Day: November 26, 2019

This week’s CFP rankings

UncleScoopy

For reasons not immediately apparent, the committee reversed the positions of LSU and THE OSU. Ohio State is now #1.

The two polls still place LSU in the catbird’s seat.

Sagarin’s computer system agrees with the committee that OSU is #1. In fact, it ranks LSU fourth.

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Weird computer stat o’ the day: Sagarin places TCU in the top 30 despite their 5-6 record. According to that system, TCU has played the second most difficult schedule in the country.

Coca-Cola pulled an ad in Germany because it suggested that Nazi Germany was “good old times.”

UncleScoopy

Sing with me, Edith …

Boy, the way that Goebbels spoke
Gas that made our prisoners choke
Guys like us just loved a Coke
Those were the days

And you knew who you were then
Jew were Jews and men were men
Mister, we could use a man like Adolph Hitler again

(By the way, this happened four years ago, but I wanted to riff on it.)

INCOMING! Deadly ‘God of Chaos’ space rock capable of killing millions could hit Earth on 10 different dates

UncleScoopy

“A POTENTIALLY deadly asteroid has ten chances to collide with Earth over the next 84 years, according to Nasa. The space rock Apophis could wipe out millions if it careens into our planet.”

Sounds imminent, right? Nah! The earliest of those dates is 41 years in the future, so you have plenty of time to set your affairs in order.

In fact, if you and your other are thinking of parenthood, you have time to have kids who have kids of their own, who then have their own kids in turn, at which time you can set your great-grandchildren’s affairs in order!

(You have to love the random capitalization in the British tabloids. The word “potentially” is in caps, while the acronym NASA is not.)