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QUOTE(RibbieRubarb @ Feb 20, 2007 -> 03:24 PM) 22? I was told there would be no math at the movies!

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 20, 2007 -> 04:23 PM) Give her time, she will be out in 10 minutes. It really doesnt take that long Rehab Floor Staffer to Britney Spears as she walks out for the second time: "Hey, Kojak. . . Yeah Cue Ball, I'm talking to you. . . Just where do you think you're going? I mean, just because now you look like Mr. Clean, that doesn't mean you ARE clean. OK. . . OK, play it your way Uncle Fester, go on and leave, but make sure you keep old Cousin It under your skirt this time."

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Feb 20, 2007 -> 12:59 PM) And Clinton's not on this list? She should be. I agree on Hillary, but I'd still like to see Gore change his mind and make a run.

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Feb 19, 2007 -> 09:20 PM) The first Fantastic 4 was literally the worst movie I had ever seen. Yeah, it was really bad. The never officially released Oley Sassone Fantastic Four flick from 1994 was better than the 2005 version, and the 1994 version was a low budget crapfest that was never even supposed to be released.

Love that Shrove Tuesday!

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Keep the old ones, they have a lot more character and look more site-specific. Those new ones look kind of generic and boring to me.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Feb 19, 2007 -> 05:26 PM) Apologize? To the likes of you on an internet message board? Puh-leeze. It's politics. Bring your thick skin or go home. You liberals are adorable. It's about more than about having thick skin, Sport. It's about having a bit of integrity. If you caught hold of a juicy Hillary story and ran with it thinking it was true, it's no big deal but I'd expect you would concede that a bit of fact checking might have been in order before propagating the error. On the other hand, if knowingly perpetuating a mythology that has been debunked = politics to you, then that is sad. I would not characterize that as anything close to adorable.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Feb 19, 2007 -> 02:13 PM) If this is the nugget that pushes one over the edge to not vote for Hillary, he or she should have their voting privileges taken away. That decision could and should easily be made on her own public merits. Is that as close as it's going to get to a mea culpa for continuing to perpetuate a long-debunked rumor as if it was a fact? If so, that is a shame.

The Swahili language contains no irregular verbs.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Feb 16, 2007 -> 09:05 AM) On that note... Humans are the only species on earth that have face-to-face sex. That is nearly true, and according to most human evolution scholars it is a vitally important piece of the human evolutionary puzzle. Human female breasts, for example, probably evolved their fleshiness as a selective evolutionary response to serve as a stand in for the fleshy buttocks of other great apes. Of greater significance, the evolution of more forward-facing eyes up the great ape line (possibly as a selective evolutionary trait to better interact with a mate during sex) goes hand-in-hand with an increase in cranial volume and, therefore, larger brain size. [That is a short-hand synopsis] As for the trivia, bonobo apes also engage in face-to-face-sex - along with a lot of other freaky higher primate sex acts that most think only we depraved humans are capable of.

On the subject of maladies affecting the hands, my kid brother just lost his entire fingernail to a bite from his room-mate's (our cousin) 12-year old senile dog. Ouch.

They are Uppers, but at least I was able to buy 8 tix of the 5/16 Sox/Yankees game in the registered user presale just now!! Hopefully I'll be able to get back in with teh family for some games on June or July as well.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Feb 14, 2007 -> 01:54 AM) What if you ARE from the south, but don't sing it. REM anyone? Then again, coming out of Athens is very different than coming out of anywhere else in Georgia. I don't think the B-52s are making any of the southern rock hall of fame lists either.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Feb 14, 2007 -> 12:03 AM) Who the hell is The Band? The Band I had to tell my wife who they were too. But then again, musically speaking she lives in a cave.

I'm going to hell I guess because I laughed. At least when I'm there I won't be surrounded by all you fuddy-duddy sticks inna mud. . .

Way too many bands here that ought not be. Eagles are California Rock/Country/Folk. And the one song that maybe has a sound that could put them in the category for a brief moment wasn't even mentioned. Seven Bridges Road. For shame, Tex. . . The Band and CCR aren't southern rock, thoug they have country and bluesy southern influences to be sure. Bog Seger?!!?!! The man is from Detroit and the music is very much working class Midwest Roots Rock. All of that I can forgive. What I can't abide is the lack of any mention whatsoever of Steve Morse or the Dixie Dregs. A Steve Morse guitar solo is orders of magnitude more interesting than the same lick repeated 35 times ala most Rossington and Collins solos. If you are not familiar with them, limewire up some Dregs and you will be amazed.

Reaching 10,000 posts on a message board is just so completely pathetic. . . Yep, that's right – I have about 750 posts to go before I have to stop feeling superior to all you 10K LOSERS!

QUOTE(Middle Buffalo @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 09:48 PM) I like to think that there are 3583 members you'd like to drink with even less than me. I for one would very much enjoy a drink with the guy with the most awesomest sweet Peter Brady avatar ever.

Couple chime-in comments in this Police discussion: Big lifelong Police fan here, but more partial to the earlier stuff. Outlandos D'aMour is probably in my top 5 rock albums of all time, and I liked each successive album just a little less than the last despite the fact that as far as the musicianship, composition, and production value each new album was an improvement on the last. I'm right there with Critic's comments about "Stinging It", but also right there with Los' remark that a good musician who doesn't want to be bored out of his skull is going too mix things up like that. Adam Duritz was always that way with the Counting Crows stuff as well so he wouldn't shoot himself after singing the same thing the same way for the thousandth time. Vocalists who can do that and do that As well have always impressed me. As far as Mr. Sting's early forays into "Stinging It", I think a lot of that was a solo career branding effort, taking his compositions that had already been done the Police way and putting the stamp of his new "jazzy" bands on them. And I think he did it quite well on songs like Bring On the Night and Shadows In the Rain. The latter song in particular is recognized by almost everyone as a rocking Blue Turtles song from that first solo studio album, but it takes a minute before most people realize it was originally a fairly forgettable Police number off Zenyatta Mondatta. Stinging It wins the day on that one. As far as a reunion,I'd love to see the police live in a reunion show, but I'm not going to break the bank doing it. QUOTE(redandwhite @ Feb 12, 2007 -> 10:53 PM) Wow, a lot of you really dislike the Red Hot Chili Peppers? I'm a huge fan. Always have been. I don't hate on 'em the way some people seem to, but I do agree they have been pretty much in retread mode in the decade or so since BloodSugarSexMagic.

Wow, I just spent an hour watching Rich Koz in old Son of Sven clips. I could spend a whole day watching that stuff. Classic.

QUOTE(Steff @ Feb 10, 2007 -> 11:20 AM) Anyone here ever seen Bowie in concert? I only saw one show on the 1990 Sound + Vision tour. He had a stripped down band compared to the Glass Spider thing a couple years earlier. It was very good and Adrian Belew played guitar on that tour (Bowie contributed to a couple of songs on Adrian's album that year too). I wish I had a chance to see him Pre-Let's Dance. I respect his never staying in one place musically but my favorite Bowie is still Scary Monsters and earlier.

QUOTE(TheBlackSox8 @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 09:58 PM) didn't know that...that is far as hell And that is exactly the point. It's a somewhat disappointing thought to have a high degree of confidence that there is other higher life out there, but to also know that there is a vanishingly small probability that we will ever get there to verify it. QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Feb 10, 2007 -> 02:05 AM) I'll sound like a total nut for saying this but on at least 3 different occasions I've seen UFO's. Go ahead and laugh. Teee Heee Ha Ha Ha Bwaahh Hahaha. . . QUOTE(BigEdWalsh @ Feb 10, 2007 -> 02:05 AM) Just for the record too. I grew up in a very old huge house in Elmhurst. I heard things often and was with a few friends once on the front porch when we all saw this guy who kinda looked like a bum. He was just walking through the yard and suddenly he wasn't there. It was like he walked behind a tree and vanished. It was real weird. And again, I wasn't the only one who witnessed this. Damn, the drugs really were that much better back then, huh?? I Kid Because I Care®

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Feb 9, 2007 -> 03:44 PM) I believe it is ignorant and arrogant to believe that we are the only sentient beings in the universe. Wether they visit or not, who knows. But there has been documented sightings throughout history that are next to impossible to explain. Lets just say that people in the 1800's were not seeing weather balloons and leave it at that It's not a matter of doubting the existence of extraterrestrial life. In the near-infinite Universe, extraterrestrial microbial life is all but a certainty, and I think the odds favor the existence of higher forms as well. It is the vastness of the distances that have to be traversed for anything to get to us that makes me doubt we have been visited. Short of alien races accomplishing theoreticals like folding space (with or without the aid of Arrakis spice), wormhole travel, etc., ain't nobody been here to see us.