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Once again....after last night's episode......i must say that Ted rules!!! Poor bastard!! LOL

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 04:17 PM) Almost got into an altercation, and was accused by a girl of talking to her only because i wanted to get it on with her. Weird night. Is there any other reason to talk to them???? Hope the wife didn't hear that...lol

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Apr 18, 2008 -> 01:33 PM) That's what your girlfriend says... yeah...you're right...she does say that. Now as long as i don't hear that from the wife....i'll be ok

During my time in Southern Illinois, I went through 4 earthquakes. i was awake when 3 of them hit and i have never felt a thing. Not that i'm complaining or anything but one time I was up studying for finals about 5 in the morning when peopple started poking their heads out asking me "What was that?" I had no idea what they were talking about. Guess I'm just not sensitive enough.

Who said that today's kids don't get enough exercise..... TOKYO, April 17 (Reuters) - A Japanese high school pleaded for a regional game to be abandoned after surrendering 66 runs in less than two innings, local media reported on Thursday. The coach of Kawamoto technical high school threw in the towel to spare his pitcher’s arm with his team losing 66-0 with just one batter out in the bottom of the second. The hapless hurler had already sent down over 250 pitches, allowing 26 runs in the first inning and 40 in the second before Kawamoto asked for mercy. “At that pace the pitcher would have thrown around 500 pitches in four innings,” Kawamoto’s coach was quoted as saying. “There was a danger he could get injured.” Opponents Shunshukan were officially credited with a 9-0 victory, giving the scoreline a tinge of respectability for the luckless Kawamoto school. (Writing by Alastair Himmer; Editing by Justin Palmer) 250 pitches in two innings????? i know there is a Cubs joke in there somewhere...lol

talk about classy...lol

well....here is AK's PR attempt to make her original comments see a bit less crazy.....take it for what it's worth...USA interview NEW YORK (AP) — Alicia Keys says she's not a conspiracy theorist. In a statement issued Tuesday, Keys said she was clarifying "comments that were made during my recent Blender magazine interview since they have been misrepresented." According to an interview in the magazine's May issue, the 27-year-old singer says: "'Gangsta rap' was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. 'Gangsta rap' didn't exist." She also is quoted as saying that she wears a gold AK-47 pendant around her neck "to symbolize strength, power and killing 'em dead." "We stand by our story," Blender spokeswoman Kate Cafaro told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "My comments about 'gangsta rap' were in no way trying to suggest that the government is responsible for creating this genre of rap music," Keys said in a statement issued by J Records. "The point that I was trying to make was that the term was oversloganized by some of the media causing reactions that were not always positive. Many of the 'gangsta rap' lyrics articulate the problems of the artists' experiences and I think all of us, including our leaders, could be doing more to address these problems including drugs, gang violence, crime, and other related social issues." As for the AK-47 remark, Keys said Tuesday that AK-47 is a nickname given to her by friends "as an acronym for Alicia Keys and a metaphor for wowing people with my music and performances, 'killing 'em dead' on stage. The reference was in no way meant to have a literal, political or negative connotation." When AP attempted to reach Keys last week about the Blender interview, her publicist, Theola Borden, said the singer was on vacation and unavailable for comment. The multiplatinum star behind the hits Fallin' and No One most recently had success with her latest CD, As I Am, which has sold 3.4 million copies, according to Nielsen Soundscan.

Oh Boy....as the downward trend for Hollywood continues...here comes....Fast and Furious 4

QUOTE (CubKilla @ Apr 13, 2008 -> 03:58 PM) The comedy club circuit is Artie's bread and butter because of the Stern Show. Artie was a nobody in comedy before sitting in Jackie's chair and will, probably, return to nobody status if he leaves or is kicked off. Ask Jackie Martling that's ok though...i'm sure VH1 could use another comedian on the 'Best Week Ever' program.

For a few years now...my wife and i would shop at Meijers and would buy Mama Rosa's pizzas (2 for $5). 17 minutes in the oven and it's some damn tasty pizza. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

gee...WWE setting up a pay-per-view headlining match with Cena/Orton/HHH/JBL ....wow...wonder how long it took them to come up with that one...lol

i just tried their Scotch ale and their Amber Bock (?) and both were very tasty

Here's to helping the little guys........ DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A shortage of a key ingredient in beer has shown that even business competitors can come together over a cold one now and then. That happened last week when the nation's largest craft brewery, Boston Beer Co., the maker of the Samuel Adams brand, agreed to share 20,000 pounds of its hops with craft brewers throughout the country, including two in Iowa. An extended worldwide shortage of hops has left smaller brewers unable to buy the important perennial flower that adds some of the bitterness and aroma to beer. About six weeks ago Boston Beer sent out notifications to small brewers that it wanted to help them by making available some of its hops at cost. The company said it received 352 requests totaling about 100,000 pounds, much more than it could give away. "It shows how great the need is and I felt really bad," said Boston Beer Co. founder Jim Koch. "We even fudged it a little and went over the 20,000 pounds, but we just don't have the capability of filling this hole ourselves." Koch said the company looked at its supply of hops and decided to live up a long established culture among craft brewers. "We view each other as colleagues not as competitors," he said. Koch said the shortage became acute last year when the 2007 hops crop came in below average, the third bad season in a row for hops. In addition, increased beer consumption has increased demand for hops, he said. The shortage has left the smallest craft brewers most vulnerable because they typically don't have the long-term contracts with growers. "We looked at our hops inventories and we said we can take some risk," Koch said. "If the 2008 harvest is OK we'll still be covered." The hops shortage was serious enough that some craft brewers were at the point of going out of business, said Paul Gatza, director of the Boulder, Colo.-based Brewers Association, a nonprofit trade group. "To some degree it kept some people afloat that weren't able to get hops," he said. He said the hops shortage will plague the industry for another year or more. In random drawings, Boston Beer selected 108 brewers to receive the 20,000 pounds of hops it could spare. Among the recipients was Worth Brewing Co., which claims to be the smallest registered brewery in the country. It bought 88 pounds of hops. Peter Ausenhus and his wife, Margaret Bishop, opened Worth Brewing Co. a year ago in Northwood, a town of about 2,000 people near the Iowa-Minnesota state line. The brewery is in an 1887 building in the town's central avenue historic district. They make 40 to 50 gallons of beer a week in 10-gallon batches and sell it on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays in The Tap Room, a storefront room in the same building where the beer is made. Specialty beers and a variety of flavors, aromas, colors and textures are offered for sale. Ausenhus said his 88 pounds of hops will last him a year. He'll pay Boston Beer's volume contracted cost, about $6 a pound, much cheaper than the $25 to $30 a pound he'd have to pay on the open market if he could get the German hops Boston Beer is providing. "It's a great savings, but more than the money, I was not able to get any imported hops this year. I had to reformulate all of my recipes. There's domestic hops but if you're making a German lager you'd prefer to use a German hop rather than an American-grown German variety because there are differences," he said. Ausenhus said the hops sharing illustrates the camaraderie that exists among craft brewers large and small. "It's a fairly friendly open industry," he said. "I don't know if maybe they just feel they're big enough they don't have to worry, but I think that there is a genuine interest and they know that a thriving craft brewing industry probably helps them too, and certainly it's just a generous gesture on their part as well." Craft brewing is a growing segment of the beer industry. Its sales made up only 5.9 percent of the total beer market in retail sales in 2007, but the sector grew by about 12 percent in volume last year and 16 percent in dollars, according to the Brewers Association. The 1,449 U.S. craft breweries last year sold $5.7 billion worth of beer, the association said. U.S. beer sales last year totaled about $97 billion.

it would just be nice for one year, to see the KC Royals be a pain in the ass to a team in the Central that isn't the White Sox. Go Royals!!!!!!

from an article i read about this the students parents are helping the authorities figure things out. It's refreshing to not hear things from the parents like "Not my baby!!!" "My kid is a good kid..he wouldn't do anything like that".

talk about a time waster......MAD Magazine foldins

Barkley interview

I was 15 and at a family reunion when I along with Alpha Dog and a bunch of our older cousins spent the night at one cousins house drinking. I don't remember much but i was told that at one point i went outside to pee and was found cursing at and hitting a tree with my fists. I was told the next morning that i was upset because the tree 'bit' me while i was taking a leak. i remember the next day trying to explain to my mom why my knuckles were all scratched and bloody. I do have a great U of I drunken road trip story for another time.

b****slap in super slo-mo

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Mar 21, 2008 -> 02:50 PM) Thats what I don't understand. As far as we know, the no one had left the Freighter, so who was on the island? To really stretch it, and something I thought about last night, I think last episode Sayid was looking for Frank, and he asked someone where he was. They said "He had to run an errand with the chopper...". Now I am still a little confused about time on/off the island, but could it have been him that did that the shooting, the fly back, and since time is behind on the boat, or time is forward on the island(whatever way you look at it) I suppose that could make some sense. Who knows. I still really want to know about the Alex/Ben/Rosseau thing. In last nights episode, when Ben said "Go with your mother", all she did was agree and left with Alex. Is he really her dad? Why have Rosseau and Ben not gotten into a huge fight? Rosseau has nailed Ben with a right hook or two since getting her daughter back and railed on him for stealing her. Ben is not the daddy. Frank is the only person on the show last night who wasn't accounted for so maybe he could have done the shooting but (even in Lost's world) it would be highly improbable that he happened to be laying in wait in the one spot on the whole freakin' island to get a shot at them. However i think maybe he did some scout work for the attack on the village we see in the trailers for next week.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Mar 21, 2008 -> 04:10 AM) Remember, Christmas stuff was at the hospital. X-Mas stuff is put out early, but that was obviously a hint. Very solid episode, but I am insanly mad they killed Rosseau. To me she was one of the best characters on the show, and there was SO much left to be told about her situation. Her death won't stop them from telling her story, but I just hate that she is gone. I just got done watching, so I need some more time to gather my thoughts. Technically....noone confirmed her dead so we'll have to wait and see. I don't think she is as she still has (IMO) a part to play in the whole thing. Then again....maybe she can play her part from beyond the grave. Question is...was it the Others who took her out and did Ben plan on that happening???

QUOTE(StrangeSox @ Mar 20, 2008 -> 02:12 PM) I still think the last episode is going to have to be two straight hours (no commercials) of the creators in a room with white boards and power points explaining everything. The main story line will wrap up nicely, but I think there will be some sub plots here and there that don't get fully explained. As long as they don't wait till the last season to start answering those pesky little questions and start early enough then they should be able to answer most of them without forcing all the answers into one or two ending episodes.

The NCAA men's basketball tournament, now in its 70th year, is more than a sporting event. It is a lexicon, and a season — the sports fan's bridge from winter to spring. Just as a plethora of agnostics celebrate Christmas, a multitude of sports unenthusiasts eagerly fill out a bracket for the office pool. "I consider it the No. 1 sports event in America," says sports television pioneer Eddie Einhorn, who attended his first Final Four in 1956 as a senior at Penn and called in reports to campus radio station WXTN. "At the start of the tournament, you've got 65 teams from all over the country. Even Montana can get in (though not this year)." Beginning Thursday CBS will commit 68 hours to televising parts of all 63 games (excluding the play-in game) of the tournament. CBS, which holds exclusive television, radio and digital rights to the tourney, is in the midst of an 11-year, $6 billion deal with the NCAA. How did the big dance get so big? Much of the growth traces back to Einhorn, whose trajectory in sports television mirrors that of March Madness. In 1957, when Einhorn was a first-year law student at Northwestern —studying not far from where the initial championship game was played, but more on that in a moment — he created a loose network of radio stations and called the game himself. Einhorn even persuaded hoops legend George Mikan to be his color commentator. Five years later, long before television rights for the championship game were a notion, Cincinnati played Ohio State (who had a sixth man named Bob Knight) in the championship game. It was Einhorn who cobbled together seven affiliates in Ohio that showed interest in the game and put it on air for them. It was also Einhorn whose TVS network (which was little more than a loose consortium of affiliates thrown together depending on the regional interest in a particular game) broadcast the monumental UCLA-Houston game in 1978. That game aroused NBC Sports, who the following year paid more than half a million dollars for the rights to the NCAA championship game, and who made, if not the entire tournament, then at least the Final Four, a network television event. You can even thank (or blame) Einhorn for ESPN analyst and former Notre Dame coach Digger Phelps. Einhorn, now a part-owner of the Chicago White Sox, arranged the Notre Dame-UCLA series in the early '70s, which saw the Irish end the Bruins' 88-game win streak. That series helped make Digger a TV star. whole article here ....March Madness orgin

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