Terry Tate

It's 1977, and a young AD is ready to go out trick-or-treating dressed as Gene Simmons, with the face-paint, high heeled boots, electric guitar and a wig covering his mullet. The neighbors all agree that kid ain't right. You know you're getting old when the music you're naming here was also available on 8-track when it was released.

I hear more about Air America on this board than any media outlet. Including the programming itself, which I've never listened to. Oh, I did see the HBO documentary, though. I thought it was funny, but not in any way that would be appreciated by its' supporters.

Well done.

My mind doesn't allow for such nonsense, but that perfectly sums up where my heart lies - every year. Of course, my heart would have me out buying lottery tickets before each drawing, too.

I saw Blue Oyster Cult at War Memorial Auditorium for $8.00.

Focus - Hocus Pocus. You can't go wrong with great guitar riffs, yodeling and blood curdling screams.

Well, if you're going to have imaginary girlfriends, might as well pretend they're really "hot". Sorry, it was just begging for that. Please don't tell your Mom. OK, I'll stop now. I think the stereotypes are funny because I'm a science-fiction fan, computer geek, and some of the best laughs I have are at my own expense.

As an actual parent, I can speak from experience in saying that I've disciplined my children in public, and no one called the cops or attempted to intervene in any way. But if I see someone administering a beating on a child, I may kick their @$$ myself, depending upon the circumstances.

You got that right. The other side of it is my children also get rewarded for reports of good behavior, even though they understand that it is a non-negotiable expectation of mine. I'd be happy to have your kids in my kids' classes anytime.

Whatever TD does today, it'll be a suprise to me. Picture a dog you fool into thinking you actually threw the ball. On the upside, the dog's still pretty happy about playing, and so am I. Hope everyone has a great day. I'll check back later tonight to see who melted down, and who is predicting a championship.

That's priceless.

Best wishes, TH. That sentiment does not extend to whatever team you end up on.

I'd put the Tivo on pause, and start drinking Jack Daniels straight out of the bottle. I'll take it back off pause when the bottle's empty.

Speaking as a former servicemember, FU too. People who do not support the war, but support the troops - next time you find yourself in an argument about your integrity on those two stances, you can thank the idiots who make retarded statements like the one above for enforcing the stereotype.

I can do this. I'm going to need the following: A few white candles A Bowl made of Pottery, Wood or Stone Roundtrip plane ticket Orlando-Buffalo-Orlando Rental car Soil from the site Case of beer - chilled 2 incence sticks 1 Dozen chicken wings - medium Large Pepperoni Pizza A roll of paper towels Carton of cigs I think I can take it from there.

BTW, June 1980 - June 1983 Major / Lt Col Peter Pace was Commanding Officer, Marine Corps Recruiting Station, Buffalo, N. Y. From a June 4, 2002 DoD press briefing: Pace: From the president to the secretary to -- so that, what I'm trying to get to, is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the vice chairman are not in that chain of command. And we are here to give our best military advice. And we listen to the data that comes in from the commanders in the field and we digest that based on our experience, and we make our recommendations to the secretary and he takes that and puts that into his body of knowledge and makes his own decision of what's going to happen. Q: And your recommendation was? Pace: Great -- it was a great recommendation. (Laughter.)

Cool! Detroit, rock city! Road trip! But if you see a teenage girl walking along the side of the highway, don't pick her up. I mean, they, they, they make scary movies that start out like that.

Sounds like you have it under control. Hope the seller is cool-headed also. Best of luck.

Well, I was going to help my brother drop a new engine in a truck he just bought, but we'll be going to a memorial service instead. Wouldn't have watched the draft anyway. Don't know squat about college players; I plan on checking in here afterwards to see what people who do know them think.

You're going to keep him awake all night with stuff like that. I think what he means is don't get too emotionally involved in the transaction. Negotiating can be stressful for many people (this is why there are Saturn car dealerships), and getting your emotions involved makes people do silly things. For example, I just came to agreement to buy a house on Tuesday. I made my offer on Monday, giving the seller 24hrs to respond. Got a call from my agent Tuesday morning, all conditions acceptable except price - seller made a counteroffer coming down off his price, but not all the way down to mine. I immediately made a counteroffer a little higher than my last; got a call back 30 minutes later - seller made a counteroffer a little lower than his last, saying that was his bottom price. My wife gets angry, saying that's it - tell him we don't want it then. I had to laugh - at this point his last counteroffer split the middle between his original list, and my first offer, and was exactly where I told my wife was fair market value for the house, and I got him to come down about $5000 in a seller's market, but my wife is mad because he doesn't accept our last counteroffer. I calmed her down, we signed a contract; closing date in a few weeks, but we may move it up. I once made an offer on a house, I honestly was within fair market value, P.O.'ed the seller so much he made a counter-offer above his original list price. I laughed, and kept looking, found another house to buy. Guess who's house sat on the market for months and months? It used to bring a smile on my face to see his for sale sign from my house on the hillside property overlooking his. Hope it was worth it to wait a year for that few thousand dollars. I've heard of people walking away from deals in the mid-150's for a item that costs about $300. You don't neeeed this house. If the deal doesn't make sense, there'll be one that does in pretty short order.

That's not what my personal psychic told me.

That's where I played last time I was in Buffalo. Not a bad place. It's not in any way like the Buffalo pool halls my older brothers would take me to when I was a kid - the big fat guy at the door enforced the rules (no drinks, cigs or butts on the table, no masse shots) and I don't know what he would actually do, but he scared the hell out of me. Or in my barfly days in GI boomtown bars I used to frequent where if you weren't the shark, you were the mark. Little fishies would do better to step back to the bar to find some female company. You better assume anyone you met was armed with something, and the weekend always brought trouble. Good times!

39% (Yankee). You are definitely a Yankee.

Congrats! Have fun with the rest of the g-kids. Teach that 10 year-old to change diapers and keep Grandpa supplied with cold beverages.

I believe I read a TD quote in a interview or chat somewhere that he believes (and so do many others) that the lack of sure-fire stars in this draft results in the best deals in terms of players' abilities vs their cost being in the pick #20-40 range. I expect if he makes any moves at all it will be to get in this range.