Conference 7.286::sports_90

    Don't do it.........he won't show!
    
    Claybone...;^)

He'll showup about 3 hours late with some sorry ass excuse. 

Then procede to spill beer all over the place.  

    
    Whatever you guys do, don't let Jim buy you a beer. He won't have his
    wallet...haha.....Sorry Jim couldn't resist...
    
    Steve
    

    Hmmm. Jeff took my moderator priv's away.
    
    Mr. Moderator, could you please delete replies .1-.4....thank you.
    
    JoJ

    	JoJ, I'm free anytime during the weekday for those 2 weeks
    mentioned.  I'm about 10 minutes from Worcester (Hudson to be exact).
    
    sean

    Yo, this sounds up my ally.  I'm gonna be "Un Nath" meself from May
    19th thru Memorial Day.
    
    I'm partial to hoops and a Sox game, but whatever!
    
    
    - ACC Chris
    

>>    Hmmm. Jeff took my moderator priv's away.
>>    
>>    Mr. Moderator, could you please delete replies .1-.4....thank you.
>>   
>>    JoJ

You took 'em away yourself.  I can forward you the teary good-bye note that
accompanied the announcement if you'd like.

j.

    The title of this note has me flooorwaard !

    What I'd like to know is when "The Final Chapter" ends?

    If JoJ covers anyone in foot-a-ball, just go deep he'll gas and you can
    easily DennisSmith (tm) him for the big six.
    
    the devil dog
    
    p.s. Don't buy him a beer 'cuz then alluvasudden he'll be broke. 

	I'll be there for whatever it is...

	How 'bout you Dinz? I'm driving :^)

Jim M

    Yeah, Doc, this title is something alright.  Apparently, from CXO
    noters, he blew his going-away party, so he wants a welcoming party.
    
    This could be the final chapter of THIS move.  But, Wardle aint'
    (for JHendry's sake) about to stay in one spot too long, so it's
    not his final party after all.  :*)
    
    Lee

    Sounds good to me jimbo...you gonna really show  JOJ?
    
    DINZ
    

    
    well b-ball hoops are easily finable in worcester so if it's a bball
    game then I can help get everyone there with directions. softball
    game in the hudson malboro area would be ok but it would have to be
    on friday as the fields are used for league play mon - thurs. As far
    as after hour events go, Pudgy's has a free buffet on monday nite...
    
    

    Hey Mike, let's do the hoops thing. Dan S. will show up too, right Dan?
    
    May as well set it up for when ACC_Knorr is gonna be in town. Just
    don't pass him the ball.
    
    re: Moderator
    
    Oh yeah, I forgot....
    
    JoJ

    
    fine by me. perhaps we could do on a saturday? We could start around
    1:00 or so, play for a few hours and then hit Pudgy's or any other of
    worcester fine establishments after that for refreshments?
    
    
     what say ye?
    
    mike

    I'm free for the entire two weeks, so whatever you guys can work out is
    ok by me. 
    
    JoJ

	Given past experience, I can only conclude that JoJ is a fignewton
   of our collective imaginations.

   	Or .... could it be... that like Judge Wapner, he is a hauntingly
   beautiful oriental woman with long, flowing, dark hair?

   	`Fess up JoJ!

   Mike JN

Judge Wapner was Joe Isuzu....and you have my word on it!

    12 minutes to Wapner,  12 minutes to Wapner....

    of course Jeopardy come on after Judge Waapner. Jeopardy comes on in 42
    minutes. Exactly 42 minutes and 16 seconds.

Uh Oh Fart!  Uh Oh Fart!

    	Jim told me on the phone that he was going to by everybody a
    beer this time.  What a guy!
    
    				/Don

re /Don:

/Don, yer not tellin' da troof!

JoJ told me on the phone that he was buying us all *steak dinners*
and beers....So there 8^p

'Saw

    
    What he said was, "Put on some steaks, and get the queen a BUD light!"
    
    Dickster
    

    Forget it. He won't show until after almost everyone has gone home.
    Just like his going away party. If Cactus Jack hadn't been I wouldn't
    have had anyone to LAFF at.
    
    Dems the FACKS (tm)

Anyone catch this quote on the Simpsons Sunday:

  Bart:     You're succumbing to mob mentality, Dad.
  HomerO*:  Don't be ridiculous, son, I'm hopping on the bandwagon.
            Get with the winning team.


  
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    	Classic Jeff.  CLASSIC! tanks!

    Hey Jeff - ever think of becoming a graphic artist?!?
    
    NAZZ

    
    Looks like we got ourselves another Leonardo Da Weenie.
    
    Nice job!
    
    Dickster
    

Lotsa compiles, today eh Jeff?


Great job, dude...

'Saw

Sorry, guys.  Can't take the credit.  But I forgot to include recognition for
the author.  It's from ALT.TV.SIMPSONS (yes, USEnoise has a group for
everything).  Here's the entire note so the proper people can get credit:

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            Who: Dave Chesavage
          Where: dchesavage@ucsd.edu
     Disclaimer: "If you get confused listen to the music play"

SPORTS.NOTE cast of characters:


  
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Shoot, I cain just hear it now:

	"Hi, I'm Dan Schneider, who the hell are you?"

Re the Dead (and very briefly I might add):

	From a musical point of view you cannot say that they are
	poor musicians.  While I enjoy their music, I'm not a dead head,
	but as a musician I can appreciate their brand of musicianship.
	
	One thing that is refreshing about them as a whole is that there
	is nothing "canned" about them, in that they play a different
	concert every night, as opposed to some bands who will play the
	same songs, with the same solos night after night after night...

        Keep in mind also that I have *VERY* eclectic tastes in music....


Re Bart:

	Did you know that Bart's voice is actually a girl.

	Also, Kelsey Grammar(sp), who played Krusty's devious assistant
	last week, better known as Fraser in Cheers, is wanted by the 
	police for failing to appear in court on charges related to
	drug abuse...

HOpe all of this helps...
'Saw
	

    
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Hawkster --

	As a person of Scottish descent, I play the bagpipes 8^)

	Seriously, I've played keyboards and trumpet for a long time.
	In college I pretty much got into the rest of the brass family
	(except for trombone), and fooled around with the tenor sax
	for a while.

	Learned how to play harp from a guy who learned from Willie
	Nelson's harp player.

	Finally, fooled around with drums a lot in college.  Drums are
	fun, great way to get rid of your frustrations, but the coordination
	needed to be a_excellent drummer is phenomenal, and something, quite 
	frankly I don't have.

The only thing left that I want to learn is bass.  One of these days...8^)

'Saw

    
    
    Re: The dead..  
    
    I've never seen a "tighter" live band.  This is one of the few bands
    where the albums don't do them justice, they are better in person 
    than on their albums.  Plus by attending a concert you get to 
    "experience" the groupies, its very hard to capture this aura on an 
    album.  
    
    /Jeff

    	Dead ROOLZ.  Period.  

    
    >The only thing left that I want to learn is bass.
    
      Try watching "Bass Masters" or one of them other fishin' shows
      on ESPN or the Nashville Network.
    
      No thanks necessary...glad to help.
    
    Dickster
    

    	T-shirt seen at Broons game...
    
    	I'M BART BRUIN
    
    	WHO THE PUCK ARE YOU?
    
    				/Don

    	Oh BTW and FWIW, the Dead conference is CSCMA::GRATEFUL... party
    on, garth man.

>    	Oh BTW and FWIW, the Dead conference is CSCMA::GRATEFUL... party
>    on, garth man.
    
    It's probably as active as the LAKERS conference too ;-)

    	Only 34,000+ notes in a year and a half of existence...  8^)

    Sorry, I could never stomach their style.  I admit that Garcia and Bob
    Weir? (rhythm guitar) are respected guitarists.  I also admit that the
    bass player, Phil Lesh? has influenced bassists for 2 decades.
    
    As a fellow guitar player, I could list a hundred axe men that I'd
    rather listen to and each one of them could play circles around Garcia
    & Bob.
    
    Maybe its because I never got into the drug culture.  We all know drugs
    are plentiful among the dead and their followers.
    
    Mike

    
    Didja ever notice how much the Dead sweat on stage?  It's a dead
    giveaway that there's drugs involved.  Fer sure, man.
    
    Dickster
    

    	I like the Dead for different reasons then why I like Metallica
    or Cowboy Junkies.  The music is more mellow, the concerts are a
    great (or used to be before all the stupid vendor laws) experience.
    
    Sometimes I'm just in the mood to put on Blues for Allah... other
    times I just want to blow the hood off my car with VHalen I or a
    gut wrenching Hammett dive bomb. 8^)
    
    The drug culture associated with the Dead is pretty sad.  I have
    to wonder nowadays though if it had to do more with the times.
    Being as I wasn't even born when they got going I appreciated them
    for the musical quality and not the fack that they were an awesome
    group to get high and lissen to.
                                        

      I think the title of this conference needs changed...
    
    		Tj

Why?

I mean, JoJ is the ULTIMATE VANE, so why should a topic concerning
JoJ not Vane all over the place too ;^)

It's all in how you look at it...

'Saw    

    Yo Jim On Vanes, or is it Vains......
    
    I will be in Europe those two weeks.  Sorry I missed you again.  Might
    I suggest you go to Pudgy's.  Definate improvement since being cleared
    of tax evasion.
    
    RTG

    re .64
    
    Does anyone else look at 'saw's personal name and try to figure
    out what he saw on TV last night?  8^)
    
    Bruce

    re Bruce & Saw's personal name
    
    Couldn't have anything to do with Robin Williams would it?  Has this
    movie already appeared on t.v., or was it on one of the cable movie
    stations?  Fantastic flick.
    
    

O Captain!  My Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
    But O heart! heart! heart!
      O the bleeding drops of red,
	Where on the deck my Captain lies,
          Fallen cold and dead.


It was on Pay-per-View over the weekend.  What a movie.  Carpe Diem.
Seize the day.  The coolest part was that in the end you knew he
won.  Too cool.

Chainsaw

    Hi guys...
    
    So, what's the plan? Do we have dates/times/locations picked out or 
    are we just gonna wing it after I get there?
    
    JoJ

    Not to interrupt this junk note with a serious question, but...has
    any get together been arranged for JoJ?
    
    BTW, the Cowboy Junkies are nothing but a poor imitation of a very,
    very bored Rickie Lee Jones.
    
    Mark.

    	'Saw, Presley's the stiff, dude.  Costello's still kicking!
    8^) 

    I thought Elvis Peacock was king. 

    What does Lou Costello have to do with Elvis, anyway????
    
    JaKe
    

HEY ABBBBBBBooooooooooooootttttttttt!!!!!

    Abbott cain't here you, he's in California. 

    
    Well I got a call from none other than Bucky_b_Gone yesterday. Seems
    next weeknend he'll be in worcester to visit JOJ. So what I propose
    is next saturday 5/19 in worcester we have a basketball game, softball
    also if we have enough. There's a decent court and softball field 
    close to my house that we can use and then we can use my house to
    go cooks some burgers and dogs have a few brews. We could do it
    in the afternoon this way married guys can go home for supper and
    the single guys and adventurous married men can then afterwards
    head to Pudgy's or some other local establishment to continue
    partying.....
    
    if you're game let's hear it......
    
    mike

    If hoops is the game, send directions!
    
    
    - ACC Chris
    

But Chris, nobody'll pass ya the ball anyway 8^)


Sorry, but I can't make that.  I already have a party to go to
that day....8^(

Have some brews for me though!!!!

Chainsaw

    
    we'll definately be playing hoops and I'll post directions later.
    the court is very easy to find and is within 5 minutes of routes
    9 and 20 and also 5 minutes form the mass pike and 290 from either
    direction.........
    
    mike

    Mike, I can't make it.  But, please give a big howdy to Bucky for
    me.  Let us know how he's doing, too.
    
    Lee

    Mike, count me in. That sounds great.
    
    JoJ

    Keep me posted.... (no pun intended)...
    
    -Walt

pike (exit 11 worcester/milbury)
---------
	|
	|            YD Liquors
	|----------------0-traffic light	      XXXX |  softball field	
          grafton st     |			bball court|
			 |				   |	
			 |				   |< hamilton st
                        --- < bridge 			   |
			 |                   lake park     |
			 |----------------------------------	
                         ^    lake ave       tennis courts
      			 ^	
                         sunderland rd
                        

take exit 11 off the pike, take a left at the end of the exit this puts you
on grafton st. follow grafton st to the second set of lights (yd liquors will
be on your left, Dick's tackle shop on the right) take a right at the light.
this is sunderland rd go under the bridge and take your first left this is
lake ave follow lake ave for about a mile until you see the baseball diamonds
on your left and the tennis courts on your right, take a left here. now you're
on hamilton st at the top of the hill you'll find the basketball courts on your
left and the softball diamond on your right and you're there. shouldn't take
more than 5 minutes to get there after you get off the pike. the courts are
part of lake park and the softball field is call the Joe Marano field in case
you get lost and have to ask for help.......

mike

from 495 either way take 290 west to worcester/ny. get off at the grafton
st/posner sq. exit( right turn). follow the exit ramp around to the lights
and take a right at the lights. proceed straight up to rotary at the rotary
make a half moon and go up hamilton st. probably about 2 1/2 to 3 miles up
hamiton st you'll run into the courts on your right and softball field
on your left. again the field is called Joe Marano and the courts are
part of Lake Park in case you get lost. 

****the directions are the same basically if you come from the west on 290
east the only difference is the exit ramp is little bit higher up on grafton
st.****************8
		
  		290 westbound           Chevalier furniture  
		-------------------------|< exit grafton st posner sq...
        290 eastbound>>>|		 |
       		    \	|		 |
     xxxx            \	|		 |
     -----------------O--------------------
	hamilton st
     softball field
    
      this drawing is a bit crude but using it and the written directions 
should get you there. should be between 5 and 10 minutes to the fields...

mike

    
    just talked to JoJ and he can't wait. Even if the turnout isn't the
    greatest we can still do it as there are usually folks hanging
    around playing ball so we can invloved in some pickup games. Like I
    said earlier my house can serve as a centerbase we can cook there and
    should someone get to inebriated they can crash there.....
    
    so far I know Walt is a maybe ACC a definate, Dinz a maybe, Bucky and
    JoJ definate and Dan's probably there too.....
    
    mike

    Mike,
    
    If old folks can particvipate, count me in as a definite maybe.
    
    BTW, what time and regarding your directions, you fergot landmarks
    if folks miss turnoffs although anybody who gits lost dizzerves
    it!
    
    Kev_OW(tm)
    

    
    Kev the times I have down are for when you get off the exits.....
    
    there's landmarks in the drawings  ;^)
    
    mike
    
    Slasher's in too!!!

Coming down route 20 from the East (westward bound) take a right on to 
sunderland road (traffic lt) another right on to lake ave and  then a left up
 Hamilton st. Coming from the West (eastward bound) take a left on to
sunderland rd and then follow the same directions as above...

                                     |
                      Polly's bar <rt|20>       doug russell's boats
        -----------------------------0-------------------------
                                     |^ traffic light
        tennis court    lake ave     |<sunderland rd
         ----------------------------|
        |  ball park
        |
        |<hamilton st
        |
  s.b.f.|xxxx < basketball court

  again once you make the turn off rt 20 it's less than 5 minutes to the
  field and courts

  mike

 from rt 9 east (westward bound) take a right after the bridge at
 the traffic light after white city shopping plaza then an imediate
 left and go back through the same light now you're on lake ave follow
 through to hamilton st. From the opposite direction on rt 9 just take
 a right (Mr. Tux is on the corner)on to lake ave and follow through
    to hamilton st. again less 5 minutes to the courts after you make 
    the turn on to lake ave

 
	 xxx  | s.b.f		|
  	      |			|
	      |<hamilton st	|< rt9
	      |			|
	      |  skating arena  |
	      |	 lake ave       | / traffic light	
               ---------------- O------------
		football field	|---|< left turn here
				|
				|< bridge
				|
		         rt9>	|  white city plaza

 mike

    
    ok all the directions are in if you have a problem understanding ny
    jibberius  just call my dtn 225-4180 or call my house (508)756-0483
    saturday morning. Let's get started say around noon time. I'll be
    at the field and I know most of you already, if you don't know me
    personally but by my ABTL stance just look for a 5'9" bearded center
    trying to play the point ;^).........
    
    mike

    Thanks Mike, but what about if you're coming from Georgia?
    
    ;^)
    
    
    - ACC Chris
    

	I should be there, too..

	Jim M

 Ok so far it looks like:

				JoJ
				Dinz
				Bucky
				Dan
				ACChris
				Slasher
 				myself     are all definates

				McFall
				Digger
				Walt      are maybes

    who else is interested?   wife is definately going away with the
    kids so there's plenty of crashing room if necessary. Also if we
    want we can watch the NWA Combat Clash live or tape it and watch
    it later......

    GO NATURE BOY!!!!1111


 mike 

    Where is this travasty being held ?
    
    I can get a copy of the 1988 NBA Finals for y'alls viewing pleasure...
    

 Doc, we'll be playing the game in worcester and partying abit at my house 
 in worcester after. Probably go out and hit a few places in worcester as
 well. Hope you can make it. If you can go back a few notes and I've placed
 directions from all angles to the courts......

 mike

    Sam adams brew will be in attendance also.. compliments of myself
    
    don said i could drink a few to the oilers. :)
    
    
    dinz
    

    	Dinz, the case is mine.  Remember back in December when you
    told me that the Whalers were a far superior team to the Bruins?
    So actually fellows the case is compliments of my shrwed ability
    to coax a ridiculous bet of of Dinz.  8^)
    
    				/Don

    Doc... only if you can explain the last 3 seconds of game 7 and where
    they went.... ah, never mind...
    
    I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it...
    
    have fun...
    
    

    >Doc... only if you can explain the last 3 seconds of game 7 and where
    >they went.... ah, never mind...
    
    Kwitcher whinin' Walt.  Magic stole the ball.
    
    Don, since the beers are yours, I won't mind hoisting a few for the
    Oilers.  Care to join me?
    
    Dan

    Magic was fouled, he did steal the ball... but I won't start if you
    don't...

    	Dan I just called MikeC and if you so much as touch one of those
    Samuel Adams he's gonna lay a bone-crunching Cam Neely-like check
    on you.  
    
    				/Don

What time are the festivities starting...

I might be able to make it after all....

Chainsaw

    C'saw (get it?), you can come only if you promise to get on the Oilers
    bandwagon for the day.  I promise we'll get plenty of mileage out of
    it, if you know what I mean.
    
    /Don's giving the wagon a case of Sammies!  Can't pass that up, can
    you?
    
    Dan

    	What day/time is this thing on anyways?
    
    sean

    Contest Winner (Dan), Contest Originator (me), 50% of the Final 4 (Dan
    & /Don), Contest Judge (Jim McFalse), and now mebee Contest Critic
    (1Way) all assembled on 1 hoops court.
    
    Talk about yer All-Star crowd!
    
    
    - ACC Chris
    
    

Yes, but I have to warn you ACC, I don't play basketball that
well.

Just so that you all don't expect me to be any great shakes or anything...


Chainsaw_a_honest_man

>Just so that you all don't expect me to be any great shakes or anything...
						------------	
						Less Rattle!!
;^)

Saw, Sean,   I figure to get to the courts at noon time. I expect folks will
be there between then and 1:00 except Slasher who said he be a bit late....

Sean just go back to around .100 and start coming forward and you'll find
directions to the courts which are located in Worcester MA aka Wormtown...

mike

	Thanks Mike...  I'm in Hudson so Wormtown's only 15 mins away.
    It's justed a question of whether I'll be back from Maine Saturday
    or Sunday morning...  I hope to make it if I cain.
    
    sean

    dan,
    
    send me mail today, we can work out  the plans for tomorrow.
    
    /don
    
    
    hope youre not  thirstey by the time ya get there
    
    
    dinz
    

See you there gentlemen....

 We should be there atleast that long if not longer Hawk. Anyways should you
 be even later and miss us there follow these directions from the court to
 my house.

   coming out of the basket ball court road turn left onto Hamilton St.
 take you first left after crossing the bridge onto Boston ave at the
top of boston ave take a right on glezen st and I'm third house down on
the left. Big blue house with a boat in the driveway.....

 Also guy if you want to take cvhange clothes for after game feel free
 to as I've got plenty of towels and hot water for showers......


                                  | xxx court
                                  |
				  |<hamilton st
				  |
				  |< bridge
				  |
                                  |    boston ave
 				  ---------------------------|
							     |< glezen st
							     | x my house
							     |

 mike

Hawk....

Don't forget to wear your Freakin' Lunatic shoes...

    Chainsaw, my freakin' lunatic shoes mysteriously dissolved 24 hours
    after the lasted Baffroom Olympics (tm)!

Acid rain, all through my brain,
Lately the game don't seem the same,
Actin' funny, but I don't know why,
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky!

Acid rain, all around,
Don't know if the Sox are up or down.
Swimmin' in the baffroom sea,
whatever it was that beer put a spell on me!

(Help me, Help me)

Acid rain, we lost big time,
And Hawks shoes dissolved in slime,
He'd better get a new pair quick,
Or he cain't be a Freakin' Lunatic....

    FWIW, Saturday will be the Official Players Association sanctioned
    two on two rematch between JoJ/Bucky and Dinz/Childs. 
    
    JoJ and the Buckster are the heavy fav's...bet the farm. Also, Dinz
    agreed to pay up our bet from three years ago. He owed me a case of
    fudgepacker, but we negotiated for a six of Watney's instead. Someone
    bring a camera cuz it'll be the first time Dinz ever paid off a lost
    bet.
    
    See you guys there. You'll be able to spot me easily. I'll be wearing a
    white SHU sweatshirt or a dayglow Yellow/Green and Pink Slamhounds
    basketball shirt.
    
    Later,
    
    Magic_JoJ

    JOJ, I AMLOST FORGOT THE WATNEYS.. HA THANKS FOR REMINDING ME.
    i still think ya owe me a case though :)
    
    dinz
    
    ready for the rematch
    

Ahhhh....

What an entertaining day....

The most memorable aspect?  Melodee Sage, and her fabulous Titles...
Tyler a very close second....

The Flaming Titles trick actually deserves mention, as did our waitress.

Finally, I want to know if Bucky ever washed his glasses?


'Saw

 So how was everyone's other two legs doing yesterday? Lot's of fun can't
 wait to do it again sometime. Will anyone ever forget the Dinz's breakaways?
 ;^). Nice hoops Chris, good thing you didn't go to UNC and have Dean stiffle
 your game. ;^)

 Saw, Tyler was much more attractive and moved me more. Coco should have been
 working the parking lot..........

 mike

    Sigh... sorry I missed it, but Mom was glad to see her son... sniff
    sniff...
    
    At least I didn't become a total no-show like others in here.  Dan
    still can't stop my hook shot, it should have gone in...   Mike,
    has the Mrs. come back yet?  Good to see everyone...
    
    -Walt

 Yeah Walt she made it back yesterday. I even got the house picked up in time.
 Wasn't much of a mess anyways. She didn't enjoy hearing about the Pudgy's
 episode but was happy to learn I didn't spend no dollar bills?

 Hey Dinz think they'll take a lottery ticket? hahahhaaa

mike

    
    ha.. what a place that pudgeys.. i should have tried that lottery
    ticket, wish  tyler had worn the georgetown   hat..
    
    memories..
    

	What a day! What a night!

	Clearly, Tyler was worth a buck or two :^)

	It was great meeting everyone. ACChris and Wardle had great
outside games, and Dan and Mike made some nice moves on the inside.

	Wonder if George H. Brooks ever called Gronowski for that
one on one game?    


	BTW, Walt has the "Rodman wave" down to a science.

	Dinz, did you run on Sunday?

    hi jimbo,
    
    yup did a little under 44  minutes for 62.. suprised i could do
    anything yesterday  :)
    
    

JD/Sarge,  we was thinking of ya buddy. had a couple of laughs over the ice
tea and what a hell of a women your fiancee must be... ;^)

 see ya in august!

 mike

Well, regarding Tyler, she did exude more sexiness than Melodee, by
far.

A most excellent evening.  

My legs felt fine but my upper body felt like I'd run the gauntlet!


It was great meeting everyone.  ACC Chris really is a good hoops player,
and when JoJ's outside shot is on, it's really on. 

I did see Walt try to give one guy a scalp massage when he thought no one was
looking.

McFall was brutal.  When the guy drives the lane, he drives the lane.


JR's Horizon sipped through a straw...


And I wonder how that Gallup Poll turned out....


'Saw

    give me a break. wardle threw some bricks up  ha
    
    
    dinz
    

    re: Bucky's glasses
    
    He finally broke down and cleaned them yesterday afternoon. 
    
    Great time....cain't wait till the nexted event.
    
    JoJ

Talk about bricks, how bout the dude in the blue sweats? 8^)

Not that I did any better 8^(

'Saw

>    I didn't show up in a Suns cap either....
    
    Why who did?  Perspiring minds want to know...

    Mr. Workout (tm?)

    The team of Wardle, Knorr, Dinsmore and Schneider was unstoppable!
    We won 4 or 5 in a row.
    
    Windex Dan

    We'd have won 4 of 5 is we traded Mr. Mason to you guys... Wonder
    how Brigette let him out of the house or if the BC Lions knew
    he was out on the court...

    Actually, I thought he looked and sounded like the young Rocky Balboa,
    when he just met Adrian.  You shoulda heard Dinsy the first time this
    guy got the ball when he showed up.  Dinsy ran to the other side of the
    court and said he could guard him any more.  The guy made some spin
    move and let out a howl like a banshee (and bricked the shot of
    course).
    
    I'm always surprised at guys like that.  I mean they seemed stunned
    when they miss!  My god, do they really expect to hit those shots?
    
    Dan

 Dan, don't forget that kid Joe who played with you guys. He was a pretty
 dam good player. He swatted a couple on me but definately his most shinning
 moment was his Dinz impersination with the fence... ;^)

 Well my team won 3 times and could have been undefeated had that joker Joe
 who was playing the point opened his eyes a few times or the kid Dan
 didn't need 5 shots to make one bunny........

 sure was fustrating to outrebound guys 2 to 1 and still loose...

 ;^)

 mike

It was fun, I must say.

All I could think of as I ran up and down the court was the Kareem
line from Airplane about dragging Lanier and Walton around....

It was great fun, and I'll be all you guys are glad the 'Saw carries
an opener on his key chain...

Windex Dan (ha ha) that was too funny.  At any rate, I really kind
of liked that waitress too.  I'm still trying to figure out why
that one guy brought his date...

I kind of got a kick outta the guy in the gold sweatpants.  I mean,
the court was BARELY big enough to contain the guy's ego. 


Tyler (sigh)...Melodee (sigh)....

Chainsaw

    Oh well, yeah, maybe Mike... if we're ready to run... How many times
    was that guy going to ask... he obviously was asking the wrong
    people.
    
    'Saw, did  you see Windex Dan?  I saw Danny Clang, but Windex?  Ha
    ha....

Yes, Walt, clearly Dan clanged a few.  However, considering my 
own HAPLESS shooting performance, I'm the last one to talk.

I believe the Windex appellation (how's that for a word, Dan? ;^))
might be derived from some of our activities later in the evening....

At any rate, the part I enjoyed the most was when we returned to Mike's
house, and Dan almost "reverently" let us look at his Celtics Media
Guide that he received when he sat in the Press Box at the Celt's game.
It was a touching moment.

All in all a fun day of Bacchanalian revelry, the like of which won't
be seen until our nexted get-together....

Chainsaw

BTW, JoJ secretly told me that he really, really likes Heavy Metal....

    re: Saw
    
    I never confessed liking heavy metal. Call me a 'vane, call me Magic,
    but don't ever call me a metal_head.
    
    re: Dan
    
    Most egregious layup, dude. Ya know, the air ball....ha ha
    
    re: Walt
    
    Thanks for the facials. 
    
    What I thought was funny was when that outta control big man on the
    other team took my head off under the basket and then bitched about me
    calling the foul. Then, two seconds later he gets touched on his layup
    and starts bitching about all the hackers. 
    
    But, there is no doubt that the best play of the day was
    BLITZN::MCFALL'S shake and bake layup. You gotta love that.
    
    JoJ

Well, actually, JoJ is right.  He didn't confess to liking metal.

But I did tell him that not having the Scorpions Best of Rockers
'n Ballads was a most egregious and heinous omission from his 
collection....

JoJ also told me I should narrow my musical tastes.  When I offered
to give him my collection of Ravi Shankar sitar music, however, in an
effort to narrow my horizons, somehow he wasn't interested... I just
don't understand it...;^)


re hacking:

What got me pissed off was the time I wanged ACC Chris a good one
on his way up for the shot.  Now, being a man of integrity and
honesty, I called the foul.  Well, the dude in the gold pants
with the humongous ego and fair skills at best (clearly) really layed
into me for it...

As Fraser Krane would say, "I truly feel sorry for those who have
to measure the parameters and extent of their manhood solely on a public
basketball court in the city of Worcester.  Clearly they are suffering
from latent feelings of inferiority and inadequecy..."

At any rate, I may come from farm country, but at least down here
we admit and call our fouls...

'Saw

>Yes, Walt, clearly Dan clanged a few.  However, considering my 
>own HAPLESS shooting performance, I'm the last one to talk.
    
    Me?  "Clang a few"???  Hah!  I could step outside any time I wanted and
    drain the jumper.  But even though my teammates were all taller than
    me, no one seemed to enjoy the inside game that much except for me.
    
    We should have had our own 3 point contest, and then we would have seen
    who clanged, Walt.
    
    Dan

    Hey, at least I showed up for the contest, Dan.  And went through
    with it with no major whining about the lack of preparation.
    Compared to others in here who had all the time in the world
    to prepare and clanged loud enough to be heard at the Gahden...
    
    I'd give it a try though.
    
    Yeah, I forgot how the other team had the skill of basket hanging
    down to an art... Even Mr. Gold shorts had a comment on that...
    
    -Walt Dumars
    

    Enjoyed the gathering last Saturday - was great seeing everybody. 
    'Specially enjoyed the /Don T-shirt - no argument from me that the
    Dukesters are chokesters, I'll tell ya!
    
    Also it was good to talk to Judge McFalse mano-a-mano and get the *true* 
    story about how MrT was sending cash payments in exchange for a tilted 
    playing surface during "The Trial".  Under the circumstances judge, I 
    understand why you gave in to temptation, but I only wish you'd followed 
    my lead and stayed above the corruption.  Oh well, all's well that ends 
    well I suppose.
    
    As to the game, Dan's right about the JoJ/Dan/ACC Chris/Dinz combo. 
    What a team!  No excellent losses for that bunch.  Why, with Dinz
    running the floor like a spunky Kenny Smith (albiet a KSmith who
    struggles with the "lay-in" shot!), JoJ patrolling the baseline like 
    fellow-Jerseyite Mike O'Koren, Dan doing a (pre-1990 playoffs) Worthy-like 
    job down low, and me orchestrating the show a-la former Dean_on_the_floor 
    Brad Hoffman, it was simply No Contest out there!
    
    I wouldn't get too discouraged about Gold Pants 'Saw.  Even in games
    where offense-calls-the-foul (the defacto standard) it's still a
    sporting move to call it when you brutally hack somebody.  For example,
    player A is coming in for an uncontested lay-up.  (To use a real-life
    example, let's say it's Kenny Smith against LSU.)  Player B (LSU goon)
    comes up behind and, in true cheap-shot fashion, nails Kenny as he's
    airborn.  As we all know, Kenny gets sent into the cheap seats,
    breaking his wrist upon ground impact, and we sadly kiss any chance of 
    a national Title good-bye, despite having one of the greatest teams of 
    all-time.  If memory serves, the LSU guy who did that immediately raised 
    his hand (in Bill Laimbrain fashion) and acknowledged to one-and-all that 
    yes, he did commit a foul.  
    
    Many :^( faces thinking about *that* particular incident ...
    
    
    - ACC Chris
    

Too funny ACC... too funny.

I guess that fact that I left the guy I fouled dazed, confused, and all
battered and bloody on the floor would exonerate the fact that I
admitted my own foul, then.  That makes me feel better.

Clearly, a fine time was had by all....

Chainsaw

    	Hey Caught, I really like my Carolina Blew!  Great magazine!
    
    				/Don

    > Great magazine!
    
    We agree again /Don! 
    
    
    - ACC Chris
    

As I said, the magazine, as magazines is not bad.  I mean, I fully
expected a blatant, evangelical propaganda rag when I sat down to
peruse it.

It seems well written, and it kind of upbeat in a way that a Carolina
fan would appreciate (I mean, it is *for* Carolina fans).

But, again, for my tastes, there could have been a few more coyly
shot Titles and Acquisitions in there.  I mean, a group shot of 
the Cheerleaders would have been nice...or some of those awesome
gymnastics shots where unbelieveable manuevers are being attempted.
Or, best yet, how bout a few shot of the female diving team...

But I understand that Dean drives the newspaper and that his scruples
are perhaps a tad more conservative than mine...

I'm gonna get me one a them Duke shirts though 8^)

'Saw

    
    Saw,
    Ya mean that wasn't an "evangelical propaganda rag"? I kept looking for  
    the picture of Andy, Aunt Bee and Deputy Fife.
    
    
    
    How come most of those kinds of "papers" are so gushy?
    
                                                   HOOT
    

    Hey, I just noticed that the DONKS fans finally got their  head
    out of the sand and has surfaced here...
    
    REK
    
    Go WhaLe!!

       Where's ADA T at anyhow?
                                     Denny

    MrT is alive and well.  Just received mail the other day.
    
    Mark.

   I think the voraciously vitriolic yet vibrantly verbose plate stacker
   has become a CHON  ( College Hoops Only Noter ).

   Mike JN

I heard that he and Jack had this sex for drugs thing going, and 
that they tried to get Dan-o into the "fraternity".

Did you ever notice that you never see any Hawaii Five-0 reruns on?
That's because everyone these days would see through Jack Lords
facade...

I knew that...

'Saw

    
    	I didn't know you answered mail Markie!
    
    	Clay  

>>Did you ever notice that you never see any Hawaii Five-0 reruns on?
>>That's because everyone these days would see through Jack Lords
>>facade...
    
    This brings up another question I've often wondered about. Frankwa, you
    were in Europe for awhile...do you happen to know if they ever show
    reruns of Hogan's Heroes in West Germany?
    
    I've often wondered about that....
    
    JoJ

Actually, I can't answer that JimWa, Dude.

You see, I was in Germany for a week in '86, and Hogan's wasn't on
the three channels that they have.

In France in 88-89 they didn't show Hogans, either on French, British,
or the one German channel I got.

So, I would say "Nein".

I don't they they show "Sprockets" over there either ;^)


Now, JimWa, take the Scorpions, a most triumphant and excellent
German band.   We could have a most excellent time at one of there
concerts dude, then go back stage and ask them if they really do
show Hogan's Heroes reruns in Germany...

Also, dude, we could ask Rainer Forst, who's in this file every once
in a while....


Party on dude!

    It can be revealed.  I was MrT.  Set up a phoney account, had others
    play along with it.  It's the troof and a fack.  Had some good
    arguements with myself, didn't I?
    
    JDT

       Sam Malone wears Dockers!!
                                     Denny

A notice just came across the Net in reference to missing MrT.
    It seems that a group of Shiites are holding him ransom and
    cain't keep enough Oreo Double Stuffs to keep him quiet.  To
    make his return easy *and free* they sent this:
    
    
    
    			Official MrT Location Map
    
    
    
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    path 1------------/----                                              |
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    |  || |                                                   |
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    ||       |   ||                                             |
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    ||                                                 |===---MrT
    ||                                                 |
     ===-----------------------------------------------	
    

    MrT *does* exist, JD...I've spoken to him.  Why do you lie?
    
    Mark.

    Mark.  Ever see us in the same place, at the same time? ;')
    
    Just havin some fun.   He'll  be back.  I know he will.
    
    JD

Send Spud or CC some mail to find out what's going on.....

    JD, I know a man of your obvious physical stature (lats like Rocket
    J. Squirrel, cannonball biceps, horseshoe triceps, rippling abs
    and pectorals like, like, ... like, Traci Lords) would never be
    able to stack plates on his butt.
    
    You, sir, are no MrT.
    
    Mark.

    Well, someone ought to rescue him from them Shits that have him!

    Nah, lEe.  He'll win his own release by bathing them in a plethora
    of obfuscation!  :^) X 1 E 09
    
    Claybone

   He probably deleted all his notes so we couldn't do a `fantasy note' on
   him. Toooo bad,that would have been mildly hysterical:

   a_pseudopsychorunningdogratturdemittingsonsofapinkoredneocommieagitprop
   	
	has anyone ever seen me and the loquacious T together?
   Noperoonie sportsfans

   Mike JN(oter)

>>            <<< Note 228.177 by CAM::WAY "It was a stanky thang" >>>

'Saw,

Nope.  They don't show Hogan's Heros on German TV.  Also, I wouldn't ask
Rainer or the Scorpions about it either....

>>>I don't they they show "Sprockets" over there either ;^)

What are the Sprockets??

However, all is not lost:  Frog TV  shows Hawaii Five 0, and you're right,
Jack Lord does sweat a lot!!!

rick ellis