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QUOTE(AssHatSoxFan @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 02:40 PM) i remember commercials from spanish class of people putting fries and other nasty stuff in Mayo I've done that a few times. I also dip my fries into tartar sauce or honey.

QUOTE(CanOfCorn @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 01:52 PM) Ketchup is for eggs. I thought salt was for eggs. Or at least throw some mayo on a couple slices of bread and make a fried egg sandwich.

QUOTE(Sox It To Em @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 11:17 AM) I agree with this. The single-player portion of Pokemon games are like a "my first RPG." However, for multiplayer competitive battling, they are immensely deep and strategic (if you're in to that sort of thing). But the point is kind of moot because the games aren't yet online. I have two daughters and they both have GBAs so they probably do this as well. They also have a cousin and another friend that they always link up with when they get together.

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 12:51 PM) nothing beats the neon green relish and celery salt. Why dont you ketchup lovers go eat some pork hotdogs, beef dogs dont take well to ketchup. I actually prefer Oscar Meyer hotdogs over beef hotdogs. With ketchup. I'm I the only weirdo that also puts ketchup and mustard on a brat?

QUOTE(3E8 @ Sep 15, 2006 -> 01:37 AM) Yes. Four out of the top ten selling console games of all time are Pokemon titles. I think my kids have just about all the pokemon games made. I've played a few of them once or twice. It seems to me they are all pretty much the same, just named with a different color. Walk a little ways, fight with another Pokemon, choose, "attack" or "run", capture Pokemon, repeat... Personally, I prefer games that involve a little more thinking/strategy.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 14, 2006 -> 09:55 AM) Freedom of speech. Some people insist that this type of "entertainment" doesn't cause anything. I find it impossible to believe that listening or watching something for hours every day will not cause those values to become internalized. And it isn't just violence. I think you have to have those values to begin with to even start playing a game like that.

Wasn't there a game once that allowed you to shoot JFK? Strange people out there. Honestly, this really doesn't suprise me. I thought about that when I first read that he was wearing a black trenchcoat.

QUOTE(Hangar18 @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 04:29 PM) the general consensus of this thread, is PEOPLE ARENT HAPPY ABOUT THIS NEW POLICY. I think that's pretty obvious. What can we do about it? Who do we need to send emails to? Not crazy threatning emails. Just sane, calm ones that explain why we aren't happy and won't be attending.

So... to get this thread back on topic, who is still planning on going this year? Also, has anyone realized that people that only bought the weekend package last year because they didn't need/want to stay in the hotel for whatever reason are getting totally screwed this year? Anyone that lives in the city and is a simple train ride away is going to have to try and buy indiviual tickets for each day...

QUOTE(FlaSoxxJim @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 10:16 AM) Back in the not too distant past When I would need a quick repast Or a temporary break from my agenda Up to the bedroom I would head Pull out the Playboy from 'neath the bed And sneak a peak at all the portraits of pudenda My alternatives were slim If I tried to find another source for sin I'd have to hang out with the losers in the backroom of my local video store But last month I finally made the call I got a brand new cable modem installed And it opened up the floodgates of a whole new universe of INTERNET PORN Internet porn: Roman orgy scenes Internet porn: Dominatrix queens Internet porn: Girl on girl on girl on girl on girl on guy on sheep Internet porn: Gross anatomy Internet porn: Pam and Tommy Lee Internet porn: When you're given so much to choose from who has time to sleep? Honestly honey, I dunno how the link got on there! After my girlfriend goes to sleep And I get out of bed and down the hall I creep So I can hunker down and wallow in depravity until 3 or 4 You'll always find me in that same tableau Silloueted by my monitor's warm glow And absorbing all the bounty from the cornocopia of INTERNET PORN Internet porn: Barely legal teens Internet porn: Naughty figurines Internet porn: Geriatric German grandmas spanking Spanish men Internet porn: Erotic Asian art Internet porn: Guys with extra parts Internet porn: I don't think I'm ever going to see the sun again! Internet porn: Male-in-love.com Internet porn: There's my neighbor's mom Internet porn: Bikers wearing diapers chasing nurses dressed like smurfs Internet porn: Massage le crevage Internet porn: Oh de' toi menage Internet porn: Every kind of smut from every corner of the earth! DiVinci's Notebook is/was awesome.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 12:32 PM) The White Sox do not see a profit from Soxfest. All profits go to Chisox charities. Instead of going to the bottom line, your $400 is going to things like building baseball fields for underprivledged kids. Doesn't the hotel get the money for the room? Considering they seperated the cost of the room and the weekend packages this year... I still don't understand doubling the price for the packages if it all goes to charity anyway. In past years it's gone up maybe 5 or 10 dollars but they've never doubled it.

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 13, 2006 -> 04:23 AM) Just looking at the PH capasity for their biggest area it's in the 4K range. That's for meetings, weddings, etc, so I would guess it doesn't include the vendor space Soxfest has, and the signing and seminar areas. I wouldn't be surprised to see them cap ticket sales a bit lower than that per day. Don't the Cubs hold their convention at this place every year? I just found something that said they only sell 15,000 tickets for the weekend. That's about what Soxfest has been in past years. Although if the rooms are smaller it may be a little more cramped.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 07:53 PM) For just the two of us to go it would cost over $400 ($249+75+75+food, parking, drinks, etc). There is no way for us to go for the weekend without spending at least that $400 according to the teams release. Basically the season ticketholders are the only ones who are going to be able to afford to go, because the casual fans who used to only have to pay for weekend passes, which used to be $30 a couple/few years ago, now would be paying about 13 times that amount just to attend the whole weekend. Sucks doesn't it? I am just waiting to see how much individual day passes will end up being. I'm guessing one one-day pass is going to be somewhere around $40. $50 for Saturday. QUOTE(aboz56 @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 07:47 PM) I'm definitely out at this point unless a reasonable explanation for the price jump is given. Somebody looked on Ebay last year and saw all the weekend passes everyone was making tons of money on because they only had two people staying in the room and got 4 passes with their reservation. Guess they decided they wanted that money for themselves...

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 04:27 PM) No. You will be required to buy a weekend HOTEL package. The capasity is roughly 1/5th of what it was at the Hyatt. Are you serious? Normal attendance at the Hyatt (exlcuding 2005) was about 10,000-12000 people throughout the weekend. Are you saying there's only going to be a few hundred tickets sold for each day?

Soxfest I guess this is the new crowd control. Doesn't look like I'll be going this year.

QUOTE(Steff @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 11:20 AM) Also IWC.. if a car falls from the sky and you hit it.. you have failed to yield. It's a stupid law for situations like the one that happened to you. I'm pretty sure that's where the truck I hit came from. I looked and did not see anyone in front of me. I didn't even see him on the side street where he came from. I looked away for a few seconds, look up again and BAM.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Sep 12, 2006 -> 10:46 AM) They may have swerved hard to try and miss the truck. Any number of reasons could come into play. They may have just trusted the driver was going to stop. Not specific to this but think about all the distractions we have placed in cars today. I've seen people sending text messages on their phones. OK, I've done that, and will stop. I will bet that everyone here has been distracted to the point of not being able to see a semi in their path. I'm certainly not blaming the teenagers in the car. It was mostly the truck driver's fault for pulling out in front of them in the first place. I just wonder if the accident could've been avoided at all if they had noticed the truck there in the first place. I had the same sort of thing happen to me. A pickup pulled out in front of me from a side street and STOPPED because he wanted to make a left hand turn. I might have been able to avoid him but 1) the posted speed limit was 55 MPH and 2) I was changing the CD in my radio. Of course I totaled my car AND got the ticket for "failing to yield".

If they struck the trailer of the truck and not the cab, then the driver of the car was either going pretty damn fast, or just did not see a huge truck in front of him in time to stop. Or possibly wet pavment played a factor with all the rain lately? The truck driver had to have been halfway across the intersection when the accident occured.

Anyone think they'll actually get the game in today? It's been raining all day and doesn't look to let up anytime soon. How soon would they call it? I have a long way to travel to go the game and hate to have to turn around and come right back home.

At some point in time when we found out we were having our third girl we realized that our names went J,K,M,N. We had to pick a name that started with L to connect them. Nobody ever realizes it unless we mention it. Did anyone see that show on Discovery (or TLC?) about that couple that had 16 kids and ALL their names started with J?

I got to drive through some of it coming home from camping. There was just enough of a break in the weather for us to get packed up and head home. Then we got home just in time to hear the sirens go off for the tornado warning.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 04:00 PM) The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet. QUOTE(Rex Hudler @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 08:26 PM) You must be old enough to have taken typing class The first time I learned that fact was while reading a story by Stephen King. Some pointless Stephen King facts: His first published novel was Carrie. He wrote the first book in his 7-book Dark Tower series in 1982. The last one came out 22 years later in 2004. *spoiler alert below* The first line of the first book and the last line of the last book are the same: "The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed."

QUOTE(Steff @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 06:23 PM) Calc was not a standard class when I was in HS. Is it now? Anything beyond algebra 1 and geom were not required. I had to apply to Calc and Trig and it was only for honor students. I did not have an actual accounting class until I got to college. Calc and Trig were only "required" for me because there weren't any other classes that interested me and I had to get my credits somehow. IIRC, by the time I was a senior in HS I had 2 classes that were actually required. Gym and Government. The rest were electives. QUOTE(bmags @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 06:18 PM) accounting formulas are usually taught in stat and calc classes anyways. Never took a stats class. If they were taught in calc I don't remember them.

Am I the only one that never had to take a single art or music class after 6th grade? I took shop, drafting, Spanish, computer and business classes as my electives. Everything else was filled in by the basic stuff that everyone had to take. Math, science, english, gym, etc... About dress codes, there are many companies out there that have some of the most satisfied employees simply because they don't have have a dress code or even a set schedule. There are even some places that have rec rooms in the building for the employees with video games and basketball courts. Some allow them to bring their pets to work with them. My company has a fairly loose dress code, any shirt with a collar and dress pants. I set in the basement in a cubicle and nobody ever sees me. I'm pretty sure if I came in wearing jeans and a t-shirt (which is allowed on Friday) I'd get the exact same amount of work done... QUOTE(BobDylan @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 03:27 PM) Why shouldn't I be forced to take an accounting class? I have to learn how to do my taxes, don't I? Actually no, not really. That's what TurboTax is for. I've never taken an accounting class in my life. To tell you the truth, a good 80% of the classes I've taken in high school and even college I've never used and probaby never will. 3 years of Spanish and I barely remember any of it. Haven't figured out a good use for the Trig or algebra classes I took. I took electricity 1 & 2 but the most I've ever done is change an outlet or two in my house...