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Well, in fairness to the town, being forced to see a bit of a pile of firewood every single day is truly a quality of life issue and probably runs up the citizenry's therapist and prozac bills to unreasonable levels. The dog, well, you start letting people have unregistered (as resident to your town) dogs running around and then soon nobody is complying with supplying the sample of doggy DNA necessary to cross reference and indentify which dog left the 'presents' that inevitably get left behind; again, creating a true quality of life issue and running up therapist and prozac bills. The accident; well, that isn't an everyday eyesore and they have maintenance crews to clean up the debris and doctors, nurses, and other hospital staff that need to stay employed, so the guy that ran the red light was actually providing a benefit to society as a whole; your wife and the other person's misfortune notwithstanding. PS - Hope your wife's recovery from the accident was complete.

That's a smidge excessive. In the town next to mine, people can't have RV's, boats, etc. in their "front yards." A friend of mine owns ~10 acres with a dirt path into the back of his land. The town got on his case because he had an RV about 50' down this path. With the trees and brush around it, you could barely even see the thing from the road. So he started 'working' on his house. He's had scaffolding up around it for the past 2 years. I'd guess he'll finish the product sometime in the next century.

You still live close enough to see the Pentagon? Even if you are, that's a TAD excessive. Or do they really expect a bunch of 12 year olds to be able to down a plane? Have they banned radio controlled planes also?

Can't forget model rockets and b-b guns. Throw those in and it probably ups to 3.5 times.

Of course nowadays in the States, you have to have the young ones in child/booster seats, everyone needs a seat belt, and there are probably states where you can't have the kid in the front seat until he's x height or y years of age. (No data on how it is up in Canuckland, but I'd expect it to be similar.) If the kids are young enough, I could definitely see something with an extra rear seat being necessary to cart around the entire brood. Back in the good old days, you could easily fit 4 or 5 kids and 2 adults in a midsized sedan. If you had a pickup truck, you could bring the kids' whole team with you.

I was comparing your hero to James Earl Carter, Jr..

AFAIK, there is no good historical dataset geared towards goalies and concussions. The NHL is trying to learn more about their impacts on all aspects of the game as we speak. They still don't have a particularly good dataset for players in general. The fact that there are only 2 goalies on a team and 18-21 skaters on the roster limit the amount of data available.

jw, Nice post and a very succint summation of where the Bills appear to hopefully be heading. No shame in rooting for them, but damn if there isn't frustration galore.

Or you would think they're assuming the game is blacked out for the locals and find life is easier blacking out the phone version. Do the regular ads show up on the phone version of the game? If not, that's the easy explanation.

Pooj, I WANT to like the show, they've got Barbie from 1 day at a time and Sue Ann from MTM Show and Wendie Mallick (sp?) and Jane Leeves who are all very good actresses; but unfortunately they spent all their money on cast and have interns writing the scripts. I don't care how good the actors/actresses are, if the lines are crap there's not much they can do to fix them.

RJD - The Last In Line.

Might you not be giving him too much credit? I'd say he's more Carter 1.1.

Quite possibly that's what he was saying about his opponent for his 1st election campaign riding on JFK's ghost's legacy. What was he saying for his second campaign? Wasn't that more of Duran's 'no mas, no mas?'

Isn't that what the Carter folks were saying about Reagan?

With God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly. - Arthur 'Big Guy' Carlson

61 calls or texts to OR from his phone. If they're relatively evenly split, then yeah there's some smoke there. If they're more 1 sided, then maybe 1 of them's a stalker. And 61 calls/texts over 120 days isn't exactly the 'can't stop thinking 'bout you' mode.

Fair enough. Couldn't read the 2nd article (I pretty much refuse to click on popup ads to remove them), from the discussion here it doesn't seem to make it that clear that the mother has been forcing the kid to eat far too much. Maybe it did, like I said, I couldn't read it. Until I have more data, I'll stick with the opinion that the social workers overstepped their bounds - significantly.

Joe, Just out of curiosity, do you have children of your own? It doesn't appear that you do.

You're right, it was the Patsies. Went to all 3 games that weekend (Friday started well with a romp over the Blackhawks, final was 2-0 but the game wasn't that close), the last 2 stunk. The Jest game that year was in September. Was getting my roadtrips mixed up.

D'oh, maybe 5 beers ago I'd've figured out that you were referring to Queen's drummer. (Who I have also not heard speak in an interview; but it makes more sense than the other drummer Roger Taylor. ) Sorry, but when I think of Queen, it's always Freddie and Brian May; Roger Taylor and John Deacon get short shrift. And like I said, I love 'pumped up kicks;' it is so inappropriate for EVERYWHERE it's played.

Pumped up kicks cracks me up, because 'everyone' in this country is sooooo worried about their kids' wellbeing but I've heard that song played at high school soccer and football games, pro hockey, and on the telly, pro football and several college sports. And EVERY time I hear it, I start laughing because of how inappropriate it is for the setting it's played in. It has to be my favorite song of the past 5 years, minimum. And I'm not certain that I've ever heard Roger Taylor speak. (Duran Duran drummer, right?)

D*mn, somebody remade 'I'm in love w/ my car?' I am now convinced that you really are several years younger than me, as I had no idea that anyone remade that (or more technically that anyone had remade it and got radio / Itunes play for it). Of course, I am still hoping that one of my in-laws get me 'pumped up kicks' for Christmas. So I'm apparently still not accepting just how old I really am.

1st off, SHOCKED that you are 6 years younger than me. From your posts, I was certain you were 3-5 years older than me. 2nd, sorry but AOBtD was '80. You can try to blame that on the '70's disco craze but it just missed it. 3rd. I was driving back to Buffalo after a Bills - Jest game that the Bills actually won (way back when) when the DJ told us that Freddie had passed away from AIDS and he chose 'Someone To Love' as the song to commemorate it. Sorry, but I think that was what got Freddie into that mess in the first place. There were so many great Queen songs to choose to play upon his passing, why did the DJ choose THAT to commemorate him? I am still bitter about that 20 years later.

Funny, I would have said it was either Batgirl painted green or the Drill Thrall Shanah.

But they couldn't help him because he didn't start running the Enterprise until AFTER he stopped leaping and as everyone knows they could only help him when/where he leaped and he could ONLY leap to dates that were earlier within his own lifetime.