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Here's a Jim Beam commercial from a year ago that I bet this group will enjoy. The YouTube thread is so long that I wouldn't bet the ranch that it hasn't already been posted some time. If so, enjoy it again!

CDs to riverrat, Noj and king ubu are in the postman's hands!

Brad, yes. A few years ago the retail industry noticed that it had a very good day with online sales the Monday following Thanksgiving. They came up with the hypothesis that people spent the weekend in the stores, and then on Monday, the first day back at work, they do their shopping online while at work. So ever since they have been promoting the concept of Cyber Monday as if it is an undisputed fact. Kind of like wishing will make it so. And maybe it will. But the last couple of years I have read that the peak of sales during the Christmas season is actually around Dec. 11-15. So I think that the whole Cyber Monday thing is an invention rather than a description of the habits of the American customers.

Congratulations Noj! For his prize for winning the Grey Cup contest, Noj has chosen the Sam Cooke. Any other takers, since I'm going to the post office?

2009 Grey Cup Montreal Alouettes 28....Saskatchewan Roughriders 27 http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4270670 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/mont...article1381842/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1382051/ http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gre...973361-sun.html I'm still too exhausted from listening to the end of the game to write my thoughts about it. Tomorrow I'll post some more links about the game if I can find some good ones (and I expect that I will). Suffice it to say, there's a reason I consider Canadian rules football to be the greatest game in the world.

And the winner of our contest is...(for the second year in a row)...Noj!!!!! The tiebreaker is 55, and Noj nailed it! Congratulations Noj! PM me your CD selection and your address, and I'll get your prize out to you.

2009 Grey Cup game final score Montreal Alouettes 28....Saskatchewan Roughriders 27 Damon Duval kicked the winning field goal on the last play of the game! What a game!

end of 3rd quarter Saskatchewan Roughriders 20....Montreal Alouettes 10

halftime: Saskatchewan Roughriders 17....Montreal Alouettes 3

Chinook blowing in off the Rockies? That may be right, sidewinder. The temperature is 9 degrees celsius, which is pretty warm, about 45 degrees Farenheit.

end of 1st quarter: Saskatchewan Roughriders 10....Montreal Alouettes 0

The game has begun, so the contest is now closed. There is a 28 kph breeze. That's 17 mph.

The kickoff is scheduled for 6:30 pm eastern time, so our contest deadline will be delayed until then. The Als are 9.5 point favorites.

mj, I think that this is an Amazon exclusive, so I'm not counting on their offering it as a remainder. Hope I'm wrong!

Lala: Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense and Peppermint Ramsey Lewis Trio - In Person 1960-1967 (This includes almost all of my first jazz album, Hang On Ramsey) Joanie Sommers - Softly, the Brazilian Sound

Happy Birthday 2009 felser!

Last call! Good luck everyone! It snowed a bit in Calgary today, but the weatherman is predicting sunny skies for the game tomorrow. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gre...959456-sun.html

David Naylor: Six match-ups http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1381224/ ***** Vanier Cup: Queen's Golden Gaels 33....Calgary Dinos 31 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/quee...article1381514/ Calgary led 27-7 at the half.

Last chance to place your order before the Grey Cup contest winner gets to choose his!

Here's an article about the Grey Cup checks. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/from-...article1380489/ ***** Since the Grey Cup is being held in Calgary this year, you might enjoy looking over the next couple of days at the sports page of the Calgary Herald here: http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/footba...ders/index.html

33/38 Like everyone else, put McLaughlin instead of Mahavishnu. Also missed Return to Forever, Stanley Clarke, Billy Cobham and Michael Brecker.

I don't know what my family (my sister's family, really) would know if it were not for me. The one name they know well that has not been mentioned is Vince Guaraldi. I'm sure that if I had never been born, they would still know Al Hirt, Errol Garner, Miles Davis, Stan Getz and Dave Brubeck.

The CFL Awards winners were announced tonight: Calvillo Chick Foley Taylor Flory Mallett http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1379427/

The Globe & Mail's website today has a terrific 30-minute podcast in which David Naylor and Allan Maki discuss the teams and the coaches. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/foot...article1378785/

The Vanier Cup game is for the Canadian collegiate football championship. College football isn't very popular in Canada, and not many people go to the Vanier Cup game. This year they're playing it in Quebec City. It is sold out in an 18,000 seat stadium, and the schools (Queens and Calgary) and screaming for more tickets! The organizers sold all the tickets without allotting any for the schools' fans! In addition, a bank is having its annual meeting in Quebec City at the same time, so the hotel rooms are already booked. This will be a Vanier Cup for the ages, no matter how the game goes. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nation...article1377848/