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QUOTE(Heads22 @ Dec 22, 2005 -> 04:57 PM) Blueberry w/cream cheese. That should have been one of the choices.

I'm one of those weird people who can see both sides of the story. I've been on both sides (though the reason for the breakups weren't cheating) and know what it's like to not be able to eat, sleep, work, listen to the radio, etc... I've also been in the other position where you are angry at the person and want to hurt them as much as they hurt you. Never resorted to forwarding an email to 100 people though...

Seven different Sox ones, five different bulls ones and the Cryptkeeper (Tales from the Crypt) dressed in a santa outfit.

muenster slices american (Kraft slices are the best) cheddar curds cobly jack on tacos and quesidillas mozzarella (sticks or on lasagna) easy cheese (squeezed onto a trisquit cracker) velvetta (microwave with a can of chili and use for dip)

I don't think I've ever regifted anything. I usually don't know anyone that would like the stuff that I get. I'll just return it to Wal-Mart (they'll take back anything) and get somthing else that I do want.

QUOTE(mreye @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 12:37 PM) Ding ding ding! We have a winner. Well it certainly doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out. What moron in their right mind would sell a $400 machine for $100 (plus a box full of coal) just to "punish" their kid? If they were serious about it they could take it back to the store and get their money back. Screw putting coal in the box. Or just sell it on Ebay for whatever they could get and replace/repair the broken stereo system... :rolly

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 21, 2005 -> 12:41 PM) I heard a snippit on Fox news that they are something called (or like) "rare earth" magnets. Those are the kind the manufacture supposedly uses (common for other toy makers as well). And they are apparently supposed to be that strong to hold the toy together. They did say they were not at all like the alpha magnets. I know what a 2 day olds intestines look like.. they are tiny. I've seen and played with the magnetix toys. The magnets are a little bit stronger than the alphabet letters. Still, they had to have been positioned just right and just close enough together for this to happen.

Let's put the X in Sex - Kiss I touch myself - (can never remember the group that sang this) The Humpty Dance

Wow. They've managed to update the old urban legend of a wife selling her husband's prized classic car for $100 when she found out he was cheating on her...

I my god! They killed Kenny! You bastards! OK, that was wrong. Anway... Wow. I don't think anyone in a million years could've dreamt up a scenario like this. It's just one of those freak accidents that occurs out of the blue. With all the magnets they have in toys these days, I wonder if they'll have to start putting more warning lables on them. Just a few years ago a local boy was riding his bike in a parking lot and tried to jump over a parking block with it. He fell off his bike, hit his head just right on the pavement and was killed. I can't count the number of times I've knocked my head on something...

Not necessarily a Christmas movie (even though the beginning and ending take place on Christmas eve) I've always liked Family Man. Nicholas Cage is a pretty good actor IMHO.

Chuck has a soft side too:

QUOTE(Controlled Chaos @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:35 PM) YES!!! and if we wanted to play baseball...we went outside and got as many of us as we could and played baseball. We didn't pop in the newest MLB game on PS2 or Xbox or whatever, we got our mits and played!! Same goes for Football, Basketball, Soccer, etc... and the biggest thing missing from the list is cell phones. Every fricken kid has one of those now and I mean every one. Hell...most kids in high school have a blackberry or some kind of PDA. If we were out and wanted to make a call back in the day, it was pay phone time. If you wanted to talk in your car, you had to have a gas station with those phones you can pull up next to. good times and boy did it suck when you could only find three other kids to play baseball with. One pitcher and one infielder/outfielder just doesn't work... I think cell phones are almost a necessary evil anymore. It's a great way to keep track of someone and the new ICE (in case of emergency) idea is probably a big help in accidents and such...

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 12:11 PM) When I was into cartoons they were only on Saturday's. Sesame Street was on during the day when I was in school. And we didn't have a microwave until I was old enough to use it. The point was that "kids" today don't know any different as they were born with those things. I didn't write this either.. but it applies to me in many ways. I see it with my three kids everyday. My oldest thinks nothing of jumping on the computer and talking to her friends via instant messages or message boards. (Gee, wonder where she got that from? :rolly) Back when I wanted to talk to my friend I had to ride my bike the four blocks to knock on his door because every time I called him his mom was on the damn phone and they didn't have call waiting.

QUOTE(Steff @ Dec 20, 2005 -> 09:11 AM) When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email! We had to actually write somebody a letter ... with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up! We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! ! ;We had the Atari 2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and "asteroids" and the graphics sucked azz! Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! ... Just like LIFE! When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your azz and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-ba******! And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up . we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that Stupid JiffyPop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot. That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980! You had me up until the no cartoons or microwaves part. I seem to remember cartoons on nickelodean and on regular cable after school every day. Sesame street has been around at least that long. This is going to turn into one of those "you know you're getting old" threads isn't it? I still remember when arcade games all cost a quarter...

QUOTE(THEWOOD @ Dec 19, 2005 -> 05:40 PM) I would not suggest putting it too high. Most sellers, especially on tickets have ebay account set up to increase the bid price. They know you have a higher price, or should I say assume, and just up the price a little bit. I find that really hard to believe. Who's going to go through the trouble of setting up a new account just for the sake up making a few extra bucks? Especially when they risk 1) getting kicked off Ebay and 2) bidding on and winning their own auction?

QUOTE(robinventura23 @ Dec 19, 2005 -> 03:25 PM) Watched "Christmas Vacation" on NBC last night. Still a good one. "Since this is Aunt Bethany's 80th Christmas, I think she should lead us in the saying of Grace." "What, dear?" "Grace!" "Grace? She passed away thirty years ago. " I watched it but they totally ruined the end of the rant Clark made after receiving his "christmas bonus".

Ebay already has something that ups your bid automatically if you are outbid. Just put the bid in as the maximum you are willing to pay. For example, if the starting bid on the item was 29.99 and you put in a bid of 100.00, it would list the high bid as 29.99. If somebody came in at the last second and tried to steal it away from you at 35.00 they would instantly be outbid by you. They would have to put in a bid higher than 100.00 for you to lose the auction. I've used it before and it works amazingly well.

I swear I just read a story not too long ago about somebody being arrested over around $30 in unpaid taxes...

I think they're just doing it to get more presents. Instead of one day of presents, we have eight crazy nights.

QUOTE(YASNY @ Dec 16, 2005 -> 12:13 PM) I was a child that his mouth taped shut, in a public school no less. I'm just stating that for the record. However, as a parent, I ran into a situation. When one of my boys was in grade school, I was told that if he acted up again he would receive corporal punishment. I proceeded to tell the principal that was not acceptable. All they had to do was call me and I would handle any situation. I was told that if they felt the situation called for immediate corporal punishment they would administer it. I then proceeded to inform the principle that if my child was given corporal punshment that I would administer corpaoral punishment to the person who took it upon theirself to assualt my child. In other words, I'd beat the hell out of whoever it was. I was told that if I took such action, that I would be thrown in jail and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I responded that may the case, but I'll still get my pound of flesh and whatever happens to me, happens. The issue never came up again. ^

This is gonna be the best Chrismachanukwanzas ever!

The only thing I can pull off the trees in my backyard are some dead sticks and a few pine needles...

To quote Red Foreman: "Dumbass!"

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Dec 15, 2005 -> 12:06 PM) 20 years ago this was called "disipline". now its front page news.... And we wonder why kids are spoiled rotten now adays. [/old codger] I've always thought that nobody has the right to touch any of my kids in any way except me and my wife. There's no reason for anyone else to slap, hit, spank, or apply duct tape to then. If there's a problem, call me and I'll deal with it. I was raised the same way. My mom raised hell more than once if another adult tried to "disipline" me. She never had a problem cracking me on the ass if I was in trouble but God help anyone else that tried it...