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It is my understanding that the Dodge Caravan is 18 years old, not its owner. ohhhh....My eyes saw 18-year-old Dodge Caravan and thought that was his street name! :rsmile:

Never No Lament the Blanton-Webster Band Funny, I thought I had read something about this on the board awhile back, but could not find it... I listened to a few tracks at Barnes and Noble a few weeks back, and could not believe how bad it sounded! Not just some surface noise, more like someone found some worn out records at goodwill and thought how much time and money they could save just creating cds from those discs! I don't know why I didn't mention it sooner, and just did a quick check of the reviews and saw they were decidedly mixed, even the packaging is rough inside, it appears. Did anyone hear if this was as someone mentioned in a review at Amazon a production error? Amazing if this is what BMG/RCA really planned to put out.... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detai...ustomer-reviews

Even my mother, whose hands are not of the most flexible, has no problem getting out the most recalcitrant CD by just shoving in the centre 'til it pops out. And it 'never did her any harm' etc. Just got my disc 4! Yea Mosaic! I shall now put on my inspector Berigan cap and figure out why the hell I broke a cd....lets see know, just took out disc 3, no problem...open the trim 2 cd case up, put disc 4 in, now try to take it out...same problem!(well, didn't break the disc at least!) Checked out the inner disc on other cases in the set, and this seems to be a problem, to a lesser extent on all of them. It seems that when you open the case so that the inner portion of the tray is out of the cd case, there is little support...you don't want to break the cd case, but I will worry less about this in the future! The centers don't seem to want to compress, either. I will also gently loosen the teeth that hold the cd in place. Never noticed them on these sets before, but they are fairly long, and alternate ...4 will flex on one side, but not on the other(Do jazz nuts know how to waste time, or what? ) One of the hold down tabs is already stressed, turning white, so perhaps I will just get some cheap 2 cd cases, and replace these...No doubt Mosaic does not like the discs to pop out like many 2 cd cases do....and spends more for these, but these are too good! By the by, I have replaced 100's of cd cases for being cracked, yellow, gummy, evil, what have you...so I felt really stupid for cracking a cd!

Yes, they are getting thicker than thieves as of late, and now I have gotten a paypal one as well....I have a friend that really, and truly feels that this type of sorriness is worthy of the death penalty.

How does an 18 year old get at least 80,000???? "Dad, I have this dream....." Yes, an absolute, complete waste of money. Of course, the $230,000 for a 2003 Aston Martin Vanquish's 1,200-watt system, is pretty damn close...at least I would assume it would put out a sound I would want to hear....

Hell, everyone chip in a quarter to help buy a few cans of beans and I'll take the sucker on! Your poor, poor wife!

From noted website, scrappleface.com 'Do Not Call' Registry Funded by Email Address Sales (2003-06-27) -- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that it will fund the new "Do Not Call" registry by selling the email addresses of registrants to Internet-based marketing companies. The plan should save taxpayers millions of dollars, and spur the online economy. An unnamed spokesman said the FTC will continue to protect the privacy of American consumers by requiring Internet marketers to phone each person to get verbal permission before sending any offers via email

This explains sooo much!

2 Mil a minute eh? I think the big point about his condition is that Cali's next gov is 55, or well into AARP territory

There were several books on the subject, 'Scuse Me While I Kiss This Guy was the title of the first one! I really probably should have my hearing checked....when I was quite young, I heard this song Play That Funky Music (White Boy) from Wild Cherry...I excitedly told my friends at school the next day, "Have you heard that song? Play that FUCKING music white boy? I was told even by the 5 year olds that I was wrong....Metallica's "Wherever I May Roam" has a line that is Rover Wanderer Nomad Vagabond Call me what you will Before I got the cd, I naturally assumed is was No man bag a bones, tell me what to wear! For the both of you who like Megadeth like I do, Devil's Island, sounded like Devil's eyelids to a friend of mine, and everytime I hear the song, that really does sound like what Dave was singing!

Have to chime in with praise as well for Bringing up Baby...the film that finished her career at RKO, and Hollywood for awhile, yet when you see it today, you just can't figure it out....Oh, and Adam's Rib was mentioned as well, very good film....Like Mnytime said, TCM will no doubt run many films, and these will be shown for sure...well, just checked and they already have it set up, and a rememberance from Robert Osbourne...Strange, no African Queen...that Docu I remember being very good, because she herself narrates it! IN MEMORY OF KATHARINE HEPBURN TCM revises its schedule on Thursday, July 10th to pay tribute to Katharine Hepburn, 1907-2003 Schedule for July 10th: 6:00 AM Mary of Scotland ('36) 8:15 AM Holiday ('38) 10:00 AM Woman of the Year ('42) 12:00 PM Adam's Rib ('49) 2:00 PM Pat and Mike ('52) 4:00 PM The Lion in Winter ('68) 6:30 PM Katharine Hepburn: All About Me 8:00 PM Bringing Up Baby ('38) 10:00 PM The Philadelphia Story ('40) 12:00 AM Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? ('67) 2:00 AM Little Women ('33) 4:00 AM Undercurrent ('46) A Fond Memory by Robert Osborne Call it a schoolboy whim, call it madness, but I once had the nerve to ask Katharine Hepburn to dinner. I'd never met her, mind you, but does a reason like that ever stop a cheeky college boy, filled with the flush of being 18? At the time, I was an undergraduate at the University of Washington, and Hepburn was in Seattle on tour in a play. Hepburn! Live! In my town! It was too good to be true. It also seemed to be my mission to entertain her. She was, after all, a visitor in my domain, probably didn't know a soul in Seattle and wouldn't have a clue on how to fill those empty hours when she wouldn't be on stage. It was clearly up to me to rescue her. (Oh, the way the brain works when one is 18!). I tried to do it in an MGManner. I took some flowers to the front desk at her hotel (the local papers had mentioned where she was staying), and enclosed a note with an invitation to dinner at a spiffy restaurant (one I could ill afford but, well, I'd worry about that later). And I waited. And waited. Silence. Hmmm, there must have been a breakdown in communication. So I bought a second bouquet, though a smaller one, out of financial necessity, again enclosing a note to my pal Kate. (By now, in my mind, we were old, old friends or, at least, about to be.) Still no reply . A third bouquet didn't bring any better results. Then, soon after, the play ended, and Miss Hepburn and her fellow actors left town and moved on to the next engagement. I was crushed, then chagrined, then disappointed, then disenchanted. Never once did wisdom become a part of the equation. My only relief was the fact there'd been no restaurant bill to pay. But, as often happens with 18 year olds, I soon forgot about the episode, and moved on to some other pursuit. And then one day a letter arrived, with the logo of a prestigious Seattle hotel in the left hand corner. And inside were some words I've treasured ever since. The note read, "You are certainly very enthusiastic, and one quality I have enormous regard for is enthusiasm but, alas, in this instance I cannot respond - except to thank you for your beautiful red roses - they are particularly lovely ones - and to tell you that I never go out anywhere - but thank you for asking me. I have dinner before the play and I have to go home and go to bed afterward - otherwise I should die of exhaustion. I am sorry to disappoint you. But I'm not too sure it's a good idea for a young man to go about asking strange actresses to supper. Yours faithfully, Katharine Hepburn." Has anyone had their knuckles rapped with more class and style? I doubt it. Style and class have always been synonymous with Miss Hepburn. In honor of her memory, TCM will show 11 of her films and one documentary on Thursday, July 10th beginning at 6:00 am ET. (see schedule above). by Robert Osborne

What, no Jim Hart? Well, then I have to go to Montana, even as an old man with KC, you just expected him to pull victories out of his ass, which he did some of the time....

Sofoklis Schortsanitis??? You would want to say that name all the time if he was good??? I guess you could turn that into So Scho, if he wasn't so hot....

So....no one cares about baseball anymore??? Strange, I live in Atlanta, and felt like many that John Schuerholz was completely insane trading Millwood for a back-up catcher, letting Glavine(Who started with the Braves) go, yet offering Maddox arbitration so he could get what, 14 Million? Robert Fick as the Braves first baseman? 61 and 63 RBI's the last two seasons? He is going to be the first baseman?Well, That backup catcher is still in AAA because 32 year old Javy Lopez, (Another example of Schuerholz's mental shakiness because he signed him for 2 more years during the offseason, after 11 52, .233) has in just 203 at bats has hit 23 Homers, and has 46 RBIs! Greg Maddox is 6- 7 4.45 . Fick has 42 RBIs even after being on the disabled list....and the Braves Pitching is still great..for the most part, and they are in first place, completely....I really wanted to see the braves do poorly this year so that they would have to use their megabucks to get some pitchers who actually throw faster than the speed limit, so the braves could get past the first and second rounds, and beat the damn Yankees! But, the Braves are hitting homers like I never, ever thought possible, so perhaps the junk the pitchers toss will just throw Soriano, Jeter, etc timing off, and we will win it all

Just like if you hear someone say that they are from St. Louie, no...they Ain't! Hate it when they say that in a movie as well!

Cool, but I was hoping he was going to join Megadeth!

Man, he keeps sinking more dough into baseballs! McFarlane wins auction for historic Bonds ball By Darren Rovell ESPN.com NEW YORK -- Barry Bonds' record-breaking 73rd home run ball was sold to comic book and action figure mogul Todd McFarlane on Wednesday night for $517,500. Top balls sold The homer Value McGwire's 70th $3M Aaron's 755th $650,000 Bonds' 73rd $517,500 Murray's 500th $500,000 Mantle's 500th $250,000 McGwire's 500th $250,000 Sosa's 66th $175,000 Ruth's first at Stadium $130,000 Fisk's Series shot $120,000 With the purchase, McFarlane now owns three of the seven highest-priced home run baseballs sold. He purchased Mark McGwire's 70th and Sammy Sosa's 66th home run balls, each from the home run race of 1998, for $3 million and $175,000, respectively. "I'll take a look at the ball, probably get a photo of all three of my home run balls together," McFarlane told ESPN.com after winning the auction. "Then we'll see if we can work something out with the Hall of Fame." McFarlane bid $450,000 on the phone and will pay $67,500 in commission fees to Leland's, the auction house that conducted the bidding. The auction took place at the ESPN Zone in New York's Times Square and was featured live on SportsCenter. Proceeds will be split between the two owners of the ball, Patrick Hayashi and Alex Popov, although at that price, it's not clear that there will be any proceeds. Both Hayashi and Popov have plenty of legal bills to pay, as well as commission fees to auction house Leland's and sports marketer Michael Barnes, who brokered the deal with Leland's. When asked whether the two made any money off the sale of the ball, Hayashi said it might be hard to make money off the sale, while Popov declined to provide further details. "That's irrelevant," Popov said. "We're here to talk about the record." Mike Heffner, left, of Leland's auction house takes the final and winning phone bid during Wednesday's auction. Leland's had estimated that the ball would sell for between $1 million and $2 million and insured the ball, which was on display at the ESPN Zone for $2 million. "It's not that this ball came cheap," McFarlane said. "It's that the McGwire ball was overpriced. If it weren't for me and another guy, the McGwire ball would have sold for $1.3 million." Buying McGwire's record-breaking ball in February 1999 brought untold amounts of publicity to McFarlane, who created the Spawn comic book and now produces officially-licensed sports figures. "I didn't really know who Todd McFarlane was until he bought that (70th home run Mark McGwire) baseball," Popov said. "And when he did, his name became a household name." Bonds set the single-season home run record on Oct. 7, 2001 during the Giants' final game of that season. Due to a legal battle between Popov -- who said he had gloved the ball before it was stolen from him -- and Hayashi, who eventually emerged with the ball among the Pac Bell scrum, the ball was locked up in a California bank vault while the courts determined ownership of the ball. In December 2002, after a 14-day trial that featured 17 witnesses, Superior Court Judge Kevin McCarthy ruled that the ball must be sold and the proceeds divided equally. Popov and Hayashi were given 12 days to decide how they wanted to sell the ball, but it took nearly three more months to agree on the auction process. "It has been an adventure, a real roller coaster ride with its ups and downs," said Hayashi, who is studying for his masters in business at San Diego State. He brought a "Hayashi 73" Giants jersey with him to the auction. Sal Durante, who caught Roger Maris' 61st home run in 1961, was in attendance at the auction. "To be part of a club of people that can say that they caught significant home run balls is a rare treat," said Popov, the health food store owner from San Francisco. "In what other sport does a fan have an opportunity to participate like this." Barnes, who also helped broker deals for the owners of the Sosa/McGwire balls following the home run race of 1998, said he was a little disappointed in the final price. "I would have liked to see the ball sell for more for my own selfish sake, but in reality, we're never going to hit the prices we hit for the 1998 ball sales." Darren Rovell, who covers sports business for ESPN.com, can be reached at Darren.rovell@espn3.com.

it's a red "hering" Jim! actually, that's an interesting point you make, I wonder if one could rough the laces up a bit, or embed something very small but sharp...wonder if the gloves are long since into a trash can....it would be a shame if true, cuz Lewis has always seemed a cut above the average fighter...Pun was unintended at first, but now it is intended.

Brad, not in two peices, but it did crack all the way thru the cd from the spindle out....what's funny(Not ha ha) is that I have tried to crack those AOL free discs , and most of the time they warp, discolor, and only after great effort, break...I guess AOL just uses a higher grade of plastic for their discs! Just checked, and they have emailed they will send out a replacement disc...I kind of figured there wouldn't be a problem, but nice to know the great customer service I have read about from fellow jazz nuts is still the case!

Disc 3 was great, with more jazzy pop tracks, (Had many but not all of the alternate tracks on the Hep Dorsey Bros cds) sound quality is even better than the Hep cds, and some great Connie(ee) Boswell tracks I don't think are any cds at this time. then went to put disc 4 in, and arrrrgh, it cracked! Damn, never had that happen before! I noticed the cds were really tight in the slim 2 cd cases, so everyone beware!

There must have been some bets made between record label heads, and the loser HAD to record some of those songs, and the singers...I feel no one, no one had to record as many bad songs over a career as Bunny did...some of his RCA stuff is just terrible(The tunes, not him!).....funny, I have read that he said there was no such thing as a bad song! Haven't had a real chance to play the set, but nice to not listen to it all in one day, anyway...still listening to disc 2, still getting to be a more confident player, but not at his peak yet...if anyone is worried who has ordered the set from what is being said now, start on disc 7, and work backwards! Trust me! B)

If someone already mentioned it, I am sorry, but I heard on Espn that it took 60 stitches around his eye and mouth(Inside?)in close him up! Ow!

Right, because no one has seen the effects of boxing on Muhammed Ali except you. Especially a professional boxer, would have NO idea what made one of the greatest champions of all time the way he is now. Or he imagines he'll be able to get out of the game before any serious damage is done. The problem is that when a fighter needs to get out of the business, it takes one bad beating before he is able to recognize that. You don't know if it's time to get out until you get that bad beating. I think also that Mike Tyson has introduced a greater level of brutality in the sport as well; what with the intentional low blows and the ear biting and the slugging of refs. Boxing hardly needed that. Mr. Series 500, you worded it better than I did after painting till 5 am! Boxers see other relatively normal healthy boxers on a daily basis, not the Ali types....hell, Most football players in the NFL haven't a clue as to what they are doing to themselves. I saw how completely Earl Campbell's body has broken down...he was walking with someone holding his arm, looking about 80 in a clip espn showed Jerome Bettis, who is trying to get "healthy" enough to be the force he once was, he was shocked, but is still going to press on...Earl retired at 31.It's just sad to me to see once mighty athletes wreck themselves, give me baseball to love, no guilt watching them play.....

Hello again Shrdlu!

Well, I voted to ban it...I have followed it since Ali was in the later stages of his career...not all that closely, just the heavyweights...but damn, I realize the goal is to cause brain concussions, and I just don't want to see folks kill themselves slowly....no, it is true no one forces them into the ring, but they don't have a clue as to the real damage they are going to do to themselves over time, and no one gets out when they should, perhaps because of minor brain damage...wouldn't you love to hear Ali speak again?