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Hell no. Give me a Bruce Willis oil driller hitting golf balls at hippies any day...

Perhaps you are a poor learner...

6/10. I missed 2, 6, 9, 10. Too bad there weren't any questions about how many virgins Allah promises to Muslims that blow themselves up in crowded Jewish settlements...

Damn, I've never dialed 9-1-1 in my life and soem dumb bitch does it because she had to pay for a dipping sauce? I hope when she's keeling over due to a heart attack and is trying to reach medical help via Avon's 9-1-1 number that somebody is clogging the phone line because an ATM machine charged them a $2 service fee...

I didn't get ISportsFan's picks this week, and I PM'd him giving him until 8/28 to let me know if he was still interested in participating. No response. First person to claim his team, the Chicago Bears, on this thread gets it...

Question -- shouldn't you reduce your list a bit?...

I believe '94. If not '94 then '95...

Can't blame a guy in the NFL for not wanting to take a pay cut. To me what the Pats did is just as bad as a player wanting to re-do a contract. He'll be scooped up quickly...

Powell and Rice don't count because they're conservative/Republican -- just chuck them into the Clarance Thomas aisle...

From Hardyz1's Ghost... Colts -- 30 Points Washington Redskins Buffalo Bills Carolina Panthers Denver Broncos Indianapolis Colts Detroit Lions Green Bay Packers Kansas City Chiefs Miami Dolphins St. Louis Rams Pittsburgh Steelers Atlanta Falcons San Francisco 49ers New Orleans Saints Tennessee Titans Tampa Bay Buccaneers - LEAD PIPE LOCK, BABY!

Lawyers! Err, I mean, Vampires...

To add on to Bravesfan's notes from above: 1) We thought it would be easier if both our contests were merged into one so there would not be two separate threads with people picking the same games. Just remember if you are in my league to add your tie-breaker points -- if you don't, then you DIE!!! Actually, you just don't have any tie-breaker prediction for that week. 2) We want to bump up the deadline to when you submit your picks (last year it was right before Sunday kickoff) because that way we can document who picked what teams earlier and have the results for you guys (and gals, if there are any this year) quicker. 3) Because I care about you folks more than Bravesfan does (not to mention the fact I only need to do 32 prediction sheets per week) I will probably get my results out quicker. Therefore, although our "Prediction threads" will be merged, our "Results" threads will be separate...

Personally, I feel if someone is old enough to pay taxes, then they should be allowed to vote. Not when they're old enough to get an allowance. But could you imagine the stump speeches? "A rattle toy in every diaper bag..."

Just need to see if everyone's serious about this. I would appreciate it if you would also include your team's name at the top of your post and include your tiebreaker points there, too. The deadline is Wednesday, August 27, at 8 p.m. By the way, what would be a good title to call this contest? I never thought of that... 8/27 Chicago at New England 8/28 Detroit at Buffalo N.Y. Jets at Philadelphia Arizona at Minnesota Atlanta at Cleveland Houston at Tampa Bay Kansas City at St. Louis Miami at New Orleans N.Y. Giants at Baltimore Oakland at Dallas Tennessee at Green Bay Washington at Jacksonville 8/29 Cincinnati at Indianapolis Pittsburgh at Carolina Seattle at Denver San Francisco at San Diego

Treble's my favorite so far. I second the TokyoX slap, unless the "dogs fall on their asses" line was the punchline...

First thought upon reading the thread's title: Mr. Ed. Second thought: Car 54 Where Are You?, The Munsters First thought upon reading the thread's posts: Dukes of Hazzard...

One thing I loved about Bronson/Dirty Harry was that they never fooled around trying to be athletic or anything -- they just pulled out a big gun (or in some cases a rocket launcher) and shot the bad guys...

Loved his Death Wish movies. Now go up there and kick some @ss!...

I've said many times I don't like the man, but I do feel bad for him...

Another freaky album was the first attempt to suck the deceased rapper's audience for every penny they have. Oops, I meant 2Pac's first posthumous album. " U Still Down?" especially that first disc of the album. Oh, and probably my favorite song on "All Eyes (or is it Eyez -- yo yo yo) on Me" is "Heart's of Men." For some reason I love those Richard Pryor samples...

First it was Wal-Mart forbidding girl scouts to sell cookies there, then it was that girl in Florida, now this. Oh the lawlessness that goes on in this country (Oops, hit "enter" by accident to prematurely ejaculate this thread up)... http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4067833.html Mikaela Ziegler, 7, and her 4-year-old sister, Annika, were selling refreshments Wednesday afternoon near the State Fairgrounds when a woman approached them. But she wasn't there to buy. "She said, 'You can't sell pop unless you have a license,' " Mikaela said. That's how it came to be that an inspector with St. Paul's Office of License, Inspections and Environmental Protection shut down Mikaela and Annika's pop stand. Their outraged father, Dr. Richard Ziegler, called City Hall for an explanation. He was told that St. Paul is cracking down on unauthorized merchants and that his daughters would be free to hawk their beverages once they obtained a $60 license. "Is there anything sacred anymore?" he asked Thursday. "We're not running a business here. This is fun and games for kids. I think [Mikaela's] netted, after paying me, a whole $13. "It's laughable and it's tragic." But Licensing Director Janeen Rosas said Mikaela was violating St. Paul Legislative Code Chapter 331A.04(d)(24), which requires a license for "A temporary establishment where food sales shall be restricted to prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous foods or canned or bottled nonalcoholic beverages; operating no more than fourteen (14) days annually at any one location." Rosas said the city has received more complaints than ever this year about sellers at the fair, although she said no one had registered a gripe about the enterprising Ziegler sisters. "If someone were to get ill from one of these products, with a license we're more able to track them back," she said. "And at the fair it's an equity issue. Allowing some people to sell without licenses gives them an unfair advantage over others." In fact, any lemonade stand in St. Paul must be licensed to operate, Rosas said. Not that the licensing department is out randomly patrolling for juvenile scofflaws. "But if we get a complaint, an inspector would go out and respond to that kind of call," she said. In June, police in Naples, Fla., responded to a neighbor's complaint by closing the lemonade stand of a 6-year-old girl who didn't have a permit. After fielding indignant phone calls from around the country, embarrassed city officials waived the $35 permit fee and allowed her to reopen. The story won national attention. Before she was shut down at her stand on Como Av. a block or two from the fairgrounds, Mikaela had been in business for four days, offering passersby an assortment of packaged lemonade, orange juice, water and pop. What the city did made her sad. And mad. "I don't think that was right," she said, "Cause you should be able to just sell stuff without having something that you don't know you're supposed to be having."

Like all of these stories, the crisis is resolved... http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/6652565.htm When 7-year-old Mikaela Ziegler's teacher asks her what she did over summer break, she can say she fought City Hall and won. The Expo Elementary second-grader reopened her pop stand Friday after St. Paul city officials — under a barrage of angry phone calls and media attention — changed their minds about enforcing licensing requirements that had put Mikaela and her sister Annika, 4, out of business. On Wednesday, an inspector from the city's License, Inspections and Environmental Protection (LIEP) Office had told the girls they would have to close the cold-drink business they set up on a play table on their front sidewalk on Como Avenue, several blocks from the Minnesota State Fair. But after the girls' business woes garnered local and national media attention, followed by an onslaught of phone calls to Mayor Randy Kelly's office from incredulous citizens, the city backed off. The mayor's "reaction was, and I quote, 'Leave the little girls alone,' " said Howard Orenstein, senior policy adviser to Kelly. "LIEP was doing its job. But there's a common sense line that has to be drawn," he said, adding that the city will be reviewing and seeking clarification of the licensing rules as they apply to children's refreshment stands. City officials said they had been cracking down in response to complaints about unlicensed businesses in the neighborhood around the Fair. Along with his staff, City Council Member Jay Benanav, who represents the area and offered to pay for the girls' license, fielded a steady of stream of calls from citizens wondering if this was the best use of resources for a city facing a $19.6 million budget shortfall. "I'm embarrassed. Here we are busting a 7-year-old girl when we have some more important things to deal with," said Benanav, a frequent mayoral critic who narrowly lost to Kelly in the 2001 election. By the time the girls reached Benanav's office about 10 a.m. Friday to go get the permit, about a dozen citizens and businesses had pledged $145 to the "Mikaela & Annika Defense Fund," with promises from about a dozen others yet to be calculated. The money was to be used to pay for the girls' $60 pop stand license and a $25 late fee and for the licenses of any other kids put out of business by St. Paul inspectors. Citizens, expressing outrage with the city action, said they'd help: • A manufacturer of banners offered signs to improve the stand's visibility. • The Midway Chamber of Commerce wanted to support the little entrepreneurs with licensing fees. The incident drew national attention, too, with NBC's "Today" show and ABC News in New York trying to reach the Ziegler sisters. Reports of the incident also were featured at the top of the national "Drudge Report" Web site. The attention was a bit too much for Mikaela, according her father, Richard Ziegler, an assistant professor of pediatric neuropsychology at the University of Minnesota. "My daughter said this is how a little thing becomes a big thing," he said. When Mikaela's parents decided to complain about the licensing requirement, "My mother-in-law said, 'Why are you bothering? You can't fight City Hall,' " said Lisa Rogers, the girls' mother. "Well, we can make a lot of noise. We can tell them when we think they're doing something wrong." Apparently, scores of people agreed that the city was on the wrong side of this issue. "I think it's a travesty," said Joe Furth, owner of Eclipse Records, who pledged money for the girls' license. "They weren't doing it for a major payday. They weren't trying to put together a college fund. It's a service." Having battled with the city to change an ordinance that would allow live performances at his music store, Furth said he was not surprised that the city would tell two little girls to "cease and desist." By midmorning, city officials had formally reassessed: "We are not going to require these children to have a license," said Janeen E. Rosas, LIEP director. "Public consensus is not completely behind the ordinance." City officials cited health hazards of unlicensed vendors handling consumables as a reason for the strict enforcement of the ordinance, which has been in place at least 23 years. For the time being, children can sell refreshments, but officials want to work with the City Council to clarify the rules on what inspectors are to enforce. The pop stand enforcement raised questions about other vending activities in the neighborhood, such as regulations on neighbors selling lawn space for parking. But the city's Legislative Code specifically addresses the annual issue of State Fair parking, allowing residents to sell front-yard spaces if adjoining neighbors approve in writing. "By city ordinance, there is a special overlay district in the zoning code that allows front- and side-yard parking on properties near the Fairgrounds," Rosas said. "They don't need licenses, unless they are storing or parking 10 or more vehicles on an annual basis." Former LIEP director Roger Curtis said Friday that his department had an unwritten understanding about Fair-time pop and lemonade stands when he was there. "We'd sit down before the Fair, and I'd say to my people, 'Don't bother the kids. I don't want anyone to ever come to me with a complaint about two kids with a pop stand,' " Curtis said. "Of course, if somebody pulls up next to a licensed vendor with a trailer full of stuff, we'd go after them. It's just takes a little common sense." As the girls were leaving the LIEP office, Jane Prince, Benanav's legislative aide, told the girls: "You've made it possible for children all over the city to sell lemonade without shutting down." "How's that?" Richard Ziegler asked his daughters. "Pretty powerful." But Annika had other pressing issues than effecting change at City Hall: "Daddy, now will you buy me a snack?"

Perhaps a photo caption contest? Here's mine. Bush: I drop a ton of bombs in the Middle East and none of you brats could care less. I drop my dog a couple of feet and you all are traumatized for life!...

Oh, OK. Damn that announcer! My personal fav isn't one particular flub, but rather wathing the game pass Pat Summerall by bit by bit. I always loved it when he couldn't keep up with the starting lineup visuals -- he'd be talking about a team's QB while the graphic showing that team's starting WRs would be just off the screen...

Justin's just trying to be the next Michael Jackson. All he needs to do is darken his skin up a bit -- and have some sleepovers with the neighborhood kids...