Queen Prawn

4 and 26 1 and 20 2 and 20 And a first down each time for the Eagles. When the Pack defense did show they were kickass, but they only showed up for every three plays or so.

The Mike's Hard Lemonade has had some of the best commercials. Mountain Dew comes out with some good ones as well - the guy getting swallowed by the whale, lights a flare and sees all the other people...

That would explain why my nephew started crying in OT ... (he may be 5.5 months old, but he seems to really like football - the moving colors and noises I guess).

Yeah, it irritated me with that stupid logo or whatever you want to call it was flashed on the corner of the screen when he said something. He really detracted from the coverage. Hope he isn't something permanent and hope he won't be there for the NFC championship game...

Current reading: Ann Rule's 'A Rose for Her Grave and Other True Cases' Nora Roberts 'A Table for Two' Upcoming: 'Davinci Code' (It's my mom's so I have to wait until she finishes it) Nora Roberts 'Key of Valor' Sara Paretsjy's 'Blacklist' I have the Waldenbook member card and that sucker is saves me 15% every time and after $100 worth of purchases, I get a $5 gift certificate. There are also many ways to get points without buying items.

I still remember when JM pinch hit Rios for one of the guys that was hitting well that day/week (I tried so hard to forget that, that I managed to forget half of it); I believe it was the Boston series in the beginning of September. Everyone in the outfield was furious that he did that.

I'm surprised it took the Cubs this long. I agree that they should be seeing a piece of the action.

Money issues is one that I can think of off hand. In the parish where I used to worship (and later I found out it wasn't as unique to my parish as I had thought it was), the priest were known to skim off the top of the donations made during the mass. Another part of the money issue is that they loved to cry poor, but somehow always had a newer car and ate steak for dinner (my mother knew the rectory cook, which wasn't a priest by the way). Heck, one of the priest who regularly stopped by our house - we lived across the street from the school, convent, church and rectory - mentioned their dinners from time to time. I don't think all clergy are terrible people, but so many things that need rectifing and so few are stepping up to make the needed changes. My favorite is that if you are divorced, you are not supposed to be allowed to remarry in a Catholic Church. Well, I know someone who walked out on his wife after 30+ years of marriage and managed to get remarried in a Catholic Church (and no, there was no annulment etiher - he paid a handsome fee to the parish). Living across the street, we dealt with the Bingo parking. My dad had arrived home from work late one Monday and parked by the school. He got up to go to work only to find the Church had the car towed (yes, they knew it was his car, he helped the church deliver food baskets and pick up the government issue cheese and butter used in the baskets several times). Another time was when my sister was going into 6th and my brother 5th (mind you I had already graduated there, which meant that the school had a member of the FanOf14 household for about 11 years at that point) and decided that when they reduced the class size to one class for each grade there wasn't enough room for them inspite of the fact we were students in that school for the 11 years and parishoners for 16 years. I understand that this is one experience in one parish, but asking around, I have found out it isn't that unusual either. BTW - when I say 'The Church' in this thread (and usually) I am referring to clergy and higher ups, not the whole ball of wax.

The problem is that the Catholic Church (and this topic is only a small portion of the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church) wasn't/isn't trying to minimize publicity, they were hindering prosecution and putting the accused where they could potentially abuse again. If there is an accusation, I can understand moving a clergy member, but not to put them where they are working with children and thusly be tempted to repeat their alleged crime.

Sounds like the program my friend did. He was an engineer for many years (at least 25) and burned out on the corporate aspect and decided to go into teaching. he researched, found the program and now he teaches 8th grade in Darien.

We (Sox Fans) can only hope!

LMAO!

Why not?

No more than Brando's Israel VS Palestine thread. Seriously, so far it's been okay and no one seems to have gotten in a twist over anything stated. So far we seem to be okay, but that is just my humble opinion...

Isn't that the truth. It also eliminates a very high percentage of Catholic clergy, or at least the ones that I knew at the Church I used to attend.

Since my fiance and I have sex (fornicate), I guess that means we screwed ourselves out of the Kingdom of God. (sorry I really couldn't resist)

C'mon, we all know Sandy is way faster than those two! But the question is, can any of those three beat a pregnant woman in a race?

Can't think of one at this point...let's get a list of current players (not including pitchers) for the Sox. Catchers 15 Sandy Alomar 27 Jamie Burke 8 Miguel Olivo -- Mike Rivera Infielders 24 Joe Crede -- Ross Gload 13 Willie Harris 14 Paul Konerko -- Juan Uribe 22 Jose Valentin -- Ruddy Yan Outfielders 25 Joe Borchard 45 Carlos Lee 30 Magglio Ordonez 33 Aaron Rowand Designated Hitters 35 Frank Thomas 40 Man Roster (with links to stats)

If they are our only choices, Aaron Rowand should be hitting leadoff.

My thoughts and actions precisely. I stopped going to church when I was 16 because of the hypocrisy.

LOL! I saw that joke in an email (except with it being a local call in Green Bay) - funny joke.

That's never weird and usually appreciated. At the last company I worked for, the 4 engineers I worked with (all males, 2 being old enough to be my dad and the other 2 to be older brothers) gave me flowers for my b-day.

You know what God thinks/knows?! Cool. Ask Him (or Her depending on your beliefs) if I can have a His/Her phone number and/or email address as I have a bunch of questions that I would love to ask. In all seriousness, I don't see why so many get their panties in a bunch over it. FYI PA, my fiance has the same opinion on this as you, so I know your opinion is a fairly common opinion and so I am not dismissing it, just trying to get a debate going.

And we all know gays are never religious...

Something tells me that isn't what she meant by an amendment is needed...