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QUOTE (G&T @ Nov 27, 2008 -> 05:11 AM) True The person below me has to work today. False. The person below me is shocked that Controlled Chaos' movie list doesn't include "Farenheit 9/11."

QUOTE (shipps @ Nov 18, 2008 -> 11:33 AM) Bob Dylan was not a good singer.One of the greatest songwriters but not a good singer. He's not the only one on the list that fits the discription of "not a good singer." Now, I wouldn't want the list to be all pure vocalists, and Dylan should probably be on the list somewhere for his unique voice, but it should be much lower on the list. Guys like Iggy Popp and Lou Reed are questionable, too.

The Rolling Stone list of the top 100 singers of the Rock era. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstor...161972/page/103 The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time 1 | Aretha Franklin 2 | Ray Charles 3 | Elvis Presley 4 | Sam Cooke 5 | John Lennon 6 | Marvin Gaye 7 | Bob Dylan 8 | Otis Redding 9 | Stevie Wonder 10 | James Brown 11 | Paul McCartney 12 | Little Richard 13 | Roy Orbison 14 | Al Green 15 | Robert Plant 16 | Mick Jagger 17 | Tina Turner 18 | Freddie Mercury 19 | Bob Marley 20 | Smokey Robinson 21 | Johnny Cash 22 | Etta James 23 | David Bowie 24 | Van Morrison 25 | Michael Jackson 26 | Jackie Wilson 27 | Hank Williams 28 | Janis Joplin 29 | Nina Simone 30 | Prince 31 | Howlin' Wolf 32 | Bono 33 | Steve Winwood 34 | Whitney Houston 35 | Dusty Springfield 36 | Bruce Springsteen 37 | Neil Young 38 | Elton John 39 | Jeff Buckley 40 | Curtis Mayfield 41 | Chuck Berry 42 | Joni Mitchell 43 | George Jones 44 | Bobby "Blue" Bland 45 | Kurt Cobain 46 | Patsy Cline 47 | Jim Morrison 48 | Buddy Holly 49 | Donny Hathaway 50 | Bonnie Raitt 51 | Gladys Knight 52 | Brian Wilson 53 | Muddy Waters 54 | Luther Vandross 55 | Paul Rodgers 56 | Mavis Staples 57 | Eric Burdon 58 | Christina Aguilera 59 | Rod Stewart 60 | Björk 61 | Roger Daltrey 62 | Lou Reed 63 | Dion 64 | Axl Rose 65 | David Ruffin 66 | Thom Yorke 67 | Jerry Lee Lewis 68 | Wilson Pickett 69 | Ronnie Spector 70 | Gregg Allman 71 | Toots HIbbert 72 | John Fogerty 73 | Dolly Parton 74 | James Taylor 75 | Iggy Pop 76 | Steve Perry 77 | Merle Haggard 78 | Sly Stone 79 | Mariah Carey 80 | Frankie Valli 81 | John Lee Hooker 82 | Tom Waits 83 | Patti Smith 84 | Darlene Love 85 | Sam Moore 86 | Art Garfunkel 87 | Don Henley 88 | Willie Nelson 89 | Solomon Burke 90 | The Everly Brothers 91 | Levon Helm 92 | Morrissey 93 | Annie Lennox 94 | Karen Carpenter 95 | Patti LaBelle 96 | B.B. King 97 | Joe Cocker 98 | Stevie Nicks 99 | Steven Tyler 100 | Mary J. Blige

QUOTE (Jordan4life @ Nov 9, 2008 -> 12:19 PM) I can do skim milk. Is there an ideal number of glasses you're supposed to drink a day? Is it good with cereal? I had planned on drinking the low fat 2% milk. But if skim will help me achieve my goal faster, I'm all for it. Skim milk is fine with cereal. It won't taste right initially, but you'll get used to it. I grew up drinking 2%, and changed to skim in college. Now, 15 years later, it seems like I'm drinking butter if I have 2%. After a long break from working out, I'm starting again. Life got in the way for a while (home renovations, kids back in school, and a bout with tendonitis in one of my knees), but I'm ready again to drop some weight. I still hover around 215, and I want (need) to drop about 25-30 lbs. I'm 6'2", so 185-190 is a pretty good weight for me.

QUOTE (YASNY @ Nov 7, 2008 -> 01:53 AM) I may be wrong, but I seem to remember him yelling that from the podium at Grant Pack. It appears that it took place outside the Bears' locker room. From Sneed: "Washington, who reportedly screamed, "Let's give them the finger" on national TV, being refused pregame entry to the Bears locker room. Coach Mike Ditka left orders that no one could get in. No one." http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/224565,...sneed23.article I don't think Reinsdorf (sadly, I'm not on a first name basis with him - he calls me Buffalo) would have traded/released Konerko for swearing at the rally, though.

Jon Stewart asked Obama if his white half would have trouble voting for a black guy when it came time to cast his ballot. http://vodpod.com/watch/1124803-barack-oba...-the-daily-show It's at the 5 minute mark in the video.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 10:32 AM) 'I am Sam', another Sean Penn gem is in that category. IYou just reminded me of "Dead Man Walking." The part that gets me is when Penn is in the room saying goodbye to his family, but nobody really has anything to say. The awkward silence of that scene gets me for some reason. They just sit there with no emotional connection to one another (love or hatred) for a long time.

QUOTE (bmags @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 10:50 AM) John Kerry has stayed active, and if you are to make the list, as you did with Kennedy, primary losers who stayed active, it's pretty big. I can't argue with you on that. I understand that many losers in both the Presidential and primary elections have returned back to their former positions and resumed their duties (and others - eg. Gore with global warming - haven't disappeared) . I mean it more in terms of being a national figure and continuing to fight for the things that they spoke about as candidates. They spent millions and countless hours telling people to trust them with their vote, and I think it's sad if they just go back to their former job as if they never ran at all. I can't think of anything that Kerry did in the four years since 2004. He certainly didn't end the war or capture Osama, even though he said he knew how to do both.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 09:41 AM) i honestly expect him to be a strong voice in the senate. and i think he will try and do just what he promised and bring the country together. i love the old mccain, and i think that's who's gonna be back. last night's speech showed that. We've seen very little evidence of the loser having an impact post election. I hope McCain changes that. I hope he "reaches across the aisle." That would be great. I didn't vote for him, but it doesn't mean that I don't respect him or that his voice shouldn't be heard. I think that we need more than one voice in politics, and hopefully Obama's promise to change things will actually happen. I'll believe it when I see it, though. The only loser that I can think of that stayed active in politics is Ted Kennedy. Other guys kept their seats in the Senate or House, but they didn't make much noise. I hope McCain is just as active in voicing his opinions in the next few years. I hope the guy that ran in 2000 re-emerges. I'd like to see Obama's advisors be picked based on skill, not friendship. Pick the best people from both parties. That's change.

QUOTE (Controlled Chaos @ Nov 5, 2008 -> 07:21 AM) Hell, I got choked up at the end of Armageddon. Armageddon makes me feel sad for what has become of Aerosmith. It very nearly brings me to tears.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Oct 30, 2008 -> 09:29 AM) Jason Caffey was one of my favorite players on those Bulls teams. He was fun to watch off the bench and horrible once he left. You are an excellent judge of basketball talent.

My daughter's school had a parade today, and I saw a kid dressed as the SNL land shark. I'm laughing right now thinking of the timeliness of that costume.

QUOTE (The Critic @ Oct 31, 2008 -> 04:45 PM) My buddy got a last-minute invite to a party tonight, and he has no costume. I told him to write a huge "Fe" on a t-shirt and tell people he's Iron Man. Hey, why is it that most of the trick-or-treaters come to the house after the supposed cutoff time of 6:00 PM? We've had as many people in the last 45 minutes as we had in the 2 hours before that. I don't know of a cut-off time here in Mesa, AZ, but it's 8pm, and I've only had 6 or 7 groups of kids show up. Our house is decorated too, so I'd expect a little more action. My wife's still out with our kids. She came home, dumped their candy, and went back out.

QUOTE (LosMediasBlancas @ Oct 31, 2008 -> 03:46 PM) Are all the Cub fans walking around with '2008 NL Central champs' caps? Because that would be laughable. They were marked down 50% to $14 at Midway last week when I was in town. I contemplated buying and wearing one jsut to make fun of a Cub fan I know. I don't see him often enough to make it worth $14 though. My sister bought me a Division champs hat in 2005, and I don't think I ever would have worn it w/o the Series win. This year was a way different team, though, so I wouldn't be ashamed to wear an '08 Division champs hat. That was a great accomplishment considering my expectations for the team this year.

I was in 8th grade when Top Gun came out and went to see it with my friends. When Goose died, I almost lost it. I didn't see it coming. I'm sure there's others, but that's the one that always sticks out to me.

I had a Red Sox fan, co-worker who I hardly ever talk to make it a point to tell me that he was rooting for the Rays against the White Sox. His reason - he doesn't like Hawk's "He gawn!" call. I'm not sure how often a Boston fan living in Arizona is subjected to Hawk Harrelson, so his reasoning seems like a stretch to me. Either way, I'm so glad the Rays held on to beat the Sawx. My co-worker is exactly the kind of Boston fan that's made me go from rooting for them in 2004 to hating them and all things Boston now. That said, I want the Phillies to win the WS.

I'd love it if we had a viable third party to stir things up. Really, I think that's the only way to make things right in Washington. As it is, everyone just votes along party lines and spews the same rhetoric as the others in their party. There's not really much "reaching across the aisle" - despite what McCain and Obama keep saying they've done and will do in the future. I swear, I listen to Jesse Ventura get interviewed and I think, now there's someone who's actually thinking for himself. I find it laughable that every Dem has these core values, and every Rep has these core values. What, it's not possible to have a liberal mindset and be pro-life? The great thing about the primary debates is that some of the nuts from each party get in there and start stirring things up. By the time it gets to the two candidates, all the talking points are pretty much just the party line. Too much of politics and the way people align with the parties is like being a sports fan. People say they're Democrats, and then they refuse to see any merits of the other party, and vice versa. Politics should be bigger than being a die-hard Cub or Sox fan. I, too, wasn't swayed by the debates, but they did confirm my initial pick for President. Maybe I'm just being biased, though.

Have the debates cause anyone to switch sides? Did you come into the election season thinking you'd vote for McCain or Obama and now you think you'll vote the other way?

QUOTE (kjshoe04 @ Oct 14, 2008 -> 05:40 AM) My whole plan is to be an asshole in a playful way. Just say things that are incredibly offensive. caution. This will only work about half the time. The other half the girl will absolutely hate you. It's a good screening process though. If she doesn't get that I'm joking, I don't want to be talking to her. It's amazing that this actually works. It's actually one of the techniques that Mystery teaches on "The Pickup Artist." It's called a 'neg" - short for negative. The theory is that most good looking girls are so used to getting compliments that they tend to just ignore them. When someone is less complimentary to them, it intrigues them. I've used this successfully though I'll say that I was quite drunk, and I'm not particularly proud of some of the things I said. The girl, who I just met, and who probably should have slapped me, threw herself at me. By the way, the show on VH1 "The Pickup Artist" is incredibly cheesy, but I still like watching it. If you ignore the dweebs that are on it, you could actually pick up some pretty good advice. Basically, you need to have a game plan when it comes to approaching girls. You have to be confident, you should have some interesting stuff to talk about, and you can't be afraid of rejection. It's not a bad idea to practice what you might say to someone before talking to them. It's kind of like getting ready for an interview. You have to make it sound like you're thinking of stuff and saying it even thought it's something you rehearsed. By the way, I was watching the first episode the other night, and my wife said, "I don't know why you watch this. You'd never have to use this stuff." So, I've got that going for me. Which is good.

QUOTE (Thunderbolt @ Oct 14, 2008 -> 06:49 PM) These Rays are going to be a force for years to come. Power, Speed, Young Arms, and solid D. Ozzie would sell his soul to manage these guys. They'll look great in pinstripes.

When in doubt, trust Mystery - The Pick-up Artist. He's coming back on VH1 this weekend.

I just ate a peanut butter and banana sandwich. Not fried. I mean, I like the King, but not enough to emulate his death on the crapper act.

QUOTE (rangercal @ Oct 1, 2008 -> 05:10 AM) yeah that pissed me off. You know cub fans watching would believe it too. Exactly. I was listening to Steve Dahl this summer, and he was talking about the Cubs/Sox game he went to the day before at the Cell. During the 7th inning stretch, everyone stood up for "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." A Cub fan sitting in front of him turned to the guy next to him and said loudly, "I wonder where they got this idea?" That's my 1000th post. Three and a half years, and that's the best I could do.

QUOTE (Texsox @ Sep 30, 2008 -> 11:41 AM) BTW, seriously, wtf does an adult do with a plaque? I have a couple dozen and they sit in a box. Back when I had the big office I had an ego wall and when I was sad I would go rub my cheek against the plaques and remember when people liked me. But now, they are dust collectors. Break the tradition and buy him something he can use. I don't disagree, but I've seen the plaques and they're pretty nice. It's law enforcement, so it will have his shields (for a couple of different agencies he worked), etc. And the guy retiring was responsible for purchasing the plaques in the past, so it's something he likes. I'm just trying to find a quote that suits him. Basically, he's the type of guy that loved his job, and the only reason he's leaving is that it's federal law enforcement, and he's hit the mandatory retirement age of 57.

My wife's boss is retiring, and one of the things they always do is buy the person a plaque. She's looking for a nice phrase/quote/saying to commemorate his years of service and how great he was as a boss. Any ideas?