FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE(fathom @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 03:21 PM) I just heard that the wind's going to be blowing out to left field tomorrow. I really hope Arizona doesn't pitch Webb in game 4. Save him for game 5, because if you lose tomorrow and lose that game with him on the mound, you give the Cubs all the momentum in the world for game 5. We must be looking at two different weather reports. The one I'm looking at is calling for it to rain torrential volumes of Cubby Blue tears from out of the north tomorrow.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 01:23 PM) Tex, what was it like being the only survivor of the Alamo? Do you and FlasoxxJim reminisce about the "good ol' days.....The Andrew Jackson presidency? Shut up that's why! And stay the hell off my lawn! Stupid punk kids •grumble* •grumble*. . .

QUOTE(Brian @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 09:02 AM) Been waiting for this to come out since I heard they were making it. Looks sweet. Sweet like meat

QUOTE(CWSGuy406 @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 02:36 AM) This D'Backs lineup still isn't good and they have Livan Hernandez and Micah Owings going the next two games -- it could easily come back to 'Zona with all the momentum with the Cubs. And all that Cub momentum would run smack into Webb. Hopefull it doesn't go that long, though.

I was pulling for the Rox in the NL this postseason, but Arizona takes the Cubs out in 3 games I'm going to have to jump on the D-Back bandwagon in a big way. Hopefully the bottom falls out of Cub Nation on Saturday. 4 4 4

QUOTE(Alpha Dog @ Oct 5, 2007 -> 12:57 AM) Tex, think about his line there. He won't wear it beacuse it has come to stand for patriotism. WHY IS THAT BAD? Does he hate his country? Is he not a patriot? Is he ashamed of the flag, or looking to score points with the commie-fringe of the Dem party? The point is that pins, bumper stickers, t-shirts, and bad country songs don't stand for patriotism — they have become stand-ins for patriotism. Apparently now patriots aren't supposed to ask what the hell was in the newly exposed 2005 torture memo and how the hell the torture enablers can sleep at night or anything like that. Just get indignant over someone's decision not to wear a flag pin and that will pass for patriotism.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 4, 2007 -> 06:24 PM) Who doesn't love an elephant with a giant red penis? That symbolizes the GOP plans to f*ck everybody over in 2008, silly.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 4, 2007 -> 06:43 PM) Larry Craig just put the Idaho Senate seat in play for 2008 by not resigning. Wow. Maybe 60 seats for the Dems isn't a pipe dream. With Domenici just announcing he's retiring at the end of the term as well, I think 60 might be possible in 2008.

OK, that's one. Go D-Backs!

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Oct 3, 2007 -> 09:57 PM) Jimmy wasn't the best of Presidents, in fact he's probably bottom five, but this is so over the top it's ridiculous. Everybody knows it's the fault of Bill Clinton's Penis that Jimmy Carter was such a bad president.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Oct 2, 2007 -> 08:45 PM) I think it's the berets. They hide little aliens under them that keep pumping xclorian256v into their brains. It's sort of an alien "fountain of youth" found in the Zyraxivon Quadrant of Extoliat 12. Ithink it's the fact that everybody has a hot mistress on the side.

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Oct 2, 2007 -> 01:24 PM) By the way, a whiskey and coke is the tastiest drink in the world. I feel sorry for the suckers who drink rum and coke. ewww. Rum is second only to single malt for me as far as distilled spirits that can offer wonderful, nuanced flavors. Vodka just tastes like vodka, with no interesting flavors to accompany the alcohol. It's fine for mixed drinks and all, but what a one-dimensional drink. I've seen several taste tests where self-proclaimed vodka snobs could not tell the difference between run of the mill Smirinov and all the high-end Grey Goose type brands. Rum and single malt are on the extreme opposite end of the spectrum, where regional origins and production and aging techniques make for so many great and unique subcategories and stylistic variations.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Oct 2, 2007 -> 01:51 AM) I drank last night in your honor, let's say. And did you grovel around on the bathroom tile floor this morning in his honor, too? Mercy!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 2, 2007 -> 01:02 AM) Speaking of german dessert wines, I have a friend who is stuck on the white Zin I've gotten her to try and like a Gewurtztraminer (spelling???) and she likes that. IO wold eventually like to get her to a big Cab or Pinot Noir. Any suggestions on the road map? She also tosses in some salt to her beer but she's so damn cute. maybe Mr. Kicka** will chime in, because I think he's a more studied wine enthusiast than I. I look forward to the Beaujolais Nouveau coming out right before Thanksfgiving every year, and he berates me for my fondness of "lollipop wine". That said, my wife is the biggest Sutter Home white zin hog around, even though her wine snob friends give her grief over it. It works for her, so if it works for your friend that's cool. My wife's gravitation to what I guess Rex might call watered down lollipop wine has to do with her not really liking the dryness of many of the white wines and her also getting bad sulfite headaches if she drinks too much of my merlot, cab, or shiraz. (Actually now, there are some fancypants California scientists who say it's not sulfites but some other undiscovered compound in red wine that gives red wine headaches.) Tell your friend to try one of the Nouveaus this season, or get her a soft shiraz and see what she thinks of those.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 2, 2007 -> 12:58 AM) There must be a difference in quality, I will go get different one since I seem to be drinking all my wine tonight. And btw, anyone out there who has a drink in hand let's drink to my "soon to be ex-wife" maybe she'll sign the damn papers so I will be free at last, thank god almighty I'll be free at last. I'm hoisting a good old Sierra Pale to your pending freedom.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 2, 2007 -> 12:33 AM) My Doctor is the coolest told me to drink a glass (any size) of red wine each day. Now I really don't want to be knocking down a full bottle each night, but by day three. it's a little funky. The wines in a box are too harsh for my delicate pallet. Or at least the ones I've tried. So far the Corbett Canyon has sucked the least. The thingy you pump in the bottle to get out air doesn't seem to help much. The thingy you pump in the bottle to get out air is worth its weight in gold for red wines. red wines oxidize in a matter of hours, (that's what gives the wine the rancid, wet cardboard taste by day 3) so if you are not going to drink it in one sitting you need to just pump the cr@p out of it to keep oxygen at bay. White wines and blush wines are not nearly so delicate in the presence of oxygen. But other than the German dessert wines I'm pretty much exclusively a red wine person, so I've learned to love the old "thingy you pump in the bottle to get out air". One of the cone-bottom pewter or stainless wine stoppers is also helpful to stopper the bottle in between glasses bottle is going to stay out a while but you don't want to pump/burp/repeat every time you pour a glass.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Oct 1, 2007 -> 03:06 PM) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...7093001332.html I remember buying a TI-30. Amazing stuff. And this is what money looked like back then:

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Oct 1, 2007 -> 01:27 AM) mh m Mercy!

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 30, 2007 -> 04:04 PM) Maybe they just decided to play nice & actually stop polluting? And the reality is even worse than the low number of prosecutors and cases brought to court. A lot of the cases that did go to court were cases in which EPA prosecutors worked with the understanding that they were to roll over and present a cr@p case against the defendants. The EPA prosecutorial formula has often been to bring a case to court and then take a dive.

And so begins the long winter of my discontent. Here's to turning it around in '08!

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 27, 2007 -> 03:11 PM) Is there a restaurant called "Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles"?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Sep 29, 2007 -> 02:00 PM) Nickelback sucks ironically, that's all I had to type into google to find the answer Me too! And your link has been broken by the pottymouth filter as well.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Sep 29, 2007 -> 01:56 PM) Anyone remember that link that someone posted a while back concerning Nickelback and how much they sucked? The link was to a site that played two of their songs simultaneously, one in the left speaker and one in the right. The thing is that the songs were like exactly the same crap. If someone knows link, could you let me have it? Or if you can somehow find it, I dunno. I'd really appreciate it. It's hilarious and I want to show someone. http://www.thewebs***e.net/nickelback.htm Edit to add: Hmm, the pottymouth filter is giving me problems with the link. the "***" is supposed to be "hit". Obviously because the URL contains the consecutive letters s. . .h. . . i. . t. it is being sanitized and thereby broken. Oh well, at least it's safe for viewers now.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Sep 29, 2007 -> 01:57 PM) ok great, what's the name of your high horse again? Lux Interior. I pick him to win in the 4th race.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 29, 2007 -> 01:33 PM) The U.N. is dispatching an envoy to Myanmar to attempt to negotiate an end to the crackdown. The crackdown currently appears to be working. There were limited demonstrations today after the much larger demonstrations earlier in the week, and they were broken up fairly easily. Sounds like once the government took control of the monasteries and the monks were no longer out in the streets igniting protest the citizenry quieted up.