FlaSoxxJim

For only signing up 5 days after SS25K, how the hell did I drop the post count ball so badly? maybe it was all in that 5 day heads start.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 12:42 PM) Getting married. Married? Aboz and Qwerty?? Wow.

QUOTE (whitesoxfan101 @ Aug 28, 2008 -> 01:46 PM) With or without climate change as a point of reference, New Orleans had been very hurricane fortunate in the years before Katrina. So even people who think that climate change either doesn't affect hurricanes or is a myth altogether should realize that New Orleans is due for a couple more hurricanes of significance in the near future. And of course if you believe climate change is not only really (not a stretch), but affects hurricanes (much more debatable), it could be more than a couple. It's not even particularly debatable that changing climate (in this case, warming tropical waters) affects hurricanes. Warm tropical waters are the driving force behind hurricanes. What remains debatable - in a smoke and mirrors sort of way - is whether or not any single storm was stronger or any single season more active as a result of climate change. It's analogous to the Big Tobacco legal argument that even though there is a highly significant statistical population-wide correlation between smoking and the incidence of cancer, it is very difficult to demonstrate that a specific person's smoking was the cause of that person's illness.

"Uglier than a sackful of elbows" - I busted a gut laughing so hard when I first heard this one. Elbows are pretty damn ugly, and the thought of a sackful of them makes me laugh "Smells worse than a bag of dead feet" - I like this one for the same reasons as the above. Then there's the not so politically correct: "So cheap, you couldn't get a better deal from a drunken Indian" And one a guy I knew always said that never made sense but he said it anyway: "Cool as a soup sandwich"

I read that and had M.A.S.H. flashbacks where Radar got Henry to discharge the Thanksgiving turkey using that trick.

Kudos guys, and thanks for stepping up to keep the place running like a well-oiled machine. Well, maybe it's alcohol and not oil, but the Mods around here always get the job done.

Beltre!!

Nice to see nathan can blow a save every once in a while

Cr@p, DP, but tie game!

Holy fµ@k. . .

What is that? Some sorta' racist "nappy-head" comment?? Sheesh.

QUOTE (KipWellsFan @ Aug 25, 2008 -> 08:42 PM) Kaperbole teehee Much more accessible than the phonetic-fronted, triple-entendred "Kaproballistic" I'll grant, although possibly not quite as fun for the cunning linguists in the crowd.

QUOTE (wilmot825 @ Aug 24, 2008 -> 08:58 PM) Cub Fan? Wow.

Only 58, that is tragic. Good thought go out to her family.

It's your liver trying to get your attention. You have been ignoring it by not drinking enough to give it anything to do, and it is getting restless. My liver does not have that problem. In fact, my liver has recently applied to go into hiding as part of the federal witness protection program.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Aug 19, 2008 -> 05:55 PM) I also think that there must be some strange reason that tales of Bigfoot/sasquatch/yeti have been passed along for hundreds of years all over the entire world. Yeah, there are several:

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Aug 15, 2008 -> 08:34 PM) I guess that Biscardi guy is NOT a well known, well respected, Bigfoot hunter. In fact, he is actually regarded as a scam artist in the Bigfoot world. I've been bouncing around numerous Bigfoot sites since this news conference and have yet to find anything positive said about the guy.. ohmyfokinggawd, just the mere thought that there is a "respectable Bigfoot hunting community" has me rolling around laughing. That's Gold, Jerry! GOLD!!!

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 17, 2008 -> 08:38 AM) On A Side Note: Trekkies Will Lose a Starbase I am saddened. I always wanted to go there, but never had the chance to get out to Las Vegas. I did the ride and had a couple drinks in the bar when I was there a few years ago. I thought it was pretty cool.

The cruise-control from MB sure is nice to see. Mark and Javy gave the pen some much-needed rest these last two nights.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 11, 2008 -> 10:05 PM) Disney may have interest in Sea World This is interesting. There have been rumors for YEARS that Disney wants to develop a "DisneySeas" park. This could save them some time and money. BAM! Instant 5th gate. Take some of the cash that WOULD have been put towards creating the new park and "reimagine" parts of seaworld. I honestly don't see Disney buying Sea World unless they'd be buying it to shutter it, eventually followed by a marine-themed attraction on WDW property. AB has had to go for "pay once, come back all year" pricing to get people into the gates at Sea World in respectable numbers. Disney would never do that, but for parkgoers with seasonal passes it would be a wash. The big thing is that owning and operating an Orlando I-Drive attraction would run completely counter to everything Disney has tried to do for the last 20 years to make WDW an insulated, captive-audience destination. The revenues they would make on tickets and in-park concessions would not be worth siphoning off a large portion of the captive WDW tourist population because unlike in WDW, none of the surrounding resorts and amenities are owned by Disney. Disney won't underwrite driving traffic to someone else's hotels and restaurants, imo. If they could swing it financially, it would actually make a lot more sense for Universal to buy it. They would then basically own the anchoring attractions at both ends of I-Drive. They would also probably do a better job than AB did of integrating Sea World, Discovery Cove, and Aquatica into a cohesive resort destination, add a couple of themed hotels, and bring the Sea World franchise to the next level that neither AB or the prior owners could.

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Aug 11, 2008 -> 09:33 PM) I agree. I have no idea who the guy is/was. Not that it means much, especially if he was all about politics. You never had to read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich in high school world lit?? It's seriously one of the best books I've ever read. It won't have the artistic timelessness of the Theme From Shaft or Bad Santa, I'll grant you. I think Solzhenitsyn also only won one Nobel Prize. I forget, how many did Bernie and Issaic nab again?

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Aug 11, 2008 -> 12:11 PM) he's still not famous enough.

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