Happy Birthday, Preston Michael Spears Federline and other Certain Special Someones! - Page 245

sebastian_dangerfield · 10-13-2005, 01:05 PM

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Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Even if I have to be gay in your fantasies, do I have to be this 80s Miami Vice kind of gay?

You also have an eyepatch, and a recessed chin.

But you have an English accent, which is kinda cool.

greatwhitenorthchick · 10-13-2005, 01:08 PM

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Originally posted by sunnybunny
Ok, so despite the new Mr. Bunny's public persona of machoness, I'm getting dragged to see Savion Glover tonight. For those of you who are performing arts illiterate, he's a tap dancer. That's right, my NCAA-playing-scholarship-free-loading-I-didn't-even-have-to-apply-to-college-they-just-sent-me-an-acceptance-letter-cause-I-play-basketball-flavor of the month is dragging me to tap dancing. So, I'm bitching about it to my best friend this morning and she said "perhaps we can swap....you can take my deadbeat husband and I'll go to tapdancing...I've always had a thing for tapdancing, you know. You have a dwarf fetish and I have a tap dancing fetish"

So, my best friend and my piece of rebound ass are both tap dancing freaks.

Thurgreed, would you please shoot me?

Savion Glover is not just a run-of-the-mill tap dancer. He is really entertaining. You'll enjoy yourself.

ThurgreedMarshall · 10-13-2005, 01:14 PM

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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
stupider still is the catcher who lets the batter do all that yet fails to put the guy out. Unless the umpire says he was out. It's a bright-line rule. Applies (pretty sure) when someone fails to step on home plate and goes to the dugout. He's not out until he's in the dugout. If he goes part way and the catcher doesn't tag him, and he comes back, who's dumb and who's dumber?

Well it lead to last night's problems, didn't it? Let's assume the ball is low, but you know you've caught it. In fact, your glove doesn't even touch the ground. Inning over. Batter runs to first. Umpire, confused, let's the play go on. You're not actually facing the umpire, since you're a catcher. Why should this be your problem? A better bright line rule would be to say that if you leave the batter's box after strike three and aren't on your way to first base, you're out. Removes all uncertainty.

I agree that the catcher should have tagged him. But you seem to be infatuated with the rules as they are currently written. I feel like if the actual rule was the same as the one I just proposed, you'd be arguing just as much for that one.

The rules can be improved. They aren't sacred. Hell, whatever rule the umpire called Cano out on is fucking flawed if it won't allow him to run on the baseline to first base. All I heard was that the call was borderline, which seemed completely ridiculous and makes me think everyone is stupid or the rule makes no sense.

TM

robustpuppy · 10-13-2005, 01:19 PM

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Originally posted by baltassoc
This, however, is why they must be killed:

Each child's name begins with the letter "J":

Joshua, 17; John David, 15; Janna, 15; Jill, 14; Jessa, 12; Jinger, 11; Joseph, 10; Josiah, 9; Joy-Anna, 8; Jeremiah, 6; Jedidiah, 6; Jason, 5; James, 4; Justin, 2; Jackson Levi, 1

Oh my gosh, I didn't even see that, but that is a real peeve of mine. As if I wouldn't already mix up their names anyway.

Hank Chinaski · 10-13-2005, 01:22 PM

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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You also have an eyepatch, and a recessed chin.

But you have an English accent, which is kinda cool.

Flock of Seagulls hair + eye patch + English accent = Pirate!

Pirates are way towards the macho side of the gay scale- congrats Flower.

robustpuppy · 10-13-2005, 01:28 PM

I am glad to see that the website I posted did not seem to cause massive board-wide technical meltdowns. It was the last thing I did before my HP laptop shut down and refused to start up again. Because I had no backup internet access, I was unable to warn y'all yesterday.

As for the laptop, it tries to start windows but repeatedly fails. There appears to be some blue screen from hell that is intended to tell me that my computer is terminal, but it flashes off so quickly I can't figure out what it says. I may have to call one of those computer geeks who is always leaving messages on my home machine despite my being on every do-not call list, including those of vendors with whom I have done business in the past. This would require me to lift two boycotts: the one on businesses that leave automated messages on home answering machines, and the one on establishing any relationship, whether business or personal, with anyone who drives a PT Cruiser.

bilmore · 10-13-2005, 01:28 PM

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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Pirates are way towards the macho side of the gay scale

Johnny Depp.

'Nuff said.

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) · 10-13-2005, 01:29 PM

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Well it lead to last night's problems, didn't it? Let's assume the ball is low, but you know you've caught it. In fact, your glove doesn't even touch the ground. Inning over. Batter runs to first. Umpire, confused, let's the play go on. You're not actually facing the umpire, since you're a catcher. Why should this be your problem? A better bright line rule would be to say that if you leave the batter's box after strike three and aren't on your way to first base, you're out. Removes all uncertainty.

I agree that the catcher should have tagged him. But you seem to be infatuated with the rules as they are currently written. I feel like if the actual rule was the same as the one I just proposed, you'd be arguing just as much for that one.

The rules can be improved. They aren't sacred. Hell, whatever rule the umpire called Cano out on is fucking flawed if it won't allow him to run on the baseline to first base. All I heard was that the call was borderline, which seemed completely ridiculous and makes me think everyone is stupid or the rule makes no sense.

TM

I'm not infatuated with the rule. But I do think it makes more sense than yours.

First off, the problem was that not only the catcher, but all of the fielders, thought the ump called him out. The catcher rolled the ball to the mound, where the pitcher could easily have picked it up, had he known. They weren't faked out by the runner going to the dugout, they were faked out by the ump. The White Sox figured out first that everyone was mistaken. Oh well.

The problem with your fix is that it will create arguments as to whether he was going to first or going to the dugout in many instances. Most of the time when there's a dropped third strike there's hesitation because the batter doesn't immediately realize it or because they forgot the rule (only with first base open or with two outs). So the natural step is to the dugout. IF it's the first base dugout, how can you be sure where he's going? If his swing follow through carries him away from first, how do you rule?

Could you draw a better rule than the current one? Sure. Why not say the dirt circle around home plate? Put some chalk down, and make it relevant on this play and plays at the plate. That might be better. But I don't think it solves the problem of last night.

bilmore · 10-13-2005, 01:30 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
I am glad to see that the website I posted did not seem to cause massive board-wide technical meltdowns.

Do a safe start. (Look it up on google on your desktop for directions.) Then copy an anti-virus program onto a floppy on your desktop, and run it on the laptop.

Replaced_Texan · 10-13-2005, 01:34 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Oh my gosh, I didn't even see that, but that is a real peeve of mine. As if I wouldn't already mix up their names anyway.

There were some pairings on this list of most popular twins names of 2004 that really horrified me. I think Jesse/James was the one that bugged me the most.

robustpuppy · 10-13-2005, 01:37 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
Do a safe start. (Look it up on google on your desktop for directions.) Then copy an anti-virus program onto a floppy on your desktop, and run it on the laptop.

Thanks, but the problem is I can't even get it to safe start, and I can't run any programs at all -- I've tried to run the anti-virus CD and the driver/application restore CDs and they won't go.

The funny thing is that I actually ran a backup on Sunday, after four months of neglect. So it seems to run against Murphy's law that the thing is actually fried.

Wow. If my hard drive is gone, then I'm really worried, because yesterday my husband and I signed our wills, trusts, funeral instructions, and AMDs.

robustpuppy · 10-13-2005, 01:39 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
There were some pairings on this list of most popular twins names of 2004 that really horrified me. I think Jesse/James was the one that bugged me the most.

Taylor and Tyler? Why, Bilmore, why?

I already regret having given my dog a name that sounds a lot like my sister-in-law's name. Imagine the embarrassment of mixing them up.

bilmore · 10-13-2005, 01:41 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Thanks, but the problem is I can't even get it to safe start, and I can't run any programs at all -- I've tried to run the anti-virus CD and the driver/application restore CDs and they won't go.

Can't you even boot off a system floppy? If not, it's not the hd. It's worse.

robustpuppy · 10-13-2005, 01:50 PM

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Originally posted by bilmore
Can't you even boot off a system floppy? If not, it's not the hd. It's worse.

I haven't tried that b/c I don't know how to do it. Further, although I don't have the laptop with me at the moment, I'm not entirely sure it has a floppy drive.

ETA: what could be worse than the HD? Do you mean the computer won't be repairable at all?

EATA: I've looked up this "boot off a system floppy" concept, and so at least have instructions on how to do it in the event I have a disk drive. Thanks for the suggestion.

baltassoc · 10-13-2005, 01:54 PM

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Originally posted by robustpuppy
Taylor and Tyler? Why, Bilmore, why?

I already regret having given my dog a name that sounds a lot like my sister-in-law's name. Imagine the embarrassment of mixing them up.

I regret having given my daughter a name that sounds a lot like my mother's dog's name. Imagine her embarrassment of mixing them up.