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Time to badmouth Scorch: your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries. I fart in your general direction.

The Stamps have to be in a snarly mood after the loss to the Riders. This is not only a must-win game(duh) but will also give us a preview into to mindset of the Big Blue at this point in the season. Time to stock up on munchies for the game.

Do you think that step-children who go missing have their pictures put on cartons of half and half?

For $600,000 per annum?

Disagree to an extent. Nichols has played well most often but has also had games where he was ineffective or just terrible. He could be another quarterback who can play well enough to keep a job (AKA Kevin Glenn) but just not well enough to win the Big Games.

Few get to determine how and when their careers are over.

Is it time yet to start treating new member Scorch like a leper yet?

The past few games have shown that the Esks are no longer to be feared.

You sacrifice has been duly noted. Very noble of you.

I agree with you that Calgary has the talent and coaching to put it all together and take a run at the Cup, but there seems to be something rotten in the state of the Eskies. I suspect that at the end of the season they will say, "No Maas."

This is the way to go, and we have been doing this for some time. Our credit card gives us 2% rebate and another 2% at Costco gas bar. Our cell phones are through Zoomer Wireless and we get both for $50.00 per month (new LG cellphone every two years) with lotsa data, prime-time calling and other perks. Plus they throw in free membership in CARP.

Aaaand,,,,my brain still hurts.

Even after this past weekend, there are so many permutations that guessing is almost pointless. Utterly chaotic.

Yes, but he buys drinks afterwards.

And I've gotten old enough that my yearly physicals have to be done by a paleontologist.

Yes, but we need someone to cut as an object lesson if the team loses again.

Well, then. We're all set now.

Mitchell has had the luxury of a decent O-line and clutch receivers who he had a feel for, until this year. Now Stamps are playing musical chairs with receivers and while these are good, they and Mitchell do not have the same familiarity. Still, I wouldn't count them out just yet.

Welcome aboard, at least until the Bombers play the Stamps again. Then you will be treated as a leper.

Refereeing aside, this has to be the best Collaros has played in forever. He actually looked like a legit QB out there. Sask looked like a whole different team from last week and Calgary looked like they expected to throw their jocks onto the field and have the opposition run away and concede the game. Questions need to be asked about the grit of the Stampeder team.

Good start for the Stamps!

I really didn't give a lump of pig spit who won, but it was an entertaining game. And Franklin outplayed Manziel once again.

Here is a more comprehensive list of children raised in dysfunctional families: many adult children can: Become isolated Fear people and authority figures Become approval seekers Be frightened of angry people Be terrified of personal criticism Become alcoholics, marry them, or both View life as a victim Have an overwhelming sense of responsibility Be concerned more with others than themselves Feel guilty when they stand up for themselves Become addicted to excitement Confuse love and pity "Love" people who need rescuing Stuff their feelings Lose the ability to feel Have low self-esteem Judge themselves harshly Become terrified of abandonment Do anything to hold on to a relationship Become "para-alcoholics," people who take on the characteristics of the disease without drinking

Very few families have not been touched by the ravages of alcoholism. Even if you have not inherited the genetic predisposition towards chemical dependency, there are behavioural tendencies usually get installed in the offspring- like guessing what is normal in life, being either super-responsible or super-irresponsible, impulsiveness, etc, etc.

This last half of the season has been so bizarrely unpredictable that I wouldn't bet the farm on any particular scenario.