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Actually the best sauce I ever tasted came from this roadside dive in Asheville NC. It was a molasses based with sweet chilies & Dr. Pepper. You could put it on your shoes and they would taste good.

I live about 15 minutes from there. If you have any questions, ask away. Oh I'm quite familiar with Dallas and Plano. Ever since I got into the Mobility business I can't seem to stay away from there. And I'm flying after all. Ugh. I'd almost rather be killed than subject myself to that.

I am VERY envious, I have never been to Texas and I desperately want to. I have watched loads of cooking shows about parts of Texas so I would also be eating Texas barbeque every night as well ....have a rack of ribs for me Oh the best BBQ is right here in my home town. Texas has nothing on Memphis on that note. An North Carolina? Please. Someone needs to tell them that a mustard based sauce is an affront to nature!

Going to Dallas for work on Thursday. Plano actually but it's the same thing. I'm thinking of driving. I hate flying these days. It's more trouble than it's worth. The upshot it I'm going to Texas Land & Cattle for dinner. Every night.

The Lakers are a mess. Kobe is sort of a one man show and now he has to make the coaching decisions too.

It's the same thing. Bruce Banner was experimenting on human performance enhancement, just like Barry Bonds and Mark McGuire. Actually Bonds might have used the same radiation: 1) Started out skinny & nice, check 2) Ended up big and an asshle, check 3) Lied to everyone about his secret, check 4) Unable to speak in complete sentences, check 5) Refers to himself in the 3rd person, check.

Watched the Grizz beat the Lakers last night. Great game. 1/3 of the way in and we're in 1st! The Mavs are close behind, just two games back in the loss column. This has been the best NBA season for me yet.

It's steroids

Very busy today. I've got the Winter Classic at 12, go Blackhawks, then the Rose Bowl go FSU, then the Sugar Bowl, go Bama. I may not get out of this chair all day.

Happy Thursday. When you get down to it that's all it really is.

Here we go. The solution is to restrict the freedom of millions of people who did nothing wrong because of the handful of nitwits who did. I could easily make the argument the all violent video games should be banned because studies prove exposure to violence in video games causes violence in kids. After all no one was shooting up schools after playing Pac Man

We talked about going to Vegas today but it just seems like such a hassle. Instead we're going to make a homemade pizza and watch Seinfeld DVDs. Who knows where that will lead? Actually... I have a pretty good idea

Oh I wouldn't read too much into that. All of our threads derail wildly around here. Anyone who spends more than 5 minutes on this board knows that if your looking for rational psychological advice you've come to the wrong shop. We're all somewhere between mildly dysfunctional to downright nuts around here.

Please tell me that was not intended as the worst pun... ever!

It would not surprise me if a few opposing o-line guys get together one Sunday morning and decide to "take care" of that guy once and for all. The league isn't going to do it and it's only a matter of time before his malice put someone out for real.

While there should be no restrictions on gun ownership there are, and should be restrictions on concealed carry. I don't know where this happened but in my state proficiency and safety training are a requirement for a Concealed Carry permit. It seems like both might have helped here. But the truth is we are all adults and it is incumbent upon all of us to act in a responsible way and at first glance that does not seem to have happened here and something terrible happened. Besides, she may very well have completed the proper safety training and still done the wrong thing.

The more I hear about this the more convinced I am there is a rat in this somewhere. We haven't seen it yet be we can surely smell it.

Woldan is right. The only way this plays is there is a round in the chamber and the safety is off. That is just stupid. No double action pistol should ever be kept with a live round in front of the pin unless you are getting ready to fire it. If it's a single action then not only was the pistol loaded with no safety but it had to be ****ed too. I seriously doubt a baby could pull that off otherwise. This is just a tragic accident that resulted from carelessness. Sad but true.

Never have, and likely never will. Ordinarily not my thing, and I don't find it appealing. But to each their own. However, I was once tempted to. I was propositioned as I was leaving my hotel by an absolutely drop dead gorgeous 10 blonde girl while in Montreal for work. This girl could have put many of the Victoria Secret models to shame (Montreal has the best looking prostitutes in North America from what I've seen in general but his girl was just wow). My tour bus was leaving momentarily, and was only a dozen yards or so away when she asked. Not getting on it meant my job. She was so smoking hot though that I seriously considered it. Had I not had the majority of the band's cash in a bag I was carrying I might have said @()#$ the job, I'm staying in Montreal a little while. But I liked those guys and didn't want to screw them over. Alas, if only I'd run into her earlier. I regret not asking for her number to hit her up when next I was in town. If she looked that good, odds are however much cash you had wasn't enough!

A man in CTN's situation (if he's on the level) really has two options. The mind is the enemy, You need to distract it, as most of you have suggested, with pursuits both constructive and enjoyable. Or you can go with the second option, just switch it off as I've suggested. The latter is a Band-Aid, the former is a cure.

It won't go to waste

In all seriousness, who among us has ever actually hired a prostitute? I did... once. In Okinawa Japan in 1990. I was very drunk on habu sake, screwing around in a place I had no business being with $20 burning a hole in my pocket and it seemed like the thing to do at the time.

Either you're hiring the wrong hookers or you're doing it sober. If you are on the drunk scale of 1-10 with 1 being sober and 10 being hospitalized hookers are best enjoyed at a 6-7. You can still, perform, and don't give a damn if they like you or not.

It was really cold at the end of November but it's been pretty mild since. Disappointingly so actually,

I never wrote that before, but I REALLY got a rapey vibe from this comment. That's it, this thread is over! Sharp One wins.