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QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 31, 2014 -> 07:42 AM) http://www.bleachernation.com/2014/10/30/t...ering-troubles/ Unlikely that a player would go to the Rays...as this possible tampering situation is MUCH under much different circumstances Maybe someone else did but I didn't hear of a single other team offering Maddon a job.

QUOTE (BigHurt3515 @ Oct 27, 2014 -> 07:27 PM) My first job was a busser at Chili's when I was 16 for about a year and a half. In my head, working at someplace like Chili’s is a lot like the movie Waiting.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 28, 2014 -> 10:39 AM) 2. Definitely time to panic.

So what’s the total number of people that have actually contracted it in this country (not brought it in from another country). Like 5?

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 27, 2014 -> 03:43 PM) To emphasize how epically bad SNL has gotten, they did a skit this weekend I actually thought could be funny. Jim Carrey was the host, and they did a Carrey Family Reunion skit where all of the characters show up as characters from his old movies. Sounds pretty funny, right? The only funny parts were when Jeff Daniels does a bit at the end as "grandpa lloyd" and when one of the characters jumps into the family picture at the very end as the Riddler. SNL is about as good as the Bears defense anymore. I liked it. Especially the part where they did the nod to Fire Marshal Bill. I’m kinda surprised they didn’t throw in somebody in a Grinch costume though.

I saw this yesterday and it kinda puts it into perspective. Number of deaths worldwide since October 3: Aids 1.28 million Tuberculosis 1.04 million Malaria 501,656 Ebola 3,330 I think some people are making this out to be a much bigger deal than it really is. Link

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Oct 23, 2014 -> 06:34 PM) C'mon, nobody has seen The Punisher with Thomas Jane? That might be one of the most low-key comic hero debuts ever...or Judge Dredd, not sure which. Dredd (the recent one, not the character played by Sly Stallone in the Sandra Bullock/Wesley Snipes iteration) was quite the entertaining movie, but very few noticed it. Stalone, Bullock and Snipes were in Demolition Man. Dredd had Diane Lane and Rob Schneider. I get those two movies mixed up too.

QUOTE (Chilihead90 @ Oct 23, 2014 -> 01:51 AM) Am I the only one NOT in to these dozens of comic book movies that come out every year? Seems like every other movie that comes out is about superheroes. Feels like such a cash cow and some Hollywood big wigs are laughing at the amount of money they are raking in by s***ting out comic book movies every few months. Just me? Same here. I’ve never read any of the comics and have only watched a handful of the movies. Typically I’ll catch them when they are on TBS or FX. None of them are “must-watch” for me though. I may eventually watch most of them but I’m pretty well resigned to the fact that I will perpetually be years behind everyone else. I’ve had Man of Steel and The Amazing Spiderman on my DVR for months now. I did enjoy the Iron Man and X-men movies though. The couple of Batman movies I watched just confused me. I’ve also seen the first 3 Spiderman movies (with Tobey Maguire) but not the 2 newer ones.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Oct 21, 2014 -> 11:07 AM) Sometimes I wonder why I even bother to sign my name correctly. It's not like it'll be checked against anything for authenticity. Until one day it is.

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Oct 17, 2014 -> 12:16 PM) I clearly don't know enough about cats...but if you put it inside and leave it there, isn't it now magically an "inside cat"? Is it outside all winter in below zero temps? Someone's letting it outside, no? Is it possible to have an electric fence or a leash on it or something? I don't think the answer is "well, it can do whatever it wants, it's an outdoor cat." It kinda depends on the cat and the owner. If it’s a cat that’s gotten used to going outside it’s whole life, then it would be difficult to turn it into an indoor cat. Especially if it’s never been litter trained. They also tend to stand at the door and make a ton of noise until you eventually let them out just to get them to shut up. I’ve never seen a tie-out leash or electric collar for a cat but I suppose it’s possible. Although that could make a cat more of a target for other animals as well. Every cat we’ve ever owned have been indoor cats. They live much longer lives staying inside.

We inherited a kitten when I was a kid that belonged to our neighbors. They had the mom but for some reason the kitten liked to stay on my parents large, covered front porch. He kept trying to run into the house every time we opened the door so eventually we just kept him. The neighbors didn’t seem to care either way. We have a cat now that is the most laid-back and lovable cat (he’s a Tonkinese) I’ve ever met. We found him roaming around my in-laws yard a few years ago. We later figured out the family that he belonged to but they made zero effort to find him and didn’t really seem to care that he was gone. We have no idea why he was outside because he’s not an outdoor cat at all. Some people are just bad pet owners.

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 12, 2014 -> 08:43 AM) I thought I was going to be banned at WSI in 2005. They had a poster in September who kept predicting the Sox would not make the playoffs. One of the two main mods made a deal. If the poster was wrong and the team did make the playoffs he would be suspended/banned. If he was right, and the team did not make the playoffs, he could stay. I responded that that was stupid. Why would you want a guy around saying "I told you so" instead of having the guy around to shame when the Sox made the playoffs? The next dozen posts all anticipated my banning. Somehow, I escaped the without punishment. That’s really been their downfall IMO. Posters are afraid to make fairly innocent comments like that out of fear of getting banned. Everyone walks on eggshells trying to not cross the line but nobody knows exactly where the line is. I can’t count the number of times I would read a post that started with some variation of “I hope this doesn’t get me banned but…” That’s just no way to run a good MB.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 10, 2014 -> 02:11 PM) I can't wait until we see the story about the cop that gets told "yeah I live here" and let's the place get robbed blind. I read somewhere that it has happened where a criminal jumped in the shower as the police showed up and claimed that he lived at the house he was in the process of robbing.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Oct 10, 2014 -> 08:30 AM) Police Pepper-Spray Black Teen After He Entered White Foster Parents' Home Another version with more detail.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Oct 9, 2014 -> 01:36 PM) Does anyone actually wear a watch to tell time now a days? My mom and my wife’s parents do. Mom keeps her cell phone in her purse and the in-laws don’t have cells phones.

My daughter is starting a job working at Little Caesar’s near our house. She goes to orientation on Saturday morning but she also has to complete some sort of food certification course online. They said it is a new law in Illinois that went into affect in July of this year. Cost is $15 but they are giving her some sort of voucher or something that makes it $10. I had never heard of this before but I researched it and apparently it’s legit. http://www.illinoisrestaurants.org/?page=F...afetyChangesHdl

QUOTE (pettie4sox @ Oct 9, 2014 -> 09:56 AM) Any of you guys wear tie clips? If so is it worth shelling out decent money for one? Recommendations would be appreciated as well. I got a fairly cheap one from Kohl’s. It does it’s job which for me is just keeping my tie straight. I get a little OCD when my tie is crooked. I don’t see the point in spending a ton of money on one but I have the same opinion about watches. Some people wear them (ties clips and watches both) for fashion over function.

QUOTE (LDF @ Oct 4, 2014 -> 07:18 PM) wsi, wow what a name from the past. the first mass exodus happen the night I registered here. look at the date is signed under my name and you can see the date. wsi had a great mod/admin from cali. I think his name was FarWestSide. a poster who was a construction something became a mod and he started a lot of crap. I took offense and came to a poster defense. it was a natsy fight, something like 2-3 hrs. Jason came on and told us about this site and I first signed up and then many others came over. FWS accuse me of trying to ruin his site. it was the construction guy, who through FWS bought ($$) into the site. I am sure there are still some who were on that site with me. that site was ruined. Hey TEX were you here when we had that huge arguement / fight with the espn white sox forum. If I remembered they had to shut it down to banned us? man I miss Yansy. You’re talking about FarWestChicago. AFAIK, he got married and moved to Canada. Him and his wife basically own/run the site from their own servers although I don’t know that either of them actually post anymore. The other guy you are talking about is Daver. He’s FWC’s right-hand man and he was/is a plumber. He’s never been wrong about a single subject either. Just ask him.

You can’t see their off-topic forums without logging in which is probably where the majority of the activity is now. Also their political forum is a completely separate board with separate registration. The place used to be fun but the mods got way too over-zealous in banning people for even minor infractions. The worst thing that ever happened to that place was that they started getting recognition from the local media and the team itself. So anything rated above PG is no longer allowed. I haven’t been back since I got banned for something I posted on a completely different message board.

I never thought I’d see the day were Stewie Griffin said “eat my shorts” and Bart Simpson said “What the deuce?”.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 18, 2014 -> 08:02 PM) Slightly related, f*** anyone that says bulls*** like "if your kids are out of control you're a bad parent." That's 100% bulls*** with little kids. Maybe a 16 year old you can say there's a failure in parenting, but not a kid under say like 6-7. Kids are wired from the day they're born to have certain traits. One of those is being incredibly strong willed and independent. I have a 2 year old son who is going through the terrible twos. He tests us every chance he gets. He purposefully does things to get a rise out of us. He's the complete opposite of my wife and I (as adults anyway). We just spent 3 days at Disney and for the most part he was great, but he had a couple meltdowns where he tried to run away and wouldn't listen or he just broke down and threw a tantrum. I guarantee you there were people thinking "oh what an out of control kid, clearly the parents fault." No, f*** that. We've done everything nearly by the book (which is bulls*** in and of itself given that every child is different and every parenting of a child should be different) and we're stuck with a strong willed 2 year old. That doesn’t sound like and out of control kid. That sound like a kid throwing a fit. It happens. At least you are making an effort to do something about it. I know a few parents that make no effort at all. Those are the ones with the out of control kids.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 18, 2014 -> 01:30 PM) While today''s generation of children may be better off as a result of escaping corporal punishment more than their predecessors, they also in many cases lack respect for their parents, their teachers, and their elders, and show a frightening lack of discipline and work ethic. They are overweight, have short attention spans, and are obsessed with instant gratification. QUOTE (iamshack @ Sep 18, 2014 -> 01:40 PM) The failure of some parents to administer any kind of discipline or exert appropriate control over their children is gravy. I think you’ve gone to the opposite extreme of no discipline at all. There are ways to discipline children other than hitting them. The thing is you have to start when they are young and you have to be consistent. Being a parent is not easy.

I finally decided to look it up. I get 100MB of data a month.

After having been an US Cellular customer since I got my very first cell phone at some point in the mid 90’s, I think I need to switch service providers. I talked to customer service last night and they have a “dead zone” along I-90 somewhere between Belvidere and Huntley. I’ve been constantly either dropping calls or not receiving them at all while driving to work in the morning. I was told that it’s likely at some point on the road where my signal switches to roaming. Once I get closer to Chicago the signal seems to be ok but I am roaming. I even went into a store and they flat out told me that I should probably switch to someone else. I’m a bit overwhelmed with all the choices and what would be the best and cheapest option. I currently pay around $180/month for 5 basic phones. I have data on mine but I have no idea how much. I don’t have a smart phone but I do have (barely) internet access on it. My wife and I want to upgrade to smart phones and the kids would stay with basic phones. I checked Verizon’s website last night and it looks like I’m looking at a minimum of $200/month. Is there an easy way to compare plans, prices and coverage?

QUOTE (greg775 @ Sep 14, 2014 -> 02:23 PM) I did read the school has a policy if you are texting or talking on phone it is confiscated and you have to pay 15 bucks to get it back. That is awesome policy. I wonder what policies are in college. If some brat is using their cellphone during your lecture, can you kick them out of class or take the phone? I would think all kids are doing in college lecture halls these days is surfing the Web and texting. What do teachers do nowadays? That would be annoying if you were trying to give a lecture and half the class is texting. I'd tell the little darlings in my class if I see you texting your grade immediately goes down a letter. The administration probably wouldn't back me up, though. I think once you get to college you are an adult and typically you are spending your own money to be there. If you want to waste it by not paying attention during the lecture, that’s your problem.