Dan Gross

An alternative that's available now are inter-ocular implants (aka Phakic IOLs). It's basically a surgically implanted contact lens. While the procedure is rather new (last 15 years in Europe, approved last Fall in the US), it's actually just a variation (and the same type of lens) used in cataract surgery. The difference is that the fake lens is inserted under your own lens. There are complications with this as well, that appear to be mostly correctable. The main thing about this over LASIK is that if it doesn't work, it's undoable (remove the lenses). Costs considerably more though... Previous question (from Darin): http://www.stadiumwall.com/index.php?showtopic=12428

Not just a jerk, but a jerky jerk...

Blondie.

Yeah, it's always tough ending the season with a loss, man.

...and certainly not to be confused with Flip Wilson of cross-dressing fame...

Right thigh? Damn!

Oh, they're riding the Buffalo subway. Gotcha...good luck to them.

Are you sure? Can someone call him and ask? ...and BTW, last names have no connection whatsoever to the person owning them...

How about the JP Losman surfing tune?

Happy Birthday to "Peter Pan" Randy's #1 fan!

Ummm, no, and no way it's 8K cheaper than a Camry. Camry base price: $18,195 Taurus base price: $21,885. I could see an argument where the Taurus, with incentives and everything else could match the price of the Camry, but beat it by $8000? I don't think so. As far as the health care costs go, one of the big problems with GM is the way they extend the benefits to retirees. That, plus the $1B extra in health care costs that the Union health care costs over the health care that is provided to the white collar employees... An interesting story about GM's efforts to tame health care costs here: http://www.freep.com/money/business/gmpharm27e_20050627.htm Factoid: over $1500 per vehicle is paid to cover health care costs...

Happy Birthday Bill!

If you go to crayoneaters.com do a search in the forums for "horrible human being." That thread contains her side of the story, except she doesn't go into much detail...

I heard under the deal being worked out, the players will have to play 3 games a night for $12.00.

Can we suspend the Patriots?

Here's a bottle of vodka...

which will effectively be the duration of the 3q show.

Thanks for reminding me. To appease the attention span of the generation, and to sell as much ad space as possible, the game will consist of 4 2-minute quarters with entertainment between each quarter. After all, the "2 minute drill" can be one of the most exciting parts of the game, why not skip right to it? Of course the game will still be 4 hours long...

2012? The Los Angeles "Batman: the Dark Knights" (brought to you by Nike) vs the Philadelphia First Federal Gatorades will meet in the "Monster Tucks Bud Ford Verizon Rambo VII Bowl." The Final IBM Timex score will be 48 (months, 0% interest) to 24(/7 uptime with BigDaddy). When winning head coach "Geritol with Iron" Mike Tyson hoists the "Disney World/Yahoo.com" Trophy, it will be a Kodak moment. This assuming of course that all the named companies exist in 2012. Edit: dev's answer didn't exist when I started this.

Well, you know they called Belichick a genius when he called that intentional safety in Denver...why not?

Damn, all that scoring and the Pats got a safety besides...?

I know, and if it wasn't bad, it would be legal...

"Currently, nearly 14 million Americans—1 in every 13 adults—abuse alcohol or are alcoholic. Several million more adults engage in risky drinking that could lead to alcohol problems. These patterns include binge drinking and heavy drinking on a regular basis. In addition, 53 percent of men and women in the United States report that one or more of their close relatives have a drinking problem. " Source: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/booklet.htm "# Smoking is an addiction. Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, a drug that is addictive and can make it very hard, but not impossible, to quit. # More than 400,000 deaths in the U.S. each year are from smoking-related illnesses. Smoking greatly increases your risks for lung cancer and many other cancers." Source: http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/TCRB/Smoking_Facts/about.html Cigarette smoking remains the single most important preventable cause of death, disease, and disability in the U.S. It results in “more deaths each year than AIDS, alcohol, cocaine, heroin, homicide, suicide, motor vehicle crashes, and fires – combined...Approximately 45 million adults in this country are regular smokers.” Source: http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFi...3n2/smoking.xml So smoking does all this, including the cost to Americans on the order of $75B/year in health-care costs, yet the government that "knows what it's doing" subsidizes the farmers who grow tobacco....while marijuana, which is somehow "worse" (because the gov't says so), is illegal....mmmkay....

T-I-Double G-Rrrrrr and Piglet, oh Dear. (he's done Piglet's voice all the way up to the latest movies...). RIP.

Yeah, I found it sad, but ironic that they stored their food in bear-proof containers, but not themselves...