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QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Mar 6, 2007 -> 12:09 PM) It took a few minutes, but "Dirtbox, KY" got a pretty damn good chuckle out of me! I'll be laughing about that one as I fall asleep tonight for sure. Indeed, my vocabulary has really expanded quite a bit in my time here on ST.

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Mar 5, 2007 -> 12:26 PM) Does anyone even find those commercials funny? I change the channel whenever they come on. Looks like you won't be getting an invite to Caveman's Crib any time soon. . .

QUOTE(bmags @ Mar 5, 2007 -> 12:59 AM) wicked retahded pisser for the Transit too

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 10:39 PM) When I heard this on the radio this morning I was like "Wow, what are you still doing in Spring Training?". I'd be out of there as fast as possible. Heck, he can always get around to quarrying the land or hiring someone to do it. He only has so much time to try to break in to the bigs. Seems like he's a pretty level-headed guy.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 03:56 PM) I doubt anyone will want to carry positions over the weekend Speak for yourself. It's our anniversary and we are ditching the kids and going away for the weekend. [/cue adult movie music in 3. . . 2. . . . . Bump-chukkah. . . Bump-chukkah. . . Bump-chukkah. . . ]

QUOTE(Texsox @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 04:00 PM) You have to expect that at your age . . . Huh. . . !?

QUOTE(longshot7 @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 03:07 PM) And don't get me started on the Old Testament, jokesters. Who was Cain's wife? The old Clarence Darrow/Carl Sagan stumper! If William Jennings Bryan was as up on his OT as he should have been, he would have noted that cain, Abel, and Seth were merely the first generation of children born to Adam and Eve. Without listing them by name, genesis clearly states that Adam and Eve had lots of children both male and female after that first set of named kids. Cain's wife was obviously one of his sisters, if we are to adhere tothe Christian tenet that all people are descended from the first man and woman. 800+ years and Eve was still pushing them out. That's some longevity.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 03:02 PM) Then why didn't you give us a Flaxx like response of Boy that sound ruff! I'm off my game I guess.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 02:50 PM) This sucks. I just had a bracket pull away from my left fang. I was supposed to be arranging the removal of all braces in two weeks and now I have to go tomorrow and pay $80 to have the stupid freaking thing replastered to my tooth. I guess better here than while I was in CA the last few days. In my mind, your pooch in your avatar is posting this.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 02:30 PM) He'll be here all week folks! Don't forget to tip the waitresses and try the veal! QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 02:35 PM) Ow Yeah, I know that hurt a Lot. Or at least a Lot's wife. So tell me, how long did Cain hate his brother?? That's right folks, as long as he was Abel. Stick with the classics and you're OK.

QUOTE(longshot7 @ Mar 1, 2007 -> 02:14 PM) Take everything in the Bible with a grain of salt. . Unless it's Sodom and Gomorrah stuff from the OT. That you have to take with a pillar of salt.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 08:42 PM) OH COME ON NANCY NOW THAT'S B.S. Add me to the list of those disappointed by this decision. Hard to claim any moral high ground on the congressional corruption issue if you pull cr@p like this, Nancy.

QUOTE(ptatc @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 06:57 PM) Triceps, factually speaking yes, tricep not bicep. Hey, what's one cep more or less between friends? And this whole thread has gotten rather silly. To Rowand and everybody else on the opposite side of thinking here, I believe the original comment that set this all off was J4Life innocently saying "I hope he gets [#500] against us" Then all of the silly scenario playing came out, with Rowand saying "no you don't" and others saying 'well what if it resulted in a loss that cost us a playoff berth?'. . . yada yada. . . Focking-A. No, there isn't anybody on this site that cheers over a Sox loss, or puts a former player ahead of the current team. But get some perspective. It's going to touch a lot of us to see Frank get #500, and if it happened at the Cell where thousands of lifelong Sox fans who grew up watching the man play could feel they were a part of it, that seems kinda cool to me. But for the record, I promise I only want to see it happen if: A ) it doesn't cost us the game, or B ) it costs us the game but doesn't affect the standings and/or C ) it doesn't eliminate our playoff chances or D ) it doesn't occur in post-season competition or E ) it doesn't result in so much excessive cheering that it shakes the rivets out of the stadium and we all fall to our untimely deaths Given all of those conditions, yes, it would be cool to be there if it happened in Chicago. My Cousin talks about seeing Denny McLain pitch at Comiskey in April of 1968, beating us in the second game of a double-header in a year where the Sox didn't win their first game until almost the end of that month. He doesn't dwell on the fact that the Sox lost the game (and they did that 95 times that year). Instead he talks about being there to see a pitcher who grew up on the South Side and went to Mt. Carmel win one game during his historic 31-win season. That's a pretty cool memory to have. If I was lucky enough to see Frank hit #500 at the Cell – even with a (*gasp*) Sox loss (so long as it didn't knock us out of playoff contention or somehow otherwise instantaneously cause us to lose every game for the rest of eternity) then, yeah, I think in 20 years I'd remember being at the game where Frank Thomas cemented his spot as a first-ballot HOFer a bit more than the fact that we dropped a game to the Blue Jays that day.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 05:41 PM) So no one mentioned leading GOP environmentalist. What's Ted Nugent - chopped liver?!!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 11:21 AM) OK whoever has something from grandfamily.com in their post or sig needs to kill it, because it keeps popping up a sign in prompt everytime you open this thread! I keep getting that as well. I thought the site had been Gaged.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 11:01 AM) Actually, Flaxx, there is a rather large contigent of (admittedly, the more liberal denominations) Christians who believe that the resurrection was spiritual, and that the bodily resurrection was simply a metaphor. See: Marcus Borg That is true, I misrepresented all of Christiandom as being wrapped up with the fate of the corporeal body. Those people aren't the folks up in arms about the claims made by this film though. For my part, I think the claim that the tomb has anything to do with a historical living Jesus is a crock, despite the filmmakers' statisticians who say there's at least a 600 to 1 chance the tomb and remains are Jesus'.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 10:03 AM) Well, I wasn't really addressing the Bible-literalists (i.e. Crazy Carl), who are sort of pointless to discuss. I can't handle conversations with people like that. Most of the Christians I know have varying levels of faith and devotion, but very few are 100% literal about the text. Perhaps not, but rising from the dead or not is not some minor Bible trivia quibbling point like when Jesus turned the water into wine was it merlot or shiraz. Died. . . rose. . . will come again. . . t's sort of the central tenet of Christianity.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 09:39 AM) Interesting discussion, but I think that people who are either outraged or joyful are missing the point. For a person of faith, I don't see why Jesus having potentially been married or having kids is detrimental. It just makes him that much more of the flesh, and further expands on one of the things that makes Christianity somewhat unique - God in human form. I agree that a fully human Jesus, fully engaged in all domestic aspects of human life is not something that should shake the foundations of the faith. But I think you are missing the real point for the by-the-book faithful. If Jesus rose from the dead and 30 days later ascended bodily into heaven, how could his bones possibly be in an ossuary in a tomb in Jerusalem?

QUOTE(SoxFan101 @ Feb 28, 2007 -> 05:40 AM) I thought it was more like David Wells made an ass out of himself speaking out against Frank Thomas. Pretty much. Dogged him for not being able to play through a little pain and then it turned out Frank had a torn bicep muscle. Oh yeah, then,about a week later Wells went on the DL for the rest of the year, unable to play through a little pain apparently.

SELL! SELL!!! SELL IT ALL!!!!!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 09:15 AM) Big Al is now asking for DNA testing to see if they are related Who's your daddy? Six Degrees of Separation?? I'm thinking it's looking more like Six Degrees of Reparations.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 11:49 PM) Did you mention you have a single friend? If you're asking me if I took off my wedding ring, well of course I did silly. Actually, she is a recent (as of 2006) widow. Her husband was the founder and owner of the largest private dermatological products company in the world, hence her bazillions of dollars.

Yesterday I met and had lunch with my first real live, honest-to-goodness billionaire. She was really a quite nice, understated, and down to earth person.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 11:34 PM) So who is the great Republican conservation hero? I'm more concerned about the environment than politics, so tell me what Republican is an environmental champion so we can agree. Ted Nugent

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Feb 27, 2007 -> 10:28 PM) Joseph was in the Union, and he did some work on the side, so money wasn't an issue for the Son of God. Probably also a little 'Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's. . . but don't count what Poppa Joe is making under the table. . . ' going on as well. Then again, when you take into account the bar tabs after a couple softball nights each week (Joseph and Son Carpentry played for and also sponsored the Nazereth Nailers if I recall my catechism correctly), there were probably some lean weekshere and there at Rancho Christo. Tell me bread from heaven and water into wine didn't come in handy there.