Steely Dan

With Smith on one side and Bennett on the other you could smell the QB's poop after every snap.

I suggested to Marv Levy on his radio program with Bob Matthews that they should use John Wendling the way Rob Riddick used to be used on the goal line. Bob and Marv both thought that would be impossible with today's athletes.

Monsterquest is hysterical. I love how they go out and with a limited budget and only an hour of TV time they are looking to find evidence nobody else has ever filmed.

A lot of people who've seen ghosts are believers. They may not have been believers before but they are then. I do agree that about 99% of ghost sightings can be explained by light tricks or ball busting but I know that what I saw wasn't easily explained away and the girl I was with saw it too, without my pointing it out to her. Could it have been something else? Yeah, but it sure didn't look that way to her or me.

Ok, now you're on my list too. Didn't you see where I wrote that members of the media are excluded from winning!!

Here's his career stats; http://www.nfl.com/players/corneliusbennet...ts?id=BEN311460

With that trade Polian locked up the two best linebackers in that draft. Conlan and Biscuit. For those who say Ralph is cheap the reason Buffalo was able to trade for him is that the Colts were having a hard time signing him and didn't want to pay him. This is a video of a 9/30/90 game against the Broncos. It begins with Biscuit blocking a kick and returning it for a TD. This video also shows a Leonard Smith interception TD. Leonard Smith was one of the best trades Polian ever made. ETA: wasn't Kenneth Davis a castoff from GB that Polian picked up off the waiver wire. I seem to recall that.

This site is hilarious: http://www.ghost-pictures.org/index.htm http://www.ghost-pictures.org/ghost-angel.htm http://www.ghost-pictures.org/bunny-girl-g...oween-party.htm http://www.ghost-pictures.org/strange-boot...oween-party.htm http://www.ghost-pictures.org/apparition-a...een-picture.htm http://www.ghost-pictures.org/possessed-gi...oween-party.htm http://www.ghost-pictures.org/bunny-girl-ghost-picture.htm

Not according to NFL.com. http://www.nfl.com/players/jairusbyrd/gamelogs?id=BYR449897

Dollars to donuts that's Paulie Walnuts doing the shooting.

That's creepy. Yes, everybody's experiences are just like yours. A site about Near Death Experiences: http://www.near-death.com/index.html "What's wrong with this picture" (a ghost debunking site) has a picture up that has a ghost barely visible in it. It was taken in Greenmount, PA just outside Gettysburg. They say that it's a trick of the light and shadows but I'm not so sure. Look in the right corner where the heating register is. To the left of the register there's a dog's bed. Look above that and unfocus your eyes like you're looking at one of those magic pictures with the 3d image hidden. It may take you a little time to see it. Try not to blink as much as possible. It took me about a minute but I can see a civil war soldier, gun on his back looking out the window as if waiting for someone. Supposedly this house was taken over as a Confederate safehouse for the battle of Gettysburg and the old couple who had just recently bought the house have reported a lot of strange things happening there. http://www.ripperd.com/ftp/admins/whatswrong.swf

Care to expand on that? A friend of mine who lived across the street had an uncle who worked at Lockheed. In the early 80's he told me they were working on an "invisible" airplane which I laughed at at the time. I think his uncle meant "invisible to radar". I've had a couple of my own experience and some related by a friend. My first one was when I was a freshman in college. A guy held a party at his house and behind the house was a farmers field. It was spring and the field had just been tilled and due to rains it was very muddy. This girl and I walked outside and I looked at the field. Off in the distance was a white light that looked like a bright white ghost digging in the field. The girl I was with grabbed my arm and pulled me close. (which didn't suck) I wanted to go out into the field but it was deeply muddy and with sneakers on I didn't want to go. I ran into the house and asked the host if he had binoculars and due to being drunk he had no inclination toward looking for them. I was stone cold sober because I was driving and to this day I'm sure I saw a ghost of some kind. The second was when I was leaving work one really cold winter night about 1am. I started my car and began to scrape it off. I noticed a red light like the lights on top of radio towers. I kept scraping and then I realized there was no radio tower out that way. I stopped and looked at it for awhile and a silhouette against the dark cloudy sky became apparent. It was a black triangular shaped craft with a red light at the center hovering silently about a half mile away over some houses. After awhile it began moving without a sound. I jumped into my car and tried to follow it but it went across the road where I couldn't follow it. If it was military it was far beyond anything we have today and this was about 12-15 years ago. Craft fitting this description had been reported over Europe for years before this. It didn't have the white lights on each corner and the center light was red but it looked sort of similar to A friend of mine worked in Webster Park as a park narc. There is an old insane asylum they use as a party house for rent. His job was to make sure everything was cleaned up after the renters left. He had to go inside to check everything out. After checking he'd turn out the lights and leave. He was always sure to push the switches down all the way. The next time he'd make his rounds or another time after that the lights would be back on and he'd have to turn them out. I used to hang with him some nights and shoot the with him. He took me into that house and showed me upstairs where someone had nailed a cross on the floor in a closet upstairs. It looked like it had been there for about 5-10 years and so probably didn't date back to when it was an asylum, it was very weird. There was another house that had recently been donated to the park and he said it was haunted too. So we went there and he wouldn't turn the lights off because he was We were looking up at the ceiling and the light flickered a little. "Did you see that!" he said. Thinking he was merely mentioning the light flicker I said yes. To this day he believes I saw a ghost like he thinks he did.

Have you ever used a Mac? Microsoft had to license Mac's GUI in order to make their computers usable to the masses. There would be no drag and drop and "windows" that were easily opened and closed. After Xerox invested in Apple they invited Apple design teams to look at their GUI computers. While Apple used some of the Alto's GUI they developed it into what Microsoft uses to this day. Apple is innovative. Microsoft sits back and licenses it afterward. Mac has always been ahead of the curve and if you don't know how much better Macs are then you obviously have never used one. I'd be using a Mac if I hadn't gotten this computer as a gift. Anyhoo, with all of the good reviews, so far, about Windows 7 I'll consider upgrading in a few months. My Concern is with some of the older programs I have working with the new version. Anybody know about issues with that?

Why the are you still here!!! Can't you take a hint Jackass!!

That is awesome!!! Here's an idea. Pop a Jiffy Pop. Rig it so it hovers over your head and go as balloon boy.

The complete articles can be found here: http://www.history.com/content/halloween/r...ay-s-traditions They're very short articles. The American tradition of "trick-or-treating" probably dates back to the early All Souls' Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called "soul cakes" in return for their promise to pray for the family's dead relatives. The distribution of soul cakes was encouraged by the church as a way to replace the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits. The practice, which was referred to as "going a-souling" was eventually taken up by children who would visit the houses in their neighborhood and be given ale, food, and money. ____________________________________ As European immigrants came to America, they brought their varied Halloween customs with them. Because of the rigid Protestant belief systems that characterized early New England, celebration of Halloween in colonial times was extremely limited there. It was much more common in Maryland and the southern colonies. As the beliefs and customs of different European ethnic groups, as well as the American Indians, meshed, a distinctly American version of Halloween began to emerge. The first celebrations included "play parties," public events held to celebrate the harvest, where neighbors would share stories of the dead, tell each other's fortunes, dance, and sing. Colonial Halloween festivities also featured the telling of ghost stories and mischief-making of all kinds. By the middle of the nineteenth century, annual autumn festivities were common, but Halloween was not yet celebrated everywhere in the country. __________________________________________________ The tradition of dressing in costume for Halloween has both European and Celtic roots. Hundreds of years ago, winter was an uncertain and frightening time. Food supplies often ran low and, for the many people afraid of the dark, the short days of winter were full of constant worry. On Halloween, when it was believed that ghosts came back to the earthly world, people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits. On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter. ____________________________________________________ Halloween, one of the world's oldest holidays, is still celebrated today in several countries around the globe. The autumn rite is commemorated in the United Kingdom, although with a surprising and distinctive British twist. In Mexico, Latin America, and Spain, All Souls' Day, the third day of the three-day Hallowmas observance, is the most important part of the celebration for many people. In Ireland and Canada, Halloween, which was once a frightening and superstitious time of year, is celebrated much as it is here in the United States, with trick-or-treating, costume parties, and fun for all ages. Paragraphs about: El Dia Del Los Muertos and Guy Fawkes Day can be found at the bottom link too. ___________________________________________________________________________ Today's Halloween ghosts are often depicted as more fearsome and malevolent, and our customs and superstitions are scarier too. We avoid crossing paths with black cats, afraid that they might bring us bad luck. This idea has its roots in the Middle Ages, when many people believed that witches avoided detection by turning themselves into cats. We try not to walk under ladders for the same reason. This superstition may have come from the ancient Egyptians, who believed that triangles were sacred; it also may have something to do with the fact that walking under a leaning ladder tends to be fairly unsafe. And around Halloween, especially, we try to avoid breaking mirrors, stepping on cracks in the road or spilling salt. ___________________________________________________________

There's an idiot born every minute. History Channel Email: October 30: General Interest 1938 : Welles scares nation Orson Welles causes a nationwide panic with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds"--a realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth. Orson Welles was only 23 years old when his Mercury Theater company decided to update H.G. Wells' 19th-century science fiction novel War of the Worlds for national radio. Despite his age, Welles had been in radio for several years, most notably as the voice of "The Shadow" in the hit mystery program of the same name. "War of the Worlds" was not planned as a radio hoax, and Welles had little idea of the havoc it would cause. The show began on Sunday, October 30, at 8 p.m. A voice announced: "The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the air in 'War of the Worlds' by H.G. Wells." Sunday evening in 1938 was prime-time in the golden age of radio, and millions of Americans had their radios turned on. But most of these Americans were listening to ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy "Charlie McCarthy" on NBC and only turned to CBS at 8:12 p.m. after the comedy sketch ended and a little-known singer went on. By then, the story of the Martian invasion was well underway. Welles introduced his radio play with a spoken introduction, followed by an announcer reading a weather report. Then, seemingly abandoning the storyline, the announcer took listeners to "the Meridian Room in the Hotel Park Plaza in downtown New York, where you will be entertained by the music of Ramon Raquello and his orchestra." Putrid dance music played for some time, and then the scare began. An announcer broke in to report that "Professor Farrell of the Mount Jenning Observatory" had detected explosions on the planet Mars. Then the dance music came back on, followed by another interruption in which listeners were informed that a large meteor had crashed into a farmer's field in Grovers Mills, New Jersey. Soon, an announcer was at the crash site describing a Martian emerging from a large metallic cylinder. "Good heavens," he declared, "something's wriggling out of the shadow like a gray snake. Now here's another and another one and another one. They look like tentacles to me ... I can see the thing's body now. It's large, large as a bear. It glistens like wet leather. But that face, it ...it ... ladies and gentlemen, it's indescribable. I can hardly force myself to keep looking at it, it's so awful. The eyes are black and gleam like a serpent. The mouth is kind of V-shaped with saliva dripping from its rimless lips that seem to quiver and pulsate." The Martians mounted walking war machines and fired "heat-ray" weapons at the puny humans gathered around the crash site. They annihilated a force of 7,000 National Guardsman, and after being attacked by artillery and bombers the Martians released a poisonous gas into the air. Soon "Martian cylinders" landed in Chicago and St. Louis. The radio play was extremely realistic, with Welles employing sophisticated sound effects and his actors doing an excellent job portraying terrified announcers and other characters. An announcer reported that widespread panic had broken out in the vicinity of the landing sites, with thousands desperately trying to flee. In fact, that was not far from the truth. Perhaps as many as a million radio listeners believed that a real Martian invasion was underway. Panic broke out across the country. In New Jersey, terrified civilians jammed highways seeking to escape the alien marauders. People begged police for gas masks to save them from the toxic gas and asked electric companies to turn off the power so that the Martians wouldn't see their lights. One woman ran into an Indianapolis church where evening services were being held and yelled, "New York has been destroyed! It's the end of the world! Go home and prepare to die!" When news of the real-life panic leaked into the CBS studio, Welles went on the air as himself to remind listeners that it was just fiction. There were rumors that the show caused suicides, but none were ever confirmed. The Federal Communications Commission investigated the program but found no law was broken. Networks did agree to be more cautious in their programming in the future. Orson Welles feared that the controversy generated by "War of the Worlds" would ruin his career. In fact, the publicity helped land him a contract with a Hollywood studio, and in 1941 he directed, wrote, produced, and starred in Citizen Kane--a movie that many have called the greatest American film ever made.

And your guess is.....

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/10/29/iowa.m...uise/index.html Cayler said he's been fielding calls about the case from news media outlets from all over the country -- mostly because of their funny-looking mug shots. "I've been chief here almost 25 years, been with the department 28½ years and I've seen a lot of things that make me laugh and weird things but this was probably the best combination of the two -- strangely weird and hilariously funny all at the same time."

Worse than the "last post wins" thread?

I think Schaub is the best QB he'll have faced since Brees and he didn't have any interceptions against him. His interceptions have all come from the Cleveland, Miami and Carolina games. If he can make more than one interception this week then I'll believe he deserves a pro bowl invite this year. I hope I'm wrong and he grabs more than one.

WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STILL HERE!!!!!

From the article; “I’ve just been blessed with ball skills,” said Byrd. “It helps, but really the veterans and the other 10 guys on the field with me have made my job a lot easier, with the pass rush we’ve had and the veterans and how they’ve helped me prepare for the games and even during the games they’ll tell me what to look for. A lot of credit goes to them.” Gotta love the kid!