Steff

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 1, 2008 -> 11:57 AM) Link. Not related to the rumors Jim heard. But good for her for being responsible (the 17 year old) with this pregnancy.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Sep 1, 2008 -> 11:56 AM) I didnt say I agreed with him, at all. People are entitled to their opinions, whether the consensus agrees with them or not. Juggs never had a "well you R dumb" reply that i ever saw, hen put plenty of effort into his posts. Just mispent effort I didn't mean to imply you did. If you care to, you should dig up some of those old threads. More times than not his response to someone that disagreed with him was in fact (sic) "well you R dumb". Crazy times back then.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Sep 1, 2008 -> 10:33 AM) Juggernaut just couldnt avoid a religious discussion if it saved his life. Thats where all of his insults and opinions came flying out at you, because all of his posts were well thought out and written, but the tone of his opinions was just too much(read: condescending) for anything related to religion, and also politics. Never had a discussion about either with him. Just about how it he encouraged his ex-gf to be anorexic. So I guess he couldn't discuss anything medical related either. And I wouldn't call those comments "well thought out". "Stupidly thought out" perhaps.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 1, 2008 -> 11:28 AM) Reports I heard last night estimated about 10,000 people but that may have included emergency workers. That 5000 # I got the impression was just civilians and hotel workers so I bet you're right that 10K would include everyone else.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Sep 1, 2008 -> 10:14 AM) Bad timing for the convention, but good timing for Sarah Palin who just announced that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant. I heard it on Fox News but can't find it yet. No doubt a Spears fan. ETA: Jim just told me that he heard she isn't, but that there are rumors that she was and the little one that Palin claims is her son is really her grandson.

QUOTE (Yoda @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 01:07 PM) Posters like Brando and Juggernaut always seemed to have something of value to say. IMO, they would put the time and effort in each of their posts. They would get flamed, for reasons that I will probably never understand, but all in all they were here because of their love for the White Sox. And if you go back and look you'll see that they were never flamed for their love and opinion of the Sox. It was calling people names and praising eating disorders that got them ripped apart.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 03:47 PM) Oh crap...Hannah has shifted her track south and is now aiming right around the southern tip of Florida. That gets an "Oh crap" because the ones that hit the Southern tip of florida or pass through the straits there tend to not lose very much strength or break up very much, and then they wind up slamming in to the gulf coast somewhere a few days later. That's the path Katrina and Rita took, that's the path that Andrew took. Thankfully, Hannah changed her mind and isn't going anywhere near the route that Kat, Rita, or Andrew took. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT0.../144212W_sm.gif

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 1, 2008 -> 04:16 AM) 100,000 still have not evacuated. Have these people seen what Gustav just did to Cuba? wow. According to DTV 361, which is the local NO channel, less than 5000 people stayed and those were mainly business owners who couldn't leave and the workers from the 2 hotels that remained opened. The rest there are media and g'ment officials, so I don't think that # is accurate. Good news so far that the rain and wind hasn't been as strong as they thought it would be though they are far from out of the woods.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 03:08 PM) No it wasn't. The winds in NOLA never reached anything beyond a weak category 2. The Eye hit in Alabama as a Category 3, but New Orleans only got a glancing blow. It was also helped by the fact that an eyewall regeneration event started just as the storm was hitting shore, which weakened the storm a bit. The New Orleans levee system never faced the category 3 storm strength that it was supposed to survive. According to the NWS, yes, it was. Katrina made 3 separate landfalls. The first 2 were within 70 miles of NO (Buras-Triumph and Breton Sound) with cat 3 winds of 125 mph. The final landfall was near the Louisiana/Mississippi border with 120 mph sustained winds, still at Category 3 intensity, which had just weakened as you said, but from a cat 4 to a cat 3 with the winds sustaining over 120 miles wide from the actual center of the storm. The eye of the storm never touched Alabama, did you mean Mississippi? Not that the wind mattered in the case of NO being flooded, but "weak" cat 2 winds weren't what tore apart and ripped holes in the Superdome roof. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina I found a channel on Direct TV this morning devoted to Gustav and it looks worse than Kat did at this stage and it's not even over the warmest water yet.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 02:22 PM) Anyone who dies in that city from this storm will not have my sympathy. You may have been unprepared for Katrina, and FEMA certaintly didn't help, but everyone in New Orleans is given plenty of warning for Gustav. Get on the damn bus this time or attempt walking to higher ground. Atleast people in Florida are accustomed to hurricanes and typically have the supplies to cope with them if they remain. Now, even those crusty old "I'm aint gonna leave my town!!!" people should learn from the death of several thousand people three years ago. There weren't quite that many deaths, but I do agree that with Katrina only 3 years - to the weekend - removed it makes little sense for folks to be contemplating staying in the area. Thankfully Lousiana got a lot of their ducks in a row at the start of the week and have the ability to aid more efficiently if, when, they order the manditory evacuation.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 03:05 PM) They expect Gustav to be a 3 when it hits N.O. Hopefully it does not exceed their expectations.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Aug 30, 2008 -> 01:50 PM) Wasn't Katrina a 4 or a 5 before it made landfall as a 3? Yep. A 5 in the gulf and a 3 when it hit land. Crazy stuff.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 10:51 AM) Auto workers? They are all over the hot chick. I suppose it's a possibility that the rise in their pants is more important than putting food on their tables these days. Slim to none, but alas, a possibility.

QUOTE (DABearSoX @ Aug 29, 2008 -> 09:09 AM) What were Cheney's school rankings? Hard not to be better than Bush and as a side note I don't recall him having a drug or alcohol problem. Has politics seriously come down to attacking someone about their scholastic performance 25+ years ago?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 01:25 PM) Yeah, Soxtalk has produced some classic threads. Going back off of the top of my head, some of my favorites include mutherf***ing, dips***ass.... by Heather back in 03 or 04 That bizzarre Ronald McDonald thread The Rally Crede thread incorgible's outing thread The thread from the Indians fan a couple of days before the 05 opener. I know I am missing some good ones too... I think Heather's "are you Mark's f***ing parents?" trumps all. That and the makeout session at the same tailgate.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 12:38 PM) this whole thead is a riot: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?sh...5780&st=242 LMAO!! Good stuff. I didn't get any of the $$ though... Rock I'll be down soon to pick up my share + interest

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 12:06 PM) Oh yeah I know that, I was looking for a story to explain them. Last time I recall one of them (Steve?) was trying to bet Steff and Rock Raines a thousand dollars he was posting from his law office, but you came in and said his IP was the same as his brother's. I don't recall being involved in that bet. Many of my fav days from the past revolve around Corg. Oh for all his craziness you just had to love him... even if he was FOS. I talked to Brando for a while after he "left" but we lost touch. Someone told me Clujer was posting on Henry's board but that was a while ago. Him and Brando sure made things exciting around here. They should be forgiven and brought back to straighten out some of the current crazies around here.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 09:33 AM) If you get to Petsmart (probably Petco too) they have treats that you can put pills into. If you dont touch the pill with the same hand as you close the treat often times the cats wont realize that there is anything going on. If you touch the pill and the treat, they can smell the pill off your fingers and wont touch it. Good luck Getting him to take the pill isn't the issue. He does it, though with any pet he would prefer not to. Plus, pilling is not exactly the best method of treatment and he's going to have to continue to get bloodwork done on a regular basis to be sure the dose is right, etc.. This shot is a 1 time thing that cures the problem and he goes back to normal (98% sucess rate and they've treated over 25K cats, many as old as 20 years). So I was wondering if anyone here had any knowledge of a cat getting the shot.

So... after finding the pooches a new home and all the trama that went with that Sid starts loosing weight for no apparant reason. Take him to the vet and bam... hyperthyroidism. Which I have heard of a gazillion times in humans but never in felines. Anyhoo... any of my fellow feline lovers have any experience with this? Apparantly it's very common. Tried pilling him but that's so stressful on him. He's 15 so surgery is stupid. The options are some radioactive shot, or continue pilling - which is going to end up ruining all my carpet in furniture eventually. Bri and him have become good buds so I really want to do whatever I can - within financial reason - to keep him around. Other than this he has no issues and still runs around like a 5 year old kitten. Anyone heard of this shot? I read the info on it, but I was hoping to find someone that had some first hand info.

Has anyone organized it yet this year? TIA. Steff

Good grief.. every Biden in existance is on the stage but Michelle can't get down there?? Where's her security???

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 08:38 PM) is there a way to find out if members # 1-7 are still around? I'd love to know my seniority. For whatever reason, the #'s don't run that way. There were a lot more members than 7 when you joined.

If Lilly and Grampa walked out on stage I would not be one bit surprised.

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 07:14 PM) Do not competes are strange. They have to be both reasonable in duration and geography. Not only that, (lack of) laws on the books in Illinois make it very difficult to enforce them.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 27, 2008 -> 08:14 PM) Obama's pretty damn good I agree he's got some skills, but the Clinton's so easily deliver zingers as if it's just another breath they are taking.