Soxy

Didn't want to start a new thread, but I thought I'd just bump this one instead. I got an old Joni Mitchell cd for Christmas (Blue, I think) I just got around to playing it recently--and wow, I really like it. Crazy that I'd never heard her before. I also just got a Nat King Cole cd--that is seriously a cool and suave cd.

So how did you two meet.... Man Runs Dating Service Out of His Cab By LUKAS I. ALPERT, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - If you look hard enough, you can find anything in New York. So for the lovelorn who are burned out by the bar scene, fed up with personal ads or tired of scouring the Internet, there's another place to look for that perfect date: the back seat of a taxicab. Specifically, Ahmed Ibrahim's cab. The 50-year-old Egyptian immigrant sets up blind dates for his single passengers through a free, impromptu matchmaking service he runs out of his yellow cab. He said he finds mates, or at least dates, for about eight people a week. "New York is a very tough city for dating," Ibrahim mused while driving through the West Village recently. "I have heard a lot of crying in this cab, a lot of fighting and a lot of broken hearts." "Sometimes great people were just missing each other by minutes; one would get in my cab just as another had gotten out," he said. Funny thing is, it works. Ask Natalie Dillon. She hopped into Ibrahim's cab with friends on the way to a party one day last April. When their conversation switched to how hard it was to find a decent guy, Ibrahim chimed in through the bulletproof partition: "Hey ladies, I make matches." "He really got our attention when he said that," Dillon said. "I was kind of skeptical at first but then I figured, 'Oh, this is New York, what the hell.' I figured he must meet a ton of people." So Dillon — a single, 33-year-old media studies grad student — described what she was looking for in a guy, and gave Ibrahim her cell phone number. About six weeks later he called her and said: "Natalie, I have a guy for you." "I couldn't believe it," she said. She soon exchanged several phone calls with Martin Karamon, a 34-year-old lawyer. A few weeks later they went on a date. Six months later, the lovebirds are still going strong. "It's very surreal, but that's the way it happened," she said. New Yorkers have long poured their hearts out to cab drivers, but during his 21 years on the streets, Ibrahim has built deeper relationships with many of his fares. During the holiday season, he decorates his cab with Christmas lights and ornaments. He routinely sends birthday cards to passengers he has befriended and even hands out roses on Valentine's Day (news - web sites). Playing Miss Lonelyhearts with a hack license comes naturally to Ibrahim, though he stumbled across the part accidentally. "I was joking around with this girl ... who said she couldn't find a boyfriend," he recalled. Ibrahim took her number. Three days later, a man got in his cab and bemoaned his bad luck finding a woman. Ibrahim called the woman and gave her the man's number. Three weeks later, she called back and said they had gone on a date and were getting along great. "I thought, 'Oh my God, this is my new project,'" he said. So he set about it with gusto, attempting matches for doctors, lawyers and students. Since then, he has been featured on Fox News Channel and NBC's "Today" show and in The Wall Street Journal. He even has an agent shopping his story to producers in Hollywood. Ibrahim doesn't charge for his service; he does it for fun, he said. But he doesn't offer his help to just anybody who gets into his cab. First, they must be serious about looking to settle down. Men in their early 20s are usually ruled out as being too young and wild. Older men who are "looking for Britney Spears" are crossed off the list for just being creepy. They must be gainfully employed: No one looking for a meal ticket is invited. Try as hard as he may, his work is about love and chemistry, so not all of his matches have been successful. "The guy I met was a very nice person but he just wasn't for me," Dana Rosen, 26, said of the one date Ibrahim set her up on. "But I'm very picky and it's hard to meet someone right away." She's willing, however, to let Ibrahim set her up again. "I trust Ahmed because he knows what I want and he knows that I'm picky," she said. "Besides, I'm always up for something different." Ibrahim said he will keep working on setting his passengers up for as long as it takes to find them the perfect match. "I hope I can accomplish a few marriages," he said. "I'm an old-fashioned guy." And what about for himself? "Marriage is not for me," declared Ibrahim, who is divorced. But he has a girlfriend — a woman he picked up in his cab.

Saw Sideways tonight. A lot funnier and cleverer than I thought it would be. It is probably the first movie I've seen that I liked even thought I dislike the lead characters... Definitely enjoyable--and it made me feel a heck of a lot better about my life...

Saw Maria Full of Grace--really an incredible movie. Definitely made me rethink my lifelong dream of being a drug mule. Anyway, highly recommend, the lady that plays Maria was really amazing...

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 28, 2005 -> 12:51 PM) Considering that the US attempts to take the moral ground, the internment of the Japanese was just wrong. Basically, it was wrong because a large percentage of those people were US citizens. In-f***ing-excusable. Having said that, the attrocities of the Bataan Death March makes the aforementioned internment look like a day in the park. Comparing the Bataan Death March to the Holocost is like the old molehill to mountain comparison. Perspective is important. Thanks, I was mostly just using that example because all of these atrocities mentioned have taken place far away. People usually don't mention huge US human rights violations like internment camps (albeit less, obviously, than the others) or the Trail of Tears....

QUOTE(WHarris1 @ Jan 27, 2005 -> 04:43 PM) Are cigarettes really called f**s in Britain? I heard that in school today and I was shocked, that's insane. Yes. I got asked if I had any more than a few times at clubs and pubs out there. The first time I was a little pissed (read british for drunk) and was so confused.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Jan 27, 2005 -> 02:06 PM) As civilized as this world has been, it's amazing about the barbaric acts done during the Holocaust. And the ones Stalin did, and Rwanda, and gender killings in China, and the disappeared in South America, and the Japanese Interment camps.....

Has anyone seen Maria Full of Grace?

Read that in the Trib this morning. What is wrong with some people?

An e-mail from my sister: uuuhhhhhhh where did you find it? i tried, but we both know i'm so busy training to become a cage fighter, i don't really have time. sighhhhhhh....... SoxySister

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jan 26, 2005 -> 10:28 PM) When it comes to comparing brain pans, Soxy can go toe to toe with the best of them. I secretly want to be her phrenologist. Maybe I already am.....

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ Jan 26, 2005 -> 10:22 PM) Soxy is smart and funny...gotta like a woman who doesn't mind talking about beavers and carpet munching from time to time hehe Evil Jester rules because he always has such flattering pics of me up in his avatar.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jan 26, 2005 -> 10:18 PM) btw, can you think of a song with a longer title than that? No.

winodj once licked a coffee table.

Smokers are jokers!

42% Yankee, but I maintain nearly everything was Great Lakes. And my whole Yankee family says Rolly Polly

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 07:56 PM) But is it necc to put on public display for the whole world every person who has have been labeled a sex offender in the USA? No. There is no excuse for this scarlet letter attitude. As some of you have indicated the statute for what defines an SO varies from state to state. Yet that distinction is going to be easily lost in a public worldly display. I'm pretty much a bleeding heart on most issues, but not this. You commit a sex crime people have a right to know who you are and what you look like. Heck, that should go for any violent crime. Post it on the web, on a jumbo-tron, whatever. A survivor has to live with it for the rest of his/her life--and that's about a million times worse than having your picture posted on a website 95% of the general pop won't look at. If it keeps one person away from the perp it's worth it.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 09:31 PM) So out of curiousity, are you willing to put your self where your mouth is? Are you willing to stand up to a Soxtalk test of democracy? Please, please please!

Um, let's just say it involved my female best friend, a gumball, a bowling alley and a few long islands...We've yet to live it down...

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 06:29 PM) Yet you still have a no Sox related poker ad in your signature. That constitutes spam in my book & I think this is a no-spam site. I can't recall one other poster who has done such a thing.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 06:25 PM) In response to one sarcastic & mundane question I explained how scientific method works. In response to your post I see a statement supporting the hypothesis that even with her being in a canotonic state she might still be experiencing dreams because in your opinion we don't know enough about them to rule that possibility out. Wait, tell me more about the scientific method.... But to argue the fact that she might, on the off chance, be dreaming is much more of a reach than I am proposing...In fact, whether she might be dreaming is untestable due to her catatonic state, so I would argue that is not a real hypothesis because it can't be tested. And I am WELL aware of how brain activity/dreaming are measured and understood. I have set up a fair share of EEGs and read them as well. However, I have never seen any compelling evidence that the normal subjects we use in those experiments will even REMOTELY translate into a person with such severe brain damage. For any such evidence to count for your arguement, you need to demonstrate to me that such evidence can be found. I don't buy that you can generalize normals to someone in a catatonic state...

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 06:08 PM) Its a Constitution based federal republic but who needs little pesky things like facts getting in the way of pseudo-science and quasi-fascism, right? I certainly don't need facts to get in my way. Now, get to Russia you pinko Commie!!!

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 06:06 PM) You really need to ask? You create a control group of 100 or so persons. You connect to monitors to record their dream activity. You then INTERVIEW them about their dream activity you compare that to the activity of the monitors. They mention dreams that show little to no activity on the monitors. You determine how many such cases exist in the control group. You then determine whether it is a significant number. If it's a significant number you conclude that there are dream states that can not be recorded. Duh! First of all, and again, cite your source. If it works for people that have consciousness how do we know it is the same for people that do not have consciousness? My dog dreams? Does that mean she has consciousness? And just for the record, consciousness and that Freudian lingo went out with Watson and the behaviorists... Second of all, we don't even know WHAT dreaming is. Is it random neurons firing? Is it simply a way that we condense memories? People can't even agree on what type of neurological underpinnings dreams have--so I would be lothe to accept an argument that they are the basis of what it means to be a human.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jan 25, 2005 -> 05:54 PM) We dream subconsciously sometimes at levels which can not be detected. Clinical research has proven this to be true. Cite your source.

On the other end of the human/animal attck spectrum. My cat attacked the vet AGAIN yesterday. She has to get put in a "cat bag" to get shots. She's attacked 3 vets (same office) and two office/nurse/helper ladies. She's bitten all of the doctors, and scared one of them so badly he stuck the needle in his own arm. She's usually a really nice kitty, but she just hates the vet. And I think the feeling is mutual at this point....