Like many Americans, I'm going to be hugely preoccupied today. Thus, a poll for your blog-like entertainment needs:
If you choose the last option, please arrange to have contacted me in the past to tell me who to have laid a significant bet on so I will have won a large sum of money.
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In the interest of household harmony, perhaps you and Kate should join Steelykid in rooting for the stripey team...
As if you colonialists could win anything without LaFayette holding your hand.
Sorry, SteelyKid, I still hold a grudge against the stripey team from the Seahawks-Steelers Super Bowl a few years ago.
Alas, Man. U. could only pull out a tie. Thrilling finish, though.
" If you choose the last option, please arrange to have contacted me in the past to tell me who to have laid a significant bet on so I will have won a large sum of money."
Sorry, being all knowing I know that free will is impossible and so I could not have told you who won the super bowl because I already did not. You cannot change what was into what will be. It all just is. Only the illusion of free will makes it seem as if I could have done otherwise.
Oh screw it bet the pats.
Go puppies!
(Actually, I don't have a dog in this race.)
we got free tickets to the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and watched a great performance tonight of "cat on a hot tin roof"
in the words of Big Daddy "football is crap"