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Hoover Dam Guide: I am your dam guide, Arnie, please don't wander off the dam tour and please take all the dam pictures you want. Now are there any dam questions? Cousin Eddie: Yeah, where can I get some damn bait?

I wonder if it was a God dam.

I ran into that "we don't match prices from other Wal-Marts" once. We happened to see a swingset on sale while vacationing in Wisconsin. Since we didn't have a vehicle to bring it home in, we figured we could get it at home. Nope... IIRC, the excuse was that other Wal-Marts match prices with other stores in their area. One question. Why didn't you just buy one from Target and return the first one back to Wal-Mart?

QUOTE(The Critic @ Apr 24, 2006 -> 02:29 PM) Coincidence??? That was actually the only game I've been to so far this year, too. I think I've only witnessed three wins in person. Twice against the Twins and once against the Cubs. Every other game I've been to they've lost. I guess it's good that I'm only planning on going to 2-3 more games this year...

QUOTE(whitesoxfan101 @ Apr 23, 2006 -> 03:28 PM) Well obviously we all remember how last year we set that major league record by leading at some point in every game the first 30 something (was it 36?) games of the year. Well this year, in our 18 games so far, we've had a lead in 17 of the games at some point (the only exception being the 8-2 loss to Cleveland in the 2nd game of the season). That's awfully impressive right there. Of course. Guess which game I was at?

QUOTE(RockRaines @ Apr 24, 2006 -> 01:25 PM) It seems like alot of people who just starting watching baseball think that a stretch of games signafies how a team really will play over an entire season. This is why baseball is the greatest sport there is. Over 162 games it is almost impossible for a bad team to keep up a hot streak, and good teams will always go cold. This time last year was about when we went on our longest losing streak to date. We will get hot like we are now, and we will get cold as well. It is entirely too early to predict that we will be one of the winningest teams around. In fact, it is somewhat ignorant and rookie-like to do so IMO. The Sox first losing streak last year was a whopping 3 games from 4/26 - 4/29. Then they went on one of their patented 8-game winning streaks. The first time they lost more than 3 in a row was that 7-game losing streak in the middle of August. They lost 4 in row only twice after that. That's what was great about last year's team. They stayed fairly consistant throughout the year. A few winning streaks and only one really bad losing streak. If they can continue to just win each series and try to keep the losing streaks to 3 games or less, we won't have to worry about the team being on a hot streak or a cold streak.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 10:23 AM) I meant the differential cost difference between two similar new cars, one with a hybrid drive system, the other a conventional motor-only. I know. It just sucks because I'm the kind of person that could really use a car like that. 80 miles roundtrip 5 days a week = about $80 a week in gas. I used to be able to get away with $40 - $50 a week. The people that can afford those cars probably spend that $30 a week at Starbucks...

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Apr 21, 2006 -> 07:49 AM) One interesting side effect of that: at $4 a gallon, the cost savings for hybid vehicles, especially for high mileage drivers, suddenly becomes significant (where as at $2.50, the savings may never happen at all (if based purely on the gas math). I paid $6,000 for my current vehicle. I'd have to pay $20,000+ for a hybrid. Somehow I don't think I'd be saving much money...

QUOTE(Soxy @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 10:16 AM) Mustnotmakejokemustnotmakejoke. . . Wrong kind of "tang".

QUOTE(WCSox @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 10:16 AM) Nah. There will always be a few games in April or September where the pre-sale and walk-up numbers will be really low. I'd be surprised if it happened again in June or July. I guess it suprised me because the Wednesday day game had 26,000+. At least the Monday night total was explainable because of half-price tickets. It's just funny that 5,000 more people decided to skip work on Wednesday rather than go Tuesday night and go to work the next day.

QUOTE(WCSox @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 09:42 AM) When the Sox draw 26,000 on a weekday in April against a team that will probably lose 100 games this year, you know the ballpark is going to be very full this summer. I was somewhat suprised at the 21,901 for the Tuesday game. I didn't figure they'd have a game under 25,000 the entire year...

QUOTE(Mplssoxfan @ Apr 20, 2006 -> 01:33 AM) It's the active ingredient, Sodium Fluoride. Given the concentration of NaF in toothpaste, you would have to eat at least 10 tubes of toothpaste to kill yourself. Some symptoms might occur after one or two tubes, though, so beware! And, if a child were to eat a lot of it, they could get really sick or they could die. So the warning is there for two reasons: NaF and lawyers. And I don't know which is worse. So in other words don't try to be like Al Bundy and make a toothpaste sandwich. Tangwiches aren't that great either. Especially if you don't pinch the ends and it all falls out...

QUOTE(WCSox @ Apr 19, 2006 -> 10:13 AM) Just out of curiousity, don't pitchers who throw with more of an overhand motion, rather than 3/4, also put more stress on their shoulders? The reason I ask is that I tend to use more of an overhand motion in my intramural softball league (the ball doesn't sail on me as much). By the time we get to the playoffs and are playing 4 or 5 games per week, I usually have to drop down and throw sidearm because my shoulder is weak and aching. Overhand pitching in a softball league??? Or are you talking about throwing the ball as a fielder?

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Apr 18, 2006 -> 06:47 PM) Vanilla Ice put out a remix to Ice, Ice, Baby? Actually he did redo that song as a heavy/death metal song. Pretty hilarious hearing him scream "ICE ICE BABY" in a really deep voice.

I just finished my state taxes through their website. I'm so excited I just can't figure out how I'm going to spend my entire $56. Also I just looked at my federal return and I'm literally paying 0 taxes. Every single penny I paid in I'm getting back. I need a better job...

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Apr 14, 2006 -> 09:52 AM) Work...leave at 2:00 though!! Speaking of bowling I threw a 268 Wednesday!! My second highest. Do you bowl regularly? What's your average? Mario and I used to have bowling related conversations on here every couple of weeks.

QUOTE(southsideirish71 @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 11:05 AM) This is a group of people who think that the original inhabitants on earth where held by a galatic warlord named Xenu, who blew them up over volcanoes by use of thermonuclear weapons and spread their theatons across all life. I watched the South Park episode and when they started explaining it they flashed the words "This is what Scientologists actually believe!". I wasn't sure if they were joking or not.

QUOTE(Steff @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 04:19 PM) It spins riders in a centrifuge that subjects them to twice the normal force of gravity, and is so intense that some riders have been taken to the hospital with chest pain. Sounds like the ride "Gravitron" that I always go on at carnivals and fairs. It just looks like a big spaceship that spins around really fast. You just stand against the wall and get flattened as it spins. Great fun. I took a friend on it three times in a row and he turned green.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 12, 2006 -> 08:44 AM) I always slid feet first with a hook or a popup. It was the way my first "real coach" taught and later when I had a chance I tried head first and didn't like it at all. Same here. I always felt I could get to the bag faster sliding feet first than most guys could head first. There were many times I slid in and would be called safe because my foot was touching the back and they tagged me somewhere above my waist. I remember one time I slid into second, popped up and looked down to see the shortstop sitting on the ground. I didn't find out until later that I was the one that knocked him over when I slid...

Does anyone know how much we're actually supposed to pay in taxes? I just looked and I pay less than 3% of my annual salary to federal and still get a refund. I'm claiming 3 for a family of 5. My wife claims zero but makes less than half as much as I do.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 11:48 AM) Send 'em more during the year and getting a bigger check, and a warning I am amazed by people (not you) who look at this like a savings account. They knowingly overpay during the year, giving a zero interest loan, and enjoying a big refund, that they reduce by paying for electronic filing and a cash advance. Why not pay the correct amount, put the oberpayment in a savings account, and earn interest? That would be because my wife is really bad at saving money. Right now she is giving money to her mom out of every paycheck to hold on to so we have money for birthdays, Christmas, etc... If she had access to the money, even in a savings account, she'd be tempted to spend it. I know we are giving the government an interest-free loan but at least we know we can basically count on it being there every year...

QUOTE(rangercal @ Apr 13, 2006 -> 11:51 AM) question... If you don't owe anything, do you have to file? The only reason I know of that you wouldn't have to file is if you didn't work and/or receive a paycheck for the entire year of 2005. Otherwise you do.

Pixar always has great short movies on their DVDs. My kids especially liked the one that played before Toy Story with the baby and the little drummer toy. The "outtakes" they add to the end of their movies are awesome too. I think I've seen and enjoyed almost all of their movies.

Technically once since I get a fresh one every time I take a shower but I always hang the used ones up to dry somewhere in the bathroom and put them on the floor to step on when I get out so I don't get the floor all wet. We usually leave them up to dry our hands and clean up spills (which are many in a house with 3 young kids).

That makes the $700+ bill I got from Verizon seem cheap. Yes, I had to argue with them but they finally got it down to under $50. They gave me 3 "early termination" fees when I cancelled within my free trial period. Horrible company...