NOLA
 

dissent. I agree that Penske is the furthest thing from mentally healthy of the posters on this board- the K races, the "fectas," the multiple socks, the lying about his personal status/stature, all of it adds up to a classic diagnosis of neurosis- borderline psychosis. But he has always been solidily in the range of normal given his abnormalities,

I can recall no evidence of child abuse, and I feel an apology may be in order.

NOLA
 

Well, if there's no abuse of the existing children of his blood, and the whole concept of "whipping [child]" is that it gets the punishment the royal child would not, ergo there will be no abuse of the whipping child.

Are you sure you went to Harvard? I guess Bush went to Yale, so maybe Ivies aren't such the pedigrees anymore.

NOLA
 

Right on! Now, that's what I'm talkin bout.

NOLA
 

Now I understand what Wonk was talkin bout. Wonk, I hereby publicly apoligize for whatever statements I made about Fringe when we dined, al fresco. I was wrong.

Fringe, I will withhold the personal invective, although it would be richly deserved and easily accomplished, however, anytime you would like to compare notes on charitable donations or giving back to one's community in non-monetary ways, let me know and we can have Hank moderate the analysis. NPI. I'll bet you $5K I win.

NOLA
 

Right on! Now that's what I am talkin bout!!!

NOLA
 

How do you know I have any children of blood? There has been no paternity test results unveiled. To date.

Football pool
 

I've created a lawtalkers group at the ESPN eliminator football challenge.

http://games.espn.go.com/eliminator/frontpage

It's a private group called lawtalkers and the password is footballpool.

I propose that all who play make a donation to the board, in multiples of $10, based on what week you are eliminated. That is, a person eliminated in week 1 would donate $10, a person elimnated in week 2 would donate $20, etc. On your honor, of course.

And is some moderator wants to set up a seperate board for this, I'm cool with that.

Football pool
 

Sounds good, but I think we should work the other way. Entrants knocked out in the first week would have to donate $160, the next week, $150, and so on (I think the NFL season may be 17 weeks with the bye week - maybe we could assign bye weeks among the entrants). This approach is better for the board and it rewards merit, or at least would eliminate the temptation to pick Cincy in Week 1.

Football pool
 

Not only do I not understand how this works, I even clicked on the link to find out, and I still don't understand. If you decide to go with SS's method of bilking honest folks out of their money, I'll be an easy $170 (but someone has got to explain to me how this works.)

Football pool
 

It's simple, really. Each week you pick one team you think will win that week. That's it. If your team wins, you advance to the next week. If your team loses, you are eliminated from the game. The only hard part is, you can only pick any given team once in a season.

Does that help?

Football pool
 

I do not think it is fair for Ty@50 to participate. As for those who correspond with him off board, I suppose we will have to be on the honour system, although I believe Sebbie repudiated the notion of honour codes in a recent posting exchange.

Football pool
 

Hmm. That is simple enough (in theory). OK. I'm in. (Where can I find a list of all the teams? The last time I followed football was in the 70's. The 1870's.)

Football pool
 

Three things:

1. Goddamn, ESPN.com sucks. Fucking incomprehensible as to how to joing a group; no links to anything useful at all. Apparently I speak spanish, because the link to join a group was in spanish for me. Their suckitude never ceases to amaze me.

2. I'm already doing two eliminator pools, so I'm not sure I'll remember to enter a pick here every week, but I'll try.

3. I would just wait to see how many people enter and then have the contribution scale down so that the winner donates nothing, last place donates the most. I agree that it doesn't seem right for those in the lead to have to pay more, but that's just me.

I appear to have my entry linked into the group at this point. Ready to go.

door-to-door
 

Has anyone ever used these folks to move? They bring containers to your house, you load 'em up, they come back and get them, and ship 'em to wherever you're moving.

Football pool
 

Did anyone see Richard Simmons- New Orleans native- interviewed this weekend? He was wearing a pastel tank top. For a network interview about an enormous diaster in your hometown, is that appropriate? I believe it was Sunday, so pre-labor day, if that matters.