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i hate Mondays.

Irish music: the best part is, if it has words, it mostly falls into a few neat little categories: Boy meets girl, falls in love, boy fights England and dies or gets sent to Australia Guy minding his own business gets into trouble, usually with the English Brave and valiant army gets massacred by the English there is definitely a theme. if no words, it's a jig and you can probably dance to it without moving above the waist.

you know what's fun? when you are trying to download a certain song and you end up with something totally different but just as good or better as what you were trying for. I wouldn't have anything at all by Jimmy Eat World if I hadn't first accidentally downloaded Authority Song while looking for the John Mellencamp song. I just found a really neat Irish song called The Foggy Dew while attempting to get Shanny's jig The Washerwoman.

Well, I'm not happy with the PIMs. If he comes up to the Wings and earns them by fighting, OK, that way he takes the other guy with him. But he's got a whopping 271 in 61 games, which is an average of more than 2 minors per game. That needs to be cut down. Over a full 82-game season, that's more than 6 full games of penalty time. Not gonna cut it in the NHL. I don't know how many of his penalties are for fighting, how many are the result of a scrappy game (such as roughing), and how many are for stupid crap like slashing or high-sticking. He can't afford any from the last category while wearing the red and white.

Glad to see Johnson going to the D-League....it would be good for him to get some live game work in. Didn't the Pistons have Goldwire in camp at one point, maybe this year or last?

Oliver Twist the new one by Polanski. the only other movie to ever put a lump in my throat and water in my eyes (I don't "cry" at movies ) is Field of Dreams.

mmmmmmmm General Tso's.

I'm going to go pick up my Chinese now.

Ho hum, another blowout by the Pistons where the game was never as close as the final score indicated. Ben was a monster as usual - 11 points, 19 boards, 5 swats and 4 steals. Tayshaun with a big breakaway block, Reggie Miller style. Dale Davis had a lot of minutes and looked fantastic on defense, he tacked on 2 or 3 blocks as well. Defensive effort, with all the blocks, deflections, and steals was as good as it's been all season. And I always love watching someone score the first points of their career - Acker got his first bucket this afternoon

yeah I'm not a goalie, so I can get the hell out of the way if that puck comes flying at me...I had to laugh reading the story about the leaf, cuz I know exactly what you mean. You see something and you're like wow it's coming right for me, but instead of moving, you watch it because you're thinking the whole time, it can't hit me...no way...luckily we wear full cages or else, I'd have broken alot more bones in my face... and plus you feel really stupid diving out of the way of something that really wasn't gonna hit you at all, so you stand there just showing everyone, see, I'm not afraid of that silly li- BONK! it's like, ever played baseball and seen a good curveball for the first time? you feel really stupid eating dirt cause you could swear the pitch was coming at your head and meanwhile the umpire is yelling strike three.

it happened yesterday I was skating along the boards and this girl and i just ran into each other really hard, but she was taller than me so I hit my head on her shoulder and then hit the ice and hit my head. I sat there for a min. and then finally got up but instead of going to the bench I went to the net cuz my team had possession of the puck so I was going to the net hard and another girl hit me this time even harder. Next thing I remember i was laying in front of the net and play was still going on. Then I finally got up and as I got up the ref called the penalty on the other girl. I went to the bench, we scored on the PP and the game ended cuz of the mercy rule. The ref skated up to me after the game and was like "hey you alright?" I was like "I'll be ok". and he was like "she tried to tell me that she didn't hit you, but I told her that she didn't hit you so hard that you're neck snapped back" that's when I knew I got hit harder than I thought...but anyhow, hopefully the headaches will stop soon... I've had 2 concussions. Once was a puck to the head. (yes I was watching the puck at all times.... I watched it bean me in the head). I was taken to hospital right away because I passed out cold and didn't wake up right away. Second time I was skating. Fooling around on the ice and my friend and I got our skates tangled up. Bang.. I went down.. Cracked my head on the ice. Not to scare you... everyone is different with this sort of thing.. but I have frequent headaches now. Before the first concussion I could count all of the headaches I've had in my lifetime on 2 hands (I was 24 at the time). And now I get a headache at least once a week. Again.. it's different with everyone. Some people will get a concussion and their headaches will last a week or so. fabulous headaches forever now! YAY! This is the second one that I know I've had, but I'm sure I've had a few minor ones too. I'm just afraid that my coach won't let me play on sat. now. We've got a big game (first round of the playoffs) and I really want to play. So I'm trying to keep it on the downlow about the headaches and stuff...but right now it's real bad... Hopefully they won't last forever... don't push yourself. It's the worst thing you can do. After my first my dr. wouldnt let me work for 2 weeks. You're supposed to rest the brain.. . and unfortunately you need your brain to play hockey... (well unless you're sean avery) ahahahha that was too easy. Feel better yeah I know you gotta rest it, but it's senior year my last playoffs and I probably won't play much after saturday so I've gotta go for it. Otherwise, I'll regret it. I'm thinking that it will have been alittle over a week by then so I'll just practice this week, but not too hard and see what I come up with. If I have to rest my brain, does that mean I can't go to school? Yeah...that would be sweet, but I don't think my parents will fly for that one. (and yes I use my brain when I play...lol that was too easy though) betterREDthandead: That's a good one...I'll have to remember that when I'm watching the puck come at me... Just so long as you don't play goalie, it's always good advice But not so easy....when I was in school, a hurricane rolled through, and me and my roommates were out on the porch enjoying some brewskis and watching the storm and I swear all four of us watched a single leaf all the way as it came flying in from twenty yards away and conked my friend Dave in the head. OK, it wasn't a puck and it didn't exactly give him a concussion, but it was weird....we all saw it the whole way and just kind of froze with curiosity - like, OK, check it out, it's coming right for us, that's pretty wild, here it comes.....plunk. so if you can't get out of the way of a flying puck on a beeline for the bridge of your nose, I'll understand

4 out of 5 doctors recommend ducking in such an instance The other one's got a nasty mark on the head.

gimme one bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

I just won $40 in an online poker tournament by placing 49 out of 1123. Yay me!

Sugar calculators shoot the bright zebra. I bet that sentence has never been written before.

damn. here's hoping for a speedy recovery. by the way, I have been to both and I think Delaware sucks worse.

Which state sucks worse, Indiana or Delaware?

bad blood in the PEYL thread? no cookies for you guys.

yeah, wait a minute, what the hell are we concerned about that for? saying the Lions can't use him cause he's no good in the playoffs is like saying Middle Tennessee State couldn't have used Reggie Bush cause he makes dumb plays in bowl games.

RUSSIA looks like POCCHR in Russian.

Does this mean we're not getting Matt Schaub? On another note, the Lions also placed the franchise tag on Jeff Backus. Good move. They already need to upgrade the rest of the offensive line - the last thing they need is for the one really bright spot to take off as well.

Looks like the notion that Acker is gaining favor has some weight to it. In a game that was close enough that Chauncey and Ben saw 42 minutes of action, Acker got in too. Only a minute according to the box score, but he took two shots (I wonder if that's why he only played a minute). I didn't see the game though. For those who saw it....was it mop-up action for Acker, or somewhere in the middle to give Hunter and Chauncey a blow?

UVA won and Michigan won. An excellent night for basketball.

best idea I've heard all day. I shall commence straightaway. I have Neapolitan.

Actually I'm doing just fine. No gas, no getting knocked out, no stitches. Just a shot which numbed the whole left side of my face (hence why I felt like I got punched in the mouth - numbness in my face always makes it feel like its swollen up). And that's worn off. I only had one and have never had the other three, and it was in my upper jaw. According to the doc that's much better than the lower jaw because the upper jaw doesn't move. So I now just have a bottle of 800mg pills. Way more than I'm going to need. No horror stories....the surgery itself could not have taken more than ten minutes. I must be lucky because I had all sorts of people relating all sorts of grisly wisdom tooth tales at me, which is just the thing to do to someone going in for surgery. "Oh, you're getting your liver removed? man, my uncle had that done and he bled from his ribcage! they had to take out his lower intestine and wrap it around his ribs to stop the bleeding! so now he has to sit on the toilet whenever he wants to eat cause it all just goes right through!"