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  • #406
    Today's Final Jeopardy!:

    Category: New Sports

    Clue: Middleton VA College won its second straight national championship in this sport, invented in a 1997 novel.

    Answer: Quidditch

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    • #407
      Originally posted by Fiyero View Post
      Today's Final Jeopardy!:

      Category: New Sports

      Clue: Middleton VA College won its second straight national championship in this sport, invented in a 1997 novel.

      Answer: Quidditch
      I'm sorry. You didn't word it in the form of a question. You lose. Get off the set.
      "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill


      "I only know what I hear on the news." - Dear Leader

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      • #408
        Originally posted by myboynoah View Post
        Just finished Silence by Shusaku Endo for the second time. I read the William Johnson translation. A very tragic story set during the Tokugawa Bakufu's very effective efforts to eradicate Christianity from Japan. I highly recommend it, especially to those that served missions in Japan.

        Endo has his own views on the conflict between "his Japanese sensibility" and the Catholicism to which he converted as a child. While such conflict is natural between cultures, I don't know that I necessarily agree with that being the primariy reason for how things played out in the book and in a historical sense.
        Wasn't that made into a movie? I swear I saw a movie on the same topic with the same name back in college.
        "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
        "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
        "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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        • #409
          Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
          Wasn't that made into a movie? I swear I saw a movie on the same topic with the same name back in college.
          Are you talking about Shogun, a TV miniseries based on the Clavell novel? I remember it being all the rage with Japanese RMs back then (I was as caught up in it as the rest). It seems so campy now.

          I googled and found out that Scorsese is going to do the movie.

          Scorsese to make “Silence” by Shusaku Endo

          WOW! No doubt Daniel Day-Lewis will play the apostate priest Ferriera. I'm actually excited about a movie coming out.
          Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

          For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

          Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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          • #410
            Originally posted by myboynoah View Post
            Are you talking about Shogun, a TV miniseries based on the Clavell novel? I remember it being all the rage with Japanese RMs back then (I was as caught up in it as the rest). It seems so campy now.

            I googled and found out that Scorsese is going to do the movie.

            Scorsese to make “Silence” by Shusaku Endo

            WOW! No doubt Daniel Day-Lewis will play the apostate priest Ferriera. I'm actually excited about a movie coming out.
            Shogun? Heavens no. I couldn't stand that.

            I saw on campus as an undergrad at BYU. It was either part of international cinema or it was associated with one of my advanced Japanese language classes. All in Japanese although it may have had subtitles. I remember at one point they buried a Christian in sand up to his neck and kept running a horse back and forth over the top of him trying to get him to deny his faith. In other case they had a painting of Jesus and they tried to get the Christians to step on it or something.

            I think this might be it:

            http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067755/

            At the time I thought it was excellent.
            "There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
            "It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
            "Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster

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            • #411
              Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
              Shogun? Heavens no. I couldn't stand that.

              I saw on campus as an undergrad at BYU. It was either part of international cinema or it was associated with one of my advanced Japanese language classes. All in Japanese although it may have had subtitles. I remember at one point they buried a Christian in sand up to his neck and kept running a horse back and forth over the top of him trying to get him to deny his faith. In other case they had a painting of Jesus and they tried to get the Christians to step on it or something.

              I think this might be it:

              http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067755/

              At the time I thought it was excellent.
              lol on Shogun. I'd originally written something much more critical, but feared offending you. I should have known better.

              Yes, Chinmoku is it, but the book does not describe the "buried in the sand, horse" torture. It does relate the requirement to step on sacred images (Christ or Mary)--called fumi-e--in order to prove that one was not a Christian, although that didn't always rescue one from torture.

              A couple of examples worn down from all the trodding:



              Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!

              For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

              Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."

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              • #412
                Originally posted by Jeff Lebowski View Post
                Shogun? Heavens no. I couldn't stand that.
                ...
                .

                I actually liked the book. The miniseries left something to be desired.

                I may be small, but I'm slow.

                A veteran - whether active duty, retired, or national guard or reserve is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to, "The United States of America ", for an amount of "up to and including my life - it's an honor."

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                • #413
                  Originally posted by Fiyero View Post
                  I've been wanting to give a go at Howard Ziff's A People's History of the United States, but the library's copies are always checked out. Settled on David Copperfield.
                  My favorite book. Good choice.

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                  • #414
                    Finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time a bit ago. Didn't really love it.

                    About done with Downtown Owl and last night started No Man Knows My History.
                    So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.

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                    • #415
                      Originally posted by MarkGrace View Post
                      Finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time a bit ago. Didn't really love it.

                      About done with Downtown Owl and last night started No Man Knows My History.
                      Downtown Owl is next on my list as soon as I finish The Hunger Games. How does it compare to his other stuff?
                      Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...

                      None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.

                      I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.

                      --Portland Ute

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                      • #416
                        Originally posted by Green Lantern View Post
                        Downtown Owl is next on my list as soon as I finish The Hunger Games. How does it compare to his other stuff?
                        You asked me that earlier in the thread!

                        I haven't liked it as much as the essay books.
                        So Russell...what do you love about music? To begin with, everything.

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                        • #417
                          Originally posted by MarkGrace View Post
                          You asked me that earlier in the thread!

                          I haven't liked it as much as the essay books.
                          The funny thing is I was going to compare your response to what the other guy had said earlier in the thread. I just forgot that other guy was you.
                          Kids in general these days seem more socially retarded...

                          None of them date. They hang out. They text. They sit in the same car or room and don't say a word...they text. Then, they go home and whack off to internet porn.

                          I think that's the sad truth about why these kids are retards.

                          --Portland Ute

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                          • #418
                            Originally posted by Green Lantern View Post
                            The funny thing is I was going to compare your response to what the other guy had said earlier in the thread. I just forgot that other guy was you.
                            I also commented on Downtown Owl in this thread.
                            "Nobody listens to Turtle."
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                            • #419
                              Originally posted by Surfah View Post
                              I also commented on Downtown Owl in this thread.
                              I hoped you were going to post your review of the PMBOK!
                              I have nothing else to say at this time.

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                              • #420
                                Originally posted by Parrot Head View Post
                                I hoped you were going to post your review of the PMBOK!
                                Holy crap that thing is dry. I am also using a study guide by Rita McCulhay or something like that. All I want is 61% on this stupid exam.
                                "Nobody listens to Turtle."
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