The $150 million dollar question
 

I'm guessing your halloween costume this year is "Homosexual"?

Poncho Confession
 

In the yarn world they are called capelets. IMO they are more ridiculous than ponchos.

Anne
Who's sister has requested a hand knit poncho. In black. In stockingnette stitch. On small needles. Oh the horror!!!

Psych warfare 101
 

The old Thurgreed who is not bitter and grouchy? You must be his twin, because I think he's been like this since he left the womb.

Psych warfare 101
 

Wow. The Thurgreed I know is always sunshine and light. He makes me think of furry little puppies, and darling tow-headed children squealing in deight at the sound of the ice-cream truck, and Santa Claus.

The $150 million dollar question
 

I'd at least use caution.

Moore, Demi. "Not very bright or talented." "Nicer than her reputation." Very nasty separation from Bruce Willis, although they may be back together. Never graduated from high school. Former high-priced Las Vegas callgirl. Achieved her breathy voice by permanently and deliberately damaging her vocal cords. Ego roughly the size of the Kingdome. Difficult to work with. Cheapskate. Former (and if reports are true current) drug user & abuser. More than one breast implant operation. $cientologist, but was forced to leave the cult by Willis when she tried to "convert" the kids. Bisexual, if not practising. Linked with Bill Clinton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael Douglas, Emilio Estevez, Colin Farrell, Anthony Kiedis, Ashton Kutcher (he's, what, a third her age? sheesh!), Rob Lowe, Tobey Maguire, Brad Pitt, Chris Rock, Ally Sheedy, and John Stamos.

http://www.geocities.com/mnussitch/gossip.html

Psych warfare 101
 

Are you bitter because both teams beat the Yankees? The idea of the logo on the box is stupid, but why should the Diamondbacks not be honored? Randy Johnson's ugly mug would have been more appropriate but probably would have scared the kids.

And why not Big Papi? He had a .304 BA, was third in doubles with 47, tied for second in HRs with 41, was second in RBIs with 139 and second in slugging percentage with .603. Add to that his heroic hits in the ALDS and ALCS and timely hits in the WS and some surprising defense. Why shouldn't he be on the Wheaties box?

ETA: Being on the Wheaties box is better than that "I'm going to Disney World!" schtick. Now that's a bone.

Psych warfare 101
 

Ha! You don't even know who the old Thurgreed is anymore.

And I'm not bitter about it. I was actually trying to have an actual conversation about it. If I were a Boston fan, I wouldn't like it. If the Knicks won the Championship next year and they put any of our players on the Wheaties box, I would say the same thing. I take it you don't agree?

TM

Psych warfare 101
 

Mostly, I don't care. I don't eat Wheaties anyway.

Psych warfare 101
 

I think you're missing the point. I thought the Wheaties box was reserved for the cream of the crop. A special honor for those who have achieved unbelievable athletic success. If they put Randy Johnson on, it would be to acknowledge not only his great post season performance that year, but his stellar career (and that is why I noted Torre's and Smith's Hall credentials). Ortiz has two and a half good seasons and one great post season and he gets put on the cover? I don't think that's it. If it were, the box would be just his and wouldn't honor the Sox as team.

They are honoring the Sox for overcoming decades of futility. That's fine, but it seems out of place with what they usually do. Maybe they changed their approach when they decided to put the Diamondbacks on (that still makes no sense to me). That's fine. But then if winning the championship was the accomplishment that gets you on, where is Anaheim's box cover?

Is it regional now or something?

And I love that if I say anything about Boston, I'm bitter. I can't put their accomplishment into perspective without being bitter? The comeback against the Yankees was amazing. But, Jesus. If they had won the Series in 1995 do you honestly think they'd get the cover of the Wheaties box this year?

TM

Psych warfare 101
 

The slogan for Wheaties is "The Breakfast of Champions" after all, and they are champions. I'm not sure I understand your criticism. Even if they don't do it every year, I'm not sure that matters. My guess is that they figured they'd sell a bunch of boxes of Wheaties (and, as a result, make bunches of cash) if they put a Red Sox player on the box. But maybe I lack the requisite deference to the inherent value of the space on the front of the Wheaties box.

(actually I think it is a little bit weird that they always put the Super Bowl champs on the box, but they don't automatically do so for other sports. or I would find it weird if I wasn't convinced that the NFL is the best professional sports league in the US.)

n(sad to see the reference to the "Giants 2001 Super Bowl Champions (phantom box)" on the list)cs

The $150 million dollar question
 

I don't know what's worse, that she's a cheapskate, or that she's linked with Ally Sheedy. Bleccccch.

Psych warfare 101
 

The old Thurgreed would have never typed Ha! in a post.

(I miss him. *sniff*)

Poncho Confession
 

Mrs. Not Bob has one like that (except it isn't cashmere) -- she bought it several months ago when she was in TCOTU, and is quite happy to wear it.

Granted, we live in Podunkville, so YMM, as they say, V. For context, she dislikes Ugg boots, never wears hose with open-toed shoes, likes those ugly designer purses, and thinks that SJP looks cute in the Gap ads.

Psych warfare 101
 

Speaking of missing posters, where did str8 go? I miss hearing about who was dissing who at the Ivy, and the latest news from the Debbie Gibson fan club.

Memories, of the way we used to be.....

The $150 million dollar question
 

She was hot in St. Elmo's Fire.

http://www.geocities.com/stelmosfire...evinleslie.jpg

Psych warfare 101
 

Since we only have brief internet conversations, I don't know if you are bitter or not. I only mentioned it because the two instances that you brought up as being 'bones' both involved teams that beat the Yankees. Granted, there aren't a lot of current baseball examples on the list.

It's all marketing. They are expecting 5 million people for the parade tomorrow (yes, clearly the members of Red Sox nation need a life). How many of those people will be buying the Wheaties box to display in their basement Rec Rooms along with the photographs that boston.com and the Boston Herald are hawking. It will give them something to look at until the inevitable DVD of the season comes out around Christmas.

Even if they had won the WS last year, any team that comes back from 3-0 against any other team deserves recognition. This year David Ortiz happened to be one of the faces associated with that event. Damon is just odd looking, nobody would know who Mark Bellhorn was and even up here we're sick of the Schilling bloody sock stuff.

Which reminds me of question I've had - does baseball have a higher percentage of born again Christians than other sports or is it just the Red Sox?

The $150 million dollar question
 

I remember when she was doing promotion work for GI Jane, she went on Letterman and did a running front flip coming onto the set. Her tits did not move. That's right; her tits did not move.

A man could get hurt. That's all I'm saying.

Psych warfare 101
 

Good point. Maybe I'm the only one who wonders why they don't do it every year. I don't really give a shit that Wheaties has some strange reasons behind their assignment of box covers -- hell, maybe it's all market-based. It just seems strange to me. And if I were a Boston fan, I wouldn't like it.

What's weird is that they seem to consistently do it for Super Bowl Champs but pick and choose for baseball. What makes one year's champs better than another?

TM

Psych warfare 101
 

Good one! Lol.

TM

Psych warfare 101
 

I used the examples you gave me. But, who am I going to pick out of the recent years that you wouldn't think I was bitter about? Anaheim? Florida? They all beat us.

Instant collector's item. I agree. That answers why it was done. I just wondered if Boston fans felt the way I did about whether it should have been done, but you seem to have addressed that already and do so again in your next paragraph.

Okay. I see your point. I disagree, but that makes sense.

I don't know about being born again. But sooo many players are deeply religious.

TM

The $150 million dollar question
 

Talk about suspension of disbelief.

The $150 million dollar question
 

Well since she's already had a couple of breast augmentations, maybe one more won't hurt.

LONDON - British biotechnology firm AorTech is moving towards clinical trials of what it says are “next generation” breast implants that are less prone to leaking and rupturing and feel more natural.

Elast-Eon implants could take 10 percent of the $600-million-a-year global market, Chief Executive Frank Maguire told Reuters on Friday following a meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Breast implants have been around since the 1960s but have been dogged by controversy since the 1990s. Critics say silicones often leak from the gel-filled devices, causing cancer and neurological diseases.

As a result, some 90 percent of the U.S. market uses saline-filled implants. Scientists have been working on cross-linking the molecules in silicone-gel implants to prevent leaching, but their texture has become increasingly firm.

“Now they’re too firm,” said Maguire. “And saline implants are like bags of water.”

Trials of implants filled with peanut oil and soy-bean oil have come to nothing, he said.
“Elast-Eon is a very clean material that is free of the silicone oil that has been leaching out of gel-filled devices for the past 20 to 30 years,” said Maguire. “And we can move back into the softer range that more naturally simulates breast tissue.”

Psych warfare 101
 

I guess there's something about their business model I don't understand -- I thought Wheaties was selling cereal. I saw that box and thought, "we are many, we are happy, and we eat breakfast!"

Psych warfare 101
 

At the risk of yet again failing to stp about BoSox-related stuff, in most of the country, I think people care more about football than baseball. More fans in most places, I think, would rather their team won the Super Bowl than the World Series. New England is an exception to this, though.

Poncho Confession
 

Yes. Absolutely. Call it what you want, but a poncho is a poncho. Makes people wonder what you're covering up.

Matching goofballs. That's funny. My mom made matching outfits for us once - I hated it. What is it with moms and the matching outfits anyway?

Poncho Confession
 

actually, it might be a capelet.

my older sister liked having us match for some reason, even though she is 5 years older. we had swimsuits, coats, shirts, etc. that matched. in retrospect, not a good plan for her during her awkward adolescent years. the matching outfit photos have been kinder to me (most of them were taken during the always cute 3-5 yo range).

Poncho Confession
 

Tell me about it. It took years for me to get over the ridicule from fourth grade.

Poncho Confession
 

I have never been too drawn to capelets (although I have been drawn to capes, especially Superman ones, which I frequently wear to the office), but it's hard to go wrong with anything cashmere. I just bought a hot pink cashmere hoodie because I really liked the way it felt on, even though it's like so Paris Hilton from two years ago. If you like it, get it.

Poncho Confession
 

But remember, we reserve the right to openly ridicule you. At all times.

Especially if the poncho/capelet is from the poncho department at Macy's.

Poncho Confession
 

I am currently on a cashmere bender. not necessarily good on the checkbook. but it is making me happy.

Poncho Confession
 

it is not. it was not hanging with other ponchos/capelets. it was in the cashmere sweater department (at Bloomingdales, if you must know). I think it will look fabulous over my go-out tops (many of which are sleeveless and therefore cold) this winter. with jeans or black pants and heels.

(yes, I'm gonna buy it.)

Ridicule away.

Poncho Confession
 

I hope you realize that you are purchasing the Rudolf of the poncho/capelet species.

Poncho Confession
 

I probably purr when I have cashmere next to my skin. It's a good thing that I don't/can't go bra-less, because the feeling of cashmere on my bare breasts is amazingly erotic to me. I'd never be able to actually leave the house if I could wear it that way.

Poncho Confession
 

I am taking an online traffic school class at the moment. And I am quite sad that the only thing I have to distract me from it is this discussion of ponchos and capelets.

That said, I'm sure you'll look absolutely fetching in your capelet, ncs.

eta: thank you, rt. The image of cashmere against bare breasts will get me through for quite a while.

The $150 million dollar question
 

She's attractive, but for a movie star, she isn't and never has been that hot. Don't get me wrong, her body is phenomenal, but her face is well...leathery. There are women working at my office who are better looking than her.

Plus, she's an unbelievably bad actress. So bad it makes me angry. She single-handedly destroyed "A Few Good Men".

The $150 million dollar question
 

I thought she was a pretty convincing coke-head in St. Elmo's Fire, but she probably spent years practicing up for that part.

Crap
 

My fucking SBC Yahoo homepage just spoiled last night's Apprentice for me by putting as the main news item on the page a picture of the loser, along with the headline "[Loser's] Fatal Mistake". Should I cancel my DSL service over this?

Crap
 

No. You should shit on someone's desk. Weren't you paying attention yesterday?

The $150 million dollar question
 

That's like me getting a gig where I have to play a convincing masturbator.

Psych warfare 101
 

Depends on whether this is a national box or a regional box. I don't expect to see Red Sox World Series Wheaties boxes at my local grocery store as previous World Series champions have been regional according to this list.

The national ones may be limited but, judging from a Google search, they've even done regional ones for league champs. It's all about sales and I suspect there will be at least 10X as many BoSox Wheaties boxes stored in New England closets and basements as there are Twins 1987 and 1991 World Series boxes stored in Minnesota basements (the Fugee Mom has at least one of each).