juddling

being the younger brother to EvilMonkey can be tough sometimes. When we were younger, i was hanging out with EM and his friends had a habit of calling people by their last names (man i hate people like that). Our last name is Judd. EM was Judd to this friend and when i tagged along i was Little Judd. That didn't sound so good so i changed it to Juddling and there it is.

:headshake i'm stunned at the amount of stereotypes thrown at SIU in this thread. I attended SIU from 1987-1991 and worked andlived in carbondale for about 7 years after that. I'm not sure who said it in the thread but SIU and the "party school" rep has been dead for many years. They started killing off Halloween and the 'celebration" back in '88 and it was well dead when i left southern illinois in '98. The age to get into bars has been raised to 21 back in late 90's (though it may be back down now). Like any college, it has it's majors that it is known for and some majors you wouldn't want to go there for. Radio-television is well respected around the country..as is their avaition program and their dentistry program. Also, SIU's nursing program is highly respected..though i think that might be at Edwardsville now. During my stint there a friend of mine made a pact to party at all the major campuses in illinois in one school year. so we got to see them all....U of I...WIU....EIU..Illinois State..Bradley...NIU. Back then Illinois state was a cesspool, and U of I was cutting down every tree and bush on campus in order not to give the rapist that was going around at the time anything to hide behind. NIU was nice and i don't remember anything being memorable about the others. If your looking at schools for Recreation possibilities...SIU can't be beat with things like the Giant City State Park...the Spillway....Little Grassy Lake..and other things to do. The fact that it almost always has a few weeks in Feb and March where it'll get in the 70's is a bonus. You can party at any school if you want to...but to say SIU is a party school is saddly wrong :headshake

Nothing i hate more than some pushy neighbors!!!

interesting documentary

Belafonte Calls Bush 'Greatest Terrorist' By IAN JAMES, Associated Press Writer 3 hours ago CARACAS, Venezuela - The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday and said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Belafonte led a delegation of Americans including the actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University scholar Cornel West that met the Venezuelan president for more than six hours late Saturday. Some in the group attended Chavez's television and radio broadcast Sunday. "No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we're here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution," Belafonte told Chavez during the broadcast. The 78-year-old Belafonte, famous for his calypso-inspired music, including the "Day-O" song, was a close collaborator of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and is now a UNICEF goodwill ambassador. He also has been outspoken in criticizing the U.S. embargo of Cuba. Chavez said he believes deeply in the struggle for justice by blacks, both in the U.S. and Venezuela. "Although we may not believe it, there continues to be great discrimination here against black people," Chavez said, urging his government to redouble its efforts to prevent discrimination. Belafonte accused U.S. news media of falsely painting Chavez as a "dictator," when in fact, he said, there is democracy and citizens are "optimistic about their future." Dolores Huerta, a pioneer of the United Farm Workers labor union also in the delegation, called the visit a "very deep experience." Chavez accuses Bush of trying to overthrow him, pointing to intelligence documents released by the U.S. indicating that the CIA knew beforehand that dissident officers planned a short-lived 2002 coup. The U.S. denies involvement, but Chavez says Venezuela must be on guard. Belafonte suggested setting up a youth exchange for Venezuelans and Americans. He finished by shouting in Spanish: "Viva la revolucion!" Maybe it's just me but i don't see 'millions' of Americans giving a rat's ass about what's happening in Venezuela. Once again...stars comparing the Prez to terrorists. :headshake :headshake :headshake

gee...it said i prefered brunettes over blonds....imagine that!!!!!!!!

once again a case of an idiot drunk driver killing an innocent victim but managing to survive himself. Just once i'd like to read about a drunk driver who hit someone and he himself was the only one killed.

No...No...No... How dare anyone imply that Bush is using the Patriot Act to do anything but watch Bob Smith's library account. How naive can you be!!!!

QUOTE(Rex Kickass @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 05:32 AM) And just curious, your experience is what with socialized medicine? I don't have to experience anal rape to know that I would not like it, just like I don't have to experience socialized medicine to know that it isn't the best. How would you like to go to med school, work your ass off in residency, and then have the government tell you that you have to do X,Y & Z for what we give you, YOUR costs and bills be damned?

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jan 5, 2006 -> 05:12 AM) OK, smarties, what happened to The guy Becky's husband Mark after the show ended? The actor went on to the show "Angel" where he was for a few years, but he died of a drug overdose a few years ago. Not sure what the Rosanne writers did with the character.

I love Scrubs and just finished the first season on DVD. A bit of trivia about the first season you may not have known. --Did you know that orginally the janitor (played by Neil Flynn) was supposed to be a figment of JD's imagination???? If you go and watch the most of the first season...the janitor ONLY interacts with JD, never with anyone else (shades of The Sixth Sense) but the writers said that the character was so popular that he was made "real" by the writers. Also, the janitor's name is Neil Flynn (also the name of the actor). Maybe the writers couldn't come up with a good "janitor-sounding' name.

I remember back in the day at SIU around 89-90 I was up all night cramming for a final when about 4 in the morning....6 or 7 guys wander out into the hall asking what happened??? i was up and couldn't feel a thing and thought they were all crazy. When i got to my final...some other students were talking about the earthquake. I don't remember what it rated on the Richter scale but all i thought was it couldn't have been that bad cause i didn't feel a thing. People down there don't forget the New Madrid fault. The news brings it up all the time down there and every time they get a tremor...it's 2 weeks of news stories about the BIG one and when it is coming.

With a name like Zeta..i wonder long long it will take Michael Douglas to ask it to marry him????

That's not the ticket Bogus Illinois vouchers confiscated By JIM PAUL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published Friday, December 30, 2005 CHAMPAIGN - Several Illinois basketball fans who thought they had tickets to Wednesday night's game against Southeast Missouri State arrived at Assembly Hall only to find they had been duped, campus officials said Thursday. About 10 bogus tickets were confiscated at the arena from people who were trying to find their seats, Illinois sports information director Kent Brown said. "There was no seat location for the spot listed on the ticket," he said. The tickets obviously are bogus. The word "Illinois" is misspelled "Illinios" twice and the tickets include a face price of $50. No ticket for Illinois games at the Assembly Hall has a face value of $50. The price for "Section A" tickets, for which the counterfeits purported to be, is $27, Brown said. The fake tickets were not caught at the door because ticket takers were trying to move people through quickly. From now on, ticket takers will be asked to increase their scrutiny of tickets, Brown said. The fans who had bogus tickets did get to see Wednesday's game, but that won't happen again. Anyone with a bogus ticket will be stopped at the door and escorted from the arena, he said. Wednesday was the first time counterfeit tickets have shown up at Assembly Hall this season, but it has happened before, Brown said. Illinois is undefeated through 13 games so demand for tickets will be high during the approaching Big Ten season, increasing the possibility that more bogus tickets will be on the market. "Fans really need to be on high alert if they're going to be purchasing tickets off the street or online anywhere," Brown said. Illini coach Bruce Weber said Thursday that it's flattering to be so popular, but he also urged fans to watch out for con games. "Obviously I don't want a fan to be out with a bad ticket, so hopefully people will have better awareness and we'll be able to solve the problem," he said. Some of the tickets found Wednesday appear to have been printed off an Internet site, campus assistant police chief Krystal Fitzpatrick said. "Obviously, we are working on identifying the seller of the tickets and what kind of documents they used to create the bogus tickets," she said. No one had been arrested.

Not sure if this song has been mentioned but it doesn't get much more straight-forward than this........ Bell Biv DeVoe - Do Me Take a look at me Tell me do you like what you see Do you think you can - Do you think you can do me? Kiss me pretty baby Touch me all over Girl what makes you think you can do with me Do you think you can do me - yeah Do me baby Oh Do me baby Do you think you can Do me baby Do me Do me baby Yeah, now that's it Girl let your hair down Take off your clothes And leave on your shoes Would you mind if I looked at you for a moment Before I make sweet love Back stage Under age Adolescent How ya doin? Fine, she replied I said, I'd like to do the wild thing Action took place Hey, kind of wet Come on, don't forget The J the I the M the M the Y, yo I need a body bag Do me baby - Oh Do me baby You can do me when you want to do me Do me baby - yeah Do me baby I like it in the morning time - yeah Sometimes I love it in the eventing, baby Can you do me all over - yeah yeah yeah The time was 6 o'clock on this swatch watch No time to chill Got a date, I can't be late Hey - the girl is gonna do me Move to the Jacuzzi Ooh that booty Smack it up, flip it, rub it down OH NOOOO Do me baby Yeah, Do me baby Oh baby, I like it just like that I love the way you do it to me baby Do me baby Oh, Move just a little bit closer You can do me in the morning You can do me in the night You can do me when you wanna do me (x2) I love the way you touch me when you touch my body all over baby

It seems the minority parties in Iraq have learned something from America: when the election results don't go your way, claim fraud, harrassment, etc.

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can’t see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death. Chuck Norris ruins the endings of Harry Potter books for children who just bought one for the hell of it. When they start crying Chuck Norris calmly says, “I’ll give you something to cry about,” and roundhouse kicks them in the face. Long Live Chuck Norris!!!!!

12.) Filming on location for Walker: Texas Ranger, Chuck Norris brought a stillborn baby lamb back to life by giving it a prolonged beard rub. Shortly after the farm animal sprang back to life and a crowd had gathered, Chuck Norris roundhouse kicked the animal, breaking its neck, to remind the crew once more that Chuck giveth, and the good Chuck, he taketh away. OMG....

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger cut his honorary ties to his hometown in Austria on Monday after officials in Graz criticized him for denying clemency to a death row inmate. Schwarzenegger demanded that Graz stop using his name on a sports stadium and in promotions and returned a "ring of honor" he had been awarded by city officials in 1999, saying politicians in his hometown appeared to have rejected him. A petition drive had been launched in Graz to have the town rename a stadium that has been named after Schwarzenegger because the Austrian-born governor allowed the execution of death-row inmate Stanley Tookie Williams this month. Williams, an ex-leader of the Crips gang who supporters said had redeemed himself by campaigning against gang violence, was executed by lethal injection on December 13 after Schwarzenegger and the courts rejected all of his appeals. The city council of Graz had been due to rename the local stadium on January 19, according to Schwarzenegger's letter to Graz Mayor Siegfried Nagl. "The reason for this action is apparently a decision I reached as governor of California," Schwarzenegger said. "I rejected the clemency of a rightfully convicted four-time murderer after thorough review, and as a result, he was executed according to the laws of this state." "In all likelihood, during my term as governor I will have to make similar and equally difficult decisions," Schwarzenegger wrote. "In order to spare the responsible politicians of the city of Graz further concern, I withdraw from them as of this day the right to use my name in association with the Liebenauer Stadium." Schwarzenegger, a former body building champion and Hollywood star, trained at the stadium as a young man. It was renamed in his honor in 1997. He said he was returning the "ring of honor." Since "the official Graz appears to no longer accept me as one of their own, this ring has lost its meaning and value to me," he said. "It is already in the mail." Schwarzenegger said he still considered himself a native of Graz and an Austrian. "I look forward to visiting Graz again as soon as time allows," he said in the letter released by his office :finger

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 19, 2005 -> 07:57 PM) That seems an odd bit of logic. These two guys were going to kill 4 people so they could steal some audio equipment. Does every mugger not wearing a mask invariably kill his victims? What's odd??? if they can be identified...why leave the victims alive??? Are they committing the crimes because deep down they have issues and they WANT to get caught??? i doubt it. Maybe they would have killed those people..maybe they wouldn't have..i can't say but if people break into my house and shove a gun in my face or (god forbid) the faces of my daughters...i am not going to assume that they aren't going to use it. unless you think i should respect their rights as US citizens and wait for them to shoot someone so i can be sure of their intentions

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 19, 2005 -> 07:38 PM) It's great that this particular story ended the way it did – with the good guys not being hurt and the bad guy going down. But it's completely stupid to fight an armed thief over stuff that can be replaced. This goes down another wa, and the story may include a coupel of dead family members. could have went the other way yes....but their action probably prevented the tragedy. if the bad guys weren't wearing masks and could be identified then they were probably going to kill them whether they complied or not. To me...i'd much rather go down swinging

MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee father and son said they thought it was a joke when two men with guns entered their home on Friday night. But once guns were at their heads, they fought back, reported WISN-TV. Police said two armed men walked up the stairs, knocked on the door and planned to rob the home of Alfredo Hernandez and his son. "I saw the pistol ... to my son's head," Hernandez said. "If they were going to shoot anybody, they were going to shoot me." While one of the men attempted to make off with his son's recording equipment, Hernandez said he wrestled the other man to get the gun away from his son's head. Hernandez's son also didn't give into the robbery. "He clenched onto my arm and I just kept punching him till finally I ripped my arm out," said the son, who didn't want his name publicized. "Then we got him down, then I kicked him a couple times." The man who nabbed the valuables was able to get away, while Hernandez sat on the other robber, trapping him. By the time police arrived on the scene, Hernandez told WISN-TV, they had injured the man so badly that an ambulance had to come to the home. Hernandez said he stabbed the man three times in the leg with a cheese knife and his son hit the man in the head with a snow shovel, which authorities took for evidence. According to Hernandez, the man was screaming for help, begging not be arrested by police. Hernandez also said the crooks pointed the loaded guns at his daughter and his 3-year-old granddaughter. With his family in peril, Hernandez said he did what he had to do. "Oh yeah, I messed him up," Hernandez said. "He came in walking and left in a stretcher." gee...i hope the Milwaukee city council doesn't consider banning snow shovels now!!!!!

one more....... random insults

something else to pass the time this weekend........ useless trivia

As we all go out and about to enjoy this pre-X-mas weekend....just keep these 'Beer Translations' in mind....... 1. "You get this round and the next round is on me." I'll be leaving before the next round. 2. "I'll get this round and the next one is on you." Happy hour is about to end. Beers are now a dollar, but by the next round they'll be $3.50. 3. "Hey, where is that friend of yours?" I have no interest in talking to you except as a way to get your attractive friend into a compromising position. 4. "Can I get a glass of white zinfandel?" (female) I'm easy. 5. "Can I get a glass of white zinfandel?" (male) I'm gay. 6. "Ever try a body shot?" (male to female) I am even willing to drink tequila if it means that I get to lick you. 7. "Ever try a body shot?" (female to male) If this is how wild I am in the bar, imagine what I'll do to you on the ride home? 8. "I don't feel well, let's go home." (female) You are paying more attention to your friends than me. 9. I don't feel well, let's go home." (male) I'm horny. 10. "Who's got the next round?" I haven't bought a round in almost three years, but I am an expert at diverting attention