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email just sent to me. sorry if already posted. Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana. We have arrived on your doorstep on short notice and we apologize for that, but we never were much for waiting around for invitations. We're not much on formalities like that.

PENGUINS BUILDING STANLEY CUP CONTENDER by Joe Sager pittsburghpenguins.com 09/09/2005 Are you ready for some hockey? The Pittsburgh Penguins hit the ice Wednesday in the most-anticipated training camp in recent memory. Following a 310-day work stoppage that wiped out the 2003-04 season, the NHL and the Penguins are back and better than ever. “Everywhere we go, it’s very exciting. People can’t wait for the season to start,” said Penguins captain Mario Lemieux. “It’s a very exciting time for Pittsburgh and the fans.” The mere fact that hockey is back is enough to fire up Penguins fans. Add in an unprecedented...

The newly engaged Katie Holmes still has some explaining to do to her friends and family. There were 16 days in April during which no one seems to know where she was. Holmes made a public appearance on April 4 at the premiere of "Steel Magnolias" on Broadway. She came with her publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, and a couple of other friends. They were there to support Rebecca Gayheart, who was making her Broadway debut. I know this because I spoke to Holmes at length during the play's intermission. She said she had just moved into her New York apartment...

I'm planning a trip to the US (won't be for a while yet, I need to get the money and the leave to do it) and I'm looking at some ideas for a 4 to 8 week trip (4 weeks if Mrs. Dundee decides to come, 8 weeks if it's just me). I'd want to start on the East Coast and make my way west. The first stop I'd plan on would be Washington DC (for all the usual touristy things plus meeting some of my counterparts in the Pentagon). I'm thinking that Arlington might be a good place to...

Giacomo Draws Post 13 For Preakness; Afleex Alex Goes From Post 12 As Favorite Baltimore, MD. 05-18-05 --- John Shirreffs, trainer of Jerome and Ann Moss’ Giacomo, had little left to pick when he selected 13th in the Preakness draw Wednesday evening and chose Post 13 for his Kentucky Derby winner. Afleet Alex, who was installed the 5-2 morning line favorite, will go from Post 12 in the full field of 14. The field in post position order for the 130th running of the $1 million, mile and three-sixteenths second jewel of the Triple Crown, with jockeys and morning line...

In honor of today's premiere, here is Triumph the Insult Dog hammering people in line for the opening of Attack of the Clones. One of the funniest things I have ever seen on TV. Triumph

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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts...

A couple of Sundays ago our preacher was talking about the bad things that can come from telling and spreading rumors, and how the tongue can be hurtful, etc. As part of his sermon, he stated that sometime after Lincoln's death a rumor began to spread that his body was not inside the coffin. So, it was exhumed and viewed to verify it was there. Then again in 1901, he said, it was dug up again. Why? Same rumor. I thought this was exceptionally odd but possible and so I got online and found this quote from the above site:...

I saw this at the Belmont Club - interesting work. http://www.newmapgame.com/gameplay.htm

I'll be brief. The greatest King of the Hill quote of all time: PEGGY: Oh, give me a break. I don't see how having a girl on the team would ruin it. Did a woman judge ruin the Supreme Court? HANK: Yes, and that woman's name was Earl Warren.

Tried for a weekend to install NSW on an AMD system running XP Pro. No go. Spent hours on the phone with Symantec. No good. Installed Ghost. Installs fine; errors out when run. I thought by now AMD systems would be fully compatible; evidently I was wrong. "Fully contemptible" might be more appropriate. Any suggestions? I am thinking of pitching it and going back to intel. --Boris

I need help with Outlook Express. I need to set up an automatice reploy that alerts anyone sending me an email that I am out of the office. I can't find anything in the help folder. No one in my office knows how to do it either. Hell, we buy computers that fell off the back of a truck and from Vietnamese guys at computer shows... Any help would be aprreciated.

http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/b1/League ID#: 14691League Name: Free Republicans Password: jimrob Draft Type: Autopick Draft (will be changed to live draft once everyone has signed up)Max Teams: 16 Scoring Type: Rotisserie Player Universe: All baseball Max Moves: No maximum Max Trades: No maximum Trade Reject Time: 2 Trade End Date:August 14, 2005 Waiver Time: 2 days Can't Cut List Provider: Yahoo! Sports Trade Review: League Votes Max Games Played: 162 Max Innings Pitched: 1250 Start Scoring on: Sunday, Apr 3 Weekly Deadline: Daily - Tomorrow Roster Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, OF, OF, Util, Util, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, P,...

Turn on TVLand and watch Happy Days....term still used today....

I am quite certain that I am not the first individual to give this idea serious thought, so I am hoping that a few of my fellow freepers out there will lend me a few of theirs. It is almost certain that Hillary will try to make a run for the White House in 2008 and if she does, she is almost certain to pose serious competition to any Republican challenger for obvious reasons. 1. She is a female. Feminists would fall all over themselves to put someone like her in office. 2. Who else do the dems really have...

The National Hockey League, on the verge of canceling the season over a salary dispute with the player's union, announced that negotiations would end today with a "bare-knuckle fistfight between the lawyers." Gary Bettman, the attorney who serves as NHL commissioner and Bob Goodenow, a lawyer and executive director of the player's union, will "throw down the gloves" at an arena yet to be named. Tickets for the event have already sold out. If Mr. Bettman wins, the NHL imposes a salary cap at 55 percent of revenues. If Mr. Goodenow wins, the players receive a 24-percent pay cut, but...

Wishing all the ladies on FR a Very Happy Valentine’s Day! May it be as sweet and innocent as this little angel,May your day and all the days to comebe filled with the same awe, wonderment and simple joys as her face shows. HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY LADIES! SandRat