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QUOTE(DBAH0 @ May 29, 2005 -> 04:55 AM) What's a good song to describe your life at the moment? Waiting for my Wife to Come Back With the Donuts (So I can Get in the Shower and Run Out to the Store) Very contemporaneous...

What?!? Not even a crumb for the Roy ref...?!? I tell you I am sooooo slumin' when I come on here. Cretins...

QUOTE(soxhawks @ May 29, 2005 -> 05:10 PM) if you can tell me where Liechtenstein is located i will care I think this on is at MoMA... [/erudite]

QUOTE(Texsox @ May 29, 2005 -> 06:43 AM) Who needs a free press, the government will tell us what we need to know, when we need to know it. No danger of risking national security. The Soviets had that one right with TAAS, the national news organization. Their citizens where very well informed. And it was unbiased and accurate. Exactly what the government did, because it came from the government. What could be more accurate? Good to see you're finally getting with the program, Tex. (sanitized version only, all others not approved)

QUOTE(Yoda @ May 28, 2005 -> 03:40 PM) Yoda goes to the Dagobah System because there was nothing more in Coruscant. There in Dagobah he awaits the New Hope. I heard he got suckered into one of the biggest galactic swampland sales ever, and he was kind of stuck with the property.

Just slippin’ on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound

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QUOTE(Athomeboy_2000 @ May 27, 2005 -> 05:06 PM) Where do I sign up!!?? The plan is for male screeners to only screen male passengers and female screeners to screen female passengers. Still want to sign up?

Frank is only celebrating his 9th Annual 29th birthday today... Happy B-Day, Big Frank!

Thanks for the birthday well-wishes, all, they are appreciated. But I do feel I need to clear something up. Down in the birthday section of the main page, there is a number in the obscenely high 30s where my real age is supposed to be, and it may cause some confusion. For the record, this year I am celebrating my 10th Annual 29th Birthday. If I keep it up a few more years you'll all pass me by on the road to old age. Thanks again. Flaxx

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ May 27, 2005 -> 04:24 PM) Of course....there were numerous hints the whole time but that one really gave it away. Yes, subtle hints like his name being Palpatine... as in Emperor Palpatine!! j/k

QUOTE(YASNY @ May 27, 2005 -> 01:07 AM) I'm sorry I ever started this thread. I don't think you should be. Heroes - people who do things others think are courageous and often defy great odds in doing so - come in all stripes. I'd echo Steff's list of heroic occupations - firefighters, police officers, servicemen, etc. - if that was the question. But other than maybe isolating the 9-11 rescue forces, I wouldn't want to single out individuals as heroes over others - Pat Tillman over all of the other fallen US servicemen for example. As for the decidedly non-military hero lists some people might generate, well it's probably equally fair to say Ghandi doesn't make as many lists as he should either. And I realize your request was for American heroes, so this is not applicable here. But on reflection, a pox upon me for not including MLK on my list, so please consider him included as well.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ May 26, 2005 -> 11:48 PM) By the way, this was at the previously mentioned Fenwick, and of you ripping on us can bite me. Ach, it's the solemn duty the products of a Jebbie education to with any and all products of a mere Dominican education and treat them like the rabble they are... j/k. The earlier comment was mock outrage at someone mistaking the two fine Catholic education traditions, soch I'm sure you'll agree is a trava-sham-mockery if ever there was one. besides, we both know the true objects of our derision should be those chumps coming out of the Carmelite and Franciscan dumps.[/runs before Carmelite wrestler-brother sees post]

Happy B-day to a fellow Herbie fan.

QUOTE(Yossarian @ May 26, 2005 -> 03:22 PM) Django Reinhardt and Thelonious Monk are my musical heroes and I'm sure they both have many devotees here. Actually they do, if few and far between. Like Kid, I'm more into Charlie Christian than Django, more for the sheer pioneering aspects of what Charlie was playing and when. But the day an older friend turned me on to both Monk and Mingus was a major day of musical awakening for me. The pioneering jazz greats that made me realize how groundbreaking they were 80+ years ago are Satchmo and Sydney Bichet. Of all of those, only Satch would make my American heroes list. Also on that list would be: Lewis and Clark Lincoln Thomas Edison Chaplin (apologies to Keaton and Lloyd, Kid) Walt Disney (even if he was an asshole) Jesse Owens Armstrong/Aldrin/Collins Frank Zappa Marjorie Stonemann Douglas Stephen Hawking

QUOTE(EvilJester99 @ May 26, 2005 -> 01:50 PM) I went to Joliet Central and most of our sports teams sucked with the exception of our baseketball team...but damn you learned how to dodge bullets in that school.... Shut up, that's why!

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ May 26, 2005 -> 10:08 AM) ...that of the Fenwick variety? Screw Fenwick!! St. Ignatius!!!! I attended just after they went co-ed, and well before they had a football team.

QUOTE(mreye @ May 26, 2005 -> 08:19 AM) Again, you misunderstand and I've grown tired of trying to explain the difference between pointing out criticism and rooting for failure. Your criticism before was appropriate, and I rephrased my statements. Now, however, you just posted, "I'm not the only one that sees rooting against America by the left." How have I misunderstood the meaning of "rooting AGAINST America" which logically seems to mean rooting for America to fail?? Last night, I rooted AGAINST the Angels. By that I mean I wanted them to FAIL. I wasn't trying to point out any criticism, I just wanted them to lose. How else am I to interpret the allegation that the left is rooting against America?

QUOTE(mreye @ May 26, 2005 -> 07:41 AM) Jim, Apparently, I'm not the only one that sees rooting against America by the left. This is what I meant in the other thread. I realize you're not the first one to make such statements, but they're spurious statements regardless of who from the right is making them. They're borne of the same monochrome perception that begets the "love it or leave it" crap levelled at anybody critical of any aspect of America. Now, it's that anybody who calls screwing up screwing up is a Muslim extremist sympathizer cheering for America to fail. I learned last week at the movies that supposedly only the Sith saw the world in such absolute black and white terms. But that is not actually the case, is it?

QUOTE(mreye @ May 26, 2005 -> 07:16 AM) It's a big surprise that our troops abuse detainees? Is that what you mean? Sad that you assume the worst about them. No, that's not it, Eye. It was obvious that there was a story here, but because of the nature of anonymous sources, when one central to portions of the Newsweek story backed off on comments he/she had made it basically left Newsweek dangling in the breeze. Ragardless of the limited nature of the Newsweek retraction, everybody out to see them and all "liberal-biased" media (the new Bogfoot) discredited has conveniently broadly interpreted their backing off as proof positive there was no substance to the story content. In fact there have been these types of allegations since 2002, and regardless of statements that terrorist dtainees are 'trained to lie,' there is a lot of coroborating evidence in the FBI reports and elsewhere. Bashing the use of anonymous sources is such an easy attack strategy, but anonymous sources have been and always will be important media resources. Sources choose to remain anonymous for many reasons. I know I don't need to get into them - this is a smart audience that selectively chooses to be naive to how stories are broke when it suites them to do so. The clinging to the flimsiest strands of 'plausible deniability' and the attacking the of sources of troubling reports rather than trying to demonstrate any semblence of accountability and fix anything is simultaneously laughable and truly worrying. As I said earlier, the unintend backlash of all of this is that the next reports of military misdeeds, things not going according to plan on the war fronts, etc., are going to be supported by an avalanche of coroborating details so they are less easy to scoff off. And of course, this will also be seen as irresponsible journalism by those that think some of our actions, inactions, and missteps are best left unrevealed.

QUOTE(The Bones @ May 25, 2005 -> 11:49 PM) How soon until Hawk can fly with the team again? You mean without his eyeball exploding out of his head...? I have heard next road trip he should be good.

QUOTE(traydragen @ May 25, 2005 -> 11:45 PM) Wow i feel like an ass now. Showing your age, youngster?

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ May 25, 2005 -> 10:51 PM) If it were a conservative changing 'sides', he would be called a hero, courageous, a maverick or any other sort of names... Hey, if you guys want out that bad, then make the switch!

We published an underground end-of-year newspaper that was a parody of the school's normal student paper, except that this one was very racey and gossipy and vulgar and became an instant campus collector's item. We also let a sack full of live chickens loose in the library. That would not be particularly noteworthy except that this was a libraray on the 4th floor of a very old and prestigious Chicago Jesuit high school and the administration wwas not prepared for such a thing. The chickens managed to escape the library and infiltratrate at least two other floors before being aprehended. I was not party to the purchasing of the chickens, but I assume they were destined for a Maxwell street chicken stand before being libberated for a higer purpose. I do not know what became of the chickens after they were subdued by the Jesuits, but I assume they ended up as somebody's dinner in the end.

QUOTE(Mr. Showtime @ May 25, 2005 -> 08:55 PM) Now my mind has gone south. Why? That was a perfectly innocent statement. Some people... Now on the other hand, if she said she'd been canoeing around the finger lakes...