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Lions fans have certainly paid some dues.

I believe we have seen these claims or promises before from some in the black community (as if there is a homogenous black community which I do not really accept). Thus far they have amounted to very little changed voting patterns, to my understanding at least. Is this the election cycle that changes, who knows, but I tend to believe past behavior is predictive of future behavior. I do note that the promises made in campaign seasons have evaporated once elections are decided. I sometimes p;icture a politician Lucy holding a football of promises waiting for a black Charlie Brown to kick it.

They need to train their super rats to pull rickshaws. Single occupancy rickshaws could travel side by side, two to a traffic lane, thus alleviating congestion. Call them Less than Handsome cabs. I figure four rats, in a team, to every rickshaw.

Gravy scented?

Exactly. on our right but the whale's left. i corrected my post.

I'll take the one with the abs on our right of the buluga whale.

I hope not. I meet him a few times when he was a kid. Nice kid, respectful.

He does run hard. i've noticed few plyers do anymore. Lots of guys slide down or go out of bounds to avoid hits, no McCaffrey. Like walter Payton he lowers his shoulder and gets a few more yards on every carry.

They desperately need to keep Purdy, McCaffery, and Samuels healthy. We shall see.

It takes good fortume to win a Superbowl. Good health being primary. Not getting screwed by the refs secondary.

They do indeed. That said, I will believe it when I see it. Am I encouraged over the last two games, yes. Am I sold, no. Sometimes the bounces and the calls just go your way. Look at Denver and their now over 5 game streak. Denver sucks but for five games the calls and the bounces went their way. maybe that's what happened for the P-ackers the last two games. Time will tell.

Physically stopping folks to collect the toll would only add to congestion so I prersume they will try to charge folks using license plate readers. How will that work? They will have to add to a bureaucracy to send out tickets and to process payments. How will that work for out-of-staters? In the end it will just drive more business and more folks out of New York, which is fine, but they then end up infesting other areas.

Not to mention thney are crippled salary cap-wise with Rodgers and Bahktieri getting the lion's share of the cap. next year, with Rogers wasjhing out of the cap, and hopefully with bahktieri eiater healthy or gone, and another draft choice for rogers they can maybe start making some real noise. i will need to see them stop making stupid penalties and for their receivers to want the ball more than life itself, but I see a bright future.

I would like to see the Packers healthy, or relatively so for at least one game this season. If they got back Jones and Musgrave, if they got back Alexander and Stokes, and if Watson is hleathy they have some substantial pieces. Basically we have been seeing a very young, and very hurt team this year. I'd just like a glimpse of them healthy. I have no illusions about them, but i believe they are somewhat better than they have thus far shown. We shall see.

Packers and Lions are maybve on a playoff collission course. Maybe.

Oh, one last thing before I go. There is no question in my mind that we men are the most dangerous thing a woman can encounter. no question in my mind back in the day or now that acquaintance rape far exceeds stranger in the dark alley rape. Women need to be cautious around we men until they know us for a long time.

When I mentioned culture I think you presumed I was using that word as a code word for race, I was not. I was using it to describe the subhumans who view conquest through any means as not only acceptable, but admirable. I was referencing jocks, frat boys, and ignorant rednecks. Sorry you jumped to a conclusion and took it otherrwise. I will bow out as I do not wish to upset you nor to derail the thread.

I grew up in the rural Midwest in the 60's. The behaviors you described would not have been tolerated, in fact any attempting such behavior would have been roundly beaten and then turned over to the law, and they would have welcomed being turned over because they needed ongoing police protection from angry friends and family of the victim. That was one culture. I went to college in the 70's, both out east and then in one of the larger colleges in the country. The conduct you reference was tolerated in some subsets on campus, some jocks and some in Greek life. Their toleration and even celebration of "conquests" of "notches on the belt or headboard" remain condemned by me and most I knew. As for the Stanford case, I believe it an outlier. That was why it generated so much publicity and discussion, at least to my mind. Almost universally that decision was roundly condemned, as it should ahve been.

Not only not O.K., but I would have stepped in to stop it whether the perps were my friends or complete strangers. Not on my watch. i suspect the same of you. To me there was, back in the day, and there remains today, a small subset of vile azzholes who take advantage, who live in a culture where the conduct Peenie describes is tolerated and or even celebrated. Most of us stand opposed to that culture and always have.

Are you saying risk of injury trumps being a cahmpion in the Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl? Imagine being able to tell your grandkids you once won that prestigious game.

Another good general rule, and from thegeneral.

A full length feature movie on this premise strikes me as likely to run out of material and to become repetitive.

I see where the new google phone has quite a number of editing features allowing one to alter perspective on a subject. I imagine that feature will be used by those sending these types of pics. i hear they have an embedded program on their phones called the "Irish Enhancer" or the "Dublin Doubler".

General rule: Using racial slurs on a message board is likely to getc one labeled.