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QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 11:40 PM) My rationale is that when I buy something at the store, the animal was already dead. There was nothing I could really do to stop that animal from being killed. Yes I understand that if I stop eating meat I may impact the demand for meat therefore ultimately stopping the killing of animals for food. But inevitably I wont be able to do it This sounds like the reasoning a lot of people use for not voting. I’m not going to swing the decision one way or the other with my single vote so why bother. Yet many people say that’s not a good enough reason. Just saying…

QUOTE (Middle Buffalo @ Feb 10, 2011 -> 11:19 AM) Just came back from the grocery store. I saw a lady in the parking lot in pajamas and slippers coming out of the store. I don't care who's doing it. It's a bad look. Is that really the image you want to project? Check out peopleofwalmart.com and you'll see much worse.

No more Guitar Hero. I remember when it was the "must have" thing for everyone. We got GH3 on Black Friday one year and waited in the checkout line for like 5 hours. The stores registers had crashed. I got my kids the GH World Tour a couple of years ago for Christmas. They still play it every so often when they have friends over but it sits in the box more often than not.

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Feb 9, 2011 -> 08:04 AM) Isn't it the same thing just different labeling? I don't get the excitement... I can taste the difference in the throwback Mt. Dew. The Coke and Pepsi made with sugar taste almost the same as the HFCS versions to me.

QUOTE (soxsider11 @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 10:04 PM) Interesting question my roomate just asked me. Would you John Danks for Strasburg? If I ever meet Strasburg and he asks me to John Danks for him, I'd probably say yes. Then I'd ask him "How the hell do I John Danks?"

QUOTE (PeavyTime @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 09:56 AM) This isn't flyingsock You started the thread by complaining about something done by a WSI poster.

QUOTE (Tex @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 07:17 PM) They may be trying a little self medication for ADD or ADHD. Many people report it helping. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_caffeine_treat_ADHD I can't imagine giving caffeine to somebody that is already hyperactive and can't sit down or focus on something for very long.

QUOTE (buhbuhburrrrlz @ Feb 8, 2011 -> 01:44 AM) saw that yesterday. the statue still seems to have a large crack in the base? wtf I read that they did that themselves when they moved the statue.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 02:05 PM) I think they've re-released a couple times and Pepsi said they'd keep making it indefinitely. First time I've seen it at my grocery store though. http://consumerist.com/2010/10/pepsi-throw...ay-for-now.html I think it's just a matter of whether Pepsi was distributing to where you shopped. I love this s*** and if they make it permanently it's all I'll ever buy. I know it was here a couple of years ago when they first brought it out and it was a "limited-time only" thing. Then it disappeared for a little while and came back again sometime last year I think. We've had it ever since. I had heard that they were going to make it permanent if it sold well enough.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 01:37 PM) Pepsi throwback is back! f*** YES! It never left here.

I actually saw a little kid (7 or 8ish?) drinking coffee yesterday. Kinda surprised me. My kids have had small sips of their grandparent's coffee here and there but that's about it. Most everyone I know didn't start drinking it until high school at the earliest.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 09:56 PM) Just looked it up, Omar has 2,799 hits. Chances he plays long enough to reach 3,000? My gu says no, but it also says that he defies age like no one not named Julio Franco. This is funny because I just watched Mr. 3000 the other day. I also told my friend about how John Kruk retired. He didn't believe me. In fact, he never even knew Kruk played for the Sox.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Feb 7, 2011 -> 09:22 AM) I think what this country needs is more movies based on comic books. There seems to be a lot of talk about making or remaking Stephen King movies lately. I've heard talk about The Dark Tower Series, Pet Semetary, The Stand and Firestarter.

QUOTE (G&T @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 06:45 AM) My brother drinks coke in the morning because he doesn't like coffee. Anyone else do that? I'll drink any kind of pop with caffeine in it rather than coffee. QUOTE (knightni @ Feb 5, 2011 -> 08:33 PM) All I know is, Five Hour Energy is a huge scam. I've had it a couple of times and it seemed to work OK. It works when you just want the caffeine without all the extra liquid.

People who don't know how to use the quote function when responding to a specific post.

Well I left work on Tuesday at 4:40 PM and got home around 8:15 PM. That included stopping at a truck stop on the way. So I only added about an extra 1.5 hours to my commute. There was surprisingly little traffic. The worst part was trying to figure out where the road was since I couldn’t see a single white or yellow line. Also the snow would pick up every so often and I couldn’t see more than a few feet in front of me for a few seconds. Tuesday night when they started pulling the plows off the roads and actually issuing citations for anyone that got stuck in Boone County I decided to just stay home on Wednesday. Wednesday afternoon I finally went out and dug out the giant drift of snow on my front sidewalk. Luckily I only had to shovel around my car and about 5 feet of driveway behind it. I actually made good time coming in this morning with the schools being closed.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Feb 1, 2011 -> 01:22 PM) Isn't that the main argument against this bill. The gov't is taxing people for not doing something. How is that legal? I thought it was explained pretty well here.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 08:27 PM) If you are putting in mortgage interest, you are itemizing. Therefore, If I were you, I'd check what else you could put in there, since from that point up, its all money for you. If you use a software or online tax program, go through each step in it, and you may be surprised what money you are leaving behind. I'm only putting in in there so Turbotax can compare the itemized vs. standard and see which one is better. I went through everything and don't come anywhere close to $11,600 which is what the standard deduction is.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 03:40 PM) You have mortgage interest, but take the standard deduction? I think you're leaving some money on the table. It automatically takes whichever one is better. We really don't have anything else that makes it worthwhile to itemize. No childcare expenses, no chariable donations, no medical expenses, no business expenses, no interest from anything, etc...

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 03:28 PM) Salt shaker from the kitchen table? It takes forever to cover my driveway.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 03:15 PM) My dogs feet with crack and bleed all over and she'll then lick the wound and ingest the salt. Think of how painful it would ne if you stuck your foot in salt until it cracked and bled. Ouch. I don't have a sidewalk in front of my house. Just a walk to my driveway. My dogs stay in the house and/or backyard. Regular salt for me.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 11:54 AM) I have a lot of crap to enter, along the lines of what Rock said. Takes me a solid half day. I've got 2-3 W-2's and mortgage interest. That's about it. I just take the standard deduction every year. We don't spend enough on anything else.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Jan 31, 2011 -> 11:38 AM) I should have all the data I need by end of this week, then its the annual ritual of finding a Saturday or Sunday to carve out most of the day (at least the afternoon anyway) to do this s***. Fun fun. I don't have that much to enter but I use TurboTax and it took me about 15 minutes. Would've taken 10 if I had paid the $20 to have it transfer over last years info.

I got mine and my wife's stuff already but I was on unemployment for about 2 months last year. Still waiting for that to come through. So far it looks like we'll be getting almost enough to get our roof fixed and get some new siding/soffits and gutters.

I think I got a bag of those once, tried a couple and threw them out. Worst chips I've ever had. I'll stick with Mrs. Fisher's.