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QUOTE(KevHead0881 @ Jun 23, 2005 -> 09:45 AM) Ryan is confident that owner Carl Pohlad will agree to add a little money to the payroll if the Twins can acquire the right player that will help the team. Hahahahaha, funniest thing I've read all day. He's got to be the worst owner in baseball.

I really, really, really want to try the Nike Barefoot shoes--but don't want to drop the money for them. I think those are *awesome.*

My Favorite: DragonflyBlade21: A woman has a close male friend. This means that he is probably interested in her, which is why he hangs around so much. She sees him strictly as a friend. This always starts out with, you're a great guy, but I don't like you in that way. This is roughly the equivalent for the guy of going to a job interview and the company saying, You have a great resume, you have all the qualifications we are looking for, but we're not going to hire you. We will, however, use your resume as the basis for comparison for all other applicants. But, we're going to hire somebody who is far less qualified and is probably an alcoholic. And if he doesn't work out, we'll hire somebody else, but still not you. In fact, we will never hire you. But we will call you from time to time to complain about the person that we hired.

Hilarious!!! #4281 +(21576)- [X] get up get on up get up get on up and DANCE * nmp3bot dances - * nmp3bot dances |- * nmp3bot dances :D/- i'm going to become rich and famous after i invent a device that allows you to stab people in the face over the internet #23396 +(18088)- [X] HEY EURAKARTE INSULT RETORT COUNTER-RETORT QUESTIONING OF SEXUAL PREFERENCE SUGGESTION TO SHUT THE f*** UP NOTATION THAT YOU CREATE A VACUUM RIPOSTE ADDON RIPOSTE COUNTER-RIPOSTE COUNTER-COUNTER RIPOSTE NONSENSICAL STATEMENT INVOLVING PLANKTON RESPONSE TO RANDOM STATEMENT AND THREAT TO BAN OPPOSING SIDES WORDS OF PRAISE FOR FISHFOOD ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTENCE OF TERMS

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 06:27 PM) I agree! Catfish give you the thrill and a good fight.....and food!!!! Just out of curiosity--how long did it take to reel that sucker in?

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 08:37 PM) Yeah I somehow got in my head that > meant better. Blah. Meh, it happens. Just wanted to alleviate any possible confusion.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 08:35 PM) I'm on my laptop and saw that coming from you and my first thought was OMG! This from a lady who doesn't like cliches. Then I turned slightly and the font looked green (I was going to put The Bodyguard, but then realized a lot of the youngin's might not even know that theme song....)

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 08:34 PM) Damn straight. Nah I agree Kalapse his ERA will still be > Buehrle's but that was a little funny to see him get knocked around. I think you mean his ERA will still be

Titanic

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 08:30 PM) Yah your right. But, still he should have gotten the death penalty. They dont excute them right away it takes like 5-10years. How would you feel if you had to live knowing you were going to be excuted. Better than if I knew I would never breathe free air again in my next 60 years.....

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 05:35 PM) I would like to humbly offer an observation. IMHO sales is the oldest professional. I believe before she was a prostitute, she had to be a salesperson. It can't be the oldest profession because the Johns had to make the money somehow to spend it on them...

Let's make it three sweeps in a row! Hoooooooray and hell yeah!

That's huge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I used to work at a camp down there--did you, by any chance, catch it right by the dam?

QUOTE(Goldmember @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 12:20 PM) forget the popcorn. /grabs camera... :headshake :headshake :headshake

That is really, really, really interesting. This could definitely change the way a lot of theories are presented. I know it isn't the same, but the "grandmother cell" might be getting a lot more respect soon.... Wild, even in the courses I took this past fall/spring they were talking about how silly it is to expect one cell to respond to something and that labelled line and distributed coding is the way to go. I am honestly shocked by this.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 12:17 PM) One big difference is that profits go to Chisox charities for this. Aaaaaah, that's cool. If I had the money I'd go for that....

QUOTE(sec159row2 @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 12:09 PM) is there a market for $700 tix... the sox are offering scout seats for the sox/cubs series in an auction format with minimun bids starting at $700... ebay has some at $600... are sox fans gonna pay it??? they can't get 30k on a half price tues but someone is gonna pay $600... I guess there has to be a buyer somewhere... Yes, they're called Cub fans. Seriously, though, $700 tix being sold by our team, did we just get bought by the Cubune?

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 11:47 AM) Did you send her a email back saying "You are right to think that way. The Twinge have no chance. Give up now." No, I thought I would be nice. I told her not to think about it and take it one game at a time. The claws will come out, though, during the last Twins/Sox series of the season though. We actually don't speak to each other during those series. It's intense.

My best friend from college (not batgirl) is a huge Twins fan, and season ticket holder, and she sent me a despondent e-mail yesterday about thinking the Twins might not be able to pull it out this season. So, they're definitely starting to doubt up there...

Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 22, 2005 -> 10:04 AM) She obviously thought you were a coffee table... Yeah, I get the coffee table thing a lot.

That is really funny. That kid shouldn't be allowed out in public.... I got licked by a stripper once. That was not funny.

Sounds like a break-up thread to me. And I'll take the sammich.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jun 21, 2005 -> 02:04 AM) they are so cool. Stay organized from the start. My first one shot directly onto 3 1/2 floppy disks and now I have hundreds of disks and no clue what is on any of them. Yeah, I'm trying to put them in folders by subject so I can find them easily. It's pretty cool. It's amazing how crisp and clean my pictures are. I think the quality is on par with my regular camera ( maybe even my SLR)....

Link Ex-KKK Member Convicted in 1964 Killings By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 2 minutes ago PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - An 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was convicted of manslaughter Tuesday in the slayings of three civil rights workers exactly 41 years ago in a notorious case that inspired the movie "Mississippi Burning." The jury of nine whites and three blacks reached the verdict on their second day of deliberations, rejecting murder charges against Edgar Ray Killen but also turning aside defense claims that he wasn't involved at all. Killen showed no emotion as the verdict was read. He was comforted by his wife as he sat in his wheelchair, wearing an oxygen tube. Heavily armed police formed a barrier outside a side door to the courthouse and jurors were loaded into two waiting vans and driven away. Civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were ambushed on June 21, 1964. Their bodies were found 44 days later buried in an earthen dam. They had been beaten and shot. Cheers could be heard outside the two-story, red brick courthouse after the verdict was announced. Passers-by patted Chaney's brother, Ben, on the back and one woman slowed her vehicle and yelled, "Hey, Mr. Chaney, all right!" Later, Ben Chaney thanked the prosecutors but said that for the community, "I really feel that there is more to be done." He said there were still no black businesses downtown. Schwerner's widow, Rita Schwerner Bender, praised the verdict, calling it "a day of great importance to all of us." But she said others also should be held responsible for the slayings. "Preacher Killen didn't act in a vacuum," Bender said. "The state of Mississippi was complicit in these crimes and all the crimes that occurred, and that has to be opened up." Prosecutors had asked the jury to send a message to the rest of the world that Mississippi has changed and is committed to bringing to justice those who killed to preserve segregation in the 1960s. They said the evidence was clear that Killen organized the attack on the three victims. Killen's lawyers conceded he was in the Klan but said that did not make him guilty. They pointed out that prosecutors offered no witnesses or evidence that put Killen at the scene of the crime. Killen did not take the stand, but has long claimed that he was at a wake at a funeral home when the victims were killed. While Killen was indicted on murder charges, which could carry a life sentence, prosecutors asked the judge to allow the jury to consider the lesser charge of manslaughter, which has a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Attorney General Jim Hood said earlier that with a murder charge, prosecutors had to prove intent to kill. With a manslaughter charge, he said, prosecutors had to prove only that a victim died while another crime was being committed. Killen was only person ever brought up on murder charges in the case by the state of Mississippi. Killen, a part-time preacher and sawmill operator, was tried in 1967 on federal charges of violating the victims' civil rights. But the all-white jury deadlocked, with one juror saying she could not convict a preacher. Seven others were convicted, but none served more than six years. The trial moved along swiftly, with testimony over only four days. Many of the witnesses from the 1967 trial now dead; this time, their testimony was read aloud to the jury from the transcripts. Chaney, a black Mississippian, and Goodman and Schwerner, white New Yorkers, were in Neshoba County to look into the torching of a black church and help register black voters during what was called Freedom Summer. The three were stopped for speeding on the night of the attack, jailed briefly, and then released, after which they were followed out of town by a gang of Klansmen and intercepted. Witnesses — primarily Klansmen — testified that Killen was a local Klan organizer who led meetings where members discussed the "elimination" of Schwerner, whom they called "Goatee" because of his beard. Witnesses said on the day of the slayings, Killen drove about 35 miles to Meridian and rounded up carloads of Klansmen to intercept the three men in their station wagon. According to testimony, Killen told some Klansmen to get plastic gloves and helped arrange for a bulldozer to bury the bodies. Killen's case marked the latest attempt in the Deep South to deal with unfinished business from the civil rights era. In 1994, Mississippi won the conviction of Byron de la Beckwith for the 1963 sniper killing of state NAACP leader Medgar Evers. In Alabama, Bobby Frank Cherry was convicted in 2002 of killing four black girls in the bombing of a Birmingham church in 1963 — the deadliest attack of the civil rights era. In 2001, Thomas Blanton was convicted in the bombing. State prosecutors also have reopened an investigation into the 1955 slaying of Chicago teenager Emmett Till in the Mississippi Delta. Till was kidnapped from his uncle's home after being accused of whistling at a white woman. Three days later, the 14-year-old's mutilated body was found in a river. Earlier this month, his remains were exhumed and autopsied. In the case against Killen, prosecutors told jurors that a conviction was crucial in showing the world that times have changed in Mississippi. "Because the guilt of Edgar Ray Killen is so clear, there is only one question left," prosecutor Mark Duncan said. "Is a Neshoba County jury going to tell the rest of the world that we are not going to let Edgar Ray Killen get away with murder any more? Not one day more." Defense attorney James McIntyre urged the jury to "vote your conscience" and acquit Killen. "There is a reasonable doubt," the lawyer said. The bald, gray-haired Killen was brought into court each day in a wheelchair — the result of a logging accident in which he broke his legs. Killen had to be taken from the courthouse in a stretcher last week to be treated for high blood pressure — the same day that Schwerner's widow took the stand. Bender took a riveted courtroom back in time to 1964, when she and her husband stayed in Mississippi with black families but had to constantly move around because of threats against their lives. She also recalled the day when she was told that authorities had found the burned-out shell of her husband's blue station wagon. "I think it really hit me for the first time that they were dead, that there was really no realistic possibility that they were alive," Bender said, occasionally looking as though she was fighting back tears. A few in the courtroom wiped away tears during the testimony.