GO RAMS!!!
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Col. Maybourne: "Teal'c... It's good to see you well."
Teal'c: "In my culture, I would be well within my rights to dismember you."
-Stargate SG-1: "Touchstone"
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"You shot him! You shot him dead!!"
"Well, he was attacking me with a banana!"
--Baloo
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"Politicians and diapers should be changed regularly, for the same reason."
--(Unknown)
Come Hither and Yawn...
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"You shot him! You shot him dead!!"
"Well, he was attacking me with a banana!"
Bow, Ring.
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Gene: "I AM Star Trek"
Yvonne: "You can't sum yourself up in so small a package."
Gene: "SMALL?!!"
- Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation
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Fool of a Took, throw yourself in next time!!
Gandalf
*runs out*
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I can resist anything.......
Except Temptation
Superbowl= RAMS
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I feel more like I do now, then when I first got here!! 
- Alshrim Dax
The Other Dax:
Live Long and Prosper
[This message has been edited by Alshrim Dax (edited January 24, 2000).]
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Death before Dishonor!
However Dishonor has
quite a disputed defintion.
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Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage.
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"I suppose you thought I was dead? No such thing. Don't flatter yourselves that I haven't got my eye upon you. I am wide awake, and you give plenty to look at."
Household Words, Aug. 24, 1850
From the Raven in the Happy Family
*runs out*
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I can resist anything.......
Except Temptation
*runs him down and tackles him*
*dusts hands off and walks away*
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"I suppose you thought I was dead? No such thing. Don't flatter yourselves that I haven't got my eye upon you. I am wide awake, and you give plenty to look at."
Household Words, Aug. 24, 1850
From the Raven in the Happy Family
Saiyanman: The Rams used to be in Los Angeles. They sucked there. Of course, for four years, they also sucked here, but at least we're working on it. :-)
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Col. Maybourne: "Teal'c... It's good to see you well."
Teal'c: "In my culture, I would be well within my rights to dismember you."
-Stargate SG-1: "Touchstone"
as opposed to...
Library. An endeavour in which grown men and women are paid piddling sums of money to provide valuable and vital information to entire communities, despite having to interact with the dregs of society on a daily basis. An endeavour in which many cities which could choose not to take part, and state governments spend trifles on. An endeavour on which most millionaires and billionaires since Carnegie spend diddly-squat.
I know what I'll be doing when the revolution comes. NFL, lock and load!
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Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson
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"Don't have a mind" - Kurt Cobain
Breed, Nirvana
Under your great capitalist system, football players do deserve more money than you librarian geeks. Pretty much anyone who can read can be a librarian. You need natural instincts, skill, talent, and size to be a great football player. Moreover, there is more demand for football players than there is librarians. Supply and demand baby! Go capitalism!
Likewise, Go Rams! (Dick Vermeil lives near me)
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"Don't have a mind" - Kurt Cobain
Breed, Nirvana
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"Think of all the delightful aspects of the reproductive process: menstruation, pregnancy, labor. And the part we're trying to eliminate is sex?" Cecil Adams the guy who does Straight Dope.
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Frank's Home Page
John Linnell: "This song is called...it's called..."
Audience: "Louisiana! Montana!"
John Linnell: Don't tell me what it's called..."
The city fire department and the Coast Guard gave them permission to do it. :-)
Anyway, regarding DT's arguement... Just because something requires special skill doesn't mean its worth millions of dollars. It takes skill to balance a refrigerator on one's head. Does that mean everyone who can balance a refrigerator on his/her/its head should be paid $10M a year?
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Col. Maybourne: "Teal'c... It's good to see you well."
Teal'c: "In my culture, I would be well within my rights to dismember you."
-Stargate SG-1: "Touchstone"
There's large cash running around professional sports. Until recently, the players were content to be paid whatever the owners decided they should be paid. Then one of them (it doesn't matter who) decided that collective bargaining had nothing over "Pay me big money or I play for the other team." This couldn't happen before, because the owners conspired to blacklist players who would not cooperate. Eventually the drawing power of star players became a large enough factor that somebody caved. Owners began chasing after prospective stars with truckloads of money.
"Me! Me! I can pay millions! I know where the girls are! I know where the drugs (and the necessarily high-priced lawyers) are! We'll keep you out of jail and pay you fantastic amounts of money and protect you from all consequences!"
What young male with vague notions of how to make a living apart from his sports skills could resist? If I had had the talent, I don't think Id've spent 20 years in the Air Force with money, fame, and adoring women beckoning. Of course, I suppose my vocabulary would have suffered, but I'm sure I would never have noticed.
BTW, how much does a ticket to the game cost these days? I'll bet even the "cheap seats" ain't cheap!
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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Come Hither and Yawn...
YOU try figuring out the AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Version 2.)
I defy any pro linebacker to put up with the crap I have to take from so-called human beings for a month without hitting anybody.
Go ahead and multitask a community action group with an anti-freedom agenda, a two-month reading program planning and execution, collection development, three people who want books RIGHT NOW, and two kids who've never seen a keyboard in their lives mucking with your computers, ALL AT ONCE.
*doesn't bother mentioning what happens to the free use and exchange of information in most "socialist" countries*
I'd still rather be poor than shot.
(Yes, before you ask, I'm well aware that that was a cheap shot. Now, ask me if I'm sorry.)
I'm going to be quiet now, because this doesn't need to end up on the flameboard.
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Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson
[This message has been edited by First of Two (edited January 26, 2000).]
The nice thing about athletes is they rarely make snide comments about the books you check out or give you a hard time because you take too long to pull out your library card or accuse you of cutting up a book that you brought back and pointed out to them was cut up.
Anyway, you still have yet to refute my (correct) statement that athletes are in more demand. Most people don't give a flying rat's tail (I would've dropped the F bomb there, but this isn't the flameboard) about libraries. Football, on the other hand... supply and demand baby!
Long live capitalism!
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"Don't have a mind" - Kurt Cobain
Breed, Nirvana
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"20th Century, go to sleep."
--
R.E.M.
The world is populated by idiots, but, for some reason, they seem to concentrate themselves around libraries. I don't understand it. A couple years ago, I would have thought a library would be an idiot-free zone. Boy, did I call that one wrong!
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Col. Maybourne: "Teal'c... It's good to see you well."
Teal'c: "In my culture, I would be well within my rights to dismember you."
-Stargate SG-1: "Touchstone"
Besides, football players are only in demand because the people have their priorities seriously out of whack (I know we agree on this, we just disagree as to what those priorities should be.)
I'm sorry you might have gotten a snide comment about a library book... Librarians aren't supposed to do that. But athletes don't ever make comments about someone carrying a stack of books? RE-ally? What school did you go to, Waldo Poindexter High?
As for the rest, what TSN says pretty much stands. I deal with more morons before 9 AM than most people do all day.
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Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson
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I bet when Neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would
always end up saying "Don't forget the big heavy eyebrows." Then they would all get embarrassed because they remembered they had the big hunky eyebrows too, and then they would get mad and eat the snowman.
-Jack Handey
I had a kid last year come in with a book he'd checked out and there were a couple pictures cut out of it. I took one look at it and told him he's have to pay for it. He got his dad and they got all high and mighty on me and asked how I dared to charge them for something they didn't do.
I said, "Look at the date due sticker, genius. I only bought this book last month and you're the first person to check it out at all."
The kid caved in and admitted it. The dad paid for the book, and probably skinned the kid when they got home. Too bad.
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Calvin: "No efficiency, no accountability... I tell you, Hobbes, it's a lousy way to run a Universe." -- Bill Watterson
And yes, whores are in demand, and they probably make more money than librarians. And they probably deserve it more too. Go prostitutes!!
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"Don't have a mind" - Kurt Cobain
Breed, Nirvana
If anyone mentions libraries, football games, or any other books for loan/traditional sporting entertainment again, that thread will be immediately locked, deleted, burnt, made to walk the plank, terminated with extreme prejudice, and so on. Nice work.
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"20th Century, go to sleep."
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R.E.M.