Pirate1974

Bummer.

At least in hockey there are some actual shots at the goal. The only World Cup game I've ever seen was the final some years back between Italy and somebody else - Brazil maybe? The two teams kicked the ball back and forth up and down the field the whole game and nobody scored. I don't think anybody even came close to scoring. So after that thrilling 0-0 finish, four or five guys on each team lined up to take turns kicking the ball into the net. That excitement continued until some poor schmuck missed and the other team won the championship. Play until somebody wins for real, even if it takes all night. That's like deciding the NBA Finals with a free throw shooting contest.

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The "biggest sporting event in the world" and games end in a 0-0 tie. No wonder the fans get into fights all the time. It's the only way to stay awake.

Marriage? There is no marriage and no plans for one either from what I hear. You know it wasn't all that long ago that Ingrid Bergman's career was almost ruined because she was fooling around with her director while she was married. Now that sort of thing is celebrated on the front page of the newspaper and the cover of magazines. I'm probably an old fogey but I don't think that's exactly a change for the better.

"Exclusive rights" to pictures is basically a joke these days. The photos were being posted to the internet almost before the bidding war was over. Of course, nobody knows how they got there. Ridiculous.

Officially, it's the Queensboro Bridge, but I guess that doesn't sound quite as "groovy."

I wonder if there'll be a corner room at the Raleigh Y available during the Finals. Might just have to check in.

4-2 Hurricanes Just 4 more wins and the Cup comes to Carolina. Bring on Edmonton.

When I first saw this, I though it was a joke. It almost looks like something you'd see in "The Onion." Electronically monitored for four months and get rid of the porno. Gosh Judge Cecava, are you sure you're not being too hard on the guy? I'm sure the parents of this child are relieved that Shorty won't be "imperiled by prison dangers." Good grief.

Well, I watched this thing for the first time last night, at least the last 10 minutes of it. I admit that I don't know much about music, but I was just wondering This is the guy that won it? What were the rest of them like? I don't get it.

Bob Dylan turned 65 today. Impossible. Wasn't it just a few years ago that my dad was telling me to turn down "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" because he didn't like the line "everybody must get stoned?" No, wait a minute. That was 1966. Yikes.

There won't be any Game 7. Hurricanes take the series, 4-1. Bring on Buffalo.

And Otis wants to lock himself up in the penalty box.

Do you think the "brains" behind this show will ever let a straight white guy win?

Excathie, That would be 3-0 Hurricanes now. Lord Stanley's cup in Carolina? Could be.

Carlos Oliveras is a 25-year old airman in the U.S. Air Force, stationed at McGuire Air Force Base in Fort Dix, NJ. Yesterday, he went to a baseball game in Philadelphia between the Phillies and the San Francisco Giants to see if he could witness history being made. And he did. Barry "I never knowingly took steroids" Bonds hit the 713th home run of his career and Airman Oliveras came up with the ball. After the game, Oliveras had his picture taken with Bonds and asked him to sign the ball. Barry being the all around nice guy that he always is, refused. I guess I can see his side. Why do something for free that you can do and get paid for it? However, Barry did ask Oliveras to sign something for him - a release so that he could appear on Barry's lamer-than-lame "reality" show "Bonds on Bonds." Reality is, of course, very subjective in this case and is basically whatever Barry says it is. If I had been Carlos Oliveras, I think I would have had to tell Mr. Bonds to stuff his release up his steroid-enhanced a$$.

The kid cleans up pretty good. Fortunately, he takes after his mother.

You assume correctly. ECU, Class of '74. Thanks for the offer, Radar. We were down at Ocean Isle Beach last summer and we took a look at UNC by the Sea. I'm not sure what the kid thought, but I liked the place. He compares everything to the Duke campus, where he's gone to basketball camp the last few years. Hard for any place to compete with all those stone buildings at Duke.

I'd rather watch "Cheerleader Nation" on Lifetime. Now that's good television!!

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I don't think he's going to be getting into any ivy league schools.

Dad's checkbook is leaning him to somewhere in-state here. He's been checking out Appalachian State, Western Carolina, UNC-Wilmington, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Asheville. Can't seem to interest him in his old man's alma mater - East Carolina.

I was in the hospital - watching my first child being born. Actually, I was supposed to be "assisting" but my assistance amounted to little more than having my hand crushed to a pulp and accepting all the blame for the situation. My wife did all the hard work, of course. They don't call it labor for nothing. 20 hours worth. Now that little baby I held for the first time that morning is driving and going to the prom on Saturday and trying to decide where he wants to go to college. It doesn't seem possible that was 18 years ago.