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  1. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    Football draws a lot of rules from rugby. In this case, most agree the palbably unfair rule was written intentionally vague to allow refs the power to penalize actions that aren't covered by any written rule, but are obviously not right.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    It was Rice, wasn't it?
     
  3. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    You are correct, thanks for catching that.
     
  4. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    If that happened today the refs would rule that the Rice player illegally enticed the Alabama player off the bench by taunting him. 15 yards and loss of down for the Owls.
     
  5. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    To keep mice away, the British government employs over 100,000 cats.
     
  6. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    They really only need 65,000, but the damn union won't let them downsize.
     
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  7. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    The USA is one of only five countries in the world that uses the Fahrenheit scale to measure temperature. The others are The Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands and Palau
     
  8. Bengal B

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    The Spanish national anthem has no words
     
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    Bengal B Founding Member

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    If you travel directly north, south, east or west from Stamford, Connecticut you will enter the state of New York
     
  10. shane0911

    shane0911 Helping lost idiots find their village

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    Not without getting wet first
     

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