nonprophet

Yep, it's a BJ's brewery restaurant now. It's been misery for the LA Bills Backers ever since. Gitana, Geppetto's, Timmy Nolan's, Q's and now Moose McGillicuddy's. We keep getting evicted for one reason or another.

Well... The LA Bills Backers DID meet there temporarily, after the bar we were going to transformed into a disco, but they put us upstairs which is 'O' shaped so everyone had to sit along the walls and crane their necks to catch sight of a small-screen TV. After that we started going to Q's in Pasadena which had a lot of floor space and a projection television screen. Now it's transforming into a Barney's Beanery and will be closed for the season during renovation. Oh well... Moose McGillicuddy's only has room for about 35 people, and no projection screen. While it was probably fine for Bills fans bleeding over from Q's to find a better seat, which is only two doors down, it's probably just not big enough. I'm probably going to check out Hollywood Billiards instead.

It's hard to hate a team as successful as the Patriots, but their troglodytic fans make it easy.

Do you think he's going to make it into the hall of fame? Unlike most players, his having played on so many teams may actually help his chances.

NFL coaching staffs are a lot like political office staffs; just a bunch of cronies that the top dog has known for years. They may be qualified for their positions but more than likely they're not.

Man, these journalists are GOOD!

When I was in the Marine Corps from 94-98, we pronounced MRE as "Mr. E". My battalion managed to acquire the oldest MREs in existence; the M&M packets featured promotional artwork from the 1988 Olympics and the chocolate in the M&Ms and Mars bars had degraded into cocoa powder by the time we got to them. We looked forward to training at Army installations because we knew we'd be getting more modern i.e. better tasting MREs there. It was also fun to discover how many varieties that we'd been eating hadn't been manufactured for many years; the Army personnel we talked to hadn't heard of several of them. The cheese spread seemed funky the first time I ate it, but you start to crave it after awhile. Eating MREs for every meal leads to severe constipation; they should have included Preparation-H.

Notice that Lauvale Sape is still on the roster. Maybe they plan to use him as a DE as well? Did anyone see Sape getting any reps at DE in training camp?

Not that there's anything wrong with that...

They consider evolution to be a wacky theory as well.

Wasn't Tom Modrak the Eagles' GM when McNabb was drafted?

What else would you expect from a team named after a gang in a Broadway musical?

Setting the film in the US is apt for the US is the only superpower in the world today just as Britain was the only superpower in the world at the time that Wells wrote the novel. In both the novel and the movie, resistance to the invaders was largely futile despite the size and sophistication of the available arsenal.

Bill Cutting (Daniel Day Lewis) in "Gangs of New York" He should have been the main character of that film, IMHO.

The parent. #1 Bringing the child into the world. #2 Failing to teach the child not to assault other people with sharp instruments. #3 Leaving the sharp instrument in a place where the child could get a hold of it.

"When goose-stepping is taken too far...."

SD Jarhead, I've been deployed to Camp Fuji twice. Pay extra for the fast train to Tokyo; it's worth it. Also, don't forget to memorize the kanji for Gotenba; there'll be no more English signage once you leave the Tokyo metro area. Semper Fi

Hardy, I hired contractors for the jobs requiring special tools and/or skills: the roofing, flooring and rough-in plumbing jobs, for example. I did demolition, insulation, drywall, molding, light fixtures, cabinets, sinks, tubs, showers, toilets, doors, locks, electrical sockets, switches, painting, pavers and planting. I probably could have done the rough-in plumbing, too, if I had learned how to solder copper pipe. Next time I will as finding a good, fairly-priced plumber was one of my biggest headaches. I had no experience when I started out. It probably wouldn't have taken 2 1/2 years if I had known better from the first.

I spent two-and-a-half years renovating a house built in 1927. Fixing the roof should be job one. Make sure it doesn't leak or the work you do inside will be wasted. Believe me, I know. I highly recommend that you gut it completely. Only by doing this will you discover all of the structural, plumbing and electrical problems that it has. Also, you'll be able to add wall and ceiling insulation as well as blocking for cabinets and light fixtures. New drywall all the way around will look a lot better than a mix of drywall with old lathe and plaster. In every room where I salvaged the lathe and plaster, I regretted it. Make sure you have: * a drill/driver * a circular saw * a reciprocating saw * a lamp I recommend you pick up a DeWalt 18v cordless power tool set with all of the above for $500 at Lowe's; it's great. Get used to Home Depot and/or Lowe's; you'll practically be living there. Good luck!

Designer/programmer of software applications and systems for the newspaper and magazine publishing industries. <self.horn.toot> The ads you see in church bulletins were arranged that way by a program I wrote. I also wrote parts of the system that is used to put together the Army/Navy/Air Force/Marine Corps Times, Daily Variety, The Hollywood Reporter in addition to many small and medium-sized newspapers across the country. <self.horn.toot/>

They absolutely would be infringing on an individual's rights and I don't like the thought of it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that an organ donor's beneficiaries get paid anything for the deceased person's harvested organs. Obviously, healthy organs are worth something to the health care industry so perhaps monetary compensation should be offered as an incentive for people to fill out their donor cards.

Does anyone know how Wilt kept count, paternity suits?

I live a block away from their headquarters in Hollywood but I'm not affiliated with them in any way. From the look of their real estate, they have a lot of money at their disposal. L. Ron Hubbard was a member of a group of writers that hung out with Robert Heinlein. Heinlein once told them that the best way to protect an organization's assets was to make it a church. Hubbard just took Heinlein's idea and ran with it; at a science-fiction convention he was heard saying that the best way to become rich was to found one's own religion. Hubbard was only a so-so science-fiction writer but he did a bang-up job getting rich off of religion.

No religion and no money (and no idea I wasn't logged on the first time I replied).

I was a Marine Corps infantryman and can tell you that military operations in urban terrain (MOUT) is probably the most dangerous environment for waging war. In one exercise, I accidentally "shot" one of my own guys. That incident still bothers me. The Marines fighting in Fallujah right now are under incredible stress and I can't blame them for adopting a "shoot first" mentality, especially given the insurgents' demonstrated willingness to use white flags and wounded people as ambush lures. The Marine who shot the wounded man in the head will probably get a court martial and its goal will be to determine if he acted reasonably or not. I can only hope that political pressure doesn't force the Marine Corps to make an example of him even if it is found that he was acting reasonably.