Conference 7.286::sports_91

    	I'll start it off with the things I give thanks for:
    
    	My beatiful wife (Joann), son (Isaiah), and the one in the oven.
    	
    	My job here at Digital. (even though some times I hate it!)
    
    	Good health, a roof over my head, food in my stomach, a good car
    	the love of a large family, and the fun I get from noting with you 	
    	guys (specially those Donk knuckleheads) in here.
    
    
    	Carlos     (Have a safe and happy holiday)

    	I'm thankful that Phil Simms never played for the Patriots.
    Cya all nexted week.
    
    				/Don

    
    Everyone have a safe and happy holiday! I'm thankful that I'm
    fortunate enough to survive in this rat race called life.
    
    
    Steve

I'm thankful that God gave me a body that, while imperfect, allows me
to attempt what I'd like to do....

I'm thankful that I'm the King of the Droods(tm)

I'm thankful for rugby, and what it's done for my life and self-confidence.

I'm thankful for sunsets, wolf pups, and snow.

I'm thankful for the love of a wonderful and loyal dog

I'm thankful for the ability to laugh at myself.


I'm thankful for the ability to laugh at /Don.



And finally, I'm thankful for all my friends, both SPORTS noters and
non-SPORTS noters, all too numerous to mention.


And finally Mom, Dad and Tim...



Now, chow down dudes and dudettes!


'Saw

    1991 has been the worst year of my life.  Lots of emotional roller
    coaster rides.  Linda left me in March.  She gets a teenage boyfriend
    who, in some psychotic frenzy, threatens to put a bullet in my head if
    I don't break off all ties with her.  We get back together only to fall
    apart again and she goes right back to him.

    In the meantime, this all leads up to a promiscuous lifestyle that I
    never imagined being in.  That's been fun, but unfulfilling.  

    Yet, I still want to say I'm thankful for:

    - My new job at Digital as a Publishing and Document Management Project
    Manager.  This is the most interesting and aggravating job I've ever
    had.  I'm putting in some long hours and at the end of the week there's
    very little to show for it...but I feel more important to this company
    than I ever have before.

    - My friends both in and out of this conference who have made me smile
    and laugh through all this emotional trash.

    - The Pittsburgh Penguins who who thrilled me all the way to the
    Stanley Cup.  The Pittsburgh Pirates who captivated me all summer.  The
    Pittsburgh Steelers who...well, the Pittsburgh Steelers.

    - The fact that I played little league with a wooden bat and not an
    aluminum one.  (Stole that from the new GAP commercial).

    - The fact that '92 just has to be better.

    Have a good one.

    	--dan'l

>    1991 has been the worst year of my life.  Lots of emotional roller
>    coaster rides.  Linda left me in March.  She gets a teenage boyfriend
>    who, in some psychotic frenzy, threatens to put a bullet in my head if
>    I don't break off all ties with her.  We get back together only to fall
>    apart again and she goes right back to him.

dan'l....

Never forget that first, the best defense is a good offense.

Second, never forget that you know two ruggers who play prop.  You've
never met either Mac or I, but I doubt there's any pipsqueak teenagers
out there who'd want to go a few rounds with the two of us.

Psychotic or not, he'll poop his diapers when the Chainsaw and
Mac get done with him....


>    In the meantime, this all leads up to a promiscuous lifestyle that I
>    never imagined being in.  That's been fun, but unfulfilling.  


Never look a gift horse in the mouth.....


'Saw

PS  and while it ain't thanksgiving related, it relates to dan'l....

    Is this new actress (saw her in this months' Tales from the Crypt)
    someone Arquette related to your sweetie?  She looks somewhat like her....

    I'm thankful that I don't have to feed noD\ and Digger!
    
    Really, I'm thankful for my wonderful wife, Ginnie.
    
    My kids, Mike, Leslie, Julie, Kerrie and Torie.
    
    My son-in-law Doug, and my soon expected-to-be son-in-law, Scott.
    
    My grandson, Andrew Douglas Brown, 2 just yesterday.
    
    My every reliable sister, Linda, and her husband, Frank.
    
    My extended family, aunts, uncles and cousins.  Earl, you out there?
    
    Friends in Sports, whether we've actually met or not.  Heck, I even
    liked JOJ after I met him!  :*)
    
    Best to all, see ya next week.
    
    Lee

    Chin_up, dan'l.  For one thing, 1992 cain only improve things, as you
    correctly mention.  For another, there's still loads to be thankful for
    despite your hard luck.  (Not the thing the "expert" psychiatrists tell
    you to say to someone down on his life circumstances, BTW.)
    
    And finally you should remember that you're the ONLY noter in this
    whole danged file who's ever shut me up cold.  Yes, you're the ONLY
    one whose reply I considered, contemplated, and had to sadly shake
    my haid and agree that I could very well be wrong.  
    
    
    - ACC Chris

    Besides from my family, friends, etc., I'm thankful that I still have a
    job and a roof over my haid in this non-recession.
    
    I only hope 1992 can be better for everyone - but with the prospects of
    a worsening economy burgeoned by an unbelievable debt - and what
    promises to be the ugliest campaign ever - I can't get to optimistic.
    
    Hey - but have a good day everyone.  
    
    JD

       Everyone have a safe and happy holiday!!
                                       Denny

    Hawk -
    
    When we finally get there, your suffering will be legendary.  :-)
    
    Carlos - Thanks for starting this note.
    
    
    Believe it or not, I'm thankful for this file.  I've met some of my
    best friends at Digital here.  We've all had our trials and
    tribulations, and this space affords the sometimes necessary comic
    relief.  It's also been a direct lead to a revived social life :-)
    
    I'm grateful to be employed by DEC.  More than any company I've ever
    been associated with, it encourages its employees to be contributing
    members of a community, to try to resolve the problems that they see,
    and treats us as adults.  That's surprisingly rare in the world we live
    in.
    
    And finally, I'm grateful that I can look at impending changes in my
    life, as an empty nest looms large, and see it as a challenge to try
    something new and move forward.  New horizons, new vistas, new
    possibilities that weren't there when I had to be "home with the kid".
    
    A&W
    

    Hey, here's another thanks for Thanksgiving:
    
    Thanks to cool SPORTS noters like ya'll who, when the chips are down
    and you're feeling low, are right there by your side.  Some of the best
    damn friends I got...even if it is just electronic.
    
    If ya care to know more about this teenage psycho, press RETURN.  If
    not, NEXT UNSEEN.
    
    PS: Haven't seen Tales From the Crypt lately.  Tell me more.
    
    
    
    This is how smart he is.  Those death threats he made back in May...he
    left them on my answering machine...identifying himself and everything. 
    He's this little, scrawny Greek with a street gang mentality and
    clothes to match.  Colors.
    
    Now I'm not a violent person at all, but this was just way too off the
    edge for me to ignore.  So step number one was to call a friend of mine
    who could get me a gun.  I asked for a handgun just to have to keep
    hidden away just in case this weirdo meant what he said and came after
    me in my home.
    
    Well, said friend didn't have any handguns that week, but he said he'd
    bring me what he had.  45 minutes later he shows up at my door with two
    assault rifles and a sawed off.  I took the latter, and put it under my
    bed.
    
    Step two was to call the police and make a report just in case
    something happened to me out and about.  The police said the report
    wasn't complete unless they had his last name.  I said it was something
    Greek, but that's all I knew.  They said they'd have to call him.  Once
    they assured me they would be professional, I gave them my permission. 
    About 15 minutes later, my phone rings.
    
    "Mr. Medvid, you are dealing with an idiot.  This ******* didn't
    believe I was a police officer.  He thought I was you pretending to be
    a police officer and asked me to come over and prove it otherwise and
    that he'd crack my head open.  I think I'll pay him a visit at 6AM
    tomorrow."
    
    Not much happened after that except that Linda and I made another go at
    it.  It didn't work out...again.  Then, knowing full well what this
    psycho had done to me, went right back to him.  That's what hurt the
    most.  
    
    Women.
    
    Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.  It's been there for a
    long time.
    
    	--dan'l
    
    PS: I'd also like to thank the country of Panama for sending me the
    specimen that has Linda's blood boiling every time she sees her. 
    Psychological vindication is the best way.

I'm thankful for my wife and baby X at 3 months....

I'm thankful that Dan'l shut up ACC Chris cold and I wish he'd do more of it :-)

I'm thankful that the DROODS aren't knocking down my door in the middle of the
night (although it would be quite a brawl betwen they and the missionaries that
come round every other week)

I'm thankful the Sox have Clemens and mot the Yankees :-)

I'm thankful that the huskies play a wimpy girly mon schedule...I just wish the
Seahawks could play the same teams :-)

I'm thankful that the M's are still in town...at least for the winter...

I'm thankful that I get the opportunity to see everybody in my family except my
little bro and bro-in-law over the holidays...(ain't air travel wonderful?)

Have a good one everybody..


Metz

I'm thankful that someday I'll be able to party wif Hawk!

Really, I'm thankful to be employed - last year at this time I was on the edge.

I'm thankful that I'm healthy enough to go out and run a few miles every day.

I'm thankful that no matter how shi**y a day I have, one "Dadeee" from Lindsey can 
make me feel better.

I'm thankful for "knowing" the ::SPORTS crew, and that I'm not the only one who loved
the old Packer teams.  8^)

Have a great holiday everyone!

=Bob=

 Jeez, I have so much to be thankful for I don't even know where to start.
 
 I'm still thankful for Digital.  Times are tough and the pressure is
 enormous but it's still the only company I can imagine working for.
 
 I'm thankful for this Notes conference.  I've been here for 5 years now
 and it has its ups and downs but I'm totally hooked on it.  Have been for
 a long time.   I enjoy meeting fellow Noters and all the exchanges that go
 on here.  It's a treat.
 
 You know something else ???  I'm thankful that I stuck with it and got a
 good education.  I'm not trying to be elitist here but there is so much
 shit that goes on this world due to sheer ignorance.   I cherish the
 challenge to keep an open mind and to reasonably critique the supposedly
 sacred cows of this world.
 
 Lastly, I'm thankful for my family.   The HUNTcluster is the most precious
 thing I've got and I'm both terrified and thrilled at the thought of
 marching these three little girls into their adulthood.   Young life is so
 precious ... please cherish it.   
 
 [Aside: a close friend and colleague in our office yesterday lost their
 baby daughter in what looks like a crib death ... please pray for all the
 children.   Things are very subdued in Charlotte today.   Cindy and I
 spent a lot of time lasted night just shaking our heads and hugging our
 MicroHUNTs.]
 
 Have a nice Thanksgiving everyone ...
 
 Bob Hunt
 
 P.S.   I'm thankful for Dean Smith, too.   I haven't seen grounds for
 debate as fertile as this one in a long time.   His annual chokejobs are
 so very delicious.  I can't wait for 1992.   If there is a God, it'll be
 UMass over Carolina in the first round.

dan'l, 

You certainly have style...and I like it.  To steal a phrase from Hawk,

	I wanna party wif you dude!


=Bob=

I'm sure Lindsay does it for you...that's got to be the greatest thrill
in the world.

Also, the old Packer teams were sweet, weren't they?  Sublime execution
at its pristine best....



Later.....

       I'm thankful for having a healthy family (Lynda,  Korie,  Jordan and
    Hollye) that loves me as much a I love them!
    
       I'm thankful for having a good job at DEC.
    
       I'm thankful that I have the best friends anyone could ask for!
    
       I'm thankful that the banks just let me buy my very 1st BRAND NEW
    CAR!
    
       I'm thankful for this "relief" notes conference.
    
       I'm thankful that someone invented BEER.
    
       I'm thankful that I'm done being thankful,  for now!
    
    
       Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!
    
    
    		Tim
       
                                     

    
    I'm thankful for the closness of the family that I grew up in.  Even
    though now we're all grown and scattered across 3 states.
    
    I'm thankful for my new wife Mary (2.5 months) and the way the marriage
    has gone so far.
    
    I'm thankful for my seemingly unending good health, and the good days
    that my wife has.  Hopefully someday the doc will find the right
    combination of meds to make all days good days.
    
    I'm thankful for working at DEC.  Not all companies treat their
    employees like humans instead of numbers.  The job has almost always
    been interesting, sometime challenging, and always a learning
    experience.  A steady paycheck in the recent times has not always been
    there for everyone.
    
    I'm thankful for ::SPORTS.  It has livened my life during some long
    weeks on the road.
    
    Scott

    
    I'm thankful for M & D and my brother Mike, three of the greatest
    people ever!
    
    I'm thankful for the best friends anyone could have.
    
    I'm thankful that I'm still employed.
    
    I'm thankful for Pink Floyd and R.E.M. and JT.
    
    I'm thankful for you all, who do make me smile and laugh, when I can
    get in here!
    
    I'm thankful that someone invented hockey...otherwise, I'd have to be a
    baseball (gag me) fan.
    
    Have a happy and a safe Thanksgiving, all.  Am I the only left here??
    
    
    Cath

    Thanks to God for allowing me to surivive two car accidents this year.
    
    Thanks for having a wonderful support group of friends like Lauren,
    Walt, Ellise, Tig, Jeff, Mike, and many, many, more who have stood
    by me when multiple crisis hit me earlier this year. They provided
    comfort and support.
    
    Thanks for my family staying in realtively good health.
    
    Thanks for my used car (bought for $150) not blowing up in my face.
    
    Thanks for good people taking a stand against David Duke. Now I hope
    they will take a stand against the subtler, yet equal evil rampant in
    this society.
    
    Thanks for NOTES !
    
    Thanks to Walt Ashe for standing proxy in rotis.
                                                    
    Thanks for the Oilers.
    
    Thanks for the guys on the X-Men, my flag football team, for being
    tough and patient and basically good guys.
    
    Thanks for my physical thearpist and back-cruncher ....
    
    Doc

       No your not the only one left,  'til now, 'cause I'm outta here! 
    Its tooooooo quite....
    
    	Tim

BobHunt

The story of the person in your office, and all the other bad things that happen
to kids is truely chilling.  Even though I don't know the family my simpathy.  I
think I just found a few extra hugs for my "mini-cluster".

'Saw

Green and gold are still my favorite colors - Jerry Kramer is Gawd.

Once again, happy, safe, T-day all.

=Bob=

    
       I'm thankful for my health and that of my family(parents, 
    grandparents) and friends.
    
       I'm thankful for ::SPORTS.  Pretty much a RON nowdays, but 
    there have been many days when just reading and laughing at
    some of the many humourous replies was just the tonic I needed
    to get through the rough days.
    
       I'm thankful that many of us in ::SPORTS are still with DEC.
    
       
       Everyone, have a Happy and Safe Thanksgiving!
    
    
    						 glen j.

    I thank God for:

    - my family's health and protection
    - for providing this job when it looked like I wouldn't have one
    - for leading us to our new church
    - for keeping his hand on my wife during her recent surgery
    - for my band and the great things happening there
    - for the talents he has blessed me with
    - for the prophetic fulfillments slated for Europe 1992

    
    
    I know it's late Wednesday night, and none of younz'll see this until
    nexted week but:
    
    I'm thankful for:
    	God,for without him, I couldn't survive.
    	My wife, Denise: she's put up with my joking and odd comments at
    home for 9-1/2 years.
    	My daughter, Paula, age 8, and my 2 sons, Robbie, age 5, and
    Nathan, age 2.  God has blessed us with 3 healthy beautiful intelligent
    children(who look mysteriously like the mailman!! (8^)*)
    	My continued employment here for the past 11 1/2 years, with a pretty 
    good job that I thoroughly enjoy.
    	All of the patrons of this electronic Sports bar without whom my
    job here would lose some of its luster.  Nothing here gives me more
    enjoyment than ::SPORTS_91, nothing(except maybe my paychecks)
    	Mr. T (but only on nights when I'm constipated) cause sometimes he
    makes me so mad I could just sh!t.
    	My recent trip to Colorado which allowed me to meet Clay Wade,
    Jesse hernandez, Jeff Riggen, Glenn Johnson, and others, whose names
    escape me at this time.  Thanks.
    	My own health.  Although I'm in lousy shape, and should enroll in a
    fat farm, I don't feel lousy, in fact I feel great.
    	
    
    Hope your Thanksgivings are(or were) great, safe, and productive.
    
    JaKe
    

    We should also repeat what we said in here about our loved ones to them
    in person.

    I'm thankful I wa able to recover after my finances fell the f***
    apart.
    
    I'm thankful that damn dot matrix printer in the next office finally
    stopped. 
    
    I'm thankful for my family, great friends, and especially my daughter. 
    
    I'm thankful Hulk Hogan lost lasted night.
    
    I'm thankful for my job here at DEC.
    
    I'm thankful for my soccer team. No team in the city can out-party us!

    I'm thankful for Bobby Knight.  Thank you, Bob.
    
    Big10 Tom

Well despite all the squalor we are all going through, I'm still thankful for 
tons and tons of stuff.

Happy Thanksgiving to all mmy pals in ::SPORTS.

=Bob=

Amen, Brother =Bob=.

Speaking for mmyself, I'm mmighty grateful for mmost things.

TTom

    I, too, am thankful fer all of you ::SPORTSters out there who brighten
    my day, and have made my trips up into New England enjoyable.
    
    I'm also thankful that lasted night wasn't any worse than it was.
    
    I was driving from Pittsbrugh to Weirton(weirdtown) W. Va and had just
    cleared the FOrt Pitt Tunnels on the west side of Pittsburgh when
    traffic came to a screeching halt.  Well, I stopped, but the guy in the
    van behind me didn't notice everything stopped until he was about 25
    feet off of my rear bumper, and locked his brakes up, and slammed into
    the back ov my car.  
    
    My car was driveable(barely) but my back and neck are bigtim sore
    today, plus somehow, I pulled a few tendons in the right arm.  Fer the
    mosted part though, I'm OK.  Took tonight off to recupe a little.
    
    HOpe everybody's Turkey Day is enjoyable AND SAFE!!!!
    
    JaKe
    

    I'm thankful for friends, family, our family's health, and my job and
    having it pay for my edjamacation.  
    
    Hopefully, I can squeeze a trip in soon so I can go back and harass all
    you wonderful folk in person.
    
    I'm also thankful for my new studio and will be more thankful when 
    I finish furnishing it.
    
    I'm extremely thankful I was able to refinance my mortgage to 8% before 
    slick willy was elected.

    	Hey JaKe, were you wearing your Foxy Lady t-shirt at the time?
    Maybe it saved your life?
    
    				/Don

    >>	Hey JaKe, were you wearing your Foxy Lady t-shirt at the time?
    >>Maybe it saved your life?
    
    Whaddya mean "Foxy Lady", it's a Magic Lantern T-shirt.
    Wasn't wearing it at the time though.
    
    Anybody ever try to drive a car with the backrest of the front seat
    bent backwards about 6 inches from normal position????  It's real
    interesting, let me tell ya.
    
    JaKe

       I thought it was a Magic Lantern t-shirt. You're pretty confused
    today Slash, you even gave the Pats only 7 losses.
                              Denny

       Maybe we should ask Darryl for directions to the Lady seeing as how
    we're gonna be in Hafaa!
                                Denny

Hey JaKe, glad you're ok. I hope that you and Bill enjoy the cold
ones on Friday night. You can finally commiserate over the NLCS and the
Pirates prospective 5th place finish in 1993.

The Crazy Met

Thanksgiving.

This is a tough year to sit and try and give thanks for a lot of things.
I cannot ever remember any other year in my 34 when I was so unsure of
so many things.  It is not an emotion that wears well on this man.

So, I went back to basics.....


	I want to give thanks for parents who love me, and are
	totally supportive of me in all my ventures, even the earring.
	I could not have asked for a better set of parents, if I could
	have chosen them myself.

	I want to give thanks for a brother who I'm getting closer to
	all the time.  It wasn't always so, but as the years go by
	it gets better.  It's a nice feeling having a "little"
	brother (at 6'2" he's not littler than me) who you can install
	Windows for, or help set up a CONFIG.SYS for.

	I want to give thanks for all my friends.  Like a roaring fire
	on the hearth, friends drive off the chill at night.  Being
	able to count on them, and know that they count on me is good
	stuff, the kind that lasts through thick and thin.

	I want to give thanks for all the SPORTS noters.  Many times
	in the four years I've been noting in here, you all have saved
	my sanity many times.  Whether I was laughing with you all
	or crying at departures, SPORTS is surely one of the foundations
	of my life at Digital.

	I want to give thanks for rugby.  You only know the why if you
	play the game, so I'll spare you all here....

	I want to give thanks for all my blessings.  I don't give thanks
	enough for those, and sometimes take them for granted.  

	Finally, I want to give thanks to someone who makes all things
	magical and special......



'Saw

    

	>> I want to give thanks for rugby.  You only know the why if you
	>> play the game, so I'll spare you all here....
    
           I want to give thanks.

|	>> I want to give thanks for rugby.  You only know the why if you
|	>> play the game, so I'll spare you all here....
|    
|           I want to give thanks.
|


You're welcome.....8^)

    
    In his own little way, 'saw has given us each a holiday gift.
    
    Brews

    >Finally, I want to give thanks to someone who makes all things
    >magical and special......
    
    Hmmm...  Would that be the Cheez Whiz salesman ?
    

    
    I want to thank myself for making me the wonderful person that I am.
    
    I want to thank the learned noters out there who know the difference
    between loose and lose.
    
    I want to thank Ben & Jerry for inventing Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
    and New York Super Fudge Chunk ice cream.
    
    I'll thank you to keep your hands off the candy stash in my desk
    drawer.
    
    I'd like to thank the man who invented beer (had to be a man)
    
    Here's to a good holliday weekend.
    
    Dickstah
    

Yeah 'Saw we would be thankful if you finished that note and didn't
leave us all hanging.

The Crazy Met

    
    
         Happy T day to all you out there 
    
    Even You MET fans (TCM)
    Donk Fans (BG)
    Sox Fans (too many of you losers to count) :-)
    Sun Fans ('Wagon jumpers)
    But not you Cowboy fans. Go Gints.........
    
    
    Chappy

    Happy Thanksgiving to all our US ::SPORTSTERS. As for the rest of
    y'all, PLEASE make some money for us!!
    
    I have plenty to be thankful for and I wish all of you a safe holiday
    and continued success in life.
    
    But on this and all Turkey Days, I am most thankful for Glade on
    Friday morning.  8^)
    
    MikeL