Dr. Tom

While others may claim to be irreplaceable, I truly am.

My smoking is confined to the occasional cigarette I have when drunk (which is whatever I bum off someone, usually a Marlboro of some variety), and the handful of cigars I smoke each year. This is the way for someone who doesn't want to smoke to smoke, IMO. Just make sure you're buying good cigars and not the crappy ones that come 5-to-a-pack at 7-11.

Obv.

Here's something to chew on. Most adult sociopaths (I think the figure is about 90%) tortured and killed animals during their preteen and teen years. This kind of behavior acsolutely needs to be punished and stopped before it becomes a bigger problem.

"Sluts" can be raped just like anyone else can. Just because a woman has had mutliple sexual partners in her life (which does not make her a "slut," btw; that's just a patriarchal and chauvinistic pejorative) does not mean she wants to have sex with everyone who comes along. No still means no. I'm not saying Kobe raped her, mind you, since I don't know and really don't care. But if she said no and he did it anyway, that's rape, and it doesn't matter how many men she's slept with before. Obviously, if she had sex with someone else after Kobe the same night, that damages her case; rape is an emotional trauma even moreso than a physical one, and a woman who was raped would not go out and sleep with someone that same night. If that's true, I imagine it's because the victim usually ends up being the one on trial in rape cases. The defense will demean her for her sexual history -- which is no one's business but hers -- and go for other cheap tactics like the way she was dressed. Any defendant in a court case should be able to defend himself of the charges against him, but when that turns into attacks on someone who's already a victim, then a line has been crossed.

It's tough, but I'll have to go with Ichiro. Johnson's had better years than he's having this year (ignoring the win total, which is depressed because of his awful run support); Ichiro is putting together one of the best offensive seasons in quite a while. If he hadn't had such a shitty April, he'd be looking to blow away the single-season hits record, not just skim by it.

That title's taken. I rented it from the video store last week...

The thing is, that was actually a light-hearted comment between two friends. The woman's name escapes me at the moment, but she and Churchill were close. The comment has been misinterpreted as mean in the years since. This is from memory, but I'm pretty sure the exhange was this: Woman: "You're drunk, Winston, you're very drunk." Churchill: "You're fat, [woman's name], you're very fat. And the difference between us is that I will be sober in the morning." His "Madam, if I were your husband, I would drink it" comment was made while he was an MP, IIRC.

It's not always a lawyer, but it's some supposed VIP from Nigeria, or some other bumfuck country. The gist is that they need to transfer large sums of money and need a willing, genial American to help them. You get a cut of the millions you're allegedly transferring, and golly, all they need is your bank account information. Once you give them that, of course, some money transferring does occur, but not the kind you'd like to see. Many stupid people have fallen for this, making "a fool and his money are soon parted" a truism for all times.

Indians 22, Yankees 0.

I wouldn't take it. There are risks, which you've mentioned, and they aren't worth a measly wage like $9 an hour. Around here, most large warehouses hire for at least $10 an hour to start, and many start around $12. You have to have something like that near your area.

SCAM SCAM SCAM. It's strikingly similar to the Nigerian scam. I've gotten a fake email or two from eBay, but they were about account stuff, and rather obvious fakes once I read them.

You might still be able to scrape pieces of them off of Tienanmen Square...

True. Which is why there needs to be legislation that forces companies to pay illegals the same wages as they'd pay anyone else. Cover illegals with the minimum wage laws and you'll remove a lot of the incentive for companies to hire these people. Then when they can't get jobs, maybe they'll swim back to Mexico and try to do it right the next time.

It's simple kids. Spam = bad. We get enough shit like this in email. Cretin.

So someone who disgraced the game is ranked ahead of someone who was nothing but a good ambassador for it? Seems fair...

Where's cfici/Frank Zappa Mask when we need him? Someone has to be here to lick Mumia's sack.

Wow, people said bad things about NY over a decade ago. Yeah, that's relevant...

Williams definitely took a risk by declaring for the draft while he was allowed to, but still, he followed the rules as they were at the time. When the rules changed, he severed ties with his agent, re-enrolled in classes, and began the process to get reinstated. Considering the NCAA, by their own counts, only denied 10 of 1100 appeals last season, why was Williams denied? His "offenses" were perfectly legal actions at the time he took them. Compounding the sin, of course, is the NCAA waiting until two days before USC's opener to make its decision public. I'm sure they've known for some time what the decision was going to be. It does a disservice to Mike Williams and the entire USC football team to string them along like this. Whatever your opinion of Williams, his teammates are innocent bystanders in all of this. They should have had an answer long before now. I hate to say it, but Brian Bosworth was right when he was suspended during his college career. He was on the sidelines wearing a shirt that spelled out NCAA as "National Communists Against Athletes." Considering this decision and the absurd one rendered in the Jeremy Bloom case, I think Bosworth was far more accurate than he might've known.

Good topic, Mike, and hopefully one that will be non-partisan, based on the guidelines. Since I'm not voting for either major candidate, though, I'm not going to argue for either of them. I do plan to learn a few things from this thread, though, so make sure your posts are enlightening, kids.

I demand you prove it by flaming DerangedHermit as if he were as shitty and worthless a mod as Loss.

Biatch, I was watching horror movies when your daddy was dry-humping his pillows. Recognize.

Tossing your dumb neanderthal ass over the top rope, MUTHAFUCKA~! Everyone stop bickering over who would win and bow down before me. KNEEL BEFORE ZOD~!

Meh, I gave up on ASB after playing 2002 and 2003. I guess they greatly revamped the franchise aspect in 2004 because it ate deeply of the man-ass in the '02 and '03 versions. If it's as good as you say, I might take a flier on it, if it's available for X-Box.

Usually, I do fantasy draft franchises in Madden or ESPN. I tend to play aggressive defense, but favor a ball-control strategy on offense. So I go after a franchise RB, the O-line to protect him, and a defense with speed at the back 7 positions. Decent QBs can be gotten later, and since I work off the run, it's much more important for me to have the great RB than a great QB. When I'm rebuilding bad teams, I'll often sign big names off the free-agent wire, minimize their signing bonuses (so I minimize my cap hit), and trade them for positions I need and/or draft picks. It sound cheesy, and it probably is, but it works.