Jun 17 2005 07:34 AM
How much more money than you're currently getting would you need to take that job in Perth?
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| cooby Jun 09 2005 01:38 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 09 2005 04:28 PM |
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Willets Point:
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| MFS62 Jun 09 2005 01:51 PM |
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Cold cereal. I love to let it get soggy from the milk.
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| Willets Point Jun 09 2005 02:02 PM Answer/Ask: A New Beginning |
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Shaa, as if!
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| ScarletKnight41 Jun 09 2005 03:27 PM |
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We do.....We do!!!!!!!
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| Swan Swan H Jun 09 2005 03:35 PM |
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Julie Murphy Wells, who is in a band called Eddie From Ohio.
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| Edgy DC Jun 09 2005 03:43 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 15 2005 11:03 PM |
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I had a Pretenders shirt from the Learning to Crawl tour in high school that I loved. I felt deep regret for it's obscure loss year' later when I saw one of the guys in Crazy Horse wearing it on the sleeve of the Neil Young/Crazy Horse reunion album.
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| Willets Point Jun 09 2005 03:57 PM |
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It will probably be precipitated by my soon-to-be-wife and I purchasing real estate in, which we plan to do sometime 12 to 24 monts from now. You know, we'll pay top dollar and the next day the bottom will fall out.
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| cooby Jun 09 2005 04:03 PM |
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I like cinnamon sugar best, with butter to keep it sticking there.
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| soupcan Jun 09 2005 04:11 PM |
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With milk and brown sugar.
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| cooby Jun 09 2005 04:12 PM |
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Oh, no there's that song again
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| SwitchHitter Jun 09 2005 06:10 PM |
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Clean laundry....my computer's in my laundry room or my washer's in my computer room. Whatever.
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| Swan Swan H Jun 09 2005 07:42 PM |
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I start with garlic and rough chopped onions in olive oil, then before the garlic gets brown I add red and green peppers and sliced portabella mushrooms, plus salt and pepper. Once this cooks to the point that the peppers are soft, but not completely cooked, I add chunks of chicken breast. When the chicken is browned and mostly cooked, I add a can of plain diced tomatoes, with the juice, plus some basil and oregano.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jun 09 2005 07:42 PM |
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Cookies. I make great toll house cookies.
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| TheOldMole Jun 12 2005 08:54 AM |
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It was the one just before the pardon came from the governor.
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| Iubitul Jun 12 2005 08:59 AM |
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Don't laugh, that happened to me when the real estate bubble bust in the late 80's
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| TheOldMole Jun 12 2005 04:30 PM |
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You just have to think of it as your home, not as an investment.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jun 12 2005 04:54 PM |
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To answer The Mole's quesiton, no. I've already ceased being Pat Mahomes.
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| Vic Sage Jun 13 2005 12:03 PM |
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Haagen Daz "Dulce de Leche"
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| TheOldMole Jun 13 2005 02:10 PM |
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Almost anyone from Dickens, but I'll go for Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Pumblechook.
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| MFS62 Jun 13 2005 02:15 PM |
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No, I like it so hot that when I get into my car, I get third degree burns on my fingers when I touch the steering wheel. Its now about 5 degrees below that point.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jun 13 2005 02:16 PM |
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Yup. But I don't wanna be one of those weather-complaining guys.
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| cooby Jun 13 2005 03:19 PM Edited 3 time(s), most recently on Jun 13 2005 03:22 PM |
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Cappuccino Freeze
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| Willets Point Jun 13 2005 03:20 PM |
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Question?
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| SwitchHitter Jun 13 2005 06:45 PM |
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Ice cream cones--they come in better flavors and there's no stick to deal with when you're done.
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| cooby Jun 14 2005 09:16 AM |
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"This car will need rustproofing, and we've already scheduled it, at an additional cost to you"
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| sharpie Jun 14 2005 09:33 AM |
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As is. And we go through a lotta strawberries around my house.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jun 14 2005 09:37 AM |
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Probably "Rock with You" or possibly "Smooth Criminal" but maybe "Ben."
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| MFS62 Jun 14 2005 09:37 AM |
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Bad
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| soupcan Jun 14 2005 10:04 AM |
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Off The Wall.
Big ELO fan - There were so many good ones - Evil Woman, Living Thing, Mr. Blue Sky, Turn to Stone, Don't Bring Me Down, Telephone Line... Pick any one of those and I'd agree although I do like Don't Bring Me Down quite a bit. No Ipswich clams this summer due to REd Tide on the North Shore! What the hell am I gonna do!!??
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| sharpie Jun 14 2005 10:34 AM |
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Order the lobster roll instead.
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| seawolf17 Jun 14 2005 12:29 PM |
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Depends on where you are; if I'm on the road, it's usually just fast food for a couple of bucks. If I'm feeling especially wealthy, I might drop ten or twelve bucks at a Friday's or a diner or the like. Anything more than that and I feel like I'm spending too much.
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| MFS62 Jun 14 2005 12:32 PM |
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The bomp was provided by Tine Turner
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| sharpie Jun 14 2005 12:45 PM |
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"I'm Henry VIII I Am" by Herman's Hermits. Not many words, second verse same as the first and all that.
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| MFS62 Jun 14 2005 12:52 PM |
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Chicago
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| TheOldMole Jun 14 2005 03:34 PM |
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I'm too old, so my reply shouldn't count. But it was Jo-Ann Campbell, the Blonde Bombshell. I saw her at an Alan Freed Times Square Christmas concert. The part I liked best was when she bent forward to take a bow.
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| MFS62 Jun 14 2005 04:17 PM |
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(showin' my age, too) The Vincent Price version of The House of Wax.
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| Vic Sage Jun 15 2005 04:52 PM |
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the BLAIR WITCH PROJECT was not only NOT as scary as friends suggested, it was not scary at all! It was, however, extremely annoying and utterly tedious.
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| TheOldMole Jun 15 2005 10:13 PM |
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Night of the Living Dead. I thought it was just another slasher film. I was riveted with terror the whole time.
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| seawolf17 Jun 16 2005 03:02 PM |
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I started typing the short version of this story, but there really is no short version, so here's the regular version.
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| soupcan Jun 16 2005 03:58 PM |
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3.
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| cooby Jun 16 2005 04:23 PM |
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It's a pretty lameass story. In fact as I was reading I thought "this is a pretty lameass story".
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| ScarletKnight41 Jun 16 2005 04:59 PM |
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Yes - I was in Charleston. I started the day running on the beach (it was gorgeous!), did some sightseeing, and then flew home to my family.
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| TheOldMole Jun 16 2005 07:37 PM |
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Probably Sonny Rollins, who played at Opus 40. There's a story about that, which I'll post at Spinoff.
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| MFS62 Jun 16 2005 08:23 PM |
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History of New York State
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| Rockin' Doc Jun 16 2005 11:51 PM |
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Biology I class as a college freshman.
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| Edgy DC Jun 17 2005 07:34 AM |
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| Johnny Dickshot Jun 21 2005 09:41 AM |
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I'll say, 4.5 times.
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| Edgy DC Jun 21 2005 09:48 AM |
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a) Yup
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| sharpie Jun 21 2005 12:03 PM |
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What? No "Blowin' Your Mind featuring the Hit Brown Eyed Girl." Anyway, using this (incomplete) list and going only through albums I know (I kind of skipped most of the lat e '70's through the '80's):
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| Willets Point Jun 21 2005 12:25 PM |
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Sheena is a Punk Rocker (my favorite at least)
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| Edgy DC Jun 21 2005 12:49 PM |
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Wow. In no order
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| TheOldMole Jun 22 2005 12:39 AM |
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The Crickets.
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| soupcan Jun 22 2005 09:41 AM |
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My big round glasses that 13 years ago looked soooo 'downtown' but now in pictures of myself from those years look sooooo freakin' dweeby.
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| Edgy DC Jun 22 2005 09:43 AM |
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Bouncing my leg under the table until the china is a-hoppin'.
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| soupcan Jun 22 2005 10:10 AM |
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There is something wrong with you.
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| cooby Jun 22 2005 10:12 AM |
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Wow, Edgy, do you own all those? If so, I am coming to Washington after all...
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| Edgy DC Jun 22 2005 10:25 AM |
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Just a cut-and-paste job. Feel free to stick with your top five or so, based on what you've seen.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jun 22 2005 10:29 AM |
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There's still an extra ticket if you want it!
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| cooby Jun 22 2005 10:33 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 22 2005 10:48 AM |
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Oh, well then....
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| ScarletKnight41 Jun 22 2005 10:37 AM |
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Toothbrush/Toothpaste
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| Willets Point Jun 22 2005 11:39 AM |
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Apologize. Give them time. Be a friend.
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| soupcan Jun 22 2005 11:44 AM |
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Easy.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jun 22 2005 11:52 AM |
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I'll go with Keira Knightly, just to hear her say something like "My goodness, a right rogering that was indeed."
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| sharpie Jun 22 2005 12:32 PM |
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About $75 or so for some Italian leather ones a year or two ago. They held up well until they didn't. Was it worth it? I don't feel that I didn't get good use out of them so I'll say yes.
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| RealityChuck Jun 23 2005 03:40 PM |
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1. Baby Face
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| MFS62 Jun 23 2005 03:58 PM |
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I Left My Heart in San Francisco
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| sharpie Jun 23 2005 04:30 PM |
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I'll limit myself to 10 and limit myself to Beatles songs:
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| Johnny Dickshot Jun 23 2005 05:07 PM |
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(edited twice)
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| Edgy DC Jun 23 2005 05:11 PM |
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It's perhaps more important, since the records of an A-Ball game won't be so easily accessible elsewhere.
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| sharpie Jun 23 2005 05:24 PM |
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Memphis, Tennessee (Chuck Berry)
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| TheOldMole Jun 23 2005 09:38 PM |
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Five that come to mind -- I don't know that they're the top. But I'm eschewing "You" completely
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| Edgy DC Jun 24 2005 12:02 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 24 2005 09:32 AM |
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"Positively Fourth Street" -- Dylan
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| sharpie Jun 24 2005 08:56 AM |
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Bounced offa sleeveless white shirt guys hands, hits sleeveless Mets shirt guys shoulder and ends up in the pocket of the black guy with the shades.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jun 24 2005 02:18 PM |
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I've always been a fan of beneath shady trees. Bring a book and tall glass of icy beverage.
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| Willets Point Jun 24 2005 02:38 PM |
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$15 plus tip.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jun 24 2005 02:42 PM |
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Alan B, my 6th grade boyfriend. We went to Hebrew school together. I think we kissed one time during the time we were seeing each other. I think it was after seeing a movie together, along with my family. I'll check on the google, but even if I find him I'm not posting the info here - sorry.
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| RealityChuck Jun 27 2005 01:20 PM |
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Pam G. We were friends, and she had something of a crush on me, but I never thought of her as more than just a friend. She ended up getting a bit screwed up (though last I heard, she was doing fine). I kind of felt that if I had reciprocated, things wouldn't have been so rough for her.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jun 27 2005 01:27 PM |
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In high school, I met N at a friend's party. Nice guy, I was interested, and I checked him out with some mutual friends, who assured me that he was, indeed, a decent guy.
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| Edgy DC Jun 27 2005 01:57 PM Edited 3 time(s), most recently on Jun 27 2005 02:25 PM |
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My schooboy chum friend Fred. Back then a shy lad with less luck in love than me. And that wasn't much. He passed me good.
------- He gets a quick response
He proposed in letter three or something. Two kids and two guinea pigs later, they live in Georgia and communicate better. _________________________________________________ The publisher calls you up. Buttload of money to create their new suphero. The need a sketch by five. What's the name? What are the superpowers? Male or female? Age, occupation, background? How did he or she come into his or her powers. What color suit? What's his or her particluar vulnerablity? What city does she or he hail from? Real city or fictional? Secret identity or outed? Who is he or she going to fight in thier first issue?
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| Johnny Dickshot Jun 27 2005 02:04 PM |
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The suspense is fucking unbearable. C'mon Fred! Did she say "yes" or what?!?
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| MFS62 Jun 27 2005 02:44 PM |
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What's the name? Rain Man
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| sharpie Jun 27 2005 03:09 PM |
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Brown going to black because his head is perpetually wet --- he's Rain Man.
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| Edgy DC Jun 27 2005 04:54 PM |
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Shopping for a dog for my Edgy-in-Law.
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| soupcan Jun 27 2005 04:58 PM |
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You mean after Rehnquist?
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| seawolf17 Jun 27 2005 05:00 PM |
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Chocolate. There are no other flavors.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jun 27 2005 07:06 PM |
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Fribble.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jun 27 2005 07:15 PM |
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Cold Stone Creamery. Gotta love the mix ins and the clever combos. Plus the ice cream itself is very high quality.
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| Edgy DC Jun 27 2005 07:31 PM |
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The Dream Team (or some other stupid title).
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| cooby Jun 28 2005 08:15 AM |
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Of course it will work! And this is why:
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| soupcan Jun 28 2005 11:54 AM |
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Creamsicles are, like, my favorite friggin ice cream bars.
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| RealityChuck Jun 28 2005 12:24 PM |
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No preference.
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| Willets Point Jun 28 2005 02:23 PM |
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I like the song "Hello, I must be going" from Animal Crackers.
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| seawolf17 Jun 28 2005 04:22 PM |
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This would be a tie between every kid's fantasy (Game 7, bottom of the ninth, two out, bases juiced, me at the plate and Armando Benitez throwing meatballs on the mound) and playing on stage with one of my favorite bands (Aerosmith, Thunder, etc.).
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| TheOldMole Jun 29 2005 08:38 AM |
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This is a fantasy, right? We don't have to choose living guys? I'd being playing piano behind Charlie Parker doing "Parker's Mood" or congas behind Tito Puente doing "Oye Como Va."
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| sharpie Jun 29 2005 08:45 AM |
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Italian.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jun 29 2005 09:21 AM |
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1986. Saw the Mets win at Shea, then went to Battery Park City for the fireworks in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. We went with a bunch of friends - it was spectacular.
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| RealityChuck Jun 29 2005 03:53 PM |
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Rare roast beef on fresh Mont Pleasant rye bread with Russian dressing and a Ba-tempte half-sour pickle on the side. Ideally, it should be from Hy Sofer's Kosher Deli in Schenectady, but you'd need a time machine for that -- they've been out of business for about 20 years.
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| soupcan Jun 29 2005 04:45 PM |
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I got into music relatively late in life and it wasn't until Billy Joel's 1977 album The Stranger that I can remember actully plunking down my own cash to buy an record.
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| SwitchHitter Jun 29 2005 06:27 PM |
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Not. NTTAWWT
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| seawolf17 Jun 29 2005 06:27 PM |
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Gas. Cooking with electric sucks.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jun 30 2005 07:09 AM |
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Gotta have charcoal. I go with the Weber smoky joe for most BBQ-ing, but also have a charcoal water smoker and now the big-ass Chinese box (also charcoal). Gas, schmass.
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| MFS62 Jun 30 2005 07:15 AM |
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gas
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| SwitchHitter Jul 03 2005 03:25 AM |
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My favorite quick barbecue sauce is 50/50 Dr Pepper and ketchup.
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| sharpie Jul 03 2005 03:52 PM |
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Beans. No Texan am I.
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| TheOldMole Jul 03 2005 09:52 PM |
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Pinto. Refritos.
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| cooby Jul 05 2005 10:07 PM |
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We eat a lot of toast.
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| Willets Point Jul 05 2005 10:27 PM |
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I'm not so greedy, but I'm less of a celebrity hound, so I'll take the money.
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| RealityChuck Jul 06 2005 11:50 AM |
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Because the sky is blue: it turns me on.
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| soupcan Jul 06 2005 11:58 AM |
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Trading Spouses, Wife Swap, Nanny 911 and whatever that other nanny show is called. I could replace all these shows with one that would get quadruple the ratings of all of them combined.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jul 06 2005 12:04 PM |
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I dunno for sure, but I'd guess they have a machine for that.
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| TheOldMole Jul 06 2005 01:04 PM |
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How about a get-killed investment? I gave my entire life savings to a reputable (I thought) financial planner at the beginning of the boom, for a growth fund which matured in ten years. It matured just before the end of the boom, at which point it was worth...nothing.
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| cooby Jul 09 2005 05:32 PM |
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Our 401K is worth about 8 times what it was 18 months ago, mostly because we didn't do anything when our stock tanked then.
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| Rockin' Doc Jul 09 2005 10:53 PM |
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Most of the time I do.
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| Matt Murdock, Esq. Jul 10 2005 02:26 AM Q |
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if its baked, it has to be a sweet potato
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| sharpie Jul 11 2005 10:40 AM |
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Nathans or Hebrew National. Either one.
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| Edgy DC Jul 11 2005 10:51 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 11 2005 11:01 AM |
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Well, meat.
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| Yancy Street Gang Jul 11 2005 10:58 AM |
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Six months in prison and a $250,000 fine, that he'd be responsible for paying over the course of his life.
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| seawolf17 Jul 11 2005 11:02 AM |
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At some point, Peanuts has to go. Give it a nice sendoff; re-run a month or two of classic strips, and let it go. It's not even the best dog-related comic strip out there; that title went to Mutts a long time ago.
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| MFS62 Jul 11 2005 11:52 AM |
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A woodchuck would chuck just as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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| SwitchHitter Jul 11 2005 04:09 PM |
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Aloe gel with a topical anesthetic. And drink lots of water.
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| Rockin' Doc Jul 11 2005 07:59 PM |
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Well, this one comes to mind.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jul 11 2005 08:16 PM |
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Paperofrecord.com -- sporting news archives up the wazoo... I think it was $100 for 2 years or something. Worth it!
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| cooby Jul 11 2005 08:25 PM |
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Yes we do Widey and we go through a lot of water. When I worked at Mellon Bank, they made us pay for it, can you believe it? Cheapskates.
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| soupcan Jul 11 2005 09:13 PM |
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Hershey bars that I dip into a jar of peanut butter.
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| Iubitul Jul 11 2005 09:21 PM |
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22 - a 1985 Chevy Cavalier that ran great for 179,000 miles until it went out in a blaze of glory when the Mrs. flipped it over.
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| TheOldMole Jul 11 2005 10:04 PM |
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53 Nash Rambler convertible, The top wouldn't go up.
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| MFS62 Jul 12 2005 02:27 PM |
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I never have bought a car that wasn't an America brand. (Of course, many of them may have had major components manufactured out of the country). But I didn't go looking just to buy American. It just worked out that way. I would buy a foreign brand if the car met my requirements.
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| RealityChuck Jul 13 2005 09:45 AM |
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No, but my parents once owned an Edsel.
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| Rockin' Doc Jul 13 2005 01:05 PM |
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My first personal computer was a Packard Bell with a 386SX processor with a processing speed of 32 megabits. It had 16 MB of RAM (maybe it was 32 MB RAM, I'm not sure) and a 4800 baud modem. No windows program, it ran on MS-DOS w/ DOS-Shell. What a piece of crap. It was also the most expensive computer I ever bought.
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| cooby Jul 19 2005 04:28 PM |
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I don't know but the hard drive buzzes a lot so it must be very powerful.
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| metirish Jul 19 2005 04:36 PM |
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I think she was indicted by the Goverment, IRS and all that.
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| TheOldMole Jul 19 2005 10:03 PM |
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No.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jul 19 2005 10:09 PM |
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MK is Spartacus.
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| Edgy DC Jul 19 2005 10:23 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jul 19 2005 10:49 PM |
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Beckett.
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| Rockin' Doc Jul 19 2005 10:24 PM |
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Damn Edgy was too quick for me. So I withdrew my answer to the worst name question.
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| cooby Jul 20 2005 12:39 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Jul 20 2005 01:01 PM |
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Not all dolls are babies:
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| seawolf17 Jul 20 2005 12:55 PM |
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| cooby Jul 20 2005 12:58 PM |
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Damn, that Barbie picture was cute, too
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| Vic Sage Jul 20 2005 01:08 PM |
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The Impossibles, in the mid-60s. They were a rock group who were also super-heroes... Coil-man (he had springs for legs), fluid-man (turned into water), multi-man (made duplicates of himself). there may have been another one, but i don't remember.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jul 27 2005 01:11 PM |
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(avoiding a car-crash here....)
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| cooby Jul 28 2005 08:23 AM |
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I subscribe to Readers Digest magazine. I like it because they have a lot of different things to read and "do" in it, but I wish they'd stop putting those pasteboard ads for trashy "art" you can send for for a ridiculous price in between practically every page.
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| seawolf17 Jul 28 2005 09:02 AM |
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I definitely don't feel like being here today. If it was a little sunnier, I'd suggest we all get together for the First Annual CPF Wiffle Ball (or Softball, but JD's a ringer) Game and Picnic. But I suppose that's an idea for another day...
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| Rockin' Doc Jul 28 2005 01:14 PM |
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I generally prefer rain over snow. It's too damn cold when it snows and it is far to disruptive to life (at least it is here in the south). If I wish to see snow, I prefer to go to it, I'd rather it not come to where I am.
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| MFS62 Jul 28 2005 01:29 PM |
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That depends on the humidity of that hot day. As a general rule, you can always put on extra clothing to stay warm on a cold day. But there are generally limits of what you can take off (on a hot day) without getting arrested. For that reason, I'd take the cold day.
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| Willets Point Jul 28 2005 02:00 PM |
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Yeah, I'm a rather pasty lad so I slather myself in SPF 30 before going outside.
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| MFS62 Jul 28 2005 02:23 PM |
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Head of the Government Accounting Office. (And I'm not an accountant)
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| seawolf17 Jul 29 2005 09:48 AM |
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Shows, sports, movies... in that order. I almost never watch TV (except for a ballgame) when my wife's not around. We almost never watch movies, and really never on TV, because we never feel like giving up two hours like that unless it's something we've rented.
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| cooby Aug 09 2005 03:10 PM |
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Dusty Bottoms. Because it sounds neat.
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| TheOldMole Aug 09 2005 03:23 PM |
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Tell my grandson I need ten minutes more sleep before I play with him.
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| Edgy DC Aug 09 2005 03:28 PM |
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Clarification. Does their US debut have to come within a certain timeframe?
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 09 2005 03:28 PM |
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The Kinks.
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| Edgy DC Aug 09 2005 03:28 PM |
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Dickshot makes my point moot. I'll take his...
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| Edgy DC Aug 09 2005 03:46 PM |
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1) No virtuosos, just rock 'n' roll.
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| Edgy DC Aug 10 2005 10:43 AM |
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OK, don't cybertstalk then.
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| seawolf17 Aug 10 2005 10:56 AM |
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All the voters were calling me
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| Willets Point Aug 10 2005 12:21 PM |
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I'm fond of Harry Truman.
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| seawolf17 Aug 11 2005 08:19 AM |
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You might consider beating on the brat.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 11 2005 09:30 AM |
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Pure Evil. J.K. Rowling cannot understand how anyone can sympathize with him.
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| Vic Sage Aug 11 2005 10:25 AM |
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milk and 2 sugars.
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| sharpie Aug 14 2005 01:24 PM |
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I do like to dig into a plate of Pad Kee Mow.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2005 01:56 PM |
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Indian. It's the only one that gives me digestion problems.
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| cooby Aug 15 2005 03:37 PM |
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I guess that would have to be Babs, and I would serve her my famous (at least among my friends) meatballs. Then I would ask her to please sing a few numbers from Yentl.
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| seawolf17 Aug 15 2005 03:40 PM |
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Something light, to me, is a nice robust salad with some pieces of chicken.
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| cooby Aug 15 2005 03:41 PM |
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I knew this place needed livened up.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 15 2005 03:42 PM |
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When I want to make a quick, light meal I'll bake some potatoes and let people then put whatever fillings they want on them and nuke them. It can be as light or substantial as you want.
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| Iubitul Aug 15 2005 03:51 PM |
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There isn't enough money in the world to get me to see Babs sing, but I would go to meet Cooby and try her meatballs.... What (relatively) popular singer would you never go see, no matter how much you were paid to do so?
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| metirish Aug 15 2005 03:53 PM |
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What is your favorite way to prepare potatoes?
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| cooby Aug 15 2005 03:54 PM |
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Oh ho ho, that is so easy. Celine Dion.
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| seawolf17 Aug 15 2005 03:56 PM |
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Did it last night, actually. Our front yard grows uncontrollably, and is full of all sorts of strange weedy grasses. I wish I could just get someone to come in, clear out all the crap that's overrunning our flowerbeds and our grass, and then let me start from scratch.
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| Rockin' Doc Aug 15 2005 11:02 PM |
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I'm a do it yourself landscaper. I take pride in keeping the yard lush and I enjoy being out in the sun.
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| cooby Aug 15 2005 11:06 PM |
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I love all flowers, my two favorites are lilacs and marigolds, I love the colors, I love the way they both smell.
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| TheOldMole Aug 15 2005 11:32 PM |
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What catches my eye....and tomatoes.
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| Edgy DC Aug 16 2005 08:25 AM |
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After paying homage to my parents, I'm driving up to Binghamton (B-Mets for me, classic carousels for her) and then Cooperstown (Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). Having already done much of the Lower Hudson Valley last year what else should we make plans to visit nearby?
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| MFS62 Aug 16 2005 08:44 AM |
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If it wil be going on, the Boonville Fair used to be a quaint place to vist.
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| cooby Aug 16 2005 09:24 AM |
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Edgy, make sure you go to the Petrified Creatures Museum, which is a few miles north of Cooperstown
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 16 2005 09:29 AM |
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My window is on the first floor, so I think a bird would be the most likely.
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| MFS62 Aug 16 2005 09:40 AM |
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Depends on whatthey need. If its an appetizer, then it would be my almost lethal mango salsa and chips.
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| SwitchHitter Aug 16 2005 01:10 PM |
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This varies depending on what mood I'm in. Most often I'd have to say spaghetti sauce.
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| soupcan Aug 16 2005 01:42 PM |
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I don't know that it qualifies as a 'cookbook' per se, but the recipes on the back of the Kraft Macaroni & Cheese box work really nicely for me when I'm babysiting.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 16 2005 01:53 PM |
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Desperately holding on to summer. I hate the 6:45 am alarm clock during the school year.
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| Willets Point Aug 16 2005 02:03 PM |
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Kickball.
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 16 2005 02:07 PM |
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Masks. That way nobody would have to know that I was a model.
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| Willets Point Aug 16 2005 02:14 PM |
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It already has!
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 16 2005 02:17 PM |
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Kaz Matsui is a good ballplayer.
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| SwitchHitter Aug 17 2005 02:34 PM |
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By pouring water on you.
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| Vic Sage Aug 17 2005 03:24 PM |
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The Mach 5.
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| seawolf17 Aug 17 2005 03:36 PM |
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It would have to be the original Transformers, with an honorable mention to Voltron. And not just because I thought Princess Allura was smokin' hot.
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| cooby Aug 17 2005 03:47 PM |
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No, demented is easy.
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| Willets Point Aug 17 2005 03:50 PM |
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I don't think it's humanly possible to live without salt, so I'll go with pepper.
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| sharpie Aug 17 2005 03:59 PM |
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Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower
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| Vic Sage Aug 17 2005 04:51 PM |
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I love THE HARDER THEY COME, both the movie and the Jimmy Cliff soundtrack, but as for Bob Marley, being that i'm woefully ignorant about Reggae, i don't know what his "best" song was, but my favorite Marley song is probably "no woman, no cry".
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| TheOldMole Aug 17 2005 07:22 PM |
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The African Queen, even though he only has a small role.
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| Matt Murdock, Esq. Aug 17 2005 10:25 PM |
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SCARAMOOOOOSH!
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| TheOldMole Aug 18 2005 09:57 AM |
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That was the right answer.
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| MFS62 Aug 18 2005 10:07 AM |
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Every 1940's "Let's put on a show" role Judy Garland had. I would have replaced her with Jane Powell. Question: How would you cast the Nick and Nora Charles roles if the Thin Man movies were made today? Later
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 18 2005 12:05 PM |
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I read somewhere that somebody suggested George Clooney and Julia Roberts, and that sounded pretty good to me.
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| MFS62 Aug 18 2005 12:48 PM |
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Yancy,
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| cooby Aug 18 2005 02:47 PM |
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My mom and dad are both past 73 and both are going strong (my mom, in fact played the part of a 16 year old in a play last week), thank you. They are not only an inspiration to me but also proof that people in their 70's are not necessarily infirm.
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| TheOldMole Aug 18 2005 05:46 PM |
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Paying down a debt, without question. You'll never get the interest on savings that you're paying on the debt.
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| MFS62 Aug 18 2005 08:07 PM |
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The little one-liners in the margins in very small type. (Do they still do that? I haven't seen a Mad for many years.)
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| Vic Sage Aug 19 2005 02:35 PM |
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The Max Fleisher cartoons were made from 1941-1943, with Superman voiced by Bud Collyer. Terrific animation for its time and, though the stories were kind of lame and formulaic, still have resonance.
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| Willets Point Aug 19 2005 02:52 PM |
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Pretty much most of the time.
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| Rockin' Doc Aug 19 2005 03:00 PM |
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"Which is better, 1 or 2?"
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 19 2005 03:04 PM |
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Thanksgiving.
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| TheOldMole Aug 19 2005 03:15 PM |
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Yes.
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| soupcan Aug 19 2005 05:02 PM |
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Not me.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 19 2005 05:07 PM |
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She's the woman whose son died in Iraq and who is camping out in front of President Bush's ranch during his 5-week vacation.
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| TheOldMole Aug 19 2005 05:15 PM |
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Actually, that one did. I did go to a vigil, and according to MoveOn.org, they registered about 100,000 people nationwide. In Saugerties there were about 60 people...I've talked to other people in different parts of the country who reported 200-300. Very orderly, dignified, not like the old days (which were kinda more fun, but then, being younger is always more fun).
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| Willets Point Aug 19 2005 06:14 PM |
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Finnegan's Wake. I actually got about a 1/4 of the way through before giving up.
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| TheOldMole Aug 19 2005 07:15 PM |
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The first two books of Remembrance of Things Past. And I'm gonna read the whole thing, dammit!
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 19 2005 08:03 PM |
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| TheOldMole Aug 19 2005 09:01 PM |
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Heh heh...forgot...ok, Larry...
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 19 2005 10:00 PM |
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I'd say like, $7. Once you get much below that, you're looking for an ATM.
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| Willets Point Aug 22 2005 04:36 PM |
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Muck Brawl. Basically, four contestants face off for two rounds of mud wrestling. The championship round is played in a tub of Jello.
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| MFS62 Aug 22 2005 04:50 PM |
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Your CPF Volleyball team:
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 22 2005 04:54 PM |
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I don't do volleyball. It's hell on the manicure!
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| Willets Point Aug 22 2005 05:21 PM |
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MFS, you can pick one more player in addition to yourself.
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| MFS62 Aug 22 2005 07:14 PM |
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Mom, but now you would have an excuse for another trip to the spa.
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| TheOldMole Aug 22 2005 10:57 PM |
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Misty May & Kerri Walsh: We'd get killed, but it would be worth it.
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| MFS62 Aug 23 2005 08:02 AM |
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It would have been the year that Microsoft went public. I would have bought a lot of their stock.
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| cooby Sep 12 2005 09:10 AM |
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Not going to college. I've never really regretted it, but it was probably not a good decision.
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| seawolf17 Sep 17 2005 10:18 AM |
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Wow, this snuck all the way onto the second page.
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| MFS62 Sep 17 2005 10:24 AM |
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My Hopalong Cassidy gunbelt, holster and pistol set.
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| TheOldMole Sep 18 2005 11:03 AM |
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My father, when I was away at boarding school (8th or 9th grade) sent me a subscription to a magazine apparently aimed at pre-teen girls (no, not Tiger Beat, I'm way too old for that), which showed up in school mailbox every month.
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| cooby Sep 19 2005 09:00 AM |
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When I was a little girl, my mom's aunt in Florida took a liking to me, without ever having met me. She sent me some pretty nice gifts at Christmas, Easter, and my birthday every year until she died. Clothes, watches, cars, timeshares. Okay, not really those last two things.
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| ScarletKnight41 Sep 19 2005 09:20 AM |
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Postcards. They were easy to find, affordable, and they didn't take up much space. I was a deltiologist.
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| sharpie Sep 19 2005 10:02 AM |
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Briefly to California in early November but next family vacay is back to Playa del Carmen, Mexico in February.
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| SwitchHitter Sep 19 2005 03:14 PM |
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A little company here called Payne's Automotive. What I like about them is that they only fix what you ask them to fix and they don't insist on fixing other things that happen to be wrong with your vehicle.
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| MFS62 Sep 19 2005 03:52 PM |
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MMYF and I took a cruise aboard a Royal Caribbean ship a few years ago. We left from San Juan and went to about 5-6 islands in the Caribbean.
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| sharpie Sep 19 2005 04:06 PM |
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My father worked on the corporate end of cruise ship companies so I spent a lot of my youth on them. Worked on them during the summer while going to college (hence, I've never been a passenger as an adult).
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| ScarletKnight41 Sep 19 2005 04:56 PM |
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I was an Administrative Law Judge, and I had jursidiction over tickets issued to food vendors. I'm not comfortable about eating from those carts as a result.
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| MFS62 Sep 20 2005 08:16 AM |
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No contest.
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| sharpie Sep 20 2005 08:37 AM |
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They're pretty much all right near me and I don't go to any of them. Why? There's really good food to be had in NYC, why should I eat corporate crap? I used to go to places like Subway or McDonalds because my kids liked them but they won't go to those places anymore either.
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| Vic Sage Sep 20 2005 02:01 PM |
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no, i can't.
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| SwitchHitter Sep 20 2005 04:20 PM |
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Any commercial for Fitness Made Simple videos. That can't be his real hair. I can't believe anyone would want those things--typically people want to look like they're in shape, not like some musclebound freak.
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| MFS62 Sep 20 2005 04:23 PM |
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The best commercial of all time was the Native American crying over how his land was being polluted.
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| cooby Sep 23 2005 02:59 PM |
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Marathon mascara
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| sharpie Sep 26 2005 10:40 AM |
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Sea captain. You have ultimate power and you get to go to different places instead of the same old route which I would think the train conductor would have to go on. That being said, train conductor doesn't sound so bad.
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| Edgy DC Sep 29 2005 09:17 AM |
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| Willets Point Oct 07 2005 04:29 PM |
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I think Edgy's trying to kill this thread by asking questions no one here has the authority to answer. So, I'll just answer with an uninformed opinion: If the firefighters like it, it's good enough for me.
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| sharpie Oct 08 2005 11:07 AM |
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Fried ants from a can.
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| PiazzaFan411 Oct 10 2005 07:29 PM |
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My favorite Board Game is Life and I played it 3 weeks ago.
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| SwitchHitter Oct 11 2005 02:16 PM |
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Beltran, definitely.
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| cooby Oct 14 2005 03:52 PM |
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Of the two, I prefer crispy. My son always leaves his crusts and I eat 'em later! (Yeah, he's sixteen, I eat off my sixteen year old's plate) (or pizza box, I guess you would say)
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| Willets Point Oct 14 2005 04:59 PM |
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Put on a sweater for god's sake! - Everybody's father.
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| cooby Oct 14 2005 05:04 PM |
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No, that is actually a good answer!
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| MFS62 Oct 14 2005 05:50 PM |
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Make sure your windows and doors are caulked. And check to see if you still have any screens up instead of the storm windows.
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| Rockin' Doc Oct 14 2005 06:15 PM Question please.... |
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Great tips, but we still need a question?
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| cooby Oct 14 2005 07:31 PM |
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That's what I'm talking about! That and Willets sweater will keep us toasty all winter! :)
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| MFS62 Oct 14 2005 08:09 PM |
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How have you survived the deluge?
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| SwitchHitter Oct 14 2005 08:19 PM |
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What's a deluge? We barely got half an inch of water from Rita and our grass is still brown.
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| TheOldMole Oct 15 2005 07:34 PM |
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Perry Mason. The early, one hour black and white ones with Lt. Tragg, Paul Drake and Hamilton Burger (with a name like that, no wonder he never won a case).
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| Johnny Dickshot Oct 15 2005 07:51 PM |
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I don't know 'em all but of those "Nobody Does It Better" is excellent. She just sings that song so admiringly.
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| mlbaseballtalk Oct 15 2005 07:51 PM |
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Easy, Dr. No. The Theme Song
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| TheOldMole Oct 15 2005 10:51 PM |
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He's going to make George Lazenby look like Sean Connery.
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| Willets Point Oct 19 2005 02:26 PM |
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Not a movie, but I always liked Spy vs. Spy with the gray lady spy as my favorite.
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| MFS62 Oct 19 2005 02:41 PM |
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Since I lived at home when I went to College, my only "roommates" were my barracks buddies in the Army. One Sunday morning, one of them jumped up on his foot locker and yelled in his best evangelist voice:
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| sharpie Oct 20 2005 09:56 AM |
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Not a roomate (tho' he was later one) -- a friend and I knew where another friend kept his key (hidden under a rock I think). We went into his house at a time we knew he and his parents would be gone and rearranged all of the furniture in his room. He figured out immediately who would have done it.
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| cooby Oct 25 2005 01:58 PM |
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Tommy- The Who
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| Willets Point Oct 25 2005 02:04 PM |
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I'm wearing a blue lambswool sweater I bought in Dingle, a white dress shirt I bought for the wedding when I wore a kilt, blue JCPenney's slacks that are starting to get threabare, grey boxer briefs, blue socks, black Rockport shoes and my wedding ring.
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| metirish Oct 25 2005 02:07 PM |
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Pepperoni
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| Willets Point Oct 25 2005 02:16 PM |
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Well, I am "Black Irish." I'm a bit too pasty to be African-American though. My ancestory is thoroughly from Ireland although if you go back far enough I have as much African ancestry as anyone else.
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| sharpie Oct 25 2005 02:20 PM |
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Best thing about days like today is that there is a World Series game on tonight and the Yankees are not playing.
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| ScarletKnight41 Oct 25 2005 02:54 PM |
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The kids are trick or treating and I'm handing out candy. It should be fun.
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| Yancy Street Gang Oct 25 2005 02:59 PM |
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So many to choose from, but I'd never be disappointed to have a Nestle Crunch bar drop in my bag.
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| Willets Point Oct 25 2005 03:23 PM |
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Mary Janes, edging out NECCO Wafers.
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| Willets Point Nov 17 2005 12:40 PM |
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Bump
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| Edgy DC Nov 17 2005 01:05 PM |
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Mets.
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| Johnny Dickshot Nov 18 2005 11:36 AM |
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The Magnate causes mayhem all over Gotham City because he uses his considerable monies for evil and not good. He's a snotty pompous trust-funder all grown up, who attended the same private schools and runs in the same social circles as millionaire Bruce Wayne. His general plotline is to buy or invest in an Gotham institution, such as a sports team, museum or business, but with the help of his henchmen Preppie, Hedgefund, and foxy henchette Tiffany, uses those businesses as a front to steal from lenders, business partners -- even charities -- and/or deny Gothamites the enjoyment of them to extort money and influence. Whenever he's in tight spot, he'll offer to buy his own safety.
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| Johnny Dickshot Dec 08 2005 12:00 PM |
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That this question was left unanswered for 3 weeks is shameful cranepooling.
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| metirish Dec 08 2005 12:10 PM |
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Good question....in his prime Creed had it all, quick hands and feet, great punch, a suspect chin perhaps but his boxing brain covered for that...Creed beats Drago in the gold medal match.Drago a Slovakian is not your typical east european boxer, Drago has good mobility although his lacks Creeds savvy, he's looking for the big punch and Creed plays with him for 7 rounds before taking out Drago with a vivious combo to the liver then chin.
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| Elster88 Dec 08 2005 12:10 PM |
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Assuming a ladder style type of tournamnent so I can explain individual matchups:
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| Elster88 Dec 08 2005 12:16 PM |
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Irish beat me to it, but I'm not deleting my opinion. I like it. Ignore my question if you wish.
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| seawolf17 Dec 15 2005 02:39 PM |
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I believe that Sly Stallone may be the missing link; therefore, I'm down with evolution.
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| TheOldMole Dec 15 2005 03:47 PM |
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Maynard G. Krebs.
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| abogdan Dec 15 2005 04:43 PM |
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Steroids.
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| MFS62 Dec 15 2005 05:16 PM |
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Very Carefully - we're expecting an ice storm. How far is your commute to work or school? How long does it usually take? Later
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| Rockin' Doc Dec 15 2005 09:18 PM |
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Two and a half miles. It takes 5-10 minutes depending on traffic and how I hit the lights.
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| Willets Point Dec 15 2005 10:43 PM |
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In the warm weather, bicycle. In the cold weather, bus, subway and shoe leather.
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| cooby Dec 16 2005 08:58 AM |
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Mine is O Holy Night
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| Willets Point Dec 16 2005 09:43 AM |
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O Come All Ye Faithful.
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| sharpie Dec 16 2005 10:04 AM |
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I'm guessing you meant where would you rather be right now. Unless it is a reference to Dan Rather, who ate at the same restaurant I ate at for lunch yesterday (Rosa Mexicana).
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| Johnny Dickshot Dec 16 2005 10:43 AM |
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I literally bumped into Mayor Mike Bloomberg at the Rock Ctr. tree-lighting. He was all about having his handlers cut a path through the crowd so all I got was a pardonmehello.
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| SwitchHitter Dec 16 2005 02:06 PM |
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I just want Christmas to get here and be over with because of the stress.
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| Willets Point Dec 21 2005 01:26 PM |
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Love ... and lots of food.
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| ScarletKnight41 Dec 21 2005 01:36 PM |
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| RealityChuck Dec 22 2005 11:31 AM |
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DVDs of the first two seasons of Arrested Development.
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| TheOldMole Dec 22 2005 11:42 AM |
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Not super obscure, but "Someday at Christmas" by Stevie Wonder doesn't get played enough.
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| Johnny Dickshot Dec 22 2005 11:53 AM |
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My old college roomie is a Navy officer stationed in Gulfport, Miss., which was better than his previous assignment in Iraq till Katrina hit. The base is hosting lots of stranded families. We put together a couple of xmas stockings with toys for the kids and sent 'em down there. They included cool stuff like a nerf football and silly putty.
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| sharpie Dec 22 2005 05:46 PM |
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I wish I could say standard. You really feel like you're driving and not just steering. Unfortunately, it's been so long since I've driven one that now I don't trust myself. In Italy we had a standard car that the people we swapped houses with left us. I never used it. They never used my (automatic) car either but that was just because they were in NYC. So, automatic.
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| cooby Jan 03 2006 03:55 PM |
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I could have sworn Rockin Doc answered this.
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| soupcan Jan 03 2006 03:59 PM |
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'Am I buggin ya?'
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| Edgy DC Jan 03 2006 04:07 PM |
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Bono Vox. Just watched Rattle and Hum this weekend.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jan 12 2006 01:45 PM |
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Teethmark in the dashboard of this question.
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| cooby Jan 13 2006 12:46 PM |
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A panini grill.
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| Willets Point Jan 13 2006 12:53 PM |
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Probably the plumbing. <rimshot>
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| Johnny Dickshot Jan 13 2006 12:54 PM |
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We recently received possession of a bassinet that my grandparents purchased way back in the 30s when my Mom was born, then passed along to brother & sister, and passed along to their kids and their kids kids. When Dickshot Junior arrives, I believe it'll be the 24th kid to use it.
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| seawolf17 Jan 13 2006 12:57 PM |
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I'll answer both.
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| MFS62 Jan 13 2006 01:11 PM |
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My first computer was a Commodore VIC20.
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| cooby Jan 13 2006 01:26 PM |
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#$@*&$* comes to mind, but it usually doesn't help any.
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| sharpie Jan 13 2006 02:08 PM |
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Eat, breathe, have a cup of coffee.
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| Rockin' Doc Jan 16 2006 08:14 PM |
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There are several stories that involved my falling down during my college days. Unfortunately, I was generally too inebriated to verify the accuracy of such accounts.
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| cooby Jan 16 2006 08:22 PM |
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Yes, I can remember two. But I was at home for both of them. One week, I was all dressed up for church in high heels and pantyhose and a short suede skirt. We had barriers all over the house in doorways to keep our cat out of certain rooms.
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| sharpie Jan 17 2006 05:33 PM |
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When I was about 10 or so a bunch of friends and myself went to a beach where we decided to light fires. Group A (not my group) built a sensible fire by making a small wall of bricks and placed burnable things inside. Group B (my group) put a bunch of twigs and paper down and it looked horrible and smaller than Group A's. One kid suggested that he go to his nearby house and get some gasoline that he used for his mini-bike. This seemed like a sensible idea and he returned with a plastic container with gas. He hurled it into the fire, but some of it got on another friend who got lit up like the proverbial Christmas tree. I was the one who suggested that we smother the fire with sand which maybe saved his life. Last I heard he (the burn victim) was an executive for a tobacco company. The gasoline thrower is a social worker in Massachsuetts.
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| TheOldMole Jan 17 2006 06:00 PM |
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Freeway, California, near Sacramento. Small pickup truck. I'm the middle of the cab, driver to my left, another passenger to my right. Suddenly -- no steering. Truck careens wildly, smashes into guardrail, careens back into middle of highway.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jan 17 2006 06:10 PM |
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When we were in San Francisco in 2001, we dined from the tasting menu at the Charles Nob Hill restaurant. The chef there was semi-famous for having trained under a chef who competed on Iron Chef. The meal was expensive, but fabulous.
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| TheOldMole Jan 23 2006 07:06 PM |
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I suppose grandchildren would be a copout.
And yeah, maybe he was just being polite, but it's a scene you can play over in your mind a few times. Who is/was your role model?
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| MFS62 Jan 24 2006 09:22 AM |
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When I was a teen, Admiral Hyman Rickover.
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| cooby Jan 25 2006 02:36 PM |
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I think I might have had one more baby.
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| MFS62 Jan 25 2006 02:39 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jan 25 2006 02:40 PM |
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As far as I can figure, not a f'n thing.
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| Edgy DC Jan 25 2006 02:40 PM |
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It was purchased, along with much of the American west, from the French.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jan 25 2006 03:24 PM |
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The town called Centennial, Wyo., was named because the population was only 100. I ate an excellent burrito in Centennial Wyoming as well.
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| Willets Point Jan 25 2006 03:30 PM |
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The most obscure item in my record collection is probably a cassette by a band called Talking Drums. They are (were?) a band from Weslyan University that played traditional West African music. I bought it when I saw the band play at First Night Stamford when I was a sophomore in high school.
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| seawolf17 Jan 25 2006 03:36 PM |
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Gonna have to be "A Change Of Seasons" by Dream Theater.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jan 25 2006 04:20 PM |
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| SwitchHitter Jan 26 2006 02:59 PM |
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I won't, but when they reach Kissimmee, I'll have a beer with dinner, as the only time I usually drink beer is at ballgames.
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| Willets Point Jan 26 2006 03:13 PM |
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2001. Piazza and Shinjo hit big homeruns. The Mets clobbered the Braves. Things were looking good. Then the Mets started to suck BHMC.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jan 26 2006 03:35 PM |
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Crazy enough, it was a Giants/Arizona Cardinals game in Phoenix. It snowed for the first time in a billion years that day and everyone went ape shit. The only thing not out-of-place was the Cardinals losing.
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| seawolf17 Jan 26 2006 03:37 PM |
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I enjoy Kanye West. He's larger than life; Will Smith for a new generation. It doesn't hurt that he can bring it. I think picturing yourself as a Christ figure is played out and overwrought, but whatever.
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| Willets Point Jan 26 2006 03:42 PM |
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Home in Stamford, CT watching the Shuffling Chicago Bears paste the Patriots in the Super Bore.
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| Edgy DC Jan 26 2006 04:18 PM |
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(Freaking Japanese Mets always deceive you with opening day homers.)
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| Rockin' Doc Jan 26 2006 11:02 PM |
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I would have liked to see Payton punch it into the end zone. Payton had been "the man" on some pretty horrible teams in Chicago. He had suffered the physical beating that came with being the star running back on a poor team for most of his career. He had more than earned the opportunity to run the ball agains the Patriots goal line defense. I hated that the opportunity was instead given to a "Refrigerator" Perry. Perry was an unnecessary novelty act on offense.
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| cooby Jan 29 2006 10:23 PM |
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I have this little orange velvet dachsund that my dad bought me at Shea Stadium in I dunno, maybe 1972. It's got a little aqua cap with x's on it and felt eyelashes, and says Mets on it.
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| cooby Feb 02 2006 10:09 PM |
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Bonus question, just because it's Thursday:
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| SwitchHitter Feb 03 2006 09:26 AM |
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I got an oil paint-by-number set for Christmas one year and I never used it.
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| MFS62 Feb 03 2006 10:50 AM |
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Yes, justthis year. And it was weird.
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| cooby Feb 08 2006 09:56 PM |
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I've got a huge stamp collection, though it's been a while since I've attended to it. They're all over the place, in tins, envelopes, boxes.
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| TheOldMole Feb 08 2006 10:20 PM |
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I think I'd choose "Ring of Fire." But then, I know I posted a thread here a while back on the five best Johnny Cash songs, and while I certainly put "Ring" in the top five, I'm not sure if it was Number One. But I'll go with it for now.
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| DocTee Feb 08 2006 10:26 PM |
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How many Law and Order reruns do you watch in a given month?
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| TheOldMole Feb 09 2006 07:50 AM |
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Tie between Hill Street Blues and Homicide. Most underrated -- Crime Story.
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| seawolf17 Feb 09 2006 09:13 AM |
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| metirish Mar 02 2006 07:57 PM |
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DID we lose the all purpsoe what are you reading thread?
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| sharpie Mar 03 2006 08:49 AM |
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What are you reading now is in the Book Club forum. A worthy place to spend some time.
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| Yancy Street Gang Mar 03 2006 09:05 AM |
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Look at that cover. Obviously they weren't able to get photo rights from MLB. It's a model wearing a generic baseball uniform that resembles what the Mets wore in the 1980's.
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| cooby Mar 29 2006 02:26 PM |
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New York Mets What is your favorite spring flower?
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| Willets Point Mar 29 2006 02:57 PM |
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Black-eyed Susan.
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| Vic Sage Mar 29 2006 04:03 PM |
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A: I always find them in the last place i look for them... always.
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| TheOldMole Mar 29 2006 04:03 PM |
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In my ignition. I live in the country.
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| cooby Mar 29 2006 04:06 PM |
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1) Micky Lolich, he was sloppy
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| MFS62 Mar 29 2006 04:10 PM |
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Answer: 20 mile hike - in the Army. (Do you think I would do that voluntarily?)
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| Willets Point Mar 29 2006 04:49 PM |
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| cooby Mar 29 2006 04:50 PM |
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Oh my, I had nearly forgotten that
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| Johnny Dickshot Mar 29 2006 05:26 PM |
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Generally, crabs look like hideous insects of the sea but are quite delicious. We should all get together as a pool and smash into a bushel of crabs sometime. Yumm...
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| Rockin' Doc Mar 30 2006 07:45 AM |
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While I was a second year intern in optometry school, I grew my hair out and dyed it dark black with one of those temporary (2-3 washings) hair colors so I could go to a halloween party as Samurai Optometrist.
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| MFS62 Mar 30 2006 09:22 AM |
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No, but I was considering having metal teeth put in when I wrote a rap/ hip hop song for last year's parody contest.
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| TheOldMole Apr 05 2006 02:24 AM |
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No, but my dog does. She thinks it's bad luck not to start the day by being scratched on the head for at least five minutes.
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| MFS62 Apr 05 2006 10:58 AM |
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Songs in Spanish by artists who usually sing in English- like Gloria Estefan, Shakira and Linda Ronstadt. Question: How do you like your pizza crust - Thin, Neapolitan or deep dish? Later
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| cooby Apr 05 2006 11:34 AM |
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I like thin and crispy most, but I'm flexible.
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| Willets Point Apr 05 2006 11:36 AM |
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Sleeptime. I'm pretty useless the rest of the day.
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| soupcan Apr 05 2006 11:37 AM |
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Because at the end of the day its fun to slide off the dinosaur.
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| cooby Apr 05 2006 11:51 AM |
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Neat slight of hand there, soupcan
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| abogdan Apr 05 2006 11:59 AM |
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Nope, not with snow coming down this hard.
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| sharpie Apr 05 2006 12:10 PM |
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Not snowing anymore, raining now.
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| SwitchHitter Apr 05 2006 01:02 PM |
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Opening Day for the Columbus Clippers in 1990 featured snow. We hung out to watch the grounds crew--in tuxes--put out the tarp. And have a snowball fight. :)
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| TheOldMole Apr 06 2006 08:13 PM |
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Rock climbing, but not as an active participant -- belaying for my 5 year old grandson.
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| ScarletKnight41 Apr 06 2006 08:17 PM |
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Leslie Gallatin.
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| cooby Apr 06 2006 08:21 PM |
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I always liked the name Sarah Coventry. I know, it's been done. But I think it's pretty.
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| TheOldMole Apr 07 2006 08:12 AM |
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Coffee and music.
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| MFS62 Apr 07 2006 08:29 AM |
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Bernstein Plays Brubek Plays Bernstein
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| sharpie Apr 07 2006 09:03 AM |
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I used to, religiously. However, I'm now in my 6th year of coaching Lenny Harris' (the poster, not the pinch hitter) team and I score those games. I get kind of scored out until his season is over, in June. During the summer I pick it up again. Also, depends on who I'm with.
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| ScarletKnight41 Apr 07 2006 09:22 AM |
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St. Louis. To see the new stadium.
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| MFS62 Apr 07 2006 09:46 AM |
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Esther Eng's in NY Chinatown.
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| Willets Point Apr 07 2006 11:53 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Apr 07 2006 03:03 PM |
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Boston Public Garden by the Japanese lantern.
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| TheOldMole Apr 07 2006 01:56 PM |
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MF - re Brubeck/Bernstein. I'd like to get that. I think Brubeck is far more important as a composer than as a jazz musician.
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| MFS62 Apr 07 2006 02:33 PM |
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Mole, at this point, you'd have to look for it in a used record store. It was, obviously, vinyl.
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| cooby Apr 26 2006 12:44 PM |
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We took a little one day honeymoon in a place called AnimalLand in Wellsboro, PA and a side trip to the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon (my husband only had a couple days off)
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| Centerfield Apr 26 2006 02:46 PM |
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My worst vacation was, coincidentally, to Ocean City Maryland. A friend of mine told me that a friend of his had set up arrangements at some resort/hotel. He also said he set up golf tee times for us. It was only for an extended weekend, and my wife and I weren't looking to go far, so we agreed to go along.
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| cooby Apr 26 2006 02:57 PM |
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Gotta be the Oceanic CF's question: How do you handle someone stepping in front of you to hail a cab when you are clearly hailing one yourself? How should one handle that? Is there etiquette for this?
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| TheOldMole Apr 27 2006 08:15 AM |
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I'm such a wimp -- I generally handle it by letting them do it. There's no real etiquette for handling rudeness, I don't think.
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| MFS62 Apr 27 2006 10:35 AM |
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It was the last day of Army Basic Training. We already had our orders and were marching back from "graduation". I still had my "squad Leader" temoprary stripes, which have no real value once you leave Basic Training.
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| Johnny Dickshot Apr 28 2006 10:22 AM |
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The crumpling to folding question is dependent on the Buttscrape Factor, which I needn't detail other than to say it's a work/home thing.
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| sharpie Apr 28 2006 10:45 AM |
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When in Mexico in February I bought some tropical fruit in a cup from a woman who disappeared with my big bill for about 10 minutes to go find change. Last non-food item was probably sunglasses as well.
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| ScarletKnight41 Apr 28 2006 10:58 AM |
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Running the [url=http://www.oymp.net/Raceinfo/draftday5k.htm]Draft Day 5K[/url]
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| Centerfield Apr 28 2006 01:15 PM |
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I will be celebrating by getting out of the house. My buddies are taking me out for a round of golf to celebrate my (long past) birthday. They asked me what I wanted, and I told them, I want to golf in May.
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| TheOldMole Apr 28 2006 08:57 PM |
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(2)
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| Johnny Dickshot Apr 28 2006 11:20 PM |
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No.
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| Edgy DC Apr 28 2006 11:48 PM |
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A: Get out of my head.
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| Frayed Knot Apr 29 2006 12:01 AM |
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Rafer Johnson (decathlete for those who don't know) was in the audience as a guest of RFK that night and was one of those who helped to wrestle the gun away from Sirhan Sirhan but I'm not sure if it was in any kind of official security capacity. I believe Grier was there also and may have been in a similar honorary/entourage kind of deal.
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| Johnny Dickshot Apr 29 2006 12:21 AM |
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Don't forget to ask a question Jethro.
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| TheOldMole Apr 29 2006 01:38 PM |
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That's my memory of it. They were both Kennedy supporters, and were in the ballroom. I remember -- a horrifying memory -- watching it on TV, and the announcer actually giving a play by play of Rafer and Rosey wrestling Sirhan to the ground and grabbing his gun.
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| Frayed Knot Apr 29 2006 03:22 PM |
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Oh yeah, a question.
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| SteveJRogers Apr 29 2006 03:31 PM |
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Yes, and apparantly ferillity as well. I have an uncle who has two kids post 70! How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll Center of a Tootsie Pop?
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| Rockin' Doc Apr 29 2006 05:18 PM |
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| cooby May 01 2006 02:17 PM |
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Chocolate, or whatever that brown flavor was supposed to be.
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| TheOldMole May 01 2006 02:20 PM |
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Answering more or less the last two questions -- broke a crown on a Tootsie Roll.
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| Yancy Street Gang May 01 2006 02:23 PM |
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"Do you remember when you put a jellybean in my heinie?"
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| cooby May 03 2006 02:01 PM |
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I like to use hot water if it's available. It just feels right.
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| TheOldMole May 03 2006 02:24 PM |
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Disaster zone.
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| Johnny Dickshot May 03 2006 02:26 PM |
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"City of New Orleans"
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| Edgy DC May 03 2006 03:01 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on May 03 2006 03:21 PM |
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Way too hard. Here's ten in no order:
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| Willets Point May 03 2006 03:04 PM |
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"The Wreck of Ol' 97" is pretty iconic.
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| sharpie May 03 2006 03:45 PM |
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James Brown's "Night Train", Bob Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" and "Slow Train Coming" and the Kinks' "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains" should be on any train-song list. There's also an essay floating around on-line that "One After 909" is really a song about a bus ("railman said I got the wrong location", etc.)
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| SteveJRogers May 03 2006 05:03 PM |
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Folsom Prison Blues should be on your list Edgy Garth Brooks, just put out a new album, new wife, I can see a return to the country throne in the not too distant future Question: Keeping the country theme going, do you consider Johnny Cash strictly country, or something else entirely (rock, southern rock, folk, traditional Americana, Americana, ect)?
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| TheOldMole May 03 2006 09:09 PM |
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Johnny Cash is an American legend. surpassing categories.
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| Willets Point May 04 2006 10:47 AM |
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"Dr. Jones" by Aqua. It's so bad it's good.
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| cooby May 04 2006 03:02 PM |
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Leo Sayer, Endless Flight.
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| TheOldMole May 07 2006 07:19 PM |
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I'm hoping you've stopped by now. If not, I suggest a trip to the Swiss Alps.
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| cooby May 07 2006 07:34 PM |
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Impatiens are great for shade and they come in a lot of nice colors.
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| SteveJRogers May 07 2006 08:28 PM |
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No because thats where we store tonage of utter crap! Our garage and car port looks like it was the set of Sanford & Son! Ba ba da da...
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| abogdan May 07 2006 08:42 PM |
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Billy Crystal - Long Beach HS class of 1965
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| Johnny Dickshot May 09 2006 10:50 AM |
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As a director (?) *61
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| sharpie May 09 2006 10:58 AM |
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On my radio (and seemingly, most radios), WFAN and WNYC are opposite each other if you flip from FM to AM or vice versa. I usually will listen to Morning Edition in the bathroom but during pledge drives or too-boring stories I might switch to Imus. Sometimes I listen to Imus while getting dressed.
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| ScarletKnight41 May 09 2006 11:02 AM |
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My CDs. My car is the place where I can listen to my music in relative peace.
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| Yancy Street Gang May 09 2006 11:04 AM |
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NPR. Or, lately, my Japanese language CD's.
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| sharpie May 09 2006 11:07 AM |
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Mother's Day I'll be coaching Lenny's team. Foreign language: Spanish but I'm terrible.
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| Edgy DC May 09 2006 11:08 AM |
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Spanish. Proficiency is about a 3.5 out of ten. It's a lot easier conversing with a DC Salvadoran than a New Yorican. That's some fast Spanish in the streets of New York.
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| MFS62 May 09 2006 12:26 PM |
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Catching up:
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| Willets Point May 09 2006 12:31 PM |
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The last wedding reception I attended was my own so I had to AND wanted to. And it kicked ass I might add.
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| TheOldMole May 10 2006 11:38 AM |
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It has profound meaning, little grasshopper, but the way of the Crane Pool is not the way.
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| MFS62 May 10 2006 12:34 PM |
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I'd like to be a "standup philosopher" like George Carlin. (stealth "History of the World, Part I" reference)
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| cooby May 13 2006 08:03 PM |
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Actually I have found that when that happens, I end up holding the door open for THEM at the second door. But I would say thank you if they held the door for me twice.
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| sharpie May 13 2006 08:55 PM |
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They're driving a car so I assume it is an adult. It happens too early for me to see.
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| cooby May 30 2006 09:01 AM |
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Relaxed, got gifts from my kids, visited my folks, had a nice dinner my husband made me.
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| MFS62 May 30 2006 10:18 AM |
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Depends. If I'm buying a new brabd because they were out of my usual brand, I'll use up the old stuff first.
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| TheOldMole May 30 2006 04:16 PM |
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The Studebaker Golden Hawk. Cried.
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| Vic Sage May 30 2006 05:13 PM |
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Marvel.
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| MFS62 May 30 2006 06:27 PM |
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That brings back some memories. Teh first car I ever drove was my family's Packard Clipper. A few years later, Studebaker merged with Packard in an effort to save both companies/ brands. Sadly, it didn't work. For you kids on the block, if you want to know what a Packard looked like, it was one of the cars at the curb in GF# I when they are on the steps outside the church after the Baptism. (Its the car to the right of the screen) Later
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| Willets Point Jun 02 2006 12:17 PM |
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When I was a kid I always knew it was summer when those Nair "Who wears short-shorts?" commercials started playing. End of school was always the start of summer and since I work in an academic setting, graduation day when all the maggots are gone for good is still the start of summer.
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| TheOldMole Jun 02 2006 06:55 PM |
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I don't remember what, but I remember where. When I was young, and teaching in the frozen north of Minnesota, I had a devil of a time waking up for my early morning class. One time, I fell asleep on my feet while I was lecturing, and I know I was talking in my sleep. I never had the nerve to ask anyone what I had said.
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| MFS62 Jun 05 2006 12:53 PM |
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Shortest date:
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| Willets Point Jul 05 2006 02:15 PM |
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My relationship evolved from a friendship so its hard to pinpoint when and if we were actually going on dates.
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| MFS62 Jul 05 2006 02:17 PM |
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No.
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| Willets Point Jul 05 2006 02:21 PM |
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I don't want to but I have to keep scrapping Answer/Ask off the bottom of the forum and thus got the impression that no one else cares for this thread anymore.
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| MFS62 Jul 05 2006 02:33 PM |
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Non ask/answer response.
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| TheOldMole Jul 06 2006 12:14 AM |
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I still like it. A lot of threads get shuffled down quickly because of all the band head-to-head threads.
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| MFS62 Jul 06 2006 06:23 AM |
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When I walked out into an arc-lit Shea Staduim, packed with fans, on the night of the Jets' first game there. At that moment, I knew the team, and the league, would survive.
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| Rockin' Doc Jul 06 2006 07:37 AM |
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I'm tempted to say yes, but I suspect that segregating those threads away in a seperate thread would likely kill out the project. The older contests are already being archived into a seperate archival forum. I think the project will run it's course and slowly fizzle out as people run out of bands they care to sponsor and the novelty of the novelty of the concept wears off. Of course, I could be wrong about that. Time will tell, I suppose.
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| Iubitul Jul 06 2006 07:38 AM |
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Definitely - it's annoying to come here and see a million BLC threads at the top, and everything else buried... Do you think the proliferation of BLC threads have stifled overall discussion in the NBF?
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| Johnny Dickshot Jul 06 2006 07:49 AM |
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No. The disapperance of Cooby is the bigger cluprit.
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| Iubitul Jul 06 2006 08:55 AM |
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Good point - we should put out an APB.
TCM TVLand Disney Channel (Hey, I've got kids) SNY A&E Same question
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| SteveJRogers Jul 06 2006 09:00 AM |
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FOX News
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| Iubitul Jul 06 2006 10:28 AM |
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Star Trek TOS, Seasons 1 & 2.
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| RealityChuck Jul 06 2006 10:35 AM |
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Hill Street Blues
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| TheOldMole Jul 06 2006 10:38 AM |
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Sopranos, Hill Street Blues, Star Trek: Next Generation, the Steve Allen Show, Rawhide.
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| MFS62 Jul 07 2006 10:50 AM |
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George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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| RealityChuck Jul 07 2006 12:07 PM |
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No. He should use tongs.
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| MFS62 Jul 07 2006 12:18 PM |
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Deal or No Deal - for good reason.
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| SteveJRogers Jul 07 2006 12:25 PM |
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Because they wanted to give West Wing, Six Feet Under and Rescue Me the usual "shows that ended" round of nominations
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| Elster88 Jul 07 2006 01:01 PM |
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I'd say yes, though my guess is it would do poorly in the ratings if it was on 15-25 years ago.
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| TheOldMole Jul 09 2006 02:08 PM |
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Hillary Duff. But I have an excuse. I have a 12-year-old granddaughter whom I don't see as often as I'd like, so sometimes I'll watch a "Rachel movie" -- a movie with a teen girl star, like "The Princess Diaries" or "New York Minute" or "What a Girl Wants," and pretend I'm watching it with Rachel.
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| Edgy DC Jul 09 2006 02:23 PM |
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I will choose free will, with healthy doses of nature and nurture.
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| MFS62 Jul 10 2006 06:43 PM |
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I'm torn between two:
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| Iubitul Jul 10 2006 08:44 PM |
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David Caruso Who do you think is the best actor in a regular network tv series?
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| Johnny Dickshot Jul 10 2006 09:20 PM |
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Barney Rubble.
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| metirish Jul 10 2006 09:34 PM |
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When I was in Puerto Rico my GF suggested I try the Mahi-mahi fish, it was amazing, I had it fried I think.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jul 10 2006 09:51 PM |
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Austrailia. I've always wanted to see Australia.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jul 10 2006 09:58 PM |
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Mookie Wilson. It would be a Buddy Picture.
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| A Boy Named Seo Jul 10 2006 10:23 PM |
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Cliff Floyd. Handsome, funny, well-dressed, and more charm than Magnum PI and Han Solo combined. Plus Cliff would be cool enough to throw his wingman the extra chicks he reeled in.
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| TheOldMole Jul 11 2006 11:19 AM |
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The one where Matt Damon played the math genius. It was a supporting role, and he handled it well.
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| cooby Jul 25 2006 04:48 PM |
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I think it'd be kinda fun. I spent one weird summer when I was in fifth grade walking around with my hands up in the air like a surgeon after I washed them for supper, all because my jack ball rolled under the stove in April and there was an ant button under there, after all.
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| SteveJRogers Aug 02 2006 08:58 PM |
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Its a plot by the producers of said products for us to buy more!
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| Willets Point Aug 02 2006 09:01 PM |
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I'll go with 1985 the first year I followed the team although 1999 also has good vibes among others.
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 02 2006 11:16 PM |
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I have given up pants.
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| MFS62 Aug 03 2006 09:21 AM |
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It is baseball related.
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| Edgy DC Aug 03 2006 10:33 AM |
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Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late. I use the side
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| seawolf17 Aug 03 2006 10:39 AM |
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Akia - never heard of em. Unless you mean Ikea, the Swedish furniture store, in which case, 10.
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 03 2006 10:42 AM |
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Leave my sunglasses or phone on my desk, get outside, curse loudly, then return.
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| Edgy DC Aug 03 2006 10:42 AM |
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Sorry, yeah, I meant Ikia.
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| Elster88 Aug 03 2006 10:43 AM |
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LOL
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| Elster88 Aug 03 2006 10:44 AM |
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Closer.
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| Edgy DC Aug 03 2006 10:45 AM |
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Sorry, yeah, I mean igiega.
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| MFS62 Aug 03 2006 10:48 AM |
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Burger King's "Have it Yourrr Wayyy". At last, when I was on the road and wanted a fast food burger, the jungle told me that I didn't have to accept the local custom of whichever condiments they slapped on it. What ad so turned you off that you swore you would never buy that product? Later
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| Elster88 Aug 03 2006 10:50 AM |
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I hardly never read this thread, but the last page alone has many well-thought out and amusing answers.
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| Rockin' Doc Aug 03 2006 01:22 PM |
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seawolf - "Target - 15. Best. Store. Ever."
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| Willets Point Aug 03 2006 01:28 PM |
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I don't plan to buy Head On.
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 03 2006 01:30 PM |
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How about Tim Robbins?
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| MFS62 Aug 03 2006 01:39 PM |
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Rudy Gulliani (too Yankified)
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 03 2006 02:12 PM |
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I get it out my fridge most days. When I shop for lunch, I try to mix it up between the local sandwich place, a horrible local Chinese place (when I get the urge) and sometimes, a salad place. Lunch for me ain't about the lunch but what I do during the time (my basic plan is to disappear for a while and do a soduku) outdoors.
Answer/Ask is a quality thread and has nearly always been so. I get disappointed when it gets buried for too long. Q: Tell us about the earliest football game you can remember watching (live or TV, college, pro high-school, whatever). Who played, who won?
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| TheOldMole Aug 03 2006 11:13 PM |
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Army vs The Citadel - went down on a bus from Saugerties Junior High. Army won. musta been maybe 1952?
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| SteveJRogers Aug 03 2006 11:42 PM |
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Phil Simms
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| A Boy Named Seo Aug 03 2006 11:45 PM |
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Bah, too slow.
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 04 2006 07:24 AM |
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Hear that, ladies? Jiggy's back on the market.
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| Iubitul Aug 04 2006 09:18 AM |
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Let's see - Laptop and monitor (I do the dual screen thing) Mac powerbook G4, Pictures of my kids, my phone, a couple of cards, desktop calendar, and this:
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 04 2006 09:21 AM |
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I think they lose in the NLCS.
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| soupcan Aug 04 2006 09:33 AM |
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A: Nah, they'll all be night games why would I have to?
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| SteveJRogers Aug 04 2006 09:33 AM |
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Working a 9-5 office job so I'm going to say no. Tivo and some Internet Game Cast for afternoon weekday affairs (probably not, but it could happen) Not sure how many games will be attended with two classes Tuesday and Thursday nights Whats the most famous game you attended?
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| soupcan Aug 04 2006 09:34 AM |
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Too late sucker. Now you have to answer the nasty teeth question!
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| SteveJRogers Aug 04 2006 09:53 AM |
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Say nothing at all. Come on, do you really want THAT argument?
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 04 2006 10:03 AM |
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October 25, 1986.
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| Edgy DC Aug 04 2006 10:24 AM |
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Very little, and little more than I thought of him a week ago. Too much of our brain is devoted to our attitude toward Hollywood figures, and not enough to our attitude toward Flushing figures.
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| MFS62 Aug 04 2006 10:40 AM |
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Last winter. I skidded on ice while going around a curve. I managed to steer (controlled skid is a better term) the car away from the oncoming traffic and took out the side of my car on a guardrail. When the "dust " settled, all I could think about was how lucky I was to have evaded the oncoming cars and trucks.
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 04 2006 10:46 AM |
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pizza or hamburgers?
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| MFS62 Aug 04 2006 11:03 AM |
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The only one I would have answered differently is the last one.
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| Rockin' Doc Aug 04 2006 11:19 AM |
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I'll drink either, but I prefer Coke. Preferably with some dark rum and a small slice of lime.
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| MFS62 Aug 08 2006 12:56 PM |
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Favorite mixed drink - a Snowflake - a mixture of vanilla vodka and white creme de cocoa. Its totally clear, and mixed in the proportions of a martini (to taste).
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| Willets Point Aug 08 2006 01:10 PM |
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During the baseball off-season I watch a lot of college ice hockey. I like play soccer and kickball. I also cycle a lot when my bike isn't totally f'ed up like it is this summer.
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| cooby Aug 08 2006 01:34 PM |
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My husband did. In any good long term relationship, you will pick up some of the qualities and interests of that other person, and you will also constantly try to keep that other person interested in you.
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| RealityChuck Aug 08 2006 01:54 PM |
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Nothing this year -- the woodchuck and rabbit got it all. Usually we go for carrots, tomatoes and radishes.
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| cooby Aug 08 2006 08:58 PM |
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The best day I can remember happened in late August, 2002.
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| metirish Aug 08 2006 09:04 PM |
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Cooby that's a wonderful post, I'll let your question stand.
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| cooby Aug 09 2006 08:44 AM |
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Thanks, Metirish, it's a sweet memory
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 09 2006 08:54 AM |
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Columbo. Lucy Riccardo. George Burns. Archie Bunker.
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| Edgy DC Aug 09 2006 09:18 AM |
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| Elster88 Aug 14 2006 01:41 PM |
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I'd like to give up wearing my baseball glove to Met games. It gets in the way and I'm too old besides. But I just can't do it whenever I have a field or loge seat.
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 14 2006 05:02 PM |
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Tempted to say yes, but I'll say no. It's a nice pace to live I'm sure for thousands of New Yorkers who'd prefer not to live in Jersey.
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| ScarletKnight41 Aug 14 2006 05:17 PM |
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Pink slip-on sneakers. I got them at Payless about a year or two ago. I like the fact that they're cute and easy to use, and they're perfect for going to yoga class. I don't like the fact that, when I wear them too long, they pinch my toes. They cost something between $7 and $10. Yeah, I'd buy them again - they were a good bang for one's buck purchase.
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| Gwreck Aug 14 2006 11:51 PM |
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Bruce Springsteen concert t-shirt. A couple of years ago, when Bruce played the 10 nights at Giants Stadium, the merchandising folks saw fit to make a different t-shirt for each night. Same design, just change the date...and the color...for each night. Anyway, I go to all 10 shows, and wind up with all 10 shirts (fortunately not paying full price). The design was pretty stupid, but since I was there, I somehow felt compelled to have all 10. The problem was that after they went through the standard t-shirt colors at the first few shows -- black, white, blue, grey, etc.-- they started using colors that nobody should ever wear: A red so bright it can be seen from miles away, a maroon that looks bad on me, and for the last night, a color that I can only describe as "vomit." I've never worn most of them, but I can't justify selling them or getting rid of them. In the closet they sit. Related topic: how many pieces of Mets clothing do you own? Seriously.
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| Rockin' Doc Aug 15 2006 08:18 PM |
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I have five that actually fit (blue hat with orange dot, black hat, short sleeve Tshirt, Long sleeve TShirt, and black jersey) and one that I wore in college (Pinstripe jersey from mid-80's). My daughter wears the pinstriped jersey on ocassion.
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| Elster88 Aug 15 2006 08:22 PM |
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Five. T-shirt under a jersey, drawers under gym shorts, and a hat. At a game.
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| Willets Point Aug 15 2006 11:13 PM |
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Not precisely, but once when I got really drunk in a fort in Bermuda I staggered into an embrasure on top of one of the battlements and peed off that. It's lucky I didn't trip as it would have been a sixty-foot fall on to jagged rocks.
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| metirish Aug 15 2006 11:18 PM |
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Getting 3 years probation at age 13 for breaking into a local pub several times. Do you ever think about that first girl/guy that you truely loved? BTW the probation changed me and my brother, a detective coming to the house every week will do that.....thanks to him.
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 21 2006 09:56 AM |
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Who, Miami-area urban planner Lisa Liotta? Nah.
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| Edgy DC Aug 21 2006 10:04 AM |
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Well, that's not a question but...
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| MFS62 Aug 29 2006 09:54 AM |
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Depends on how you define "big date". If you mean my first date, I was a kid, so it was ok I guess.
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 29 2006 09:59 AM |
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I don;t recall him ever making a big impression. I suppose he's OK.
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| MFS62 Aug 29 2006 10:24 AM |
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I'm casual today - about $40.
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| soupcan Aug 29 2006 10:26 AM |
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I liked it when I first saw it, now it just looks trashy to me.
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| Willets Point Aug 29 2006 10:26 AM |
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It can be very sexy on the right type of belly. Emphasis on that qualifier there.
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| MFS62 Aug 29 2006 10:41 AM |
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Too late. There's no way I could unload my enron stock.
If you're talking about Jackson, to get a piece of cake, silly. Today is his birthday. Question: Which one piece of baseball memorabilia/collectable you own means the most to you? Later
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| Edgy DC Aug 29 2006 10:48 AM |
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Speculative Straight Dope on Michael.
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| MFS62 Aug 29 2006 11:06 AM |
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Edgy, I'm getting a "site not found" message. If you can find it, can you please cut and paste it here? Or, didn't we used to have an Answer/Ask Spinoff thread? It might go there if its still around.
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| Edgy DC Aug 29 2006 11:30 AM |
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Dear Straight Dope:
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| MFS62 Aug 29 2006 11:37 AM |
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Thank you.
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| Johnny Dickshot Aug 30 2006 12:13 PM |
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Not a memorabilia guy at all. But I still have all my baseball cards, worthless tho they may be. Q: Tell us about that guy/girl in your office who deserves to be fired but probably won;t be.
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| Edgy DC Aug 30 2006 12:20 PM |
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When my boss's boss is out, my boss comes in an hour late, leaves an hour early, and takes four-hour lunches in between. F'real, yo. I do the work, she steals it.
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| MFS62 Aug 30 2006 01:25 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Aug 30 2006 01:56 PM |
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Dating from the founding of the American Football League(and including the subsequent merger with the NFL), the most important Patriots were:
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 30 2006 01:43 PM |
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I think Edgy's question was a good one and deserves a real answer.
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| seawolf17 Aug 30 2006 01:49 PM |
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Especially considering that Kyle Brady was not the Brady 62 had in mind.
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| MFS62 Aug 30 2006 01:56 PM |
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Oops, Tom Brady.
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| Yancy Street Gang Aug 30 2006 02:05 PM |
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Sam Adams: I'm not sure what his motivation was, but he was gung ho for independence early on, and really got the ball rolling.
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| sharpie Aug 30 2006 02:18 PM |
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Favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. No religious mumbojumbo, just eating food with people you (hopefully) like.
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| RealityChuck Aug 30 2006 02:44 PM |
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Probably Tilden over Hayes, since he won anyway.
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| seawolf17 Aug 30 2006 03:06 PM |
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MiniWolf. I could run his affairs for the next seventeen and a half years until he's of age, then retire gracefully as the father of the king.
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| TheOldMole Aug 31 2006 09:39 PM |
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Well, I'd want to win, so I'd invite the 9 worst decision-makers of all time. Let's see...
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| TheOldMole Aug 31 2006 09:40 PM |
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Oh, and an "ask" -- what's the dumbest decision you ever made in turning a ticket down?
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| SteveJRogers Sep 01 2006 09:29 PM |
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Not my decision, but my Dad turned down a chance to go to Game 6 86 WS because he wanted to see a game he knew would happen Other than a Met related year, what time frame (year or era) in baseball history would you go back in time to watch in its entirety
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| MFS62 Sep 03 2006 11:04 AM |
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My dad (may he rest in Peace) told me about watching Negro League baseball. I would have liked to have seen it for myself - from the early 30's (including barnstorming games against White teams with Babe Ruth) until 1948. Question: What historic event would you like to have been present at? Later
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| SteveJRogers Sep 03 2006 08:09 PM |
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Good one...probably 7/4/1776, Philadelphia. Love to pick Adams', Jefferson's, ect al's brains and see exactly how long they thought this grand experiment would last Question: Do you think people should be working on Labor Day, since that is what the day was intended to commemorate?
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| TheOldMole Sep 05 2006 10:09 AM |
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No, there's enough work in the world. And Labor Day was to commemorate organized labor, not work, wasn't it?
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| MFS62 Sep 05 2006 10:16 AM |
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Leonardo DaVinci. Then I would know what was going on inside his head when he painted the Last Supper.
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| Johnny Dickshot Sep 05 2006 10:21 AM |
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No, ma'am.
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| MFS62 Sep 05 2006 10:41 AM |
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(yep, from that view, I'd say she's a woman.)
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| Valadius Sep 05 2006 11:26 AM |
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Chocolate. Haven't liked it since I was about 3.
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| cooby Sep 13 2006 04:22 PM |
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Yeah, Shadoe Stevens will host it.
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| RealityChuck Sep 13 2006 04:26 PM |
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Yes.
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| Johnny Dickshot Sep 13 2006 04:26 PM |
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(edited so as to answer the previous Q: I'd be a Dodgers fan, like my Dad, I'm sure).
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| cooby Sep 13 2006 04:28 PM |
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I agreed with your NO though
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| MFS62 Sep 14 2006 09:26 AM |
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A: No. I cherish my posessions, and know that other people feel the same way about theirs. Q: If a vehicle you are going to buy meets all your requirements, in terms of seating, load carrying ability, two/four wheel drive, mileage, and amenities, do you care about what it looks like? Later
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| SwitchHitter Sep 14 2006 12:06 PM |
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To an extent. If I have a choice among vehicles, appearance will play a part. When we had to buy our new van (which is a pretty red color) I told my husband I did not want the one described as "sea blue". It was a nasy grayish greenish blue. I'm sure some people like that color but I'm not any of them.
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| cooby Sep 14 2006 12:09 PM |
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All the time, I like it better than candles because it makes the whole house smell so good!
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| seawolf17 Sep 14 2006 12:12 PM |
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MiniWolf. I'm sure Peanut's an adequate babysitter, but CPS frowns on that kind of stuff.  So... do you come here often?
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| Edgy DC Sep 14 2006 12:13 PM |
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Literally?
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| MFS62 Sep 14 2006 01:55 PM |
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Is that your answer, or another question? LOL! Later
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| Edgy DC Sep 14 2006 02:04 PM |
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I come here often.
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| MFS62 Sep 14 2006 02:20 PM |
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Here is the list of the nation's most dangerous intersections, as compiled by State Farm Insurance:
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| Yancy Street Gang Sep 14 2006 02:28 PM |
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A. No. Not until you get to 11,000 do you start to feel good. That stretch from 10,000 to 10,999 you're just one of many Tom Seavers.
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| cooby Sep 14 2006 02:30 PM |
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That would be a good general thread!
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| MFS62 Sep 14 2006 02:46 PM |
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Cow, chicken, turkey, pig, fish (various), duck, goose, and reindeer. (The last one at one of the Scandanavian places at EPCOT.)
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| cooby Sep 14 2006 02:59 PM |
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Surely everybody here has eaten a bug
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| SteveJRogers Sep 14 2006 03:44 PM |
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I've never been a big Fish Fan for some reason
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| MFS62 Sep 15 2006 11:23 AM |
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Of course not! Would you want to pay the taxes on that place? Question: If you could live anywhere in the world, where would that be? Later
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| SteveJRogers Sep 15 2006 07:06 PM |
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But we only pay less than 100 bucks every day we go there...
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| Willets Point Sep 15 2006 07:11 PM |
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Ebbets Field. Or maybe the Polo Grounds I guess it's a tie.
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| Valadius Sep 15 2006 07:24 PM |
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The Circus Maximus.
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| TheOldMole Sep 15 2006 08:39 PM |
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FDR.
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| MFS62 Sep 18 2006 09:26 AM |
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My new PC has a small keyboard. Often, the palm of my left hand accidentally hits the "ctrl" key. This wipes out everything I have just typed. It really pisses me off.
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| Valadius Sep 18 2006 11:59 AM |
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Yahoo.
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| MFS62 Sep 19 2006 11:41 AM |
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Old enough to have seen the entire history of the Mets.
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| Yancy Street Gang Sep 19 2006 11:58 AM |
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Lost. October 4.
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| Johnny Dickshot Sep 19 2006 10:19 PM |
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None really. Though they've been shooting a lotta scenes for a show called Kidnapped in my hood, so I might look just for the scenery.
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| ScarletKnight41 Sep 19 2006 10:22 PM |
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I don't wear a watch anymore. I don't lilke how they feel, and I don't like getting that watchband tan line in the summer. I now use my cell phone when I want to check the time.
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| Willets Point Sep 20 2006 08:01 AM |
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New York City. Somewhere near Central Park. Plus I'd get season tickets to the Mets. If money were no object.
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| MFS62 Sep 20 2006 09:04 AM |
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I would like to have Paul Newman as a next door neighbor. Westport, CT is a nice place to live. And between his interests in movies, politics and charities, his parties (asuming I'd be invited) would be very interesting.
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| soupcan Sep 20 2006 11:45 AM |
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Anyplace that gets me away from this shit-hole town of Westport, CT that I live in.
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| SteveJRogers Sep 20 2006 12:19 PM |
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I wonder what brought that question to the table? Because more and more people are living past their 90's that 80's are getting close to being the new 60's
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| MFS62 Sep 20 2006 12:31 PM |
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Because I still see him photographed with a wide range of people at public events. He is still active in all three areas I mentioned, and so are they. Again, just my impression. Back to Steve's question. Later
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| soupcan Sep 20 2006 01:24 PM |
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Yankee fans dislike Reggie Jackson?
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| SteveJRogers Sep 20 2006 01:54 PM |
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Revisionist history has Jackson as a beloved MFY
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| SteveJRogers Sep 20 2006 07:58 PM |
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Since I pretty much derailed this to the Baseball Forum...
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| Willets Point Sep 20 2006 10:21 PM |
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Martin Sheen. A couple of years I read that outside his acting roles he goes only by his real name, is an active, devout Catholic, and heavily involved in charity work (beyond just writing checks and making appearances). I guess that jibe with the drunk/high actor in Apocalypse Now although that was 25-years ago.
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| metirish Sep 20 2006 10:32 PM |
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Good question...I have given this serious thought..I will go with Mike Jacobs and I would ask him but for Pedro last year would you have that one game and went back to the minors with your bags that were on the bus to never have been heard form again......I think that would be a great conversation. you are given absolute power - what world problem/disater do you resolve..Darfur,Palestine/Israel....you name it.
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| MFS62 Sep 22 2006 12:58 PM |
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Palestine/ Israel, because if I could resolve that one to the satisfaction of both sides, maybe some of the other problems in the world might go away.
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| TheOldMole Sep 22 2006 05:41 PM |
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A few artists.
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| SteveJRogers Sep 24 2006 03:58 PM |
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Studio 60 on Sunset Strip looks like it has staying power. The only new show I've had a chance to watch Do you roll eyes at non-sports fans who think they are missing actual episodes because the network scheduled such "borrish" things as baseball postseason games in their stead, not realizing that they'll end up with more episodes during one of the hiatus for the networks as a result?
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| Rockin' Doc Sep 24 2006 04:54 PM |
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Wrong thread. Moved to the proper one. Sorry for the interruption. Carry on.
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| MFS62 Sep 28 2006 11:34 AM |
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Not really. I'd bet some people arrange their schedules around certain shows. And many must eagerly anticipate the first new episodes of those shows each year. If those shows are more important to them than the sporting events that replace them, I can understand how they feel. What's your favorite brand of cold cereal? Later
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| TheOldMole Sep 29 2006 11:11 AM |
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Raisin Bran.
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| Johnny Dickshot Sep 29 2006 11:24 AM |
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Some Shel Silverstein stuff to the boy.
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| MFS62 Oct 05 2006 12:02 PM |
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Very crisp. I like to put wet stuff, like jelly and tuna fish on toast ( not at the same time) and I hat it when the stuff sogs through. For the guys who wear Jockey style underwear: Do you use the slit in the front, or move it to the side when you, uh, "wee"? Later
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| Johnny Dickshot Oct 05 2006 12:04 PM |
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Definitely a pulldowner. I hate it when the thing, you know.
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| sharpie Oct 05 2006 12:07 PM |
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I've gone over to the boxer-brief side as well.
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| SteveJRogers Oct 05 2006 12:12 PM |
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Maybe 10 times a year, usually family functions
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| Johnny Dickshot Oct 05 2006 12:13 PM |
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In 1988 I had Mets World Series tickets. They were worthless then and worthless now.
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| MFS62 Oct 05 2006 12:26 PM |
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A very numb one. Q: Do you like elevator music when you're in an elevator? Or would you prefer no music at all? Later
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| sharpie Oct 05 2006 12:46 PM |
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No music. Also, no stupid no-sound TVs with newsbits, weather and ads.
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| SteveJRogers Oct 08 2006 01:24 AM |
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Another sign of the obtrusiveness of the media in our lives and continuing to drive this country into a massive case of ADD
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| ScarletKnight41 Oct 08 2006 07:09 AM |
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I would. I have.
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| TheOldMole Oct 08 2006 10:39 AM |
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Party plane. It worked for Davey.
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| MFS62 Oct 08 2006 07:20 PM |
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Depends if its a charter. If its a regular scheduled flight, the Fed ban on bringing liquids on board may still be in force. Bummer. Mole's question is still on the board. Later
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| cooby Oct 08 2006 10:11 PM |
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Not really, because I thought very highly of him right from the beginning.
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| TheOldMole Oct 08 2006 11:29 PM |
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You can't believe how beautiful it is here this weekend. Why doesn't everyone come up to Opus 40?
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| cooby Oct 13 2006 12:25 PM |
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I was hoping to take a trip this weekend, but it's not going to happen. I'll be with you in spirit though, Old Mole. One day I'll get him there.
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| Edgy DC Oct 13 2006 03:03 PM |
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Yes, I have, in the swamps of Jersey. Some car-load of frat boys asked for directions to Giants Stadium. Despite being up a creek myself, I gave them directions. The Grateful Dead were playing. After patiently explaining it to them, I asked for a lift to the nearest filling station.
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| TheOldMole Oct 14 2006 01:13 PM |
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The top three ought to be Good Lovin', Groovin', People Got to Be Free. But that's not an answer.
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| MFS62 Oct 17 2006 09:11 AM |
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Edgy, I'd add: I've Been Lonely Too Long A Beautiful Morning How Can I Be Sure But that's as far as I can take it. don't really recall the other songs. I'd have to hear them again. Time for a new question. Yours has been out there a while. Which of the original tv Charlie's Angels did you like better, and why? Later
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| TheOldMole Oct 17 2006 09:22 AM |
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I liked Kate Jackson. She was cute and ... relatively ... smart.
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| MFS62 Oct 17 2006 09:27 AM |
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Maverick is his name. Riding the trail to who-knows-where Luck is his companion Gamblin' is his game. Who had the power to cloud men's minds? Later
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| TheOldMole Oct 17 2006 11:26 AM |
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The Shadow, mysterious creature who aids the forces of law and order, is in reality Lamont Cranston, wealthy young man about town, who long ago, in the Orient, learned the secret hypnotic power to cloud men's minds so that they cannot see him. Cranston's mistress, the lovely Margo Lane, is the only person who knows to whom the voice of the invisible shadow belongs.
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| MFS62 Oct 17 2006 12:29 PM |
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A squirrel, looking for acorns.
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| Willets Point Oct 17 2006 01:06 PM |
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| MFS62 Oct 17 2006 01:11 PM |
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Actually, we were in a string of Q/A regarding old TV and Radio shows. I was thinking the character in The Prisoner. I had tremendous respect for Stan Musial. Your answer is valid. Or was that another question? :) Later
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| RealityChuck Oct 17 2006 01:32 PM |
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| MFS62 Oct 17 2006 01:34 PM |
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Chuck, are you really sure?
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| Edgy DC Oct 17 2006 01:39 PM |
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"The Man" is a pejorative slang phrase used by the counterculture to describe higher authority. This "Man" does not usually refer to a specific individual as such, but instead to the government, leaders of large corporations, and other authority figures in general, such as the police. The Man is colloquially defined as the figurative person who controls our world. The Man is also often used as a symbol of racial oppression. Will the Guns 'n' Roses linuep that broke through ever re-unite on stage in performance? On record? How?
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| metirish Oct 17 2006 01:56 PM |
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Stranger things have happened,but I'll say no way, 1) I don't think Axl talks to any of them. 2) Steven Adler is in a bad way,last time I saw him interviewed he slurred his speech,IIRC he had a stroke from all the booze and drugs.....can he even play drums anymore? Can CBGB's be recreated in Vagas?
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| MFS62 Oct 17 2006 02:01 PM |
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I'm surprised that someone hasn't tried it already. I think it can, considering all the ex-New Yorkers of that generation now living in that area (some under their own names). Maybe they had to wait for the NY one to officially close. Question: Have you ever bought anything immediately upon seeing it on an infomercial? What was it? How did you like it when you got it? Later
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| Johnny Dickshot Oct 17 2006 02:16 PM |
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Since Junior rises around 5 am I've had opportunity to view some great infomercials while feeding him. Most recently, for some kind of swirly mop or broom thing that looked pretty cool, at least, at 5 am.
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| metirish Oct 17 2006 02:20 PM |
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I once bought that thing that sorts and wraps your coins..looks freaking great on TV, lasted about an hour when I used it....I bought the chicken wing-it over the summer after seeing in on TV...works great....
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| Edgy DC Oct 17 2006 02:22 PM |
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Really? Bizarre. It was me, wasn't it?
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| Yancy Street Gang Oct 17 2006 02:25 PM |
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In a little while I'm going to get a bottle of Diet Pepsi. And after I finish that, I'm going to munch on a Granny Smith apple. What's gonna be the final score of tonight's Mets-Cardinals game?
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| Johnny Dickshot Oct 17 2006 02:41 PM |
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Yes. I recall putting Good Lovin' first for the 1-2-3 call at the beginning. Final score: Mets 30, Cardinals 1 (don;t pressure me like this). Q: Tell us something interesting about the person who sits closest to you at work.
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| Edgy DC Oct 17 2006 02:55 PM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Oct 17 2006 03:21 PM |
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M.'s uncle Whitey was a kid who used to hang out outside of Fenway, picking up used scorecards and programs and trying to make a few dimes reselling them.
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| MFS62 Oct 17 2006 02:57 PM |
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She is a thesis short of a PhD in Behavioral Psychology. Now that I typed that, I understand why she keeps looking over at me. Question: If you can't finish the Sunday crossword puzzle, do you keep it a week to find out the words you missed the following Sunday? Or do you try to look up the answers yourself before then? Later
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| RealityChuck Oct 17 2006 03:19 PM |
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Hypothetically, I'd just forget about it. I really wouldn't care to bother to look up the answers.
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| MFS62 Oct 17 2006 03:29 PM |
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Victory At Sea. It was documentary films of World War II, with Rogers and Hammerstein music in the background and (I think) John Facenda narrating. The show lasted two years, and is still sold on DCD today. Yes, it stands up as both history and good television. Do you like the laugh track in sit-coms or would you prefer they be taped before a live audience? Later
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| Yancy Street Gang Oct 17 2006 03:47 PM |
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I prefer when there's no laughter at all, and you have to figure out when to laugh.
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| RealityChuck Oct 17 2006 03:47 PM |
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It's a trick question: the laughter on sitcoms recorded before a live audience comes from a laugh track machine. Live laughter hasn't been used in sitcoms since radio.
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| Edgy DC Oct 17 2006 04:04 PM |
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I have question hanging.
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| Yancy Street Gang Oct 17 2006 04:11 PM |
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Wow.
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| Willets Point Oct 17 2006 04:40 PM |
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I can usually figure out when to laugh because the jokes are, you know, funny.
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| Vic Sage Oct 17 2006 05:37 PM |
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No, because i don't expect to live much longer. Even assuming a normal life expectancy, i don't think we'll bother going unless some corporation or government (same thing) figures out a cost-efficient way to exploit whatever resources it may have.
toss up between HEROES and STUDIO 60. I prefer the concept of HEROES but prefer STUDIO 60's writing and acting.
MALLARD FILLMORE should be vivisected with extreme prejudice. Q: The TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' musical ... a must see?
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| MFS62 Oct 17 2006 06:45 PM |
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I whole heartedly agree about Mallard Fillmore.
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| Willets Point Oct 17 2006 07:21 PM |
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Or he could be roasted with mango salsa. I started the roast in the comic thread.
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| TheOldMole Oct 18 2006 12:03 PM |
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No musical is a must-see, at the prices they charge. I saw "Smoky Joe's Cafe" several years ago, at 75 bux a pop, which wouldn't get you into the men's room these days.
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| MFS62 Oct 18 2006 12:10 PM |
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The original Psycho.
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| RealityChuck Oct 18 2006 01:03 PM |
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Alien
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| MFS62 Oct 18 2006 01:27 PM |
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The Halleluiah Trail Any time you read that a movie is a "comedy western" you wonder how good or bad it can be. This was pre-Blazing Saddles. I was in the Army. It was a Sunday afternoon, and my friend and I decided to go to the movies. That was playing. IIRC, at Army bases at the time, a black and white movie (like Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?" was 35 cents. And color movies were 50 cents. So we ante'd up. It was hysterical, especially the parts where it spoofed the military. Maybe it was the fact that we were still hung over (and probably all the alcohol from the previous night hadn't fully left our systems yet) but we laughed all the way through it. I've seen that it occasionally shows up on TV late at night. Check it out. Is disco still dead to you? Or do you still enjoy listening to some of those oldies? Later
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| Vic Sage Oct 18 2006 01:44 PM |
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Hated disco then, hate it now.
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| MFS62 Oct 18 2006 01:57 PM |
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Best: One of the first Banner Days at Shea. Still a great idea. Now, all they need to do is schedule some f'n double headers so the parade can be between games. Worst: I dunno. Some of the give aways at Shea have been pretty shoddy. None of the specifically come to mind - maybe a pencil and Mets pad promoting some bank. Of course, the worst I've heard about were the Disco Demolition Night in Comiskey and the 5 cent beer night in Cleveland. They both ended up in riots. Did you ever receive a promotional item that you still use? (I still use the Mets/ Pathmark seat cushions I got). Later
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| Willets Point Oct 18 2006 03:39 PM |
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I have a Dunkin Donuts Mets mug ca. 1999 with images of Leiter, Piazza, Ventura and Henderson that I still use as my office mug.
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| Johnny Dickshot Oct 20 2006 11:29 AM |
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Taking a whizz without missing a play. I could care less what they do between innings, though I did enjoy when the Mets briefly ('round 99-00) promoting ther Saturday evening games with Don Pardo: "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"
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| Edgy DC Oct 20 2006 11:40 AM |
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Zipcar isn't public yet, is it? When Zipcar goes public get in. In fact, get in now on companies that have invested in Zipcar. They recently made smart deals with GM and XM Satellite Radio.
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| MFS62 Oct 20 2006 12:27 PM |
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Used to be pretty good. Now its rusty. I haven't played in almost 40 years. Reason: when I was in the Army, I was on night shift for over a year. So, during the daytime, the base facilities were pretty much always available, including the tennis courts and golf course. I had some pretty good partners. The tennis player had been personally coached by Ron Holmberg and my golf partner (who taught me the game) had caddied at Arnie Palmer's LaTrobe course and had been admitted to Penn State with a full golf schollarship. They taught me a lot, and both games got pretty good. I had a really good old-fashioned wood tennis racquet. On the day I was ending my tour, I needed a lift to the airport, and one of my buddies said he's give me a lift in exchange for the racquet. I gave it to him. Later, I felt that playing tennis (and golf) reminded me of being in the Army, so I haven't played either of them (much) since. Do you play bridge? How good are you at it? Later
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| TheOldMole Oct 22 2006 07:43 PM |
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When I play regularly, I'm not bad. Better than novice. Not so good at knowing how to bid really powerful hands. But I haven't played in a couple of years, probably not in six months even online.
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| MFS62 Oct 23 2006 09:58 AM |
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I don't play any on-line games. And I haven't played real poker for many years. I always preferred the mental challenge of bridge, because communication is important, you can play creative defense, and it is the only card game I know of in which the skill of the player can transcend the value of the cards they are dealt.
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| Vic Sage Oct 23 2006 10:32 AM |
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I've spent many a vacation day wandering around an art museum. I could easily live every day of my life that way.
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| Rockin' Doc Oct 23 2006 11:21 PM |
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Cold.
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| RealityChuck Oct 23 2006 11:23 PM |
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Such a thing does not exist. It is mythical, like flesh eating zombies, which, coincidently, taste about the same.
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| Willets Point Oct 23 2006 11:41 PM |
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Rome (Italy, not New York)
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| MFS62 Oct 24 2006 07:21 AM |
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Billy Joel - he has perfect pitch through five octaves. You may not like his music, but his voice is a magnificent instrument. What musical instrument don't you play that you wish you could? Later
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| seawolf17 Oct 24 2006 07:36 AM |
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Drums. I can noodle a little (very little) on a guitar, and I kinda know my way around a piano, but I'd love to have a soundproof room in our basement with a big Mike Portnoy-style drum kit set up down there.
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| TheOldMole Oct 24 2006 07:37 AM |
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Tenor sax. And I'd want to play like Illinois Jacquet.
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| RealityChuck Oct 24 2006 09:00 AM |
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What childhood hero of yours are you now disappointed with?
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| Yancy Street Gang Oct 24 2006 09:19 AM |
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Well, I recently learned that Tom Seaver has been autographing pictures of Betty Boop. Can you sink much lower than that?
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| MFS62 Oct 24 2006 09:44 AM |
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Aeon Flux. She might kill me, but what a way to go. What was the first comic book that you felt you had to "keep forever"? Do you still have it? Later
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| TheOldMole Oct 24 2006 10:44 AM |
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Mad. My brother and I, who were hicks from the country, found our way down to Lafayette Street, then in the warehouse district, found the Mad offices, and bought up every back issue we didn't have. So we had a complete set, from Issue One. The day my brother left for college, before the exhaust had even cleared in the driveway, my mother made a raid on our room, went straight for the Mads, and threw them all out.
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| Edgy DC Oct 24 2006 10:54 AM |
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Novel: Huckleberry Finn
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| MFS62 Oct 24 2006 10:54 AM |
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I had the first four issues of MAD and, alas, they suffered the same fate as yours. Sigh. As for the question, the first "grownup" books I remember were Treasure Island, the complete works of Mark Twain and the complete Sherlock Holmes. I'm not sure which I read first, and maybe you won't classify them as "great literature", but they got my reading juices flowing. What was the first movie you remember seeing in a movie theater when you went by yourself? Later
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| TheOldMole Oct 24 2006 03:18 PM |
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All of them would qualify, in my book.
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| Edgy DC Oct 24 2006 03:26 PM |
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I got elbowed here.
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| Willets Point Oct 24 2006 03:32 PM |
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The first date wasn't so bad, it was just the rest of the time that I spent with that clingy, manipulative monster that was a disaster. Edgy's ?: How disaster prepared are you?
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| TheOldMole Oct 26 2006 10:16 AM |
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Mostly unprepared. Probably shouldn't admit it, but it's true.
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| Rockin' Doc Oct 26 2006 10:07 PM |
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Hurricane and resultant flooding. It seems like we have to ride one out every few years.
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| MFS62 Oct 27 2006 09:16 AM |
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Lemon meringue pie. (I don't like it so much, I'm not even sure how to spell it)
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| TheOldMole Oct 29 2006 05:43 PM |
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Yeah, a Mercedes. I'll never be able to afford one again.
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| Johnny Dickshot Oct 29 2006 06:44 PM |
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The squid leads a cast of thousands.
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| MFS62 Oct 30 2006 10:21 AM |
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a) Jazz - Dave Brubeck b) Soul - now, Tom Jones. Earlier, Elvis Presley. I heard a music critic for Rolling Stone call him "The greatest White soul singer ever" c) R&B - KC and the Sunshine Band d) rap. - Eminem (even I could not bring myself to answer "Vanilla Ice" to that one) Why? Because they could. Who was your favorite actor in horror films? If they played many, for what role? Later
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| Yancy Street Gang Oct 30 2006 10:23 AM |
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Bela Lugosi as Dracula. It's hard to believe he was actually frightening to audiences in 1931. Now his stilted pronounciations seem absurd, but he's undeniably fun to watch.
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| MFS62 Oct 30 2006 11:06 AM |
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Since this is Halloween eve, I'd say Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
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| Johnny Dickshot Oct 30 2006 11:10 AM |
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And Your Bird Can Sing.
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| RealityChuck Oct 30 2006 11:31 AM |
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Kohl's. A pair of shirts.
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| TheOldMole Nov 04 2006 03:59 PM |
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1980 -- a new decade's eve party -- come as your favorite character from the 70s -- I came as a Citibank cash machine (they were new then). I gave replies in English and Spanish.
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| cooby Nov 06 2006 03:15 PM |
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Too old, too tired, too broke, too comfortable at home...
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| ScarletKnight41 Nov 06 2006 03:38 PM |
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Nope - they're all tucked away for next year.
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| RealityChuck Nov 06 2006 04:27 PM |
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Hockey.
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| cooby Nov 06 2006 04:49 PM |
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Lock Haven Bobcats.
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| ScarletKnight41 Nov 06 2006 04:54 PM |
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High School - Red and White
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| TheOldMole Nov 07 2006 02:56 AM |
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I'd like to have a baby hippo.
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| RealityChuck Nov 07 2006 12:02 PM |
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What was the happiest week of your life?
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| TheOldMole Nov 07 2006 05:10 PM |
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It might have been this week. Went down to Maryland to see my grandkids. Watched my six-year-old intercept a pass and run it back for a touchdown. Had a wonderful, adult conversation with my 12-year-old. Came home to a monster hug from my 6-year-old grandson-in-residence.
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| Willets Point Nov 08 2006 03:42 PM |
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Eh? More or less. I'm no lover of the Republicans so it's good to see them lose legislative control, but on the other hand the Democrats have approved of a lot of the most disagreeable actions of the past decade or so, so they have a lot to prove to me that they're going to make real, positive change.
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| Willets Point Nov 17 2006 05:39 PM |
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Bump with new question.
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| TheOldMole Nov 17 2006 05:45 PM |
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You know, I don't think I'd be all that interested in food at that point, so I probably wouldn't pick anything fancy. A steak, I guess.
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| Edgy DC Dec 01 2006 03:33 PM |
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I think "Why Not?' I got no stake in Bond. People care way too much about that crap. All hail Sean Connery --- bah. Sure the guy is an engageing actor, but do people who worship these films ever watch them. Some of the most boring action films you'll ever see.
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| seawolf17 Dec 01 2006 03:39 PM |
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Considering all three of them are probably dudes, I'll still take #1. #2 has the haircut but nothing else, and #3 is, well, a dude.
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| sharpie Dec 01 2006 03:51 PM |
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In college (I was a theatre major) I had a class with a guy named Jeff. The next year, at a class you had to audition to get into, they called Jeff's name and she answered "It's Tania." I later was on a stage crew that Tania was head of and she would say things like "let the men carry that heavy box." Seemed weird. I also was friends with a guy who years later changed sides and my brother-in-law's sister jumped the other way.
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| ScarletKnight41 Dec 01 2006 04:22 PM |
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Taking my daughter to the City to see The Nutcracker. I haven't seen it at Lincoln Center since we moved out to suburbia - I'm psyched :)
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| sharpie Dec 01 2006 04:37 PM |
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Eggs Benedict.
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| Rockin' Doc Dec 02 2006 08:19 AM |
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Our office will close around 3:00 PM on Friday, Dec. 22nd and will reopen at 8:00 AM on Wednesday, Dec. 27th. The staff is pretty psyched and for a short while at least, my partners and I are aren't viewed as such miserly Scrooges.
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| cooby Dec 02 2006 07:09 PM |
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This would undoubtedly surprise my parents, but my favorite childhood memory of Christmas was a party that my dad's family had.
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| ScarletKnight41 Dec 02 2006 07:15 PM |
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How about the [url=http://www.goingjesus.com/cavalcade1.shtml]Cavalcade of Bad Nativities[/url]?
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| cooby Dec 10 2006 10:02 PM |
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I'm sure we all have our favorites, but for me, I think Olivia De Haviland ranks very high. You don't hear much about her though. Sophisticated.
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| ScarletKnight41 Dec 10 2006 10:06 PM |
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Miracle on 34th Street. It still holds up remarkably well. Wonderful acting, and a great script.
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| Rockin' Doc Dec 10 2006 10:32 PM |
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As a genre, I'm not really a fan of rap, but I would classify some of it as music.
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| Willets Point Dec 10 2006 10:48 PM |
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Langston Hughes.
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| TheOldMole Dec 11 2006 01:46 AM |
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John Keats.
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| MFS62 Dec 11 2006 09:11 AM |
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Leonard Koppett. He had a feel for how sports was a mirror of society.
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| TheOldMole Dec 11 2006 01:55 PM |
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Just the Times. I used to read ther News when they had Lars-Erik Nelson.
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| cooby Dec 13 2006 09:18 AM |
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Last year was different because Christmas and Hanukkah was at the same time.
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| Willets Point Dec 13 2006 11:15 AM |
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Yes, I enjoy that I can still ride my bike to work this late in the season.
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| SteveJRogers Dec 13 2006 06:27 PM |
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I resolve not to let "imaginary" internet people, other drivers, and anyonelse get the best of me in 2007. Darn it I'm 30 I should freaking act it!
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| cooby Dec 18 2006 10:55 PM |
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I don't think it's a good idea to make New Years Resolutions. If something about yourself needs changed, it should be done right away. You're not getting any younger.
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| DocTee Dec 18 2006 11:24 PM |
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Both.
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| Rockin' Doc Dec 19 2006 12:23 AM |
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I'm lazy and I'm blond so stubble is too light to cause 5 o'clock shadow so I use an electric (Braun) razor.
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| Johnny Dickshot Dec 19 2006 09:07 AM |
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Real and alive.
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| cooby Dec 19 2006 05:46 PM |
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red and green ones with Snow men. We had another party today at work.
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| Johnny Dickshot Jan 12 2007 10:03 AM |
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Neither one plays an important role in my life, but as a thing, suede is probably "more fun" than corderoy, so I'll go with suede.
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| Edgy DC Jan 12 2007 10:30 AM Edited 2 time(s), most recently on Jan 12 2007 10:46 AM |
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1) Dick Jones (No heart dystopian captialist exploiter.)
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| TheOldMole Jan 12 2007 10:34 AM |
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The Greek islands.
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| RealityChuck Jan 12 2007 12:41 PM |
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A. When the atmospheric temperature is at or below freezing (0 Celsius or 32 Fahrenheit) and there is enough moisture in the air.
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| seawolf17 Jan 12 2007 12:53 PM |
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A: Nuts. Peanuts, almonds, brazil nuts... all of em. There's nothing worse than the nut allergy. It totally sucks.
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| cooby Jan 12 2007 05:18 PM |
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Egg rolls.
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| ScarletKnight41 Jan 12 2007 05:26 PM |
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I usually buy 89.
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| Willets Point Jan 12 2007 06:09 PM |
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I like the ones that slip out quietly so my co-workers don't hear it and pop their heads over the cube wall to admonish me for being a disgusting pig.
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| TheOldMole Jan 12 2007 09:52 PM |
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Mr. Natural.
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Dylan the Post-Christian Spiritual Seeker (Infidels; Oh, Mercy)
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