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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The son of the late owner of the New York Giants got into a scuffle on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday with a fan of the Philadelphia Eagles, who had just beaten his family's team, according to a published report. The New York Post reported that Stephen Mara tackled and choked another broker after that broker had mocked the Giants' performance against the Eagles in their 36-22 loss. Mara is a broker at the exchange. His father, Wellington Mara, owned 50 percent of the team until his death in October 2005. The Mara family, which has owned all or part of the Giants for 81 years, continues to own half the team. Stephen Mara's oldest brother John serves as president and chief operating officer, and two other brothers Chris and Frank, are team executives. Wellington Mara had 11 children. The paper quotes Bob Tomasulo, 57, as saying that he had been joking back and forth with Mara about the Eagles and the Giants for years, and he was surprised when his comments Tuesday provoked an angry reaction. Another, unnamed broker told the Post that Mara started screaming, "I'm gonna f- - -ing kill you! Don't f- - - around with my family! Don't insult my family!" That broker told the newspaper that Tomasulo responded, "Hey, what is your problem? It's just a game!" But the broker said Mara yelled back, "No, it's not just a game, it's my f- - -ing family!" and then charged at Tomasulo. Tomasulo told the paper that Mara just seemed to snap. "He charged me like an animal," Tomasulo told the newspaper. "He charged me like he wanted to sack me. At first, he got me in a bear hug and bent me over a trading post. At first, I thought it was a joke. Then he proceeded to choke me. I passed out for a minute." Mara, through a Giants spokesman, told the paper that he had tried to contact Tomasulo after the incident to apologize but had not been able to reach him as yet. "This guy and I have gone back and forth for years about the Giants and the Eagles. He came to work with every intention of pushing my buttons, and he did, and I reacted," Mara's statement to the paper said. "I reached out to him to apologize for my part in this unfortunate incident." An NYSE official told the Post the trading-floor scuffle was "nothing major, a slight disagreement between a couple of people." But Tomasulo told the paper NYSE (Charts) lawyers contacted him and "to them, this is a very serious incident." He said he was treated by the exchange's medical staff. "The doctors told me I have a bruised larynx," Tomasulo said. "My blood pressure spiked to 260 over 140." He said he didn't take Mara's apologetic phone call because "I wasn't in the mood to talk to him." He also said he has yet to decide if he will hire a lawyer about the incident but that he would not be upset if Mara was suspended from the exchange for a number of days. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 03:30 AM) has anyone here tried renting video games through gamefly? I've been with gamefly for a year or so now. haven't had any problems really. A couple games have been lost in the mail but i filled out an online form and the next on my list is sent. Some of their newer games have a short wait list on them but it hasn't been too bad yet.

Tara Reid Anyone want to guess want the over/under will be on Tara even making it till midnight before she shows her drunken skank colors????????? Still...should make for some interesting stories

Zimbabwe needs farmers back Part of me wishes that the displaced farmers would tell them to take a flying leap but i guess if they have a chance to get their family farms back i would understand.

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QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Dec 15, 2006 -> 03:55 AM) I signed up for Classmates 4 or 5 years ago, and after an initial interest in seeing who elso was signed up, I really never used it for anything. About a year ago, a guy I was friends with when I was ten or eleven sent me a Classmates greeting. I got the notification that this guy had sent me an email, but the catch is that you can't read it unless you too are a member. Now, if it was someone who I cared to reconnect with, I might consider joining to read the email. But, for someone who is probably just trying to get me involved in a pyramid scheme, I'll pass. Anyone ever use Classmates or one of these type things to contact someone? i managed to track down a good friend from high school that i lost track of after the first Gulf War. We found it funny that awe lived and worked within 10 miles of each other and both drove north on 355 every day. I also found my main 'bed' buddy from college. I was always curious as to what had happened to her after college. It's been a year and we still talk online now and again.

I remember him from Young Frankenstein......very talented character actor. Had a great X-files episode too. Actor Peter Boyle Dead at 71 By DEEPTI HAJELA Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Peter Boyle, the tall, prematurely bald actor who was the tap-dancing monster in "Young Frankenstein" and the curmudgeonly father in the long-running sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond," has died. He was 71. Boyle died Tuesday evening at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He had been suffering from multiple myeloma and heart disease, said his publicist, Jennifer Plante. A Christian Brothers monk who turned to acting, Boyle gained notice playing an angry workingman in the Vietnam-era hit "Joe." But he overcome typecasting when he took on the role of the hulking, lab-created monster in Mel Brooks' 1974 send-up of horror films. The movie's defining moment came when Gene Wilder, as scientist Frederick Frankenstein, introduced his creation to an upscale audience. Boyle, decked out in tails, performed a song-and-dance routine to the Irving Berlin classic "Puttin' On the Ritz." It showed another side of the Emmy-winning actor, one that would be exploited in countless other films and perhaps best in "Everybody Loves Raymond," in which he played incorrigible paterfamilias Frank Barone for 10 years. "He's just obnoxious in a nice way, just for laughs," he said of the character in a 2001 interview. "It's a very sweet experience having this happen at a time when you basically go back over your life and see every mistake you ever made." When Boyle tried out for the role opposite series star Ray Romano's Ray Barone, however, he was kept waiting for his audition - and he was not happy. "He came in all hot and angry," recalled the show's creator, Phil Rosenthal, "and I hired him because I was afraid of him." But Rosenthal also noted: "I knew right away that he had a comic presence." Boyle first came to the public's attention more than a quarter century before. "Joe" was a sleeper hit in which he portrayed the title role, an angry, murderous bigot at odds with the era's emerging hippie youth culture. Although critically acclaimed, he faced being categorized as someone who played tough, angry types. He broke free of that to some degree as Robert Redford's campaign manager in "The Candidate," and shed it entirely in "Young Frankenstein." The latter film also led to the actor meeting his wife, Loraine Alterman, who visited the set as a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine. Boyle, still in his monster makeup, quickly asked her for a date. He went on to appear in dozens of films and to star in "Joe Bash," an acclaimed but short-lived 1986 "dramedy" in which he played a lonely beat cop. He won an Emmy in 1996 for his guest-starring role in an episode of "The X Files," and he was nominated for "Everybody Loves Raymond" and for the 1977 TV film "Tail Gunner Joe," in which he played Sen. Joseph McCarthy. In the 1976 film "Taxi Driver," he was the cabbie-philosopher Wizard, who counseled Robert DeNiro's violent Travis Bickle. Other notable films included "T.R. Baskin," "F.I.S.T.," "Johnny Dangerously," "Conspiracy: Trial of the Chicago 8" (as activist David Dellinger), "The Dream Team," "The Santa Claus," "The Santa Claus 2," "While You Were Sleeping" (in a charming turn as Sandra Bullock's future father-in-law) and "Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed." Educated in Roman Catholic schools in Philadelphia, Boyle would spend three years in a monastery before abandoning his studies there. He later described the experience as similar to "living in the Middle Ages." He explained his decision to leave in 1991: "I felt the call for awhile; then I felt the normal pull of the world and the flesh." He traveled to New York to study with Uta Hagen, supporting himself for five years with various jobs, including postal worker, waiter, maitre d' and office temp. Finally, he was cast in a road company version of "The Odd Couple." When the play reached Chicago he quit to study with that city's famed improvisational troupe Second City. Upon returning to New York, he began to land roles in TV commercials, off-Broadway plays and finally films. Through Alterman, a friend of Yoko Ono, the actor became close friends with John Lennon. "We were both seekers after a truth, looking for a quick way to enlightenment," Boyle once said of Lennon, who was best man at his wedding. In 1990, Boyle suffered a stroke and couldn't talk for six months. In 1999, he had a heart attack on the set of "Everybody Loves Raymond." He soon regained his health, however, and returned to the series. Despite his work in "Everybody Loves Raymond" and other Hollywood productions, Boyle made New York City his home. He and his wife had two daughters, Lucy and Amy.

The title of this thread makes me think of Kathy Bates yelling "Bobby Boucher...stay away from that soy....it's the DEVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Waiter: Here you go sir....a steaming bowl of hot tomato soup Customer: AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!! My groin!!!! AAAA my groin!!!!!!!!!!!

Man charged in shopping mall jihad plot By MIKE ROBINSON, Associated Press Writer 6 minutes ago CHICAGO - A Muslim convert who talked about his desire to wage jihad against civilians was charged Friday in a plot to set off hand grenades at a shopping mall during the Christmas rush, authorities said. Investigators said Derrick Shareef, 22, of Rockford, was acting alone and never actually obtained any grenades. "He fixed on a day of December 22nd on Friday ... because it was the Friday before Christmas and thought that would be the highest concentration of shoppers that he could kill and injure," said Robert Grant, the agent in charge of the Chicago FBI office. Authorities said Shareef had been under investigation since September, when he told an acquaintance that "he wanted to commit acts of violent jihad against targets in the United States as well as commit other crimes." The acquaintance immediately informed the FBI, officials said. Federal officials said Shareef planned to set off four hand grenades in garbage cans at the CherryVale shopping mall in Rockford, about 90 miles northwest of Chicago. He was charged with one count of attempting to damage or destroy a building by fire or explosion and one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. "While these are very serious charges, at no time was the public in any imminent peril," U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said in a news release. Other potential targets that Shareef allegedly discussed included government facilities such as courthouses and city hall, authorities said. Shareef and his acquaintance cased the mall on Nov. 30, discussing the layout and spots where they might set off several grenades simultaneously to create more pandemonium, according to an FBI affidavit. A spokeswoman for the mall said officials were cooperating with the investigation but referred all other questions to the U.S. attorney's office.

QUOTE(redandwhite @ Dec 7, 2006 -> 07:07 PM) I hope Gil Meche works out for Kansas City. That could be a franchise crippler if it doesn't. I think their location is a franchise crippler

i bet Mary's dad thought he was the only Dick in her life! I guess not.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 7, 2006 -> 02:53 AM) They made a brief comeback. I believe there was something about them actually causing injury to people. And whatever happened to Bryan White the country singer? Bryan White was diagnosed with a type of cancer if i recall correctly. Last i heard from my friends in Nashville...he's still writing songs for other people. Whatever happened to Terry Tate...Office Linebacker?????

The first time we ever remember hearing about steroids, as far as we can recollect, was Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson, a guilty finding made all the more hilarious because he's Canadian. (Kind of.) Well, over the weekend, Johnson revealed that he has finally, 18 years later, figured out who famously doped his pre-race beer the night before the sprint. You'll never guess. Yep ... it's Carl Lewis! Ben Johnson dramatically alleged superstar Carl Lewis was "involved" in a conspiracy to sabotage the Canadian's drug sample and bring on the biggest scandal in Olympic history. Johnson, who lost the 100m gold medal and world record after failing a drug test at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, said it had taken 18 years but he now knows who spiked his drink. "I have the information on how it was done and why it was done this way and who was behind it," Johnson said yesterday.Asked whether Lewis had anything to do with the alleged sabotage, Johnson replied: "I won't say too much but . . . he's involved." "I've been speaking to my lawyer and he wants to keep it as low (key) as possible until next June. We're trying to get some information, try to get that guy (a US footballer) to speak.''

In a related note..the Cubs have announced every home game will now be known as "Magic Cone " Day. In the shadow of Soriano's deal, the Cubs are now cutting the woman's bathroom budget and women will have to pee in the troughs like everyone else.

I don't care about Princess Diana....SHE'S DEAD PEOPLE(magazine) LET IT GO!!!!!!!!!!

Yes. Bill assumes male guilt and opens door to unfair prosecutions. B ob and Jane live together and, like many young couples, they sometimes argue. There never seems to be enough money, and while they both want to go to college, neither has yet been able to do so. Jane recently discovered that she is pregnant. Jane is ambivalent about the pregnancy, and her friends think she should terminate it -- she's too young, and Bob isn't very stable. Bob would like to be a father someday, but not now -- he can't pay their bills and wants a better career. One day Bob and Jane argue over some things Jane bought with their credit card, and Bob tells Jane he doesn't want to pay their bills anymore. He says he's tired of arguing with her, doesn't want her to have the baby, and wants to move out for a while and think things over. Under a bill recently passed by the Michigan House of Representatives, Bob could go to jail. House Bill 5882 creates the Coercive Abortion Prevention Act. Its purpose is to prohibit the putative father of a pregnant woman's child from coercing or intimidating the woman into terminating her pregnancy. While preventing violence or threats of violence against pregnant women is an admirable goal, the proposal goes way beyond this by interfering with constitutionally protected personal prerogatives. The proposal actually makes it a crime for a man to "change or attempt to change an existing housing or cohabitation arrangement" with a pregnant significant other, to "file or attempt to file for a divorce" from his pregnant wife or to "withdraw or attempt to withdraw financial support" from a woman whom he has been supporting -- if it is determined that the man is doing these things to try to pressure the woman to terminate her pregnancy. This violates men's rights. The U.S. Constitution's protected liberty interests safeguard privacy in areas such as contraception, abortion, marriage, procreation, child rearing and sexual conduct between consenting adults. Do Michigan legislators believe these protections don't also cover the basic personal choices the proposal proscribes? The bill is also laden with unfair assumptions of male perfidy. There are many reasons why a man might be unhappy over his wife's or girlfriend's pregnancy, and consider ending his relationship with her. He may doubt that the child she is carrying is his. He may feel he was deceived into the pregnancy. She may lash out at him during her pregnancy-related mood swings, and he may take offense. A talented prosecuting attorney who may be looking for publicity could frame a man's decision as an attempt to coerce an abortion. The accused need not be convicted to suffer egregious harm -- the cost of criminal defense is often ruinous, and the emotional toll can be worse. The physical dangers from which House Bill 5882's supporters seek to protect pregnant women are real. It's debatable whether the bill's anti-violence provisions are good law, because the acts it specifies are already illegal.

Ms. Dewey

With respect to the Roddy Piper news....here's a old clip that proves Roddy is the man... Roddy's the man!!!!!!!!!

Some sad news from the world of real life....... Canadian professional wrestling legend "Rowdy" Roddy Piper has been diagnosed with lymphoma and will begin undergoing treatment immediately. In a statement posted Monday on Piper's web site, the 52-year-old Saskatoon native said doctors found a cancerous tumour on a disc in his spine. Back discomfort had forced Piper to leave World Wrestling Entertainment's tour of Europe and return to North America two weeks ago. "It seems like I have been fighting someone, something, someplace, in some manner, my whole life," Piper said in a statement. "But this fight is one I am gonna win!" Piper, who was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2005, is married with four children. He was scheduled to tour Quebec and Ontario by train next week to help promote Wrestlemania - held next April in Detroit - and his DVD set, "Born to Controversy," released Nov. 14.

QUOTE(iWiN4PreP @ Nov 26, 2006 -> 04:17 PM) Done that, for the past few weeks . all she says in return is "nothingg, i dont need anything" stuff along those lines. =P When we were dating, my wife said that to me one year and guess what?? She didn't get anything that year. Harsh??? maybe but that was 20 years ago and i have never gotten that answer again.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Nov 22, 2006 -> 03:28 PM) Well...as George Costanza once said "The only thing better than conjugal visit sex is fugitive sex!!!!" Always like a good Seinfeld reference......

Things to look forward to this season..... Scubs season outlook It's from E so anything is possible. **Side note....i didn't know the actor playing Ted is Christopher Lloyd's nephew.

QUOTE(bmags @ Nov 21, 2006 -> 07:54 PM) how did we bend far backwards for 'islamic law'? They were removed from the plane. We didn't really..i think Nuke was refering to the comment the one guy made about us understanding 'their' laws and traditions. They are in our country..how about they observe OUR laws and accept the consequence when they break those laws or rules. Why is it that we should always go out of our way to accomodate them and their rules.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Nov 21, 2006 -> 06:53 PM) When exactly did either standing while on a plane or praying while on a plane (both of them before takeoff) become against the rules? It's against the rules when a stewardess tells you to sit down and buckle up as they are getting ready to take-off. They could have sat in their seats and prayed all they want to. Hell...my wife does that every time we fly (of course it's because she doesn't like flying). Standing after you are told to sit by an authority figure is against the rules.