Be a post whore!

[glatt]

I'm in the same boat, and it turns out all you need to know is what the fantasy football app tells you. All the relevant stats are right there in front of you. But it does take time. Upwards of 15 minutes a week if you are really paying attention.

The interesting thing is that once you are reading the stats on these guys, the names and teams start to sound familiar and you start to notice the real world games.

[monster]

That's how I was with premiere league for a while. My team was awesome but I couldn't pick most of my players from a crowd. but then I started to pay attention. For a while.

[infinite monkey]

I was lucky. John Madden called me every week and helped me with my line-up. Thanks John!

[cowhead]

nothing to say really.. I just decided to check back to see if the cellar had started offering coffee yet.. nope. which is okay.

[glatt]

Hi cowhead! How've you been?

[BigV]

Ho-lee cow(head)!!

Welcome back man!

I still think of you when I play "your" track on my cmep cd. Coffee?! I'd love to bring us each a mug if you'll sit down and catch us up.. Hmm?

[Nirvana]

It is -8 degrees here and there is a lady bug walking around my desk

[monster]

Originally Posted by Nirvana

It is -8 degrees here and there is a lady bug walking around my desk

A facebook "friend" (Parent of kid's friends/teammates) of mine posted the same. then that she put the poor thing outside

I just "rescued" a ladybug from my office by taking it outside to freeze to death instead of stepping on it. Good move, Lis.

[Sundae]

Save it, Nirv, save it!
It's the same one Monster's "friend" put outside. It's a survivor.

Although we've had an an influx of foreign ladybirds, which aren't really what we know as ladybirds. Harlequin ladybirds. If it's one of those - kill it!

[DanaC]

Y'know, it really irritates me the way my niece's generation has started calling them ladybugs.

Yes, I know that's petty. But 'Ladybirds' is so much nicer.

[DanaC]

Well, now, ya learn a new thing every day...

The name "ladybird" originated in Britain where the insects became known as 'Our Lady's bird or the Lady beetle.[9][10] Mary (Our Lady) was often depicted wearing a red cloak in early paintings, and the spots of the seven-spot ladybird (the most common in Europe) were said to symbolise her seven joys and seven sorrows.[9] In the United States, the name was adapted to "ladybug". Common names in other European languages have the same association, for example, the German name Marienkäfer translates to Marybeetle.[11]

From wiki

[Sundae]

Did you know that the common image of Mary draped in blue (think of a children's Nativity play) comes from the fact that blue was the hardest colour to paint with and the most expensive to obtain? Large areas of deep blue were therefore a shorthand for importance.

[DanaC]

I didn't know that. Though I did know that blue pigment was uber expensive. Lapis lazuli ground up to a powder. Used in illuminated texts, and more expensive than gold leaf.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Y'know, it really irritates me the way my niece's generation has started calling them ladybugs.

Did you tell them to get the hell off your lawn?

Unlike Ladybug or Ladybeetle, Ladybird doesn't prepare you for the vicious killer they are.

[BigV]

Yes, yes, I sic those badasses on my roses' parasites. Go get'em tigers!