FlaSoxxJim

Does anybody know why Rove was kicked off of the Bush I campaign? Hint: drip... drip... drip...

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jul 9, 2005 -> 06:04 PM) I have it, I need to be meaner. But, I did get to Polka with an 80 year old at the Ukrainian fest! Top that! I. . . can't!

QUOTE(farmteam @ Jul 9, 2005 -> 05:36 PM) I bet it was a shear drop from the top. I heard they were on the lamb.

Sheep # 1: Hey guys! Look! I'm a lemming! I'm a lemming!! Sheep #s 2-450: Baaaa! Cool! Can we try?!?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jul 9, 2005 -> 07:57 AM) I'm afraid I'd have to tell somebody to kiss my ass. Insuring the safe evacuation of my family would come before anything else. Yep. It's a corporate decision made by someone a few hundred miles away, and he's a new manager so I guess he figured he didn't have much say in the matter. I also disagree with his decision, however.

QUOTE(Sonik22 @ Jul 8, 2005 -> 11:47 PM) Jim where are you in florida? Jw because my family has a house in Gulf shores alabama and it survived Ivan and we fixed up the place. If this next storm hits which it probably will we have said we will not rebuild if the house is destroyed. Good luck to you and lets hope this storm doesnt restrengthen. I'm on the east-central coast of Florida, so we will get next to none of the major impacts from Dennis - A few inches of rain and some gusting. I hope your family's place makes out OK and I'll be thinking about you. I have friends in Mobile that evacuated inland last night (probably up your way by now, Rex!) who are already tired of the season. My friend's husband couldn't go with them because work hasn't let him off - and he works in a friggin' Office Max! Yeah, somebody might need to go out in the middle of a Cat3/4 storm for some copy paper. He'll probably just hunker down in his parents block home, rather than trying to ride it out in their 100-year old wood-frame/siding house. Stay safe everybody.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jul 8, 2005 -> 06:42 PM) Best of luck to you out there. I assume you have a nice coleman camp stove to heat the water for your MREs? BTW, one of my favorite ways to rehydrate those meals is with a Reynolds ™ Turkey Bag. Put an inch or two of water in a pot. Put the meal and water in the turkey bag, mix well and add to pot. Boil as directed. Makes cleanup a snap. Nope, these new MREs are self-heating!! Add water to a bag with a mystery chemical powder in it and you get a massive exothermal reaction. Put all your food packs in the bag and put it all back in the box for a couple of minutes and you're eating in style! I finally figured out that NUKE just enlisted for the fine eats!

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 8, 2005 -> 12:10 PM) I can't really say I blame them. When you think about all of the other major olympic team sports, how many others run directly into the competitive season of that sport? Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, etc. - for all of them, if a guy wants to participate, he doesn't lose millions of dollars, so we still see guys like Ginobili getting out and competing in the olympics. In Baseball, it's the Cuban national team and a few others tossed in there, but the real big guns, the guys from the U.S. can't show up. I mean...if you really want to crown the best baseball team from any country in the world...how the Hell can you do it without guys like Ichiro, Pujols, Buehle, etc. facing each other. The umpcoming Baseball world cup also probably played into this as well. Which is exactly why the Olympic teams, at least as far as the USA is concerned, should still be amateur athletes. "Dream Teams" are bulls***. JMHO.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jul 8, 2005 -> 03:57 PM) I'm 15, have no job, car, or tickets. You really need to work on that pick-up line some more My name is George. I'm unemployed and I live with my parents.

QUOTE(That funky motion @ Jul 8, 2005 -> 04:31 PM) You can get off the board........YES! QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jul 8, 2005 -> 04:33 PM) That Funky Motion in the "Hawk is Boring" thread to some newbie: I Second That [Funky E]Motion!

British resolve to stand firm in the face of terror attacks on their soil clearly cannot be doubted. But the truth is that it has been a long time since the majority of British citizens supported the Iraq War or the British level of participation in it. There was just over 60% support at the start of the war, that went down to around 40% one year later, and down to less than that two years out. The Brits had already made plans to draw down troops over the next 9 months – from around 9,000 now to around 2,000. Politically, the London bombings might make that harder to do now, since now Blair has to be concerned about the draw down being interpreted as a reaction to the bombings, rather than the reflection of British popular will that it truly is.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 07:45 PM) The Douchebag of liberty also has thrown his name into the hat on this topic. :fyou :fyou :fyou Robert Novak He and Rove should share be sharing a cell some time soon if there was any justice.

QUOTE(FoxySoxGirl @ Jul 8, 2005 -> 02:17 PM) Adam Sandler- damn funny is all his comedy movies...but when he starts to get all serious and sentimental he needs to stop I thought he was quite good in Punch Drunk Love and even better in Spanglish. Of course, I spent most of the time during Spanglish hypnotized by Paz Vega, so maybe I didn't have my faculties about me enough to really critique Sandler's performance. Under-rated/less recognized (at least by the mainstream) but really gifted actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Gary Oldman Actors with talent that crashed and burned: Mickey Rourke (The Mike Tyson of actors?), Juliette Lewis (but I'm looking forward to seeing her in the Darwin Awards). V V V V V Greatest Actor of All Time V V V V V

Uh. . . thanks for painting that big bullseye on me Tex. (and note, I fixed the way I now do elipses. . . just for you :finger ) For the record (literally a record), there have never been four named Atlantic hurricanes formed this early in the season in recorded history, so the predictions by Dr. Gray and others of another very active season appear to be on the money. The real problem is that the conditions that made Florida such a likely target last year are still in place. The Bermuda pressure system that typically advects most Atlantic hurricanes into a trough offshore so they track northward and bother the Carolinas instead of us is very weak and is sitting inland rather than off the coast. That basically makes the Florida peninsula 'hurricane alley' again this year. Dennis shouldn't give us east-coasters too much grief, but well probably see a lot of rain and some breeze from it on Sunday. Mrs. Flaxx' mother is on the other coast though, so I suspect we'll be having a house guest this weekend. My office mate just left with his family Wednesday night for a two week vacation in the lower Keys. They pulled in aroung 2am yesterday, only to be turned around about 12 hours later in a mandatory evacuation of non-residents. My 5-year old son is not looking forward to the hurricanes because when we lose power for a couple weeks at a time he can't play his video and computer games. My 7-year old daughter can't wait for the next big one because, like her father, she developed an inexplicable fondness for the emergency MREs we lived off of in the wake of Francis and Jeanne last year. Optimist that I am, I predicted we'd only see two named storms come our way this year.

Amazing to think there is a very real chance the Sox can have the division wrapped up before the end of August.

Crud. . . sorry Heads - I took a shot. Mea culpa.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 10:04 PM) Well for him to come from such a moralist family and himself promote such a moralist agenda, then yes I would say that it is a bit hypocritical. Silly you, you can get away with all kinds of youthful depravity as long as you don't forget to get yourself all born again so you can lord your newfound moral superiority over the rest of us who somehow managed to never hit rock bottom in the first place.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 04:45 PM) LMAO. I just saw this going down a road that it didn't need to. Flaxx, I know you're a beer man, but what are your feelings on Black Velvet and Grand Marnier? Made my voyage into that realm of liquors over my birthday. I think Grand Marnier is a great liquour that is rteally versitile in mixed drinks. A margarity made with Marnier (or Cointreau) instead of triple sec is a nice change of pace, and it makes a good Tom Collins as well. To me, Black Velvet is 1/2 Guinness and 1/2 champaigne.. I'm not familiar with teh liquour by that name, but the Guinness/champaigne drink is outstanding. We served them at our wedding.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 04:36 PM) I'm Mr. SuperLiberal, but we can have a thread here without shots. Save that stuff for other threads. Shots? Shots?!? Nobody told me this was a drinking game!

If I could afford the $$ I would. I instead put that commie pinko money into my annual NPR pledge, so it all works out I guess.

QUOTE(Credepopsup @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 02:25 PM) I'm fine, thanks DePloderer. It's been a surreal day hasn't it?? I don't know whether to be angry or sad. Personally, I wasn't anywhere near any of the trouble - I'm from, and have been in South London all day. I've spent the day checking that relatives are OK (They are thankfully) and watching the news, I just hadn't got around to posting anything yet. The Prayers and well wishes of Soxtalk posters towards the UK, are very much appreciated though. Very happy to hear you and your loved ones are safe. Hearts and thoughts are with all Londoners today.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 02:31 PM) I tried to fix it - hopefully I didn't screw anything up. Nope, that did it. Nice Webmonkeying.

To you both!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 11:20 AM) To me an event like this only emboldens me. I will NOT change my daily life in order to appease a terrorist. That is exactly what I did after 9-11, and it is exactly what I will do when (not if) something happens here. You mean you won't change the things that are in your control. So much of our normal routine was changed in the wake of 9/11 that was out of our control but certainly affected us all.