Merriam-Webster defines the word "Hundred" as "a 100-dollar bill" and "a subdivision of some English and American counties." The word "Hundred" is derived from Old English into Middle English from the word "hund" (which means hundred) and the suffix "-red" (which has to do with accounts and numbers).

That's all well and good.

I define "Hundred" as the number of people who have registered scored in this year's games. To me, that's a milestone. For others, that's an arbitrary number-point derived from little more than the number of fingers I have. As though if I were a three-toed sloth, I'd be getting all excited because we just got our 36th score. To that I say, "Pshhh. Whatever, man."

I mean, check it out. I'm a red-blooded human being. I have ten fingers and ten toes. When I multiply those together, I have 100 fingers and toes combined. That's not a coincidence. That's math.

Do you have ten fingers and ten toes? Are you a human being? Because your weird argument about sloths is telling me that you're not. Don't be a sloth.

This is a milestone. Yay!

49ers @ Houston:

1. leaping_larry (2)
2. urnext (4)
3. ZeroIndulgence, gbears16 (8)
4. Ninerfromacrossthepond (10)
5. DuikeBuike, renke81, groug (12)

Philadelphia @ Washington:

1. howtheyscored, ro128487, wjackalope (2)
2. cassusriff, Widowwolf, Ninerfromacrossthepond, urnext (6)
3. PHUT!, LASVEGASNINER, jtoj, mpotter14, CB30, sfgfan, snowweasel30, leaping_larry, Mike Hawk (8)
4. danknerd49, jpgarfunkle (10)
5. beecharmer (12)

Arizona @ New York Giants:

1. jpgarfunkle (12)
2. DuikeBuike, albertoleecho, ro128487, shlecko (14)
3. 5-0 (22)
4. bonbrillio (26)

Minnesota @ Pittsburgh:

1. groug (0) - No love here, groug. You got your name in the title. Don't get greedy.
2. rlott#42, jpgarfunkle, bignerd (2)
3. DuikeBuike, Drew K, illini49er, CB30, Widowwolf, ro128487, SpurredOn, Ninerfromacrossthepond, urnext (6)
4. sundaysfinest, cassusriff, Ten-Man, 5-0, nocal81, fortyniners, gbears16, grantmp, snowweasel30 (8)
5. albertoleecho, J2daZ, wjackalope, youngbuckeroo (12)

Buffalo @ Carolina:

1. cassusriff, jtoj (6)
2. sundaysfinest, nocal81, gbears16, Fooch, CB30, snowweasel30 (8)
3. renke81, 49RFAN, J2daZ, JoeO, Sloan (10)
4. dez4o8, these3words (12)
5. 49erLou, youngbuckeroo (14)

Chicago @ Cincinnati:

1. BEETLE49715 (16)
2. Dub4lif3 (26)
3. howtheyscored (28)
4. danknerd49 (30)
5. sundaysfinest, YoungWillis, hudd07, illini49er, ProfessorBigelow (34)

Which makes our week seven leaderboard look like this:

First of all, I just wanted to mention how much of a lousy sloth-sympathizer ro128487 is. And I'm not saying this because now he's beating me. Nope. That has nothing to do with it. Nothing at all. I swear. I swear 100 times. It's just that I saw him this week, and he had his hands up with his thumbs and pinkies turned in. He was trying to open doors with three fingers and eat his cereal without an opposable thumb. I couldn't see his feet, but he was walking funny, so I'm pretty sure he had cut off a couple toes per.

Really.

Seriously.

That guy's not your friend. He's a big, hairy, tree-hanging dirtwad. And, yeah, he's in first place. I maintain that the two have nothing to do with each other.

On the other hand, the rest of you are all cool.

The top ten is still worth a nice rundown: jpgarfunkle is still putting up money scores, and would be beating me right now if not for a late Washington touchdown. And then cassusriff just will not go away. Combined with me, that takes care of your 50+ point people. You want to fight me about bringing up 50? You want to? Because I've got four fingers and a thumb curled into a fist right now that don't care what you have to say.

Then there's a sharp drop. PHUT! didn't do much, but he did enough to hang onto sole possession of fifth place. bignerd, nocal81, and wjackalope basically stood pat this week, but did enough to stay ahead of groug. Which, really, is all that any of us can hope for.

We have to give props to DuikeBuike. Most of our top ten stayed the same, but DuikeBuike jumped into the fray.

Oh, I can hear you now. "But howtheyscored," you say, "there are only eight playoff spots open! Why do you care about the top ten? Why not just the top eight? It would take you less time, wouldn't it?"

And to you I say, "Hey, stupid parrot! What did I tell you about your stupid fourcentrism? You know I could eat you if I wanted to. You're just poultry."

And then I'd say this: "Also, groug is in the top ten. And that might not happen again for him. Poor guy."

Of course, he's tied with leaping_larry and LASVEGASNINER, but groug is the only one who managed a perfect prediction this week. It's been a few weeks since we've had one of those, and they are not easy to do. Heck, if not for a late Washington touchdown, bonbrillio would have had a perfect score and screwed me out of at least one point. And probably more. But fate intervened, as it almost always does.

So congratulations, groug. The only lolling going on right now is yours in all of our faces.

Ninerfromacrossthepond had a very nice week, reminding me of how he looked last year. Is he primed to make a mid-season run? This guy can play, so watch your collective backs. Also, watch your collective backs about Fooch. Dude's in the top 50th percentile. And he plans on staying there.

And good job, jtoj! That was one of our bigger jumps for the week, and you deserve a mention.

Lastly: Hi, urnext. Check out where you are this week, you big red-blooded whiner. Good job on continuing the monumental climb. What is that: 56th to 16th in two weeks? Can't argue with results.

I can't get to everybody. Sorry if I missed you. Just complain in this thread, and I'll try to mention you next week. But be careful, because if you suck I might just laugh at your whining. See you next week.

And check your scores! Lord knows that wjackalope will be checking his.

Saturday afternoon she drove to the bakery in the shopping center. After looking through a loose-leaf binder with photographs of cakes taped onto the pages, she ordered chocolate, the child's favorite. The cake she chose was decorated with a spaceship and launching pad under a sprinkling of white stars, and a planet made of red frosting at the other end. His name, SCOTTY, would be in green letters beneath the planet. The baker, who was an older man with a thick neck, listened without saying anything when she told him the child would be eight years old next Monday.