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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 31, 2010 -> 08:17 PM) The selling out of Green Day is now official American Idiot the musical? Really? I'm reserving judgement. American Idiot is already very much a rock opera, so a transition to a stage production is no real stretch. Bands like The Who pulled off their musical theater adaptations with varying success and degrees of integrity, but I respect Townsend's decision to do by his catalog as he sees best. I'll do teh same for Green Day and wait to see how hay pull it off. Taking the same approach with the Bono/Edge Spider-Man musical, but I saw recently that that endeavor is running into snags.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 31, 2010 -> 07:49 PM) They have pills for that, but obviously the side effects involve being in the bathroom for days at a time... Yeah, Tex can have that effect on me too. . .

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 31, 2010 -> 06:10 PM) Since you took the time to research and make it accurate. Now get off my lawn Man, that was the joke grenade with the longest hang time in history. Pull plug, throw joke grenade, wait three days for detonation.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 31, 2010 -> 03:00 PM) And s***, atleast Chicago has won championships within the past 50 years. The Bulls won 6, the Bears and Sox both won 1, and both the Bears and Sox have both been to another (ok, the Sox other one was 51 years ago, bite me). Cleveland has had a hell of time over the past 60 years. They haven't won anything since Veeck was there. That's a little hyperbolic. They came up short in the 2995 and 1997 World Series games, but took them to 6 and 7 games, and only lost in 1997 to the Marlins in extras. Four consecutive division championships from 1995-1998 is hardly not winning anything, though sure they have no hardware to show for all of that. I totally hated the that era's Indians teams, and for years I blamed the strike on derailing our momentum and letting the Tribe dominate he division all those years.

I don't buy a straight-up argument that Cubdom suffers more than other fan bases either, but I don't think that's really the issue. It's the fact that a significant number of Cub fans truly embrace the "Lovable Losers" thing that allows their patheticness to rise so far above everyone else's.

I'll drink a good beer to your health. You do the same. Happy Birthday.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 31, 2010 -> 10:21 AM) I would drive anything without feeling self conscious.

QUOTE (JPN366 @ Jan 30, 2010 -> 11:09 PM) Did you make cigars before that? No, the Cubans Dominicans took all those jobs.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 30, 2010 -> 11:27 AM) That is one impressive tax if you can generate a trillion and a half dollars out of three hundred million people. I'm assuming he was focused more on California's state budget. issues. This could certainly aid matters there.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 06:03 PM) I can see it raising money, but I also see all kinds of lawsuits going on within the courts if it did go through. I understand legalizing it means you generate taxes on it, but at the same time, I'm not a proponent of turning the US into Amsterdam. Also, once it is legal, prices will come crashing down, so how much are you really going to be saving in taxes? People will be able to grow the s*** themselves for pete sakes, they'll buy the seeds for dirt cheap and get taxed on that. That's why we're just looking to turn your state into Amsterdam.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Jan 30, 2010 -> 09:50 AM) That's nothing. I went to "Blackout night" at the roller rink with mine and her kids... Consider yourself lucky. Is that when management at the roller rink takes pity on the men who got dragged along and lets them drink until they black out?

Hope it's a good one!

QUOTE (PlaySumFnJurny @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 04:40 PM) They haven't won a series in 101 years, and haven't been to one in 65. It has been rather enjoyable the last two years to stop talking about the Cubs 100 years of futility, and to instead be able to now refer to the Cubs first 100 years of futility. . . and counting. 1977 was my first childhood heartbreak year, which then paled compared to 1983. By 1993 I was away from the city with not nearly the universal access to games that out-of-towners have now, so even though I was tuned in to watch us lose in the playoffs, I had less season-long emotion invested in the team. 1994 totally sucked, but I wasn't 100% convinced we'd have held off the Indians. My Dad would add 1967 to Soxdom's historic heartbreak years. Almost no offense but a pitching staff that threw more than 20 shutouts, led the AL for most of July and August and into September, one game out of first place with a week to go, and then ultimately finishing in 4th place in the league with just 3 wins separating us and the first place Red Sox. That one would have stuck with me for a long time.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 07:22 PM) The milkman truly delivers. Yeah, I sort of cringe at both your screen names/porn names.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 06:06 PM) You talking about Carm's beef just off Taylor? Its pretty fantastic. I have to put Alpine in Forest Park in here for sub sandwiches. My bet is he's talking about Vittori's, on Taylor just east of Racine. It was another favorite for me to and every bit as good as Al's. Sadly I think it has closed recently.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 04:45 PM) and my heart is, as of right now, officially broken Big Ugly Betty fan sorry to hear the show has been cancelled, eh?

"OMG what idiots some Texans are" Interestingly, this is exactly what many SoxTalkers say to themselves an average of 16.35 times a day while browsing this site.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 02:22 PM) I wonder how you got all of that practice at tight rolling... Well, I never had to cheat and use those EZ-Widers, I'll tell you that. What I meant to say was, I used to work at a Crepe Factory.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 02:18 PM) Those are all Chevy's... Ford Malibu. . . by Chevy!! Odd marketing gimmick that.

Sad to hear that about Parthenon — another place I really liked. First place I ever tried retsina. I found it to be quite vile way back then, but now that my palate has grown up I need to give it another spin.

QUOTE (Jenks Heat @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 01:27 PM) Fox's stays open late and has good pie. Good place to hit around midnight after a Sox game. That's the ticket.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 10:15 AM) You're looking at it wrong. the 1977 Star Wars is really Episode 4, while 1999 is Episode 1.... ya know, the one with JarJar. He tried and succeeded to erase those memories, unlike so many of us.

QUOTE (Soxy @ Jan 29, 2010 -> 11:21 AM) Can I just say, I really hate the term over-educated. How can one be too educated? Is there ever "enough" education. wtf. There is a very easy test you can self-administer, Soxy. Did you see the film Idiocracy? Did you like it? If not, you are over-educated. I, of course, enjoyed it very much, so I'm safe.

There was a very informative story on NPR last night about how car manufacturers have been able to drastically cut costs by utilizing the exact same component design across a range of vehicles, as Toyota did in this case with the accelerator. The problem with that, obvious in hindsight, is if that ubiquitous component has a serious design flaw then the recall is not limited to a single model but instead spans across all those products using the same faulty component. The upshot of the story was that automakers are going to have to figure out how to balance short-term cost savings against the potential threat of financial catastrophe associated with huge multi-model recalls down the line.