posted on February 1, 2004 04:41:56 PM new
No way! I'd rather have a root canal. If it wasn't Sunday, I'd go have one just to show you how serious I am.
posted on February 1, 2004 05:30:36 PM new
I'm usually a hardcore fan but this season I didn't really get into the game and even the playoff didn't get me into it. I've been flipping back in forth but mainly because I wanted to see the AOL ads with the Tuetul family from America Chopper. Whoever wrote the pregame ones should be shot they are so criminally bad and if the main one has aired - I missed it.
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[ edited by Fenix03 on Feb 1, 2004 05:35 PM ]
posted on February 1, 2004 05:32:00 PM new
Maybe we could rip each other to shreds over lettuce!
Leaf or Romaine?
While Romaine has the attractive color, and vitamin and fiber content beloved by vegheads worldwide, Leaf Lettuce has the frilly, sexy looks and taste to tart up any salad, along with a bit of arugula....
You have the right to an informed opinion -Harlan Ellison
posted on February 1, 2004 05:48:11 PM new
Leaf lettuce -- green or red -- succumbs to slime within a few days of purchase. Even at its heart, it cannot match romaine for crispness, and I would respectfully submit that green leaf varieties are aware of this, hence those cloying and seductive ruffled leaves which you find frilly and sexy, Snowbird!
posted on February 1, 2004 05:54:21 PM new
I just watched the half time show and saw Janet Jackson with one breast exposed. That was not the normal half time show. Then they had a streaker on the field when the game started back up.
posted on February 1, 2004 07:08:04 PM new
I wouldn't watch football, even if Janet Jackson let them both slip...well...maybe both...
regarding lettuce, I like a nice mix...some romaine for crunch, and a leafy mesclun or spring mix with lots of endive, chickory and arugula for bite...my wife grows it on the porch all winter in an old iron bath tub..the only thing iceberg is good for is BLT's...
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posted on February 1, 2004 07:10:33 PM new
The only interest I have in the game is the score at the end of the quarters--I'm in a pool at work, and wouldloveto win some $
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posted on February 1, 2004 07:17:46 PM new
Hey! I live with my 82-year-old Mom, who buys vegetables on the theory that simply housing them in her hydrator renders significant health benefits; cooking/consuming them is an entirely different matter!
I can't begin to recount the slimy green beans, kiwis, pea pods; the blackened-by-mold heads of cauliflower, the yellowed tufts of broccoli...
"Mom," I've said, on more than one occasion, "why do you have me buy this stuff if you're never going to eat it?"
"Oh," she invariably replies, "I read somewhere that __________ ( -whatever is rotting in the hydrator at the time) is good for ___________ ( -blood pressure or wrinkles or memory loss.) "
"Yeah, but," I reply, "it can't do you any good at all if it rots in the fridge uneaten."
But my Mom, who's never spent a day being overweight, never had high blood pressure, and has a sharp mind, simply smiles, and begins a new shopping list...
posted on February 1, 2004 07:23:43 PM new
OK - I admit it - I have watched the second half and well... DAMN! What a game. If the Panthers lose it is only because of bad coaching desicions. They have played a hell of a game but there is a minute left and the game is tied only because o the first two touchdowns in this half the coach elected to go for two pinters which were missed rather than the near guaranteed extra points which would have them two points ahead. But if the Pats who have the ball manage to score now with 30 seconds left on on the 45, I guess it's irrelevent. ( i think my neighbors hate me - I keep yelling at the TV)
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posted on February 1, 2004 07:28:32 PM new
The wife and I went out to a very nice Italian restaurant and there were only three tables occupied in the whole place. Had fabulous veal on rossito with spinich and sun dried tomatoes and mushrooms with grilled shrimp on the side. A pleasant little chianti and coffee after. When we came back she watched a little until the half time came on. She called to me to take a peak what an ass Janey looked like in her Samuri/slave/street walker outfit. Then she channel surfed off somewhere else and I returned to the computer.
posted on February 1, 2004 07:29:48 PM new
losing it... miss miss please miss.... go 0 for 3 please! I can't watch.......... DAMNIT DAMNIIT DAMNIT!
OK - I don't hate the Pats winning, and it' pretty cool that their kicker has hit two Superbowl winning FGs in closing seconds of games but I like seeing the underdog win.
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posted on February 1, 2004 08:16:24 PM new
Superbowl... That's football, right? The pointy ball?
Just kidding, but to be honest, I didn't even know who was playing until today, and I bet I won't remember by Tuesday.
But on to the bigger question...
No nukes this year?
No way I'd want to go to the Superbowl. It's right up there with Times Square on New Years. Why not just paint a big target on the stadium.
Paranoid? Maybe. Maybe not. I'm not afraid to fly, and I don't live my life in fear. But some targets are just too good to pass up, and I don't want to be there when someone decides not to pass it up. And yeah, I read the Tom Clancy books
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posted on February 1, 2004 08:17:25 PM new
Chard, is it?
[ Let me sidestep our vegetative contretemps to relate a story: My first employers were a Japanese family who ran a nursery and a florist shop. They were Nisei -- second-generation Japanese-Americans -- and they'd been interned, along with their parents, in "relocation camps" during WWII. Land their parents had performed slave-labor to purchase, and then cultivated to produce flowers, was confiscated by the U.S. Government and leased to a German immigrant, who let the property run down and basically did nothing more than squat on it while America was at war with Germany. <insert chagrin smilie here>
Upon his release from "camp", Kenji Fujii went to work as a house painter. He worked harder than you or I ever will, and put his sisters through college, and saved every dime he could, and many years later, he was able to buy back from the government who'd stolen it his parents' nursery.
Kenji married Allyce ( -also Nisei) ; a charming woman with impeccable manners who'd been interned at the Poston, Arizona "camp" during the war. When I met them, Allyce was running the florist end of their business and Kenji was managing the nursery. I was given a job "on spec" by Allyce when I was 15. (I continued to work for her until I was 22.)
For my senior class history final, I interviewed the Fujiis on tape, recording their WWII experiences. There are so many poignant, outrageously sad reminiscences on those two cassettes, but the one that sticks in my mind -- absurdly -- is Allyce's avowal never to eat chard again, for, at Poston, it was the only vegetable they were allowed to grow... ]
posted on February 1, 2004 08:27:30 PM new
Replay - don't think that those types of things are not thought of. I can tell you from last years uperbowl being here in San Diego that security procedures are tight! First there is a huge no fly zone around the stadium patroled by helicopters (thus the reason you don't have the blimp shots - it's not allowed - maybe someone finally watched Black Sunday) which created quite a few problems considering that our airport was within that zone as was Miramar AFB. Second - there is no parking at the stadium. You have to park elsewhere and then use public transport and shuttles to get there). No backpack,s large bags, etc. No bringing of items containing fluids, every persong going in is checked along with anything they may be carrying.
PS - I read TC too - boy did they screw up that movie!!
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posted on February 1, 2004 08:40:50 PM new
"PS - I read TC too - boy did they screw up that movie!!"
Oh boy did they ever. And why? I never did figure why they messed with it so much. I think it would have been FAR more relevant if they had left it alone.
Somehow, I doubt they'll make "Debt Of Honor" or "Executive Orders" into movies for a VERY LONG time, if EVER. The man is smart and thinks ahead, no doubt about it. When 9/11 happened, my very first thought when hearing it was that the terrorists had probably read those books.
"Cardinal Of the Kremlin" is too obsolete and out of date to be made into a movie. Are there any other 'Jack Ryan' books that haven't been made into movies yet? I can't remember any, but it's been a while since I picked one up.
Great stuff, and I'm not really into politcal or war stories.
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posted on February 1, 2004 09:04:53 PM new
You have to wonder how many people even knew that the character that Afleck was playing was the same one that Baldwin and Harrison Ford had played.
I was really surprised at that one because after Ford was recat in the role Clancy was supposed to have demanded approval over casting because he was so irritated at the age discrepency since the plot of Patriot Games took place before Red October and he could not see Ford's Ryan would have be too old. Personaly I hated DeFoe as Clark - I always pictured Clark as a thinner Bryan Denneghy (butchered that name didn't I).
Cardinal will definitely never be made and victims groups would lose it over Debt of Honor but you need that one to explain why Ryan is president in Executive Orders or Bear and the Dragon. I guess Affleck could play Ryan in Red Rabbit but then when you get back to The Teeth of the Tiger you have to return to Ford..... I think I'll stick to the books and hope the recast Clark but keep Ding and make Rainbow Six.
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posted on February 1, 2004 09:32:28 PM new
That was the best football game I watched all year.
It was the only football game I watched all year.
As far a head lettuce goes, I never buy it. Instead I buy the premade salads because it has all the fixins in the bag including croutons and some even have the dressing.
