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Brave little girl. I wonder if she will ever be able to walk into that bedroom again.

Ka-ching. How much will this cost every taxpayer in America. Savings and Loans Part 2.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Jul 12, 2008 -> 11:18 AM) Virtual drinks? Oh hell no! ... You'd be flying me into South Padre Island and ahowing me a damn good time. At least, you better! Hell no, sky box at Yankee stadium and we all moon Steinbrenner. Bail and the lawyers are on me Seriously there would be a Soxtalk party involved somewhere. It would be a real party with inflatable chicks and everything

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jul 12, 2008 -> 10:34 AM) No way I'd want to win 300M. Life = ruined. I'd honestly rather win 1 million. You could do that and move on with life, and it would be a good life. What is funny or ironic I guess, is basically it would allow me to retire, and at my age retirement would be hiking every long trail in the US and perhaps living aboard a sailboat. So winning lotto would allow me to lower my living expenses to a backpack, some boot, ramen noodles and a packet of tuna. I'm guessing you would be in the minority that could win that big and still stay grounded.

First off, no way to keep it private for very long. So you just have to deal with that. I'd make certain my parents and kids were taken care of. I'd buy a round of virtual drinks for my virtual friends A 45' ish sailboat, something I could single hand or made easier with one other Crew member. Adios for a couple years.

I've been noticing lately that a lot of people around my age die. RIP

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Jul 11, 2008 -> 11:11 AM) Pickle was a classic game. I used to PWN NOOBs at that all day long. Do you mean monkey in the middle or running bases?

QUOTE (YASNY @ Jul 11, 2008 -> 09:42 AM) I think the expression was supposed to be "All-eee All-eee All in free" ... but it got corrupted to Ocean free and Oxen free where I grew up because kids just said things like that when they weren't sure what to say. Smarty pants. QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 11, 2008 -> 11:07 AM) That was a pain because the ball would richochet all over the place when it hit the corners of the steps. We played a game where we bounced a big playground ball off the steps and ran the bases. My house was on a hill and the ball could go a long way. Running the bases was a challenge with the hill. We had a line where the ball had to go past on the fly.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 11, 2008 -> 09:08 AM) We had a kid on the block who either got stuck being It and we'd all pretend to hide but would really just leave and let him keep looking, or if he was a hider, we'd all pretend to be hiding or seeking but would just take off and let him keep hiding to think he had a really sweet spot. To the kid's credit, he would hole up and hide for a good hour or so before popping his head out. "Guys. . . hey, Guys. . . ?" Wow, were we a-holes or what? That's basically how I babysat as a teenager. Let's play hide and don't seek, I'll start counting 1 . . . 2 . . . 3

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 11:49 PM) Wow, that is it's own thread right there. I have had debates with adults who grew up all over the country about how certain games were played and what the different game details were. It's amazing how many state and even neighborhood variants there were for games like Ghost in the Graveyard and Kick the Can. The name of the safe spot is one example. Was it base, home, home base, goal?? for whatever reason, in my little corner of the south side, it was pronounced "gool" or "ghoul". I never had to think about how to spell it, but that's what it was. Then the details of being safe on gool. Could you stay there forever or was there some sort of limit? Our limit was the "It" person reciting the ever-popular "one, two three, get off my father's apple tree." My cracker-ass Florida wife thinks I just make this up, but I thell her that's how you play the game. Sometimes if you couldn't get all the way to gool, but someone was already there you could still be safe by grabbing to them, 'cuz, you know, "electricity!" And the biggest controversy of all - when the "It" person gives up on finding everybody or it was time to go in fo the night. . . Cracker Wife says sou had to call out "all the all the oxen free!" While I admit that makes more sense, she's flat out wrong. You called out "Oly Oly Ocean Free," which is meaningless gibberish, but I'm sorry that's the way it's done. Sometimes to add a little flourish, you could also go with "Oly Oly Ocean Free Free Freee. . . last one out is a P - I - G!!" Yeah, 10-15 kids all up and down the block playing kick the can, lightning bugs flickering here and there, was awesome. We absolutely lived for summer growing up. I love black and white memories of a long ago time great story. And of course, your wife is right, because, well, because wives are always right, even when they are soooo wrong.

My fav capture the flag moment. The kids in my troop were playing against another group. A couple of our guys found their hiding spot and saw the one kid who was guarding the flag. One of the kids starting running down the trail screaming bees! bees!. Their guy took off running, we grabbed the flag, and won. The playing field was a large Scout camp and finding the flag took almost two hours.

QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Jul 8, 2008 -> 08:21 PM) Because we don't need the Government to be a nanny state and parents should be responsible for what material is exposed to their children. So now parents need to check what is happening at the park before bringing their kids to play on the swings? Sorry, I agree on parental responsibility, but society has to give parents a fighting chance. And if a public park is not suitable for 6 year olds, then we're in trouble. The nanny state has movie ratings, video game ratings, etc and stop children from seeing material that is inappropriate. It would seem that this is very similar. Moving the production where the audience is informed of the material is a perfect compromise and exactly my point, proper time and place. As far as smoking, I agree with Jim that it is unnecessary to ban the play. An historically accurate play would have the characters smoking. Perhaps advising ticket buyers that they will be subject to a small amount of second hand smoke would solve the problem for all but the most anal theater goers. I suspect this person requested a refund, was denied, and is sticking it to the theater.

Too big too fail. It would cripple the economy if the US allowed them to fail. But none of their officers and senior management should come out of this with any sort of bonus, golden parachute, etc.

Was the Rally Crede a player or mascot

QUOTE (3E8 @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 12:37 PM) Who's Baj Bajenaru Basically your next door neighbor who you find out later is a MLB player.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 10, 2008 -> 07:36 AM) Barry Bonds was the same way, and he isn't a favorite of mine either. It just means I respect his ability more than just about anyone else. That was the exact example that came to mind, I just didn't want to draw any comparisons between the two. As the PED thing hits new levels, my respect for Thomas keeps increasing. Thomas will be in my Top 10 but give me someone like Minoso, Baines, Buerhle, or Baj who always seem to be having a great time playing baseball and love the fans any day of the week.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jul 9, 2008 -> 08:26 AM) All I can say is that the only Sox player I went out of my way to see every at bat was Frank Thomas. Granted that was in his heyday. I've been in bars that would get quiet while Frank was batting. Basically everyone stopped and watched. He was amazing in the mid 90s.

And I would like to see the town's disaster plan.

What I like about favorites is stats and stuff are not as important. Unlike FlaSoxxJim, I never saw Shoeless Joe play, so he will not be on my list, same with Ed Walsh, and a host of others. I'll probably go back as far as Wilbur Wood, some Southside Hitmen, etc. Basically my list would be between 1972 and today. If our final list is heavy with players from 2005, that's cool for a favorites list.

I would think they have a disaster plan in place before this event. So it would not take lawyers at that moment to review the contracts. Having said that, the disaster plan should be as Mike posted, gather as many people as possible and get working.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 8, 2008 -> 02:45 PM) i didn't say it was good, I am just rooted in the reality that anyone who says they can treat everyone and not destroy the system is a con artist. Good was a poor choice of words, perhaps a better choice is necessary evil? I agree that we cannot treat everyone as if they were members of congress. I do think we need to improve the system to the point where someone with hepatitis, flu, TB, etc. can more easily receive treatment. I also believe that our system is sized for the paying customers which is why some resources are so over taxed. I also believe it could grow to accommodate the added paying customers. To look at the current infrastructure and say no way it could accept all these new customers, makes sense only if it remains business as usual. I see the explosion in adult day care centers that occurred when money was shifted from nursing home only to day care environments and think a similar expansion could happen with neighborhood health clinics with nurse practitioners and RNs replacing Doctors. Perhaps I'm a con artist, but I think we can make steady improvements to the system until the number of Americans with no access to health care services is a much smaller number.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 8, 2008 -> 02:06 PM) There just isn't excess capacity as I see it anywhere in the health care system, especially for 50,000,000 people. There is no where to move the people that we have now, let alone all of the new ones. The difference here is I believe the majority are being treated, just either at none or reduced payments at ERs and other resources that will not turn away patients. Are you suggesting we just have to live with the fact that a sizeable portion of our population will not receive any health care except in dire emergencies? Is that a good public health policy? ANd I agree that the increase in patients will have to be carefully considered.

There is a time to file the grievence and a time not to. Overtime for a Fall Festival and putting up the holiday decorations? File away. Overtime to fill sandbags and help the town? STFU or better yet thank the firefighters for helping save the town.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 8, 2008 -> 10:54 AM) Like I said, how many doctors out there do you know of that are underutilized? Between recently having a vacesectomy, sick kids, routine doctor visits, and the wifes follow ups after pregnancy, I have yet to see a doctor that had a bunch of open slots to just accept a bunch of new people. Every doc I have talked to had weeks worth of wait for anything that wasn't an emergency. How many ERs are underutilized? Here it is a 6-7 hour wait in an ER on a good day. I see your point, and it is a excellent one and would have to be addressed for any improvements to our system to work. But which is more feasible, more Doctors and clinics like at Cosco or more ERs offering treatment for no renumeration? Perhaps if providers were actually being paid for treating these patients we would decrease crowding in ERs and Doctors offices could actually expand and shorten up those wait times? I don't think that having millions of patients receiving treatment for free is a good for the system either.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jul 8, 2008 -> 08:13 AM) To where? I don't think I have ever heard of an underutilized facility. How many unemployed Doctors are there that we can use for people? Doctor's offices instead of ERs. Outpatient clinics instead of ERs. Currently, many uninsured and indigent people will show up in an ER with symptoms that do not require emergency procedures. Doctors can, and will, turn them away if they cannot pay, hospitals generally will not. Also, small things become bigger when ignored. When they cannot afford a Doctor and wait, a small infection becomes bigger and they are in the ER. A lack of prenatal care causes some pregnancies to go astray. That is what I meant by a more appropriate facility. Basically what Alpha pointed out with the chain stores offering low cost options. Another local issue here are the expectant mothers from Mexico who just "happen to go into labor during a visit to the US". Generally they cannot pay and their children receive automatic US citizenship. I'm in favor of eliminating the automatic citizenship.