GO ABBA GO!!!

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
No kidding. The hopes and dreams of the board rest on her shoulders. And a marathon is never a cake walk*, even for previous Boston qualifiers. Worse is that we are experiencing an unseasonably hot spell. Even the toughest of competitors can crack under those conditions.

But I'm sure everything will be fine. ABBA, I'll be praying for you. And by that I mean that I will think briefly about you while high at some point this weekend. I realize that this is ironic in a number of ways, but it is as close as I get to praying.

I'm sure I will do a fantastic job and I will not let this board down. And if I do, I will lie about it on the internet anyway. So again, there is no way I can fail.

*this reminds me that I have to buy the Duncan Hines mix today and figure out where my mixer is.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
The Detroit marathon course goes over the bridge to Windsor. Does the Minneapolis marathon cross any bridges, because I would be freaked to run over one of your bridges. not to worry abba, but forewarned is forearmed.

Yes!!!! My understanding is that if the bridge collapses while you are running on it you automatically qualify for Boston. So really, I have nothing to worry about. Win-Win.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
Yes!!!! My understanding is that if the bridge collapses while you are running on it you automatically qualify for Boston. So really, I have nothing to worry about. Win-Win.

so if a disgruntled client comes into my firm and unloads a clip at the conference room table, does that automatically qualify me for a firm sponsored flak vest for our "Go-Bags"?

or is it simply an event of default.

map of workplace shootings

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/guns_i...shootings.html

[Replaced_Texan]

The Greeks make good food and bad wine.

I consumed a lot of both last night at their festival.

Considering the badness of the wine, I should be feeling a lot worse than I do right now.

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
Have you seen the video? It's on cnn.com.

I don't know what set her off, but her behavior, in an airport in particular, was certainly stupid and ill-advised.

Like I said, if I'd been in an airport and I'd seen someone behaving like she was, I'd want airport police there, posthaste.

Here's the video: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/05/air...ml#cnnSTCVideo

You guys are arguing two different things.

1. What (in combination with whatever drugs she had in her system) pushed her to be screaming the way she was?

2. Did security and the police act appropriately when it became clear that she was a problem?

1. When it comes to the first issue, we'll never know. But I'm with Dian on this one. If you give anyone power over other people, they will use it to make themselves feel more important. From cops, who in my experience seem to join the force almost solely for this reason, down to counter service people at fucking Chipotle, if you have a little bit of power, you will use it, even if common sense tells you it is not necessary. Hell, dealing with security at office buildings absolutely no one could possibly give a shit about post 9/11 is the perfect example. But I digress.

Airport personnel (including stewardesses) now have more power than ever and they use it. They know they can have you arrested or detained over the slightest problem. If they're in a bad mood, they can use security as an excuse to be a fucking asshole. I have countless examples of this. I'm not saying the general public (especially those subject to all of the crap we are subject to when travelling) can't be annoying, rude or even hateful. But the answer is not to treat everyone like a fucking criminal just in case any one person is an ass.

I'm sure the situation with this woman could have been handled better at the beginning and it probably escalated, in part, due to some piece of shit who was having a bad day. No doubt they're both to blame for the problem, but my experience is similar to Diane's.

2. I always think police overreact. Typically, those motherfuckers can't wait to put someone in cuffs and step on their back. There were three big officers there and they took a woman who was a threat to absolutely no one, put her on the ground, put their knees in her back and cuffed her. She was upset and making noise, but they spoke to her for all of 25 seconds before arresting her.

Who knows what was said, but they could have had someone determine what the problem was and spend a little more time trying to calm her down before jumping on her.

I especially like the officer who was explaining the situation, trying to justify their actions by stating that she was yelling and dragging her feet as they dragged her away in cuffs. If I got arrested for yelling, I might be furious enough to do the same thing (although I might weigh what they would do to me once they got me to the private room with the benefit of making a scene).

TM

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The Greeks make good food and bad wine.

I consumed a lot of both last night at their festival.

Considering the badness of the wine, I should be feeling a lot worse than I do right now.

My suggestion: ouzo or mistra

Much better than retsina

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The Greeks make good food and bad wine.

I consumed a lot of both last night at their festival.

Considering the badness of the wine, I should be feeling a lot worse than I do right now.

My friend and I were convinced we were dying when we awoke with black tongues after a total blackout night in Santorini. Between the two of us (and once we realized that we continued to be alive) we came up with the explanation that we were not in fact dying but instead had consumed some near-lethal combination (and quantities) of ouzo, other booze like rum and vodka, and maybe absinthe.

A few hours later we jumped off a boat we didn't remember getting on and were frolicking naked with some Australians in a mud springs.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The Greeks make good food and bad wine.

I consumed a lot of both last night at their festival.

Considering the badness of the wine, I should be feeling a lot worse than I do right now.

Did you have gyros, moussaka, pastichio, rice and sauce and BAKLAVA?

mmmm greek festival. we have one up near us. they have it two times in summer. one time they call it Hellenic Festival the other Greek Festival

i only know three greek words. te kanis, ne and kallah

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
My suggestion: ouzo or mistra

Much better than retsina

Ouzo was consumed after the festival. The church only has a beer/wine license, so we were stuck with retsina while we were there. We mustered on through the retsina, though, and we rewarded ourselves with bellydancing and ouzo at the local orthodox* bar down the road after the festival closed down.



*It's run by a Greek guy, but the Serbians, Bulgarians and sometimes Lebanese hang out there too. Orthodox New Year's was for some reason very Serb dominated. The Serbians are a very tall people.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Why? Because you are feeling superior about being 1 up on a depleted Angels squad?

Any feelings of superiority I have today are from the teams I picked in the office pool being 6-0 so far. There is no way that this will last, or that I will even finish in the top half of the pool, since I am to sports pools as Oreo cookies are to ABBA before a race, so I will be content to revel in it today.

A thing that sucks about baseball generally is that your team can do well during the whole regular season, and then the playoffs come and it's over for half the teams just like that. Maybe it seems so brutal because the regular season is so long.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Ouzo was consumed after the festival. The church only has a beer/wine license, so we were stuck with retsina while we were there. We mustered on through the retsina, though, and we rewarded ourselves with bellydancing and ouzo at the local orthodox* bar down the road after the festival closed down.



*It's run by a Greek guy, but the Serbians, Bulgarians and sometimes Lebanese hang out there too. Orthodox New Year's was for some reason very Serb dominated. The Serbians are a very tall people.

I had some Ouzo last night too. It was far less nasty than I feared. It might have been my first ever Ouzo consumption. (I get Ouzo and Sambuca confused.)

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
My friend and I were convinced we were dying when we awoke with black tongues after a total blackout night in Santorini. Between the two of us (and once we realized that we continued to be alive) we came up with the explanation that we were not in fact dying but instead had consumed some near-lethal combination (and quantities) of ouzo, other booze like rum and vodka, and maybe absinthe.

A few hours later we jumped off a boat we didn't remember getting on and were frolicking naked with some Australians in a mud springs.

It always freaks me out when I take pepto before bed (rarely) and wake up with a black tongue.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
The Serbians are a very tall people.

I am ridiculously attracted to Serbs. It disturbs me. Distserbs me.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I am ridiculously attracted to Serbs. It disturbs me. Distserbs me.

Albanians are fairly attractive as well.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
Albanians are fairly attractive as well.

I cannot hear or see the word "Albania" without singing that song that coach sang on cheers: "Albaniaaaaaa, Albaniaaaaaa, you border on the A-dri-atic....."