HopsGuy

In two weeks, MADE IN AMERICA is profiling Alcas (maker of CutCo and K-Bar knives) in Olean. They filmed the piece back in the fall. It should be on Tuesday April 19th at 9 or 10 PM. They did Zippo a while ago, so the Southern Tier/Northern PA area is getting good play.

My friends have the beer concession at Darien Lake, so they get good tickets to concerts. A couple of years ago, they were in the handicapped section for Tom Petty and a guy wheeled his way in there. He asked my buddy if he could get in front so he could have a view of the show. About a minute into the fist song, the dude blazed up a bowl. A couple songs later, he stood up. My friend aksed, Did you get that bud from Benny Hinn?" The guy just shrugged and went on enjoying the show.

Frank Perdue's chicken slogan, "it takes a strong man to make a tender chicken" was translated into Spanish as "it takes an aroused man to make a chicken affectionate."

Wilt claimed 20,000 in his biography. A couple of years later at a party, the late Dick Schaap introduced Wilt to another old guy and said, "Between the 3 of us, we've been with 20,002 women." Wilt replied, "Dick, that book came out 2 years ago."

If I'm at the tailgate this year, I hope she's there. While shaking her hand, I'll turn to you and let out a healthy Ric Flair "Wooo!". Then I'll high-tail it out of there. Rockpile doesn't like me around his daughter.

Awww... that's cute.

I'm making a list of the most important things in the world: 1) Money 2) Pu$$y Men use #1 to obtain #2. Women use #2 to obtain #1. What's #3?

I was confirmed by the good Bishop. He was one big dude.

You send the Turk. "Father, coach wants to see you. And bring your stole."

This is some of the best advice in the thread. People that treat everyone "the same" are doomed. It's like an offensive coordinator that uses his pet schemes no matter who he has for personnel (think Dan Henning 1997). 1. Golden Rule; Dignity and respect go far. 2. Do what you say you're going to do. Everything else is cream cheese.

Bingo. That you, Officer Joe?

The first time I ever went to the races was the 1999 Breeder's Cup at Gulfstream. I was all set to bet Cat Thief in the Classic, but I stopped at the beer line. Of course the people I started talking to were from Rochester. They talked me into another horse. I've been to Wrigley, and I'm going again this year. That's a must see for all baseball fans.

My neighbor growing up was the typical storybook pr!ck. He would take the baseball, football, whiffleball that landed in his yard. Always yelling at me and my friends for breathing his air. A real old bastage. One day when I was 13, I came home from school to see my other neighbor shoveling my driveway. I asked her (60 year old lady) what she was doing. It turns out that her boyfriend had plowed our driveway, but the old bastage came out and shoveled the snow back into the driveway. He claimed that it would melt and run into his basement. She caught him doing it and cursed him back indoors. That night, I got out my trusty Crossman and put one into each one of his basement windows. That way some water would definitely get into his precious basement. A week later, a cop came into my dad's store where I was working. He read me my rights and asked me if I had done this crime. I lied and lied and lied. Then I lied some more. My dad was watching the whole time. Later that week, the juvenile officer (my friend's dad) came by the house and questioned me some more. I stone walled him, too. He showed me some forensic evidence (the BBs found at the scene matched the BBs in my gun). I pointed out that there were only two BB manufacturers in the US at the time, so there was a 50-50 chance anyway. They said that the BBs came from our driveway and that he knew about the disagreements we've had with the neighbor. Motive, means, opportunity. Slam dunk, right? I kept up the Sitting Bull routine, and nothing ever came of it. Cut to my folks living room 9 years later in another town. My dad says, "I read in the hometown paper that so-and-so (the bastage neighbor) died." I look at my dad and said, "Yeah? Good." He cocks his head sideways and asks, "Did you shoot out those windows?" A smile creeps across my face, "You're goddamn right, I did." Dad says, "Okay. I won't tell your mother." Questioned? Yes. Arrested? No. Convicted? No.

I get the market holidays, I'm off today. This year there was no holiday for New Year's Day, so we only get 8 holidays (MLK, P-day, Good Fri, Mem, 7/4, Labor, T-giving, X-Mas). I've been here for 5+ years, so I get 15 vacation days. I have no idea what I'm going to do with them, but they won't go to waste. Of course, I'm trapped at home because I'm waiting for the charity truck to come and pick up a couch that I'm donating.

I seem to recall that Totten threw a touchdown pass in the first strike game against Indy. I think Dan Manucci started that game. Totten started the game against NE the following week. McClure crossed the picket line to play against the Giants.

Not who I was thinking of. Did MK have big college stats? I was thinking of Brian McClure: November 23, 1985 Bowling Green's Brian McClure becomes the second player in NCAA Division I-A history to pass for more than 10,000 career yards as he completes 31 of 49 passes for 479 yards and three TDs in a 38-17 win at Ohio which caps Bowling Green's perfect 11-0 regular season. He was the starter for the Bills in the strike game against the Giants. Marv Levy said in his book that it might have been the worst game ever played in the history of the NFL. McClure spent most of the game running from Lawrence Taylor.

Trivia: The Bills once had a QB with huge NCAA numbers. He won a game and then was cut the following season. Anyone?

You never made homemade ice cream? What's this world coming to? The quick physics lesson is that it takes quite a bit of energy to heat water 10 degrees C if in that span you are changing the state from solid to liquid (calories to heat water from -5 C to 5 C > calories to heat water from 5 C to 15 C). Remember those distillation charts with the temperature plateaus from Physical Science class? That energy is taken from the surrounding environment (i.e your beer). It helps to stir up the ice/salt mixture. I learned this stuff on Bill Nye's show.

I blew out my left ACL in a pick-up basketball game in college. Reconstruction was recommended, but if I did that I would have lost my ROTC scholarship. So I gutted it out for 3 years with a brace for sports. I didn't have the $ or time to get it done and the brace was working fine. 4 years ago the right ACL went in a softball game, so that was it for sports for me until. That is, until I met a guy in my alumni group that works for a company that makes knee braces. He hooked me up with two spanking new braces and I signed up for softball again. 20 minutes into my first practice, I broke my pinkie finger on my glove hand (no idea what happened). That's it. The gods don't want me between the lines.

Have you seen any of the championship darts programming on Fox Sports Net? The guys are awesome, but the commentators and PA announcers are a bit too excited.

Very interesting read. It's rare that a journalist gives an objective view of his profession. It's truly a different hand that feeds the media now.

The Italians have St. Joesph's on Saturday (19th). And there's Columbus Day in October, too. The Poles have Dingus Day (Monday after Easter). I don't celebrate them, but I hardly think them to be useless. Now, Cinco de Mayo is another story.... Tequilã!

So then, you might disagree with todd? Congrats on your anniversary. Have a great day!

There was a great line on the Simpsons a few years back. Kent Brockman (news anchor) said, "Today is St. Patrick's Day; the day when everyone is Irish except for the gays and the Italians." -Hops (Half Irish, but it's the good half)

Go old school. Tim Horton #2 Mike Foligno #17 Danny Gare # 18 Lindy Ruff #22