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book: To the Best of My Ability (A book about all the Presidents) album: Something Sinatra movie: Rocky TV series: Las Vegas person: My wife will have to stay with the kids, so I'll take Elisha Cuthbert

It may have been a helicopter.

QUOTE(bmags @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 10:31 AM) Because i'm literally asking God to damn this press conference so the PIR can be televised. it didn't bother you last month i see... I saw it last month and it bothered me then. I decided to let it go, but now that it's brought back up I thought I'd mention it. No reason to get defensive. I thought I was diplomatic about it. Thank you, Soxy.

How come I can't say the F bomb, but it's perfectly OK to say G-- D-----? It's equally, if not more, offensive to me. Yes, I'm 100% serious.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 09:24 AM) I remember when I was buying my first house. I received some good intended advice to stretch a little a buy a little more house than was comfortable to pay for today, because each year my income would be growing. Because it was the owner of the company I was working for telling me this, I followed the advice. But there was a difference of a 30 year fixed and an ARM. I knew what my payments would be, I also had a good guess about the tax situation and figured on a couple increases over the next couple years. Bottom line, I was glad I did that. The extra room was great once we started having kids. Without stretching I would have been moving again in a couple years. I was also careful in staying within reason. I knew too many people that were house rich and cash poor. So I understand how some people fall into the siren song of a nicer house than they can afford today. I also understand how the seemingly logical statement of your income will be increasing every year works. It doesn't even have to be high pressure. Just have the person stand in the four bedroom house with the big deck, three car garage, and huge master suite then in the three bedroom, two bath, with the 2 1/2 car garage, and no deck and ask them which place they want to live in today for the same money? Don't lie. You built your first house with logs.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 06:29 PM) You can be against the Patriot Act and for tougher measures to fight terrorism. There are few people in the Congress and Senate who oppose NSA surveillance programs as long as they act within the law which would require getting a FISA warrant 72 hours after you actually start the surveillance. Opposing torture is not the same thing as opposing interrogation. And locking someone up forever isn't a problem as long as they are granted due process and the ability to have justice fairly and transparently imposed upon them. The fact that the debate has even been framed between "you either torture terrorists or you coddle them" is everything that's wrong with our political world today IMHO. QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 4, 2006 -> 07:00 PM) I really, really agree. This whole thing where everything has to be one extreme or the other, us versus them... its small-minded and pathetic. And it also seems to parallel the increasing preoccupation with violence in this country. I must have misunderstood something when I read "GOP Only - Sink or swim together" Hmmmmmm????

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 11, 2006 -> 07:43 AM) How nice. And they know it too, which is why they prey on people. It's all about making $$, not protecting the consumer. Let me play Devil's Advocate for a minute. Why should it be about protecting the consumer? Is it the lender's job to educate the borrower? It is about making money and why is that a bad thing? If people are too stupid to go out and borrow $300,000 and not truely educate themselves, screw 'em.

QUOTE(Iwritecode @ Oct 10, 2006 -> 04:39 PM) Are you trying to copy me? You got married exactly one day before me and now you have your third daughter 3 days after my 3rd daughter's 5th b-day? Kidding. But it is weird... Congrats!!! You got married one day after me? It doesn't sound like I'm the one copying.

QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Oct 10, 2006 -> 12:57 PM) Congrats, lots of babies and weddings this fall!! Always is great when great stuff happens for people!! Yeah. It would have been nice to have another World Series to go with it.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 10, 2006 -> 10:53 AM) the implication, of course, is that this guy is not phased at all by a baby's skull being split open. How many non-accidental baby skull crushings must a person see so that you can have a "it was just an accident" attitude? "aw, this is nothing....back in '87...." Thank you Pennsylvania for reminding me why I'm packing my things to move.... Yeah, "You should've seen what the kid went through the previous 3 weeks."

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 10, 2006 -> 10:25 AM) best redneck quote EVAR!!!! You beat me to it. I was just going to simply say, "Huh?"

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Oct 10, 2006 -> 09:51 AM) She'll be a BAN, kinda like her daddy if he keeps it up Mike, you can post the pics I sent if you want. I'm not too smart when it comes to posting pics. QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Oct 10, 2006 -> 09:47 AM) hope your last name doesnt start with a D then she will have the great initials of BAD just like my sister also congrats! No, but my three kids spell BAR! Now I need to have a Samantha, Tina, Riley, Ida and Patricia.

Our third girl was born last Wednesday, Oct 4. Bridget Anne.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 28, 2006 -> 10:24 AM) The only problem is that our country is one of the most overweight if not the most overweight and unhealthy in the world. One of the reasons for this is these places serving food with dangerous fat. You would think people have the knowhow to make their own decisions, and then you see them eating until they cant leave their beds and then trying to sue companies for serving them the food. So send in the government to save us from ourselves!!!!

I guess the lack of outrage is due to the fact that this was totally expected. It's the frog in the frying pan! Start with just putting a small warning label on the package and an small extra tax. Next prevent them from advertising on TV, then the radio, then billboards and, oh yeah, add a little more tax and say it's to offset all the healthcare costs related to this product. Next, cut out all advertising at all. Next, and this is the most important, start a campaign to villify the industry as uncaring, evil bastards. Now, sue the hell out of them and ban their product all together!!

QUOTE(chimpy2121 @ Sep 27, 2006 -> 12:07 PM) Now the press conference is at 1:30 from what I heard. I still have power here and it's 7 minutes passed the time they said it would be off. Parcels is going to talk at 2:30 est. Owens at 3:15 est.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 24, 2006 -> 11:55 PM) Time to dust off the golf clubs Dick! Golf season's ending in Chicago. How dare you make a comment like that!

QUOTE(ChiSoxFan @ Sep 24, 2006 -> 11:59 PM) Last year brought out the best in Sox fans. This year brought out the worst in Sox fans, especially some on this board. Very excellent post.

QUOTE(iWiN4PreP @ Sep 24, 2006 -> 06:17 PM) All i can say is.. wow. Even a bigger "wow" is that this has been posted twice now.

QUOTE(Dan @ Sep 22, 2006 -> 07:22 AM) The whole entire reason for out downfalls this season is because Rock Raines wasn't the 1st Base coach. There you go. And Pods was crap. And the starting pitching failed. And the bullpen went south. And timely hitting was MIA. And... But seriously, I enjoyed your light-hearted comment.

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Sep 21, 2006 -> 11:50 PM) Do you still eat Macaroni and Cheese all the time too? Once in a while, sure. It's an easy quick snack. You're still not making me understand what makes ketchup a child's condiment. So mustard is the adult condiment? My daughter is 4 and she loves mustard. Now what? Does that make it a child's condiment as well? Should I shun mustard? What if she starts to like beer? Don't worry. She hasn't gotten used to the taste yet.

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 21, 2006 -> 10:04 AM) Act... Busted!

Boy oh boy. I just opened this on page 7. It looks like I missed some good stuff on 1-6. Maybe I'll go back. I have to agree with SS2K5,6 (whatever it is now). The "lows" don't get to me as much anymore. Does that mean I can't enjoy the highs? Hell no! The lows are easy to look over because there will be another day. Another season. Another team. This isn't a low like a family member dying, of which there is no "another." It's what it is - an unsuccessful season. We expected more, and rightly so. But, I'm not "sick to my stomach" as some have described themselves. It's not worth it to get myself upset and act like an ass around my friends, family and coworkers.

QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Sep 21, 2006 -> 08:45 AM) does it really matter where it is; i find that video gaming is a relevant discussion to the sports pub and people have not had trouble discussing it so i plan on leaving it here I'm not really b****ing. Maybe I should have put it in green. I don't care where anything is. I'm just pointing out the hypocracy of all the Nascar haters. Now, what if it was a question about a Nascar X Box 360 game? That would really throw the universe out of control.

I would bet, I would hope, that the tat is not real.