Another Madden interview

[Kodos]

MaddenMania interview. (http://www.maddenmania.com/features/jun2003interview.shtml)

[illinifan999]

MM: I read that owner mode is only 10 years is that true?

JS: No, that is incorrect. Owner mode is integrated within franchise mode, which goes for 30 years.

[SegRat]

30 Years! I guess I can live with that. Next year I hope for at least 50 Years of owner mode.

[Logan]

Originally posted by SegRat
"You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy,
the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese,
the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most
powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.' Need I say more?"

- Chris Rock

It's funny how many people claim to have started the "bush, dick, colon" joke. Personally, I've heard it from Jeffrey Ross, Rock, Whoopi Goldberg, and one other stand-up (name escapes me). Who started it? I'll say Ross, just cause he's probably the funniest man alive.

[Maple Leafs]

Originally posted by Logan
It's funny how many people claim to have started the "bush, dick, colon" joke. Personally, I've heard it from Jeffrey Ross, Rock, Whoopi Goldberg, and one other stand-up (name escapes me). Who started it? I'll say Ross, just cause he's probably the funniest man alive. Rule of thumb: anything funny you read onine was probably not written by the person it's attributed to. Most of the really good stuff that gets passed around was written by some local newspaper columnist, but somewhere along the way someone decided to "improve" it by tacking on someone else's name.

Someday historians will look at early e-mail and web data and conclude that all human thought from our era was written by George Carlin, Dennis Miller, Chris Rock and Andy Rooney. They'll wonder why nobody else wrote anything.

(Sorry for the tangent... just a pet peeve of mine. And Carlin's too, actually, if you go by his web site.)

Back on topic: as for as the Madden interview, it all sounds great. I'd be excited, but this interview seems to turn up every year. It seems like every June, we see the interview where they promise "this year, we fixed the AI, it works now, really!" And it never quite happens.

That said, Madden is still a mile ahead of the NHL series, so I shouldn't complain.

[rexallllsc]

You know what I hate? That people still send the "Microsoft/Intel FWD this message and get $161.29 for every person you forward it to crap.

[44Niners]

Pardon the crudeness, but I think this is the greatest chain letter ever:




Hello, my name is Basmati Kasaar. I am suffering from rare and deadly diseases, poor scores on final exams, extreme virginity, fear of being kidnapped and executed by anal electrocution, and guilt for not forwarding out 50 billion fucking chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them on, then that poor 6 year old girl in Arkansas with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her off to the travelling freak show.
Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you and everyone you send “his” email to $1000? How stupid are you? Ooooh, looky here! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I’ll get laid by every Playboy model in the magazine! What a bunch of bullshit. So basically, this message is a big FUCK YOU to all the people out there who have nothing better to do than to send me stupid chain mail forwards.
Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my apartment and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing the chain which was started by Jesus in 5 A.D. and was brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower and if it makes it to the year 2000, it’ll be in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest continuous streak of blatant stupidity.
Fuck them.
If you’re going to forward something, at least send me something mildly amusing. I’ve seen all the “send this to 50 of your closest friends, and this poor, wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nickel from some omniscient being” forwards about 90 times. I don’t fucking care.
Show a little intelligence and think about what you’re actually contributing to by sending out forwards. Chances are it’s your own unpopularity.

THE FOUR BASIC TYPES OF CHAIN LETTERS:
Chain Letter Type 1:
(scroll down)


























































Make a wish!!!



























































No, really, go on and make one!!!























































Oh please, they’ll never go out with you!!!























































Wish something else!!!



























































Not that, you pervert!!



























































Is your finger getting tired yet?



















































STOP!!!!











Wasn’t that fun? :)
Hope you made a great wish :)


Now, to make you feel guilty, here’s what I’ll do. First of all, if you don’t send this to 5096 people in the next 5 seconds, you will be raped by a mad goat and thrown off a high building into a pile of manure. It’s true!
Because, THIS letter isn’t like all of those fake ones, THIS one is TRUE!!
Really!!! Here’s how it goes:
*Send this to 1 person: One person will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.
*Send this to 2-5 people: 2-5 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.
*Send this to 5-10 people: 5-10 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter, and may form a plot on your life. *Send this to 10-20 people: 10-20 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter and will napalm your house. Thanks!!!! Good Luck!!!




Chain Letter Type 2
Hello, and thank you for reading this letter. You see, there is a starving little boy in Baklaliviatatlaglooshen who has no arms, no legs, no parents, and no goats. This little boy’s life could be saved, because for every time you pass this on, a dollar will be donated to the Little Starving Legless Armless Goatless Boy from Baklaliviatatlaglooshen Fund. Oh, and remember, we have absolutely no way of counting the emails sent and this is all a complete load of bullshit.
So go on, reach out. Send this to 5 people in the next 47 seconds. Oh, and a reminder - if you accidentally send this to 4 or 6 people, you will die instantly.
Thanks again!!




Chain Letter Type 3
Hi there!! This chain letter has been in existence since 1897. This is absolutely incredible because there was no email then and probably not as many sad pricks with nothing better to do. So this is how it works:
Pass this on to 15,067 people in the next 7 minutes or something horrible will happen to you like:
*Bizarre Horror Story #1
Miranda Pinsley was walking home from school on Saturday. She had recently received this letter and ignored it. She then tripped in a crack in the sidewalk, fell into the sewer, was gushed down a drainpipe in a flood of poopie, and went flying out over a waterfall. Not only did she smell nasty, she died. This Could Happen To You!!!
*Bizarre Horror Story #2
Dexter Bip, a 13 year old boy, got a chain letter in his mail and
Ignored it. Later that day, he was hit by a car and so was his boyfriend
(hey, some people swing that way). They both died and went to hell
and were cursed to eat adorable kittens every day for eternity. This Could
Happen To You Too!!!
Remember, you could end up just like Pinsley and Bip. Just send this letter to all of your loser friends, and everything will be okay.




Chain Letter Type 4:
As if you care, here is a poem that I wrote. Send it to every one of your friends.
Friends
A friend is someone who is always at your side,
A friend is someone who likes you even though you stink of shit,
and your breath smells like you’ve been eating catfood,
A friend is someone who likes you even though you’re as ugly as
a hat full of arseholes,
A friend is someone who cleans up for you after you’ve soiled
yourself,
A friend is someone who stays with you all night while you cry
about your sad, sad life,
A friend is someone who pretends they like you when they really
think you should be raped by mad goats, then thrown to vicious dogs,
A friend is someone who scrubs your toilet, vacuums and then
gets the cheque and leaves and doesn’t speak
much English... -no, sorry that’s the cleaning lady, A friend is not someone who sends you chain letters because he wants his wish of being rich to come true.
Now pass this on! If you don’t, you’ll never have sex ever again.




The point being?
If you get some chain letter that’s threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. If it’s funny, send it on.
Don’t piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in
Botswana with no teeth, who’s been tied to a dead elephant for
27 years, whose only savior is the 5 cents per letter he’ll receive if you forward
this mail, otherwise you’ll end up like Miranda. Right?


Now forward this to everyone you know otherwise you’ll find all your knickers missing tomorrow morning.

[Bishop]

Talk about a threadjack....

[Blackadar]

Talk about annoying...that post takes 5 minutes just to scroll past it!

[thealmighty]

...but it WAS rather amusing.

[korme]

Black, you should read. That was one of the best things ever contributed to FOFC. I applaud you, 44Niners.

[SunDancer]

Originally posted by Logan
It's funny how many people claim to have started the "bush, dick, colon" joke. Personally, I've heard it from Jeffrey Ross, Rock, Whoopi Goldberg, and one other stand-up (name escapes me). Who started it? I'll say Ross, just cause he's probably the funniest man alive.

Lol. ANd that joke is also incorrect, morons (not you guys, but the people who claim to "start it). The tallest player is NOT Yao Ming, but a flop named SHawn Bradley (though he is finally showing some promise)

[Dagreatoneakakam]

:) They forgot the ones that tell you to send this letter to x amount of people and something so frickin hilarious and funny will pop up on your screen....god I hate those!

[Maple Leafs]

Originally posted by SunDancer
Lol. ANd that joke is also incorrect, morons (not you guys, but the people who claim to "start it). The tallest player is NOT Yao Ming, but a flop named SHawn Bradley (though he is finally showing some promise) The damn thing keeps growing. It used to be just the golf/rap part, but every six weeks or so someone has to add to it. "The Swiss hold the America's Cup"? Did anyone even know that?

[thealmighty]

Shawn Bradley showing promise? You need to quit reading the BYU Sentinel. :)

[Butter]

Shawn Bradley is 127 years old. Seriously. He had that 80 year mission trip in the middle of his senior year that messed things up. It's a wonder his shins don't just crack open every time he gets dunked on.

[Kodos]

Wow. Now THAT's a threadjacking. :D