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Actually, there is a Winter Warm Up thread in the major league forum - not super recent. But it didn't mention the scheduled minor league guests, so I think this thread is warranted too.
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Touche, FTJ. Except that's only one scary ghost story.
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In the Christmas song "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year," there's a line that bugs me: "There'll be scary ghost stories and tales of the glories of Christmases long, long ago." Come on. Who tells scary ghost stories at Christmas?!
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I'll second that, homer. I can understand their wanting to "express themselves," but they lose my support when they do it on public or other people's property.
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Neil Diamond did a cover of Happy Xmas/War is Over. He is not well suited to that song.
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Worst-Christmas-song-ever! I'm going to have to challenge that. "Rrrrockin' a-rround the Christmas Tree" makes me cringe - and I'm generally a fan of Christmas music. I think it's Brenda Lee's voice. The Xmas music barrage began in Madison on November 16, which even for me was too early. The WOLX playlist appears to be mighty short and wafer thin as well.
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We've been lucky in that our cats haven't wanted to climb (so far). With our first cat, we'd put unbreakable ornaments with bells on the lower branches, so we'd stand a chance of hearing when she attempted to bat at something (or in your case, climb in). As long as your aim doesn't completely suck, you should be able to squirt the kitty without hitting the tree lights. Our first cat would drink from the tree stand every chance she got. Our current cats didn't care about the water, but would nibble on the needles. We haven't had a tree the last couple of years (lame, yes, but we spend every Christmas on the road, so it has seemed a little dumb to spend $$ on a tree we hardly use).
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People who just don't bother to clear their walks of snow. I don't want to pick on elderly homeowners, but there are sidewalks in our neighborhood which are chronically ignored, and I know some of them are occupied by people in condition to do it. I'm 41, neither big nor particularly strong, and I spent a lot of my day off today moving snow and chopping ice. If I can do it, most able bodied adults can do it. I also reserve some scorn for people who clear their sidewalks up to the curb cut and then stop. You live on a corner lot, the curb cuts are your job too. Yes, it sucks - I can attest to that since we have lived on a corner lot since 1993 - but we've made sure to keep ours clear. Making pedestrians climb over boulders at the end of your sidewalk is unkind, and frequently unsafe. I had to type this today, before my ice chopping muscles seize up and prevent me from typing at all.
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Let's turn this thread back to the original topic: suggestions on how to get a Wii. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/smile.gif
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And if you can't find her, the cashier will get on the microphone and say, "Shadow to the checkout," and she'll show up. That is awesome!
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We'll always have the 3-run walkoff jack, Damian. That was a good day at the ballpark, if a hot and stuffy one.
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Bill Hall Honored by Hometown, Discusses Ankle Injury
hawing replied to Jim Goulart's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
I'm with parkside on this. When I saw the story in Mass Haas' post, the first thing I thought was, "hey, a Bill Hall day - just like someone proposed here!" -
Brian's been saving that picture for a while. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif oh, and lexus commercials where they show the guy buying a lexus for his wife for xmas. ugh, can't stand it I'll second jason. Those ads are certainly aimed at a very different segment of the universe than the one I live in. "Oh, bother, Christmas is coming and what can I get my loved one?....I know! A Lexus! I'll just dip into the spare wads of cash. After all, it's the holidays!" I assume that audience exists, as those ads have run in December for years now, but I don't think I know anyone in it. Does any other ad campaign feature such large gift bows? I think not.
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....you cant get more oddball than the Jeff Cirillo jock. True dat.
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Yikes purple with some orange and a bright sheen. It looked like royal blue to me, not purple. The jerseys they wore last night had a lot of black in them too, much like the Mets' color scheme. Their warmup jerseys had way too much orange for my taste, though. Don't worry, bb4l. You've added to the bf.net lexicon. Sweet pepper and egg sandwich!
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Tim Jarmusz did play at the end of tonight's drama-free (79-32) Wisconsin victory over the Tigers of Savannah State. The Badgers scored the first 17 points and never looked back. I made sure to think of sweet pepper and egg sandwiches once when Trevon had the ball. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/tongue.gif
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We should probably have an in-Badger-hoops-game chat one of these nights, specifically so we can use that phrase. Sweet pepper and egg sandwich! Trevon is the man!
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So, uh, bernieb4l...did you intend for that post to go in the Random Thoughts thread, by any chance?
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I haven't heard of many of the words and have to break most of them down to have a decent guess. Same here; but I'm assuming my linguistics degree (though earned quite a while ago) is helping me make decent guesses. For some words I can kind of tell the origin, which helps make a more decent guess. It's not unlike the spelling bee contestants who ask for a word's origin. Some words just "look like", say, nouns, and if some of the possible answers are adjectives, I can do some eliminating. (Also, play it long enough and you start to see some repeats - at least, I have.)
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47. OK, at 47 I peeked at a dictionary. So 46. Booyah. Linguistics degree finally pays off, in the form of a modest rice meal for someone.
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Perhaps, but this was IUPU-FW (the Mastodons!). I think I read that they won 12 games last year and that was a big accomplishment for them. RyDogg, Tim Jarmusz and Brett Valentyn were the only players who saw no action tonight. I wonder if Tim is contemplating a redshirt.
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Oh, wow, and I squandered it griping in the What's Bugging You thread. http://forum.brewerfan.net/images/smilies/eyes.gif Kudos to splitter for his sharp eye.
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One of my job duties is establishing the annual hours schedule for my workplace. It's not so much making the decisions, since most schedule exceptions are set outside my agency (dates of state holidays and UW intersessions), but I make a little handout for visitors that lists dates when we're closed for holidays or closing early during UW intersessions, make sure the same info gets posted on our website, etc. On Friday I emailed a copy of the 2008 schedule to other employees. Now I have a response from a temp employee (not in my section) that really looks like he's complaining about how much we're closed at Christmas and New Year's this year (2007 into 2008 - because the Eves and Days fall on Monday and Tuesday, we are closed the weekend prior to each). Since he does not have paid leave, he will be denied hours at the time he needs them most. So I was trying to think of a nice way to say "um, I'm not plotting to reduce your paycheck, that's just how the dates fall this year" - but I can't think of one.
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Official Countdown to Opening Day 2008 thread
hawing replied to gypcasino's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
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Official Countdown to Opening Day 2008 thread
hawing replied to gypcasino's topic in Milwaukee Brewers Talk
http://web.mit.edu/smalpert/www/roads/wi/30-151/w151.jpg Maybe the URL will work for you, bhf. It's not that exciting, just an exit sign to Hwy 151 (gets you from Hwy 30 on the east side to E. Washington Avenue).
