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QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 09:52 PM) P.S. to whomever used jingoistic first in this thread, thanks. I had to look it up in the dictionary but it fits very well for some on this board.

Yeah, fun thread Aboz... Fact: A White Sox starting pitcher will win 20 games this season - and it will be Freddie, with MB at 16-18, and Garland turning a courner this year and getting 16. Fact: Willie Harris will be on the White Sox opening day roster. Fact: Orlando "El Duque" Hernandez will toss more than 140 innings this season - but not a whole lot more than that. Fiction: Takatsu will record more than 30 saves this season - no, but maybe 25, with Marte and Hermanson each getting 10+ as well. Fiction Podsednik won't top his career high in either category. Fiction: Sadly, mid-May for Frank's return, and if Carl's getting it done he'll come back slow. Fact: Carl will be a difference maker this year Fiction: Garland and Contreras will both get at least one CG each, but no SO. Fact: The White Sox will win ALCS in 2005 - it's Spring Training and hope springs eternal... but screw it, the Twins are going down this year!

QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 08:33 PM) HELL BENT FOR LEATHER, BECAUSE I'M GAY! I love Judas Priest, they provide me with mountains of lame jokes I can use to make myself look like a moron. Don't personal attack yourself, Bud!

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 08:26 PM) :finger (Oh, wait, that might be construed as a "personal attack.") I'm done. I'm not on the clock around here at any rate, I just figured what the hell, I'd try to stop the s***storm before it started. No good deed... :banghead

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 08:01 PM) Trying to call me out for making reference to someone's avatar is a real stretch - and, may I add, a seemingly partisan one. It's OK for someone to call another "ignorant," but the other party can't respond by making a benign reference to the other's avatar? That's a bunch of BS. FWIW, I'm not interested in making personal attacks. But I'm not going to allow another to talk down to me, either. The appearance of partisanship is merely that - an appearance. And Cerb has not held the monopoly on talking down to fellow boardsters in this thread. Looking back, Cerb suggested that your insinuating that he thought ignoring Muslim extremists was an ignorant statement. There is a difference between that and a personal attack. On the other hand, Cerb, let's not escalate, eh?

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 07:58 PM) Fair enough. Those guilty of embezellment, mail fraud, perjury etc....etc... should also be disallowed. A felon is a felon no matter if they are violent or not and white collar felons tend to harm more people with their crimes than do violent ones. I just wanted to make sure both stripes were represented.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 07:54 PM) I'm not shedding any tears for Cerbaho. He has a bad habit of talking down to people who dare disagree with him. I'm not shedding any tears either, or rushing to the defense of someone who can't do it just fine for themself. I'm just trying to uphold and remind of a board policy against pesonal attacks. It hasn't been univerasally enforced, but hopefully that is changing. Now, back to the

QUOTE(TheBigHurt35 @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 07:52 PM) I didn't realize that the term "Mullet Boy" is regarded as a personal attack (check out his avatar), especially after being called "ignorant" several times. Let's have a "fair and balanced" analysis, shall we? I said I hadn't gone back over the thread, but what I recalled was that Cerb's attacks merely suggested a component of ignorance on the part of the opposing voices, without direct name calling. On top of Nuke's 'moron' your comment seemed to be piling on - I'd have left it be on it's own (and yes, I realize it was inspired by his avatar).

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 07:44 PM) Nobody forces people to rob banks or rape women, kidnap children, commit assault, steal cars or kill people and nobody takes people's right to vote away unless they do something like the aforementioned to deserve it. Stop crying and whining about the "rights" of those who damage society with their actions. And, interestingly, not a single white-collar crime in that list. Any reason why not?

Nuke and Hurt, Cerb - like others here - has posted in disagreement with you. I haven't gone back over this thread with a fine-toothed comb, but I didn't see him calling you "Moron", "Mullet Head" or other equivalent. Nuke, He pointed out that your arguments do tend towad the jingoistic at times, but I didn't see any name calling. If I missed it, my apologies, but I'd expect you to refrain from the attacks at any rate.

QUOTE(CubKilla @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 05:56 PM) I'm willing to bet that his skiing is what started the avalanche in the first place. That may be. There are a dozen or so foot trekkers that are killed in avalanches every year, often experienced people who are usually aware of the conditions but are lost any way. I don't put these people in even the same ballpark as the extreme rock climbers and base jumpers etc., that are just a funeral waiting to happen.

QUOTE(CubKilla @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 05:25 PM) Good. f***ing moron. Anytime one of these "extreme" athletes goes out and does something stupid and gets hurt or killed, they ought to just leave them wherever they go down to rot. These morons usually risk others lives just by doing the dumbs*** that they feel is necessary for them to do. Jerkoff. That's a bit harsh. Honestly, it's not like this guy was as stupid as some of the extreme advebture types. The guy was killed in an avalanche. He didn't ski off a mountain, he fell 30 feet from a cliff edge and had the misfortune of being under a slab of snow that broke loose. Granted, that's the inherent danger of skiing or trekking in that environment, but most of the extreme sport fatalities are guys way more idiotic than this guy.

This is good... otherwise the seats would look like this afterward... Hey, maybe if there are no tables available at the Brown Derby, you can find something at the Brown Asterisk?

New Smiley Time?

Not quite yet. The FDA Advisory panel has said the benefits outweigh the risks and the drugs SHOULD stay on the market, but the FDA hasn't made ruling yet. That said, they will most likely follow the Panel reccomendations, including stricter warnings, narrowing the subset of patients for which the drugs are prescribed, and possibly limiting or doing away with direct-marketing them to the public. There will also likely be a large-scale risk assessment study commissioned. I think keeping the products available is the right decision given what is currently known, and provided that they will follow the other Panel reccomendations.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 11:56 AM) It's no "Painkiller," but its straight Judas Priest. Isn't that an oxymoron in regard to Rob Halford?

QUOTE(mreye @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 02:16 PM) And, so we should just turn away and not hold them to any kind of human rights standards? :rolly No, they and everybody else should be held to a basic standard of human rights. Of course the American take is that it should apply to everybody BUT US. I played along and I answered your question, so please do the same here. Where was OUR concern for human rights was when we provided Iraq with critical battle planning assistance AND the WMDs when we knew they were going to be used in decisive battles of the Iran-Iraq war? Where was OUR respect for the Geneva prohibitions in place against such weapons? Obviously our actions - knowing the weapons WOULD BE USED -made us complicit and in direct violation, specifically, of the 'Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare,' signed on 17 June 1925. The US... covertly aiding and abetting state-sponsored terror? You betcha' - we wrote the book. I obviously don't have to tell you that we flat out stink in protecting the human rights of all of our current and recent Iraqi and Afghan detainees, as a new information on the situation continues to come to light. It's all well and good to talk a good game on the subject of respecting and protecting human rights, but it's just lip-service if you don't walk it like you talk it.

QUOTE(winodj @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 12:47 PM) Otis Redding to Babyface. Out of laziness for a more definitive route: Otis Redding performed at the Monteray Pop Festival in 1967. His performance came out as a posthumous release in 1971 and it took up onne side of the LP. The other side of the LP contained fellow Monteray Pop performer Jimi Hendrix' set. This was Jimi's American conquest show, bringing the Experience lineup back from 'cross the pond. It's the set where he most famously douses his guitar in lighter fluid and ignites it at the end of his "Wild Thing" cover. "Wild Thing" is not included on the Hendrix portion of the album, but another cover, "Try A Little Tenderness," is. That's an Otis Redding tune. Take the Hendrix to Clapton connections as covered previously and we have Otis to Eric. Take the Clapton to babyface connections as covered previously and we have Otis to Babyface.

QUOTE(winodj @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 12:44 PM) This is the 17th coffee table licking reference in this thread. Until Googling "I once licked a coffee table" returns SoxTalk as the top hit, our work, sadly, is not done. Back to work... I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table I once licked a coffee table...

QUOTE(Texsox @ Feb 18, 2005 -> 11:52 AM) Pete to John Entwistle to Torque's Steve Luongo (Entwistle Band Drummer) and then to Vedder via China Club Pro Jams in NYC. I feel better I didn't miss an obvious connection. The Noel Reding connection there can also connect a lot of the old school London scene to a lot of newer stuff. OK, allowing that these two are indeed fictional musicians.... try connecting Ian Faith to Bleeding Gums Murphy.

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Feb 14, 2005 -> 05:15 PM) I told them to not use those resistors!!! Resistence is futile.

I just thought I'd fix the obvious omission.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Feb 14, 2005 -> 02:59 PM) And also, since its really a Catholic saint day... Well, actually it's another grand pagan holiday that, like Christmas and Easter, was co-opted and Christianized by the early church. If you can't stop those damn pagans from celebrating, then maybe you can at least subvert the nominal basis of the celebration, right? In the case of V-Day, it is the co-opted Roman Feast of Lupercalia, which was a fertility celebration and feast in honor of Lupercal (= Lubercus = Juno). The Feast proper was actually on February 15th, but the church moved it up one day to coincide with a date when apparently not one but THREE separate Christian Valentines (or Valintinus) were martyred. What are the odds?

Married 9 years this March, with a couple of little White Sox fans to show for it. We're two weeks away from closing on a house, so about every cent we hhavve is tied up in that right now. Flowers, a card, and a nice home-cooked dinner will be the extent of it.

Now if only the Harry Schmerler and Burt Wymann Ford Dealership commercials and the Long Chevrolet commercial from that time were still on, it would be a time warp every night. I'm sure the Earl Schibe spots are still on but it's got to cost more than 69.95 to "paint any car any coler" these days, right?