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QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 12:26 PM) The kind that may come from water in the basement? No nasty water (no pump back up) but clean water from the water heater. The carpet was a little wet in one area back in May. It dried up and we had the carpet cleaned but all of a sudden there is this highly offensive order - that apparently only my super duper pregnancy nose can detect - that is driving me nuts. I am this/close to forcing Jim to rip open the walls to see if something died in there. Mold tends to smell musty/earthy/mildew-like.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Nov 16, 2007 -> 10:26 AM) It'd be nice if Kenny signed Hunter To replace that old 'Husker punter and if he deals Crede to the the thirdbase needy Getting Cabrera would be a real stunner Limerick style Bring Owens or Anderson Back Torri can suck on my cack

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 15, 2007 -> 06:23 PM) (my poem: inspired by jim and his clearly LSD induced poem about finding love in all the wrong places) this I'd expect from Southsider or the Kap(tain) but I must admit it got me a-laughin' The more I did think, the label was never fitter It's like having first try at the pick of the litter... Indeed there are many things that people can mutter but 'tis as they say, "there goes Jim, the pumpkin Fu#$er" I never get bored if I'm close to a gourd

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 15, 2007 -> 05:41 PM) It is legal in Texas to shoot ferel cats. Just like shooting hogs, deer, javelinas, coyotes, doves, geese, and other animals. Still not legal to shoot Chupacabrae though?? They better change that law or you'll be overrun in no time.

QUOTE(Felix @ Nov 15, 2007 -> 02:49 PM) If it were sixty-five, I'd jump and jive Stop complaining 'bout the weather Just break out the whips and leather When the weather's hot and sticky Ain't the time for dunkin' dickey When the frost is on the pumpkin THAT'S the time for dickey dunkin'

Cute image from the WGA picket line:

I’ve often thought to post in meter ‘til thoughts of odd reactions deter me from such an exercise but with the can of worms now pried by Tex I guess the college try I’ll give to this frivolity Yet with that said I scratch my head, to wit, what should the subject be? Rock and Roll or Politics? Buehrle’s cutter? Chicks with dicks? I know the last would scare away most SoxTalk folks (But not PA) Economy or Evolution? Immigration or Pollution? Hot plate moves, minor league news, what timely topic should I choose? Alas, alas, alack-a-day It seem I I’ve not got $hit to say In short, it’s just another day.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Nov 14, 2007 -> 02:42 PM) It never does say if he is paying for all of that usage. As I understand it in Chicago, people don't actually pay for their usage, just the service, so there is no incentive to cut back. Fortunately it's not like that here (don't know about Georgia). A lot of plumbing and irrigation ruptures come to light when one month a consumer sees that his water bill has jumped 1,000%.

I just watched 2001 last night for the first time in several years on Hi-Def Blue Ray at a friend's house. I think Kubrick's film interpretation is exponentially better than Arthur Clarke's original short story or his novel adapttation, although the screenplay is of course done by both of them. Damn, that film is still absolutely gorgeous.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Nov 14, 2007 -> 08:55 AM) While I am at it, "Creep Show" was pretty damn good at adapting some of those comics as well, especially with adding the comic book flavor to the movie. As an avid EC horror fan who owns all of the Russ Cochran slipcase reprints and a good number of original comics, I definitely love Creepshow and the homage to both the old EC comics and the anthology horror film genre. But the stories themselves weren't comic adaptations. King wrote the Father's Day, Something to Tide You Over, and They're Creeping Up on You scripts specifically for the film, and the Jordy Verril and The Crate scripts were adapted from previous King short stories. The comic adaptation for Creepshow, with Berni Wrightson and Jack Kamen fittingly getting the nod to do the artwork, was itself a nice adaptation of the film.

QUOTE(longshot7 @ Nov 13, 2007 -> 04:10 PM) Barry was a crack addict - what's the problem? http://apnews.excite.com/article/20071113/D8SST6C80.html It's all a matter of perspective. Where you and this journalist saw a crack addict, I saw a civil servant on a one-man crusade to keep drugs off the streets of DC by ingesting them all himself. In law enforcement , I believe that is called the "Elvis Strategy" for drug control.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Nov 13, 2007 -> 03:24 PM) I know this much. If it wasn't for meat, my father's family would have starved in the 30's (Dad was born in '33) ... He, as a lad, learned the importance of not taking his shot until he knew that shotgun shell would put meat on the table. Rabbit, squirrel, quail ... whatever ... he had to make sure of his shot. And yes, at 5 or 6 years old he was putting meat on the table. And, really, if we weren't meant to eat animals they wouldn't be made out of meat.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Nov 13, 2007 -> 02:56 PM) Well, they drank Budweiser, that's their problem in the first place. I'd get pissed too if that's all I had to drink. Well played. King of Beers my curvy pink butt.

A lead-in like that. . . and then NO PUNCHLINE?!!? That could have been Comedy Gold, Jerry!

I really love a good club sandwich. One of the best meals ever created.

I think a lot of these films would be worthy of assigning in a film appreciation class. But, then again, you just know some of the students would cheat and be lazy and just read the books instead of actually watching the movies . . . I Kid Tex Because I Care®

QUOTE(J-MAN @ Nov 13, 2007 -> 11:37 AM) If you are a fan - all of the Harry Potter movies are as good or better than the books - amazing how the movies capture the essence of the books. You are certifiably insane. The Potter films are fun enough, and I understand the need to take certain liberties to streamline the storyline into 2 hour installments. But they don't hold a candle to the books.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 13, 2007 -> 12:14 AM) Nice jump there. Clearly all those thousands of teachers not using Prince of Tides should also be held to the same scorn and ridicule? This is about the tool that is used to teach AP English. That is different than not teaching AP English at all. If the Board of Education upholds their decision to remove the work, the only thing that will not be taught is anal sex. Perhaps that it a terrible injustice in your book. Tell me, if the book was removed from a national list, you would be OK with that? And since this book is so important, what would you do with a 16 year old who is eligible to take AP English? The movie, which was fairly close to the book is R-Rated. A 16 year old could not see the movie, should he be allowed to read the book? I don't see the jump you're talking about. You made a blanket statement about local control at local schools, not circumscribed to this particular case. I replied with what I thought was a cogent argument against letting local control supercede all else. If anybody is making jumps, it is you every time you suggest that assigning a book with a single passage depicting a brutal act is "teaching anal sex". That is an utterly parabolic statement. Is there even a national list of acceptable, level-appropriate American literature? If so, heck, I'm not quite comfortable with that notion. Certainly there are national recommendations, and I have consulted these myself in assigning texts and supplemental readings for AP Biology. But I never saw any national proscriptions against using certain broadly aproved materials, and I'd have been aghast if I had. You know something? I read and liked Prince of Tides, but if I was putting together an AP American modern literature course it wouldn't make the cut for me. Not because of the pages you conflate into being an entire course on anal sex unto themselves. Rather, it's because I think there are other more important works with which to build a foundation of appreciation. But I support the instructor in this instance who assigned what was at the time a locally-approved reading. If the local powers that be buckle to pressure initiated by a single family who would rather play thought police for the entire school system rather than restrict their parenting to their own child, that is very unfortunate but it's the way it goes sometimes. And the whole film adaptation thing. . . you are really hung up on that, aren't you? There's not an English teacher out there worth his/her chalk that doesn't know how to test to weed out students who read the book versus those who watched a film adaptation. You have no apparent concerns about the more troubling cheats available at freebooknotes.com, pinkmonkey.com, or any other of a half-dozen websites that actually provide cliff notes of the source material itself and not a derivative work. Fortunately, however, most good teachers these days do. So in a way I guess I do agree with your local control at local schools. I just want everybody to keep in mind that the classroom teacher is as local as it gets, and that he/she has already gone through any number of local hiring, certification, and approval processes and is always under scrutiny by on-site administrators. These aren't rogue smut peddlers and agents of anarchy. They are our teachers and they deserve more respect than to be reduced to the perceived status of smut peddlers in the eyes of the public, or to be assumed incapable of testing whether students have read the material or just popped down to Blockbuster to rent the film. QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 13, 2007 -> 12:52 AM) While we are taking some jumps, I had a funny thought. If this teacher was accused of murdering someone, we would have no problem accepting the assembly of eight citizens, taken at random, to decide if she/he would live or die. But questions their choice of a book!? Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!! Ordinary citizens could not possibly be entrusted with something that important. You know, just saying. Please speak for yourself. I have serious problems with our criminal judicial system and it's continued reliance on the non-deterrent of capital punshiment and the critically flawed processes it employs. Huh, imagine that. Someone as craven as I who continues to champion the Pat Conroy Treatise on All Things Anal Sex thinking there might actually be worse horrors perpetrated by our society than writing unseemly fiction.

Everybody knows that the good guys lost Beaten by the Queen of Hearts every time. Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, she'll break you every time. You know you know the Deuce is still wild. Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night. And I've got such a long way to go, to make it to the border of Mexico Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes Come spend the night inside my sugar walls And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls. I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty. Yet I swear I see my reflection some place so high above this wall. Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon Gonna get high as a kite by then She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie, cocaine Sittin' downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico. No, he couldn't look much stranger. I don't want a pickle. I just want to ride my motor-sicle. I like smoke and lightning...Heavy metal thunder. Fat-Bottom Girls you make the rockin' world go 'round. Get on 'yer bikes and ride! Ride, take a free ride, take my place. Have my seat, its for free. Oh, anything I want he gives it to me. Anything I want he gives it, but not for free – It's hateful!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Nov 12, 2007 -> 05:07 PM) Local control at local schools. Of course, that's why the apparent handful of intelligent people in Kansas have to put up with the semi-annual attack on the teaching of evolution. So let's just go with it and let the locals call the shots. We won't bother teaching evolution in Kansas and we'll cut all the civil rights chapters room civics classes in the deep south. There's no place for national oversight from the likes of competent trained scientists like those at NSF. If enough mouthbreathers manage to get themselves on the Kansas school board this year then Kansas can be the state that shows us just what local control at local schools can do for the students who might otherwise have been forced to suffer an education that would have prepared them to compete favorably with a global workforce. Edit: I used that mouthbreathers dig on purpose just so y'all could haul off on me. I, of course, have the utmost respect for anybody who thinks that we should toss out 150 years of scientific progress because the Bible clearly says we didn't come from no gawd-damn monkeys.

Everybody knows that the good guys lost Beaten by the Queen of Hearts every time. Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, she'll break you every time. You know you know the Deuce is still wild. Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night. And I've got such a long way to go, to make it to the border of Mexico Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes Come spend the night inside my sugar walls And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls. I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty. Yet I swear I see my reflection some place so high above this wall. Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon Gonna get high as a kite by then She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie, cocaine Sittin' downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico. No, he couldn't look much stranger. I don't want a pickle. I just want to ride my motor-sicle. I like smoke and lightning...Heavy metal thunder. Fat-Bottom Girls you make the rockin' world go 'round. Get on 'yer bikes and ride!

Everybody knows that the good guys lost Beaten by the Queen of Hearts every time. Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, she'll break you every time. You know you know the Deuce is still wild. Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night. And I've got such a long way to go, to make it to the border of Mexico Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes Come spend the night inside my sugar walls And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls. I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty. Yet I swear I see my reflection some place so high above this wall. Way up in the air in my beautiful balloon Gonna get high as a kite by then She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie, cocaine Sittin' downtown in a railway station, one toke over the line There's a guy with a ticket to Mexico. No, he couldn't look much stranger. I don't want a pickle. I just want to ride my motor-sicle.

Everybody knows that the good guys lost Beaten by the Queen of Hearts every time. Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, she'll break you every time. You know you know the Deuce is still wild. Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night. And I've got such a long way to go, to make it to the border of Mexico Like a bat out of hell I'll be gone when the morning comes Come spend the night inside my sugar walls And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls. I've built walls, a fortress deep and mighty. Yet I swear I see my reflection some place so high above this wall.

Everybody knows that the good guys lost Beaten by the Queen of Hearts every time. Don't you draw the Queen of Diamonds, she'll break you every time. You know you know the Duece is still wild. Revved up like a deuce, another the runner in the night.