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oooh. thread drift.

Met plenty of rich kids who spent daddy's money doing nothing but getting drunk and high for four years at some expensive school. You couldn't ask for a better argument for non-inheritance of wealth (not that I'm advocating it, I'm just sayin'...)

No apologies forthcoming to fervent Santa Claus believers for the previous insensitive comment.

just like Santa Claus!

But we all secretly covet your stash of explosives and your army of minions.

It's the geek way of saying 'So, how about them Bruins?'

How can anybody die in a 'cartoon clash'? Nobody dies even when they fall off a cliff and an anvil lands on their head...

Not enough of these: or these: Must be one of those 'liberal arts' things...

Don't you people have a thesis to write or something? Or is this it?

Recently, I ran across what looks like a discontinued Atlas snowshoe that was compatible with BD Sabretooth crampons (thus avoiding the need for same on the snowshoe itself thus lightening its weight). Anybody ever have a pair of these? How did they perform?

or, better yet, "good time Charlena" on speed dial

"It's always lasers with you!"

I was wondering, how did she make it without someone to heckle the whole way? Be that as it may:

To quote a cartoon: "Your voices are making me sick."

You wantin' me to be facilitatin' yer datin'?

Is it a LOT of stuff? Have you thought about offering it a) as a one price for all? b) making smaller functional groupings and offering them for one price? c) taking it all to Second Ascent and seeing what they'll take and then sell the rest?

What is this organization and how does one contact them? Which shoes specifically were you talking about?

did you try calling the phone company?

A bikini...? Touche'! Where's my gremlin for 'stepping in one'?

Substantial tax revenue? I'm highly suspicious of that compared to the overall costs of the loan + interest + secondary costs. Why is it you never get to see a decent cost/benefit analysis of sports teams? Probably because vested interests don't want you to. Sports teams aren't lucrative cash-cows for cities. They're entertainment and matters of pride for politicians and owners. How long has that one guys been fighting to get the details of the last stadium deal? Why can't they just fork over the numbers? Why did he have to go to court for years and years? Probably because the deal was an embarrassment.

I think you found a new t-shirt slogan for Gary. Hell, I could have used one in college too. :-)

Peter Punter? That's a new one. Don't be stupid. Bad news for America = Bad news for America. Spinning bad news into seeming good news = politics = bad for America.

If building/refurbing it the last time didn't help, why should it help them win now by throwing more money (ours) at them? Personally, I don't give a shite about pro sports, but I won't deny anyone else the 'pleasure'. Just don't be throwing good money after bad. Admittedly, part of me would derive a perverse pleasure from having the city tell one of these sports teams owners, 'You want to leave? Right, off with you then.' Hmm. Let me see. Schools or new basketball stadium? Hmm....