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Round 1; Matchup 5: Commander Nate vs opiejeanne

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In the fifth installment of the first round we have our first female enter the arena. So far all the matchups have generated quite a lot of posts and fun, so hopefully CommNate and Opie can keep it going. Winner of this match meets Welch in the second round. Polling goes till the 11th, when the next matchup will be posted.

I really dont know who is going to win this one, especially after the ridiculously close race between DoV and I. Lets see those self-promoting posts at their finest.

Poll
(DADOFVLAD cheated.)
Commander Nate
182 votes
opiejeanne
64 votes

246 votes | Poll has closed

0 recs  |  436 comments

Comments

Commander Nate is really happy to see Opiejeanne.
What????!!!

You think I can’t take him DOWN?

I think you can, but IT will be HARD.
I think so too.

I take nothing for granted. He’s a great guy, a great poster, and people will vote for whom they wish.

You got my vote.
sorry Opie, but I gotta go with my boy CommNate
No cookies for you.
I voted for you even before I knew you were giving out cookies!
Me too.

You get my vote cookies or no cookies

I guess I am going to have to bake a whole lot of cookies next time I come south.

We should have a meet-up. We’ll be down in March.

we're gonna find out

who is a lover and who is a fighter

I'm willing to bet that OpieJeanne is a fighter.

And one that is not afraid to fight dirty either. I have sisters, I know.

In short, OpieJeanne gets my vote.

I don't know anything about Opiejeanne....

Which doesn’t bode well for her chances of getting my vote..

Or his* chances...

I guess that proves my own point.

you had it right the first time
Oh go away. I like Commander Nate as much as the next guy

who happens to be… you. Something you’d like to confide?

go away???

I was letting him know that you’re, in fact, a woman. next time I’ll just let him think you’re a man, especially now that I’m not getting any cookies!!! :)

Oh, I misread his comments. Duh. (I'm really sleepy)

I guess you’re back on the cookie list.

Do you know CommanderNate, though?

He’s a fine fellow, a very fine fellow.

You should vote for one of us.

Who are you again? ;-)
opie with the burn...

I’m a nobody around here compared to you ;-)

Good luck.

Nah, I'm a silly old lady.

Don’t mind me, I don’t bite.

Much.

YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT OPIEJEANNE!!?!?

You betta recognize, foo.

Knowing Ladybug and Opie are a must if you wanna post on this MB

Just sayin’

Wow. I didn't realize that I was so spectacularly

unspectacular.

I think I’ll go read the second book in the set and check in later.

The Hunger Games books rock!!

I read all three in a short amount of time recently. Katniss is awesome.

I really did not sleep at all last night.

And I really did pick up that book at 3am, and finished at 8am.

If I had not already given you my vote, I would be giving it to you now.

I love anyone that enjoys books. Females especially.

Sorry, CommNate, but Opie's my bud.

Plus she’s also a Monty Python fan!!!

I'm so old,

I’m a fan of everything.

The palendrome of Boulton is Notluob!
Ok, fan of everything but Boulton.
Let's see if this works.

http://s893.photobucket.com/albums/ac135/opiejeanne/?action=view&current=IMG_3975.jpg

Nope.
Maybe this time?

http://www.stupidgifs.com/images/full/466.gif

Well, shoot.
Click the icon with the tree

and copy the link into the one that pops up.

Oh, thank you.

This is my seduction dance, but he’s doing it better than I do.

(I don't see an icon with a tree)

I know, I suck.

its the icon directly to the right of the chain icon

which is directly to the right of the " icon, which is directly to the right of the S icon, which is directly to the right of the I icon, which is directly to the right of the B icon

Hmmm.

Photobucket

Ok, I suck much less.

But I think I should apologize for posting this exhibition of … not sure how to describe this.

Here you go

Thank you.

I’ve forgotten how to do this.

opie, has anyone told you that you resemble Rex Hudler

you get my vote for the Hudler semblance.

No, and I am thinner than this picture makes me look.

Man, it was hot that day, even under the shade-cloth.

I have got to vote Commander Nate

As we share a name, and he’s had my back at MLBTR. Also, very welcoming when I initially joined HH.

Though Opie is awesome.

That's right, butter me up, buttercup

and then let me down.

but we love you still!!!

….ladybug is your campaign manager, I see…

Opie wins on style. Nate wins on substance.

In this case, I vote substance.

40+ years of fanhood should count for some sort of substance.
old school vs. new school
substance.....

such a loaded word

And too often abused.
Took me way to long to get this joke

……. i guess i should put the beer down

Red Floyd could have posted a rimshot.

That might have helped.

Or not abused enough at times?

Location and situation depending of course.

this is hard

neither of you voted for me
need to see what CommNate Posts

I did so.
i wish you did


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OH geez, how did that happen?

I told you I was going to vote for you and I thought I did.

I am sorry.

i forgive you and will vote for you

because i fear my mother and all women

That's a good DOV.

No really, vote for the one you think deserves it.

wink, wink.

also your a badass Smuggler like Davos Seaworth

May i call you the Corgi Knight?

Corgi Countess
Sure. Or maybe Dame.

The dog is currently on Vancouver Island. A caper planned and assisted by several adults and many goats.

What city?
I believe she's just outside Victoria.
Damn Corgi!

Oh, uh… “Dame.” Heh, nevermind…

Dude, DOV is comin' out of nowhere with the ground game

Who do you have managing your campaign?

holding grudges DOV???
should i?
No, it was a dumb accident.
on an unrelated note, opie

what’d you think of The Hunger Games? I enjoyed the shit out of the first book. second book, a little less, but still liked it. and the 3rd book, although very different, I still liked. I know most people didn’t like the 3rd book, but I was ok with it.

I liked the first book,

I remember the short story, “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and this is basically that same story but expanded and with an explanation of how things came to be. It also reminded me of a short story that appeared in Playboy many years ago, about using hunger to demoralize and eventually destroy an occupied people. Chilling.

I haven’t gotten very far into the second book, on the fifth page right now.

lier

no one reads Playboy

"The Lottery" bugs me

Studied it in Literature courses

I thought it was depressing, but this takes the idea of a lottery to select a set of champions

who are then sent into an arena to kill each other.

"The Lottery" was depressing, but the Hunger Games books go even farther.

Kids killing kids for the “sport” of the Capital dwellers. Really just an exercising of the Capital’s powers on the Districts. Kinda scary.

Have you read "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow?

A friend lent me his copy, but it’s available online for free.

I have not. I will put it on my "to read" list.
Authoritarian state vs. bunch of bright teenagers.

I had to get out the map, though, because it’s set in San Francisco and he describes routes that the main characters take, and they’re just not quite right. I spent 9 years in the East Bay, and a lot of time driving into SF so I knew something was screwy. For one thing, Portrero Hill is not where he thinks it is.

Creative license at work, clearly.
Oh yeah, I get that.

It wouldn’t have bothered me if I hadn’t been all over that area, and I got a little confused.

Ok, finished book #2

and a few pages in realized that Capitol is Rome, not long before the empire fell. The author really smacks you over the head with it, stopping just short of using the term “vomitorium”.

The second book makes me aware that this is Young Adult literature, which I did not feel so much in the first book.

The ending of book 2 makes use of a Deus ex Machina, in a literary way as well as an actual way. I like it.

Onward, to the final book.

The last book is unlike the first two.

Good, but different.

just noticed the title of the poll

hahahaha

I consider DoV over Phi the first real upset
me too

especially since Phi is the mastermind of this whole dealio

and then is eliminated in the opening round

turrible, just turrible

I want cookies... I vote for Opiejeanne!
Pretty sure me and Commander Nate share a birthday

So I have to go with him.

Oh now there's a good reason.

Anyone born on March 9?

my mom....which her vote has been summoned

as well as the other females that I have the email addys to

GIRL POWAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

There aren't enough wimmens on this site if I rely on just them

gotta figure out how to appeal to the guys.

boobs

but that’s my campaign strategory

It's sexist, but it's true.
Well, I've got 'em.

Maybe I should post a photo of when I was cute.

I don’t know how hard it will be to find.

I voted for my fellow Pisces...3/9
Yay!
what kind of cookies?
Chocolate chip?

Peanut butter?

When's your birthday?
May 29th
I could be wrong but I swore we both had a birthday on the infamous K-Mo leg break game
Same weekend

30th here. In the past I’ve tried to drag it out for as long as possible. I reconsidered that after K-Mo.

Ah I see, I was close at least

And my vote for you still stands anyway

Thanks, brah!

I hope you get un-banned.

hmmm

Tough one..The awesome posting marine or The awesome posting boner arguing opie..I don’t know any female that has been an angel fan longer than 15+ years..40 is amazing!! Opie wins my vote

Wow! Most of the people I know, regardless of gender, who have been Angels fans for more than 10 years

Are here on this site.

Im going with Opie because she lives in the mountains too (At least I think)
I do when I'm in SoCal.
I've been to a mountain...
I've seen a mountain
I have seen the top of the mountain
The bear went over the mountain.
Yes, but what did he see?
Do bears build laser guns in the woods?

Yes, yes they do.

They better

They’re up against bulldozers and shotguns and ish.

Going back to the cabin one night,

I wished I had a shotgun. That summer there were bears everywhere.

Blue Jay.

Where you at?

Arrowhead. Im a local student at Rim.
My first scrimmage as a Frosh football player at San Bernardino High School in '89,

Was against Rim High School. I remember laughing my ass off, for two reasons. First off, the Rim kids were complaining about the heat (it was only 94, for Berdoo in August, that’s chilly), and secondly, their biggest offensive lineman was like five-eight, and 210 LBS. Our smallest Samoan offensive lineman’s little sister was that big, and stronger!

My husband graduated from San Bernardino HS.

in 1965.

Our FB team has had its glory days. More recently, they went pretty far in CIF I believe semi finals.

I would not doubt they hated the heat though. I cant stand heat. 94 is death heat to mountain folk. We also have notoriously small players too. although we have grown form Five-Eight. But with all that said, Ski team is where the party is.

We pick up the Mountain News every time we are in town.

We have followed the football team that way and online for several years.

When we lived in Castro Valley, there was a ‘heat wave’ in SF that sent people to the emergency rooms. I think it was 75-77 degrees, and people were really suffering. We had just moved up from Riverside and couldn’t wrap our heads around it.

right around the corner.

The cabin is on 189, between Agua Fria and Blue Jay. It’s less than 1/4 mile to Jensen’s.

I'm interview for a PT job at Bear Valley Community Hospital

in the morning, so there’s a chance I’ll be up that way quite a bit..

So, how did it go?
Oh! I forgot to tell everyone that I used to make costumes.

For exotic dancers.

call 'em strippers. It gets their attention better
There is a difference.

Strippers get nekkid, exotic dancers do not.

Truth be told, the girls in the troop were dull dull dull. Wouldn’t let me put fringe or feathers or rhinestones nor nothin’ on the costumes I made them. The guys, though, they knew what it was all a-bout.

I may have to get my future wife to get in contact with you
I could probably find the patterns

just finding the right fabrics could be tough. This is not Los Angeles, there is no Garment District.

you'll be here in March.

I’ll hopefully have some new stuff to show you…..my new at home business venture

How's your arm?

Back to work as a nurse?

nope

still having problems. I’ll email you later with my whining

Bummer. I hope you feel better soon.
meh....some have it worse.

but thanks

Just know you are not forgotten by us.
:-D I appreciate that
Everyone needs a cheering section.

Maybe not all the time, but sometimes it makes a difference.

I'm no designer but

fabric doesn’t seem that important to me. Just go without it.

Something's gotta hold up the rhinestones and stuff.
customers
Give the lady a prize!
Have you tried staples?
Ow! Don't you like boobies?
Don't all men like boobies?

had to post the Bill Murray staples line from “Scrooged” when the grip couldn’t get small antlers to stick to the church mouse.

Heh. I don't think I've seen that

and I can’t think why.

I live in the Pacific NW

So you have my sympathies Opie.

But I gotta go with Comm Nate. Say NO to DJ3k!

God luck to both contestants.

I gotta go. But I will talk to my sister for you, Opie.

I enjoy both Commander Nate's and Opiejeanne's comments on HH...

…but I have to vote for Opiejeanne. A hardcore Angels fan and she has great taste in books?! It’s no contest. :)

I voted for CommNate

because I can tell he’s not a democrat.

And neither am I .

Worked on the Barry Goldwater campaign when I was 13.

See?

Political arguments spoil stuff like this.

Barry would be ashamed to be called a GOP'er these days.
Yeah, not my fault my party seems to have lost its collective mind.

These days I get called a RINO by these young whippersnappers with trust funds.

And now I think you don't love me. :-(
don't worry. I'm taking names
LOL...Nixon had his list too....
You people voted for Hubert Humphrey!

And you killed Jesus!

Um, I didn't do either of those things.
Opie, what about being in a band?

c’mon, there have to some “almost famous” type stories that could score cool points.

Yeah, I was in a band.

In college a guy named Rick Barton and I put together a band, and our lead singer was a cute blond named Kathy who was in Kentucky Fried Movie; she was sort of a Jane Russell look-alike, IIRC but I don’t know if her scenes were cut from the final product or not. We played a few gigs, then everybody graduated included the twins who played bass and drums and it got tough to keep it together. They all lived in Pomona and I lived in Riverside, and Rick kept making me fire the drummers (prior to the twins).

You went to highschool in Riverside in the early 60s?

I wonder if you knew my dad. He was the senior class president at Poly in ’65.

I went to Temple City HS.

And after I got married we lived in Riverside for 23 years, so I might know your dad just because of that.

I too play an instrument

Photobucket

I have one just like that

but it’s not up my nose at the moment.

OT -- Darvish is asking for 5 yrs/$100MM

bruhahahahaha….yeah, Pujols is overpaid….right. Bet the Ranger FO was happy to see those numbers. Here

Only if you pay him properly

Will Darvish be willing to play in Texas that long.

See Yu in 2014

So hey...

Couldn’t the Angels have put a posting bid of like say… 100 million and then just “conveniently” failed to sign him getting there money back and making it so nobody gets Darvish this year?

Uncle Bud would have something to say about that.
What would he do though...

We offered him a 5 year 10 million buck offer, and he wouldn’t take it?

Technically he can award the rights to the second highest bidder

If he feels the team that won the bidding isn’t negotiating in good faith. That probably wouldn’t be pretty scenario to watch unfold.

So the Jays could get him then?

Cuz he’s only getting Dice K money…

Theoretically

I’d imagine there would be quite a shitstorm over what qualifies as “bad faith” negotiations.

Phi. Dude. That picture looks like XKCD only without any artistic talent.
one hour on that rough draft

39 hour of not being able to better it.

hard to Ms paint properly

When you are crying deeply after a loss to in the first round.

Awww, come lay your mohawk on my shoulder.

Ol’ 5thStarter is here for you.

Aww.

I’m not doing so well, either. You and I should have a drink when this is all over.

Suddenly this as doesn’t seem so bad.

You know my shoulder is better than a beer.

Lean on me
When you’re not strong
Don’t be so sad
That you lost to Daaaad of Vlad

Now that,

that’s just sad.

red

are you the author of XKCD? you can tell me.

Nope. I'm not Randall.
How did i cheat?

please explain PhiSlamma
this is America you need evidence to back up accusations
;-0

bro

Bro…….

Bro

bro? we dont have the same mothers

Your might want to sit down

I have some….news.

I am Darth Vader.

Wait I think I did that wrong.

bro

Bro…….

Bro

Its going to take A while for me to get used to this phone thing on here

Gotta vote for opie...fellow Warshuntonian and all...
I have got to go to bed.

I really have not slept since Saturday night, and I’m dying.

gotta stick with the girls on this one.

Go Opiejeanne!!!!!

dang, Nate really pulled ahead since last night

last I looked he only led by 9

Yeah.

And some of the reasons given are so shallow. Sideburns? Really?

My rule going into this was

Vote for myself or anyone with sweet sideburns.

I didn't think they'd be that much of a factor honestly

They are pretty modest compared to some I’ve seen. My buddy in that pic way above now has a full beard/burns combo that would make a pirate jealous, for example.

In other words, the guy.
Although, if sideburns is the key

I could glue some on.

I was going to comment on some of the women I've dated

but some things are better left unsaid

Hmm tough choice..

I love to party and I love the Hunger Games! Decisions, Decisions……….

Ok, now THIS is a deep thinker.
After comtemplating for over an hour..

I decided to go with you! Congrats on the great honor of my vote :)

Thank you very much.
BOOBS, GUYS! I'VE GOT BOOBS!!!

Yeesh, this brings back memories of running for student senate in college.

Great...

Since someone upthread mentioned you looking like Rex Hudler (a sentiment with which I completely disagree), I’m now picturing Rex with boobs.

With the medical marijuana use, that may not be too far a stretch of the imagination.

Just saying.

oh so we can vote for boobs

but not sweet sideburns?

Yes, I am stooping to that level

Just trying to figure out how to compete with OMFCLOLPONIES SWEET SIDEBURNS!

My theory is they appeal to the numerous 20-something ladies that lurk on HH...
Lots of those guys.

Not too many ladies in their 60s, and not all guys in their 20s realize yet how cool the old ladies can be. Some get it, but not all.

Then again, not all guys in their 20's think with their BRAINS.

Not profiling, just speaking from personal past experience(s).

But they DO thing with their brains (pural)

the two little ones

Preach on, Brother.
So does this mean that I don'
Excuse me SBN with no edit button, while I finish my sentence...

So does this mean that I don’t get any cookies? I thought Opie would take this one.

stuck in Romania (can't get the reply button to work)

I will make enough cookies for everyone, if we have a meetup in March/April. I think we’re coming down in late March and staying for several weeks this time. Cabin needs work.

Is it time for a concession speech?

Commander Nate, I have to hand it to you. I could make a joke about you winning because you’ve got balls, but it’s too easy.

So, go get Matt Welch. It’s been a pleasure losing to you nearly 3-1.

honestly

it kinda stings.

losers bracket???
last chance bracket?
wild card bracket?
That should be the name of the A's blog.
It's the difference in the number of votes that hurts.

I mean, I like the guy but I thought I was fairly popular as well.

The noobs don't know you, Opie
If I could have voted more than once for you, I would have.
I shall do my best

Cheers to you! We were neck and neck there for a while.

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