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MarkBarrett wrote:New Orleans Pelicans? I guess that's better than the Katrinas or Oil Spills.
http://deadspin.com/5966336/ (Warning: Language)

Also, all those youtube clips of pelicans eating pigeons. Whole. While alive.
Pelicans also moonlight as PIs to reunite family. 8-)
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I was definitely unaware of what a badass the pelican is. Here are some images of their new logos. It looks pretty fearsome.

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Here's a proposed version that was pictured in the deadspin article linked above. I think it's even better than the one they went with.

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Looks like a demonic Donald Duck to me. Is he wearing pants?
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Vanya wrote:Looks like a demonic Donald Duck to me. Is he wearing pants?
No, you can clearly see his ball.

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jeff6286 wrote:Here's a proposed version that was pictured in the deadspin article linked above. I think it's even better than the one they went with.
Agreed. I like the one they did go with, but this one is better.
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I guess they could have called themselves the fleur-de-lis (lises?).
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Vanya wrote:I guess they could have called themselves the fleur-de-lis (lises?).
Fleurs-de-lis
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econgator wrote:
Vanya wrote:I guess they could have called themselves the fleur-de-lis (lises?).
Fleurs-de-lis
At least he had the pronunciation correct.

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Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!

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Personally, I hate pea soup but figure there are enough groupies here that someone might try it:

Trebek's Pea Soup Recipe
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Canadians and their yellow peas...
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Canadians and their yellow peas...
I never dreamed that other nationalities pea a different colour.

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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

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bpmod wrote:
kickerofelves wrote:
Canadians and their yellow peas...
I never dreamed that other nationalities pea a different colour.

Brian
Depends which bottle of food coloring you grab before the physical.
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For those (like me) trying to learn their presidents and facts about them, this actually does a very good job of getting a lot of information into one easy graphic:

Periodic Table of Presidents
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You never know what the J! writers can come up with for a category. Is there a fifth winter/spring prognosticator to join:

Punxsutawney Phil
Wiarton Willie
Staten Island Chuck
General Beauregard Lee
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MarkBarrett wrote:You never know what the J! writers can come up with for a category. Is there a fifth winter/spring prognosticator to join:

Punxsutawney Phil
Wiarton Willie
Staten Island Chuck
General Beauregard Lee
I think that there's another Canadian one, but that might not sit well with all of you USians.

And I certainly hope that ol' Willie is right this time. He seems to get it wrong each time he predicts an early spring.

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bpmod wrote:
MarkBarrett wrote:You never know what the J! writers can come up with for a category. Is there a fifth winter/spring prognosticator to join:

Punxsutawney Phil
Wiarton Willie
Staten Island Chuck
General Beauregard Lee
I think that there's another Canadian one, but that might not sit well with all of you USians.

And I certainly hope that ol' Willie is right this time. He seems to get it wrong each time he predicts an early spring.

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So, can anyone explain how Michael Strahan and Jerome Bettis fail to get into the HoF? I'm baffled.
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econgator wrote:So, can anyone explain how Michael Strahan and Jerome Bettis fail to get into the HoF? I'm baffled.
A cap on the number of individuals who can be voted in to any given class and an utterly antiquated and convoluted voting process.
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Since we have so many Canadians here ...

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