FlaSoxxJim

QUOTE(Soxy @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:16 AM) Mustnotmakejokemustnotmakejoke. . .

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:09 AM) I'm late, but real Texas chili doesn't have beans or frijoles, or frijoles rojas. at Tex's joke. OK, now that some Texas folk have chimed in (sorry I forgot TRU was Lone Star as also). first, thanks for corroborating my no beans stance on Texas chili. Now, what woudl a Tex-Mex taco be, if there even is such a thing? My kid now wants to bring tacos instead of chili, and our telling her that they are an example of Mexican food and not Texas food is falling on deaf eight-year-old ears. So, apparently we now have to make Tex-Mex tacos.

QUOTE(vandy125 @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 11:07 AM) Do most people see this difference? A valid question, and I'd hope the answer is yes.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 10:31 AM) No liberal media bias there. Rolling Stone is of course going to lean decidedly to the left in what it runs politically. And historians tend to be more left-leaning on average than the common man, the piece states as much. But it's not a news story written by a news media outlet. It's an essay penned by an academic scholar and written for a general readership.

I'm the Decider, Koo-koo-ka-choo!

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 09:00 AM) Ah, ok. I don't screw around too much in the south, are they in Florida? Yes they are, and it's a grand thing. Pork chops and hash browns "All The Way" -- with chopped onions, cheese and couple of over-easy eggs on top = artery-clogging heaven.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 09:11 AM) Of course he's the worst president today, if only because he IS the president today. And that's pretty much where these articles fall short. People have very short attention spans and memories. Wait, wait, what RS cover is this? Historians are the exception to the rule about people having very short attention spans and memories. The article does a really good job of pointing out how careful historians are by nature in weighing their answers with the proper context and perspective. Certainly in time we will come to understand more about this presedency and its repercussions, and I think the author of the RS oiece would be the first to agree with that statement.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 19, 2006 -> 07:45 PM) Asking for pinto beans in Chili=Asking for ketchup on a hot dog in Chicago Not pintos, frijoles rojos (red beans).

I hope I don't get shot fer even asking that question, as I believe 90% of Texans would say beans don't belong in chili. I have to make an authentic (if a litle mild) Texas chili with my daughter for a school project, and she and her mother both refuse to accept that the authenticity of the recipe will be compromised bby the inclusion of frijoles. So, what say yoou? Beans or no beans??

Hot Now Krispy Kremes are insanely great. I could eat a dozen in one sitting, and have to force myself not to when I get them.

I'm loving me some 2006 White Sox baseball!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 19, 2006 -> 12:54 PM) window dressing, doesn't really change much. Kind of like rearranging the deck furniture on the Titanic?

Time to find somebody new to shill for the president.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 17, 2006 -> 08:54 PM) This area is plaqued by decades of unrestricted pesticide and fertilzer usage which has made the Rio Grande and Arroyo Colorado two of the most polluted rivers in America. What, Me Worry?

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 10:18 PM) I wrote that wrong, this is probably the correct forum, I'm just thinking there can't be any controversy here. I wouldn't think so either. Really sick, ignorant group of whackos who don't deserve anybody's respect.

QUOTE(Felix @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 11:42 AM) Someone should get Mark to sign a slip 'n slide Ya know, I bet Wham-O would sell a bunch of Slip 'N Slides to Sox fans if somebody in their marketing department decided to release a Mark Buerhrle Edition.

Whales don't have gills :banghead That is a piece of beleen - the straining apparatus of the mysticete (non-toothed) whales. Other than that, WOW! What a trip, I'm very jealous. Many thanks for sharing.

QUOTE(klaus kinski @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:44 PM) Farmer is not the problem-he's saddled with a guy that cant get words out-Farmer spends lots of time trying to get Singleton involved in broadcast just to get comments like "we talked about that before" I feel bad for Ed-he is trying. Singleton is terrible to the infinate power I agree to a point that Ed is often fishing to try to engage Singlton. But he's also intentionally pushing his buttons on things all the time, and you can sense Chris just seething about it. Sure, that's the gruff sourpus persona Farmer has cultivated for himself, but I don't think it's rubbing Chris the right way.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 03:11 PM) If I'm not mistaken, wasn't Scientology created after Harlan Ellison (or Bradbury, somebody else of great respect in the Science Fiction field) dared Hubbard to try and write his own religion, and while doing so he decided he really liked what he was coming up with? You betcha. The only ex-first-hand account I've seen, from communication between somebody and writer Joe Haldeman (author of The Forever War and other sci-fi mainstays), doesn't identify the writer who actually made the challenge. But it does ut say he and Hubbard ended up making the wager. http://www.skepticfiles.org/skeptic/scient4d.htm

Couple of ugly innings, but I'll take it!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 12:28 PM) Linkage Here Apple Computers is anti-Beatle? Say it ain't so Jim. Ah, there is some classic Apple history behind that, predating the 1991 legal agreement between the companies by several years. Back in the early 80s before the mac was launched, Apple Computers and Apple Records reached an agreement in which Apple Records said Jobs could use the name and logo as long as they never got into the audio entertainment business. When the mac came out it had a speaker in it to play system alert sounds, and there was a concern that Apple Computers was in effect now entering the audio entertainment world. Jobs response to this, completely in character for him, was to do as he wanted and to even include a system alert called "sosumi" (So Sue Me) to mark the occassion. It was mostly harmless between the companies until the beginning of the digital music revolution, when Apple was obviously very much part of the audio entertainment world.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 12:22 PM) I officially blame this inning on you for using that symbol. And not the GoSox one, the one I removed. The run scored before the taboo brooms showed up, but I agree now we have a scapegoat if they cough this one up today.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 09:29 AM) The strongest bond between parent and child is solidified right after birth. I guess they can just forget that s***. And isn't that exactly the point here? I mean, if this cult recruits and retains members by cutting them off from family ties, then it makes that lifelong brainwashing job that much easier, right? Down the road Katie Holmes might wake up one day and come to her senses and bolt Tom and the cult, but without those tight mother-child bonds maybe she can't get the kid to come along.

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