PETE ROSE
 

Little kids are looking at Ty Cobb's stats, 2nd most hits, and saying let's go see no. 1, where's he?
putting aside the evolution of talent, (ie Ruth in his prime would probably not be a minor leagurer today) your list is crazy.

If you don't put Ty Cobb up before Ruth, people are going to accuse you of betting on the game.

PETE ROSE
 

great as in most hits. agreed on why.
bad human being? didn't Ruth hire whores 7 at a time? that has got to fuck with a girl's confidence in her professional abilities.

Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them
 

Notwithstanding his issues about money, it's clear why he's a catch.







Can't believe this one was just sitting there.

PETE ROSE
 

Long post with lots of stats deleted. Never mind.

Fight Club
 

There's one rule posted on every Clubhouse wall. And it ain't "there's no crying in baseball" It ain't "no 7 whores on a match"

Fucker deserves to be given a vote and then shunned by his peers.

Fight Club
 

I second the motion. If his peers reject him, it might just shut him up.

Fight Club
 

Not if there's a chance that he will make some money by talking. That's all he's about.

Fight Club
 

Then I'm putting him on my real life Ignore List.

Fight Club
 

I did that, but it weirded me out when ESPN would go to static.

Fight Club
 

no pepper playing?

Fight Club
 

Don't drink Jobu's rum??

Winter running tip- Word to the wise
 

just finished my first sub- 15 degree run of the season.
pre-run checklist: hat/gloves? check
several layered shirts? check
windbreaker? check
running pant? pants
something else, can't remember, well let's just go.

3 miles later.....i remember don't run below 15 degrees in boxer shorts!

Fight Club
 

Yeah. "Do Not Piss In The Showers."

(Of course, that really is what he did, isn't it?)

Billy Bob got Botox
 

He was on Letterman and looking younger so I wondered if he'd gotten rested up after Angelina J left. Then I noticed he had no wrinkles at all on his forehead and his eyebrows didn't move.

Billy Bob got Botox
 

Speaking of Botox, I think I was the last person to figure out Nicole Kidman's been abusing the stuff. All I noticed (and almost asked about here, circa Oscars 2003) was that she seemed to be scowling, or at least, her eyebrows were lower. Now it just seems so obvious that's what she had done.

Anyone else who hasn't actually done it (hi, Gwinky!) try to see what it would look like if you did? I looked at myself in the mirror, and totally relaxed my forehead and eyebrow muscles. Yikes! No way I'd ever get Botox without getting an eyebrow lift first.

tm

Winter running tip- Word to the wise
 

Why? Are they drafty?

I'm running on the treadmill (yawn) until the temperature gets closer to the freezing mark.

Fight Club and Where's Vladimir?
 

I agree with slave on this one -- give him a vote, and let whatever happens happen. I wouldn't let him back as a manager or any position otherwise involved in the game. I wouldn't even let him speak at the Hall if he gets inducted.

In other news, Vladimir Guerrero and the Mets* are engaging in a public courting ritual. Which leads me, of course, to another installment of Yankee Schadenfreude Haiku (tm). Enjoy.

Lost Pettite, Kaz, Wells
Vlad a Met? Cashman's new job:
"Care for fries with that?"

*The Orioles are wooing him, too, but from George's perspective, losing him to the Mets would be worse.

Winter running tip- Word to the wise
 

Yep.
Briefs have elastic on legs, so they seal in warm air. Boxers are loose at the leg so they allow continous flow of fresh frozen air.

first post here
 

forgive me if I screw up fonts, etc.

1) 5th graders are 10 and 11 yrs old. Many are still very innocent of blood, gore, and death despite the gaming and media world.

2) my son (10) has never watched or played any show/game that includes dismemberment or killing people. I'd like to keep his experience of such to a minimum for a couple more years.

3) that said, son does have an interest in science and, probably, would not have been grossed out or afraid of the arm and procedure so long as we'd had a chance to discuss/prep him ahead of time.

4) prep ahead of time includes discussion of what he's likely to see/smell/hear as well as how to compartmentalize the experience according to our religious/philosophical/educational beliefs.

bottom line for me: school should have ensured that parents knew ahead of time and attendance was optional.

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Welcome to the FB, where font errors are overlooked, but poor hyphenation is Not.

Just kidding. The bar is that way, the muchies are over there, and try not to let the slobbering advances of some Relatives Whose Names Are Omitted keep you from enjoying the party.

Fight Club
 

No, that was Sebby. But he quit harvard before they could ban him.

Desperate man
 

This is too funny. A guy is trying to sell stuff on EBAY stolen from his former employer (and other stuff).

The Wendy's straw is the clincher.

Ebay

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Sounds like he gets beat up a lot, though. Kids usually learn about violence one way or another.

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I keep telling you, your expierence is unique to you. Not all kids go through the same shit. Plus, like we told you back then, if you'd have just given up your lunch money, we wouldn't have had your ass day after day.

first post here
 

Fine. Now let me down from the flagpole.

Edited to add: Okay, if you're going to leave me up here, can you do something to make Atticus shut up? LIke he's never received a swirly before. Sheesh.

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I don't think that FBers forgive, they just move on. And FBers don't have issues, just shit that bothers them. I just watch.

10 and hasn't viewed fake killing or dismemberment? My son (5) says that he should get a look at the decapitation in Jeepers Creepers 2 -- "yeah, cool."

I don't remember them asking my parent's permission to show me that 1950's-style "You and Your Body -- Becoming a Woman" bullshit film they made us watch in a girls-only locked room in 5th grade -- they should have.

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Yeah, and to my parents' knowledge I didn't have sugar cereal until age 11. Fat fucking chance. Unless you home school your kid and/or live on a commune that the kid has never set foot off of.

That said, I think an actual human arm is a bit much for totally unprepared 5th graders. Someone said "hey I dissected a cat in high school!" Well, bucko, in high school you were at least 14, and at least at my high school the dissecting-the-cat class wasn't available until your junior or senior year.

I think lots of kids would be fine with it, but imaginative kids, particularly ones who had perhaps been in a bad car accident or had friends or relatives in bad car accidents (or whatever) might be freaked out by the sudden appearance of a severed limb. I have a good friend who was in a horrific car accident at age 5 or 6, had to have several corrective surgeries in the ensuing years, and given her reaction to uncontrolled bleeding at age 14 or 15 or so, might have totally flipped at the sight of a severed arm at age 10. Granted, weird circumstances, but not entirely out there.

first post here
 

In the universe of bullshit you and I can/do tell here, there have been degrees of believability. That you or I went to whatever school produced Atticus is, however, beyond the range of the plausible.

first post here
 

Fringe is right. Its fucked up, but that's how the world works. I know plenty of freaks who'd get off on the chance to hold a severed limb. But in real life, the arm always lands on the desk of someone with massive trauma issues.
Weird that.

first post here
 

You're probably right. I'm better off sticking with the world ruling shape shifting reptilian thing.

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Warm, fuzzy
 

Whoo hoo!

wussies
 

Don't forget the childbirth one. I wish I had known in advance, I'd have skipped that day.

That said, there will always be the fainter/more sensitive kid in any class.

When they gave Rubella shots (was that 5th grade, 6th grade?), the biggest kid in the class (we'll call him Carl), a guy who had been held back and was a year older than the rest of us, started to cry and shake and actually screamed when he saw the nurse/shot giving device. The rest of us laughed. I'm sure Carl was traumatized. Carl was a bully in the truest sense of the word due to his size. We never feared him after that.

first post here
 

I didn't notice any font issues, but I think someone (chevy?) already has that avatar. Not that he posts much, but still--I saw the avatar and assumed you were he until I noticed the subject line.

tm

first post here
 

By the time the first kid here was ten, he'd already participated in several near-dismemberments and killings. They all involved his own body, fortunately (or unfortunately, I guess, depending on your viewpoint.)

That being said, though, while many - maybe most - ten-year-olds would probably do just fine with the corpse's-arm-in-class scenario, some small portion might not, and no one is in as good a position, or really has the right, to determine who is which as is a kid's parent. The discussion and decision of whether kids are ready is one that should be handled by those parents. Thus, on reflection, I come down hard on "get the damn permission slips signed first."

(P.S. Fonts look great, so you can stay. Just don't mess 'em up. But, you might have to switch the funny ID pic, as I think someone's already using Jack.)

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That would be me.

Well, as a 5th-grader, I would not have been grossed out by a cat dissection. Neither would have some of my classmates, who seemed to have regressed to the 5th-grader mindset when they deviated from the dissection procedures by extracting the intestines from their cats and attempted to squeeze out poop onto each other's laboratory stations. I assure you that the extent of my interaction with the intestines of my cat was limited to poking at it, checking its elasticity, and wondering aloud how I would string it up on my violin (I was joking with my lab partner who didn't know that "catgut" strings actually consisted of sheep intestines).

first post here
 

It's one of the shared avatars that we placed on the system.


As far as arms* in school, no, I don't think that is a very good idea without some warning, I'm not sure it is a good idea with some warning. Not for 5th graders who are what 11? Give the kids and parents a choice at the very least.

It is one thing to see such things in movies or video games. Another to see it in real life.

I wasn't paying attention, don't know who was talking about a cat, but, when I was in AP Bio we got to deal with the cat too. I was 16 or 17 as I recall, and when we signed up for the course, we knew we would be doing it. It was a choice we made.

*I don't think other kinds of arms in school are a good idea either.

Venison
 

Having a deer hit your car is not a fun experience.

But in a strange way, I felt very Bilmoresque.

aV

p.s. people fine. car for the most part is as well. Deer tottered off.

World Series of Poker... NO one can win??
 

Federal agents closed Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, home of the World Series of Poker, for failure to pay approx. $3 million in employee benefits...

Guests were forced to relocate and the casino's gaming license is suspended. It's unclear when or even if it will be able to reopen. The IRS has millions in tax liens on the place.

Moral of the Story: Don't Bluff the G