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mcjeff215

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  1. As Bill Parcells says: "You are what your record says you are."

     

     

    I'm protesting next year by not renewing my NFL Sunday Ticket....If they do well, I'll see them on nationally televised games.

     

    I did that the year before last and went to just paying for Field Pass so I can listen to the games. I still get Center Ice as that feels worth the money. I just got sick of paying for heartbreak. I follow them as much as I always have, I just don't get to watch them at home.

  2. So, I missed this game because I had to take my little girl to an ice skating practice thing... was it *really* as bad as everyone is making it out to be? Or is it a carry over from the last few weeks culminating in today's suckfest?

     

    Was it REALLY a "can the coach NOW!" game?

  3. this seems to be the stores fault as much as anyone's

     

    You can't expect any one of the people to be able to stop and help the guy up - they probably would have been trampled themselves. The people in the front of the line can't stop - they were being pushed from behind by 500 people. It is the store's fault for allowing 1500 people to crowd around an entrance.

     

    Could go either way. The store *wants* the crowds, obviously. Unless they did something negligent, like mop the floor 30 seconds before they opened the door, I think it falls on the shoulders of the shoppers. Sounds like a classic case of people just sucking and not respecting a line and order of arrival.

     

    They'll start doing the lotteries before long, much like they did with concert tickets back in the early 1990s. Used to be you'd wait in line for hours and hours to get good seats. They killed that with a lottery system such that the guy that gets there at 7:59 has the same chance a the guy that slept there.

  4. It compels Jaguars running back Fred Taylor to use the car with the less showy factory rims when he goes out at night.

     

    Well Stojan. Life just isn't fair. What a stupid point to make if the author is trying for our sympathy. It does beg the question, why go out and risk it if you're too worried to drive the car with the fancy rims?

     

    In all honestly, though, they're right. These are very public people that have a lot of emotion riding on their shoulders. How many Buffalonians would have punched Norwood right in the face after that gave if given the chance? You lose 5k on a bet because Big Ben fumbles a snap and you're ready to B word slap someone. Hiring security is the right way to go about it.

  5. Me too. Can't stand regular soda. I only eat fast food maybe twice a year, but when I do I'm one of those that orders the diet along with all the crap.

     

     

    Same... we used to get free pop at work (ah... the boom days). I'd come in a lot at night and all of the regular stuff was gone so I just got used to drinking the diet stuff. Regular sucks.

     

    To make it worse, I don't like lettuce or tomato, so when I order, I actually have then pull whatever healthy stuff comes on the burger off... and make the soda a diet.

  6. Usually you an just say random garbage into the phone and it will route you to an operator. They don't want those voice recognition systems to cause problems for handicapped folks. I usually just string the first line of junk that comes to mind together...

     

    "Animal parka tomato underwater beer air filter mouse hockey."

     

    To which it will reply, "I'm sorry, did you say technical support?"

     

    "Pump widget snow shift taco frigid Westchester bronchitis propeller."

     

    And then... "please wait for a representative."

     

    I've always wondered whether the operator gets a translation on screen of what I've tried to say. I think it would be fun to say something almost inappropriate and then reference it during the conversation.

  7. As you know if you buy a gift card and the store closes down, you are basically screwed. I received this list of stores that are closing down or closing many locations, but are STILL selling gift card to unsuspecting consumers.

     

    Be careful if you are a gift card buyer..

     

    Circuit City (filed Chapter 11)

    Ann Taylor 117 stores nationwide closing

    Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug ,and Catherine's to close 150 stores nationwide

    Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores and more after January

    Cache will close all stores

    Talbots closing down specialty stores

    J. Jill closing all stores (owned by Talbots)

    Pacific Sunwear (also owned by Talbots)

    GAP closing 85 stores

    Footlocker closing 140 stores more to close after January

    Wickes Furniture closing down

    Levitz closing down remaining stores

    Bombay closing remaining stores

    Zales closing down 82 stores and 105 after January

    Whitehall closing all stores

    Piercing Pagoda closing all stores

    Disney closing 98 stores and will close more after January.

    Home Depot closing 15 stores 1 in NJ ( New Brunswick )

    Macys to close 9 stores after January

    Linens and Things closing all stores

    Movie Galley Closing all stores

    Pep Boys Closing 33 stores

    Sprint/Nextel closing 133 stores

    JC Penney closing a number of stores after January

    Ethan Allen closing down 12 stores.

    Wilson Leather closing down all stores

    Sharper Image closing down all stores

    K B Toys closing 356 stores

    Loews to close down some stores

    Dillard's to close some stores

    Yvonne Pulido

     

    I don't understand gift cards. What's the benefit? If they came with a 10% discount or something, then they would make sense. They simply lock you in to one store and some of them even expire.

  8. When I have told the full story to people, I have made many cry with laughter. While it makes for a good story, I don't recommend it.

     

     

    A buddy of mine called me *early* one morning (like 6:00 early) after a night of drinking. I'll never *ever* forget the words that came out of his mouth. I'm so not kidding, either...

     

    "Dude, where's my car?"

     

    Quite literally. He lost his car. We spent the better part of that day looking for it. Where was it, you might ask? We drove past a retention pond and noticed about 8 inches of car sticking out of the top of the water. Yup. He drove the damn thing right into a pond. While it was only 3 or 4 feet deep, the car had actually sank into the mud. You could see the tire tracks going through the backyards of the 4 or 5 houses heading up to the pond.

     

    This guy had driven through BACKYARDS and finally came to stop in a retention pond. We were probably 17 or 18 years old at the time, too.

     

    All he could remember was an "Open" sign and walking through some mud. The sign happened to be a restaurant near where he was.

     

    While it's an interesting story, the guy is clearly an idiot. We were all idiots as well for putting down that much alcohol at 17 years old. He's damn lucky he didn't drive that car into one of those houses and not "just" a pond. I personally won't drive if I've had anything at all to drink. No reason to even risk a DWI.

  9. McCain's biggest mistake was never actually getting around to telling me what HIS plans for America were … what HE was all about. Instead, campaign ad after campaign ad … sound bite after sound bite … his campaign kept trying to tell me what Obama was all about. And frankly, I think Obama was already doing a good job telling me what Obama was all about. But nobody ever told me what John McCain’s vision for our nation’s immediate future was. And that is what we should have been getting from the McCain campaign. I refused to vote for “unknown” as a choice. And that's a shame, because I sense McCain is a good man. Just my two cents ...

     

    Yeah I think that was one of his biggest mistakes as well. It was very clear during the third debate. Obama would detail his plan (agree or disagree) and McCain would respond with "Yeah? Well you sir, are a retard." Sometimes he'd even flip Obama off with both hands at the same time.

     

    It's as though he tried to run on a platform of nebulous "conservative values" and we all should just understand what that meant.

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