Davey Boy 2.0

whoa, upon further digging i just saw that Ajax play PSV tomorrow, airing at midnight zoinks the Dutch league is very interesting in many ways actually. it has an established role as a feeder league to the big uns- Italy, England, France. While the level of play isn't quite up to par with those leagues (population is a factor), the technical ability of Dutch players is consistent and players with real flair seem to emerge regularly- who then get sold for solid profits. Seems to me to point to good youth academies, something the brits might want to take note of those cheese heads are savvy when it comes to business dealings

it and Ajax-PSV are the two biggest matchups in Holland (the country)

This Sunday, probably too early for you silk-wearing buttercups but anyway: 06:30 am LIVE Eredivisie - Ajax vs. Feyenoord

^ that used to be Booche's nickname back in highschool

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These are from the Citizen, this one's even better (be forewarned Booche): Leonard Poole admits he wasn't looking like a page out of a fashion magazine when he went into a downtown grocery store to buy something for supper about three weeks ago. But the 56-year-old Ottawa man is adamant that store security should not have kicked him out, apparently based on his Grateful Dead-like appearance, without allowing him to speak to the store manager. Now Mr. Poole may finally get want he wants -- a written apology from the corporation that owns Loeb Rideau Street Market. "We apologized to him before, but now it seems like he wants it in writing," said parent company Métro's spokeswoman, Marie-Claude Bacon. "We will get back to Mr. Poole, but we would like to settle this between us and him in a private manner." Asked directly if that meant Mr. Poole will get a written apology, she said: "We don't wish to comment publicly on that. We'll try to settle it in a private way." But Mr. Poole says he was humiliated publicly, not privately, shortly after he went into the grocery store about 5 p.m. on Dec. 31. He had just returned from Toronto by bus. Mr. Poole, a candidate for the Green party in Ottawa-Vanier in the last provincial election, has a full greying beard and ties his long hair in a ponytail. He was wearing a tuque, jacket and jeans and had a backpack on when he began pushing a grocery cart around the store. He said his beard had not been trimmed in a couple of weeks. "I can assure you that I had not been drinking, nor did I emit offensive body odour," Mr. Poole wrote in a Jan. 2 letter to the company. His letter states that he picked up several packages of meat and poultry, took a closer look at each item, and then put each back, never putting any of them in his cart, in which he had placed a piece of his luggage. Then store security got involved. "Excuse me, sir, I am going to have to ask you to leave the store," Mr. Poole quotes the security guard as saying. "You have been acting suspiciously and I must ask you to leave." Mr. Poole then said he was "just trying to find some meat" and asked if there was a problem. He asked to see the manager, but was refused. He tried to explain that he was checking the "best before" dates on the meat packages, but was having difficulty because he did not have his reading glasses. "It is my opinion that your security guard judged me to be a homeless or otherwise indigent person looking for food to steal." In the letter, Mr Poole said he learned "a powerful lesson." "For the first time in my life, from personal experience, I know what it is like to be profiled and pre-judged. I have been touched in the depth of my soul with how it feels to be tossed aside as someone unworthy of dignity and respect." Mr. Poole said the security guard was actually seeing "a confused, tired, hirsute traveller in need of some customer service" -- not a would-be shoplifter. The store has understandable security concerns, "because it is in the heart of an area that deals with homelessness," he said in the letter. In an interview, Mr. Poole said store employees "could have solved this from the get-go with, 'May I help you?' And I'm still waiting." The "overriding issue" is important he said. "How many folks go into that store and get unceremoniously booted out and get insulted and demeaned? I've never been humiliated like that in public." Mr. Poole said he received a brief telephone call in mid-January from a Loeb vice-president. "I want more than just a quick two-minute phone call from a guy on a cellphone. I want a written apology ... and I want it clear that I am, in fact, welcome to shop in their stores and I want an explanation as to what happened. I want to meet with the store manager."

An Ottawa man accused of impersonating a licensed dentist in Toronto, Ottawa and Gatineau turned himself in to Toronto police yesterday. Gzim Bytyqi, 50, is facing six charges, including fraud under $5,000, false representation, and criminal negligence causing bodily harm. Police say he had been offering low-cost dental work, such as pulling teeth and making bridges and dentures, under the name Dr. Jimmy Connolly. On Thursday, Toronto police executed a search warrant of a house near Jane Street and Lawrence Avenue West, following a complaint from a New York state resident. "The treatment he received wasn't what he should have received," said Det. Darren Sisk. "When he went back home, he had a bunch of infections that had to be treated." Police seized equipment and the dental chair from Mr. Bytyqi's "office" on Thursday. "It wasn't your typical dental office," said Det. Sisk, adding that he was surprised Mr. Bytyqi performed dental procedures in a carpeted room. "It was in the basement of a home and it wasn't what you would expect as far as sanitation goes," he said. "I wouldn't expect any of that in my dental office." According to police, Mr. Bytyqi claimed to have worked as a dentist in Kosovo, and advertised his services in Ontario and Quebec by "word-of-mouth." Police are asking anyone who has been treated by the suspect to call 416-808-1204.

^ awesome

mind > blown

There's a song in there somewhere dave-O!

Dinghtard

how long was your hair at the time ollie?

gateaux didn't like the pulled pork, apparently

check your PMs

thanks Hal maybe you can mail them to me when you're done with em

A Scotsman walking through a field, sees a man drinking water from a pool with his hand. The Scotsman man shouts ' Awa ye feel hoor thatâs full Oâ coos Sharn' (Don't drink the water, it's full of cow s ** t.) The man shouts back 'I'm English, speak English, I don't understand you'. The Scotsman man shouts back 'Use both hands, you'll get more in.' -------------------------------------------------- Five Englishmen boarded a train just behind five Scots, who, as a group had only purchased one ticket. Just before the conductor came through, all the Scots piled into the toilet stall at the back of the car. As the conductor passed the stall, he knocked and called"Tickets, please!" and one of the Scots slid a ticket under the door. It was punched, pushed back under the door, and when it was safe all the Scots came out and took their seats. The Englishmen were tremendously impressed by the Scots' ingenuity. On the trip back, the five Englishmen decided to try this themselves and purchased only one ticket. They noticed that, oddly, the Scots had not purchased any tickets this time. Anyway, again, just before the conductor came through, the Scots piled into one of the toilet stalls, the Englishmen into the other. Then one of the Scots leaned out of his stall, knocked on the Englishmen's stall and called "Ticket, Please!" When the ticket slid out under the door, he picked it up and quickly closed his door. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A very popular scotsman dies in Glasgow and his old widow wishes to tell all his friends at once so she goes to the newspaper and says "I'd like tae place an obituary fur ma late husband" The man at the desk says "OK, how much money dae ye have?" The old woman replies "£5" to which the man says "You wont get many words for that but write something and we'll see if it's ok" so the old woman writes something and hands it over the counter and the man reads "Peter Reid, fae Parkheid, deid" He feels guilty at the abruptness of the statement and encourages the old woman to write a few more things. The old woman ponders and then adds a few more words and hand the paper over the counter again. The man then reads "Peter Reid, fae Parkheid deid. Ford Escort for sale"

I'm not makin fun of anyone! i am however going insane at work today! in.sane.

double exclamation point

gettin all the hair out!

interesting sidebar, i heard that regis is actually the father of Rippa's kids but that he couldn't do the deed himself but instead had to thaw out a few pints that he had stored in deep freeze circa 1978 apparently- and this is where things get weird- Ringo used the same freezer and wanted to come on the show to see what's what– DNA test and such boy i bet regis misses the 70s

Good luck Bob maybe once the mist clears you'll realise how shit the Leafs are (j/k there bud [color:#cccccc]kinda, trying to lighten the mood around here)

mid-life crisis there Hal? (curling)

this coming from an American Idol fluffer! woof.