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QUOTE (lostfan @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 06:18 PM) Checking my credit report and I realized how close I am to finally paying off my car. Financing a car with no money down for 72 months wasn't the smartest thing I ever did. It's cool though, my car is still in pretty decent shape and doesn't have an inordinate amount of miles on it. I made that mistake with the first car I ever financed. Problem was I was driving 80 miles getting to work and back everyday, so I was racking up milage quick. We ended up upside down on it but I got into an accident and totaled it. The check the insurance company gave us was only a few hundred short of paying the loan off. It's weird to say that totaling that car was the best thing that could've happened to us. Now we try to stay around 3-years for a car loan and pay extra every month. We took nearly 6 months off our last loan just paying an extra $10 a month.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 01:18 PM) Totally agreed, its just nonsense taking away from the much better part of the show. I dont mind having a few minutes on gemma and her relationship with her parents if they do something cool with it, but the whole taking the caresitter hostage in the previews just looks like they are filling an episode worth of action from it which is annoying IMO. When I saw the previews for last night's show and I saw the scene with the caretaker pointing the gun at Gemma I thought it was Tara. I couldn't figure out why she would be pointing a gun at Gemma.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Sep 15, 2010 -> 12:09 PM) I have problems understanding a lot of what the Irish say on SOA not just because of their accent, but they always seem to be whispering too. I found myself turning up the volume and holding my breath every time they were on. I even thought about putting on CC.

QUOTE (Milkman delivers @ Sep 14, 2010 -> 10:07 PM) What did the Irish priest say at the very end of that scene? And I noticed something when they showed the previews. Stephen King will be playing a biker this season. I had to look it up to verify it. I heard the announcement when he was filming. Looking forward to it. Big SK fan. Mostly of his writing though. He's not really much of an actor.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 14, 2010 -> 01:19 PM) When I think of him, I think of him as a White Sox. I'm pretty sure he's still employed by the White Sox as a team ambassador.

QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Sep 14, 2010 -> 09:22 AM) I'd like to see some caverns. Plus, any place that has a decent amusement park is a plus. My wife isn't much into outdoors, and any place we stay has to have all the amenities. Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky has a bunch of guided tours through caves. Plus there are a bunch more in the surrounding cities. It's probably a 6-7 hour drive. We went there last year and stayed at a Jellystone campground. It had mini-putt, and a couple of waterslides. We also drove over to Bowling Green and took a tour through the Corvette factory and museum.

QUOTE (Tex @ Sep 10, 2010 -> 12:47 PM) I see how frustrating simple things are when you are living together, in a very committed relationship, and the electric company won't talk to you because you aren't married. That problem doesn't always go away when you are married. You get stupid stuff like "you're not an authorized user" or "your name isn't on the account".

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Sep 10, 2010 -> 09:12 AM) Eh? Is that supposed to be an equation? Obviously you don't remember the old AOL chatrooms.

I just got gas yesterday and realized that they are connected to a local grocery store's "saver" card. Swipe the card and get 10 cents off per gallon for every 100 points on the card. Obviously I had over 100 points because I saved the 10 cents. Then I saved another 10 cents per gallon by using cash.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 7, 2010 -> 05:46 PM) (is there any bigger ripoff than the Mobile station?). The Mobil stations near us have a value card program where if you buy stuff in the store you earn money on the card. Only a few cents at a time but when you redeem it you can get that amount off per gallon of gas. So if you have $3 on your card and gas is at 3.60/gallon, you only pay .60 a gallon. Otherwise I usually go to the stations that take 10 cents off the price per gallon for using cash.

It should say not yet a science accepted by the Cubs then-manager Dusty Baker.

So I took my 2 oldest daughters to their first concert last night. They had a blast.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 09:11 PM) ps. Saying Loriano instead of Liriano, indicating you think he is a she, is a bannable offense? Spawn is a little b**** It started way back when some people referred to Jon Garland as Judy Garland. They take their message board way too seriously.

QUOTE (PeavyTime @ Sep 1, 2010 -> 03:08 PM) I have to vent and this seems like the best place. I'm sure some of you know of whitesoxinteractive.com aka flyingsock.com. That place in run by Satan himself. I just got banned from there again. The mods are insane, you can't talk about anything without having them jump on your back. And every mod thinks they are better than you, know more than you, and think their opinion is right and yours is always wrong. Seriously, I despise that place. Prime example: http://www.whitesoxinteractive.com/vbullet...2975&page=9 So I just have to say f*** you to that place, and I'm sorry if I broke any rules about this board with this post, I just had to get it off my chest. Here is to hoping that board falls apart I have to imagine their list of banned members nearly matches their list of active members.

Maybe it's just the way I read it then. A different history as in some bizarro world where we never gained independence from England and the South actually won the civil war. I guess the only way history could be different is when people explain why something happened or tell it from a different POV.

QUOTE (Tex @ Aug 26, 2010 -> 01:15 PM) I am conflicted on this. I think everyone agrees something has to be taught. But should someone in my class learn something different than a student in the classroom across the hall? Should kids in San Antonio learn a different history than a kid in Houston or Bloomington? Why should I, or any classroom teacher, decide what is taught? The problem becomes when a state mandates a minimum number of things that should be covered. Let's say it should occupy 50% of the time, allowing Districts and teachers the opportunity to fill in the rest as they see fit. While that sounds like a nice compromise, what ends up happening is the 50% is taught then the rest of the time is spent reviewing to make certain the kids perform on the test or else schools start losing funding. Taxpayers want the type of accountability that can only happen with test results. Different history? Is that even possible? I'm pretty sure what happened is what happened. Maybe some kids learn different parts of history. I know we never made it much more than halfway through the book in any history class I took. I think the good teachers have the ablity to teach the kids what they need to know to pass the tests plus throw in some "extra" stuff as well. Especially as they get into the higher grades and start taking different electives, the standardized testing is more difficult.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Aug 25, 2010 -> 12:14 PM) Could MLB change the rules to not allow teams to make a profit if they haven't fully spent the revenue shared with them? But will we ever know when they make a profit? This is from one of the links above:

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 12:32 PM) At least for news articles, it depends on how much of the text you post. Posting a whole article is a no-no, but posting a couple of paragraphs and a link is ok. It was a post by a member.

So apparently copy/pasting text from one website to another = stealing. If anything I figured it was copyright infringement. But since I gave credit to the website and author, I didn't think it was a problem. Obviously it's enough for a permenant ban. Calling the webmaster's wife a "c***" is over-looked though.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Aug 24, 2010 -> 08:06 AM) I'm on salary. This is my week... Monday - Wednesday : Wake up at 6am @work by 7am, leave work at 3pm, at home by ~3:35pm. Thursday : Work from home day. Friday - Same as Monday-Wednesday. That used to be my schedule but with a slightly longer commute. Now I have an even longer commute with no work from home days. But I've been salary for the past 12 years with no overtime except an occasional week of being on-call. QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Aug 23, 2010 -> 06:41 PM) I'm a salaried individual. Unless I have a big-time project due, you can call me "tail lights" come 5pm. Yep.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 02:50 PM) Well please do tell us what it is! Because now I'm curious. Google "White Sox message board" and you'll find it a few pages in. It doesn't have many members but I know of at least one other person here that is a member.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 02:39 PM) They got on you for posting on SoxTalk? That's odd, some of the Mods and Admins here are members over there too. I post over there occasionally. No, there's another board that they don't want any of their members to know about.

Bumping an old thread but I guess I'll be more of a regular member over here. Apparently they don't like people posting on more than one White Sox message board over there.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 20, 2010 -> 08:37 AM) I mean... I keep getting older, and they stay the same age

"I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope."