Tom Strange

"stRangers will get some help and win the AL West"... son, pass that over here! I was all set to write "stRangers will stay just close enough to keep us interested until the last week... when the Angels will win the division"... ...but I can only hope you're right my brother...

looks like paw needs to solve the puzzle...

yeah... what dooj said... or try a little fingernail polish remover (acetone) if they're ivory...

hmmm... I tried smelling mothballs once... but I couldn't get their little legs far enough apart...

If you go to the CompUSA website, they offer online 'tutorials' where you can go at your own pace, brush up or learn it new... it's a pretty good deal... and the cost is reasonable. You purchase a time period (month, three months, etc) and you can get on as often as you wish... They also offer classes at their stores... but the online thing is convenient and looked pretty thorough to me... I know there's someone who visits here that's used it, maybe she'll offer a testimonial as to it's worthiness...

Drove all night and fell asleep doing it many times... often more than once in the same trip... During our first year in rez the day we were to come back from "Christmas" break the worst ice storm in about a century hit the lower plains states so we (my, my sister, future bro in law and a couple of others) piled into the old Orange VW microbus (the one without heating and the rusted through floor boards) and set out on our way... "heck the engine's in the rear, we'll get good traction"... I think we even left a day early (but the memory's not too clear on that)... it took us three or four hours to make it to the north side of Denton (about 30 miles) and we already had a coating of ice on the bus over an inch thick... we kept on going, I put cayenne pepper in my socks to try and keep my feet warm.. someone had to stay awake in the passenger seat in the front to spray the de-icer on the INSIDE and the outside of the windshield... Somewhere north of Okla City one of the plugs blew out of the cylinder, so now we had no heat, less compression (power) and could smell the gas fumes... everyone but the person who was spraying the de-icer was laying down in the back bundled up in sleeping bags... so the plug blew out, so we just kept the engine running and stuck it in the ruts and kept on going... made it to Emporia (just before the deadline I think), the bus had over three inches of ice over the entire thing, we were all frozen and tired... but we made it... stoopeed! Another time we were coming back from somewhere when I was jolted awake (of course I was driving) and we were driving across a field somewhere in the middle of Kansas (after having left the highway at some point before I woke up)... Many times I'd awaken to see a bridge abutment fast approaching... Cuz we had to be there... we had to... Of course, I was pretty stupid wasn't I?

Let's look on the bright side for a moment... with my experience and training I'm confident that I can plan and stage every aspect of a meeting whether it be for 10 or 10,000... AND I can always get a job working a food booth with a carnival...

happening day young lady!

yeah.. me too... that's a good WD... see, that's the way I've always envisioned "plurality giving" and "abundant sharing" working... there's lots of opportunities out there to do things like that, we only need to take the blinders off and see them...

well then... her's was a remake... I didn't know it so I looked it up... and there it was... I assume you're referring to the one by ...

she is pretty... wasn't she in that Jesus movie? I've not ever really listened to her stuff...

oops! sorry Wnot... I got that wrong... (please sir, may I have another?) use the tree thing and use the url from the properties of the pic... I'll try... guess we just have to get Raf to do it... (I think he has magical powers)

niKa, you're still a sweetie! would you like to hear the monologue again? (just don't tell mr.niKa) ::)

Tis the time of year for trade rumors... Soriano back to the Yankees? About the only player being steadily included around here is Mench, who has been so streaky that he's being platooned... sort of a catch 22. Here's four sites from this week's SI that might interest some around here: baseballcrank.com Obsessed fanand New York City lawyer Dan McLaughlin's blog can be fun ("25 Least-Favorite Mets, Part 1") and thorough (a recent post examined team ERAs, finding that the 2006 Tigers stack up well historically). sabernomics.com Economic thinking applied to baseball. You'll get statistical analysis on such subjects as why, since pitching coach Leo Mazzone left the Braves for the Orioles, both teams staffs have stunk. Thehardballtimes.com When one of their writers comes up with a list such as "Ten Things I Didn't Know Last Week" (Frank Robinson has the most walk-off hits of anyone since 1957), odds are you didn't know them either. whatifsports.com Match up two teams from any era in baseball, football, hockey or college or pro basketball, and get a simulated result. The 1955 Dodgers versus the 2004 Red Sox? Press a button, and the computer provides a winner and full box score.

that's hilarious... well... two down to the Yankees with Millwood and Eaton having pitched... where are our bats? of course, it's hard to hit the relievers that are throwing 98 and 99 on the corners and getting the calls... but... we could also beat them next time... stuff happens...

If you'll post it as a url instead of a picture it will stay updated as the site updates... (that would be picture of "the earth" instead of picture of "the tree"...)

dmill... it was the whole "Marxist Minstrels" thing... and it wasn't just for the corps, it was supposed to be for everyone... you were to listen to and buy Way Prod stuff... and I really liked Good Seed and Pressed Down especially and most of the Joyful Noise stuff... but you can only listen to so much of it over and over and over and over and...

I refuse to answer on the grounds that it may tend to incriminate me...

see there... Raf tricked CalDreamer into guessing correctly!

I'm not feeling too creative right now...

I believe that your pictionary puzzle answer is: A Night at the Roxbury (that took 5 minutes off of my life when I said it)

CalDreamer.. that's a quote from a movie (your movie?) with Will Farrel in it...

aye chihuahua! I think I just got it... Are you seeing planes? Is your name Tattoo? Because swear to God, you're living on Fantasy Island.

starman, did you light a candle and eat a piece of cake for the birthday boy today? (even though he's moved on)

Simple story and plotline, yet well acted and everything in the movie means something... I'll more than likely see it again... and the message is quite uplifting... as you're walking away from the theater you'll smile to yourself as you put it all together... at least I did. But then, I've liked all of his movies for that very reason... (Yes, he has a role in this one as well, more prominent than his other movies... and you don't have to "stay after")