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THAT was a funny post. Not quite as funny as the "draining fluid from my testicles all the time" from a few weeks ago, but pretty good nonetheless. Personally, I hope and pray that His Holiness stays on the squad. I want him to fall to the level of Eddie Robinson, getting juked out of his socks. Keep him there, rub his nose in it, waste a roster spot, feed him Geritol.

Absolutely perfect posts. Thank you.

I have this visual of Jack Haley in "The Wizard of Oz" mumbling....."Oil Can....Oil Can". "Don't take me alive" - Steely Dan

Steely, Good luck with the results. Yes, I have read the entire thread, as I believe we're in the same demographic. It's going to be fine. For the rest of you - talk to me when you've had a few prostate biopsies. THEN try to bust my balls. Too late. It's been done. You just can't imagine it until you've walked down the road... "Heroes and Villians" - Brian Wilson

Wait...WAIT!!!!! There's a late-breaking announcement from Jets HQ!!!!!! "Veronica" - Elvis Costello

Really. In the grand scheme of things, I'd just as soon Owens spend his time on the TV show over the next three weeks. And by that time, the toe - and ego - will be just fine for Monday Night Football.

Dean, I'm guessing he only cares about looking good on October 5th and November 1st. Sadly, I bet he can pull it off for two games. Like a friggin' tiger. And then we get to go through the drama NEXT summer......

How far we've come. When I first moved back to upstate New York in 2003, I used to shop at a Tops in my town. I remember seeing a Tops promotion for bobblehead dolls on the same poster: Travis Henry Drew Bledsoe Coy Wire Tops is now replaced by Hannaford's Bledsoe is a bazillionaire with bad knees Henry's in jail Wire's.....honestly, I didn't read the link. Last I heard, he was in Atlanta. I'm still on this board. No, I didn't get any of the goddamn bobblehead dolls. "Destination Moon" - Dinah Washington

"Haploid". Half a chromosomal compliment. Apologies. It seemed marvelously humorous about 25 years ago in a laboratory surrounded by co-eds and empty beer cans. Seems oddly out of place in this forum. Carry on.....

Really. This is up there with the "Frittata" and "Billdo" threads. Hippity-skippity.

Oldest biology joke in the world. What does the "H" stand for?

It's probably just the Riesling, but MAN that was funny. "Car on a Hill" - Joni Mitchell

I don't know if Segal really cost Maybin money, so much as he cost him experience. Hard to put a value on that. It's going to depend on how fast Maybin comes up to speed in the next 2-3 preseason games. But I agree with the overall sentiment that rookies command too much clout under this contract. Should Maybin have fired his agent? I can't say that I would have had that foresight and strategic grasp at 21 years old. He's relying on the advice of family and Arrington, and they're telling him to hold his cards. And now he's a rich, rich, rich young man.

That sums it up pretty well. Although being a big Orange fan, I'd hate to see McNabb get creamed just to prove the point that Peters was a world-class hoser. Now, if Peters had been traded to the Pats* and THEN sucked big time, it might actually start me believing in a higher power.

Think about it, though. If that one-trick-pony kid can knock down a quarterback a mere three times in the first 8 games, the ESPNs of this world are going to tout him as the next...well, Bruce Smith, I suppose. That's a pace of 6 sacks in his rookie year. He'd be carried out of the stadium on a chariot. I guess the question we should be asking ourselves is "What is the quality of the starting left tackle of the opposing team" for 2009? (Or, maybe right tackle. Who knows where he's going to line up). I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but noodle through it. Say an offense has 2 1/2 possessions per quarter, or 10 per game. In each of those possessions, they find themselves in a 3rd-and-long situation three times per drive. That's 30 times per game, and in 8 games that's 240 pass rushing attempts. And we fans would annoint him demigod if he crushed the quarterback into the ground a mere three times, or a success rate of 1.25%. Debate the probabilities. The success rate only changes a few percentage points. Not a bad living for $25 million. We should all have that first step.

I'd certainly fall right in the middle of this ranking, per my post count. Very fitting. Perhaps 50 posts to be allowed to start a thread is a little light. There are some on this board that have been around for only a few months and have posted what seems to be 8,000,000 times. That wouldn't make them "Media", it would make them.....well, I'm trying to learn my lessons. But perhaps 100 would be better. 200 might be too much. I do like the idea of SOME sort of recognition of length-of-time on the Forum. I've not been here for as long as most, but am starting to get a little long in the tooth. As hard as I try (with work and travel and all), I just can't keep up with the post count of some of the newer folks. Besides, I just referenced Pyrite Gal last week. That has to count for something.

I believe he was on a Mormon mission, and started late. Like 26 years old, or something like that.

D'AARRRGGHH!!! SPLUTTER!!!! APOPLEPTIC GASP!!!! Do you REALLY think that some of these single-cell idiots are going to get on the board and admit that....G'ARRGGGHHHH....that they were......D'AAACCCHHHH....WRONG?!!???? Run away, Tinkerbell. Go back to that Fairyland Kingdom. First star to the right. Straight on 'til morning.

If you're going to do the Falls thing, head for the Canadian side. Bring a passport these days. If the weather's nice, you can't lose. Really.

It doesn't have to be that way. Just call the "bulltext" when you see it, and hopefully people think about it next time. Because I'm not kidding about the employment thing. I'd fry some kid's ass for putting anything APPROACHING "texting" on a corporate document. And I'd get away with it.

That's an even more paranoid scenario than I could have concocted. Wow. Stay away from me.

I just got back from the best sunset ride on an antique boat out in the eastern basin of Lake Ontario. It felt like being 14 again. Except I could spell back then, too. What did I miss? To your point, Buster - oh, no, quite to the contrary. I try hard to add to each thread, and not to indulge in the usual "You suck/No, you suck" garbage that this place has become. In fairness, you're correct - I tend to point out grammatical inconsistencies and errors...and, you know, outright $)*%ups. I don't see a problem with that. Why not? No, not because I'm a dick. It's because we're contributing on a forum that relies on the written word, and allows for unlimited sentence structure. It's NOT Twitter, so our communication can extend beyond 140 characters. It's NOT video, so we don't all have to look like Brad Pitt or Angelina Jolie. It's NOT radio, so I don't have to listen to someone's squeaky, mildly feminine tenor. It IS a forum based upon use of the keyboard, and the English language. Why, in God's name, would you have a problem with doing it right? And, no, I'm not an amateur English teacher. I've slept with a few. But I'd fail "beastly23", and condemn it to fast-food servicing for the remainder of its days, or until it could pass the English Regents exam with the phone turned off. To the point of the original Neanderthalic post, I'm thrilled with Eric Wood thus far. I didn't get to catch this weekend's game. Did he pancake anyone? That's the afternoon for which I'm living - so long as it's Wilfork.

Yo, 'slice. Yo. Yo. Yo.

Read the headlines, yoon-yore. With all the bitching about people not being able to "spick Inglish", be grateful for what you have. Every day is Engish class. Anybody on this board could be your next employer............ ......or not.