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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 4, 2008 -> 01:51 PM) India tortures prisoner. Prisoner blames Pakistan. India blames Pakistan. Central Asia becomes uninhabitable for about 5000 years. Prisoner somehow survives, later says that he gave false information up under torture. I don't see the problem, do you? you aren't suggesting that people would lie to make the torture stop?! Torture stops when the torturer hears what he wants to hear, true or false.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 4, 2008 -> 12:04 PM) The person above me is making the most of his year abroad. The person above me cares about his hometown, sees some things that could be better, and invests himself in making it better. An unsung hero that more people should be aware of, they are in every community, but we rarely have an opportunity to applaud.

I'm all about the Red Wings and Wingtips

QUOTE (Kid Gleason @ Dec 2, 2008 -> 01:02 PM) Ugh. Grown men who wear Hockey jersey's look silly. If you have a job that allows you to wear them, and they look fine in the usual restaurants you hang out at, cool . It all is about the lifestyle. I learned that some people, at 30, have a lifestyle that they can dress in jerseys most of the time. Must be so cool, four or five days a week, pulling on a jersey and heading to work.

QUOTE (Flash Tizzle @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 09:04 PM) TORTURE1!! BUT WHAT ABOUT HIS RIGHTS?! In so many ways we wish that we were more like third world countries.

QUOTE (juddling @ Dec 4, 2008 -> 05:55 AM) False...but usually once i get to work....it's free game. the person below me thinks Mayor Daley is an idiot False. Staying alive in that game takes some gray matter The person below me thinks Daley IS an idiot

QUOTE (Steff @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 11:04 PM) Me, too. I have to say that Casio - the black one with the huge display - was right up there but I just couldn't justfy the extra $ with the features of both being so similar. The appearance of the Casio is clearly nicer, but the stainless steel of the Canon is logical with a 1 year old who is all of a sudden wanting to take pictures with mommy's camera Notice how things in the house start moving higher and higher on shelves About this time our decorating theme moved to Little Tykes and Fisher Price. It was about 10 years later when I finally revisited an antique store.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 4, 2008 -> 04:56 AM) True. Wrigley and Jacobs/Progressive The person below me doesn't like the Bears. False. Bear fan in Cowboy Country The person below me posts before leaving for school / work

I have to keep a couple thousand pics organized for work and after trying a couple programs, none was much better than Google's Picaso for free. There are easy work arounds on the video formats, several decent translation type programs. Seriously, most of the pre packaged software is crapware. Crippled versions of the program they want you to buy.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 05:52 PM) False. The person below me "dresses" to the left. False. It's the only right leaning "bone" in my body The person below me sees a thread titled Catcher Block Statistic and never clicks on it

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 04:27 PM) DBAHO has a funny accent Mr. Professor helps fellow Soxtalkers with their homework at 2 in the morning.

A woman, married three times, walked into a bridal shop one day and told the sales clerk that she was looking for a wedding gown for her fourth wedding 'Of course, madam,' replied the sales clerk, 'exactly what type and color are you looking for?' The bride to be said: 'A long frilly white dress with a veil.' The sales clerk hesitated a bit, then said, 'Please don't take this the wrong way, but gowns of that nature are considered more appropriate for brides who are being married the first time - for those who are a bit more innocent, if you know what I mean? Perhaps ivory or sky blue would be nice?' 'Well,' replied the customer, a little peeved at the clerk's directness, 'I can assure you that a white gown would be quite appropriate. Believe it or not, despite all my marriages, I remain as innocent as a first time bride. You see, my first husband was so excited about our wedding, he died as we were checking into our hotel. My second husband and I got into such a terrible fight in the limo on our way to our honeymoon that we had that wedding annulled immediately and never spoke to each other again.' 'What about your third husband?' asked the sales clerk. 'That one was a Democrat,' said the woman, 'and every night for four years, he just sat on the edge of the bed and told me how good it was going to be, but nothing ever happened...'

Nikon has been good to me. And the 10 is great if you are planning on printing posters, but you can put that money into other features as mentioned above.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 04:44 PM) True, Steve Lyons. The person below me believes that MVP Baseball 2005 is the greatest baseball game ever made. True The person below me grew up without the internet.

QUOTE (MHizzle85 @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 11:04 AM) You knew exactly where I was coming from. False. The person below me has seen more than one episode of The Hills. False The person below me has woken up with someone different than they thoughy they were with

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 09:45 AM) A fine beer indeed. But DON'T badmouth Guinness, it's a gift from the Beer Gods. Did I mention the Guinness was a gift? Good beer, free, always moves up a couple notches.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 08:20 AM) With Konerko's deal being done after 2010, that is another possibility. DH and backup catcher? Nah, Konerko can't catch

Happy Birthday!!

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 08:00 AM) Who gets the 4th and 5th slots? (Hm, thread idea...) That is probably my biggest worry. Does anyone remember a few years back our stretch of bringing up guys to cough up 15 runs per game out of the #5 spot? It seemingly killed a few careers in the process.

QUOTE (joesaiditstrue @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 07:57 AM) G&T, good post. However I disagree with you that our division is set to suck again for 2009. With the offseason just starting, we don't know what DET and CLE will look like next year, and I believe CLE will be a much better team in 2009, they were great down the stretch this year and ended up being .500 Put that into perspective given how bad their record was half-way through the year (41-54) I think you have to assume that those teams play up to their potential, and then be pleasantly surprised if they do suck.

QUOTE (TLAK @ Dec 3, 2008 -> 07:37 AM) All three Major Leaguers the White Sox have or are in the process of shipping out share one thing in common. Swisher, Vazquez and Logan all made Ozzie's s__t list. In the playoffs, Swisher wasn't starting over DeWayne Wise, Vazquez was publicly going to be skipped had the series moved forward and I don't think Logan even made the roster. There is no sense in hanging on to players if the Manager isn't going to use them. So if the White Sox get anything at all out the players they receive it's a plus for the team. If every single guy they acquire falls flat on their face then the trade is even. Great points. The only caution I would add is Javy was used, and used a lot, in the regular season. No doubt he craps his pants in big games.There probably is room for someone to drive you to the dance then get the hell out of sight.

Any of these guys Cuban? I don't know, I've always placed mlb talent above potential. Javy is a solid back of the rotation guy. Perhaps it is memories of the last time we celebrated a WS, but it came on the backs of the pitching staff. With so many question marks in the rotation, next season will be interesting to say the least. Much earlier it was mentioned it will be fun watching these guy develop. I'm not so certain. Winning games is fun. Watching guys develop is usually what I think about at the levels beginning with Rookie and ending at AAA. Also, just having money available doesn't necessarily guarantee you will be high bidder for a player. It especially doesn't mean you will be the high bidder for "The" player you desire. And it seems we added another big, slow, power hitter . . . stop me if you've heard this before. Bottom line, if we were a floundering franchise without a recent history of success, what the hell, roll the dice again. I'm not sold that this was the best move for this team. Not to say there isn't a lot of great upside and plenty of scenarios where this will be a great trade. But there seems to be an equal number of downside possibilities.

QUOTE (danman31 @ Dec 2, 2008 -> 10:57 PM) Baha, true. (That was to the mangina one, but this is also true.) The person below me watched Casino on AMC Tuesday. (I'm looking at you, Hizzle.) False. The person below me has used beer cans in a festive Holiday decoration

I'm all out of widgets. I then switched to a non widget brew. Not as satisfying. And I'm guessing it is the nitro that gave me this headache

Beer widgets are a great excuse to open just one more. I have to go speak to an elementary school now. Life sucks. Thirty years ago I would have been promising myself to "never do this again". I will.