Olympic Stadium is still a massive white elephant though. Adjusted for inflation its still one of the most expensive stadiums ever built, and parts of it were never even finished. I saw some cranes out that way a few weeks ago, is the roof broken again?

It’s actually VERY communist. In the UK Boxing Day tradition has the lords and servants swap places for the day.

It’s all part of the same tournament though... there is a promotion/relegation scheme to allow teams to develop and move up the ranks to eventually be served up as a sacrifical lamb at the Big Show during the Christmas break.

When the last newspaper is finally shuttered it will be Garfield that turns out the lights, leaving Good Ol’ Charlie Brown alone in the dark.

It’s important to note that a Discouraged Worker is only someone who has given up looking for work in the past 4 weeks. So it is possible for some eligible workers to “drop out” of the unemployment statistics over time. This is not necessarily a bad thing as some of these people may have chosen to go back to school,…

Challenging well-accepted economic statistics is the gateway for many anti-government cuckoos. It’s not hard to find people complaining about how the unemployment rate is bullshit for various reasons (often trying to claim that the less reported U5 and U6 rates are the “real” rates the government is trying to hide…

It’s not every day you see someone agitating for the third string QB to take over in the playoffs.

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You can go to school in California or Florida and get the exact same climate experience, plus national exposure if you have any hope of trying to cut it in the NFL.

He’s insinuating that in spite of all the public refusals celebs are still quietly thirsting for inauguration tickets, and that he’s actually telling them to get lost since all those celebrity endorsements did nothing for Clinton.

But... the Jets were garbage in the years leading up to the publication of A Game of Thrones.

So what was the deal, they had six guys come in to man the DJ booth that day instead of paying three guys for 8 hours, which is basically a wash on salary? Or did someone decide the system could run unattended for part of the day?

At companies that aren’t misers you get your full holiday pay (or lieu time) plus double time pay for hours worked. Either way you got scammed.

The o/u on original content posts on Christmas Day at Deadspin is 3.5. Place your bets. Go double or nothing on HamNo being one of the authors.

The trick is to inherit a fake tree from a relative that was locally made once upon a time.

Poor Bobby :(

I don’t know what fucking standings the Deadspin staff are looking at but its at least the second time this week they’ve said the Dolphins are in the playoffs.

This is better than anything Drew’s ever written for the Jambaroo segment.

Meanwhile, back in reality:

Vince McMahon tried to buy the entire CFL before building the XFL from scratch. The latter league cribbed heavily from the former’s rulebook to give the impression that it was anything goes on the field.