A Winnipeg physician (84 year old) arranged for someone trying to con him into coming to Winnipeg where the con man was arrested.  Sadly he had already “invested” a fair bit of money into the scheme . . . .

I’ll tell you what’s lame:  when a show has a scene that is intended to be funny, and thus includes a laugh track, but I’m watching it and sitting there saying “What the f*ck?  Did I MISS something?”

Yeah, it seems in that case like the producers, or whatever powers that be, are trying to influence me to put more stock into their show, and I happen to like my free-will, thank you.

Hey, I see irony.  My post about boredom turns into a decent thread.  Way to go.  :evil:

Ya know, I believe that CC, Dezrt and me are the oldest members here. That are still regular posters that is.

shitt fellas, the pitcher was on my fantasy team. its hard to compensate for I think 17 er’s in one start… :cry:

@AJ:

Two leagues seems a little much …

How about a tournament first, then a league then?  We can always get rid of the vanilla league if it’s too much work. :)

I wouldn’t mind not paying taxes, because I am basically paying my own salary.  :-P

But thankfully i don’t gotta pay in a combat zone, and I get combat pay. :mrgreen:

Two words:  Alberto Gonzales  :lol:

@M36:

I prefer wearing no clothes

Talk about psychological warfare…  :-o

@cystic:

Homer - trying to get Krusty to start a new pants-burning trend in his new anti-establishment persona.

Dammit!!!  How did I not know!
There’s just too much Simpsons to quote and remember…

@balungaloaf:

monty python and the holy grail……the life of brian…meaning of life…yellow beard…jaberwocky…all classic, in order of best to worst.

Professor Rape!  Professor Death!

A couple of other experiences that will give you some “pucker factor”…

Side-seating in a T-41 Mescalero when Air Traffic Control screws up and sends a Boeing 767 into your flight path at your altitude (I had the yoke in my crotch as the Major I was sitting next to ripped it back… I was close enough to see the passengers in the windows of the 767…

Nav Training in a Boeing T-43A and watching the Colorado landscape go by on ground radar, and hearing from the T-43 in front of us that there was a T-41 180 degrees our heading and 300 hundred feet below us… then seeing a green swath fill half of the ground radar as that T-41 passed beneath us close enough to block almost all of the radar…

Commercial Flight Denver to Pittsburgh on US Air, watching rivets come out of the wing in flight… (you don;t actually see the rivet come out, you just see the skin vibrating with the rivet loose, and then there is no rivet…)

Juden Raus!  Geek entry:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/11102

I wanna move to Russia now! 8-)

Karma is limited, I think IL explained it in the Web discussion forum.

i neglected my pictures for a while.

i wonder if all russian soldiers are this goofy.

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Yeah, sopapillas (I think that’s how they are spelled) are easy and very good.  But you need to fry em to get it perfect.

News Flash…

My job is to ENCOURAGE people to come see the site, and to participate, and to also click those banner adds for nice things like games that are in the top corner of your screen (please take a moment to tip your waiter or waitress…)

And part of that promotion of traffic is to run Tournaments.  I oversee 2 Tournaments a year, and I do my best to encourage participation in them (I did REALLY well this Spring, not so good this fall) so that people will join the site and be active here (and click the banner ads… please take a moment to tip your waiter or waitress).

So while I PERSONALLY would have removed JSP and U-505 from the Tournament after probably the second smart ass response, that is NOT in keeping with my assigned job of promoting site participation and getting people to click the banner ads (please take a moment to tip your waiter or waitress).

So I am far more patient with most folks as a Moderator than I EVER would be as a person (and that includes pretty much every conflict or dispute to which i have ever been a party to on this site).

So… please take a moment to tip your waiter and waitress.  And while you do so, think of all the posts that I have deleted unsent in the interest of promoting activity on the site.

Hey cool, I know a guy who works at Ballard (which will be making the fuel cells)

Zero-emission is not entirely accurate. You have to consider the source of the energy used to charge the fuel cells. It’d be pretty ironic if they’re using coal-fired power plants in BC…

The Boards have been upgraded…

GG Out

I’d have to say anti-hero.  Honorable cause, less than honorable method.  At least he didn’t aim to kill, and it’s not like most build their wealth on innocence…
I would have voted for bird headgear as well.  :lol:

@ncscswitch:

“Unlike some other Robin Hoods, I speak with an English Accent”

:mrgreen:

Love that movie, and just about everything Mel Brooks does.  I had great fun showing Cary Elwes in a funny role to a girlfriend that adored him in “The Princess Bride.”  She never knew that movie existed.  Nowadays you could scare her by showing a contemporary picture of Westley.

“I pray that your first child be a masculine child.”

@ncscswitch:

And it was back before Dave Chappel had to say “b****” every other word in an effort to be funny.

Yeah, but he is funny still.  It’s just what people want I suppose.  I’ve been a fan since Men in Tights, but apparently not enough because I confused his name with the French photographer Dave LaChappelle.