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Post by elliejay21 on May 1, 2007 21:44:48 GMT -5
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Post by jwmcc on May 1, 2007 21:47:29 GMT -5
Where does it say "groupie" in that job posting?
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Post by Jackass on May 2, 2007 17:46:03 GMT -5
Where does it say "groupie" in that job posting?
The part where it doesn't say New Jersey Devils.
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Post by crazilyz on May 16, 2007 9:06:48 GMT -5
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Post by crazilyz on May 18, 2007 15:45:30 GMT -5
This is a blog that I started about my old firm. I'm allowing ex-employees post as well but that hasn't happened yet. ilarchsucks.blogspot.com/
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Post by Chris on Jun 7, 2007 13:49:17 GMT -5
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Post by Chris on Jun 8, 2007 12:05:38 GMT -5
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Post by Chris on Jun 20, 2007 14:59:26 GMT -5
Crazy Gideon is a blatant Crazy Eddie rip-off we have here in California - East L.A. to be exact. Frankly, he's a little frightening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ODs4nxNnWM"If you love your kids you buy them Sony Playstation..." HAHA!
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Post by $heriff Tom on Jun 20, 2007 17:33:22 GMT -5
For anyone interested in Astronomy, here is a cool pic archive, with Astronomy pics of the day (explained by astronomers, no less) going back daily to 1995. You can get some nice screenshots/wallpapers out of there, or just fulfill your space crave. antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html
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Post by Domi on Jun 20, 2007 18:31:07 GMT -5
That Wiffle Ball stadium video is fantastic.
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Post by Jackass on Jun 21, 2007 13:02:43 GMT -5
The soundtrack from the Wiffle Ball Stadium video is very good also (you could lose the Teen Age Fan Club part, though). Interesting Bob Costas cameo. Why the Yankees gear, I though he was a Mud Hen?
You all realize that the Wiffle Ball factory, located in Shelton, CT. is only a few moments away from stately, Swain Manor. Probably 3 minutes from my front door.
I pass by every morning on the way to and from work.
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Post by jwmcc on Jun 21, 2007 13:16:55 GMT -5
Doesn't Mac sell Wiffle ball bats for a living?
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Post by Chris on Jun 21, 2007 13:30:42 GMT -5
I am actually in the process of starting an Orange County (CA) wiffle ball league with the aid/support/sponsorship of Golden Stick Wiffle Ball League from Mass.
Thus, my recent interest in Wiffle Ball.
Look up some of Golden Stick and Fastplastic's videos on YouTube...there's some pretty good pitching going on there.
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Post by Chris on Jun 21, 2007 13:31:25 GMT -5
"only a few moments away from stately, Swain Manor" -- Jackass, are you related to Louden?
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Post by kingdzbws on Jun 21, 2007 15:20:28 GMT -5
Jackass was the inspiration for Louden Swain.......
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Post by Chris on Jun 21, 2007 20:49:22 GMT -5
You know who Pele is kid? A Very famous soccer player. I was in a room here one day, watching a Mexican channel on TV. I don't know nothin about Pele. I'm watching what this guy can do with a ball and his feet. Next thing I know, he jumps up in the air, flips into a summersault, kicks the ball in, upside down and backwards! The goddam goalie never knew what the fuck hit him. Pele gets excited and rips off his jersey, starts running around the stadium waving it over his head. Everybody's screaming in Spanish. I'm here sittin all alone in my room. I start crying. Yah, that's right, I started crying. Because another human being, a species of which I happen to belong to, can kick a ball... lift himself... and the rest of us sad human beings up to a better place to be, if for only a minute. Let me tell ya kid, it was pretty goddam glorious.
It ain't the six minutes. It's what happens in that six minutes.
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Post by crazilyz on Jun 27, 2007 20:16:02 GMT -5
It could be 420 day everyday... www.greencookbook.com/#storyBasically, this talks about the joys of cooking with pot and sells cookbooks on CD.
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Post by nyyanksagain on Aug 21, 2007 19:41:59 GMT -5
new stadium article 161riverave.blogspot.com/The New Yankee Stadium. Many questions are still left out on the table about this corporate abomination being constructed(behind schedule) in what used to be the sandbox across the street. George Steinbrenner has had the itch to build a new stadium and relocate out of the South Bronx since the 1980's. But when attendance shot up(mostly those jumping on the band wagon) in the 1990's , the Bronx had increased foot traffic and better security and the franchise was saved from having to pick up and rebuild outside the NY Metropolitan area.
But the times are a changin' and the influence of corporate puppets and their big bucks puts dollar signs in the eyes of the Yankees organization. It seems that they no longer care about the true fans. The days of the die-hard Super Fan are over and the days of the $uper Fan have already begun.
What about the original stadium grounds, and what will be in its place the day 50,000 corporate jerks in suits and ties wait online to enter the new stadium for the first time? The rush will be immense to get inside and visit the new digital monument park, sip their lates, eat at their restaurants and maybe even catch an inning and 2/3rd's of baseball.
The more I look at the crains shadowing over the left center field facade, the more I realize the legendary grounds nestled in the armpit of 161st street and River Avenue will only be but a memory. My current seat in Bleacher Section 39 will be nothing more than a spot for freshly potted trees and support stakes for dogs to be walked around and defecated on. The NOTICE: THE BLEACHERS ARE NOW ALCOHOL FREE sign will be changed to a CURB YOUR DOG or even a DON'T LITTER sign. What will become of the mound where thousands of pitchers stood in the SAME spot countless times to throw the ball to the SAME home plate where Babe Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Derek Jeter, Phil Rizzuto, Lou Piniella, Charlie Hayes, Lou Gehrig, Joe Dimaggio once batted? The fact that there is a connection with all of those who have played on this ONE field year after year is mind boggling and anyone who opposes is either crazy or simply not fan enough to care.
If Babe Ruth were to be miraculously raised from the dead in 2010 and asked to be taken to his beloved playground what would he think? What blank thoughts would rush through his mind as he looked upon the area where he lived his dreams and held his wake?
Rumors, of course have spread and spread on the topic area of what will take the current stadiums place. One of my recent discussions with a Yankee Stadium staff member was about how the field is going to remain, the tier level would be "chopped off" and the field level "butchered" to host high school and non professional ball games (For a price... of course!) to play on the field where the Real Yankee Stadium once stood.
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Post by elliejay21 on Aug 22, 2007 19:22:52 GMT -5
who wrote this? ... ...the franchise was saved from having to pick up and rebuild outside the NY Metropolitan area.
When was there EVER talk of the Yankees leaving the area??? George threatened a move to Jersey, not that it was ever going to happen, and there was talk of moving to Manhattan, as recently as right before the new stadium deal was approved, but I NEVER EVER heard anything about a relocating to another market.
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 24, 2007 13:22:50 GMT -5
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Post by Domi on Aug 24, 2007 13:39:49 GMT -5
Welcome to last year!
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Post by 9 on Aug 24, 2007 13:47:36 GMT -5
That was SUCH a Tom answer!
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Post by nyyanksagain on Aug 25, 2007 23:10:27 GMT -5
ny metropolitan area is meant as bronx, queens, brooklyn, manhattans rough areas
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Post by elliejay21 on Aug 27, 2007 1:01:43 GMT -5
UH, no. Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan ARE PART of New York City. The NY Metropolitan area is made up of the city as well as the SUBURBS of the city, which include northern NJ, Westchester, Rockland, Fairfield County CT, and Long Island.
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Post by Chris on Aug 27, 2007 11:35:58 GMT -5
I had an argument with a guy many years ago that Brooklyn and Queens were "part of Long Island."
I know it's an issue of semantics but it's actually astounding to me that there are New Yorkers who do not recognize that Brooklyn and Queens are part of the land mass that comprise the island known as LONG ISLAND.
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Post by crazilyz on Aug 27, 2007 14:24:36 GMT -5
I know it's an issue of semantics but it's actually astounding to me that there are New Yorkers who do not recognize that Brooklyn and Queens are part of the land mass that comprise the island known as LONG ISLAND. These are probably the same schmucks that don't know that the Bronx is the only borough that's not on an island.
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Post by Chris on Aug 27, 2007 15:54:13 GMT -5
Is there a size limit for which a land mass so big can no longer be considered and island?
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Post by elliejay21 on Aug 27, 2007 21:24:48 GMT -5
Ask Australia. As for the Brooklyn/Queens debate... if those people REALLY believed that living in the boroughs means you live in the city and not out on the island, why do they refer to going into Manhattan as "going into the city"
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Post by $heriff Tom on Aug 27, 2007 22:15:02 GMT -5
why do they refer to going into Manhattan as "going into the city" Myth. I lived in Queens for 6 years and what I constantly heard was "lets head into Manhattan." You never lived in these outlying boroughs, why are you trying to speak for people in them?
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Post by nyyanksagain on Sept 8, 2007 22:33:35 GMT -5
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