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QUOTE(Texsox @ Jul 16, 2005 -> 06:41 PM) And the Psychologists will start calling over zealous T-ball coaches as having Downs Syndrome Exactly!

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jul 16, 2005 -> 06:38 PM) Do you have an era or timeframe for when he wrote? Or a style? I wanna say it is 1800s. I know it was a series of poems that he wrote about the death of his friend (there were hundreds of them) and eventually they got put into one book after his death (they were his personal way of coping and after his death they sold them, IIRC -- 4+ years since I took Brit Lit, haha)

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jul 16, 2005 -> 06:26 PM) T-Ball!! What a f***wad. Is it just me or is it totally hilarious that the coach's last name is Downs yet he is trying to discriminate against retarded kids? For all the news stories now he's gonna be called Mr. Downs.

Okay gang, I need an assist. There was a Brit lit set of poems written by a guy whose name I cannot remember -- it was a series of poems he had written about the death of friend and his coping with it. I can't for the life of me remember the name of the damn book and I want to suggest it to a friend of mine so any assists would be much appreciated.

He is doing work for free speech and some of his stuff is pretty amusing. I loved his discussion of Prop 187 in California saying he was getting everybody he could to vote for it (it would boot illegal Mexicans out) because he couldn't wait to see all the white people in the fields picking crops complaining about how hot it was etc.

QUOTE(Jimenez4MVP @ Jul 16, 2005 -> 11:32 AM) 50 Cent isnt a hack Comparatively to 2Pac's "Changes", anything by Public Enemy especially the ablum "Fear of a Black Planet", Run DMC etc. etc., 50 Cent is a no-talent hack. Listen to any song by 50 that wasn't produced by Dre/Eminem...the ones without Dre/Em are f***ing crap. Might I also mention that his hack rating also gets increased after booting the Game out of his "G-Unit" because the Game wouldn't participate in some sophomoric idiotic beef in an attempt to sell more records (when you don't have legit talent on your own to sell an album, always go for controversy!) A mediocre rapper who’s been shot and used to sell rocks will make millions. A great rapper with amazing skills who avoided drugs and violence and has a good education won’t sell any albums. It’s all about image, skills mean nothing these days.

While not great, at least Eminem kept some part of the heart of hip hop by addressing some issues that traditional hip hop (i.e. Public Enemy etc.) used to discuss. And while it is kind of calling Em "the world's tallest midget" at least he is better than 50 Cent, Fat Joe and the rest of those hacks.

QUOTE(sec159row2 @ Jul 15, 2005 -> 11:28 AM) yes, we could have a bigger threat... it's called the new york times Now *that* is some comedy.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/The%20Dai...rd-Goldberg.wmv Absolutely hilarious and great interview.

God bless capitalism!

I've been rocking a personal mix of Warren Zevon songs...the one that gets the most play has to be "Hit Somebody (The Hockey Song)". Its not only a brilliant song but gotta love the Dave Letterman cameo in it.

QUOTE(ChiSoxyGirl @ Jul 13, 2005 -> 11:09 AM) This is, of course, reinforced by the fact that these are grown men trying to get a brief glimpse of boob. From Coupling... Jeff: Sex can be very stressful for men. You judge us on technique, sensitivity, stamina... We're just happy if you're naked... half naked... one breast.

And he pushed a cameraman recently -- both hands knocked the guy on his ass. I wonder if he is going to get a 20 game suspension added on to his sentence.

In honor of the War of the Worlds thread... Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas -- Gilliam totally made that movie's ending and plot geared towards only people who had read the book! But for me realistically, it was Se7en, Usual Suspects, Sixth Sense the first time I saw it and Fight Club.

QUOTE(whitesoxin' @ Jul 11, 2005 -> 07:18 PM) I just got home and I'm not going to be able to watch it after Pudge, but I'm sticking with Texiera. What did Abreu do that's so amazing? He hit 24 hrs. in the first round.

$2.299 to $2.459 in Urbana.

Why do Balta, Kip and Toyota hate America so much?

Metal Gear (PS1) Punch Out (NES) And I've been playing a whole lot of Medal of Honor: Frontline for some reason.

People who cannot park within the clearly marked yellow lines. There is a softheaded moron who parks next to my spot and 3 times this week, he's double parked into my spot which means I gotta go out of my way and park down the block. People on bicycles in the streets when there are clearly marked bicycle lanes to use. People with incredibly small house numbers (in my job I have to find house numbers and so many people have really small ones -- one idiot even had his house numbers hidden by a giant set of bushes) As Soxy said, people that will inform those that don't care or want to know about their sex life. People who will say and do one thing only to later say "Well, you should have known I didn't want to do that." If they didn't want to do it then they should say so in the f***ing first place. People who get offended by something and then wait approximately a year to vent their outrage. People who refuse to recognize their own inherent hypocricy and continue to ride their high horse of never doing a thing wrong.

QUOTE(LosMediasBlancas @ Jul 9, 2005 -> 10:10 AM) Konerko should be running the bases with the older people. The rest of MLB does not need to see that some octogenarians can beat Kong around the bases in a race.

Wunsch's Season Comes to an End By Steve Henson, Times Staff Writer HOUSTON — Ken Griffey Jr., Shawn Green, Luis Gonzalez, Brian Giles, Jim Edmonds and Todd Helton can rest easier today. Kelly Wunsch will have surgery on his right ankle next week and sit out the rest of the season. ADVERTISEMENT The sidearm-slinging left-handed reliever made at-bats miserable for left-handed hitters, who were batting .194 against him. He ranks third in the majors with 45 appearances. But he suffered the strangest injury in a strangely injury-filled Dodger season, rolling the ankle throwing a pitch in the bullpen Thursday at Colorado. Team medical personnel determined that the ligament that holds the tendon in place dislodged, causing the tendon to slide over a bone. "He has done a terrific job and it is a substantial loss," Manager Jim Tracy said. "He came in during spring training and fulfilled the role we laid out for him." There are no left-handers in the Dodger bullpen. Wilson Alvarez will make a second triple-A rehabilitation appearance today and is expected to be activated after the All-Star break. However, Alvarez, 35, is not as resilient as Wunsch. "I have to be careful with Wilson," Tracy said. "There may be days I can't use him." The unfailingly pleasant and cerebral Wunsch also will be missed in the clubhouse. He spent his free time working crossword puzzles and reading novels, plowing through "The Lovely Bones," by Alice Sebold, "The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini and "The Historian," by Elizabeth Kostova in recent weeks. "I hope I made a good enough impression to warrant the Dodgers sticking with me," Wunsch said. "I'm hopeful I can start out here next spring with no problems." It was a strange sight for anyone familiar with Jeff Kent's frosty demeanor. One after another, Astro players gave him warm hugs before the game. Kent was their teammate in 2003 and 2004, and helped the Astros get to the brink of the World Series last season. "That was more of an inside joke than anything because I never gave anyone hugs when I was here," he said. "But that shows how much those guys care about what I do and how much I still care about them. That was pretty cool." Right-hander Brad Penny is available to pitch in relief either today or Sunday, Tracy said. Penny threw 109 pitches in 6 2/3 innings Wednesday at Colorado and is not scheduled start again until after the All-Star break. "You could see him come in to pitch the seventh, or even the sixth and seventh if we need a bridge to get to the back of the bullpen," Tracy said. Kent and Cesar Izturis aren't the only Dodgers headed to Detroit for All-Star festivities. Thanks to a new format in the home run contest, Hee-Seop Choi will participate. Eight players will represent eight nations and Choi will swing on behalf of South Korea. Choi has 13 home runs but has not hit one since June 14 when he capped a four-game, seven-homer spree with a homer against the Kansas City Royals.

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jul 7, 2005 -> 09:27 PM) That was then and this is now. Bush swore off the firewater something like 25 years ago and has been a man of good faith and morals since then. A liberal like you should be a lot less quick to judge someone who has cleaned up his life than a nasty 'ol conservative like me. Good faith and morals -- hahahahahahahahahahaha. Yes, denying people equal rights, starting a war that his own church said was immoral and illegal (he didn't even have the guts to meet with the bishop of his local church to talk to him about it during the buildup to war after numerous calls from the bishop) So please don't talk about Bush having good values and morals.

QUOTE(Cerbaho-WG @ Jul 9, 2005 -> 12:09 AM) I sincerely hope that this BoR is some sort of joke. http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/BillofRights.pdf And the greatest Bill of Right ever -There is no censorship on newspapers, printing, publishing, advertising, or media except by law. Hahahaha, are you kidding me? All in the great name of hope and freedom can anti-Semitism and loopholes for ambitious dictators exist in a constitution! If you listen closely, you can hear the Federalists doing barrel rolls in their coffins.

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article...t=.jsp&c_id=mlb Reliever Rafael Betancourt has run afoul of baseball's drug-testing policy and will have to serve a 10-day suspension, Indians general manager Mark Shapiro announced on Friday.

So they have no rights, people laugh when many released prisoners are released discussing their torture, laugh when the military discusses the extent of the torture as widespread, say that they are inhuman etc. etc. -- and then have to wonder why people would hate us? Please. Your moral throughway is the exact same mentality of the fundamentalists that accesorize with dynamite. Justifying torture and abusing people -- and Nuke a lot of the people in Abu Ghraib etc. are not taken off the battlefield -- Several military intelligence officers have made it known to human rights groups like the Red Cross that in the intelligence officers' opinion "70-90% had been arrested by mistake." But since when are little things like facts going to get in the way of Nuke's endless super-nationalism? Bush had said in March: “I expect them to be treated, the POWs, I expect to be treated humanely, just like we’re treating the prisoners that we have captured humanely." If sodomy with a broomstick is humane, then I shudder to think what the US considers is inhumane.