Who can turn the world on with her smile....
 

Except paigow is the one on the lower left.

TM

COnfidential to Thurgreed
 

Wiley got that ESPN gig through affirmative inaction.

Whoever hired the guy was too lazy to do anything more than point at someone and say 'you're hired'.

What a waste of bandwidth.

Ullrich Back to Telekom
 

Jordan was a hero to millions, a star athlete with tremendous talent who pushed himself to the limits and did things no one had ever done on a court before.

Crawford was a model who starved herself, smiled alot, and took off her clothes.

Was there anything for Crawford to sell out? To me, it seems like she was just used goods looking for a new owner.

burning bright
 

I look forward to hearing her thoughtful comments tonight when Elvis faces the Bucs. Should be a good game.

Ullrich Back to Telekom
 

To hear it told, she helped countless young men through puberty in the late 80s and early 90s. And yes, she sold out her good name as a supermodel who can afford really nice jewelry when she started hawking Kay shit. Think of the backlash of Pierce Brosnan started selling Kias.

Florida Board
 

Hi! Sorry to interrupt the Michael Jordan/Cindy Crawford discussion.

Some admins suggested I post here to let everyone know that we are reinvigorating the Florida board.

If only I had seen the tiger alligator discussion earlier, I could have tied it in.

Just like my Gators, I missed my opportunity on that one.

Check us out on Florida!

Edited: if only I had waited, I could have responded to the Bucs comment. Again, missed opportunities.

In honor of Yom Kippur
 

I have a new avatar. Forreal. I call myself forreal cause I'm the truth.

Jesse Barfield will grace this board no more. But perhaps one of his Exhibition Statdium outfield buds will take his place next April.

str(rumor has it that Rick Bosetti urinated on every American League outfield -- during the game)8

Yom Kippur
 

Different people observe Yom Kippur in different ways. What you can and cannot do is affected by what form of judaism you practice (or if you are like me and don't practice judaism but recognize certain holidays as a way of respect for your heritage.)

You are supposed to deprive yourself, disrupt your habits, change your life for the day in such a way that you recognize what you have the rest of the time, and also, appreciate what God gives us. Most especially what you are to appreciate is the Divine Guidance of God and His awesome mercy and love for His creations. And you are to reflect on your behavior and (some say) the behavior of the community around you, and repent either as an individual or as the community (depending on your beliefs) for sins over the past year. You are to let God into your heart, to recognize that you have a mission here on earth, and that mission though it will vary based on God's will, overall is to live such a life that you are judged worthy of admission to His realm in your death. It is assumed you are worthy on Yom Kippur (judgment took place during Rosh Hashana,) this is God's mercy.

On Yom Kippur the God of the afterlife, who is reflected differently in our every day lives than He is in the afterlife, reveals more of Himself to us through our reflection. In this realm we have free will, we can make choices, and we often do make choices that take us in the wrong direction. We focus on wealth and beauty perhaps instead of the mission God created for us. In the afterlife none of this is necessary, because there God shows His complete glory and there is no question in your heart about Him. But in this realm He chooses to show us less and allow us our choices.

One of the most oft told tales today is about Jonah and how he spent time on self reflection and repentance while in the whale, and how he learned that no matter how he tried to avoid it he had to obey God's orders. It was through his failure to obey God that he ended up in such dire straights. And it is through our failure to obey Him that we suffer indecision and angst.

Through this time in the whale and the time after he had followed his mission and convinced the citizens of Ninevah to change their ways, Jonah realized, that God rules with forgiveness and mercy, and that while we all have flaws, we are still His creation and He loves us.

This is an extremely basic explanation. It's both a complex and simple holiday. And its meaning is frequently very personal.

Yom Kippur
 

Thank you for the post.

Out of curiosity more than anything else, and certainly not to simultaneously raise issues on two subjects where you are more qualified to speak than I, but have you accepted the idea that God is masculine?

With respect to my own religion, I try to teach my children that gender is irrelevant to God, and that to the extent we can claim to know anything about God, we should assume that God is male, female, both and neither.

[RANT]
Able-bodied people have no need to stop my elevator to ride up a floor when there are perfectly good stairs nearby.
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Yom Kippur
 

No, I didn't attempt describe my personal beliefs, but rather was focused on different aspects of the holiday itself.

I don't believe God has a gender, nor a form for that matter.

Ullrich Back to Telekom
 

true story: a client's sales staff bought a lifesize cardboard MJ, you know $10 in a store. they used it to show that a product it sold was 7 feet tall, by standing the MJ cutout in the product. they did this at 2 one-day trade shows.
a month later the client received a letter from MJ's lawyers. The letter stated a minimum endorsement royalty of $500K, time 2 for us.
We bounced it to the insurance carrier, and heard it cut a check for $750K a few months later.
Its good to be the King.

Yom Kippur
 

I thought we covered this before. God looks just like Morgan Freeman. When he gets overworked, He sometimes asks losers here on earth to help out. Hilarity ensues.

Ullrich Back to Telekom
 

How were sales during the 2 days?

burning bright
 

What does "when Elvis faces the Bucs" mean?

I have a soft spot for Tony Dungy. That man looked gooooood in creamsicle orange. Better than Ray Perkins, or (God help me) Leeman Bennett.

Bucco (Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, and I just hope that we aren't called to atone tonight for letting Tony go after all he did for us) Bruce