Texsox

Get a female, you'll be happier.

Anyone remembering what are current terror alert color is? I thought so.

June 1, 2006 The Top 5 Signs Your Local Terrorists Are Inept 5> They've drawn up an elaborate plan to bomb Wrigley Field during the World Series. 4> Flew a hang glider into a White Castle because they thought the king lived there. 3> Their demands include full recognition by the International House of Pancakes. 2> They were denied a permit for their Foolish Americans Take-No-Prisoners Death Parade because they couldn't sell enough al-Qaeda Scout cookies for the fee. and Topfive.com's Number 1 Sign Your Local Terrorists Are Inept... 1> "We have Paris Hilton. Do exactly as we say or you'll never see her again."

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 09:35 PM) Tex, that link had nothing to do with the title. It had to do with Moore taking pieces from the others guys work and basiclly putting them in his piece without asking, or paying. As for the name, it is well known that Bradbury didn't like it, but since it can be considered a parody, it is fair game. Are we reading the same link? Moore got access, where does it say he didn't pay for it? This is probably similar to Michael Jackson having the rights to Beatles songs and licensing them for commercials. IIRC Paul was pissed, but it was legal.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 09:34 PM) I fail to see how people are jumping off a bridge when they state the fact that a few of our relievers are f***ing horrendous. They are playing f***ing horrendous, but even Eck didn't save every game. I'm really not concerned, it's a long season and players are either peaking, getting top peaking, or slumping. Brace yourself but Dye will have a terrible week or two, as will Thome, and everyone else. It's the nature of sports.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 09:22 PM) Ah cool. Its time for the annual jumping off a bridge thread. I luv drama queens [digs into popcorn bowl] It's a monthly jumping off the bridge thread. Passing out Tampax . . .

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 09:18 PM) This is what I was talking about, and while it isn't really 'music', the title of it is what stayed in my head. He still used it without permission, and didn't pay for it. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/27/...l?from=storyrhs Similar to Lord of the Flies, Anal Attraction, Forrest Hump . . . of all the sins of the world, I can't get too worked up over this. I can't believe our society can't have two works with Fahrenheit in the title.

Most of y'all probably haven't noticed but off and on members have begged us to suspend their posting privileges so they could study for finals, finish work projects, etc. As a community service, I have compiled a soxtalk 12 step program so y'all can fix yourselves These are the twelve steps of Soxtalkers Anonymous. 1. We admitted we were powerless over posting—that our lives had become unmanageable. 2. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity. 3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of Rally Crede as we understood Him. 4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. 5. Admitted to Rally Crede, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs. 6. Were entirely ready to have Rally Crede remove all these defects of character. 7. Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings. 8. Made a list of all persons we have flamed, and became willing to make amends to them all. 9. Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. 10. Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it. 11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with Rally Crede, as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out. 12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to posters, and to practice these principles in all our affairs

10th in AS voting? Where Would He Play? He does deserve a lot more respect. Once the media jumps on the Dye is overlooked, he'll jump up the voting charts.

This is at worst the second best Sox team this century, and perhaps in my life. I'm not ready to give up on them. I'll take out position right now over just about every AL team. Can anyone honestly say the Indians are in better position? Twins? Would you rather be cheering Maggs and the Tigers? Enjoy June and July, start to worry a week or so after the AS break. Until then, Don't Worry, Be Happy

there isn't another team in baseball i would trade for. Here's a little song i wrote, you might want to sing it note for note, don't worry, be happy in every life we have some trouble, when you worry you make it double don't worry, be happy dont worry be happy now dont worry be happy dont worry be happy dont worry be happy dont worry be happy aint got no place to lay your head, somebody came and took your bed, don't worry, be happy the landlord say your rent is late, he may have to litagate, dont worry (small laugh) be happy, look at me im happy, don't worry, be happy i give you my phone number, when your worried, call me, i make you happy don't worry, be happy aint got no cash, aint got no style, aint got no gal to make you smile but don't worry, be happy cos when you worry, your face will frown, and that will bring everybody down, so don't worry, be happy don't worry, be happy now... don't worry, be happy don't worry, be happy don't worry, be happy don't worry, be happy now there this song i wrote i hope you you learned it note for note like good little children dont worry be happy listen to what i say in your life expect some trouble when you worry you make it double dont worry be happy be happy now dont worry, be happy dont worry, be happy dont worry, be happy dont worry, be happy dont worry dont worry be happy don't worry, don't worry, don't do it, be happy,put a smile on your face, don't bring everybody down like this don't worry, it will soon pass whatever it is, don't worry, be happy, i'm not worried

QUOTE(jphat007 @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 08:52 PM) Yah, who the hell puts a starting prospect in the bullpen!!!! Nobody does that s***!!!! Buerhle, Cotts, Smoltz, Eck . . .

God, I hope Ozzie still brings ten of these guys to the all-star game

The answer is #10 - Bon Jovi #9 - James Blunt #8 - Celine Dion #7 - Ashlee Simpson #6 - Bryan Adams #5 - Phil Collins #4 - Neil Diamond #3 - Paula Abdul #2 - Michael McDonald #1 - Barry Manilow What is The Top 10 Pop Artists for the Terminally Uncool

Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. The hammer of the gods will drive our ships to new lands, To fight the horde, singing and crying: Valhalla, I am coming! On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. Ah, ah, We come from the land of the ice and snow, From the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. How soft your fields so green, can whisper tales of gore, Of how we calmed the tides of war. We are your overlords. On we sweep with threshing oar, Our only goal will be the western shore. So now you'd better stop and rebuild all your ruins, For peace and trust can win the day despite of all your losing.

I guess if all that was on was spelling bees or NASCAR, I'd maybe watch it . . . I kid because, I care™

An Engineer in Hell An engineer died and reported to the pearly gates. An intern angel, filling in for St. Peter, checked his dossier and grimly said, "Ah, you're an engineer; you're in the wrong place." So the engineer was cast down to the gates of hell and was let in. Pretty soon, the engineer became gravely dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell, and began designing and building improvements. After a while, the underworld had air conditioning, flush toilets, and escalators, and the engineer was becoming a pretty popular guy among the demons. One day, God called Satan up on the telephone and asked with a sneer, "So, how's it going down there in hell?" Satan laughed and replied, "Hey, things are going great. We've got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there's no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next." God's face clouded over and he exploded, "What? You've got an engineer? That's a mistake; he should never have gotten down there; send him up here." Satan shook his head, "No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I'm keeping him." God was as mad as he had ever been, "This is not the way things are supposed to work and you know it. Send him back up here or I'll sue." Satan laughed uproariously, "Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?"

Here's the thing with these lists. Anyone of us could make a top 100 list. Seal it in an envelope and open it in three months and when it is opened, we would disagree with our own lists.

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 01:54 PM) And cutting to the punch line [snip] . . . So then the rabbi says to Chomsky, "Well, how much did you expect a priest was going to know about cunning linguists anyway?!?" If it wasn't already in the QOTM, it would have been.

I have no problem with this.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 01:17 PM) We DESERVE this? What the **** planet are you from? We can't get any better because the corporations, etc. have bought the entire government. I'm on the planet where one party screams media bias whenever they f*** up and it gets reported. Then most of their supporters agree. Instead of them looking at the facts, they look at which newspapers are reporting it and look for ways to discredit the report. I'm on the planet where the other party will defend the President of the United States when he has an intern giving him a blow job outside the oval office. Where capturing Bin Laden is secondary to deciding which President f***ed up. We aren't demanding our own parties shape up, we are just looking for a chance to blow some mole hill into a mountain and "get" the other party. The planet I would like to be on is the one that demands from their own party good government. That when their party f***s up, they don't blame the reporter, they blame the douchebag politician. When loyal party members stand up and tell their guys to act like leaders or else they will vote someone in, things will change. I want to be on a planet where the politicians honor the other branches, not try and surplant the constitution by labeling anyone who disagrees as a "Activist Judge" or a liberal or conservative wacko.

The opposite is this headline Daley Drives Right Past Problem and Does Nothing!

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 12:03 PM) You are missing my point. You would be adding them to the system. Right now they do not receive any federal benefits, whereas if legalize they would. And this is what gets so frustrating. First we hear they are costing us billions in benefits and bankrupting states, then we hear they aren't collecting benefits, but would if made legal. That seems like two different points. So how would you get someone to work these jobs and not receive benefits? And you already know my followup. if it means hgher wages, then why not increase all these low wage jobs, whether at WalMart or Purdue Farms? It would seem that rising wages are the answer, but we were told that business owners needed a tax cut to stimulate the economy, would cutting business profits hurt the ecoomy? My opinion, after reading way too much about this, most are using fraudulent social security numbers and paying taxes and collecting benefits. I see it as maintaining the current situation. No matter who is working these jobs, benefits will be paid. We can then decide if we should eliminate WIC, day care subsidies, medicade, etc. for poor people. Perhaps we are do for a tightening of our poverty programs. So we can deport all the undocumented workers, paying that cost, then increase wages in these jobs to the level that Americans will work these jobs. These workers will begin collecting more benefits, and what have we accomplished for our economy? With our current, and decades long low unemployment rate, we need to bring in workers. We can bring them in to fill the most desirable and high paying jobs, while pushing Americans to pick lettuce, but that seems like a mistake. I'd rather immigrants fill the least desirable jobs, and push Americans to the better jobs.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 11:44 AM) Short term, yes, it's "bad", but SOMETHING has to happen. Neither party stands for "mainstream America" anymore, they both have to suck the schlongs of their extremists to get the real money. It's freaking nausaiating. It's time for a REAL representation of what most of us think out here. (Special thanks to Iggy for the insight... ahem). They are reflecting mainstream America. Republicans and Democrats will defend anything their party does. We are getting what we deserve. Hear something anti-GOP? It's the liberal media. Hear something Anti-Democrat, it gets defended.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jun 1, 2006 -> 11:49 AM) I haven't seen anything that would say anything else but... What non-partial studies are you looking at, that contradict any of my claims? Think about it. We have a country of just barely under 300 million people, that costs trillions of dollars a year to run and support. If we look at adding approximately 12 million more people, the vast majority of whom are well below median income, most even below poverty level. The exsisting poor population of the United States uses an inordinate amount of social services as compared to what it pays into the system. As I have documented on numerous occasions, the lower 2 quartiles of the US taxpayers pays a negative tax rate, meaning they don't actually pay a net dime into the federal tax system, in fact they actually profit from our progressive tax system. So the poorest people in the country have a negative net cashflow to the federal government BEFORE they EVER use a single social service. Now if we add millions upon millions of MORE people to these very groups, what other conclusions are there to reach? Common sense alone says it will cost way more. Do you have anything to back up what you are saying??? We're not adding, they are already here. And if they leave, we'll have to find millions more to take their place. Are you now proposing deporting them?