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Umm, Raiders? I'm aware of my omission. This is the year they turn it around, mark my words. Marked. Edit---Better put more than one word for a response!

Umm, Raiders?

I took the scene about New York and Philly totally different. I saw that Pam wants to do more with her career, and she was ready to go into graphic design. However, she finds out that she is not familiar with the basic programs. When she hears that the schools to go to are in New York and Philly, she comes to the realization that her dream of doing something like that job is just not going to happen. She accepts the fact that she is stuck at Dunder Mifflin and has a sad look on her face as she walks off, defeated. I don't think she is leaving for New York or Philly, but she definitely turns down Jim's proposal.

Happy birthday to ShotgunPete (20), rubberducky (24), and TheEndOfEHME'sUsefulness (3).

Nick Mitchell, actually.

If he wasn't suspended for being a racist (well, for being too outspoken of a racist, I guess) ... Michael Hayes. While I think he was more of a color guy back in the day, he knows the business well enough to call a match. I heard Hayes doesn't do well with color.

That would be "Jaws."

Brandon Phillips has done that with the shift on Griffey or Dunn. IIRC, he stole second base and didn't slide, just kept motoring to third. That was early this year.

I picture Venkman setting his alarm clock so he can wake up every morning and scurry to TSM to see who's birthday it is. Now he will ignore my birthday when it comes around. Actually, I toyed around with changing my birthday every day to the current day so I would constantly be listed for my birthday. I don't think it works for some reason. I can't remember.

Nah, he handed it off to me (Marvin), and I've ran it into the ground since then.

Happy birthday, Slayer. Votto and Volquez looked good for you today, huh?

Kinetic is actually a gimmick created by Deon years ago.

In fourth grade, this girl shit her pants in class. All of a sudden, it just reaked to high heavens of the foulest odor imaginable. You know how it smells when you are sick and you piss out of your ass? It smelled like someone shit that on roadkill. All the kids were complaining and the teacher was opening the windows and doors. No one knew for sure who it was (well, hopefully the girl knew) and for the first few minutes, there was a thought that the school had a sewer malfunction. There were lots of "Oh god, what's that smell?!?" because you know that once it is brought up, the other children must be attention-seeking and complain about it in the same fashion. All hell broke loose when the kid with a slight speech impediment loudly exclaimed, "That's Diahthea...I know, I've fsmelled it befull." The girl's name was Angela but I can't place the last name. She was only there for that year, possibly due to almost closing the school down with her ass that day.

We had some pretty bangin' food in the cafeteria back in "Grade School." One of my favorites was "spiced ham sandwich" day. It was always served with baked beans and chips, among other things. I would take off the top piece of bread, put the baked beans on top of the ham, then a few chips on top of the beans and replace the bread. Squeeze the sandwich a little to crunch the chips, and that was one of my favorite sandwiches. We also were allowed to walk across the street to "Dairy Delight," which was a Dairy Queen that went away from the corporate design. They had the English style hotdogs that were toasted on the sides. Every day that I went there, I got a footlong hotdog, grilled cheese, and strawberry milkshake. Some mornings, I was allowed to walk across the street to another local restaurant (as I got older, we ate luch there because you could get lasagna and other good daily specials). We were supposed to only be able to go for lunch, but my mom gave me permission to pick up breakfast during recess if I got her something. I would get a steak and egg sandwich with mayo on toast if I was heading back to school, or a platter of biscuits and gravy if I was eating there. Besides being on steroids such as prednisone for having asthma and allergies, this was a major reason I was such a chubby little kid.

I have a pretty good local market 7 blocks or so from me. The owner is of Lebanese descent (a culture that I absolutely love), so he has tons of Mediterranean foods and ingredients. The deli makes traditional Mediterranean meals and desserts daily. They also have good produce.

Not many went into their selections, apparently.

You wrecked the flow of the thread.

Are you entirely sure about that, Kinetic?

Dude, you are missing the entire point. I;m not trying to prove how smart I am by having owned 14 cars in my lifetime. Chalk that up to bad luck and having a father that owned a car lot. I brought that up to show that I have owned many cars and never bought a new one, sheesh! If you seriously believe it is more cost-effective to purchase something you don't have rather than use what you do have less, then your argument is, in fact, retarded. I read well enough, but that's not the problem here. I would say that English professors couldn't make sense out of my nephew's stories he wrote when he was four. The source material is the problem here.

Yes. I don't want to make fun of you for saying that, but that was a major point of discussion on this page due to the pic of Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent) as Two Face.

Jerk, I understand that you don't exactly have the best arguing skills, so let me sum up how this went down. -I said that I scaled back my mileage per week due to the rising gas prices. This was obviously to save money. It costs me nothing to drive less. -You suggested that buying a car that had better gas efficiency was something that should be done instead. You might not have meant me in general, but you quoted my post and made it look like you were saying that is what I should do. -I pointed out that buying something that I don't currently have is not an efficient way to save money. -You said that "people buy cars all the time." I can't argue that logic. You went on to say that perhaps I should look for a car that was not a full-sized truck or SUV. -I said I didn't have one of those, but I did assume you were talking about a new car. You corrected me and said that used cars are available on lots as well. I haven't done so yet, but I could point out that you also have to purchase a used car from the dealer. I tried to just go and get them, but they wanted, like, money and stuff. In conclusion, driving less miles saves me money without putting money into it. Purchasing a car that is better on gas would take years to gain the same savings by simply not driving as much. If that doesn't make sense to you, ask one of the teachers you harass to show you a math book. Oh, and I have been driving since 1995. I have owned 14 cars in that time period because I couldn't really go out and pay cash for a car that would last 10 years when I was 15. Four of those cars were cars I owned less that 3 weeks. I just included them in the total because I did in fact own them. I had my last car from 11/99 to 03/08. It's not like I have been trading every month.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard that...

You could not be more correct, Al.

It was 7 word bandit. I always thought it was a Kinetic gimmick. It was always executed well. Random Trivia---While revamping the main page for TSMpedia, someone requested that I add gimmick accounts as a category. I put 7 Word Bandit on there and edited his profile to say "His posts always consisted of seven words." I thought it was apropo.

People buy cars all the time. Next time you're on the lot, maybe instead of looking at that F-150 or Explorer, look at the Focus. I have never, nor will I ever buy a new car. I paid cash for every car I have ever owned, and I have owned 14 of them now. Back when I had a full-sized 1982 Ford Bronco that was pulling down a whopping 6 miles to the gallon, gas was at $1.25/gallon. I thought that was outrageous, so I traded up with cash to get cars that were better on gas mileage. After doing so, there was a period of time where I paid $0.68/gallon. In my car. The kind of car that I have never bought new. The cars that have only been tainted by that '82 Bronco when it comes to gas mileage. In other words, your argument is retarded, and spouting out shit you hear people say in barber shops while you get your hair cut really does't work if you don't know what you are talking about.