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OK, I tried looking this up myself but I got confused. I know there are people here that can explain it more clearly. I think I understand home equity loans considering we just got one not too long ago. Just throwing some numbers out, correct me if this is wrong: Your home is worth 100,000 and you have 80,000 left to pay on it. You get a loan for 90,000 and have 10,000 to spend on whatever. Then you just make the payments like a normal mortgage. I don't understand how a second mortgage works or how it differs exactly. Someone care to explain it to me in terms I can understand?

Horrible. Two things: Why? Also, did anyone else have a bit of hard time following this story while reading it? I don't like the way the writer kept jumping back and forth...

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QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 25, 2007 -> 10:24 AM) How can Jason not be on this list?? WTF No respect I'm telling you, no f***ing respect for Da Man. I must not spend enough time surfing the web. I only recognized one person on that list...

QUOTE(watchtower41 @ Jan 23, 2007 -> 02:57 PM) I forget what they charged last year?? Obviously it should have been more... especially with people getting up to 100$ a pop on craigslist. $30 this year isnt horrible, but certainly not reasonable either. It basically puts the event on par with other major sports memoribilia shows as far as admission goes now-a-days. Half of what they are charging this year.

QUOTE(aboz56 @ Jan 22, 2007 -> 04:31 PM) Went the past three years, but due to the fact that they raised the prices, not going this year. Ditto. I think I'm about the third person in this thread to agree with this statement.

Jennifer Garner

Both the mother and the daughter from "The War At Home" on Fox. I had never seen either of them before I started watching the show. Now it's one of my favorite shows.

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Jan 10, 2007 -> 12:55 PM) Sorry for the confusion, I meant purchasing a house just to tear it down and rebuild. The smallest dumpiest houses are going for 150-250 and then people knock em down and rebuild. Hell my wife is from norridge and the basic chicago style bungalow houses are selling for 400,000 and people are buying them and knocking em down and building mansions. Why you would do that in Norridge, I don't know, but there's tons of it going on right now. I wish somebody would do that with our house. There are so many things wrong with it, it would probably just be easier. With the amount we paid for the POS, we could get a bigger and better one for the same price. The problem is that we could never sell our current one in the shape that it's in. We also can't afford to do the necessary repairs to make it sellable so we are kind of stuck.

Geez, I'm just happy I can make phone calls on my cell phone.

The PS2 dropped in price after only 6 months. FWIW.

QUOTE(ZoomSlowik @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 04:05 PM) I can't remember the last time I saw Brian even hit 92 on the gun... Brian?

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QUOTE(SoxFan562004 @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 09:24 AM) Easily my favorite one was the original Tickle Me Elmo. Those things were selling for a ridiculous amont over retail, and about 2-4 weeks after X-Mas they were on the shelves at all toy stores. It was all for a toy for kids who could never appreciate how much their parents went through and paid to get it. Basically the parents wanted to tell their friends that they go their kids one... The TMX elmo was doing the same thing earlier this year. I don't think the hype got quite as big as the original one though. When the original came out we bought one for my daughter in August. Just picked it up off the shelves and didn't think anything off it. Then suddenly a couple of months later people are fighting in stores over the damn things and selling them in the newspaper for $100. QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 09:22 AM) Especially since the samething happens time and time again. You think people would figure this out. I was saying it when I heard people talking about how they planned on waiting in line for days to get one. It's like the guy that goes flying past you at 60 MPH just so he can stop at the same exact red light 8 seconds sooner. I laugh at those idiots too.

QUOTE(3 BeWareTheNewSox 5 @ Jan 4, 2007 -> 08:38 PM) don't do it for ebay if you're thinking about it, saw some go for under retail a couple weeks ago It's amazing to think that people were paying double and triple retail value just 2 weeks ago.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 08:00 AM) FWIW., they said ratings have crashed big time. It's probably my fault. I never watched the show. Hell, I don't even know what channel it was on...

QUOTE(YASNY @ Jan 5, 2007 -> 02:25 AM) I had a shot at a 300 game once, but I choked in the 2nd frame. I've done that many times. It gets nerve-wracking realizing your only 11 strikes away doesn't it?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 4, 2007 -> 01:19 PM) Presumably, the disk would probably have to have had the madden label on it for anyone to give this story enough credibility to publish. It's interesting that the picture they show with the article just shows the case. Not the disk itself...

OK, one thing I want to know... Is an actual Madden disc with porn on it or was there an actual porn disc inside the package? One would think the kid at least looked at the top of the disc before he started playing it.

QUOTE(PAUL KONERKO 14 @ Jan 4, 2007 -> 09:34 AM) The best I've bowled is like 160 I once bowled a 0. Nothing but gutter balls the entire game. I was only 5 or 6 at the time but it was league bowling so it counted. I was PO'd about something the entire game and just kept flinging the ball. I don't remember what my other 2 games were.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Jan 3, 2007 -> 07:39 PM) i haven't ugraded from VHS yet. We have any BETA users who can top me here? I'm VHS too. My wife uses it everyday to record her soap. I've got a DVD recorder but the clock likes to reset itself so I don't trust setting it to record at a certain time.

QUOTE(EvilMonkey @ Jan 3, 2007 -> 04:40 PM) 5) I managed to bowl 18 strikes in a row without getting a 300 game. Game 2 was spare, then 11, game 3 was 7 then 3 splits. But at least I got a 700 series. I managed to blow a 300 game and an 800 series in the same 3-game series. I messed up my 300 in my first game in the 11 frame. Then in my third game all I needed to do was spare my last frame and I got a split! Ended up with a 796.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Jan 2, 2007 -> 01:13 PM) lol, can a regular canoe paddle be detected on radar? I have no idea.

Just cause I'm bored... 1. When I was in jr. high I took what was being called a "computer class" at one of the local factories in Rockford. They made parts for the military stealth bombers. So we made a canoe paddle out of the same material. It couldn't be detected on radar. 2. I once pitched 14 innings in a fast-pitch softball game. I don't remember if we won or lost. 3. I have a Husky named Nunook. I picked the breed and the name because of the movie "The Lost Boys". 4. I got blood poisoning when I was 5 or 6. I got this huge splinter in my hand that didn't want to come out. So I went to school with it still in my hand and while I was in class, I dropped my pencil. When I went to pick it up, another kid stepped on the eraser end, causing the pointy end to go right into where the splinter was. Worst pain of my life. 5. I've never gotten rid of a single video game system or game. I still own (and play) Atari, Odessey, NES, SNES, PS1 and PS2. My kids have a Gameboy color, Gameboy Advance, DS, N64 and Gamecube. 6. I never got to see the original Comiskey Park in person. My first game was in 1991. 7. I became a Sox fan largely because of a Cubs fan. When we'd play baseball on my previously mentioned NES, he'd always pick the Cubs. I wanted to be a "local" team so I'd pick the Sox. My interest grew from there.

Five more... 1. I own every Weird Al Yankovic CD and have seen him in concert 3 times. 2. I own nearly every Stephen King book in both paperback and hardcover. 3. I have 99% of all the He-Man Toys released in the 80s'. I'm missing less than 10 figures and one playset. 4. Once, while driving to work, I hit a cow. I missed the other 20 or so standing in the middle of the road. 5. I was 27 when I finally got my first brand-new, store-bought bicycle.