This thread is like the Hydra- while I was slogging through the first 19 pages, 3 more pages popped up! Amazing.
OK. Carry on if you must. Enjoy.
I am off right now to manipulate the tech guy at our office, and beg and plead for use of our digital camera, so that I can post what I bought.
Cross your fingers, pinkos!
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by dogchushu:
As for the balls we used, they were brutal. They were those horrid, reddish-marroon, rubber monstrousities that had some sort of texture to make them hurt even more. And they were always overinflated so they were rock hard.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Ugh…I was totally picturing those EXACT same balls when I read this thread. I distinctly remember playing once, and I caught the ball right at my chest. This was in about 6th grade, and one of the boys said something like “no wonder she’s so flat chested!” 
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I was so hoping for a good debate.And although I know that you re more than capable of it,heidi ,I just can’t see us differing on enough points to make it worth while.
All that these fine conservatives out there in cyber land seem capable of doing is posting the equivalent of the following:
Poster 1: Liberals are responsible for all the ills of America. They suck.
Poster 2: And they’re preventing me from obtaining my fair share of the pie! They suck.
Poster 3:I agree. Liberals suck. You can move to my state, Poster 1 and 2!
Where’s the reasoned discourse in that exchange?
Sheesh, I’m disappointed in y’all.
Access to the internet = $20.00/per month
Time spent reading this board = (too much to want to total)
Reading jl call suzy, “You frying pan welding harpy?” = Priceless! 
It’s all about ME, ME, ME!!! (The only signature worthy of a real DQ.)
Hobson, don’t make assumptions as to my opinions based on whatever bizarre spin you choose to put on my words. I can’t even imagine how you interpreted my post to be in support of corporate thievery, and, frankly, I don’t care. Just don’t do it.
Sheesh!
For hobson;
I think that Thomas Jefferson was a man of his time. He was very interested in the development of the constitution and undoubtedly a great intellect. He inherited slaves from his father. Clearly he was conflicted about the concept, but he had the chance to free them and didn’t. Slavery was a hotly debated topic in those times and was accepted (over the objections of many)to hold the colonies together. You might even say they were being politically correct 
None of us are saints, but that doesn’t make us vile. There is a lot of room between sainthood and scum. Most of us probably fit somewhere in there. Those who don’t know and understand the mistakes of the past (ie history) are doomed to repeat them. That is what makes the study of history necessary.
MHM regarding Hercules and the Hydra:
Because Hercules got Iolaus to help him by stauching the blood to prevent the growth of new heads when each of the old ones was cut off, the hero was not credited with having succeeded in this labour. Sorry, I have been on a mythology binge lately.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by DMK:
as opposed to one stroke to the left<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
one missed stroke is all you need
I thought PCers and evil execs fit in the paving for both roads. 
They all seem to start out with good intentions and be decent people and then become corrupted by their own rhetoric.
It’s all about ME, ME, ME!!! (The only signature worthy of a real DQ.)
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by FaithOnParade:
So says Heidi, reigning queen o’ the mountain and goats:<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Let’s just pick on hobson and her penchant for shaving in the river. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Hobson shaves? 
My Poppa told me her kind grow all their body hair to braid with begonias and flee to Canada in wartime? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Yeah, thanks a lot. I’m going to hold both of you personally responsible for the loss of my already delicate self-esteem.
I should have put “respectivly” after my listing of things the two have you have said. Then maybe you’d have understood what I was saying. My deepest and most sincere apologies for confusing or misleading you in any way.
And you still haven’t answered my question.
“I ain’t got a dime but what I got is mine; I ain’t rich, but Lord, I’m free.”
But he did predict the failure of the Soviet state with his insistence that you have to go through a full phase of industrial capitalism before you can get to a workable communist state. The Soviets skipped a bunch of steps, and it ultimately didn’t work out so well.
My point being? Your guess is as good as mine.
God, I need something more productive to do tonight. Off to the bar, then.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hobson:
So, DMK would then be Sisyphus, ever laboring up the mountain with her burden of trying to make us all understand the arcane minutiae of Medicare, Medicaid, Insurance Financing, and Health Care For All. Each time she thinks she’s reached the top, Snowbird posts about mules and DMK tumbles back down with her logical progression of facts and figures.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
giggle snort - and that was just for the Health Care For All pun (even if there are only 2 people reading this who got it ) But are you SURE you didn’t mean Cheap Medical Services? I understand there has been a sea change…
Oh yes, and I wholeheartedly endorse DMIs for yd!!!
[I]“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Albert Einstein (1878-1955)[/I]
and you know who you are!!!
OK, I typed about my numping hurriedly in the moments before another department head arrived to meet with me about a recruitment project. I will admit that at some point during our meeting I snuck a look at this thread and almost bust a gut when I realized what had happened. Had to REALLY work to control my smirk for another hour and a half! God that hurt!
THEN I had to go straight from there to a stupid tedious “voluntary” dinner with the newish provost and the other dept heads of my college, 2 days after he fired our dean. “Numping” kept flying through my head at inopportune times, like when the provost was droning on about bla bla bla accountability bla bla excellence bla bla external funding bla bla. Then I’d see those Peeps socks and nearly lose it.
You all better duck! (So to speak!)
As long as the natural superiority of the Morgan is recognized, the others should be judged on a strictly PC basis.
In fact, if 5 horses clear the jumps and one crashes the course into splinters, the crasher should win the class lest his self-esteem be damaged.
Didn’t the teachers say anything if they saw one kid being tortured?
At least the kids ganging up were working as a team! Just kidding.
Regardless of anyones feelings about dodgeball (honestly not a huge fan, myself), I really don’t see how it could be that much worse than the kid who gets tackled by a mob while playing football. I really don’t remember being that fragile that any of these things wrecked my self esteem. I suspect general teasing demoralizes kids a lot more. How ya gonna ban that?
Sports competition at least gives them a chance to practice and come back to kick some butt!
Fat Appy, kindly watch your language. This is a PG-rated board. Putting in an asterisk here or there does not make it PG.
I’ll be doing a bit of editing to make you sound a little less gutter-mouthed.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hobson:
I most certainly am not. Come on, jl, how could I make this up? It was in the international news last week. As in, no other nation’s journalists could quite comprehend not getting the phone when Nelson Mandela calls.
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Hobson, Dubya really couldn’t talk to Mandela at the time.
He had a mouth full of pretzels.
Unashamed member of the Arab clique…just settin’ on the Group W bench.
<BLOCKQUOTE class=“ip-ubbcode-quote”><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by hobson:
Other favorite moment was when Mr Hobson, who is not from the US, listened to a rant… He insisted it was a comedy spoof of neofascist politics.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
It’s NOT??? I was so sure I had the guy figured out! Next, you’ll be deconstructing the Easter Bunny, won’t you??
Today was primary election day. I am registered as unaffiliated, so I can choose my primary party.
I cast my vote based solely on the race of the candidate and for no other reason. Well, I did think they were the best candidate, but I would not have voted for them had they been a different ‘color’.
Man, I can smell the rubber of those DMI’s.
Just because you’re not paranoid, doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
