OT: Hurricanes Off Topic Lounge XI: The Numbers All Go to 11.

[Unsustainable]

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/09/pig-drinks-18-beers-attempts-to-fight-cow-before-passing-out/

Lol. That is just too funny.

 

[Sasha Cares]

3-0 in FFL... wooohooooo

 

[Sasha Cares]

Yeah, I need 19.8 points from Morris to beat you this week. Thanks a lot, Wallace and White.

tough break, you outscored everyone but me this week and just happened to be up against me... Not sure how I ended up the top scorer without Peyton LOL

 

[Finlandia WOAT]

So after nearly 10 (!) years, I have decided to finally correct my embouchure for my trombone. In that time, I have been playing at a 45* angle from the side of my mouth to the right.

It's painful, I'm a mediocre player anyway (that's all you need to be in the NC State Marching Band) but this is slow going...I'm 5 notes out of my range.

But I'm tired of being unable to tongue, unable to maintain clear notes, unable to get a good sound. So here we go! /music nerd rant

 

[Novacane]

It's so outstanding that Shibboleth decided to throw a fit the day before my statics exam!!!

 

[DaveG]

Dos a Cero


We are going to Brazil

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

 

[DaleCooper]

Going to Toronto for the first time this weekend. Anybody have any suggestions? I'll be going to the Hockey Hall of Fame obviously.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Going to Toronto for the first time this weekend. Anybody have any suggestions? I'll be going to the Hockey Hall of Fame obviously.

I went in July, you could spend literally hours there.

As far as the HHOF goes, do NOT waste your time with the 3D movie. It's stupid. Stick to the history, the landmarks they've got there are pretty incredible. That being said, Tripp always made a huge deal about Commodore's bathrobe being there, but I didn't see it. It was probably only there for a little while.

Spend the majority of your time in the Trophy Room. It's like a converted cathedral with ALL the trophies. It's crazy cool. In the back corner of that room they have the Hall of Fame Book, which basically is a gigantic book with all the giant signatures of all the inductees. I went with my parents, who went to RPI with Oates, so they thought that part was the coolest.

If you're driving back, be sure to make a stop to Duff's for the best wings in the world!

 

[DaveG]

I'm an Anchor Bar guy myself. Why, WHY did the plans for opening the one down here have to fall through?

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

I'm an Anchor Bar guy myself. Why, WHY did the plans for opening the one down here have to fall through?

I've actually never been to Duff's, we went to Anchor Bar when we went up myself. I was underwhelmed, they were delicious, but I've had better.

To me, the most important part of the wing is proper skin crispiness. No one wants a slimy wing, no one wants a burnt wing. Anchor Bar made them with good chicken and the sauce was awesome, but the crispiness, while CLOSE to perfect, was helped along a bit by being slightly overdone, it tasted slightly burnt. It was a top 5 wing I've ever had, but I wouldn't say the best.

Everything I've heard says Duff's blows Anchor Bar out of the water. Travel Channel specials, reviews on Yelp, etc. I'm so excited to try them at some point. We were GOING to go to Anchor Bar and THEN Duff's, to make the call for ourselves, but after splitting 80 Anchor Bar wings with my dad we weren't really feeling like driving another 30 minutes to have two Duff's wings before we couldn't take anymore.

 

[DaleCooper]

Been to the Anchor Bar and did enjoy it. I'm probably gonna stop somewhere around Buffalo on the way home to have lunch with a friend, so I may have to suggest wings.

Anchor Bar in NC? What?

 

[DaveG]

Yep, apparently sometime around the 2004-2007 timeframe there were plans to open a location somewhere in Raleigh that just flat out fell through. Don't know if the owners of the possible franchise couldn't come up with the cash, or if the company just said "forget it" and changed their minds. But either way it nearly happened.

Buffalo Bros is the closest we can get down here, and while they're actually pretty decent IMO, they're NOT Anchor Bar good. Somewhere that is reviewing that it can compete with, yet alone surpass, the Anchor Bar? I'll have to check this out to see if it's hype or if it's legit.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Yep, apparently sometime around the 2004-2007 timeframe there were plans to open a location somewhere in Raleigh that just flat out fell through. Don't know if the owners of the possible franchise couldn't come up with the cash, or if the company just said "forget it" and changed their minds. But either way it nearly happened.

Buffalo Bros is the closest we can get down here, and while they're actually pretty decent IMO, they're NOT Anchor Bar good. Somewhere that is reviewing that it can compete with, yet alone surpass, the Anchor Bar? I'll have to check this out to see if it's hype or if it's legit.

http://www.wivb.com/community/duffs-beats-anchor-bar-for-best-wing

That was the Food Wars episode that put Duff's on my radar. In general, when you go to Yelp, you'll obviously see good and bad reviews for both, but it tends to trend towards Duff's.

The saying is that "Anchor Bar invented the wing, and Duff's perfected it." I still haven't tried it, so I can't say so for sure, but it sure seems like Duff's has them beat.

EDIT: Also, here's the "Buffalo Eats Chicken Wing Guide," which also has Duff's in front of Anchor Bar: http://buffaloeats.org/chicken-wing-guide/

 

[Carolinas Identity*]

I only recognise four of the bands on the NHL 14 soundtrack and none of the songs.

Am I out of touch, or do they just keep putting bad music in these games?

Discuss

 

[the halleJOKEL]

The NHL games have had notoriously bad music since NHL 2004. Go play FIFA instead.

 

[Guy]

No clue where they grabbed these figures from. If the Panthers have the cheapest beer in the league, I'm glad I've never been to any other stadiums.

 

[DaveG]

Yep, it's funny is I used to be that guy that bought every NHL game, and every NCAA game, sticking to the FIFA games when they're ramping up for the World Cup.

Now, I just can't get into the NHL games anymore, might buy one every 3 years or so. The NCAA games still draw me, and I've been increasingly buying and playing the FIFA games over the years.

Basically aside from the Madden and FIFA franchises EA Sports basically don't give a **** anymore.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

It's killing me that I have to wait until the PS4 comes out for FIFA this year because I absolutely refuse to buy it on 360 and pay for gold when it will not transfer anything to the PS version.

#FirstWorldProblems

 

[DaveG]

Killing me even more man. I'm not going to buy a PS4 or XBox 1 until a bit into the next generation when the price point goes down a bit and I see which one I'll prefer (going to be PS4, almost certainly). What I have right now more then works for me.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

But, in that case, you can just buy FIFA for 360 or ps3 and be happy about it. I already have a launch PS4 preordered and my Live Gold expired on my 360 about a month ago. Not really interested in re-upping it because I only used it for Netflix and FIFA anyway.

Can it be November 15th now?

 

[DaveG]

Yeah only question is how big the online gaming community will be for FIFA on 360 at that point. If it's anything like the last generation people are going to jump fast into the new generation.

 

[the halleJOKEL]

360 will be fine. Game comes out two months earlier on it, and it already has an install base of millions of players.

 

[Oogie Boogie]

I'm going to hate this holiday season at work.

 

[Brock Anton]

The NFL fined Lavonte David $7800 for the 'late hit' on Geno Smith. Seriously.

This league is a damn joke.