Well, the jig is up.”  And just like that, the elusive kingpin of the Armenian mob was dead.  JoeTS to the final four.  

  8. I am but an apprentice to stomv, he is the master. Plus he’s my friend; one reason I like him is that he’s right so many times more often than he’s wrong (I’m not sure I’ve ever seen him be outright “wrong”). I truly enjoy excellence and he exemplifies it.

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    p>Meanwhile, I must disqualify myself. I am, in fact, in the middle of moving from Brookline to Somerville. After more then ten years in the same lovely (rented) home, my wife and must downsize. Brookline has been a marvelous home; we are eager to plant our roots in Somerville. Our new home is near Tufts, between Davis and Porter Square. I’m happy to trade up from the C and D to the Red Line. Goodbye, Barney Frank — hello, Mike Capuano.

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    p>I’m going to keep the “BrooklineTom” moniker for awhile, though.

  9. ACTUALLY CARES ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY BRACKET

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    p>Sabutai

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    p>BROOKLINE BRACKET
    BrooklineTom

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    p>BIG HEART CONFERENCE CHAMPS

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    p>AmberPaw

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    p>COUCH FIGHT
    Lynne

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    p>K-12 SHOWDOWN

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    p>RyePower12

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    p>RED REGIONAL “MATURE” BRACKET

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    p>JohnD

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    p>RED REGIONAL YOUNG BRACKET
    Bilixi

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    p>TOKEN CENTRIST

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    p>Mike From Norwell  

  10. just finish 16 straight weeks of 5th grade travel basketball (3 practices a week, then every Saturday night @ Shea Gym in the old Weymouth Naval Air Station – my wife was overjoyed when she found out about that little game detail) and now another tournament?  Better rest up.

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    p>Guess I am a centrist so in the right bracket.

        • I’m always up for a little game of Find An Appropriate Orifice For the Yellow Ribbon.    

        • I’m guessing that’s an insult, probably based on some bizarre interpolation of this:

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          p>

          But they certainly are opposed to normalizing homosexuality, and – here’s the thing I plead to be understood – if they could be assured that government was not synonymous with the elite (gay) agenda, they’d support government again.

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          p>It is funny how many people use that particular metaphor without knowing where it comes from.  This may help:

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          The word albatross is sometimes used to mean an encumbrance, or a wearisome burden. It is an allusion to Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798).

          In the poem, an albatross starts to follow a ship – being followed by an albatross was generally considered an omen of good luck. However, the titular mariner shoots the albatross with a crossbow, which is regarded as an act that will curse the ship (which indeed suffers terrible mishaps). To punish him, his companions induce him to wear the dead albatross around his neck indefinitely (until they all die from the curse, as it happens). Thus the albatross can be both an omen of good or bad luck, as well as a metaphor for a burden to be carried (as penance).

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          p>I prefer to think of lightiris and myself as bringing good luck…

  12. But I never win the couch fight. He always gets the couch, by virtue of his 3-hour-commute-a-day, so therefore, I always defer the comfy spot to the Mr. since he sacrifices a lot to keep a roof over our heads.

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    p>;)

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    p>Also, he kicks my ass in logic.

    • “I wear the pants, but she tells me what pair to put on.”  

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      p>I feel like thats a winning stategy for marriage,

  13. It’s a same we don’t have a charter buses, not schools bracket where we can run Goldstein against Charley on the MTA.

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