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QUOTE(kapkomet @ Mar 10, 2005 -> 12:53 PM) And by the way, there's NO WAY he is found guilty. You can run a f***ing semi through the holes on the "reasonable doubt" of the evidence just with the testimony thus far. I don't think he be found guilty, but isn't reasonable doubt only for murder. I thought there was a lesser burden of proof on other cases...

We loooooooooooove baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad jokes. #1 -- A vulture boards an airplane, carrying two dead raccoons. The stewardess looks at him and says, "I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger." #2. Two fish swim into a concrete wall. The one turns to the other and says, "Dam!" #3. Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it too. #4. Two hydrogen atoms meet. One says "I've lost my electron." The other says "Are you sure?" The first replies "Yes, I'm positive." #5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication. #6. A group of chess enthusiasts checked into a hotel and were standing in the lobby discussing their recent tournament victories. After about an hour, the manager came out of the office and asked them to disperse. "But why?" they asked, as they moved off. "Because", he said, "I can't stand chess-nuts boasting in an open foyer." #7. A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in Egypt and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in Spain; they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal." #8. These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but they would not. He went back and begged the friars to close. They ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that only Hugh can prevent florist friars. #9. Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him ...... (Oh, man, this is so bad, it's good)....A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis. #10. And finally, there was the person who sent ten different puns to his friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them laugh. No pun in ten did.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 09:45 PM) Yes, I know from personal experience. I was pointing out that, unlike students, McDonald's employees aren't eligible for student loans and also get Social Security taken out of their paychecks (which is a real pain in the ass when you're scraping by to begin with). Sorry, I misread that. Yeah, it sucks. I can't imagine living on less than I do now--and I live in a damn cheap area too....

QUOTE(DonkeyKongerko @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 08:51 PM) For those less fortunate to not see the video. http://media.skoopy.com/vids/vid_00480.wmv Minnesota: first line of defense against the Canadians. Wow... And, for the record, I would like to point out that there was not a single girl in that video...

I'm a girl and I follow the sox almost slavishly. So, yeah, I get teased quite a bit about it. A real man would love me for my obsession. *sigh*

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 07:42 PM) That's still a pretty difficult salary to live on, especially when you're ineligible for student loans and have to pay Social Security (grad students don't). Actually grad students are currently eligible for student loans. Up to about 10K a year.

I finally got around to watching But I'm a Cheerleader (1998). Premise: A high school cheerleader's family sends her off to a "de-gayification" center to turn her straight. Hilarious hijinks and falling in love follow. This movie is pretty camp--but hilarious. RuPaul plays an ex-gay who is trying to help the gay boys turn straight. It's pretty full of stereotypes--but the movie is so off the wall anyway that everything is done to excess. Plus, there are lots of gratuitous shots of hotties. Definitely worth the rental fee. I give it two thumbs up.

s***, this graduate student would do very immoral things to make 17,000 a year. I make around 12,000 pre-tax. But the way to think about graduate student money is: indentured servitude. Yeah it sucks, but in 5 years I'll be making a lot more money. I don't have to depend on making these kind of wages for the rest of my life. Later I'll be able to put money in the bank, start dabbling in the stock market or other types of money ventures. If you make less than 20K for your whole life how are you supposed to live when you get old and are out of work (especially with the apparent disappearing of social security)?

QUOTE(shagar69 @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 03:35 PM) 50 and Game had a press conference today to make peace about their recent feud. More interesting to me though was that in the pic, Game is shaking hands with 50, wearing a sox hat. I just thought that was interesting http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...usic_rap_ruckus Meh, doesn't mean anything. I see them out in Upstate NY all the time. First place I've been with more Sox hats than Cubs hats.

In all honesty, it bothered me because she spoke her mind (albeit a very anti-american mind) and was labelled a b****. You know, if I had just been almost killed by hostages and then was thrown into another near death experience I would come out swinging too. I think the problem is that when men in this story spoke their minds no one called them names--it bothered me because it was the woman who was called names--and very quickly. And to be honest, I think killing a 19 month old child is a far worse crime than speaking out against the US. And, therefore, might merit stronger words.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 11:52 AM) Apparently, U of C's extreme leftism is coming to the surface. I hope the moderate alumni withhold financial contributions. The power of the almighty buck speaks loudly. But not left enough to fire Gary Barnett apparently...

QUOTE(YASNY @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 11:17 AM) Regardless of the turn this thread has taken, I sincerely hope my apology is accepted.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 10:49 AM) I've scalped tickets for over face value outside Wrigley before. Oh, you work for the Tribune Co?

Whew, is it hot in here or is it me? Oh wait, it's both.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 10:37 AM) Not true... Bart Simpson got an F- one time. I suppose there have been some times when it's tempting to put that minus out there.....

QUOTE(mreye @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 10:38 AM) A lawyer turned down a lawsuit?

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 10:35 AM) You mean calling them a dyke, right Tex? (oozing with sarcasm) Only cuz he wants to watch.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 10:15 AM) Maybe someone will invade us and then rebuild the infrastructure. IMHO, that seems overly harsh and subjective. I drive regularly in Mexico and I see lack of guardrails, curves sloped the opposite way, dirt roads, standing water, garbage everywhere. We're at least 2 or 3 grades above that F. Well, there's more variability in F's. I mean, you can score 0% and get an F and you can score a 59% and get an F. Afterall, there's no such thing as an F+ or an F-....

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 08:36 AM) Which is something that guys are not really sensitized to. In general, we can use slurs like that without a deeper connection and interchangeable. Putting on your Grad school cap, is that cultural? Is that accurate? Uhhhhhh, my grad school caps says let's do a lexical decision test--I'm afraid I never took a social psych class, or anthro. Therefore, I am unqualified to answer your question.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 08:37 AM) You have chosen to ignore ChiSoxyGirl. View this post · Un-ignore ChiSoxyGirl Real mature.

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Mar 9, 2005 -> 08:24 AM) Of course, these ladies failed to account for all the times that I called Saddam and Kim Jong Il "worthless pieces of crap." :rolly But I understand their point (and yours) and will be more sensitive to this issue in the future. Hm, worthless piece of crap vs. b****. There's just something a lot more biting, personal, and insulting about b****.

Crowe targeted the world over... Crowe Says al-Qaida Wanted to Kidnap Him SYDNEY, Australia - Russell Crowe (news) says Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al-Qaida terror network wanted to kidnap him as part of a "cultural destabilization plot," according to an Australian magazine. In an interview published in the March edition of Australia's GQ magazine, Crowe said FBI (news - web sites) agents told him of the threat in 2001, in the months before he won a best actor Oscar for his role as Maximus in "Gladiator." "That was the first (time) I'd ever heard the phrase 'al-Qaida,'" Crowe said. "It was about — and here's another little touch of irony — taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as sort of a cultural destabilization plot," he added. Crowe was born in New Zealand and has a ranch in eastern Australia but made his name in Hollywood. It was not clear if there were other targets in the plot. Crowe said he was shadowed by FBI agents after the threat and hired private security guards.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 10:13 PM) I don't think it is fishing too much. Imagine the situation if Condi was working for a Democratic president, and the letter was written by someone like Tony Blair. Jessie Jackson would be creamin his jeans at all the anticipated airtime he would be getting, demanding resignations, reparations and appropriations! Al Sharpton would be knocking Jessie over to get to the cameras first. Dorothy Tillman would be demanding that we stop importing British television on any cable system broadcast in Chicago, and want to investigate the British's ties to slavery before we could watch Monty Python again. Julian Bond, would decry the secret cabal of neocons working with outside influences to keep the black man down. All over something as 'slight' as this. Well, that's an interesting opinion.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 10:07 PM) I cut into a green pepper to add to the stir fry I was making and when I looked closely to where the seed pod is connected to the top of the pepper, I noticed something moving. After dropping, I realized I had a green caterpillar crawling around inside my pepper. Pepper hit the trash instead of the stir fry. Sorry, I don't care how much protein could have been added by the caterpillar! :puke Icky gross! Hope you had a back up pepper.

QUOTE(chimpy2121 @ Mar 8, 2005 -> 10:06 PM) I just think its bulls*** that congress has voted to raise their salaries 4 times since the last time minimum wage was increased. I agree.