Guffalo

We are gutting the bathroom at the cottage, should be done by mid/late afternoon..... staying in Buffalo and going to Chippewa after an airport run for KJ and Randy. I hear they off 2 for 1 splits for Happy hour at Platinums

Will this freind be introduced to Western New York's cultural highlights? We will be ariving either late Friday or early saturday, perhaps have a beer or two somewhere over the border after clearing customs.....

Does he look like Burgess Meredith, and wear old school gray sweats and converse Chuck Taylors. Raspy voice and mutters alot when the looking through his bags?

It pains me to see that God awful logo as a representation of our proud franchise. It has been discussed ad nauseum here and in other forums, but as have most people stated, I refuse to buy my daughter anything with that logo, it is such a shame that she became hooked on Buffalo hockey this spring. I will be looking to buy anything without that logo when I get up there next week.

Perhaps I can convince Pat and Kell to go....what do you think the chances are?

Is that what they are calling them these days?

I will never forget that day, I posted the experiences of my day after I woke up the following day. I couldnt find it in the archives, but someone sent it to me this morning with a note. I still go through the names of the people I know who were lost that day, one guy I had golfed with on the Monday after the Bills game. Here is what I had written on the morning of the 12th: I almost feel ashamed looking at this board, since football is far from my mind right now, but my home page is TBD... When I was on my way to work yesterday, I was on the #1 express from Penn down to WTC, at 14th a couple got on and said they saw a plane hit the trade center, I figured it was a light plane, and continued on. There was an announcement by the conductor that said "Due to a fire at WTC there will be no service to Cortland ave (in the wtc), I got out at chambers street and started walking..as I turned around to face the north tower I saw people just string up in awe..there was a hole in the tower with smoke and flames, I asked some guy what happened and he said, he saw the plane go in.. and then he said 15 minutes later the other tower exploded.. (we were on the north side so he didn't see the 2nd plane , only the impact) I tried my cell phone (no good) so I tried to find a pay phone , I thought of my wife wondering if I was in there, and just the worry that the rest of the family would have when they heard..I was able to get through to her voice mail, and then I called our office on 36th st ( I am a consultant assigned to 4 WTC since last September). The office wanted me to try to locate another employee, and we started using my cell phone with the two way radio feature. I started looping around to the east of the buildings, trying to find my co-worker, as I walked near the post office, I saw debris and broken concrete, small puddles of blood, shoes ,lots of shoes and I picked up a warm hunk of metal ( I have no idea why) it was almost hot and it was heavy and it was oily or greasy... I dropped it when I saw a wheel or turbine that was 20 feet away, high density aluminum about 6 feet wide.... Using my radio to my boss, I kept chatter back and forth and kept moving towards where I figured Marcia would be (we went through the bombing in 93 and had always said, head for the water by the Seaport). Police were busy on Church so I moved to Broadway by J&R Music and continued the radio chatter with my boss, he said Marcia had not checked in yet, keep looking, he also told me he saw video of the 2nd plane as it went in, he said it had been hijacked as well as the first one, he also told be about the Pentagon being hit. I had worked my way to Nassau street, a pedestrian mall about 3 blocks east of the towers. My radio was quirky, sometimes the frequency was jammed, sometimes you could get through, so I told my boss I was going to keep it on once I get a signal. As I was walking up Nassau I left the center of the street and stayed along the storefronts, I was talking to Doug and he heard me say "Oh @#$%^! something's happening, oh my God something went off", and he could hear the rumbling as the first tower went down, I felt a shock wave and wind rush as I ducked into a doorway (from the narrow street you could not see the tower) I knew that one of them had fallen and I assumed it had toppled over like a domino, not the gentle slide that I saw later. The dust and debris cloud came next as I peered out of the doorway the cloud came east towards the Nassau area, I started sprinting north and got one block, as I looked over my left shoulder I saw a huge cloud of debris/dust coming our way, as we ran I saw a woman fall, someone slowed down to help and they were trampled ( I know I should have stopped, but I was thinking about wife, kids etc, and she went down pretty hard) As I rounded the corner near Beekman Hospital emergency personnel were waving us away I zigged through the waiting stretchers, and headed to the Seaport, I slowed down to catch my breath.... The smoke/debris cloud was covering us with something that was making me choke and burning my eyes, it looked like snow... I started towards the Brooklyn Bridge, but I was afraid that if the other tower went it may drop towards us, so I started to go towards Chinatown. As I was walking I remembered my radio.. the (last transmission I sent was Oh my God and the rumbling in the background) when I finally got through my boss was excited, he thought I was a goner. A woman stopped be and asked to borrow the phone, I told her there were no calls in or out, she then started wandering back towards the site and I stopped her and asked what she was doing, "I have to get my pocketbook" I said that would not be a great idea, and I asked her where she lives, we were going the same way and started walking together, we saw a cab (empty) so we got in and the driver said "I'm only going north" (well hello....that was an understatement, who the hell wants to go back there!!!) In the cab, Doug (boss) confirmed that the tower had fallen, we looked back and saw the new skyline with just one tower standing up. A short time later Doug asked where we were, I told him in a cab, and he told us the second tower just went down, we looked out the back window of the cab as the debris and smoke filled the air in the distance. We were up to the village, and I saw the Empire State building looming in the distance.. I told the driver to stop and let me out, the girl (Valerie) said why get out now??? I pointed to the building/target and said"what would be the next landmark to get hit?? I got out and gave the girl some money for the cab , she insisted on paying me back and made me give her my card ( amazing at a time like this the etiquette thing still remains in some people). I started west to avoid the Empire State Building and went around it to get to our office located 2 blocks north of the ESB. I got upstairs and changed, called the wife ( she heard my voice cracking on the messages and she cried every time she heard news of my progress) We watched the news as others straggled in (Marcia had gotten up there too). Once they opened the Long Island Rail Road, I left and got on and headed home.. I never figured out whose shoes those were.. I am home now, and I suggest the following: Don't complain about doing your kids homework. Say I love you whenever possible Try to keep in touch with your loved ones, Whatever you think is very important today, may seem like a pimple on the ass of an elephant tomorrow. God Bless us all Guff

Because Paris Hilton is in detox the paparazzi need something to wag their tongues over.

Wow, she just had a baby and now her older son dies link

Isn't that her pet nickname for her..umm....ya know.....

Reminiscing about your last date?

Speechless......

Very hot, almost as good as the Philadelphi schools Philly cheerleaders

Here is another for St. Bruschi lovers moulds/bruschi

Anyone looking for a test drive will surely see past the grill, once you get in, you can feel the upolstery sagging and bunching in places. When you turn it over you can hear the groans and creaks as she comes to life, once she is warmed up though, not a bad ride.

True, if it gets too worked up, leaks all over the floor.

yeah, but the tailpipe is all rusted out, kind of kicks out some bad emmissions, the front end wobbles when you go too fast, the rear end sways way too much in the curves, but it's still a classic.

Please excuse me while I scrub my eyes with bleach and a wire brush.

Happy Birthday AD, May the blubber you chew be plentiful, may the herds grace your territories, may your harpoon always find it's target. “May you have warmth in your igloo, oil in your lamp, and peace in your heart”

That's been done, send a body part in a plastic bag.

Only half of them

I am speechless, why would I bother to go to any more? no more strippers at funerals

Ok fine and good............but what's their 40 times like?

Robin Williams in Birdcage.

Ok I sent in another: I understand your enthusiasm in discussing Marshall Faulk as the first of the all around running back. Possessing the blocking, pass catching and running skills that can carry a team, however I think you may be short sighted in you coronation of Faulk as the first to do these things efficiently. Once upon a time, there was a back called Roger Craig who played for the 49ers well before the franchise sunk to its current mess. The west coast offense which was brought to San Francisco from Cincinnati by a coach named Bill Walsh, used this back as a double threat as receiver and running back. He also had the ability to pick up blitz coverage and was an asset to the passing game when blocking. After Roger Craig, a more finely tuned back, Thurman Thomas, played for the Buffalo Bills. He led the league in yards from scrimmage for 5 years straight. His pass catching ability was unsurpassed by any running backs in his era, and his ball running style was solid and punishing. He was one of the main components in propelling the Bills to 4 Super Bowl appearances in the 90's. The evolution of the all purpose running back did not start with Marshall Faulk, reach back to the previous two decades and you will find the genesis of that type of running back.