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One of his former "stinky" band mates currently does work as a consultant with the U.S. Dept. of defense.

Ok, I probably went a bit too obscure with my first GWSY attempt. I'll give more clues this morning.

Not really close at all, but probably about the closest guess so far. He toured and played with 2 grammy winning bands.

I celebrate Michael Bolton's entire collection. http://images.yuku.com/image/pjpeg/23a1569d77f59710e434b492cba988075c60376.pjpg

Not Peter Tosh or really involved with Reggae music at all. However, he was a musician.

Not Yaphet Kotto. This person is no longer living.

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Don't you have to be insane to go and watch Poison in the first place? Just joking people...relax. I'm sure my wife would love to go see Poison. She likes that kind of music..and, yes, she's insane.

Ha ha, East Africa. Do you know what East Africa is? It's a sittingduck. A road apple, Brian. East Africa is weak. It's feeble. I think it's time to put the hurt on East Africa.

Like DatHoser stated, I too remember reading about the train noise in Waukesha. Here is the link to the JS article from about 2 weeks ago. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=775525

Well, if he's lonely, I'm sure he'll have no problem finding a "date" in that area.

No, because my wife and son would not go with me on those rides, and I won't do a ride by myself. But I would if one of them would go with me. I don't think I would get sick, but who knows.

On second thought, forget Damone. These short, educational films should help put you on the right track:

Listen to Damone. He has all the answers:

Don't they award one for each position?

The timing of this thread might not be the best after last night's game. When I saw it, I was thinking - should the title be in blue?

Ok, hate to answer my own question, but did a little more digging. Found another thread on another site where some guy seems to have the same exact issue as me: http://www.etiquettehell.com/smf/index.php?topic=8742.0 Looks like I'll try Bonine. If anyone has any other suggestions I would appreciate it.

I'm going to Great America with my wife and son tomorrow. Over the last 2 or 3 years my son has become a little more brave when it comes to going on rides. In particular, he really enjoys rides that spin like the Tilt-a-whirl. I use to love rides like that and had no problem with them. However, I have found over the last 2 or 3 years as we go to church festival or any place else with rides like that, I can only handle those rides about 2 times, and usually in the middle of the 2nd time, I feel like I'm about to lose it. I come off the ride feeling sick to my stomach and a slightly disoriented. Not sure when this happened to me, but it's frustrating because I want to be able to enjoy these rides with my family, and as I said, I use to love these rides. Normally I don't get motion sickness and do not have a problem with cars, planes, etc. Anyone have any suggestions? Something I can eat, not eat, anything? The flip side to this is that I like rides with big drops. My wife does not like them at all and my son is not really thrilled about them either. So, while I'm going to enjoy the day with my family tomorrow, finding rides that we all enjoy is a bit of a challenge.

Are you serious? Wow, I just come from a completely different school of thought. I guess Pete Rose was bush league then too. I have never, ever heard anyone who criticizes an athelete for hustling. I don't get it.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that Braun be "ashamed" of his HR and I don't think anyone is saying that he should quietly round the bases and take his seat on the bench and show no emotion. I love emotion, I love fist pumping and hand slapping. If you did not see the game last night and I tried to explain it to you and I said that Braun "showed a lot of emotion after he hit his HR", would you honestly equate that to him posing after the HR? I think most people, upon hearing that description, would think he showed some excitment, fist pumping or something like that. Posing after a HR is something completely different than that. Also, I realize that Eckstein is not a fan favorite on this board (mainly because he does not put up great stats, so that's good enough reason to hate his guts I guess??). However, do you really think hustling to 1st after a walk is foolish? Should I tell my son and the team he plays on to stop doing that because it looks foolish and by all mean we don't want to look foolish? It's very important that try to be cool at all times. If you hit a pop up, you might as well just head back to the dug out and assume it's going to be caught. Don't hustle because everyone will laugh at you for how silly you look. You don't want anyone to ever think that you are giving it everything you got. This is the attitude of many students in MPS. If you show any signs of caring about your school work or your future or if you make any effort at all, you must not be one of us and therefor your a fool. Yes, there should be a lot of blue in this paragraph, but hopefully everyone gets the sarcasm. I know someone is bound to say I'm taking the analogy way too far, but if people really think someone is "foolish" for hustling, then I don't think the analogy is out of wack at all.

I didn't sense anything condescending. Not to go too off topic, but how does elias, or whoever, determine distances? It's not like there is a micro-chip in the ball or something. How do they gauge speed, trajectory or even the exact point where the ball lands? I'm assuming they would take speed and angle into account, two balls hitting the bleachers at the same spot could measure differently. I'm also assuming the distances are based on where the ball would land if it landed unimpeded by bleachers, stands, or anything else.

You know what. As I watch that video several more times, I stand corrected. It does look to change directions near his feet then ricochet back on to the field. It appears that the only guy in the stands that has a clue where the ball is, is the big dude in the front row with his back to the field. Crazy.

Ok, by "staight down" I'm not literally talking straight down, but it came in at a pretty steep angle. Here is the link to the video. I wish I knew how to take a still frame from the video like crewcrazy, but I don't. If you continue to click play/pause rapidly as it goes through the frames (don't use the slider because it only gives you limited still shots), you will clearly see that the ball not only landed in the first row but landed in front of of the people in the first row (it did not come near that guy on the steps, in fact he turns around and gives up on it). The ball in the picture is clearly still in the air. http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?c_id=mil

Watch the video again. No person in their right mind would state that the ball landed where it looks like it landed in that still picture. There is no depth to that picture, the ball is still in the air and is going straight down. That ball had a high trajectory to it, the picture was taken as it was still plumiting towards the bleachers. Ankiel didn't jump because he's not even near the fence (it almost appears as if he's backing away in hopes that it might bounce of the wall). Yes, the entire section as no depth perception and horrible reflexes. The lady in the front row is ducking a ball that is 4 rows behind her. The people behind her are looking forward at a ball that is past them and the guy on the steps has his hands in his pocket as a HR ball is about to hit his "boys". Make sense.

crewcrazy...not that it matters to me (I could care less if it was a 330 foot HR or 500 fto HR, still shouldn't stand and watch it), however, it sure does not appear to me that the ball has landed in those pictures. If it has, it hit that guy in the red shirt and tan pants and he has the worst reflexes of anyone I have ever seen. See that woman in the black shirt in the first row who's leaning to get out of the way and the guy behind her that's stretching out his arms to catch the ball? I believe that is where the ball settled.