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OK - worst injury I ever had.

One night me and my boyz were at a couple bars in downtown Syracuse, 2 am rolls around and its time to hop in a cab and go home. We lived in Liverpool at the time, which is a 10-15 minute trip and approximately $15 ride. On the way home one of my buddies starts tapping me on the leg and making finger gestures. He was designing a plan so that we could "jump" on the cab. In short, cab stops, we open the doors, we book like the Dickens.

I was vehemently against this, not for some moral reason, but because we did not plan it out and thats a recipe for diaster. I was not listened to.

Well, we lived in an apartment/townhouse complex. There were over 1500 apartments and townhouses and it looked like a little city. So the plan was to tell the driver we lived in the back of the complex, then we'd run in opposite directions and eventually, after a sufficient amount of running around, we'd all meet back at the apartment. One of the tenets of jumping in not to run directly into your building/apartment cause the cabbie could follow you and your screwed.

So, we sent the cabbie all around the complex and we finally picked the right spot and the cab stopped. We calmly opened the doors and went for our wallets and then BAM, we took off in opposite directions. Well almost opposite, as me and one friend went the same way.

So we're running and its winter in Syracuse so we're running in a foot of snow/ice. We got behind a bunch of buildings and the cabbie was nowhere in sight. We did the John Belushi in Animal House, running, stopping, checking, running again. Then we heard something so we started running full speed. I was running and looking back, and running and looking back. Moving fast.

All of a sudden, WHACK!! There was a tree stump, about 3 feet high, and I had run into it fullspeed, no slowing up, no idea it was there. It felt like somebody had dropped an anvil on my stomach.

I tried to run again, but that was fruitless. It had been about 15 minutes of running around and I was now in unbelievable pain, so i walked to the road and followed it to my apartment. The cabbie was gone apparently so the walk now was pretty easy, except for the pain.

I cracked my ribs, and if anyone has ever done that they will tell you its the worst pain ever. Especially if you sneeze. I sneezed once in three weeks, cause after that first one I was suppressing every sneeze every time, and thats no easy feet when you have allergies.

Oh, and breakfast was my usual - Orange Juice and an Energy bar (outmeal raisin flavor)

Song in my head when I awoke this morning - Highway to Hell, by AC/DC

As of right now, 10:23 am EST, Krono has 1,904 posts in this thread alone. He will hit 2,000 posts in this thread either today or tomorrow.

Absolutely amazing

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Random notes...

Spent the better part of the weekend painting the basement. Mrs. T and the kids want it blue and yellow to match the blue pool table (we went wacky and got blue felt instead of classic green like Roy wanted). Tropical fish yellow and cobalt blue. I...get...really...sick...of...painting...

I've broken too many bones. Leg (femur, in 2nde grade on the playground), ankle (fracture), foot (another fracture), thumb (football, it was gross, got caught in a running backs jersey, he kept going along with my thumb, I stayed), 2 fingers (or 3?), and my nose (my own teammate in hoops). Seeing your own bones is not a good thing. And I've sprained my ankles a few thousand time and basically have shot the ligaments in both. They turn under all the time.

My wife broke her tailbone giving birth to my son. My wife belongs in the HoF of Wives, God bless her. If for nothing else, for putting up with me.

My son is trying to convince me a Ford Focus is a better car to buy than a Saturn for him.

I sweated more cutting the grass yesterday than I have all summer.

Oh, and Mason handed the game on a golden platter to Lakota West 26-20 on Friday. The Comets had over 500 yds. offense but fumbled 3 kickoffs and failed to score twice inside the 5. The kicking game was awful as well.

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RT you any good at pool?

I've thought about getting a table, but I'd almost rather get a ping pong table, debating that one.

Painting is also a chore I had to undertake this weekend. Had my youngest pup decide it would be a great idea to use her newly trimmed nails and dig a football sized hole in the drywall. Then my better half taking that opportunity to say, hey, since your patching it up anyway, instead of painting it tan like the rest of the room, let's (meaning you) paint the room a different color.

Ugh.

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I cracked my ribs, and if anyone has ever done that they will tell you its the worst pain ever. Especially if you sneeze. I sneezed once in three weeks, cause after that first one I was suppressing every sneeze every time, and thats no easy feet when you have allergies.

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All I have to say is, Ouch.

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All of a sudden, WHACK!! There was a tree stump, about 3 feet high, and I had run into it fullspeed, no slowing up, no idea it was there. It felt like somebody had dropped an anvil on my stomach.

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:MandJ: I have a similar story only it involved a gravestone and some truant officers. Funniest part is that the graveyard probably isn't too far from your apartment complex. (Old Mills? Names probably changed since then .... is it across from the old drive-in which I think is a strip mall now?)

How long were you in Liverpool? That's where I was born/raised.

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RT you any good at pool?

I've thought about getting a table, but I'd almost rather get a ping pong table, debating that one.

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I'm passable. I'm good as a basement player, beat my friends in bars, get killed by the more serious players. It's a function of how much time I put in on my game (and I have little time).

We had a ping-pong table and got rid of it (well, it's sitting in my garage) for the pool table. The ping pong table got used mostly as a place to stack up stuff. Plus I played 50 gazillion hours of ping pong as a kid and could beat the snot out of everyone I played.

Also, my kids are getting older and we're trying to make our basement be the place for our kids' friends to hang out (pool table, competition foosball table, air hockey, x-box/PS2, 2 PCs, wireless net, tolerant parents).

Ping pong is a 2 player sport period. Pool is a 1-n player. Pool is cool, ping pong is goofy. I can go shoot pool by myself any time I want. Space is a little tough, you need some elbow room for pool (you need 50 inches clearance around the table for a decent shots, we have a couple spots where you can't really make the shot).

Hey Everybody!

Chip, sorry to hear about the break. Hope all is well and you recover soon.

I will rescind my Mental Midget Award from myself and make there be no winner from Friday, August 27th.

Rosie, glad to hear that the game was fun. Should have asked Sr for a picture! How often do you see someone like that? Have to take advantage when you get the opportunity.

Puffy, good story.

Super Barry- I think in the interest of everyone, jello wrestling pictures should be posted on the board, or at least a link to it in your sig. :mhcky21: :lol:

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:MandJ: I have a similar story only it involved a gravestone and some truant officers. Funniest part is that the graveyard probably isn't too far from your apartment complex. (Old Mills? Names probably changed since then .... is it across from the old drive-in which I think is a strip mall now?)

How long were you in Liverpool? That's where I was born/raised.

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We lived in Grenadier Village, and we lived there for eleven months (right off John Glenn Blvd.)

Most of my time up there I lived in the city of Syracuse, either by LeMoyne or in Eastwood. But Grenadier Village was a lot of young people and some nice, affordable apartments for three guys just out of college - before we got asked to leave ("we're not going to re0new your lease....")

Oh, and creek, thanks for the information on the pool suites. I'm going to see if they'll take reservations for next year. :thumbup: . That looks awesome, I HAVE to do that.

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Rosie appears to be in a slump! only 1 out of the last 5 awards, or has she become the atlanta braves? :D

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I've been going to bed earlier than usual, so I guess that could be considered a slump. :p: I think all the hours I've had to put in at work this month are finally catching up to me.

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My wife broke her tailbone giving birth to my son.

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I do not even want to know how such a thing happens. :eek:

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Originally Posted by Roy Tucker

I'm passable. I'm good as a basement player, beat my friends in bars, get killed by the more serious players. It's a function of how much time I put in on my game (and I have little time).

We had a ping-pong table and got rid of it (well, it's sitting in my garage) for the pool table. The ping pong table got used mostly as a place to stack up stuff. Plus I played 50 gazillion hours of ping pong as a kid and could beat the snot out of everyone I played.

Also, my kids are getting older and we're trying to make our basement be the place for our kids' friends to hang out (pool table, competition foosball table, air hockey, x-box/PS2, 2 PCs, wireless net, tolerant parents).

Ping pong is a 2 player sport period. Pool is a 1-n player. Pool is cool, ping pong is goofy. I can go shoot pool by myself any time I want. Space is a little tough, you need some elbow room for pool (you need 50 inches clearance around the table for a decent shots, we have a couple spots where you can't really make the shot).

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When I was younger, my parents bought my brother and I a table tennis deck to run ourselves out of energy out in the backyard for hours on end. The idea is a nostalgic one, longing for those childhood days. That and I'm a horrid pool player. I've turned my garage into a psedo-lounge area, with the weight set and foosball table out there already to go w/ my workbench, but I'm looking for a big, center action piece for the room, for the six months a year when it's not 100 degrees in there.

Yup, its 10:00 CST, which means the STK question is back. We've been at this three weeks, at four questions a week, which means that 11 awards have been handed out - - yes, I missed Thursday's question, which I apologize for, but I was in Orlando and my parents DSL connection is down, so, what are you gonna do right?

The eleven previous winners - Red Leader has 5, IowaRed has 3, WOY has 2 and Chip has 1.

Todays question is in the movie The Princess Bride what are the three terrors in the fire swamp?

flame spurt, lightning sand, rodents of unusual size R.O.U.S.
love this movie

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Good morning, everyone. And stuff. Ah.

Someone tell me which Bengals are the real Bengals, the ones who played the Pats or the ones who got shot down by the Falcons. On second thought, don't tell me. Maybe I don't want to know.

I now have autographed baseballs sitting in cases right beside my Nightmare on Elm Street snow globe. I had no idea that "official" MLB baseballs were so expensive; but I wasn't exactly going to take a couple of the tattered and bruised baseballs I have rolling around on my living room floor.

The Germania Society Oktoberfest (in August?) is totally awesome. Cheap refills on liter steins are awesome. Listening to polka music with a ton of jolly drunkards is, yes, awesome.

I also gambled for the first time this weekend. Lost three dollars at a blackjack table and decided to get out before I lost the money I had earmarked for a pack of cigarettes.

I'm not even going to try and catch up on this thread. I considered, but figured that it wouldn't really make a difference if I did or not.

I gotta work.

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Good Morning :D

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Good morning, everyone!! Apple for breakfast... That's gonna hafta hold me til 2 pm.

I've never broken anything besides my right big toe. It was on Valentine's Day my freshman year, and my roommate was treating her boyfriend (my best guy friend at college) like crap and my dad was being difficult, so I angrily kicked the wall, breaking my toe. Oh man, my softball coach was SO FURIOUS... I know she didn't believe me when I swore to her that I was sober when it happened!! :MandJ:

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I don't believe you ;)


:D

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I've got a few leftovers, but they're all mine. :D

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Find..you get none of this pecan pie I have ;)

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Originally Posted by Puffy

OK - worst injury I ever had.

One night me and my boyz were at a couple bars in downtown Syracuse, 2 am rolls around and its time to hop in a cab and go home. We lived in Liverpool at the time, which is a 10-15 minute trip and approximately $15 ride. On the way home one of my buddies starts tapping me on the leg and making finger gestures. He was designing a plan so that we could "jump" on the cab. In short, cab stops, we open the doors, we book like the Dickens.

I was vehemently against this, not for some moral reason, but because we did not plan it out and thats a recipe for diaster. I was not listened to.

Well, we lived in an apartment/townhouse complex. There were over 1500 apartments and townhouses and it looked like a little city. So the plan was to tell the driver we lived in the back of the complex, then we'd run in opposite directions and eventually, after a sufficient amount of running around, we'd all meet back at the apartment. One of the tenets of jumping in not to run directly into your building/apartment cause the cabbie could follow you and your screwed.

So, we sent the cabbie all around the complex and we finally picked the right spot and the cab stopped. We calmly opened the doors and went for our wallets and then BAM, we took off in opposite directions. Well almost opposite, as me and one friend went the same way.

So we're running and its winter in Syracuse so we're running in a foot of snow/ice. We got behind a bunch of buildings and the cabbie was nowhere in sight. We did the John Belushi in Animal House, running, stopping, checking, running again. Then we heard something so we started running full speed. I was running and looking back, and running and looking back. Moving fast.

All of a sudden, WHACK!! There was a tree stump, about 3 feet high, and I had run into it fullspeed, no slowing up, no idea it was there. It felt like somebody had dropped an anvil on my stomach.

I tried to run again, but that was fruitless. It had been about 15 minutes of running around and I was now in unbelievable pain, so i walked to the road and followed it to my apartment. The cabbie was gone apparently so the walk now was pretty easy, except for the pain.

I cracked my ribs, and if anyone has ever done that they will tell you its the worst pain ever. Especially if you sneeze. I sneezed once in three weeks, cause after that first one I was suppressing every sneeze every time, and thats no easy feet when you have allergies.

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I bet the cabbie saw you do it and laughed ;)

The Flame Spurt, the Lightning Sand, and the R.O.U.S?

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Oh, and breakfast was my usual - Orange Juice and an Energy bar (outmeal raisin flavor)

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Those things make great snacks :MandJ:

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Song in my head when I awoke this morning - Highway to Hell, by AC/DC

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I have a song I heard on the radio in my head :gac:

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As of right now, 10:23 am EST, Krono has 1,904 posts in this thread alone. He will hit 2,000 posts in this thread either today or tomorrow.

Absolutely amazing

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All about counting to 20 and then posting again ;)

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I've been going to bed earlier than usual, so I guess that could be considered a slump. :p: I think all the hours I've had to put in at work this month are finally catching up to me.

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I could start getting up early and awarding at 2am :D

Or I could stay aloof :freel:

Sorry I got in the way of the STK award with a post spurt :D

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Originally Posted by IowaRed

flame spurt, lightning sand, rodents of unusual size R.O.U.S.
love this movie

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Excellent work!! Just beat Red Leader to the punch to pick up your 4th STK award, and only one behind Red leader's 5 STK's.

Good job!

Man, IowaRed is quick. If you miss the STK question by 10 seconds, he'll beat ya to it. :thumbup:

I just had White Chocolate Reeses for the first time. I think I've got a new favorite candy. :D

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All about counting to 20 and then posting again ;)

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HMMM...


Krono:

"Hey guys, I had tacos for breakfast again"

*Click's SUBMIT*

*Thinks to himself*

"1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and..."

Zombie, is that all we're going to hear about :freel: ?

Was he everything you hoped for? Did you realize you two are soulmates?

;)

IowaRed is just like Ryan Freel, just when you think you have him, he busts thru the first row and smacks an old lady in the kisser.

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HMMM...


Krono:

"Hey guys, I had tacos for breakfast again"

*Click's SUBMIT*

*Thinks to himself*

"1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and 5 and..."

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:mhcky21:

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Zombie, is that all we're going to hear about :freel: ?

Was he everything you hoped for? Did you realize you two are soulmates?

;)

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Maybe he's still in shock at meeting him? :D

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Sorry I got in the way of the STK award with a post spurt :D

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You sure did. :allovrjr:

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Man, IowaRed is quick. If you miss the STK question by 10 seconds, he'll beat ya to it. :thumbup:

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Wow, that's really sad

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IowaRed is just like Ryan Freel, just when you think you have him, he busts thru the first row and smacks an old lady in the kisser.

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:lol: :lol: :roll: :roll: , no doubt.

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Originally Posted by airalex

You sure did. :allovrjr:

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You're on the list buddy ;)

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Originally Posted by KronoRed

I could start getting up early and awarding at 2am :D

Or I could stay aloof :freel:

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Oh that's okay. I'm sure I'll be back to my regular schedule soon enough! :)

I have a question for you guys. Do you ever use the :roll: emoticon?

Why do I always find myself chasing this little bugger with my cursor, like I have to click on the actual smilie to get him to work. Always making things harder than they are ;)