I think the question is: after a merge or tribal shuffle, if the majority alliance decides to kick out someone from the Brains tribe, will they go after Spencer before targeting Kass or Tasha. If so, that's a point in favour of keeping him around as a shield. I think that the answer is a strong yes, so I'm with
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I got burned (not a triple-triple, though) playing with a friend who complained, "What can you do with every vowel?" When I blurted out "sequoia," he slapped it down for a bingo. I didn't know his other tiles were S and Q! He still brings this up years later.

I'm sure that you're not the only one but I'm not with you. I love it.

Just a couple of times. The opportunity comes up so rarely.

Well, I'll ignore the "big" part of the question and say that Grand Buffet is from Pittsburgh. I doubt that Arcade Fire will be covering "Double Crazy" or "Americus," though (as much as I would like them to).

But it has a fantastic line regarding people surviving a long fall: "Catholics maintain the men were saved by angels, who caught them; Protestants believe they fell into a heap of horse manure."

Great schedule! The Bad Seeds are the best and I'm hoping to see them this summer, if they announce the additional festival dates that I'm expecting. QotSA haven't been my way in a while, unfortunately. I've only seen Mastodon and Mogwai once each, but both shows were strong.

Or will you?

At least you had the Whalers.

The best drumming memory I have from any concert I've ever seen is Dahle trying to balance a half-consumed beer bottle on his floor tom throughout "Testament to Youth in Verse." Despite a valiant effort, including scooping up the bottle when he needed to hit that drum, he couldn't quite make it to the end without…

What's your cutoff for "very old" in this respect?

You wanted "misidentified Atlanta bombing hero" in the headline?

Remember the time he ate my goldfish and you lied to me and said I never had any goldfish? Then why did I have the bowl, Bart? Why did I have the bowl?

Apart from being an interesting read overall, your link also covered the obligatory Brewster's Millions reference.

That's exactly my problem. I'd probably go to Montreal for this tour but Neko's playing Ottawa that day. Neko will get the win for me (and probably would have even without the travel factor.)

On deck: Arcade Fire, Cuff the Duke, The Pack AD, Mac Demarco, Joel Plaskett, Black Sabbath, and Neko Case.

Yeah, I had a dream once, I was all alone, rolling a big doughnut, and this snake wearing a vest . . .

'Twas ever thus.

When Halifax was getting a minor pro basketball team (in the short-lived WBL), there was a public campaign to choose a team name. I remember reading that the most popular proposal was the Halifax Explosion, which was vetoed as being in poor taste.

Plus QI is a vital Scrabble play.