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QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 12:11 PM) But I was speaking about his pro career. He did have a rough time in high school, but his time at the JC is where he turned it around.... get it.... JC. Yeah, I hear that Kid was a Nazz-tural. Happy Birthday again, WinningUgly. Sorry for the threadjack.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 11:29 AM) And a Happy and Healthy Hannukah to you all.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 11:12 AM) Jesus would have thrown for 450, ran for 100 and had 3 TD passes in his first start for the Bethlehem Runnin' Rabbis instead of dying for your sins.... real good Jim. I'll go with Frankincense. I was referring to the myrrh, but yep, frankincense was yet more tree sap that the Magi thought would be just what a newbhorn needs. No wood to burn on a clod night. No warm clothes that maybe didn't swaddle so much. Thanks a buch, Wise Men. As for Jesus' possible athletic career on the Jeruselem J-V. . . he pretty much didn't get a whole lot going until he was 30 anyway so he probably could have fit it in.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 20, 2006 -> 10:29 AM) Frankencense, gold, and Myrrh? I think not. Yeah, about that. . . Were the Magi like the worst Christmas gift-givers ever or what? "Awww, look at the cute widdle Baby Messiah. Let's give him some of this dried tree sap the Romans burn at funerals to mask the smell of burning bodies. . . " Sheesh. Just get the kid a football.

And a Happy Christian Hijacking and Continuing Commercialization of of the Roman Saturnia festival and the Natalis Solis Invicti (feast for the birth of the Invincible Sun) to you all as well!! Now, if you'll excuse me I have to go put some more ornaments on my pagan eternal life evergreen tree in keeping with the Pre-Christian Germanic mid-winter festival traditions from whence that fine holiday symbol was ripped off. Christian Lack of Originality = The Reason For the Season

So close to Christmas you probably got lot of Birthday/Christmas "combination" gifts growing up. I bet that sucked sometimes and you felt ripped off. I assume Jesus had to put up with that cr@p too.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Dec 18, 2006 -> 03:38 PM) Best. Sandwich. Ever. QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Dec 19, 2006 -> 11:08 PM) Not. Even. Close. Not. Actually. Sentences.

And we'll even deliver on Saturdays.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Dec 19, 2006 -> 08:19 PM) I seriously got a 5k mattress for like 1500 bucks. Best deal I have ever received on anything. Hope you gave it the ol' black light test first.

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 19, 2006 -> 08:54 AM) My sister teaches in that district and she said that now all the salad dressing (etc) has to come in individual packets. Ick, ick, ick. Huh, Huh. . . you said, "come. . . " huh huh. .

A true animation pioneer, dead at age 95. http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireSt...5724&page=1 The HB television stuff from the 1960s was great, but my favorite works of Joe and Bill will always be the MGM Tom and Jerry theatrical shorts. As good as the best Disney theatrical stuff, and in fact these were the shorts that made Disney rethink the pace of their shorts and go more slapstick during the Donald Duck heyday presided over by Jack, the other animating Hannah. Flinstones, Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo, Huckleberry Hound, Quickdraw McGraw. . . good stuff. Good run, Joe.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 18, 2006 -> 11:31 PM) Anyone have a good suggestion for a mattress brand? I don't even know where to start. I can sleep just about anywhere, the softer the better. Miss PA is about the same. anyone? You've just got one thing on your mind. Hurry up and just get married already!!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Dec 18, 2006 -> 12:43 AM) As the world's moral authority and bastion of human rights. . . That's rich, Tex.

I'M SANTA, B*TCH!!

12 Days of Christmas - A Cat's Rendition On the twelfth day of Christmas my human gave to me: Twelve bags of catnip! Eleven tarter Pounce treats, Ten ornaments hanging, Nine wads of Kleenex, Eight peacock feathers, Seven stolen Q-tips, Six feathered balls, Five MILK JUG RINGS! Four munchy house plants, Three running faucets, Two fuzzy mousies, And a hamste-e-er in a plastic ball!!

QUOTE(greasywheels121 @ Dec 16, 2006 -> 05:01 PM) Never. It really doesn't seem like a big deal, as this thread really isn't much of a continuation of anything. It's just random thoughts at random times. By random people misfiring synapses at random.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 16, 2006 -> 10:16 AM) I'm in a holding pattern until june Is it the left or right hand that does the "holding"?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 15, 2006 -> 11:48 AM) When you think about it, it is actually pretty much on the money. I wouldn't consider it an insult. It's more of a description or catagorization. I agree "secular progressive" an apt description. Certainly it describes me, and I kind of like it better than "secular humanist." The issue, of course, is where people on the right or left of the term manage to steer the connotations of the term. As a proud liberal it's interesting to hear people on the right try to use that word as a smear word, and this is the same way. Ditto when people try to paint "atheists" or "evolutionists" or "Darwinists" in a negative light by definition. As identifying categories without any meaning being loaded by a speaker, those are all apt descriptions of groups of people proud to wear those titles. And the same can certainly be said about the way many on the left use the term "Christian conservative" negatively though there are plenty of good people who wear that identifier proudly.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 15, 2006 -> 08:08 AM) Yeah, Jesus and Budah part was dogmatically on Japanamation.... It might be the Shinto and not the Buddhist influence. There are slightly more japanese that identify themselves as belonging to the native Japanese Shinto (spirit or kami worship) than to the imported Buddhism. Christianity is a distant third, picking up only about 1% of the Japanese God vote% An interesting byproduct of that mix is a big scary jolly Buddah named Hoteiosho who has to take over the Santa Claus role at Christmas. Good look. I like me some Hoteiosho. Merry Christmasu!

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Dec 15, 2006 -> 12:16 AM) what is wrong with the japanese? seriously, that dog was going to town. Yeah, the Japanese have a major freak in their national closet. They are the only country in the world more sexually hung up and conflicted than us.

He's. like. a real live Superhero. . . Tall Chinese Dudeman

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 03:26 PM) Can't forget Spectreman. AWESOME!! I will defeat you, Spectreman. Dr. Gori And Johnny Sokko!

QUOTE(retro1983hat @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 02:21 PM) Actually I feel old because I remember watching Speed Racer on Channel 44 in the afternoons. There was another live action show with like three robots. I can't remember the names. They were like Gold, Silver and Bronze or something like that. That would be Goldar, Silvar, and their robot kid Gam from Space Giants! Kid Gleason will prolly come along and tell you the show was really called Ambassador Magma in Japan, but here we called it Space Giants! Yep, Speed Racer on Channel 44 for me too, and also another great early Japanimation treat, Prince Planet. As far as ONTV and the "special treat". . . I neber had the wherwithall to build the descrambler, so I spent a lot of late night time watching that image with the big jumpy line through it. 'Wait, wait, was that a half-boob or was it a bowling ball?!?'

QUOTE(Soxy @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 11:35 AM) Oh that too for me. I friggin love that show. I've only been able to admit it this season. But I maintain it's very cleverly written and delightfully noir, so I'm trying to move it from the guilty pleasure category to the just good tv category. But I hear you my friend. For TV showsm it's Buffy the Vampire Slayer for me. For the same reasons. An incredibly thin premise (the Slayer and here Scooby Gang fight the powers of darkness), but it was so cleverly written and so tongue-in-cheek in the best seasons. Huge fan. There, I said it.

QUOTE(Tony82087 @ Dec 14, 2006 -> 12:02 AM) "The Dealership" is on Fox right now. IMO the best Seinfeld episode. My father had a car salesman buddy. He was gonna fix him up real nice. Next thing I know, I’m gettin’ dropped of in a Le Car with a fabric sunroof. All the kids are shoutin’ at me, "Hey, Le George! Bonjour, Le George! Let’s stuff Le George in Le Locker!!