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QUOTE(spiderman @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 10:11 PM) I can appreciate what you're saying - I do know that we've had a great season up until right about the all-star break, but we're now 17-18 in our last 35 games. When does this become a trend ? With a 35 game sample size, I'd say officially it is now a trend, and threatening to become a way of life. We're currently the .500 club everyone predicted we'd be at the start of the season. I don't much care for it. Dammit!

QUOTE(ScottPodRulez22 @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 10:40 PM) http://www.worldjumpday.org/ Whatta scam Might as well JUMP!

The past few years I have been, thankfully, nicknameless. But this thread got me thinking back and I guess I have had a couple that lasted a little while. Growing up, my at-home nicknames were 'Kimo' and 'Diego', Hawaiian and Spanish equivalents of my first name (which I won't reveal for security reasons ). For a while I was also 'Pablo' in a circle of friends, not because I have Paul anywhere in my name but because these were very dumb friends. They knew enough that my brother Joe would be 'Jose' in Spanish, but that was the extent of their Spanish and so I became Pablo. Growing up, my best friend's older brother and his circle of jerk friends called me 'Bert' for several years. I didn't understand why for a long time until I realized they were making fun of the fact that I had busshy eyebrows and kind of a unibrow like Bert from Seseme Street. Thanks, guys. Through high school I worked as a vender selling hotdogs and sodas and stuff at Lincoln Park Zoo, Buckingham Fountain, Oak St. Beach, Bears games, etc. Equipment was always broken in those vendor stands and so I was always fixing things with duct tape and wire and cable ties and ring clamps etc., so I got the nickname 'McGuyver.' Then in college I again got the nickname 'McGuyver' for wholly unrelated reasons. It turns out I was that guy everybody knows who could turn any object into, uhm..., recreational smoking paraphenalia. I also got saddled with the unfortunate nickname 'Dummy' for one year in college, because of a loss in a high stakes game of Trivial Pursuit in which I attempted to take on (unsuccessfully, just barely) my four suite mates. Thinking back, I also had a series of mostly stupid pet names given to me by various girlfriends. I was 'Saemus' to my first high school girlfriend, Irish for my first name (which is, again, a well-kept secret). I was also 'Mon Petit Champignon' to her for a while, which she told me was French for 'my little mushroom' I was called 'Fluffy' or 'Scruffy' by a girlfriend in college, depending on her mood. My wife, being fairly unoriginal, calls me 'Shmoopie,' ala' the Seinfeld episode.

My professional opinion: really f***ing bad idea.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 01:30 PM) Good thing he didn't say "pick two", or you'd have gotten poked in the eyes! Nyuk nyuk nyuk...

I think Asteroids is sweet. And Ms. Pac Man. [/heads back to the old folks' home]

QUOTE(mreye @ Aug 17, 2005 -> 11:11 AM) No, the whole country did not stand behind Roosevelt. He had to secretly send aid to Europe for years. The public did not favor going to war until Pearl Harbor. True, but I concur with the point Kid is making and think it's central to the Sheehan situation. I agree 100% with CubKilla (it was bound to happen eventually) that peacetime military recruits and reservists looking toward the GI Bill and other benefits after their tours were up did lose sight of the reality that wars do still break out and they may be sent into battle. What is being lost in much of the Sheehan story is that it is the question of the validity of the official justifications for going to war that is at the heart of the protest. Cindy Sheehan certainly understands the risks of combat, and certainly her son did. Her contention is not that she didn't understand that her son might be killed if he went into combat. Her contention is that the publicly stated justifications for going to war were overstated at best if not outright fallacious, ie, with intent to deceive or mislead the American people. If you sign up for military service, you are expected to obey the Commander In Chief. That's the bottom line, sure. But you also expect that when the Commander In Chief says he'll only put you in harm's way as a last resort he actually means what he says. If Cindy Sheehan's son were killed just four days into the Afghanistan invasion after 9/11, I guarantee she would not be staging this protest. We had clear enemies in OBL, El Quaida (sp?), and the Taliban regime that protected them, and we clearly had the right to retaliate for the attacks against us. We knew why we were at war. In contrast, our actions in Iraq have to be sold to us as a bundle – as part of the GWoT and national security – and troops are sent based on half-truths and unthruths.

I swear this couldn't have been better if it was made up by The Onion.

Holy crap.

Happy Birthday NUKE!

I thought i was going to get to sleep early tonight.

Damn. Not tonight.

QUOTE(SnB @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 11:35 PM) Carl's going yard right here. ok, i'm just saying that because he's my PTC Mine too. Come on with another long ball Carl!

Damn, I hope they can wing this game for Jenks. Hell of a relief stint.

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 08:46 PM) he originally said Book 4. He didn't give a number in his original post. he just said '***** kills *****' in the end. Since the word on the new book for the last year has sbeen that a major character dies, it's not difficult to figure out he was talking about Half-Blood Prince.

QUOTE(UofIChiSox @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 05:07 PM) I've read before that the whole cell phone crossing up airplane equipment is just a myth. Can you imagine if you were on a flight and people could use their cell phones at will? it'd be so loud and annoying that I'd probably have to jump. Anyway, it turns out the "Goodbye Cousin" text message sent from the plane thing was a hoax.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 04:27 PM) Ok techie people. HELP! How do you get a page on google, FAST? And on the front page, better yet? I need http://www.stormice.com to the top of google, when you type in the words storm ice hockey or storm ice academy You need to have your site listed with Google (submit the URL on a form on their site), have relevant and subject-incliusive metadata, and it helps to have a bunch of other rated sites link to yours because that is taken into account in Googles ranking algorithms.

Happy Happy Palehose!

QUOTE(mreye @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 03:21 PM) I love the term, "Advocates for the poor." That cracks me up everytime I read it. I prefer "employment challenged" myself.

I can understand the sentiment. At the same time I think the no panhandling laws can really screw up the vibe of a city if they get carried away. When they started making the street musicians all wear badges and work assigned corners in downtown chicago in the 80s it was odd but I got used to it. But in places down here like St. Augustine, they have gone draconian and have outright banned street performers. St. Augustine is a really neat old city (the oldest in America actually), and the street musicians along the major walking boulevard added a huge amount of character. Now they're just trying to sterilize the place and the cultural feel of the town has suffered for it.

QUOTE(SleepyWhiteSox @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 03:02 PM) It wasn't a competition, but I'm compelled to say that you won. if he throws a Jo from Facts of Life in there I think that would seal the deal.

This might actually be helpful. It tells you how to distinguish calf muscle strains and tears from tendon injuries: http://www.medic8.com/healthguide/articles...scleinjury.html

QUOTE(juddling @ Aug 16, 2005 -> 01:33 PM) From what little i heard....they didn't exactly want or welcome her into the production. i think she pulled rank and put herself in charge and gee...it sucked. Big surprise to anyone named Yoko i guess. That would make sense. She probably tied licensing agreement of the songs to her involvement in the production. And for the record, all of you that think Yoko is just awful... you should know that I have it a lot worse because I own (and have been permanently damaged by) a copy of the Two Virgins LP. That's the one that did come in a brown paper wrapper, but unfortunately did NOT come with a big letters that read, "Warning, Naked Yoko Ono Pictures Inside!"

Well, it's easier than banning poverty and homelessness.

OK, I thought of one. Maura Tierney, the lethally cute woman who plays Abby on ER.