Robert J

Can you say "speedball"? yes, folks. here it is. http://www.anheuser-busch.com/news/BtoE_100404.htm Yeah we've got that crap here too: Labatt "Shok" and Molson "Kick". Seems like a retarted combo to me. But I've also never tried Red Bull. However, this is nice craft beer, brewed about 2 miles from me now.

How does that taste?

jazz we've got

Classic!

almost as heartfealt as Cruise to Shields ... World Cup insult about Zidane's sister Sep. 5, 2006. 11:46 AM ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME — Italy's Marco Materazzi said he insulted Zinedine Zidane's sister, revealing nearly two months after the World Cup final what provoked the French star to head-butt him in the chest. In Tuesday's interview with the Gazzetta dello Sport, Materazzi disclosed that after he held his opponent's shirt, Zidane said: "If you want, I'll give you the jersey later." "I responded that I preferred his sister, it's true," Materazzi said. "It wasn't something nice, true. But luckily there have been dozens of players who have confirmed that a lot worse things are said on the field." Zidane was sent off after receiving a red card for the head-butt. Italy went on to win on penalty kicks. Materazzi received a two-game ban for the July 9 incident and will miss Wednesday's rematch of the final, a 2008 European Championship qualifier. Zidane received a three-match suspension, but he retired after the World Cup. Materazzi said that the Italian federation, in the middle of a match-fixing scandal, told him not to complain about the incident during a FIFA hearing. "If accepting without raising my voice was the price to pay for having brought home the World Cup, I'm pretty happy to have paid it," Materazzi said. Asked if the two could make peace, Materazzi said: "You sign a peace (agreement) after terrible wars, so why can't Zidane and I make peace? "A peace among men, without a lot of publicity. The door to my house will always be open for that. And if Zidane wants, he knows where to find my address."

They play on Sep 17 in Toronto, but at $60 before taxes, I will pass. Though it might have been good for my 12 year old son to see the other side of rap artists. I saw them live in 92 and it was a great show (and then for the other side a month later, free tix to see Ice-T "OG" ) Still love the Ron Carter sound on Low End Theory.

Paul - Get well soon man. You're the one who convinced me to join the Friday chat. Now I am considered a regular, and I'm back into scotch once again! I can't turn back, need your loving support

and get laid....maybe. but then you have to listen to their bad poetry afterwards yeah, but maybe you'd get laid. hasn't worked for me, but you never know. David - you just have to adjust your marketing angle for these circumstances. Not: "as beautiful as a crescent of a new moon on a cloudless spring evening (2004) for string quartet" But: "as beautiful as a crescent of a new moon on a cloudless spring evening (2004) for hemp string quartet"

and get laid....maybe. but then you have to listen to their bad poetry afterwards

A thousand Just listening now while you guys wrote that. Bob Erwig's stuff is great to subscribe to

Finally some Erroll Garner! The shadow of your smile All the things you are Something

Now I catch your drift!

It was actually 22 years ago, but in 1984, the twist-off beer cap was introduced by Labatt Brewery.

Mine's not far away. But I'm in marketing and there's traditionally very few men in that line of business, so the thrones are not well-tread, so to speak. However, we need to use our security pass to enter the door (not the stall door).

David - I've listened to that show twice now

My one and only time seeing him was as the opening act for the Moody Blues at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 83

Yeah - that Ro-beer guy, I dunno about him, he's trouble. No, Just Canadian!

I think when people actaully hear vinyl, they realize they didn't know they'd been missing something from the recording. Several times I have played something - rock or jazz - and the comment was "wow, and all this time I thought the CD version is/had to be the better sound".

Sometimes other things happen to good people. _________________________ TORONTO — A number of Canadian investors cleaned out their on-line brokerage accounts this week and then dumped the proceeds into a group of obscure penny stocks, including one based in Vancouver. There was only one problem: They had no clue they were actually trading. Regulators and police are now scrambling to untangle a complex financial scam that has put a high-tech twist on the boiler rooms of yesteryear. This week, a pair of Canadian brokerages, including BMO InvestorLine, discovered that someone had gained unauthorized access to a handful of client accounts, and then liquidated the portfolios. The money was used to place orders for securities listed on the OTC Bulletin Board and the Nasdaq pink sheets, apparently with the intention of manipulating these stock prices, according to the Investment Dealers Association of Canada. Alex Popovic, vice-president of enforcement at the self-regulatory body, suggested this could be part of an elaborate "pump-and-dump" swindle, in which someone artificially inflates the price of a stock and then "dumps" it for a profit, leaving other investors with next-to-worthless paper. "That's the supposition at this point -- that it is the 'pump' side of a pump-and-dump scheme," Mr. Popovic said. "Or, in the alternative, it could be a money-laundering scheme and it's a way of getting the cash out of the client's account." So far, tens of thousands of dollars have been improperly traded, sources said. BMO reported two cases of improper account access to the IDA, while TD Waterhouse confirmed it is investigating suspicious activity in less than a half-dozen accounts, although it is not clear whether this is part of the same scam. Mr. Popovic said he has notified the RCMP about the problem, as well as provincial securities regulators in Ontario and British Columbia. Authorities are still uncertain as to how the accounts were breached, but said there is no indication that fraudsters had penetrated the security systems at these on-line brokerages. One theory is that investors unwittingly gave up their passwords through what is known as a "phishing" e-mail, a scheme that has become increasingly pervasive in the investment industry. Essentially, fraud artists pose as a representative from a bank or brokerage firm and trick customers into divulging private account information. Other possibilities cited by the IDA were "pirate" websites, which mimic the appearance of a bank's website, or even computer viruses that spy on users by recording their keystrokes. Some experts have estimated there are as many as 150 million phishing e-mails sent over the Internet each day. A study by Visa two years ago, when phishing was still a relatively new phenomenon, suggested as many as 200,000 Canadians may have been victimized by these attacks. The IDA was notified by U.S. authorities last week that a similar operation was afoot south of the border, and that the perpetrators were breaking into on-line trading accounts to buy the same stocks on the over-the-counter market. One of these unnamed securities is based in Vancouver, according to sources. The IDA declined to comment on the specific stocks.

listening now

Today must be the record for double-posts

RT - I agree! The last link I posted is Animal Behaviour from that recording. It's a freaky video.