SevenSeasJim

I'm not sure when Marky Mark became a good actor

Dirk Diggler :wink:

Nice. I once served Tom Wilson (Junkhouse at the time) at the Dundurn Beer Store.

What are people buying these days? Anybody who has one are you happy with it?

Any help would be appreciated.

i check all my dog before going to bed,

This i'd like to see.

We rarely lock ouur doors but maybe it's time to start.

My brother-in-law has been just north of there (Devon Island) for the past 3 summers doing research. Man I would love to visit this area.

Ozzy - 2002 at Copps. It rattled my brain.

Let's not forget about the local drunk girl showing up around the fire on Friday night and the 'famous' ass slap dance she performed on Saturday in front of the stage.

Friggin School teachers!

ROME (AP) - Italian soccer power Juventus was demoted to the Italian second division for match-fixing by a sports tribunal Friday and stripped of its last two Serie A titles.

Lazio and Fiorentina also were demoted to Serie B, the second division, while AC Milan was spared demotion but given a 15-point penalty in the top division for next season. AC Milan also had 44 points taken off its total from last season and won't play in European tournaments this season.

Juventus was given a 30-point penalty, meaning it will have to struggle to climb back to the top league. Lazio received a seven-point penalty, and Fiorentina was penalized 12 points.

The decision came five days after Italy won its fourth World Cup title, defeating France in the final in Berlin.

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* Penalties may lead to Serie A departures

Thirteen of the 23 players on the Italian squad that won the World Cup play for the four penalized teams.

Juventus general manager Luciano Moggi, one of 25 soccer officials who faced charges of match-fixing and disloyalty, was banned from soccer for five years.

Franco Carraro, who resigned as the head of the Italian soccer league when the scandal broke and is a member of the International Olympic Committee, was banned for 4½ years.

Former Juventus chief executive Antonio Giraudo also was banned for five years. Fiorentina owner Diego Della and Lazio president Claudio Lotito were banned for four years and 3½ years, respectively.

Moggi and Giraudo were accused of creating a network of contacts with federation officials to influence refereeing assignments and get players booked. The two resigned in May, along with the club's entire board.

The sentence for Juventus marks its first demotion since teams started being sent down in 1897. The Turin-based powerhouse has won 29 league titles - including the ones in 2005 and 2006 stripped by Friday's verdict - two Champions League titles, four Italian Supercups, two European Supercups and two Intercontinental Cups.

In 2002, Fiorentina was declared bankrupt and forced to play in the fourth division Serie C2. It was promoted on sporting merits into Serie B in 2003 and returned to the top division the following year.

The verdicts can be appealed within five days to a higher sports court.

The sports prosecutors had sought harsher penalties for some of the teams, requesting the demotion of Juventus to third-tier Serie C or lower, and of AC Milan, Fiorentina and Lazio to Serie B.

Prosecutors in Naples, Rome, Parma and Turin are conducting separate criminal probes into sports fraud, illegal betting and false bookkeeping - but any indictments could take months to be issued.

I read somewhere that an Octopus will decorate it's 'house' with shells and broken glass for no other reason than to decorate (art???). I'll see if I can find that article again.

The Police or U2

Do we call him Jay Z(ed) in Canada?

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Claydes Charles Smith, a co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 57.

Smith died Tuesday in Maplewood, New Jersey, after a long illness, his publicist said.

Kool & the Gang grew from jazz roots in the 1960s to become one of the major groups of the 1970s, blending jazz, funk, R&B and pop. After a downturn, the group enjoyed a return to stardom in the '80s.

Smith wrote the hits "Joanna" and "Take My Heart," and was a co-writer of others, including "Celebration," "Hollywood Swinging" and "Jungle Boogie."

Smith was introduced to jazz guitar by his father in the early 1960s.

Later in that decade, he was in a group of New Jersey jazz musicians, including Ronald Bell (later Khalis Bayyan), Robert "Kool" Bell, George Brown, Dennis Thomas and Robert "Spike" Mickens, who became Kool & the Gang. Other members would include lead singer James "JT" Taylor.

'Time': Its time has come

Word for measuring duration is most popular noun in English

Thursday, June 22, 2006; Posted: 3:30 a.m. EDT (07:30 GMT)

LONDON, England (AP) -- For those who think the world is obsessed with "time," an Oxford dictionary added support to the theory in announcing that the word is the most often used noun in the English language.

"The" is the most commonly used word overall, followed by "be," "to," "of," and, "a," "in," "that," "have," and "I," according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary.

On the list of top 25 nouns, "time" is followed by other movement indicators: "year" is in third place; "day" is fifth; and "week" is No. 17.

The dictionary used the Oxford English Corpus -- a research project into English in the 21st century -- to come up with the lists.

Among nouns, "person" is ranked at No. 2, with "man" at No. 7 and "woman" at No. 14. "Child" appears at No. 12.

"Government" appears at No. 20 while "war," at No. 49, trumps "peace," which did not make the top 100.

The list of top 25 nouns: time, person, year, way, day, thing, man, world, life, hand, part, child, eye, woman, place, work, week, case, point, government, company, number, group, problem, fact.

The waitress at my local pub gets great tips. The more we drink the better her tip. She has our beer on the table sometimes before we even sit down. Also, we give her a x-mas card with $50 in it every year.

But on a sour note I find that in many cases the service industry is sucking some serious ass these days. Probably 25% of the time that I eat out the server (or kitchen staff) screws up something. It just feels so common-place these days.

yup. Most #1 country hits ever!

Conway Twitty had the most singles (55) reach Number 1 on various national music charts.

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100 years is not very far away.

Hawking looks way, way up

Last Updated Tue, 13 Jun 2006 16:38:08 EDT

CBC News

British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has a 100-year plan for humans to save ourselves: colonize space.

"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Hawking told a news conference in Hong Kong on Tuesday.

"Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of," he said.

It's not clear why Hawking wants humanity to survive. On his website, he said intelligent life in the universe includes the human race "even though much of its behaviour throughout history has been pretty stupid, and not calculated to aid the survival of the species."

There's no place like Earth

While it's possible for humans to manage in other places in our solar system, for real happiness, we have to go further afield, he said.

"We won't find anywhere as nice as Earth unless we go to another star system."

There could be a moon base in 20 years and a Mars colony in 40, Hawking said, but it will take a century to build space settlements that can exist independently from mother Earth.

Hawking, 64, uses a wheelchair and talks through a computer because he has a neurological disorder.

He wrote the bestseller A Brief History of Time.

I only download music by artists that get their panties in a bunch about it. Take that Metallica.

Look out my friend. This night is going to be trouble. We'll be on day two of a weekend-long bender at that point. Trouble.

Wait a minute. This isn't different from any weekend :wink:

Happy b-day Shelby.

P.S. The picture is blocked at work by our firewall under the 'Porn' category. Too Funny.

yah, for one person $1500 is more than I want to pay.

I'd say max $1000.

If you are paying $1000/month i'd say try buying a house if you have 5% down (that may be a bit much).

It's not too bad. Click on 'Canada' and scroll to the bottom. You can see all Canadian locations at once.

Border Guards = people that tried to become a cop and failed so they take it out on you. :wink:

P.S. this is a big generalization

Mr. Oysterhead...it just keeps going around and around in my head

Some good ones come in off Georgian Bay, but the most intense ones that I've experienced were in Thunder Bay.