plasticeyeball

Emily and her friends got caught doing the ding dong ditch the other night......we live in an apartment complex, and needless to say our neighbors were not all too happy. I was a little miffed as well.

 

However, I remember being a kid and the allure of the ding dong ditch. I gave Em an appropriate punishment - a couple days away from her friends. I let up on her grounding today, and she went to see one of her friends. She came home crying hysterically 5 min later - apparently that friend's mom will never let her play with Emily again.

that really sucks and i hope i never over react when my kids get to that age. the way i gauge my reactions are based on a reaction my mom had when i was a kid. it was halloween time and me and my little freinds decide to egg a house.

problem was it was we picked the house next door and we were all seen running into my basement to hide after the deed. not very

anyway, we had to apologize and clean everything up (which was fine) but i distinctly remember my mother actually crying in the neighbors front yard telling them how embarrassed she was which was a total over reaction.

i believe my dad had to step in to reduce the grounding from "life" to maybe a week or so. and my mother also tried to "never let me play with those kids again" when the egging was my idea in the first place.

ps: although we never called it "ding dong ditch" i did the same thing a hundred times and never got caught.

people who change their avatars like 3 times in two days

!!!!!!!!!!

it's my second

and probably last

seconded on the late thing

hope you had a good vacation too

i had the same problem. ended up locking up my computer.

i did see the audio will be webcast on wilcoweb

wilcoweb

No Replacements ????

or the Clash

or the Cure

or the Pogues

or the lemonheads

or the connells

or the violent femmes

or REM

or Sonic Youth

or X

or gang of four

or Janes Addiction

or the dB's

or Husker Du

or Elvis Costello

or the feelies

or the Pixies

or Green on Red

or the Long Ryders

or Jason and the Scorchers

or Young Fresh Fellows

or the Dead Milkmen

or New Order

or the Jesus & Mary Chain

or the Beastie Boys

granted, most of 80-84 blew but i think 85-90 had some if not most of my favorite things ever!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!

i got alot going on tonight with soccer camp with the kids and crap but if i can learn how to upload things to ysi (i assume i need to register or something) i have most of the connells stuff on my computer at home so i'll pm both of you

they are a band that played here a couple times a year throughout the late eighties /early nineties and were always a favorite.

so i guess i'm canceling my trip to the monmouth mall after work today.

She works the Cinnabon counter at the Monmouth Mall in Eatontown.

fixed

the rule of thumb on tile is 10% over the actual square footage but all the tile i have ever bought came in certain sq ft /box and you couldn't get partial boxes so i always ended up more over. and it's actually not that hard to do.

if the hole in the wall doesn't go lower down the wall than any wall tile, (if any), then take the real easy way out and buy a mirror or cabinet that's bigger than the hole.

i've been renovating a 150 year old house for 11 years now and not one room is done so i should keep my mouth shut. (unless you start doing plumbing & electric, that stuff i know.)

that was the 4th year which was 1994. there wasn't a new jersey date. the closest thing would have been randall's island in nyc/queens/ (in the middle of a river off the BQE) where they had it a couple years in a row.

i was there but don't know if Q-Tip did a song with the Beasties bein' that i was a bit drug addled back then.

So sorry to hear about your loss.

From NY Post Page Six:

 

His tirade came 40 minutes into the long-awaited Weinstein Company sequel to Smith's 1994 cult classic about two foul-mouthed Long Island convenience store clerks who razz customers and goof off.

i feel like in reverence to northern monmouth county in this great state of new jersey, i need to correct Page Six and clarify that long island was not the setting of Clerks I but instead it was down the road from my house in leonardo, nj

Mr. Eyeball, I thank you for infusing my obviously emotion-charged rhetoric clogging up this thread w/ much needed facts...whether they support what i'm saying or don't.

if it wasn't for you i wouldn't even have know there was an adult vs embryonic debate.

i did have a hard time trying to find something scientific/medical based versus something one sided/political based

edit: by the way, i can't believe how many words you can type in a day. it's amazing

also, an article that talks about the need for both adult and embryonic scr

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metrop...an/4059176.html

Scientists see value in both embryonic, adult stem cells

Local researchers lament veto, hope field will prosper

By TODD ACKERMAN

Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle

The political debate about stem-cell research is a classic case of conjunction dysfunction, say local scientists, with opposing sides using the word "or" when they should have been using "and."

By making the issue an either-or proposition

I posted this this morning but a few people seem to be missing it

here's a summary from the AP.

To qualify for federal funding under the bill, newer embryos could be used in studies only if they:

_Were created for the purposes of fertility treatment.

_Were donated by in vitro fertilization clinics with written, informed consent of those being being treated.

_Were "in excess of the clinical need of the individuals seeking such treatment" and would never be implanted in a woman.

_Would otherwise be discarded, as determined by those seeking treatment.

_Were not donated by patients induced to do so by financial or other incentives.

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Source: "The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005," H.R. 810.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

 

which is why parading those kids around as possible outcomes of the cells in question is disgusting and utter bullshit.

 

as i said yesterday, the 2 choices are use them for research or throw them in the garbage and he chose the garbage.

No need to be a dick, D. Reading this article again, i'm missing the part where you said these weren't embryos and it does say he vetoed a bill for embryonic stem cell research. Exactly why aren't these adoptable?

here's a summary from the AP.

To qualify for federal funding under the bill, newer embryos could be used in studies only if they:

_Were created for the purposes of fertility treatment.

_Were donated by in vitro fertilization clinics with written, informed consent of those being being treated.

_Were "in excess of the clinical need of the individuals seeking such treatment" and would never be implanted in a woman.

_Would otherwise be discarded, as determined by those seeking treatment.

_Were not donated by patients induced to do so by financial or other incentives.

__

Source: "The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005," H.R. 810.

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

which is why parading those kids around as possible outcomes of the cells in question is disgusting and utter bullshit.

as i said yesterday, the 2 choices are use them for research or throw them in the garbage and he chose the garbage.

People can still donate their money to stem cell research. The veto just prevents more tax money from being spent on it. And I still don't see how it's legislating morality.

cause he says it is himself

The bill passed the senate 63-37 but he seems to think they were wrong so he gets to change legislation.

"This bill would support the taking of innocent human life in the hope of finding medical benefits for others," Bush said Wednesday afternoon. "It crosses a moral boundary that our decent society needs to respect. So I vetoed it."

Just so we're clear, am I wrong for wanting the adoption scenario over their donation to medical research?

i don't think your wrong for wanting the adoption scenario but i'm pretty sure this was a choice between using cells for good or just throwing them away and bush picked the garbage can.

no offense to your kids, but ham on a bagel with mayo sounds a little gross.

i know!

just so you all know, i went the way of Pocahontas and it worked! same dinner for everyone, it was magical

also, i'm sure nobody will actually ever tell them they were a 'snowflake child' and that they'll be 'plagued' w/ that title any more than my kids will be called 'test tube babies' by anybody. they're children. period.

we taught our twins to kick the shit out of the kids who call them "test tube babies".

they prefer to be refered to as "professionally installed" children. they think that sounds more impressive.

that story just made me puke a little. should i bring it home for thier dinner?

now it's time to go home and spend 2 hours and make six dinners and three desserts for 3 kids, one at a time.

My wife is disillusioned that we will not have to deal w/ the same dinner bartering the plasticeyekids seem to be masters of. I just grin and tell her she's on the money.

she could be right if you start off with just saying "dinner!" (when they're speaking of course) and giving them all same thing but if you try to change it later (at 7 and four years old), it's not going to happen.

they're spoiled and no supernanny going to change that. plus, all the action keeps me from smoking.