JohnJeter

Side dish, one word: PLANTAINS.

Quisp is still available, but not Quake. I guess Quisp "won". http://www.quisp.com/

The names of businesses and other signage always cracks me up (movie marquees, etc.). Check out this incredibly detailed map of Springfield for some funny business names. http://www.csupomona.edu/~jelerma/springfield/map/index.html

Btw, FlaSoxxJim, when you visit Chicago, here are the two places you MUST visit: the Map Room and the Hopleaf. Excellent selections- tap and bottled.

I think the "33" included the name of the beer which of course would appear on the label.

Actuall, the "33" is not a mystery. Excerpted from a Cecil Adams column ("The Straight Dope"): I hunted up James L. Tito, who at one time was chief executive officer of Latrobe Brewing, the maker of Rolling Rock beer. Mr. Tito's family owned Latrobe from the end of Prohibition until the company was sold to an outfit in Connecticut in 1985. After some prompting, he told me the sordid truth. Based on some old notes and discussions with family members now dead, Mr. Tito believes that putting the 33 on the label was nothing more or less than a horrible accident. It happened like this: When the Titos decided to introduce the Rolling Rock brand around 1939, they couldn't agree on a slogan for the back of the bottle. Some favored a long one, some a short one. At length somebody came up with the 33-word beauty quoted above, and to indicate its modest length, scribbled a big "33" on it. More argument ensued, until finally somebody said, dadgummit, boys, let's just use this one and be done with it, and sent the 33-word version off to the bottle maker. Unfortunately, no one realized that the big 33 wasn't supposed to be part of the design until 50 jillion returnable bottles had been made up with the errant label painted permanently on their backsides. (I suppose this bespeaks a certain inattentiveness on the part of the Tito family, but I am telling you this story just as it was told to me.) This being the Depression and all, the Titos were in no position to throw out a lot of perfectly good bottles. So they decided to make the best of things by concocting a yarn about how the 33 stood for the year Prohibition was repealed. Count 'em: Rolling Rock from glass lined tanks in the Laurel Highlands. We tender this premium beer for your enjoyment as a tribute to your good taste. It comes from the mountain springs to you."

That would be Rupert Holmes.

"Playground In My Mind" - Clint Holmes "My name is Michael, I've got a nickel, I've got a nickel shiny and new I'm gonna buy me all kinds of candy, that's what I'm gonna do", etc., ad nauseam

That would have helped! As long as there weren't too many obnoxious "adult children" mucking things up. For future reference (or anyone else here who cares), the Spa Palace (south of Playa) is an adults-only all-inclusive in its entirety! The property looks fantastic. We might even consider that option.

All-inclusives: we like getting out of "the compound" and trying different local restaurants/bars (we ended up doing this anyway, kind of a waste); we don't think the food is that great at all-inclusives- serviceable, but nothing great. Plus we don't like the tourist scene at these places, which are usually quite large and packed with families, obnoxious folks, etc. There's just an overall cheesiness we experienced, and we did stay at one of the better ones (or so I am told!) Your experience in the Bahamas may have been much different, Steff.

Why not stay farther south down the Mayan Riviera, Steff? Playa del Carmen is smaller, more manageable, less "spring-breaky" (year-round it now seems) than Cancun. We stayed at a place south of Playa over Xmas, and the location was ideal. Cabbed into Playa when we wanted some "city" life (the European area is vastly superior to the cheesy American area), rented a car to go to all the Mayan ruins, etc. We'll never do an all-inclusive again however.

It took less than 1 hour for that to get posted on the three Sox boards I visit. Some guys at a Cub board are none too happy about it either. "Excellent."

It was one of the most obscure references I could think of! He was brutal.

So the name "John Jeter" means nothing to you, "dude"? Research it and report back.

What are all those annoying smilies on the left when I want to post something? Oh right, simplistic, tired mode of communication. Anyway, I'm happy with the Sox going 0-6 vs. the Cubs, as long as the Sox win their division. Is this notion anathema to some people here?