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QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 11:04 AM) Or because they were in on it. I'm trying very hard not to be quite that cynical.

"Rally Crede"

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 10:33 AM) My cat never really cared too much about the hamster or the fish we had. She was curious at first, but then moved on. I'm noticing a trend with these hamutaro names: Stinky Speedy Squirmy Mine growing up though were Flower and Flower II. I was original. My sisters was Rinky Dink. Rinky was a mean little bastard though. The hamsters of my childhood included the very unoriginally named Snowball and Teddy, and also the wryly named (so I thought) Augustus Gloop – he was the fat hamster that looked like he was going to get stuck in his Habitrail tube like the kid from Willy Wonka. I also had a turtle named Sal Manella and then in college I had two iguanas named Kid Charlemagne (cool points if you get the ref) and Mr. Primitive.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 03:53 AM) Give the guy credit. He was thinking of a lot of people other than just himself. Yep, that's pretty classy of him.

As long as the added Monday broadcast is non-exclusive it's fine with me. I hate it when Saturday Fox and Sunday ESPN exclusive rights deals kill everything elso on the Extra Innings package, only so I can get stuck with endless Yankees/Red Sox broadcasts.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 10:06 AM) Don't tell your kids that or you'll be paying for therapy for years. . . And I'm sorry about Stinky Queen, that really sucks. Pets are like family--except that they're always nice. It's always horrible when they go. Yeah, I guess that didn't come out right, did it? For the record, My Kids >>> My Kids' Hamster Although feeding and cleaning up after the kids

Well, I'm sure it will look sweet on my resume (), so Ich bin BandVangoner!

QUOTE(GasHeGone @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 09:57 AM) I have a question... I just figured out how to do an avatar thing, but how do you guys pull off those banners? I'd like to jump on the banner bandwagon too, if possible. The personal banners are 'signatures' and you set them in your settings where you found your avatar settings. You can't upload them directly from your computer though - you have to house them on any of trhe free image servers out there. ImageShack is a good one, and pretty straightforward.

Also sorry to hear about Stinky, QP. You don't know it, but your affection for hamsters actually made me get one for the kids after being out of the rodent pet thing for 25 years. We have a very friendly teddy bear named Squirmy who I admit I enjoy having around as much as the kids. The 5 Cat Army isn't sure why we brought them such a delicious looking morsel only to keep them away from it, but they are starting too realize that hamsters are friends not food. The cats have now moved on to staring endlessly at the tank in my daughter's room with her pet turtles in it.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 09:47 PM) Let's be honest here about news stations too. You know as well as I do that there is a bigger liberal media. The "Liberal Media" is a beast of mythology much like Bigfoot is. Conservative strategists have conceded as much (Apu or somebody else can probably help me with a reference link). But it is a very effective imaginary enemy for the conservative talking heads to rail against, a focal rallying point. Nothing plays better than having an identified big amorphous enemy like the War on Terror, the War on Drugs, or the War on the Liberal Media.

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 09:05 AM) Cancer sucks. If something hurts people.. go get it checked out. Don't f*** with life. You will lose. Yes it does. Such a non-discriminatory disease too, it really drives jome what a crap shoot life and death is sometimes. Two of my grandparents died from cancer, like millions of average folks. But when the second richest guy in the world (Sam Walton) can't save himself despite his wealth it tells you how far we still need to go with the research.

QUOTE(IndplsSoxFan @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 08:51 AM) Did Cora raise his hands to stop AJ or to get out of the way. I think he was getting out of the way. I don't think it was at all intentional by AJ, and he seemed to do the best he could to put very little weight on Boone's back while still not letting up on making home.

QUOTE(bighurt2719 @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 08:52 AM) i was taking a s*** during the commercial break and was in there a few minutes too long. i heard hawk and dj yelling about it and jumped up in celebration. fortunately, i didnt have the runs, it didnt get too messy. i am pissed at myself for not seeing it when it happened though. Some things are best not shared. . . I screamed so loud I woke one of the kids up – for the second time. Oops. My first scream was the shout of anguish when ARow botched the play in the 9th that led to extra innings.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 08:07 AM) Nah, I won't board windows. But, I wonder if I should tape them so that they don't bow quite so much with that kind of sustained wind. We shouldn't be that bad off. I don't think taping does much to stop the bowing, since the tape is more flexible than the windowpane. What taping will do is keep a broken window more or less intact through the storm. That's my understanding at least.

The missing money is bad, but the fact that it's left the Iraqi army completely under-equipped is by far the worse news. Sounds like an enormous amount of internal corruption that US military oversight either missed outright or turned a blind eye to for the sake of perceived expediency.

QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Sep 21, 2005 -> 12:17 AM) In all honesty, that is how I have viewed this from the beginning. In some situations, no amount of preparedness can assure orderly execution of the plan. Sometimes, situations are so big, that chaos naturally ensues. Spoken like a true Sox Fan in September. . .

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 02:53 PM) One of my favorite Texan phrases is eat what you kill. No gifts, no free lunches. That is what this season has come down to with all these games against the Tribe. That is a good Texas phrase. Right up there with, "Why yes, I'd be happy to be a member of your Cabinet, Mr. President."

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 11:46 PM) I was just thinking, in all this talk about readiness to respond, has anyone considered that some disasters are on a scale that we could never be ready for? Maybe we can't make every situation come out happy for everyone. Maybe there truly isn't anything we can do to stop every conceivable catastrophe from happening. *sigh* Makes you feel so, sort of, insignificant, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. . . Can we have your liver, then?

Belated Happy Happy! Glad the Sox could give you what you wished for tonight!

QUOTE(qwerty @ Sep 20, 2005 -> 11:50 PM) Will the sig also be added by everyone to put powers of rally crede in full effect? I think that might unleash supernatural forces beyond our control, but it's there for the taking. Share the Love. Share the Rally Crede!

The awesome power of Rally Crede is beyond comprehension.

JOE f***ING CREDE!!

Joe f***ing Crede!!

Uribe PK

Nice time to catch a break!