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QUOTE(winodj @ Jan 21, 2005 -> 12:55 AM) I also gave her my old record copy of "The Partidge Family Album." Which suggests you have a newer copy that you kept for yourself. That, of course, is most unsettling of all.

Glad to hear Jerry Reinsdorf is a Sox fan. I'd like confirmation on Einstein and Hugh Heffner being in the fold, because that alone would probably mean that Sox fans, on average, are smarter and get more action than Cubs fans.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Jan 20, 2005 -> 09:10 PM) It doesn't bother me at all. However, if one American soldier performing his duty in Iran is caught or killed due to Hersch's need to spew conjecture...THEN I would have a problem. On the other hand, many, many American soldiers being blown to little bits due to Bush's need to spew lies as to why we went to war... That we're OK with??

QUOTE(winodj @ Jan 20, 2005 -> 12:57 PM) Awesome, will I get paid in shakes? "Who told you to take the shakes?!? Nobody told you to take the shakes!"

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 20, 2005 -> 12:12 PM) While I am not perfectly aligned philosophically with Bush's picks, for the most part I believe he has done a very fine job of selecting people. I still want to hear what you think of Gonzales as a a choice for AG. Do you think he is capable of upholding the freedoms of American citizens when the big feather in his cap so far is finding the legal loophole allowing US Administration-sponsored inhumane treatment of foreign war prisoners?

QUOTE(KipWellsFan @ Jan 20, 2005 -> 11:06 AM) http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/01...main/index.html Playing politics is going to cost a lot of lives. Where is the need for having this election while the country is still in a state of emergency? That is the question of the moment. But given that our President thinks it inconceivable that he ever reconisders a position or admits that a plan sucks, here it is. This is the date and the elections are happening, even if 90% of the country is too terrified to show up and the other 10% that do turn out get blown to bits. Hey, Democracy's no picnic, you pussies.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jan 20, 2005 -> 07:21 AM) I showed this to Wimpy's lawyer, H.M. McRib, and he asked me to print his response: "I am personally furious that you would refer to my client Wimpy as an example of burgermongering, when he has CLEARLY stated on many, MANY occasions that he would GLADLY pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today! If anything, my client's plight shows a desperate need for a reform of the Burger Welfare system in this country. When an honest taxpayer cannot afford the burger of his choosing at the time of his choosing, then most certainly the terrorists have won! But to insinuate that an honest, law-abiding citizen's attempts to garner a "burger loan", for lack of a better term, is somehow breaking the law????.......how dare you, sir......how DARE you." Sounds like H.M. McRib works for the same law firm as Jackie Chiles. "Who told you to take the coffee, er, I mean burgers?!? I didn't tell you to take the burgers!"

QUOTE(knightni @ Jan 20, 2005 -> 12:30 AM) Grimace Ate My Balls A an out there site to be sure, but reminded me of yet another suppressed McDonald's memory. A few years ago, McDonald's hired cartoon geniuses Klasky-Csupo (Rugrats, Thornberrys, Rocket Power, Aarghh! Real Monsters plus the brilliant and underappreciated Duckman, Santo Bugito, and Stressed Eric - not to mention the original producers of theh Simpsons) to do a series of full length cartoon video adventures. After ears of sanitizing and white-breadifying the creepy, sinister McDonaldland, the company decided to kind of creep it out again, at least visually: Sadly, everyone is very Rugratty in these videos, Grimace is still short two arms (but ball-free as far as I can tell), and Hamburgler looks like he's 10 years old.

QUOTE(Heads22 @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 10:58 PM) I looked at iTunes.com and it seems like Pepsi and Apple will be giving away free songs again. This promotion was awesome last year and I know some people here that live in Florida and go by Jim willl be ecstatic to hear this. Heck Yeah!! Bring on the free tunes!

And in related news...

The problem is that we're only addressing the symptoms and not the cause of the problem. Hamburglers are not born, they are made. Well before they are full-fledged Hamburglers they are clearly showing signs of being hardcore Hamborrowers. Kind of like this guy... The cycle of illicit burgermongering has to be broken, but you have to get to them before they go completely bad.

Oh Jeez, I just had a long-lost memory come screaming back. I completely forgot that there was a Captain Crook pirate guy prancing around McDonaldland too. I remember his deal was looking for and hoardimg a treasure of golden flakey apple and cherry pies (from back when they were fried and not baked and the insides were molten hot and could calderize your mouth...). There sure were a bunch of marginal societal elements back in McDonaldland back in the day. Here he is.

QUOTE(The Critic @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 05:51 PM) Saddest part is, this is only going to escalate as the election gets closer and lots and lots of innocent Iraqis are going to die. Correct. But somehow it's good for democracy to keep the sham election on schedule, so that's what they're going to do.

QUOTE(AddisonStSox @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 03:01 PM) I don't want anyone getting hurt. Watch closely... I was going to say, from the thread title I thought it was Daver posting...

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 10:47 AM) DJ??? I thought you already bough a copy and a back up copy. Did you "wear them out" already with the constant rewinding and slo mo?? 'slo mo'?? Hey. That's not a slur against the gay mentally challenged, right? [/runs for cover]

I like this one:

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 12:33 PM) I think the four skin would fit this site well Ouch.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 02:35 PM) Only one way to describe this thread... Thread of the year??

QUOTE(winodj @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 01:32 PM) A hamburger is more than the sum of its parts is what youre trying to say. However, Mayor McCheese is more than beef, he's also a bun, cheese pickles and ketchup. Cows have none of those things. That makes them not a hamburger. But perhaps Mayor McCheese went to Hamburger University. That would make him a hamburger. On every football Saturday. I don't think the answer is as high brow as venerable old Hamburger U. I just think someone jazzed him up with some Hamburger Helper.

I saw the exhibit in Chicago when it was there and it was great. Having yet to make the Cooperstown pilgrimage, I guess that was the next best thing.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 08:09 AM) Baseball as America was an awesome experience. I spent over 3 hours going through it in the Field Mueseum. Everyone should see it if at all possible. That's also in the forward orf Ken Burns' Jazz book and documentary, and I love that quote as well.

QUOTE(Spiff @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 11:40 AM) The Hamburglar is McDonald's very own crackhead. Arrest him for petty burger theft and he'll just be back on the street tomorrow doing it all over again. McCheese knows it's a lost cause, but what he should really be worried about is the Hamburglar going cannibal and eating the mayor himself. Who's going to arrest him?? I mean, has anyone even seen Big Mac the cop in like the last 20 years? Was he dumped as an obvious ethnic slur (sure, make the Irish hamburger the cop), or was he dispatched by a cannibalistic Hamburgler as Spiff sugested? And most importantly, when is McDonald's going to learn never to make that Gawdawful "Arctic Orange" shake ever again?!?

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 11:11 AM) I originally thought you meant US style such as this... Police in Radnor,Pa., Interrogated a suspect by placing a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a photocopy machine. The message "He's lying" was placed in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the suspect wasn't telling the truth. Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed.

QUOTE(LowerCaseRepublican @ Jan 19, 2005 -> 12:53 AM) See! If the damn law and orderites in McDonaldland don't begin laying down the hammer then before we know it the McNuggets and the Fry Kids are gonna be snorting coke off Birdie the Early Bird's ass. \ AND THAT'S ANOTHER THING! Boy, my blood is boiling now. The $#% 'Fry Kids' used to be THE GOBLINS - yet another race of McDonaldland Miscreants who used to steal everybody's french fries!!! (Again, if some of the old farts here can confirm this so I don't sound like some crackpot spouting a crazy 'Lone Frycook' theory, you'd be doing me a supersize solid.) WTF?!! McDonaldland is NOT going to fix it's social ills just by changing the names of these ne'er-do-wells and pretending the Grimace is a kinder gentle purple mutant freak just because he's shed some limbs. Mark my words, MacCheese's head is gonna roll over all this some day.