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My Morning Jacket, Z.

Awesome game! Lots of excitement and great play by both teams. Go Leafs!

Something I don't understand - at the end of the game when the Habs pulled Price, the commentators made some remark about not gaining two points if they had won because they had pulled the goalie with only 1.4 seconds left in overtime. Ummmm... what the hell is that all about? I didn't think there were any restrictions on whne you can pull your goalie?

Rolling Stones, It's Only Rock 'N' Roll.

Pretenders, Pretenders.

Stars will be awesome in a church, methinks. Yo La Tengo would be really cool, too.

Joy Division, Closer.

That was definitely one of the best Phish shows that I ever attended. Awesome.

Happy Birthday LaserBoy!

I don't understand why they're taking health precautions at all. From my understanding, you are miraculously restored to life a few days after the crucifixion. Why worry about tetanus when you're going to be resurrected anyway?

Condolences. I think everyone else has already summed up anything else I could possibly add beyond that. Be well.

Donald Byrd, Free Form.

The Real Jerk is just down the road and has delicious Jamaican food. Highly recommended for some eats before the show!

She is by far one of the easiest people to look at in the entire universe. I've seen several positive reviews of this disc. I look forward to hearing it!

I like him.

R.I.P. Send him to Jupiter!

Isn't it possible that revenues are low because fewer people are currrently smoking, while costs are simultaneously high because hospitals are treating people who already spent a lifetime smoking? There's bound to be a time-lag between the decrease in the number of smokers and the decrease in the money spent on treating smoking-related diseases and illnesses. Since fewer people are taking up smoking than ever before, it stands to reason that in the future there will be lower costs associated with treating the attendent illnesses.

Yes, please!

That strategy has worked particularly well with illegal drugs! Shit, nobody does those anymore since they were banned.

Ron Sexsmith, Retriever.

Awesome! I love 1973!!

Happy St. Paddy's to all!

But here's the thing: if you don't get sick and end up in the hospital because you're a smoker, you're going to get sick and end up in the hospital for something else. Everyone dies, and if you don't die in a traffic accident or from a sudden, unexpected heart attack you're likely to be in the hospital requiring medical assistance before you go - and the longer you live, the more medical assistance you're likely to need. You could argue that longevity costs health care tax dollars, too.

Sweet Jebus, I'm a geek.

can someone please explain the grammer rules involved here? "Which" is used to introduce non-restrictive phrases. If you remove the non-restrictive phrase from the sentence, it should still make sense and the meaning of the sentence will still be the same, for example, "My favourite animal is the dolphin, which is a mammal." You can remove the "which" phrase and still have a logical sentence, but you can't replace "which" with "that" because you would end up with "My favourite animal is the dolphin that is a mammal" (as opposed to what - the dolphin that isn't a mammal? A reptile, perhaps?) "That" is used to introduce restrictive phrases. Restrictive phrases are essential to the meaning of the sentence: "The dog that keeps me awake with its barking lives across the street." If you remove "that lives across the street" you fail to identify the dog properly - it could be *any* dog, not necessarily the one that barks all night. An easier rule? If you could use commas, you should use "which"; if not, you should use "that". Bokonon obviously meant that Canadians consume a lot of American media and that's why we should know how many states there are. Aside from the fact that "mass amounts" is grammatically incorrect, these two sentences mean different things: "... you don't need to learn this fact in school, you can pick it up from the mass amounts of American media, which Canadians consume"; "... you don't need to learn this fact in school, you can pick it up from the mass amounts of American media that Canadians consume." The knowledge can't just be picked up from American media; it needs to be picked up from the American media that we consume.