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In keeping with the nerdy Star Trek theme of late I just had to post this. Sorry.

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A pair of human skeletons lie in an eternal embrace at an Neolithic archaeological dig site near Mantova, Italy, in this photo released February 6, 2007. Archaeologists in northern Italy believe the couple was buried 5,000-6,000 years ago, their arms still wrapped around each other in a hug that has lasted millennia. REUTERS/Enrico Pajello/Handout (ITALY).

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I’d love to know what the story is behind these two. Scientists will do their best to figure it all out I’m sure. Perhaps we’ll never know the true circumstance surrounding their being buried together. Perhaps we need to call in David Caruso from CSI Miami for some cornball one-liners on the case:

A couple of weeks ago O & A spent a number of days on the above video. Funny stuff.

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Live broadcast with no dump button? Silly Sportsnet.

The Canucks won the game too! Wee!

Beware of Robert Goulet, for he will mess with your stuff once you fall asleep.

That was one of Carol’s favourite Super Bowl ads. Perhaps because her mom doesn’t like Robert Goulet because, it has been said, Elvis didn’t like him.

YouTube video:Goooooouulet!

Steve sings ‘Dont Worry Be Happy’ – remixed by Dru Boogie
Our buddy Dru Boogie (who is responsible for a ton of remixes on the show) took the audio of Steve singing in the production studio and mixed it into a fantastic version of ‘Don’t Worry Be Happy’. Amazing job, Dru!

Opie & Anthony played this over and over and over. If I had a cellphone that didn’t suck I’d use it as my phone’s ring tone. I think I’ll listen again. God it’s irritating.

“That’s terrible I’m sorry.”

Our downstairs neighbour, Bennett, says that when he lived in LA he was often pulled over for DWB. Apparently hasn’t happened to him since he moved here to Canada. I guess that’s my contribution to black history month. Being the whitest a white person can be I honestly don’t know much. I’m kind of embarrassed at how ethnocentric I am sometimes. A little exploration couldn’t hurt.

After over 12 hours of trying to install Windows Vista, downloading countless drivers that didn’t work and dealing with lots of hardware conflict issues, Anthony figured he was finally qualified to give others a very useful tutorial on installing Windows Vista on a computer running Windows XP. See for yourself how to SUCCESSFULLY install Windows Vista!

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Opie & Anthony are the best! O & A party rock!

Churches in Indiana and across the country are scrapping traditional Super Bowl viewing parties in wake of the NFL’s stance that mass viewings of the game on big screen TV’s would violate copyright law.

The issue came to light Thursday when the Star reported that the NFL had told Fall Creek Baptist Church in Indianapolis that its plans for a Super Bowl watch party in front a big screen TV would be illegal.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Thursday the league stands by its interpretation of copyright law and would look into any violators that comes to the league’s attention. The main concern for the league, Aiello said, is groups that charge admission to watch games and those that use a TV screen larger than 55 inches to show the game.

A story about Fall Creek’s plan to cancel its game viewing plans prompted dozens of calls and more than 500 email comments to the Star’s website Thursday. Aiello said media from around the country have been inquiring with the league as well.

In Indianapolis, home of the AFC Champion Colts, Indian Creek Christian Church and Castleton United Methodist Church are among those who have cancelled plans to watch the game in their churches.

The issue came to light after the NFL confronted Fall Creek about its promotion of a “Super Bowl Bash” at the church that would bring together congregation members to watch the game with a projection TV.

Aiello said the league has a longstanding policy against “mass out-of-home viewings” of the Super Bowl, even if the hosts don’t charge admission. The NFL makes an exception to that, however, for sports bars that show televised sports on a regular basis. And that point has been a point of considerable anger among people who have contacted the newspaper in response to the story.

via Digg digg and the indystar

Good thing our TV is only 52″ or we’d be in trouble. We don’t charge admission and I think only Bennett and Scotty are showing up for the game anyway.

Some of these copyright laws are downright retarded. The NFL doesn’t even want some people in broadcasting (Opie and Anthony) or gambling websites to use the words Super Bowl. When I worked at that place we had to call it ‘the big game’ or some other lame name in our ads. We were not allowed to say Super Bowl at all. I see that’s still in effect from the ads on their site today.

So as Anthony said on their show yesterday:

Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl Super Bowl.

Come and get me.