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Jamyp's Pick

38.07 Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Movie)

I think the 38th round is a wonderful time to draft the greatest comedic movie of all time that only gets better with age.

We're knights of the Round Table, we dance whene'er we're able.

We do routines and chorus scenes with footwork impec-cable,

We dine well here in Camelot, we eat ham and jam and Spam a lot.

We're knights of the Round Table, our shows are for-mi-dable.

But many times we're given rhymes that are quite un-sing-able,

We're opera mad in Camelot, we sing from the diaphragm a lot.

In war we're tough and able, Quite in-de-fa-ti-gable.

Between our quests we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable

It's a busy life in Camelot,I have to push the pram a lot.
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Bob Lee Swagger said:
38.06 - On the Genealogy of Morality/Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche - Non-Fiction Book

Read this a couple times in some classes I took on Nietzsche, and I love it. The title pretty much encapsulates the scope of the project. Basically, Nietzsche tries to trace the origins of morality, and in doing so he introduces the creditor/debtor relationship, ressentiment, ascetic ideals, etc. And the best part is that he actually writes beautifully, and that his ideas make a ton of sense, to me at least.

Here's the wiki link.
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Thought you'd go with this one... wait a sec- I thought I was going to go with this one..
 
38.12 Wayne Gretzky's NHL career point total of 2857, sports record

This is easily one of the most impressive sports record ever. Even if you take away all his goals, his assist total alone would still be the #1 point total in NHL history, showing how dominant he was on the ice.

 
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31.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

32.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

33.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

34.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

35.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

35.12 - Mister CIA

36.10 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 15)

36.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

36.16 - Doug B (autoskip)

37.05 - Doug B (autoskip)

37.06 - Abrantes (autoskip)

37.10 - Thatguy (autoskip)

37.11 - El Floppo (autoskip if not here in first 15)

37.12 - Team CIA (autoskip)

37.16 - Scott Norwood/Anborn (timed out)

37.18 - Genedoc/Bonzai (timed out)

37.19 - Tirnan (autoskip if not around)

38.02 - Tirnan (autoskip if not around)

38.03 - Genedoc (autoskip due to prior timeout)

38.04 - DC Thunder (autoskip)

38.05 - Scott Norwood (autoskip due to prior timeout)

38.09 - Team CIA (autoskip)

38.10 - El Floppo (autoskip)

38.11 - Thatguy (autoskip)

38.13 - Tides of War (autoskip)

38.14 - BobbyLayne (autoskip)

38.15 - Abrantes - OTC until :39

38.16 - Doug B (autoskip)

38.17 - Timscochet - On Deck

38.18 - Postradamus - In The Hole

38.19 - Rodg

38.20 - Krista

Yikes. That skipped list is getting huge again.

 
Big Rocks said:
38.12 Wayne Gretzky's NHL career point total of 2857, sports recordThis is easily one of the most impressive sports record ever. Even if you take away all his goals, his assist total alone would still be the #1 point total in NHL history, showing how dominant he was on the ice.
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****.
 
Makeup pick 1 of 7:

Richard II by Shakespeare

My favorite of his histories.

 
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May as well take Richard III by Shakespeare as well for my second makeup pick.

 
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In fact it seems a great deal of my picks may be missing... Is there another more definitive list of our teams? Is the Google doc fixed yet?

 
thatguy said:
In fact it seems a great deal of my picks may be missing... Is there another more definitive list of our teams? Is the Google doc fixed yet?
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The google doc always seems to be more accurate than the lists here ( :hey: Abrantes). If you go to results, it now links to a spreadsheet that you should bookmark.
 
Okay, makeup pick 3 of 7.

No idea where this will rank or even if it is critically acclaimed by anyone (other than me). But this one of my all time favorite performances, by one of my favorite actors portraying one of my favorite movie characters.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho

 
thatguy said:
Okay, makeup pick 3 of 7.

No idea where this will rank or even if it is critically acclaimed by anyone (other than me). But this one of my all time favorite performances, by one of my favorite actors portraying one of my favorite movie characters.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
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I think it's a great performance. But almost everything taken has been, so it's hard to say where it will eventually shake out.
 
krista4 said:
thatguy said:
Okay, makeup pick 3 of 7.

No idea where this will rank or even if it is critically acclaimed by anyone (other than me). But this one of my all time favorite performances, by one of my favorite actors portraying one of my favorite movie characters.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
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I think it's a great performance. But almost everything taken has been, so it's hard to say where it will eventually shake out.
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True dat. Not worried about where it will rank, just really wanted to have it on my team based on it's awesomeness.
 
krista4 said:
thatguy said:
Okay, makeup pick 3 of 7.

No idea where this will rank or even if it is critically acclaimed by anyone (other than me). But this one of my all time favorite performances, by one of my favorite actors portraying one of my favorite movie characters.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
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I think it's a great performance. But almost everything taken has been, so it's hard to say where it will eventually shake out.
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Do you like Genesis?
 
ScottNorwood said:
krista4 said:
thatguy said:
Okay, makeup pick 3 of 7.

No idea where this will rank or even if it is critically acclaimed by anyone (other than me). But this one of my all time favorite performances, by one of my favorite actors portraying one of my favorite movie characters.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
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I think it's a great performance. But almost everything taken has been, so it's hard to say where it will eventually shake out.
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Do you like Genesis?
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ScottNorwood said:
krista4 said:
thatguy said:
Okay, makeup pick 3 of 7.

No idea where this will rank or even if it is critically acclaimed by anyone (other than me). But this one of my all time favorite performances, by one of my favorite actors portraying one of my favorite movie characters.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
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I think it's a great performance. But almost everything taken has been, so it's hard to say where it will eventually shake out.
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Do you like Genesis?
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I've been a big fan of Genesis since the release of their 1980 album, Duke.
 
krista4 said:
ScottNorwood said:
krista4 said:
thatguy said:
Okay, makeup pick 3 of 7.

No idea where this will rank or even if it is critically acclaimed by anyone (other than me). But this one of my all time favorite performances, by one of my favorite actors portraying one of my favorite movie characters.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
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I think it's a great performance. But almost everything taken has been, so it's hard to say where it will eventually shake out.
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Do you like Genesis?
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I've been a big fan of Genesis since the release of their 1980 album, Duke.
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Christie, take off the robe.
 
37.11 Sports Record, 511 Wins, Cy Young

This category held absolutely no interest for me, so it's easier for me to just take the best value. For good and bad reasons, nobody will EVER break this record.

Saw Randy Johnson interviewed today about winning #300 (at age 45) which was followed up by the commentators saying that the next 300 win pitcher probably isn't even alive yet. With 5 man rotations, pitch-counts etc, this is untouchable. 20+wins per season for 25 years.

 
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El Floppo said:
37.11 Sports Record, 511 Wins, Cy Young

This category held absolutely no interest for me, so it's easier for me to just take the best value. For good and bad reasons, nobody will EVER break this record.

Saw Randy Johnson interviewed today about winning #300 (at age 45) which was followed up by the commentators saying that the next 300 win pitcher probably isn't even alive yet. With 5 man rotations, pitch-counts etc, this is untouchable. 20+wins per season for 25 years.
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:censored: Was going to be my next pick!!

:rant:

:hot:

 
Have to leave in 15 minutes to pick up Mr. krista4 from his root canal.

Let's see, he just gave up smoking, and he is getting root canal. :censored:

Could anyone take my next Blockbuster Pick?

 
A make-up pick:

38.04--All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)-Erich Maria Remarque-Novel

One of the most searing anti-war novels ever written, this story of a German soldier in the Imperial Army, fighting the French and British during WWI, was written in 1928, scarcely 10 years after the Armistice. It vividly depicts the horrors of war and what its like to endure a shelling and to witness the death of comrades and squadmates. It also tells of the alienation soldiers felt when back in civilian society on leave and how a soldier can't bear to be away from the front and his squad, even though that puts him at risk of death.

Banned and burned by the Nazis as being un-Germanic, the novel sold over 2.5 million copies in 25 languages in it's first 18 months and became an Oscar winning motion picture in 1930.

This book used to be on high school reading lists, but probably isn't today. This is simply a brilliant depction of the psychic reality of men in combat, no different in the trenches of Flanders than it was in the hedgerows of Normandy or the triple canopy jungle of The Nam or today in The Sandbox or the mountains of the 'Stan.

 
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MisfitBlondes said:
krista4 said:
MisfitBlondes said:
krista4 said:
Have to leave in 15 minutes to pick up Mr. krista4 from his root canal.

Let's see, he just gave up smoking, and he is getting root canal. :hot:

Could anyone take my next Blockbuster Pick?
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:headbang: Best of luck to OH. :censored:
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Sent, and thank you. You still on the not-smoking wagon?
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I'd be lying if I said I was. I'm gradually getting there. :rant:
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It has to be really tough. Good luck.OK, I'm out--be back briefly in a couple of hours.

 
Round Fifteen

I'm bored at work.

1. Fennis Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator

Solid pick. Of course, it's the movie that got Hitler so pissed that he called his buddy the Emporer and told him that a can of whoop ### Japanese style needs to be opened on the good ole USA. So, you know, glamorize the guy that got us into WWII. Nice job.

2. Rodg12 To Kill A Mockingbird

A story about racism and justice turned upside down in a small town with a title about the murder of a small bird that sounds like a bug. Who knew.

3. Postradamus The Catcher In The Rye

I've never tried to play baseball in a rye or wheat patch. I'm guessing you get itchy. Especially the catcher. Having to kneel down in it the whole game. Must get that guy really po'ed by the end of the game.

4. timschochet Like A Rolling Stone

Keith Richards has been dead for 20 years and he still looks pretty good. We all should be like a Rolling Stone. Not Mick though. I know he got his share, but it was of guys too. NTTAWWT.

5. Doug B Edict of Milan

We desire peace for religion! Then comes a few crusades, Dark Ages and Jim Baker.

6. Abrantes Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon On The Island of La Grande Jatte

I'm sorry, but this painting has a chick with a really really really really big butt getting peed on by a little monkey. If that is what a day in that park is like, no thanks.

7. BobbyLayne Born To Run (Album)

Do you get the Super Bowl crotch shot with this?

8. Tides of War Beethoven's Fur Elise

da da da da da da da da dum da-da-da-dum, da-da-da-dum........... If you listen to this music backwards you here Beethoven saying, "What? Huh? I can't hear you..."

9. wikkidpissah Jackson Pollack's #1 Lavender Mist

If you study this painting very closely... very closely.... you will see a drop cloth.

10. thatguy The Forbidden City

Pfft. Nothing more then a beach house for Donald Trump.

11. El Floppo The Road Not Taken

The review not written.

12. Mister CIA Sesame Street

No one ever talks about the dark side of this show. Bert and Ernie being gay lovers. Big Bird being mentally handicapped, Snuffy being a pervert/stalker, Gina being a tease. Oh yes she was. The way she always smiled into the camera. Uh huh. She wanted it. And no red sock was going to give it to her. I would have Oscared her grouch.

13. Uncle Humuna Twin Peaks

I didn't know there was a Dolly Parton bio worthy of being selected.

14. Misfit Blondes I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

Because it has nothing else to do except poop.

15. Bob Lee Swagger Code of Hammurabi

You have to love these laws. If you steal from another, you die. Murder another, you die. Have sex with your horse, you die. Laugh at emporer, you die. Wash hands for only 2 munites instead of the 4 required by the Board of Health before returning to work, you die. Some serious stuff here.

16. Scott Norwood Jaws

He was a decent QB, but he played for the Eagles, so he already gets a few pegs down. Monster with the telestrater though.

17. DC Thunder Lonesome Dove

He should go find the Caged Bird. They could be buds.

18. Genedoc Château de Versailles

The Hall of Mirrors was actually the first porn den known to be built. The French know how to do it. All those losers in the '70's with the water beds and mirrors on the ceiling.... losers.

19. Tirnan Beethoven's Third Symphony "Eroica"

I enjoy my share of eroica as I am sure many do. Like asian women with glasses? Google it. All you ever need. Mature ladies? Not a problem. It's all there. Enjoy.

20. Yankee23 Fan American Gothic

How'd that old guy get such a young looking wife? Where the plains really that barren? Granted, she wasn't a looker. But, she was most certainly a bit of a, bit of a goer, know what I mean, say no more say no more.

 
Alright, screw it. Time to close down my nonfiction category. As I stated before, I wanted some diversity for this category, and the picls reflect that.

37.06 G.K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man (Nonfiction)

A nice elaboration from the American Chesterton Society

In the grand scheme of things, I'm not sure where Chesterton's work will place, but it's a supremely thoughtful spiritual analysis by one of my favorite writers. A man of endless wit and generosity - perhaps too witty and generous. His way with words lends a distinct charm and perspective to the spiritual journey of his works, even to those who don't particularly agree with his personal choices.

The Everlasting Man is a two-part history of mankind, Christ, and Christianity, by G. K. Chesterton. Published in 1925, it is to some extent a conscious rebuttal of H. G. Wells’ Outline of History, which embraced both the evolutionary origins of humanity and the mortal humanity of Jesus. Whereas Orthodoxy detailed Chesterton's own spiritual journey, in this book he tries to illustrate the spiritual journey of humanity, or at least of Western civilization.

"There are two ways of getting home," Chesterton begins, "and one of them is to stay there. The other is to walk round the whole world till we come back to the same place." The Everlasting Man is addressed to those who have not gotten home in the first way, inviting them to approach their home in the second way.

The point of this book, in other words, is that the next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it. And a particular point is that the popular critics of Christianity are not really outside it. ... the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to be far enough away not to hate it. It is the contention of these pages that while the best judge of Christianity is a Christian, the next best judge would be something more like a Confucian. The worst judge of all is the man now most ready with his judgments; the ill-educated Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard. ... For those in whom a mere reaction has thus become an obsession, I do seriously recommend the imaginative effort of conceiving the Twelve Apostles as Chinamen. In other words, I recommend these critics to try to do as much justice to Christian saints as if they were pagan sages. But ... when we do make this imaginative effort to see the whole thing from the outside, we find that it really looks like what is traditionally said about it inside.

According to the evolutionary outlines of history proposed by Wells and others, mankind is simply another sort of animal, and Jesus was a remarkable human being, but no more. Chesterton's thesis, as expressed in Part I of the book ('On the Creature Called Man'), is that if man is really and dispassionately viewed simply as another animal, one is forced to the conclusion that he is a bizarrely unusual animal. In Part II ('On the Man Called Christ'), Chesterton argues that if Jesus is really viewed as simply another human leader and Christianity and the Church are simply another human religion, one is forced to the conclusion that he was a bizarrely unusual leader, whose followers founded a bizarrely and miraculously unusual religion and Church. “I do not believe,” he says, "that the past is most truly pictured as a thing in which humanity merely fades away into nature, or civilization merely fades away into barbarism, or religion fades away into mythology, or our own religion fades away into the religions of the world. In short I do not believe that the best way to produce an outline of history is to rub out the lines."

C. S. Lewis credited The Everlasting Man with "baptising" his intellect, much as George MacDonald's writings had baptised his imagination, so as to make him more than half-converted well before he could bring himself to embrace Christianity. In a letter to Sheldon Vanauken (December 14, 1950), Lewis calls the book "the best popular apologetic I know," and to Rhonda Bodle he wrote (December 31, 1947) "the [very] best popular defence of the full Christian position I know is G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man." The book was also cited in a list of 10 books that "most shaped his vocational attitude and philosophy of life".
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38.15 Avicenna's The Canon of Medicine (Nonfiction)Given that I took the author in the previous draft, this should come as no surprise. The Canon is simply an immense work. Much like the Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, it provides a thorough examination of previous accomplishments in his field, while adding a number of key elaborations.

The Canon of Medicine (Arabic: القانون في الطب Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb "The Law of Medicine"; Persian: قانون Qanun "Law"; Latin: Canon Medicinae "Canon of Medicine"; Chinese: 回回藥方, or 回回药方 (Hui Hui Yao Fang) "Prescriptions of the Hui Nationality") is a 14-volume Arabic medical encyclopedia written by a Persian scientist and physician Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and completed in 1025. Written in Arabic, the book was based on a combination of his own personal experience, medieval Islamic medicine, the writings of the Roman physician Galen, the Indian physicians Sushruta and Charaka, and ancient Arabian and Persian medicine. The Canon is considered one of the most famous books in the history of medicine.

Also known as the Qanun, which means "law" in Arabic and Persian, the Canon of Medicine remained a medical authority up until the 18th century and early 19th century. It set the standards for medicine in Europe and the Islamic world, and is Avicenna's most renowned written work. Qanun was used at many medical schools—at University of Montpellier, France, as late as 1650. Much of the book was also translated into Chinese as the Hui Hui Yao Fang (Prescriptions of the Hui Nationality) by the Hui people in Yuan China. The Canon also formed the basis of Unani medicine, a form of traditional medicine practiced in India. The principles of medicine described by him ten centuries ago in this book, are still taught at UCLA and Yale University, among others, as part of the history of medicine.

The Canon is considered the first pharmacopoeia, and among other things, the book is known for the introduction of systematic experimentation and quantification into the study of physiology, the discovery of the contagious nature of infectious diseases, the introduction of quarantine to limit the spread of contagious diseases, and the introduction of evidence-based medicine, experimental medicine, clinical trials, randomized controlled trials, efficacy tests, clinical pharmacology, neuropsychiatry, physiological psychology, risk factor analysis, and the idea of a syndrome in the diagnosis of specific diseases.

George Sarton, the father of the history of science, wrote in the Introduction to the History of Science:

"One of the most famous exponents of Muslim universalism and an eminent figure in Islamic learning was Ibn Sina, known in the West as Avicenna (981-1037). For a thousand years he has retained his original renown as one of the greatest thinkers and medical scholars in history. His most important medical works are the Qanun (Canon) and a treatise on Cardiac drugs. The 'Qanun fi-l-Tibb' is an immense encyclopedia of medicine. It contains some of the most illuminating thoughts pertaining to distinction of mediastinitis from pleurisy; contagious nature of phthisis; distribution of diseases by water and soil; careful description of skin troubles; of sexual diseases and perversions; of nervous ailments."
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