nick in* england

If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest. - Alexandre Dumas We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do. - Stephen Colbert

Ain't that the Truth. As soon as I move to Canada I am getting myself an F150...

NICE. They should definately go back to the painted red endzones...

coaker = croaker

I asked around here a little while back about Van Miller, whether anyone had seen him around in Buffalo or at The Ralph. The good news is, I have today recieved a letter from The Man Himself that I thought I would share with y'all... He goes on to talk about his health (you will be pleased to know he is doing OK, but I havce spared the details)... and then: It's such a nice letter - and so pleasant to converse with someobody the old fashioned way, some how the written words carry so much more weight. I will definately drop in on Van Miller when I am in town. I still can;t get over the fact that I have a Hall of Famer as a pen pal!! He's 80-something and I am 26! Go figure...

Yeah lets get Drew back - he'd be a great mentor for JP. Also - can we get Jeff George in here?

.......is this a hookers decision conference?

Damn the speculation - anyone will tell you if you are that big, with such little feet you'll suffer ankle injuries. it's all about stability.

dead on... i'm not a yank obviously - but those ads really p*ss me right off. and I think the disasters they show do little to speak of what kind of a country america is - rather, i think it is the people and the responses to those disasters that really sum up your country. that - and an overbearing military and a gung ho attitude to deploying it.

26 (27 on Dec 3 - Buffalo watch out ) and a big JP fan. He should start all of this year and next year. If by then he isn't doing anything we look for another answer.

Heh, that idiot Accuscore picked the Packers. What a douche!

G-3 was a terrible idea, and the example about the player pot having to rise as a reuslt of new stadia is a shining example of why the new CBA is a crock of sh--. Let's face it - either you go for a solution where you share revenue equally accross the board, so no team is particularly penalised or congratulated for business performance (NFL is the product, not the individual teams) or you do the opposite and have a proper open market. This hybrid we have now doesn't really work for anyone (expect the bigger market teams a little).

man I am glad I wasn't in those first 20 posts!!

Nope - those are Empirical days at GMT. So who's gonna be at the SD game on Dec 3? Oh - and Dec 3 is my Birthday too!

Here's a tip: DO NOT tell your employer at interview that all you need is a salary and a computer terminal with internet access. It is career limiting. Do what I always do - tell them what a great worker you are, and how perfectly qualified you are, then when you get the job, make yourself look busy by typing messages on TBD... It's amazing how the clack clack on keys sending messages to TBD makes you seem really busy. PS - always ask to test the internet at your workplace before you start. There is nothing worse than finding out TSW is blocked by your SysAd. Then again, it sucks worse to have TSW added to the block list because you spend all day from log on to shut down camped on this site!

I have a rule: No Christmas stuff until after my Birthday (Dec 3). Anytime Xmas stuff is about before then brings out the scrooge in me.

ssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i hope so.

I am coming to Buffalo THIS MONTH! WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO! 28 days to go.

NFL jobs come up all the time: http://footballjobs.teamworkonline.com/ I applied for a job with the Bills that I was perfectly qualified for. Obviously, I didn't get it, but they were superb with the application process, and wrote me at the end of the process to let me know the outcome. Most NFL jobs at all levels are advertised at the link above.

What is all this trumpet talk? I prefer a rusty trombone.

Bollocks........... I walked straight into the trap. Anyway - the edumacation continues: Bollocks 14th Century (as 'ballocks') English term which has grown numerous useful applications within today's language: 1. Term of exasperation, often at having made a mistake. 2. As a plural noun, the bollocks are the testicles. 3. Exaggerated truth or blatant lies. 4. Unfathomable rubbish; corporate management speak, e.g. 'blue-sky thinking', 'touch base', and 'thinking outside the box'. 5. Poor or bad effort, esp. with media references. (The more bollocks, the worse the event.) 6. When the bollocks belong to a canine, the inverse meaning of (5.) comes into play, though nobody knows quite why. This meaning appears to date back from 1989. 7. To 'drop a bollock' is to commit a social faux-pas leading to grave embarrassment. 8. A 'bollocking' is a telling off, often by one's boss for an inadequate or incomplete piece of work, or inappropriate behaviour. 9. To lack bollocks is to be gutless, spineless and generally lack courage. This is not used inversely for the word 'balls' covers this application. 10. As a verb, to 'bollocks' or to be 'bollocksed' it to flummox or be flummoxed; confuse or be confused. 11. If a piece of machinery is bollocksed, it is broken or rendered unusable either temporarily or permanently. 12. To be 'bollock-naked' it to be completely without clothing, save for a few relatively unimportant items such as socks, watch, rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings or other body jewellery. 13. To be 'bollocksed' also means to have imbibed an amount of alcohol which has eliminated a dangerously high number of brain cells causing a lack of social and spatial awareness, incoherent speech and the inability to believe that you're not as drunk as you are, you're not as unattractive in that state as you are, and that you don't rule the world. 1. {Having sent a saucy text message to your mum instead of your partner} "Bollocks!" 2. "I couldn't be arsed to go home, so I just stood there, scratching me bollocks." 3. "Don't listen to him, he just talks bollocks." 4. "Sorry, it's my boss, he's got us speaking this bollocks." 5. "I think any film with a cast of unknowns and a budget that won't cover your weekly shopping is bound to be bollocks." Also: "I know our friend was the lead character and everything, but that play was the biggest load of fat, squidgy bollocks I've ever had to sit through. Don't tell her I said that, though." 6. "That play was the dog's bollocks, Sarah." 7. "Boy, did I drop a bollock this morning: Your mum had a Rice Crispy stuck to her face, so I tried to wipe it off; you never told me she had a wart." 8. "We had all the work done by two, so we all pissed off down the pub, but come Monday morning, we all got such a bollocking. Marketing had called eight times and that twat over there had forgotten to turn the answering machine on. Wanker." 9. "You honestly expect me to believe you're going to tell John what I did with his wife? You haven't got the bollocks." 10. "Two Stellas, a Fosters, a Bacardi and Diet Coke and a Carling-top please. ...oh, make that half a Fosters - that's bollocksed you, hasn't it? Let's call it a tenner for cash, eh?" 11. "The fax stopped working earlier, so I jammed my pen into that little hole and now I think it's totally bollocksed." 12. "Well, the last thing I remember is walking down to the seafront and laying on the beach. Then, it's six in the morning, I'm stark bollock-naked except for my socks, watch, rings, necklaces, bracelets, earrings and other body jewellery, handcuffed to a tramp." 13. "Well, I was at work, right, and my computer totally bollocksed up, and I hadn't saved that bollocks I was working on, so I though, 'bollocks to this, I'm going down the pub'. I went with Jeff and Dave, who was really quiet, so when I got the beers in, I asked, like, 'who died?!' It turns out, his wife's on the way out, you know, so I'd really dropped a bollock, but Dave said he was okay. He doesn't have the bollocks to say anything else; never has, but I knew Jeff would give me a right bollocking later on. We had a few pints and this dog's bollocks pie - we didn't get too bollocksed or anything, just a bit tipsy, you know. We went back into the office and my PC was up-and-running with that document intact, which bollocksed me a bit, but it's better than a kick in the bollocks, I suppose. So, I went home, got in the shower and noticed a rash on my bollocks, sh-- me up, that did. I came out to show Sam only to find Sam's mum sat there with a cup of tea, staring at me, bollock naked and dripping on the carpet. 'Bollocks,' I thought..."

You are a bloke. A Bloke has two bollocks. "Sex wee" is a euphemism for the liquid that bollocks produce.

read in a jamaican accent: I am focking dis-costid, and my friend has com in dis-pear.

Actually - I am sure you wouldn't want people even to smoke pot. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6070038.stm That's a scary number of people who 'lose it' after smoking pot... I wouldn't wish anyone smoked pot. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4582818.stm Don't think me high and mighty - I smoked pot at Uni, and it scares me to think what could have (and might still) happen to me as a result. My Mom's best friend died of cancer of the mouth as a result of smoking pot. Before you say "it was the tobbacco" bear in mind that cannabis contains more tar and carcinogens than tobacco. His wife died shortly afterwards from another pot related cancer. They were survived by three small kids. http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/hottopics/cannabis/index.shtml [/END PSA]