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Generic advice from someone who has started, run, closed, and sold a couple businesses. The cheapest thing in the world, in the long run, is paying an attorney and accountant what seems like lots of money. Sadly, you will never know how much aggravation, time, and treasure you save by getting professionals involved at the start.

when will we run out of things to do here?

my oh my he keeps trying

Oh so true, and the ones who have the privilege taken away, fight so hard to come back.

QUOTE (mreye @ Dec 5, 2009 -> 09:44 AM) Fire Guts Soldier's Home They're accepting donations at the Portage WalMart and Demotte State Bank in Cedar Lake. This is a family friend. Any help you can give would be appreciated. Not that I'm lazy, but could you post the contact info for the bank and the WalMart?

quality idea, and the original was the first thread to be locked because of no posting.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 6, 2009 -> 08:57 PM) Very sorry all. Thread born 08/12/09 thread died 12/06/09 RIP Booooooo!

QUOTE (T R U @ Dec 6, 2009 -> 05:54 AM) by 10?? Dude, if Nebraska had anything resembling an offense they would have slaughtered Texas last night.. I fully expect Alabama to rout Texas The Longhorn defense gave up no touchdowns last night, and nine of the points allowed came off turnovers, and a couple of those were tipped passes. Nebraska had three first downs, or was it only two? For a rout, Alabama will have to score and I'm not certain is they can post more than 21 or 24 points. I'd feel good if I was the Tide, but I wouldn't be thinking rout. Plus, four weeks off, levels things a bit. Texas reminds me of the Sox a few years back, reeling and staggering into the playoffs.

Here is where Adidas really f***ed up. Jordan was going to bring attention to the entire program, thus to the other hundred athletes happily wearing their shoes. Everyone should expect Jordan to wear his dad's shoes. It would have been no big deal and I doubt anyone would have considered it a slap to Adidas.

QUOTE (Pants Rowland @ Dec 4, 2009 -> 10:45 AM) My all-time holliday favorite is probably It's a Wonderful Life with honorable mention to A Christmas Story nice lesson in Wonderful Life, when life deals you lemons, get drunk and try to kill yourself

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 4, 2009 -> 09:53 AM) When I think of the Blues, the north suburbs just don't quite spring to mind. Most of the ones I know are in the city. Actually, all of them are. But its possible there are some up there I guess. Same here. I am hesitant to send him into the city by himself. He does fine in Austin and San Antonio, even better twenty five miles from any roads. Any place easy to get to with easy parking?

great, no traffic at 6:30 am

Early to bed, early to rise sucks

If someone looked at the letter and said Najbar!? That's the b**** that is protesting the war. Watch what I do! Then write the check and fire whomever did that. But, if it was Najbar!? I thought you said Neighbor! Shazamm, I told you the wrong person. Than please accept our deepest appologies for the mistake and go away.

My son will be visiting his egg donor later this month and was interested in a jazz club and a blues club to visit. He's 21, so I assume any bar would be available. Anything up in the suburbs? He's going to be up in Mundelein.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 3, 2009 -> 09:57 AM) [Remembers his rotten student days and smiles] before I forget, the only class I was ever kicked out of was 8th grade social studies, the same class I am teaching. Karma is a b****

Already I have completed withdrawal from soxtalk.I can live without posting all day. However, I do sometimes wonder what y'all are talking about

just yesterday a student tossed a stink bomb in my classroom, offering me the awesome opportunity to teach outside while the smell singed my nose hairs.

But is it worth $100,000??

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Nov 30, 2009 -> 06:33 PM) You should feel dirty and ashamed. Now leave you man-card at the front door. Wait, there is always one exception, if it helps a guy get laid.

QUOTE (Cali @ Nov 30, 2009 -> 06:34 PM) This is gonna be a completely unpopular position, but I'll say it anyway. I understand what those top 4 bands did for music and that they inspired bands I listen to now etc. But I could really give a s***. I can't connect with a band that had their height in popularity and influence decades before i was born. I think it's a little weird to be 25 and the Beatles are your favorite band ever. My mom lived through Beatlemania, I could never like or appreciate that band as much as she did. Not weird at all, the sounds are so different. But I also do not thnk it is weird to enjoy music created decades or centuries before you were born. Mozart endures long after his life is over.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 30, 2009 -> 02:11 AM) Steal a sign, increase your chances of contact, hit a home run. Take a PED, improve your eyesight (increase your chances of contact), hit a home run. Both are cheating, both have the same result. In your one example they have the same result. But over a season, I do not believe they carry the same advantage. Knowing a fast ball is coming, does not tell you location, speed, etc. Adding the distance that steroids gives, resulting in your average distance per hit increases, takes what were warning track fly balls and puts them over the fence. And that advantage is every time you swing, not just when you can sit on a pitch. Plus the other team can change signs, try to prevent you from taking that advantage. They have no recourse with steroids. The umps and other team can't detect the cheating. I don't understand those that claim cheating is cheating and want to treat all cheating the same. I believe some forms of cheating are worse than others. Which is why the penalties vary from getting tossed from a game, to being banned for life. You may steal a sign or throw a few spit balls, but the umps can catch you. Take steroids and you are cheating 24/7 plus the resulting benefits are much greater. Spit balls and sign stealing have gone on forever, steroids for a decade or so. Look at the record books, steroids is far more advantageous than sign stealing. Every home run record is now held by a steroid user. If all forms of cheating helped the same, that would be an amazing coincidence, don't you think? I'll accept that sign stealing is a part of the game, without much hesitation, but to place it equal to steroids either overvalues sign stealing or undervalues steroids.

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 30, 2009 -> 05:22 PM) I feel dirty saying it, but ABBA is one of my guilty pleasures. I saw Mamma Mia on Broadway awhile ago for my mom's birthday and really enjoyed it, despite expecting to hate it. Yeah, a friend left a greatest hits cd in my car, I started playing it and didn't stop for a week. Great vocals.

If I did the list between 1970 and 1990 The Who would have easily been #1 on my list. I can't believe then that Van Halen and Elton John were left out.

unless it is not in green, it must mean