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Post by Chris on Sept 6, 2006 18:18:55 GMT -5
Lunatic Fringe is one of those songs that makes you want to work out.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Sept 6, 2006 19:04:14 GMT -5
not really...... as a matter of fact, nothing wants to make me work out... I guess that's why I'm morbidly obese, lol.
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Post by Chris on Sept 6, 2006 19:10:21 GMT -5
Well, I said it makes me WANT to work out....but it doesn't make me work out.
As a matter of fact, I don't think I've worked out even one time after listening to Lunatic Fringe....but I've thought about while listening! HA!!
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Post by cactusjames on Sept 6, 2006 19:31:49 GMT -5
"Tennis cards seem like a great promo item, but really, how valuable will they ever be? Not to mention, who is going to try and collect Tennis cards? "
I honestly had never seen a pack of tennis cards in my life until the other day. Not in any machines in the supermarket, anywhere. I like it because I was really never into cards, I collected them but never so one day I could sell them. So it got to a point where if I wasn't getting Yankees, Rangers, Knicks or Cowboys yeah it was cool to have but I only wanted my teams. With tennis, being an individual sport, I have my favrites and fuck the guy whos ranked 139th in the world. I really got no one of note in that deck except for Sharapova and her clothes. Well worth the 7 bucks for four shit cards and my Holy Grail of any sport card. All I need now is her to autograph it and then blow me. Maybe a sandwhich would be nice too.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Sept 6, 2006 20:49:09 GMT -5
you are alright Cho, now if y ou could just fedex me 60 rolled tacos from Roberto's in Pacific Beach, across from the Roller coaster, you'd be my hero.
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Post by 9 on Sept 6, 2006 22:21:23 GMT -5
60? Wow!
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Post by globix on Sept 7, 2006 0:47:26 GMT -5
I just read Sheriff Tom's Scorecard Memory of the 1st game After 9/11. That was one of the most well written pieces I have ever read. Any work of literature that can make you laugh out loud one second, then well up with tears the next, well, that's something special
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Post by 39poolshark on Sept 7, 2006 0:51:19 GMT -5
I have a very, very extensive collection of baseball cards which take up a closet and thensome. One of my favorite hobbies since I was a kid.
On another note, I was at the first game after 9-11, and I don't think I will ever forget the feeling that was in the Stadium that day, and how I felt being there. Was one of the games I will always remember, but obviously not in the same way as important baseball games, like clinching games or playoffs.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Sept 7, 2006 6:40:50 GMT -5
if you are going to mail one, might as well mail 60
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 7, 2006 7:26:30 GMT -5
Hey, thanks for the kind words regarding that memory. I am very proud of that one. Yeah, a night I will never forget, with or without something written to keep the memory alive. The one thing that keeps coming back to me is how all of us banded back together and propped one another back up during such a trying time.
On the baseball card front, I have a couple of full sets which i started putting into binders. I also went through an E-Bay phase where i was getting prospect and autographed cards, of players I liked. Some jersey cards, USA Baseball cards, draft pick cards. I also raided Beckett.com and did the same there. You can cherrypick cards of your favorite players year to year from anywhere from 10 to 50 cents each, for the most part.
I have my binders set up pretty cool. Sleeves of my favorite players, then come the prospects, then a memorial section for players who left us too soon, then old cards I had from back in the day featuring Hall of Famers and stars of the game, as well as my plain-old favorites of the era. In the back of one of the binders I have assorted wrestling, NASCAR, and hockey cards, but all those combined add up to under a couple of hundred cards.
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Post by baldvinny on Sept 7, 2006 8:42:09 GMT -5
that first game back in NY was my birthday it was also the night one of my favorite photos ever was taken
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 7, 2006 8:49:15 GMT -5
You got a mention in the column, mixing drinks on the sidewalk. You rebel.
Yeah, thats a classic pic. You should blow that up and find a spot for it on your wall.
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Post by crazilyz on Sept 7, 2006 10:56:10 GMT -5
I have a mild form of dyslexia which wasn't diagnosed until I was in college. Sometimes I need to re-read things that just come off as a tad outrageous to me.
Riding on the elevator, there was some news bit about hybrid SUVs and Bill Clinton...thought I read "Secret escort Service" but is was actually "Secret Service escort."
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Post by MSBNYY on Sept 7, 2006 11:27:23 GMT -5
There was another character on Good Times that had a recurring role named Lenny. He was a dealer in stolen goods and kept everything in a fur coat. Every sentence he spoke ended in a word that rhymed with Lenny.
Then one of the main characters would insult him, he'd pull out a mini-broom, dust his shoulders, and walk away.
Every time I watch an episode with Lenny, I laugh at the character. It just doesn't get old.
This post just gave me an idea of doing a Lenny-marathon when I finish the final season.
I bet that's never been done before.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 7, 2006 14:29:04 GMT -5
Uh, so I have a question. That footage of the "first man to step on the moon."
Um. Who took it?
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Post by Jason Giambi on Sept 7, 2006 14:36:16 GMT -5
buzz aldrin, oops
At 10:56 pm EDT on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon. This image was taken from the telecast of the event, watched by people around the world. The pictures were taken by the Apollo lunar surface camera, the black bar running through the center of the picture is an anomaly in the Goldstone ground data system. (NASA photo ID S69-42583)
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 7, 2006 14:45:11 GMT -5
Uh....but wait. The picture was from a lunar surface camera, obviously planted on the surface. So that means Aldrin went first. Even if he did not "touch" the moon himself, he got screwed in the deal, cause obviously he was like RIGHT THERE. Why did he float away, and let someone else land on the moon first?
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Post by 9 on Sept 7, 2006 14:58:55 GMT -5
Are you starting up the old argument that the picture was a fake? That's SO not like you! ;D
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 7, 2006 15:09:47 GMT -5
Well, it appears I have documented proof of this one. I want answers, is all.
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Post by cactusjames on Sept 7, 2006 15:36:48 GMT -5
Made in a hollywood basement. It was just to beat the commies. We may have gotten there afterwards, but that was a farce in 69.
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Post by Jason Giambi on Sept 7, 2006 15:38:08 GMT -5
i think the camera was attached to the lander.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 7, 2006 15:40:33 GMT -5
To the what? Not buying it. Dont even get me started on how the flag was out like it was blowing, yet its been proven that the way the atmosphere is up there it should have been hanging limp.
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 7, 2006 15:42:33 GMT -5
It was held up by wire ....as they have said over and over again
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Post by 9 on Sept 7, 2006 15:45:14 GMT -5
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 7, 2006 15:47:21 GMT -5
No wire could perfectly hold up a flag like that. And that was only claimed when people started calling them on it.
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 7, 2006 15:49:00 GMT -5
The wire was across the top of the flag....
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Post by Chris on Sept 7, 2006 15:55:04 GMT -5
Where Carl Everett when you need him:
"God created the sun, the stars, the heavens and the earth, and then made Adam and Eve," Everett said last Friday, before the Red Sox lost two of three in Atlanta. "The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Someone actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus rex."
What about dinosaur bones?
"Made by man," he says.
Everett has trouble, too, with the idea of man actually walking on the moon. After first rejecting the notion, he concedes, "Yeah, that could have happened. It's possible. That is something you could prove. You can't prove dinosaurs ever existed. I feel it's far-fetched."
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Post by BigAl115 on Sept 7, 2006 15:58:05 GMT -5
that was never actually disputed ...the thing about the flag that was disputed was that it appears that the flag was waving at one point ....but after review it only moved while the astronaut was fiddling with it back and forth as he jammed it into the hole. But the moment he let go of the flag, it mysteriously stopped waving.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Sept 7, 2006 16:50:18 GMT -5
I dont know. It all sounds like a bunch of hooey to me.
There is a lot of talk that the moon is not nearly as large as people make it out to be, and its only like 20 miles away. Not sure if I subscribe to that, but file me in the "first moon landing was bunk" category.
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Post by cactusjames on Sept 7, 2006 17:13:04 GMT -5
Of course it was. I even think the corsshairs on some of the pictures are over certain images in the shot. In photography, and I think Larry can concur, the crosshairs are behind objects. Unless of course, the photos were doctored(sp).
But yeah the whole flag thing is malarky too. After he let it go you can see it waving and there's no way it'd happen. I got kicked out of class in 9th grade science because I don't beleive it. The guy told me it's like if you held a peice of paper in front of your oven door. The heat would make it move, but how does everything else flaot away and have no weight yet a flag can be placed into the surface of the moon then wave proudly to show off the "US Accomplishment". This country sickens me.
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