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That's why most dead pools concern themselves with dead FAMOUS people. That way it doesn't matter if your fame is due to you being a political figure, an entertainer, a renowned author, artist, scientist, etc. You're famous, and if you're dead and famous somebody gets the points and thanks for playing.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 04:21 PM) Winner. Yeah, except I meant E6

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 04:19 PM) Michael's mother Katherine is getting temporary custody of his three kids... This got me wondering, who are the mothers of the kids? I think his former nurse was the mother of the first two. Not sure about the last one.

QUOTE (SHIPPS @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 03:34 PM) WarrenNewsomesgrundle MustacheRidesByJosE6

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 03:15 PM) Beat's Pasqua's by a mile. Much more odd reference to an even more obscure player. You're just whacko crazy is what you are.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 03:25 PM) He gets the maximum possible sentence... So much for getting off easy. Jail may be the safest place for him, all in all.

QUOTE (zenryan @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 02:49 PM) Lisa It's Your Birthday. . . Happy Birthday Lisa!

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 02:34 PM) Best soxtalk user name: Karko's Throat Skin Not bad, but iit doesn't hold a candle to DanPasquasRoachClip.

Hope it was a good one!

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 11:54 AM) I figured you, of all people, would know her. Not because of your geek card, but because you are old enough to remember watching My Little Margie! You'd think so, I know. But by the time Pa picked us up from the prairie schoolhouse and drove us home in the oxcart every day the show would already be over.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 11:48 AM) Meteorologist? Hah! No, she was a sitcom pioneer who started out on My Little Margie back in the 50s if I remember yesterday's story correctly.

Sad, sad news. But, on the plus side. . . if the family acts now and buys one casket at regular price, the funeral home will send them a second casket absolutely free!

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 11:45 AM) So...who had Gale Storm??? *Sigh* I may have to turn in my Trivia Geek card because I had no clue who gale Storm was when I saw that story yesterday.

QUOTE (Nixon @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 11:39 AM) I wrote a post apocalyptic short story where the main currency used was baby teeth. That would definitely cause supply problems for the spray paint industry. That thing you hear rattling around in the can when you shake it is a kid's tooth you know. At least that's what Bart Simpson says.

QUOTE (mr_genius @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 01:18 PM) top secret notes written on paper airplane is worse. it's burned me a few times. QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 01:23 PM) A few of my carrier pigeons have been intercepted on occasion. QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 01:41 PM) Don't even get me started on how much data I've had compromised with semaphore flags. QUOTE (knightni @ Jun 27, 2009 -> 01:49 PM) Aldis lamps, FTW! :lolhitting

QUOTE (Texsox @ Jun 29, 2009 -> 10:34 AM) We had a pool at an old office I worked at. Rules were simple; $25 per person, winner take all. 10 Celebs on your list, 100 points less their age. It ran from Jan 1 to Dec 1. Some definition of "celebrity". We'd have close to $1000 in the pool. Amazing how many people started reading People, Enquirer, etc starting in October That's pretty well thought out with the 100 points - age component. Our pools never had anything as logical as that and usually the person who loaded up their list with 90 year old celebrities did the best. We've tried a double and triple point score for real longshot picks but then it got into what really is and isn't a longshot. A young person with known alcohol and drug issues is a pretty good dead pool pick. Been a few years since I've participated in a pool — more out of never getting around to putting a list together in time than anything because I don't finf them particularly morbid or in bad taste.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Jun 16, 2009 -> 08:34 AM) Anybody see the trailer for this film: http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/453778/It-...t-Loud/trailers It's called It's Going To Get Loud In Here and is Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White hanging out and talking tunes and playing together. I'm not a big fan of any of them, but the movie looks like an absolute must see for anybody who is into music at all. One of the most fascinating trailers I think I have ever seen. Shivers actually running down the spine with this one. Yeah, that looks like it will be really enjoyable. Something I'll only be able to watch on On-Demand cable after my wife has gone to bed because she can't stand music documentaries and I love them.

Ach, Ratchet City doesn't have much going for it, so it has to take what it can.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 02:54 PM) Looks like some bad "journalism": I'm waiting for an email from an Ethiopian noblewoman who needs me to send her $1,000 to free her father the imprisoned army general because only he knows where the real Ark is and can get it to safety before they deposit a bazillion dollars into my bank account to thank me.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 02:38 PM) Eh, I just more or less meant it as a comment on the constant veneration of stuff like that. The search for Noah's ark, the piece of the "true cross," blah, blah, blah. It cheapens the whole thing. I won't venture down the path of what has or hasn't cheapened religion and faith over the centuries, but I get what your saying about the seeming contradiction of faith and the requirement of some physical proof or artifact. The thing is, if a discovery like this were ever shown to be genuine (not saying this current one has much chance of that) it would be an amazingly important archeological find, all spiritual matters aside. Even if I believe the Christian faith hold no more water than any other belief system humans have conjured up over the last 6,000 years, I think it would be really cool to find genuine artifacts dating back to the earliest days in the formation of those belief systems. Unearthing an early Buddhist prayer wheel from the 4th century, or a 6,000 year old Sumerian tablet statue of Ninkasi is a cool thing on a secular level. Finding something specifically referenced in historic scripture like the Ark or Moses' stone tablets would be a couple orders of magnitude beyond that, and easily appreciated by the secular world (if it could be shown to be authentic), even if the spiritual folks don't need it and are content with faith.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Jun 26, 2009 -> 01:55 PM) Sweet, we can put the shroud of Turin in the same museum. I just hope nobody tries to open the thing up and gets their face melted off.

Damn you, this site will now consume me for hours.

QUOTE (Stocking @ Jun 22, 2009 -> 09:35 PM) dealing with tourists on a daily basis, i've got too many to list. Some favorites: Do you have internet? There are a whole host of questions dealing with hawaii being some remote island, where we don't recieve news or entertainment of any sort. Have you ever heard of craigslist? Whats the drinking age? I kid you not, how long does it take to drive here? What type of government we have? Seeing a pod of dolphins , look at all those sharks. You drive on the same side as we do. What type of currency do you use?yes we have espn. cable? Whats that. Yes we have us cell phone carriers, att, sprint, verizon, you name it. While im ranting, i don't give a f*ck what the weather is like where you just came from. Nor do i care what time it is there, or how off your sleeping is. Everyone visiting is dealing with it, you're not special. How the hell did I never once notice you were from Five-Oh?!? OK, here are my stupid questions: 1) Why did Hawaii go and fock up the mai tai by adding all the juices to it, and where is the best place there to order a traditional mai tai? 2) Can you scrounge me up a bottle of Leilani Hawaiian Rum? I like Hana Bay and Diamond Head well enough, but I've been told Leilani is the Holy Grail of Hawaiian light rums and I've never had the pleasure. . .

QUOTE (SnB @ Jun 22, 2009 -> 10:03 PM) how did you all find out about the dream i had last night? belated happiness SnB!

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jun 22, 2009 -> 09:31 AM) Was in Long Island this weekend about a half hour from the Hamptons. An annual Beer Olympics event. 6 teams of 8, 7 events. Lasted from about noon to 6 or so. So much fun. Favorite event was dizzy bat, got some hilarious footage of a couple of my friends completely wiping out after the spin and attempt to hit whiffle ball thrown to them. That is pretty awesome. QUOTE (southsideirish71 @ Jun 22, 2009 -> 11:59 AM) Soxpride club just paid out a bonus for me. I picked it up a few years back for the fact that mlb radio was included. Well just scored Cubs-Sox in the first level from a release to Pride club members. This rocks. That is also awesome.