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QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 02:34 PM) aH, ha, ha, ha... Have you seen the movie? Trust me, once the carnage starts, that film deserved a PG. It only got a G due to Disney and their pull. Any other studio would have been slapped with a PG, no if's and's or butt's about it. I don't agree. I did see the movie, in Disney 3-D on the opening weekend. I'm a nerd that way. But I took my kids at least. They are 6 and 7 so no worries about age appropriate content for me with this one, but i do worry about it all the time. My kids are huge Star Wars nuts, but I won't let them see Ep III until they are older. They tell me about how many of their friends have seen it and whatnot, but there is a movie that deserves the PG-13 rating. Incredibles got a PG rating and it was much deserved. We took the kids, but had the 'only a movie' talk with them beforehand. the difference between incredibles and Chicken Little was that Chicken Little did not have gratuitouus or graphic violence, and the characters were anthropomorphized animals and not humans. The difference is important, as i will let my kids watch Wyle E. Cyote fall off a cliff but I won't let them watch something with the same fate befalling a person. Chicken little got loud, intense, and boisterous – possibly too much so for a 2-yr old. But it fell short of needing a PG rating.

QUOTE(knightni @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:40 PM) No offense, but Fenway's a bit of a dump as well. ^^^ And those Fenway Franks even make Wrigley food look good by comparison.

Wow, CC. That's a heck of a production. Well done.

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:54 PM) Nuke is a liberal? Yep. Dick "f*** Off!" Cheney too.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:45 PM) Chicken Little scared the s*** out of my 2+ year old son. f*** Disney for releasing that damn film as a "G", masking it as a happy, cutesy, silly little romp, and then turning it into an all out Horror film complete with razor sharp implemented robots seemingly killing all of the towns inhabitants. If you plan to take your littlest ones to this film, be warned that it turns REAL ugly an hour into it. Yes, it clears it up, but a little kid will not know the difference. Is the G7 rating available to the motion picture industry the way it is for video games and TV shows. If so, I agree it should be G7. If not, they probably had no chice than to go G, since it clearly didn't warrant a PG-13. Oh, yeah, sorry about your kid being scarred for life. But with you as Dad, that was probably inevitable.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:45 PM) All we need now is a show tunes sing-a-long to the soundtrack of West Side Story.... when you're an ESPN board alumni...you're an ESPN board alumni to the end. From your first posting flame...to you last banning day! Very good.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:43 PM) What is moral is what promotes kindness, discipline, honor & loyalty in the world. So homosexuality is thankfully finally off the hook, as it does nothing to injure any of those societal attributes.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:41 PM) If science has anything to say about it that will become an even greater fact in the years to come. That seems an odd statement. Is there some new eugenics program or supersectret sex reorientation facility being constructed with NSF money I don't know about?

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:39 PM) Jim, I wouldn't tangle with anyone that looks like Jimmy Smits and are willing to spar anyone in soxdom.. I'm sure that's some inside ESPN board reference between you old farts, eh?

QUOTE(mreye @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:33 PM) Is there a lesson here? I'd say this is the bigger lesson.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:26 PM) But to this day I still don't understand the connection! What if you are straight & happen to like some of her movies & her albums? Then maybe it's time to stop living in denial? IKBIC®

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:21 PM) Rock has a long history of being OUT THERE in political though & consciousness. Are you too young to remember Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Dio, Scorpions, U2, Led Zeppelin, the Who, Styx, YES, Rush, REO, Aerosmith, G&R, Motley Crue, etc, etc, etc. Agreed, Rock and controversy have been joind at the (swiveling) hips since the beginning. But YES? I don't think John Anderson ever wrote a coherent lyric (not a knock). What was socially or politically incendiary in their catalog? Now, I agree that putting out a double album that four song that were each an LP-side long was not a way to get radio airplay. But I never thought any of their music had much of a sociopolitical message.

I was engaged twice. Do you want to hear about the one that didn't take or the one that did?

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 12:54 PM) Yes.. going to hell Let's all catch up at the tailgate beforehand.

QUOTE(Goldmember @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 01:03 PM) razorblade trumps ants. dali says so... I think that may be more Luis Buñuel than Dalí. Look at Dalí's art. Ants everywhere.

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 12:58 PM) Her initial post.. You say you didn’t know Ms Julie is a lesbian and gay icon? Then clearly you’ve breached the ghey-only perimeter fence on false pretenses. But speaking from the distaff side, I can swear she is. And it’s a little bit more than a Bea Arthur kind of thing, if you catch my drift, girlfriends. So my hat’s off to you, Mr. Mayor. My interpretation (admittedly as one who didn't make the team call-up) was that Mercy was merely stating that from the female (= distaff) viewpoint in the gay community, Julie Andrews is near God-like, while poor Bea is, well... not. Sorry, Rex.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 12:55 PM) I can understand Icon. But Andrews was clearly portrayed as a lesbian, and I just think that is something that certainly can not be proven. Where?? Reread the first post again. Yes, the post starting the thread I helped to hijack. Julie = Not Gay Julie = Gay Icon

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 12:48 PM) Icon.. I have no clue.. playing for the team is the question..?? Not originally. Mercy's initial post only put Julie in the icon category, and not in the team clubhouse. Which is the same designation I would have given. But I'm not on the team, despite owning the anniversary TOSM set. I own Bette Midler albums as well. . .

Ants and eyeballs. Un Chien Andalou anybody? [/obscure ref]

QUOTE(Steff @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 12:38 PM) There is clear indication she is on the team.. from the OP anyway. I guess I'm not up on the newest roster additions. But if so, then GO TEAM! Julie Andrews is a good one.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 12:26 PM) Blake Edwards is a cover? Didnt know that. You don't have to be on the team to be an icon of the team. See Babs, Liz Taylor, Sox4LifeinPa, and The Divine Miss M as examples.

Then of course, there is this, also from Urban Dictionary: An excuse for using the term "Gay" in a negative way, without seeming to be offensive. However, changing the spelling of the word doesn't change how offensive it can still be to homosexuals. Person1: That's ghey! Person2: Dude, don't use that word. Person1: But I'm spelling it g-h-e-y. Person2: Dude, that doesn't matter, it's still offensive. Person1: Well, that's ghey! Person2 thwacks Person1

Urban Dictionary says it best: ghey: Usurping the traditional term GAY to take the homosexual meaning out and leaving in the lame. That's so gay it's G-H-E-Y!

QUOTE(3E8 @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 11:58 AM) What is the acceptable amount to tip food delivery drivers? (Less than $10 order). $1-2 is fine. Or throw him a J

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Nov 16, 2005 -> 11:44 AM) Whhaaaaaaa? I remember very clearly a big stink being raised about this then. We knew who was at the meetings - but where I'm confused is where everyone denied it now? Who did that? No, we really didn't know who the players were, or who was involved in the shaping of the US energy policy. And Cheney never made that information or the substance of the Energy Task Force available and refused to turn over documents regarding the matter. A lot of what we know about Ken Lay's involvement only became known as the Enron debacle and ensuing investigations unfolded. More than 25 "Bush Pioneers" ($100K+ donors) before the 2000 election came from the Energy and Natural Resource sector. Knowing that the public would of course demand transparency as to exactly how much a US energy policy coddled these major donors and their industries, the White House should have been very upfront about who was influencing policy and then be able to justify it. I agree with Tex that of cource Big Energy needs to be at the table when drafting US energy policy. It is what may have transpired under the table that has always been the issue.