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Beerball

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  1. Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)

     

    With a purple umbrella and a fifty cent hat,

     

    Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

     

    Missus cool rides out in her aged Cadillac.

     

    Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

     

    Come on, babe on the round about,

     

    Ride on the merry-go-round,

     

    We all know what your name is,

     

    So you better lay your money down.

     

    Alimony, alimony payin' your bills,

     

    Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

     

    When your conscience hits, you knock it back with pills.

     

    Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

     

    Come on, babe on the round about,

     

    Ride on the merry-go-round,

     

    We all know what your name is,

     

    So you better lay your money down.

     

    Tellin' tall tales of how it used to be.

     

    Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

     

    With the butler and the maid and the servants three.

     

    Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

     

    Oh, you got it.

     

    Nobody hears a single word you say.

     

    Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

     

    But you keep on talkin' till your dyin' day.

     

    Livin', lovin', she's just a woman.

     

    Come on, babe on the round about,

     

    Ride on the merry-go-round,

     

    We all know what your name is,

     

    So you better lay your money down.

     

    Livin', Lovin', She's just a woman.

  2. another meaning:

     

    Toe the Line

     

    The space between each pair of deck planks in a wooden ship was filled with a packing material called "oakum" and then sealed with a mixture of pitch and tar. The result, from afar, was a series of parallel lines a half-foot or so apart, running the length of the deck.

    Once a week, as a rule, usually on Sunday, a warship's crew was ordered to fall in at quarters -- that is, each group of men into which the crew was divided would line up in formation in a given area of the deck. To insure a neat alignment of each row, the sailors were directed to stand with their toes just touching a particular seam.

    Another use for these seams was punitive. The youngsters in a ship, be they ship's boys or student officers, might be required to stand with their toes just touching a designated seam for a length of time as punishment for some minor infraction of discipline, such as talking or fidgeting at the wrong time. A tough captain might require the miscreant to stand there, not talking to anyone, in fair weather or foul, for hours at a time. Hopefully, he would learn it was easier and more pleasant to conduct himself in the required manner rather than suffer the punishment.

    From these two uses of deck seams comes our cautionary word to obstreperous youngsters to "toe the line."

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    Nothing to do with camel toe?

  3. -What blows my mind is that NHL players have the highest average player salaries in sports. But another poster (above, somewhere) pointed out something that's bugged me for years about the NHL ...

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    -I grew up in Amherst. I learned to skate when I was so young I still thought "porn" was sneaking peeks at African women villagers' breasts in Dad's National Geographic. Ice hockey was like a religion. I had a rink in my back yard. So did a lot of kids. Hell, a friend of mine, Rick Frenning - Assemblyman Frenning's son - actually had a rink in their yard with BOARDS and LIGHTS! We'd play games starting at ten at night and play until our ankles gave. Your parents would see you going out at ten on a school night with your stick and skates over your shoulder, and they didn't even have to ask what you were doing. We worshipped Martin (met him, he married a neighbor of mine), Perreault, and Robert. When I got older, my buds and I would all chip in and pay whatever they were asking to rent a rink for two hours... And when the only times available were from 1AM to 3AM, we took it! And we were glad to get it, too.

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    -My point? Do kids growing up in Phoenix and Nashville and Tampa start skating at ten? Do they have rinks in their back yards? Could they take a pass between the ankles on the fly (without looking) and find the slot in their sleep, and still be not NEARLY good enough to make their high school team? Do they even know who the hell Rod Gilbert, Roger Crozier, Guy Lafleur, Eddie Shack, Tom Lysiak, Jerry Korab, and Dave Taylor ARE? Probably not. So why does the NHL blindly chase demographic shifts? Why are their teams in places where it's 85 in January? It's ridiculous, man. Just ridiculous.

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    - I love the game, and I love the NHL. Hell, I loved the AHL, too. (Must be a Buffalo thing ... The AMERICAN Football League .... The AMERICAN Hockey League ...) I know I'm ranting, but a great league and a beautiful sport are being mucked up by a bunch of idiots. (*sigh*) OK ... I'm finished. Sorry, guys.

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    I can't answer for Phoenix, but I can for Dallas.

     

    While obviously there are not backyard rinks, professional Hockey in Texas has spawned the building of rinks all over the metroplex. Yes, kids to play and play well. Will they continue into their HS years when football takes over? Can't answer that. Do a search of teams in the Dallas area and you will be surprised.

  4. Sorry for the gratuitous "bump," but I wanted to thank everyone for the nice wishes for my birthday.  If it wasn't for the year older thing, it would have been a perfect day.

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    Your transparent attempt at keeping your birthday thread on the front page has been discovered! When is ~NGs~ Bday anyway? :devil:

     

    Please let this thread die with dignity!

     

    No more bumps! No more bumps! No more bumps! No more bumps! No more bumps! No more bumps! No more bumps! No more bumps! No more bumps! ;)

  5. I know everyone has talked about it, but I dont think i've seen it yet.  Travis and Willis should be put in a two-back set some.  Once this happens there will be all kinds of confusion(hopefully not for Drew).  Plus, if we pass out of this set, we have Willis in there to block and pick up the blitz.

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    If I remember correctly, there have been a couple instances of both on the field. I don't remember both in the same backfield though. Willis in the slot seems to be the set I remember.

  6. ...those who whine about those who whine about the Bills will say if we win against the Patriots next week.

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    As one who started whining about him and him only, because we all know in our hearts that it truely is his fault and his fault alone, because after all it is he that we are supposing about, I can't answer your question.

     

    If you ask about how those whining about him would respond if he that we are whining about did something to cause the Bills to win against the Patriots next week, that I can answer.

     

    Anything else is pure speculation and conjecture.

     

     

     

    :devil:;):lol:

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