FlaSoxxJim

Dude was probably trying to fake his death in a plane crash and disappear himself, but botched it when he turned up hurt using an alias at the hospital.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 12, 2009 -> 02:34 PM) Kyyle beat you by about 11 minutes. DB Cooper?

So far not one single actual southside city dweller. Looks like I need to move back in with the folks.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Jan 11, 2009 -> 10:43 PM) Sort of true. I'm paying attention to the awards that I care about. The person below me sucks, but won't admit it. err. . . uhm, ah. . . False? The person below me is looking to get sucked and freely admits it.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 11, 2009 -> 08:00 PM) I don't know what dry-socket is? If you ever encounter it, this is the solution:

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Jan 11, 2009 -> 07:33 PM) False. The person below me is craving chinese food. False, but I could seriously go for some Viet Namese. The person below me is seriously tired of Billy Mays infomercials.

QUOTE (3E8 @ Jan 11, 2009 -> 05:01 PM) Dude, yer gettin a defective laptop :lolhitting spit take

QUOTE (knightni @ Jan 10, 2009 -> 07:01 PM) It's ridiculous that you have to be from Illinois, Wisconsin or Indiana to win. SUCK IT MICHIGAN!!

Thanks for the service to the outgoing crew, and great picks for the incoming guys. They'll be worth every dollar it took to get them to sign on.

Trying to do way too much in much too short a time, as usual. To bring the stress up to the next level, I'm trying to finish rehabbing the living room fireplace. Then again, it looks like it's going to be 80º F here on Christmas Day, so the fireplace won't exactly be a necessity.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 18, 2008 -> 01:39 AM) I am aware, but last winter was horrific and this year isn't starting any better (in fact, it's starting worse). Obviously these could be freak events not indicitive of nation and worldwide trends, and obviously I don't just flat out believe global warming is BS (I'm a skeptic of if it's nearly as bad as people say, but only an idiot would deny the evidence that something is going on), but I find events such as recent ones strange considering what I always hear about warming patterns. In truth, "global disruption" or "global climate change" would be more accurate descriptors than the more popular and myopic "global warming". Temperature is only one aspect of the anthropogenic disruptions, and it is not changing uniformly across the entire planet. Other parameters like wind patterns, ocean currents, ocean acidification, torm patterns, snow packs and snowmelt, flooding and drought cycles are among those that are also prone to perturbation and should be included in the dialog. That said, no single really cold or really warm season can be comfortably attributed to man-made global disruption. On the other hand, a decade or so of significant trending in one direction or another is the sort of thing that should put us on notice.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Dec 17, 2008 -> 11:55 PM) A December record 3 inches of snow in Las Vegas closed the airport. In fact, a few more inches of snow are forecasted to fall tonight as well. This after they had similar stories in Baton Rouge and New Orleans last week. How is that possible, especially during a period of supposed incredible global warming that will kill all of our grandchildren? It's due to a very rare phenomenon that we scientists like to call "winter."

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 17, 2008 -> 05:22 PM) <!--quoteo(post=1812293:date=Dec 17, 2008 -> 03:12 PM:name=CanOfCorn)-->QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Dec 17, 2008 -> 03:12 PM) <!--quotec-->False...don't have one to go to...*lonely tear* The person below me wants December to be renamed "Christmahanukwanzaramadanukah." False. The holiday decorations at schools would be murder. PS - Flaxx The person below me teared up slightly after seeing that. Yea, Spinny logo! True. The person below me is young enough that the classic holiday specials have always been available on VHS or DVD 365 days a year, and doesn't appreciate how special the once-a-year airings of these things were back in the olden days.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Dec 17, 2008 -> 02:14 PM) True Added bonus the person above me is a luddite and can't figure out text messaging and wants to spend ten minutes communicating something that could take 15 seconds. The person below me uses an electric razor Added added bonus, the person above me can b[e]low me. True on the electric razor. The person below me is having a hard time being productive at work this week.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Dec 17, 2008 -> 01:57 PM) False, I have a sunburn The person below me sends over 500 text messages per month False. I refuse to text on phone when I can actually just friggin' call the person on the phone! The person below me misses the Dolly Madison ads and the spinning Dum-da--dum-dum-dum! "Special" logo when watching Charlie Brown Christmas of any of the Rankin-Bass classics on commercial teevee nowadays.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Dec 17, 2008 -> 01:05 PM) I have a couple: Monahans née Milton Mapes. www.monahans.net. I think they still tour as both as its the same members in both bands. Awesome band, they are self-described as landscape rock-and-roll. Sometimes play Schuba's here in Chicago. I used to love going to Schuba's to see the Otters play waaaay back when. That was a fun band.

Now that I think about it, back in high school I think there was always a lunchroom table of fat lonely girls we used to call the Whopper Virgins.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Dec 16, 2008 -> 01:41 PM) False. Thankfully I can at least last until the good times begin. The person below me will be shoveling this evening. False. I will be tiling a fireplace, however. The person below me thinks Shemp is every bit as good as Curly.

Whoppers are quite good if the burger isn't overdone and dried out. I can't do the Special Sauce on Big Macs. Quarter Pounder w/Cheese is easily my favorite of the three.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Dec 15, 2008 -> 04:19 PM) but it's basically useless as a food, all it does is taste good. Food that tastes good doesn't sound worthless. Or are you one of them there healthy people??

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Dec 15, 2008 -> 03:39 PM) True... True...but only like 25%. The person below me has had a Frito Pie. True. That's some good eatin' right there, I was sad when Sonic took it off their menu. The person below me has had Cincinnati style chili before.

:cheers

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Dec 11, 2008 -> 09:26 PM) False, no clue what's going on there. The person below me is in need of a haircut. True, emphatically so. The person below me is fighting a cold at the moment.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Dec 11, 2008 -> 02:27 PM) Well, Stark from later years, not the Stark that is presented in the early books. The early Stark isn't really a jerk in any way other than constantly giving Pepper a little run-around, which is done for the same reason that Matt Murdoch gives Karen Page the run around in Daredevil. I like Downey Jr. for the most part, but I don't agree with a lot of the people who say he is perfect as Stark. Tom Selleck in his prime would have been a perfect Stark. You're right, the Stark the modeled Downy on was the original, millionaire playboy with just a bit of the military-industrial background thrown in. I think a lot of the hype about Downy being perfectly cast was reverencing the ironic, before the film came out when it was not really known how much of a role Stark's alcohol addiction would play in the story. Turns out, it wasn't that much. I disagree that Selleck would ever have been good for the part. I actually think the perfect casting, in terms of both the brooding conflicted nature, and in terms of an homage to the Clark Gable look of the classic comic book Stark would have been Ralph Fiennes. That would have been the best casting job ever, maybe.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Dec 11, 2008 -> 12:55 PM) True, well I should be. The person below me was once lost in a department store False, though I have been lost in a multi-story parking garage. The person below me thinks Dana Perino is hot despite the misinformation and lies she spew on camera.