FlaSoxxJim

I like Coke a lot more than Pepsi, but curiously like Diet Pepsi much more than Diet Coke. I feel better now for having confided in someone about that.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 08:31 AM) Imagine my surprise when 3:45 this morning a girl I've only met once before was standing beside my loft pulling off the covers....... Did you go back to sleep after you told her she was in the wrong room?

QUOTE(winodj @ Sep 10, 2005 -> 07:11 AM) That was my favorite song from Outlandos d'Amour. Back when Sting HAD a sense of humor. Yeah, his jazz-rock tantric ass is sort of drab and humorless. That first Police LP is still my favorite.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 02:40 PM) My suicide note would read: "EEEBIDDY EEEBIDDY EEEBIDDY, THAT'S ALLLLLLL, FOLKS!!!!" and then I'd write BANG on a flag sticking out of a gun. I would be the coolest suicider ever. Fun Fact: Mel Blanc's grave marker at the Hollywood Cemetary really has this inscription.

What?!? No Police fans on this entire board?

QUOTE(winodj @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 10:40 PM) But the names stop at W. Well, I still don't think we're getting through them, but we could get close.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 08:26 PM) Flaxx....think we'll hit the Greek alphabet this hurricane season? No, but we're going to crtainly get down toward the neighbothood of xyz.

We all talk through our noses, it sounds very nasal to non-Chicagoans. I've been away 15 years and I can still be pegged as a Chicagoan.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 06:49 PM) From the Wall Street Journal: I know the environmental disasters in the making are going to be tragic, but getting details on criminal environmental abuses (which are going to be rampant) is going to be very depressing.

My suicide note would say: Don't rest until you've found the people who did this. Avenge my death!! And I'd try to shoot myself at some really wierd angle just to keep everybody busy for a while. So whose getting to hell on the express line?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 02:46 PM) I would write in huge letters. He Gone

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 02:05 PM) I would never have thought it, but epigenetics is absolutely fascinating. Truly awesome. How the heck is hereditary information not coded for in parental DNA passed on to offspring??? An intriguing question indeed.

That's one asshole not afreaid to speak his mind at least, while I'm sure there are countless others quietly thinking the same thing. Katrina: your one-step urban sanitizer. Apologies for the snarkiness, but I want to see just how much low-end housing actually gets replaced before I put away the cynicism entirely.

Yeah, Jeanne did a loop out at sea and looked rather inconsequential before she changed her mind and doubled back for us. There was one a few years ago (can't remember the name) that cossed the peninsula once, went up through the eastern Gulf states, turned east and broke almost completely up before exiting up in coastal Georga or the Carolinas, reforming and cominng back to make another Florida landfall. Not a very high strength storm (or I'd remember the name), but it was an odd one.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 12:01 PM) I think it is only two members from ABBA. You expect me to believe that? I wasn't Bjorn yesterday, you know. btw, isn't one of those 'B's supposed to be backwards?

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 11:26 AM) ...what's an "ab routine"??? ...what's an "ab"???

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 11:33 AM) Don't look now, but there are 2 storms brewing. One is over Florida, the other one still has slim chance of hitting the N.O. region. Ophelia has been sitting just offshore from us for 3 days, and we've been getting some outfall and some breeze but little more. It continues to amaze me how different each hurricane is. Unlike most Atlantic cyclonal systems that start way over near western Africa, the tropical wave that became Ophelia coalesced from a bunch of sloppy weather just a couple hundred miles off of the Florida coast. It was very unorganized until it got spun up by a separate weather system southwest of it. And now it's just kind of sitting for days at a time, contemplating a northward crawl and probably a bit back out to sea at a speed of about 3-6 mph. Sustained winds got one mile over the threshold (74 mph) to make briefly hurricane status last night, before again downgrading to a TS. Few of the 6 major models are in agreement over what this storm is going to do. It will probably go out to sea for a while, but could strengthen, turn around and meander back into north Florida, Georgia, or the Carolinas some time next week.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 10:38 AM) I've never used corn tortillas due to being told that they fall apart too easy and that the flour are the way to go. So you're telling me I've been mislead??? Yessir, you have been duped by The Man, er..., El Hombre.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 10:04 AM) From the stupid taking of Noah's rejection of his son Ham (although, hmmmm, maybe that's why Jews can't eat pork. . .) *Rimshot!* Thanks, thanks so much, you're too kind. I'm here through Thursday at the beutiful Stoned Blasphemer's Resort Club. Be sure to tip your winebearers. And don't forget to try the manna. . .

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 09:56 AM) Thanks Soxy Thanks a lot Heathen Jim de nada

QUOTE(Punch and Judy Garland @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 09:19 AM) Try these for rules when you are drinking with your buddies: If one player fails to put any of his four bags on or in, he must do a thirty second ab routine. If both players put all four of their bags on or in then a community drink is in order (half-beer). If oen player puts three in the hole-the opposing team must shotgun beers. Just some stuff that has spiced up the local games. We haven't done the ab routine at a beer garden but I'm sure it would be embarrassing enough to curb people missing. You never take a throw off with these rules. You know, I think those rules are intended solely to increase levels of intoxication. I'm Shocked, SHOCKED I say!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 09:22 AM) You take that and compound it with Mayor Nagin's "If you don't leave, you are on your own" plan of evacuation, and you have step one in the staircase of a collosal failure of government. Step two I'd say (and yes, I'm long past defending Nagin on most fronts). Step one was the confluence of bad economic descisions that allowed the woefully inadequate levee system to persist. And as all this unfolds, I am certainly seeing the regional and local inputs to this failure as well. Yes, the feds shut off the needed funds. But some of that was reaction to what they saw as pork spending on ill-conceived or poorly executed works projects by the Army Corps and by contractors selected at the local level. Pork sucks. Sign the bills to fund that NEEDS funding, and get your f***ing fingers out of every single money pie that comes down the pike.

I greatly prefer corn tortillas to flour tortillas. Moreover, I've known this about myself for some time, but never told anybody before now.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 9, 2005 -> 09:03 AM) One thing I would like to interject here for some historical reference, many of the arguements that were made against interracial marriage had biblical references that were used to justify them. I believe the main verse used had something to do with marrying people who shared your beliefs? Can someone help me out here? Yes, I believe the biblical reference was something like, "LouAnnne, if you run off an' marry that no-good black boy I'll hit you so hard with this here Bible you won't be able to sit for a year!!"