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QUOTE(farmteam @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 04:30 PM) When you say gravy...do you mean the stuff you put on mashed potatoes? Because I call that gravy...I have no idea what else you would call it. Many Italians call pasta sauce gravy.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/breaking_...0p-237402c.html She's hired: Martha to host 'Apprentice' spin-off after jail BY MARK WASHBURN KNIGHT RIDDER Martha Stewart will star in a spin-off of "The Apprentice" after she's released from prison in March, NBC announced Wednesday. "Americans love to see people make good after being pushed down," said Mark Burnett, producer of "The Apprentice." Her role on "The Apprentice: Martha Stewart" was negotiated before Stewart started a five-month sentence at the federal women's prison in Alderson, W.Va., in October for an obstruction of justice conviction, which she is appealing. After her release, Stewart will serve five months in home confinement, but will be permitted to work up to 48 hours weekly outside the home. Donald Trump, who said he might make a guest appearance on Stewart's show, said she won't be using his termination line. "She's not going to say 'You're fired.' She's going to use a different expression. She has her own style." In a 27-city casting tour for "The Apprentice" that starts this week, candidates will be asked whether they'd like to work for Trump or Stewart, NBC said. Stewart will also launch a syndicated daytime talk show in September, which will be produced also by Burnett, who visits her monthly at the minimum-security prison. Both TV shows will provide opportunities to rehabilitate Stewart's haughty and dismissive public image. References to her incarceration may be part of the script, Burnett said. "It won't be avoided," he said. "She may mention it in passing."

QUOTE(Man Of Steel @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 01:22 PM) Get this s*** I have a friend who doesnt know ANYTHING about sports at ALL and she is going to the super bowl with one of her friends JUST for parties.. Its the biggest waste of SB tickets ever, and it pisses me off We secured tickets for next year in Detroit and I am already excited about it. I could not imagine going if I didn't like it.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 12:03 PM) I call it gravy too....and very few people call it that. I do find that to be true.. we all do it in the family so it's normal for me.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 12:01 PM) holy s***...you called it gravy!!

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 11:58 AM) The guy that does our's does a pretty damn fine job. No where near as good as my summer party, but hey, it's indoors. I love our summer party also. The pool is open, the horseshoes are being tossed, the kids play in this huge blow up castle I bought at Costco, the older boys usually are playing pool or virtual golf in the basement... everyone is eating, drinking, and having a good time. I wish it was warmer out for SB. But we do have a hot tub on the deck if anyone wants to venture outside.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 11:50 AM) My wife is just like you, Steff. She digs football. I like having her there. The group that throws the SB party is a group of my friends that, for the most part, aren't married. The "ring leader" is one of these guys that likes to plan "all guys" outings. I had to tell my wife that it was guys only. Well, you guessed it, there would always be girls there. So, I started bringing her to everything, including poker nights. They didn't like it, but got the point really quickly. One of Jim's friends planned the first 1 and there was stale chips, nasty pizza, and warm beer. We had a poker night a few weeks later at our house and waalaa... Steff the party planner was born. None of this order pizzas BS.. I get Portillo's catered or Subway sammiches so there are like 8 varities. Make nacho or taco dip. Veggie tray, chips & salsa and usually a salad for the healthy guys. Sometimes I make gravy and have some pasta or Italian sausage. And of course plenty of beer and PLENTY of ice to keep the beer cold. Then, once that's all done... move the hell out of the way

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 11:26 AM) For the record. The link worked for me. Ah ha!! Eye musta forgot to clean his contact this morning..

We have a SB party every year... the whole 9 yards.. Jim sure as hell doesn't organize it .. and after the poker game.. and some sandwiches.. and the Star Spangled Baner.. STHU, sit down, and watch the damn game is my opinion. Never fails though.. each and every year one of our friends will bring the latest dish who doesn't know crap about the game and I'll be expected to entertain them... :headshake Usually if chicks who don't like it come over we usually get a change poker game going... in the site line of the tv for me of course. For the most part they know that it's the "man's day" and to leave him alone. I have only had one incident where the female whined.. they left early. It wasn't pretty. If I didn't want to watch it I'd go shopping or see a movie or something I guess. If I didn't like it I sure wouldn't want to be sitting there listening to all the screaming about it.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 11:15 AM) Link doesn't work...again. I can't imagine any of you are surprised.. I keep telling you I am internet challenged.. This work..? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MILLIONAIRE.TMP

Taster's Choice model notices his face on the label and wins a $15.6 million settlement! It seems Nestle had used this man's image on various worldwide Taster's Choice labels since 1986. They just didn't bother to tell him about it... or pay him the royalties he was due! SFGate.com: An Antioch kindergarten teacher has earned $15.6 million for modeling work he did 19 years ago in a photo shoot he'd forgotten all about that created a world-famous label he never saw for a coffee he never drank. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...MILLIONAIRE.TMP Christoff might have never known his image was on Taster's Choice if a woman standing in line with him at Home Depot in May 2002 hadn't casually mentioned that he looked like the guy on her coffee jar at home. He shrugged it off. He was used to people recognizing him from ads and training films he'd helped do for companies such as Visa and Xerox, not to mention a smattering of acting credits including the role as police commissioner in the 1995 Holly Hunter thriller, "Copycat." But a few days later he was buying Bloody Mary mix at a drugstore, and there it was -- his image on a jar of Taster's Choice, on the shelf nearby. The hair was black in the picture, unlike his now-silver locks, but the arching eyebrows and narrow lips and chin were unmistakable.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/PLA...EMPLATE=DEFAULT Plane Skids Off Runway, Crashes in N.J. By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press Writer TETERBORO, N.J. (AP) -- A corporate jet hurtled off the end of a runway while attempting to take off from Teterboro Airport on Wednesday, speeding across a highway during the morning rush hour and slamming into a warehouse. At least 14 people were injured, one critically. One witness said a pilot crawled out of the wreckage and told him the crew lost control of the plane. The plane struck at least one car on the highway. It was headed for Midway Airport in Chicago when the accident happened around 7:20 a.m., said Greg Martin, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Washington. Another FAA spokesman, Jim Peters, said the jet was carrying 12 passengers and two crew members. One witness said the plane never made it off the ground after "sliding and skidding" down the runway. "Usually we see them lift off, but this one just went straight and started scratching the ground. There were sparks shooting out all over the place," said Joseph Massaro, a psychologist who lives nearby. Video from television station helicopters showed wheel tracks, plainly visible in snow, that ran straight off the end of the runway, through a fence and a snow bank and then across six-lane U.S. 46. Witness Robert Sosa told WNBC-TV he saw the plane crash into the building. "Two guys came off with their hand cuts," Sosa said. "The pilot said he dragged himself out. He literally crawled out like a baby, and all the other people just walked out normal." "He said as they tried to airborne before five minutes past (7 a.m.), they just lost control and they couldn't airborne the plane. They went straight through, 100 miles per hour," Sosa said. Martin said communication between the air traffic control and the aircraft was routine and the aircraft had been cleared for takeoff. The temperature at 7 a.m. was about 22 degrees, the National Weather Service said. The weather was clear and wind was calm. Martin identified the aircraft as a twin-engine Canadair Challenger 600, "a type of small regional business/charter jet" that can carry 12 to 15 passengers. A similar plane, a Canadair CL-601 Challenger, crashed in December while trying to take off from Montrose, Colo., killing a son of NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol and two others. After that crash, the National Transportation Safety Board warned pilots of smaller planes to run their hands along their aircraft's wings before takeoff to make sure tiny amounts of ice haven't formed that could increase the risk of an accident. The FAA Web site says plane was registered to a company called 448 Alliance LLC, and gave an address in Dallas. Directory assistance has no company with that name, but does show a DDH Aviation at the same address. No one answered the phone there. At the warehouse, owned by clothing company Strawberry, employee Luis Ruiz said about 200 people usually work there but only a handful were inside when the plane hit because of the early hour. One worker was injured and taken to a hospital, he said. Dr. Joseph Feldman of Hackensack University Medical Center said 12 people, including the pilot and copilot, were taken there and three were admitted, one in critical condition. The pilot was to be treated and released but the co-pilot was in serious condition with multiple fractures to the lower part of the body, Feldman said. The patient in critical condition had been in a car that was struck by the aircraft, he said. Eleven of the people taken to Hackensack needed to be showered to remove jet fuel, Feldman said. "They had a fair amount on them, where you could smell it, but none of them were suffering side effects from the fuel," he said. Two people, a flight attendant and a man who had been in a car, were taken to Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck, said hospital spokeswoman Katherine Kakogiannis. The flight attendant had minor injuries and she didn't know the condition of the other person. The airport, in the northern New Jersey suburbs 12 miles from midtown Manhattan, was closed after the crash. Once used by weekend recreational fliers, Teterboro has grown into one of the nation's busiest small airports, catering to corporate jets looking to avoid the hassles of larger airports. It had 202,720 arrivals and departures in 2004, a 4 percent increase from 2002, said Lou Martinez, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates the airport, as well as Newark, LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports.

I don't know much about goldfish.. but aren't they like the king of all mighty scavengers of the fish bowel and carry disease?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 09:24 AM) Lesbians and maple syrup. SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET! American Wedding bachelor party, IIRC..

http://www.courttv.com/news/2005/0201/ymca_ap.html :headshake

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 09:45 AM) Actually the practice of drawing by mouth goes back centuries. I wouldn't jump to the pedephile issue. I didn't jump. I said it wouldn't surprise me.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 09:25 AM) LMAO. Only problem with that is that Al Jazeera wasn't the culprit on that. It was on a website. Pfftt... I think they have their nasty hands in all bad that happens over there.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 01:08 AM) I'm sorry, but Al Jazeera cannot be taken seriously by anyone with half a lick of common sense. C'mon Yas.. that toy soldier abducton was peeerrrttee clever..

NEW YORK (AP) - Several PBS stations will air an episode of the children's show "Postcards From Buster" despite the network's decision not to distribute it nationwide because two lesbian couples were depicted in it. So far, 21 stations have said they will air it and another six have indicated they probably will, Jeanne Hopkins, spokeswoman for Boston's WGBH-TV, said Tuesday. The station produced the series. PBS said last week it would not distribute the episode to its 349 stations around the country. The show features an animated character, Buster, visiting farms in Vermont where maple sugar is produced, and includes two lesbian couples that work on the farms. The decision came after newly appointed Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings complained about public money being used to promote alternative lifestyles. PBS gets funding for the series through the federal Ready-To-Learn program, aimed at helping young people learn through television. "We do disagree with the (PBS) decision and were disappointed," Hopkins said. "We feel that the program, and the other 39 episodes in the series, met the goals set out for it, which is to teach children to understand and accept the rich cultural diversity of this country." WGBH is among the stations that will air the episode. So will PBS stations in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Hopkins said. **** Stepping on my soapbox*** I have a couple problems with this. First of all, let me point out that I have not seen the show, so I'm speculating. My problem is on two levels. First, if the lesbians don't disclose their sexual orientation to the youngsters, or kiss or have sex in front of them, what's the big deal? They're too young to know or to care about what the two ladies do in their own spare time. Secondly, why make a big deal that they are lesbians, big enough to point it out in a cartoon? I understand the need for diversity and tolerance, but to the kids, they're just two cool ladies who own a cool farm. Why point out the fact that they're in a relationship? If it's implied, it's one thing... cool. If they make it into a big deal (Let's tour Abby and Mavis' Gay-Friendly Farm!) then it's really so stupid. IMO, you don't have to point out that LeVar Burton on Reading Rainbow is black, so you don't have to point out that the ladies are lesbians. People are people, and these two cartoon chicks own an awesome farm and are willing to take these cartoon youngsters on a tour, and they also just happen to be lesbian. People need to grow up... :rolly *** Stepping down***

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 09:07 AM) nice siggy It's like the new and imporoved more feminine steff. I'm a barbie girl in a barbie world ...until the game starts anyway.... NOW LETS GET SOME f***ING HITS YOU SONS A b****ES!!!!!!!! Goldmember made it. I'm so stupid at that stuff. I can't do anything with it. RPS adn SuperSteve did everything on my last sig. I don't even know where to enter quotes.

I'd bet this guy has some inquiries into his past.. possible pedophile issues would not surprise me one bit. Poor families..

I get this from my SI subscription.. thought there might be something of interest for some of you. Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2005 In this edition... by Richard Deitsch and David Sabino MORNING CALL Even with T.O., Michael Silver thinks the Eagles are in for trouble on Sunday. INSIDE SI It took an all-out effort--and much debate--to rate the nation's top 25 sports bars. CALL TO ORDER Put these performers in order according to when they played the Super Bowl. THE EXPERT What's next for the Lakers after Rudy Tomjanovich? Jack McCallum weighs in. GAME OF THE DAY No. 4 Duke visits No. 7 Wake Forest in the latest matchup of ACC powers. SI TIME CAPSULE Ten years ago Steve Young threw for a record six TDs in a Super Bowl rout. In this week's SI: Tom Brady and the Pats ponder the magnitude of the moment. Click here for more. T.O. says he's ready to go, but Silver thinks the Patriots are due for a rout. Amy Sancetta/AP SI senior writer Michael Silver is an old hand when it comes to Super Bowl Media Day. Yesterday in Jacksonville he immersed himself in the cauldron of microphones and notepads for the 12th time. What did Silver consider the most shocking development? Not that Eagles wideout Terrell Owens announced that he would play on Sunday, but that Owens didn't wear sunglasses for his interview. "There wasn't much memorable that went down," says Silver. "I think the Patriots are relentlessly boring by design. They've got the drill down. The Eagles, though, are pretty excited by the environment. Donovan McNabb can say, 'We're here to win,' and, 'It's just another game,' but after what the Eagles have been through the past three years I think they know that just getting here is a successful season for them." Silver says the most interesting news may have been the ! Pats' continued carping over the practice field at Bartram Trail High School, some 31 miles south of Alltel Stadium. Because of heavy rain over the weekend the recently renovated field (for which the NFL paid $250,000 to cover sod and drainage) has been waterlogged. Last year, as some might recall, Pats coach Bill Belichick switched practice facilities from Rice Stadium in Houston to the Texans' indoor field. But Silver doesn't expect the practice-field woes to affect the Pats on Sunday. In fact he's smelling a blowout. "I'd like to see a good game, but I'm getting that old-school Super Bowl vibe from the 1980s," he says. "The Patriots are a very good team, but they've never dismantled an opponent on the big stage. I think they're due and we could see that on Sunday." For more Super Bowl news click here. Fans can get their fill of food and football at Baltimore's ESPN Zone. Simon Bruty In this week's issue SI ranks the top 25 sports bars in America and examines the culture and history of the industry. To handle this spirited assignment, staff writer Chris Ballard visited nearly a dozen watering holes across the U.S., and a nominating committee of some 100 staffers, correspondents and certifiably reliable bar aficionados assembled a list of the top venues. "Today there exist multistory Shangri-las of sport, cavernous, cacophonous places that hum with TVs of all kind: plasma TVs, high-def TVs, flat-screen TVs, miniature personal TVs, giant projection TVs and even TVs in the bathroom so that one can drain one's bladder while watching Ray Allen drain three-pointers," says Ballard. "What surprised me in the course of researching this was how stark the delineation was between the megabar--the gigantic ESPN Zones of the world--and neighborhood places where they might ! have a few TVs and a drink special on Sunday." Among those that made the Top 25: Boston's The Fours, Ricky's Major Goolsby's of Milwaukee and the Three Dollar Cafe in Atlanta. Ballard says he lobbied hard for one of his favorites, the Dive Bar on Manhattan's Upper West Side ("Simply a great place to watch any game," he says), but it just missed the cut. For more from this week's issue click here. Bryant's crew is up in the air with Rudy T likely gone. Mark J. Terrill/AP Just when you thought the Lakers' soap opera couldn't provide any more seismic shocks, reports are swirling that coach Rudy Tomjanovich is expected to resign (or already has resigned). A Lakers spokesman said yesterday that Tomjanovich had not yet stepped down, but that health reasons (as opposed to dissatisfaction with the team) were behind his thoughts of resignation. Assistant coach Frank Hamblen ran the team for the second consecutive time in last night's 92-79 win over the Trail Blazers, as Kobe Bryant missed his ninth straight game with a sprained right ankle. Rumors of replacements immediately swirled, with everyone from UConn's Jim Calhoun to Tomjanovich's predecessor, Phil Jackson, mentioned as next in line. But SI's Jack McCallum expects the Lakers to stand pat for now.! "My best guess is they would make Frank the coach for the rest of the year," says McCallum. "He was Phil Jackson's guy, he was around all those years with the Bulls and was incredibly respected by Michael Jordan, which is always a benchmark. He's perceived as a guy who knows how the league operates. It would be an incredibly display of chaos if they brought Frank in for a week and then all of a sudden went after Larry Brown or somebody like that." However, McCallum says he'd be surprised if Hamblen ended up behind the bench beyond this season. "They'll have to get a big-name guy, and they won't have a lack of candidates," says McCallum. "They still pay among the top teams in the league, and you're coming to a team with a great, though somewhat dysfunctional, player in Kobe Bryant. It's still thought of as one of the magical places in the league. You can draw top free agents, because people always want to play for the Lakers." For more click here. Young savored the sweet taste of a Super Bowl win. Peter Read Miller The final nod to Steve Young's legacy will come on Saturday, when voters will undoubtedly elect him to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The on-field validation came 10 years ago. Before Super Bowl XXIX, Young, despite his gaudy passing statistics, had never led his team to an NFL championship. But that night he left no doubt of his greatness, as he finally stepped out of the shadow of Joe Montana. Young completed 24 of 36 passes for 325 yards and broke Montana's Super Bowl record with six touchdown passes in a 49-26 rout of the Chargers. The 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowls, and Young was named the game's MVP. "Young would throw for a Super Bowl-record six touchdowns," wrote SI's Rick Telander in the Feb. 6, 1995, issue," and the best way to describe the TDs might be to list the scoring receivers! in order: Rice, Watters, Floyd, Watters, Rice, Rice. Sounds almost like a recipe. There was also a nine-yard rushing touchdown in there, by Watters in the third quarter, but it was nearly lost in the Young passfest.... By throwing those six touchdown passes and leading all rushers, with 49 yards on five carries, Young earned the Super Bowl MVP Award and effectively exorcised the Joe Montana ghost that had been haunting him for years. Before every game this season tackle Harris Barton would come up to Young and rub his shoulders and say, 'I'm taking the monkey off your back.' 'Today,' Young noted afterward, 'Harris said, 'I'm taking it off for the last time.' For a long time I tried to pretend it wasn't there. But I guess it was.'" Look for another edition of SI Extra the Newsletter on Friday, Feb. 4 18 Consecutive Big Ten wins for the top-ranked Illinois men's basketball team, breaking the school record from 1914-16. The Illini, 22-0 (and 8-0 in the conference) after last night's 81-68 victory over 12th-ranked Michigan State (14-4, 5-2), are the nation's top-ranked team for a ninth straight week--the longest stretch for any team since 1998-99--and are a unanimous No. 1, the first since Duke three seasons ago. But will they have enough muscle in March? For Grant Wahl's take click here. Duke at Wake Forest These days every game in the ACC feels like a potential Final Four matchup. Tonight (9:00 ET, ESPN) is no exception as No. 4 Duke (16-1) travels to Winston-Salem to face No. 7 Wake Forest (17-3) in the first of two mega-meetings this month. The teams have split their regular-season series in each of the last two years, culminating with last year's second game in which guard Chris Paul scored 12 of his game-high 23 points over the final 5:10 to help the Demon Deacons overcome a 13-point deficit. Paul, arguably the nation's best player, has been as good as advertised this season, but Wake's hottest player of late is junior forward Eric Williams, who has averaged 26 points while making 75% of his shots (33 of 44) in the past three games. The Blue Devils, of course, have a Williams of their own: Sheldon Williams, the junior forward who's averaging 11.8 rebounds, which ranks in the top five in Di! vision I. How good have these two teams been? Over the last three seasons Duke has won more ACC games (30) than any other team. Wake ranks second with 27.

Has anyone ever heard of such a thing..??? Using his mouth..?? NEW YORK (AP) -- City health officials are investigating the death of a baby boy who was one of three infants to contract herpes after a rabbi circumcised them. Ten days after Rabbi Yitzhok Fischer performed religious circumcisions on twins last October, one died of herpes and the other tested positive for the virus, according to complaint filed by the health department in Manhattan Supreme Court. The complaint, reported in Wednesday's edition of the New York Daily News, also said health officials later found a third baby who had contracted herpes after being circumcised by Fischer in late 2003. Under Jewish law, a mohel -- someone who performs circumcisions -- draws blood from the circumcision wound. Most mohels do it by hand, but Fischer uses a rare practice where he uses his mouth. Fischer's lawyer, Mark Kurzmann, told the Daily News that Fischer was cooperating with the investigation, although it's unclear whether Fischer submitted to the city's request for a blood test. "My client is known internationally as a caring, skilled, and conscientious mohel," Kurzmann said. http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/02/ci...h.ap/index.html

http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=2889747 NEW YORK Officials in New York are investigating the death of a baby boy who contracted herpes after being circumcised by a rabbi. Two other boys have also contracted the disease after being circumcised by the same rabbi. The baby died in October, ten days after undergoing the procedure.

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 2, 2005 -> 07:47 AM) This has got to be the most stupidest holiday ever. :banghead Yes, I said, "most stupidest!" Is it considered a holiday even..? Apparently those involved were lacking in social activty as a child.