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QUOTE (Brian @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 06:08 PM) Holy crap! We used to play this all night when we were young. I remember how I was making a move to the safe point, or whatever we called it, and I had a clear path. So I went across our neighbors driveway but they had motion detectors on their lights and set it on and got caught. Wow, that is it's own thread right there. I have had debates with adults who grew up all over the country about how certain games were played and what the different game details were. It's amazing how many state and even neighborhood variants there were for games like Ghost in the Graveyard and Kick the Can. The name of the safe spot is one example. Was it base, home, home base, goal?? for whatever reason, in my little corner of the south side, it was pronounced "gool" or "ghoul". I never had to think about how to spell it, but that's what it was. Then the details of being safe on gool. Could you stay there forever or was there some sort of limit? Our limit was the "It" person reciting the ever-popular "one, two three, get off my father's apple tree." My cracker-ass Florida wife thinks I just make this up, but I thell her that's how you play the game. Sometimes if you couldn't get all the way to gool, but someone was already there you could still be safe by grabbing to them, 'cuz, you know, "electricity!" And the biggest controversy of all - when the "It" person gives up on finding everybody or it was time to go in fo the night. . . Cracker Wife says sou had to call out "all the all the oxen free!" While I admit that makes more sense, she's flat out wrong. You called out "Oly Oly Ocean Free," which is meaningless gibberish, but I'm sorry that's the way it's done. Sometimes to add a little flourish, you could also go with "Oly Oly Ocean Free Free Freee. . . last one out is a P - I - G!!" Yeah, 10-15 kids all up and down the block playing kick the can, lightning bugs flickering here and there, was awesome. We absolutely lived for summer growing up.

QUOTE (TheBigHurt @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 10:34 PM) So this is a ritual here now? Post a LOSS thread after every loss now too? Yeesh... Pretty much done that all year. It's a post-game discussion thread, and it happens to be after a loss. Stinks to not get the sweep, but if they take the series in Texas and finish out the half strong then I won't complain. :gosox3:

Hope it was a good one X2!

QUOTE (bmags @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 06:34 PM) aren't there fake cigarettes? There sure are. We used to call them joints.

QUOTE (juddling @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 02:58 PM) Not sure this quite fits the subject here but i found this last night.....it's a play and in Chicago so i figured it's close enough The Chicago, Illinois production of hit musical JERSEY BOYS has been slapped with a smoking ban - following a complaint from an irate theatre-goer. The play, which focuses on the rise to fame of 1960s pop group the Four Seasons, sees several characters light up on stage throughout the story. But now the state's Public Health Department has cracked down on actors smoking on stage - and banned the production from featuring cigarettes. Bosses behind the show have reacted angrily to the order, insisting it is detrimental to the reality of the play. Bernard Stone, a member of Chicago's city council, was also disappointed by the news. He says, "When you take it out of the production, you're changing history. If you want to be true to the times, you'll allow them to smoke on stage. To do otherwise is like blue laws in the Puritan times. That's what life was like then. You're denying those times existed." Jersey Boys A totally stupid move, imo. But following the reasoning Tex gave for disapproving of the outdoor Ragtime production – that incidental/unintended ears would hear unsettling language – you'd have to accept the same reasoning here. Theatergoers are paying to see a production but they do not expect to be subjected to hazardous second-hand smoke in the theater, no matter how diffused and diluted it is when it gets to them. As I say, I think it's stupid and unnecessary.

QUOTE (3E8 @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 12:37 PM) Who's Baj The Legend of Man Hands

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 09:32 AM) How about "T-Bone"? How about Koko The Monkey instead.

QUOTE (kyyle23 @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 09:51 AM) Yeah, it would something better like Super Skidmarks Scanlon There was a small contingent of kids who were pushing for the more subtle "Rusty", but Skidmarks won it in a walk.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 03:24 AM) We've been over this before on Soxtalk. His nickname is Tree. This is from Russell, himself. There's no debating it. TREE You don't have any real control over the nicknames you get tagged with. Otherwise good old Skidmarks Scanlon back from grade school would have opted for something a bit more flattering I'm sure.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 03:35 AM) '83 broke my heart worse than all my other heartbreaks put together. Right there with you. '93, I expected disappointment, and 2000 just pissed me off. It just seemed like it was meant to happen in '83.

QUOTE (whitesoxbrian @ Jul 9, 2008 -> 11:16 PM) How did we win ugly? We came back from 5 runs down, hit a couple HR (Q), got a few clutch knocks (Lexi, Thome), and a break (the balk). The bullpen was lights out, too. There's a big difference between an ugly win and Winning Ugly. Even though we didn't make the Promised Land, '83 was a special season. So forgive the old farts their nostalgia.

QUOTE (Drew @ Jul 9, 2008 -> 11:10 PM) Where can I buy an '83 Winning Ugly t-shirt? I have one in a drawer back at my folks home. From back when I was about 60 pounds lighter. I did just buy this sweet vintage WU truckers hat on eBay though Hey, It's the 25th anniversary of one of the best summers of my life!

Belated happy happy, and I hope it was.

Why is everybody trying so hard to obscure a very simple fact? Bush and McCain were both talking out of their asses when they gave lip service to the notion that they would heed the wishes of a freely and fairly elected Iraq if the US was asked to leave. When initially asked the question, W did not say it would depend on the situation on the ground. He said, “If they were to say, leave, we would leave.” When McCain was asked the same question and had an opportunity to say that W spoke out of turn and we would only leave when we decided it was time, No, he said, ""Well, if that scenario evolves than I think it's obvious that we would have to leave.” These are very direct responses to a situation that is very likely to arise, it's not some outlandish hypothetical. The only outlandish part is that anybody would take the president at his word when he pretends like he cares about the will of the fairly elected Iraqi government or its people.

School tuition for the kids, which I was in arears on. :angry:

QUOTE (Felix @ Jul 9, 2008 -> 12:16 AM) Dweezil? Moon Unit? DIVA THIN MUFFIN?! Close. My daughter is Ceili, pronounced kay-lee, so phonetically she has one of the disgustingly popular current names, but se got stuck with the Irish spelling. It means "dance." She gets called all sorts of mispronounciations, like "Seelee", "Cecil", etc. The boy is Cavan, which is the dirt farm county in Ireland my family got kicked out of 130 years ago. It's Irish for "handsome". Everybody thinks his ame is "Kevin" and we all just have a speech impediment.

QUOTE (Felix @ Jul 9, 2008 -> 12:15 AM) I'm Alex. I know Heads is one of the other Alex's, but I don't know who the third is. PA who started this thread is an Alex, and aboz is an Alex. Lotta' dang Alex's around here.

QUOTE (tommy @ Jul 8, 2008 -> 11:49 PM) I really believe this is all mental with Linebrink as he can't be the closing pitcher. mental doesn't mean it's not real. Linebrink can not close games. Infuriating.

Fock Me

QUOTE (knightni @ Jul 8, 2008 -> 08:20 PM) Not as many Frank #1s as some people would think, so far. That may be, but if he's not in everybody's top 3-5, then there's a problem.

Parents just had no creativity back when I got named a Jim. Truth to tell though, I'm a Jim down to my core, so I don't mind. To make up for my parents lack of creativity, I've saddled both of my kids with outlandishly novel names and they hate me for it.

QUOTE (farmteam @ Jul 8, 2008 -> 08:48 PM) Thought I'd mention that the production was moved to an indoor venue, where the previous concerns would not be an issue. Yea! That's good to hear.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jul 8, 2008 -> 03:18 PM) Ya, Frank's not going to be near 1 for me. You can just go to hell! You can go to hell and Die!

Nail-biter at the end. Good win!

QUOTE (SleepyWhiteSox @ Jul 6, 2008 -> 02:16 PM) Wow, so does every other high school kid wearing camo cargo shorts stir up this kind of reaction from you guys too? Anyways, I want more info on the hats that were worn with the camo jerseys... iirc, they were just the regular red, white, and blue hats they have worn all weekend.