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QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 10, 2006 -> 07:08 AM) Yeah, banned people and deleted names take up the poster numbers, but as for an "offical" member total they don't count. Still a cause for celebration here. With the World Title, Sports Illustrated, and the expansion to the new sites, The Soxtalk family has a lot to be proud of, and it is basically all because of you people. You're such a lovely audience, we'd like to take you home with us, we'd love to take you home! :cheers Better check with Ang first, that's a lot of food to prepare . . .

QUOTE(ChWRoCk2 @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 04:10 PM) SI Thomas or Thome Pass, like everyone else sandals or flip-flops

http://instantwinpromotions.com/ Search Scratch and Win Card Printers. http://www.scratchoff.com/scratchandwin.htm There are hundreds, since this type of gambling is generally illegal, you have to think of the legal use for the cards, and seach that phrase.

Words are fun I was thinking Words of the Day would be a fun. What word or phrase should everyone know? What word have you heard recently of interest? I liked the 12-gauge vasectomy that Nuke mentioned in a thread. I used quaffing to describe why Miller could be in my brand loyalties.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Apr 10, 2006 -> 06:48 AM) And the first beer you drank with enemies would be??? Footwear, I'm about to go exclusive creepers, and probably TUK. The shoes I'm wearing now are almost dead, and TUK seems to now have an affordable style finally. I have one pair, but they get worn very rarely. Nothing more comfy than a good creeper. Oh, but in the summer I wear Converse Chuck's for my tenny pumps. LOL. My first beer, was with my grandfather, dark and at room temperature. There are so many situations where you need to choose from cheap, uninteresting stuff. Ball games for one. Of I have a choice between Bud and Miller, I go Miller. If I have a choice of Miller products, Miller High Life, the Champagne of Beers Now if you happen to find yourself in South Texas and looking over the selection, *you* would be offered something much better, or at least something much more interesting. In entertaining and betting on the golf course, the local and people determine the bets and drinks. Good friends at a great course, let's play $5 wolf or $50 a side and look for their best stuff at the bar. Local Muni with guys you tolerate, let's play .50 wolf and grab a can of beer at the turn. And how about kudos for quaffing?

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 10:15 PM) And you seemed so cool. For cheap quaffing, it's the first beer I drank with friends . . . Justin boots are coming close. Most comfortable footwear, ever.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 08:35 PM) I got carded at the Cell the other day (funny, I know) and my finger was covering part of the date on my I.D. The beer guy barked at me to move my thumb so he could see the date. I thought to myself that if I was under 21, the entire ID card would have that red border around it and there would be no need to look at the date. I didn't say anything back to him because I wasn't sure if they still made them that way. Held your tongue, damn, I'd have helped the guy out. Maybe is was colored blind

Coke, Nalgene, BSA, White Sox, Republican, Sierra Designs, Miller

QUOTE(Buehrle>Wood @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 07:17 PM) Although I thought Soxtalk had already passed this milestone, the counter on the main site is saying that the 3,000 member just registered. Cool milestone, I guess. We have trimmed out inactive screen names so we sometimes pass milestones and then pass them again. We understand being the best isn't post counts or member numbers.

:headshake 12-gauge vasectomy

Until convicted, I feel it is a sad day when voters in Districts outside his, determined who would represent Sugarland, TX.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 8, 2006 -> 03:05 AM) Just don't pin it to a quote of mine because I didn't say it. Sorry, I just looked back at my post and can't figure out why your post was there. Your post should not have appeared in my response. Sorry for implying that you supported a speak English provision. There must have been a different post I wanted to quote and would go back and correct but I doubt anyone really cares.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Apr 9, 2006 -> 09:05 AM) Thx. Opening up a ID studio?

I wonder how many are dubbed in or if they are legit. I can't believe you can get that many to admit some of them, and that includes the first female I ever heard of that likes C*** as a word, I've met a few that liked the object

QUOTE(mr_genius @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 05:11 PM) no, it is illegal and he/she should be fined. it's a huge drain on our government. we can't afford to school all the illegals kids, we can't afford to pay all their hospital bills. pay more, mechanize or find a new job. Why we want to take an existing labor pool, trained, ready, and willing to do the job and replace them with people who have not been willing to do the job is beyond me. Let's dump all the trained workers for more expensive, untrained workers who are not familiar with the industry. Huge drain? So if they are documented, we can then pay for all that? How much in taxes do you think people earning at or near minimum wage would contribute in taxes? That's the financial difference. The other difference will be, once legal, they will be eligible for more government programs for the working poor, the same benefits anyone working those jobs would have. First off, the work is temporary and seasonal. You have to find people willing to live out of their cars for 9 months, following the crops, or have thousands of people available for a month and then they go do something else. Come up with a plan to find those workers, the country needs you. Currently people are risking their lives to work and imprisonment and huge fines to employ them. You can not mechanize all jobs in agriculture. They are developing new processes all the time, but it is still labor intense. Visit a packing shed, and with all the high speed computerized sorters there are still hundreds of workers needed. The farmers should find new jobs? Some people are not concered that we cannot produce enough food in the US to feed ourselves, yet they are concerned about not having enough gas for their cars. Pay more? How much would you want to work three weeks at a time from Idaho to Texas? Funny that during discussion about raising the minimum wage, businesses couldn't possibly pay more, owners would close shop, etc. Now conservatives believe we can increase wages and everything will be fine. Poor people are a drain on the economy. Interestingly we can afford to pay the medical bills and educate people earning minimum wage who are also not paying much if any in taxes. But we can't for other workers. And of course, business owners cannot pay much in taxes because then they will close their businesses and go do something else so they can pay less tax. YAS, the learn English thing comes up all the time. Yes, you would learn the language for the country you are in, but if you and I met in a restaurant, we would converse in English. If the shopkeeper speaks English, you would be more comfortable speaking English and he would get more of your businesses. Yet, the language thing always comes up, and I find it rather silly. I wonder if deaf and mutes (is there a better term?) should be allowed to use sign language?

QUOTE(YASNY @ Apr 7, 2006 -> 03:11 AM) When posting about a recent book, movie or TV show and your post may spoil it for someone that hasn't seen or read it yet, always precede your post with a definitive spoiler warning. That's because YAS was so upset when he found out the ship sank in Titanic

The mention of Mariotti must cause your head to spin like Linda Blair, you must immediatly call him moronotti, and hyperventilate in the thread. Any Sox player who regularly or even occassionaly posts here is immediatly given HoF stature, except BMac, who really is that good Oxy Moron, Jason can't spell, yet he's the only one here with his own reference in the Urban Dictionary.

QUOTE(WilliamTell @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 02:16 PM) Let's make Mexico the 51st state. It's cheaper to keep them as a buffer to South America.

Laws come and go, and reflect the needs of society. Some are classics and will always be around, like murder. Society has a need to keep people from killing each other. Others become outdated when society values change, like interracial marriage. We are probably at a time when the laws need to be updated and rewritten. The analogy becomes relevant when society describes this immigration as nothing more than a speeding ticket, or something far more serious. I hope no one here ever took a tax deduction they weren't entitled to, because avoiding paying taxes is such a threat to our security.

AJ or Garland.

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 01:55 PM) It was busy while you were on vacation. What was sadder was the two players who earned roster spots and I'm looking at the roster thinking, who the hell is he? March is a terrible month to miss everything. I called Kap for an update.

QUOTE(Rowand44 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 01:05 PM) Which posters do you speak of? Who the hell are you? I forgot his name already, but I looked and the guy had 4,000 posts and I never heard of him. Then I looked in a few more threads and found a bunch of people I didn't recognize.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 6, 2006 -> 12:58 PM) I think its wrong because its illegal, and I think its illegal because it SHOULD be. No one should be allowed to walk into this country undocumented, unchecked, use up resources, fail to pay taxes, present unknown risks and do what they please. If they want in, get a Visa. I'm all for more visas and a migrant worker program. But at least then, we deal with ALL of those risks I mentioned above. And further, we reduce the risk to the immigrants as well, by making sure they have some protections under the law. So its not just that its illegal - its illegal for good reason. I assume you are exempting the millions of tourists that come to this country, expecting police protection, use our roads, fail to pay taxes, present unknown risks, and do what they please. Or the students that fill our Universities. Or the visiting scientists who join our think tanks and work with our scientists. And the guest worker program will hopefully offer the visas etc. We knew about every terrorist who has committed an act of terror on our shores. Knowing and stopping is two different things. I still believe a trained terrorist would walk in with documentation so that a simple speeding ticket wouldn't ruin their plans.

Whenever I think of Christ's childhood I can't help but believe that somewhere there were kids thinking Oh s***, I beat the crap out of him in 2nd grade.

How is it there can be posters here with thousands of posts and I don't recognize the name? Where the hell have they been posting?