rusty2 wrote:The post above might be the most " ignorant " post of all time.



I can't help but think if all the creepy adulation she received after Taxi Driver might have forced her to the other team. Really. Perhaps temporarily.


I pretty much have accepted that gay guys are born that way and have no choice. That opinion is based mostly on watching male kids who seemed to "run and throw like girls" when I was growing up in a town of 50,000+, and they all turned out later to be gay. If a guy wants to do things a gay guy does, then I think they were innately intent on the behavior.

Girls on the other hand I think can be swayed from team to team through emotion and experimentation thoughts.

That opinion is based upon watching Jimmy Kimmel on "The Man Show" several years ago when he shared his stat that 80% of women have had lesbian thoughts.

Rusty, it seems you in your later years are encountering the challenge of reading and discerning (humorous) intent and meaning that you have always thrown in accusative fashion at JoeZ and others here.

To put in the equivalent of large letters for you....and speaking slowly and loudly.....the part of the post about the possible life influence of filming "Taxi Driver" when Jodie Foster was 14 was real. I was not the first to write about the "creepy adulation" she received in the years after release as a result of the role, and the possible influence on the seeming cocoon she sought for her private life thereafter.

When John Hinckley chose a .22 to unsuccessfully try to assassinate Ronald Reagan, Jodie Foster received even more concentrated note of the possible influence of her role in "Taxi Driver" on her later life.

The rest of my post was an attempt at light humor, though I will note that Jimmy Kimmel really did share the 80% percentage on "The Man Show." I know you watched the show. At least at the time you claimed you did around here.

Switching.....

I'll be on a lake in Winter Haven tomorrow.

Is the equipment truck on the way (to the sterile Arizona desert) yet?

Don't try to sugar coat your "ignorant" post.

Your only choices are "ignorant" or "drunk" or "both".

Based on history, I'm going both.

rusty2 wrote:Don't try to sugar coat your "ignorant" post.

Your only choices are "ignorant" or "drunk" or "both".

Based on history, I'm going both.

blah, blah, blah........


Those quoted words from a man who has hidden behind just (nicely) sharing the writings of others rather than typing his own thoughts and opinions of the moment for about 90%+ of his posts in the 15 seasons around this place.

Switching back again to Winter Haven, we are lakeside this evening with alarms set to get up at the crack of dawn to get my wife to her first stay at The Contemporary Resort in Walt Disney World.

I've written many times before that I have been largely nonplussed about Disney World and Disneyland in prior years, but since my wife and kids embrace so vehemently I just buy the season passes and enjoy what I can. At Disneyland in California during fall and winter visits I usually made sure to have a nice cigar to enjoy as I trekked the perimeter from our nearby Mom and Pop or "off property" hotel to the most convenient entry point to meet the family already inside.

(Mission Space at Epcot in Disney World was GREAT last year, and I can't wait to encounter the "full spin" version on Sunday)

My first trip to Disney World was in the Spring of 1972. The first spring it was open. My memories of that visit for years and to this day involve lines, lines and more lines. We stood in line about 50 times longer than we rode rides. I still have the coupon book of unused tickets from that visit of that era.

I wasn't too impressed in that year, though I do remember thinking it was pretty cool they had a hotel with monorail running through the middle.

Hence the first stay at The Contemporary Resort for ME this time!

I was 15 in the Spring of 1972 and watching after my 8 year old brother (now dead, though not fake) as my mother chain smoked holding our place in line. Long before social guidelines on smoking within a certain distance of others. She was a four pack a day smoker, and died 23 years later at the age of 69.

As it turned out, Walt Disney was also a heavy smoker, and only made it to age 65.

Now, there is nearly NO SMOKING allowed at Walt Disney World. Not in any room of any resort, and in very few other places.

Parallels, or something, I guess.

Or perhaps Quadratic Equations.

Tonight my wife and I dined late at Andy's in Winter Haven. No one here on this forum seems to remember, but in the early days of this forum the Winter Haven attendees frequently spoke of "breakfast at Andy's" or "dinner at Andy's."

Andy's Igloo today is a throwback era diner pleasantly stuck in the 1950's/1960's that even Guy Fieri has visited.

I mentioned to someone on the serving floor that I learned about the place from Cleveland Fans who used to patronize when The Tribe was in Winter Haven. Moments later the middle aged female owner came to our table to converse.

I guessed she was Hungarian, and my wife guessed Greek. Whatever, we bantered with her for several minutes about the attention the place had received over the years, and her missing of Spring Baseball in Winter Haven.

We spoke for longer than I expected, and then she bragged "even the President came here to eat!"

I asked, "Obama? Bush? Clinton?"


"No!"


"The President of The Cleveland Indians!"

As best I can cipher, Paul Dolan must have eaten at Andy's.

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:

rusty2 wrote:Don't try to sugar coat your "ignorant" post.

Your only choices are "ignorant" or "drunk" or "both".

Based on history, I'm going both.

blah, blah, blah........


Those quoted words from a man who has hidden behind just (nicely) sharing the writings of others rather than typing his own thoughts and opinions of the moment for about 90%+ of his posts in the 15 seasons around this place.

I would rather post articles then slander all types of people with drunken ignorant posts. Your post on gay guys should have got you banned from this place. You knew it too. That is why you hid for a few days.

JIM IN NEB'S daughter Delani:

rusty2 wrote:

Tribe Fan in SC/Cali wrote:

rusty2 wrote:Don't try to sugar coat your "ignorant" post.

Your only choices are "ignorant" or "drunk" or "both".

Based on history, I'm going both.

blah, blah, blah........


Those quoted words from a man who has hidden behind just (nicely) sharing the writings of others rather than typing his own thoughts and opinions of the moment for about 90%+ of his posts in the 15 seasons around this place.

I would rather post articles then slander all types of people with drunken ignorant posts. Your post on gay guys should have got you banned from this place. You knew it too. That is why you hid for a few days.

Duh, Rusty....

I lived in the San Francisco Bay area for 12 years, and worked there many years before that time.

I'm amazed to read that you are saying you know more about mentioning gay guys with social correctness than me, or apparently anyone here.

You Go Girl!

We had a couple great days at Disney.

Tomorrow, we'll be back. Animal Kingdom, my wife tells me, is our destination in the AM.

Our kid now working at Disney on an engineering internship got us a 50% off rate at The Contemporary Resort, and it was great to be able to walk into The Magic Kingdom from the hotel.

I was amazed that the Contemporary Resort offered nice grilled fish options for lunch for about ten bucks, and dinner options for about same.

It was super to be able to WALK to The Magic Kingdom from our Contemporary Resort Hotel.

I asked the family and friends to join me in hoisting a toast as the monorail traveled through the place just outside and below our room.

I told them, truthfully, that I had been waiting 41 years to see the sight of that monorail going through the hotel while I was on the inside of the place.

Catering to Rusty's posting prowess, the Contemporary Resort had good bars.

The guy at the pool bar was into gem seeking trips, as my wife and I have done. It was a good conversation over two Long Island Iced Tea drinks he poured as well as any gold panning guy.

When Disney World "closed," except for the shopping, I personally exited quickly and left my wife with money for her shopping.

I made it back to another bar in The Contemporary Resort as midnight approached and met a girl and her small group as they were awaiting the stroke of midnight to celebrate her official 40th Birthday.

Long story short, I rabble roused and tried to apparently successfully get her troops fired up as I only paid for two of our five rounds of kamikaze shots that were eventually enjoyed by all.

My wife arrived for the last shot, and she brought me back to our Contemporary Resort room for good and sweet slumber. The crowd begged us to stay, albeit in drunken stupor, but we did leave.

My wife made a good call.


I slept well last night.

We did not make it to "It's a Small World" (afterall) today.

But I will again offer my belief that "Life is only a Cabaret."

Old friend.


Come taste the wine....

etc., etc.,..........

Can this folder name be changed to "Ramblings by a Drunk".

Earl Weaver:

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE ALERT! This never made air, they were doing a test of the line at the beginning of the season and Earl was having some fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-6RYPRlqZk

J.R. wrote:Earl Weaver:

EXPLICIT LANGUAGE ALERT! This never made air, they were doing a test of the line at the beginning of the season and Earl was having some fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-6RYPRlqZk

Oh my!

Try the Lee Elia outburst. That's another good one.

rusty2 wrote:Can this folder name be changed to "Ramblings by a Drunk".

That's OK, Rusty.

I can imagine the personal pain you are feeling after your fave boy coach Bill Belichick lost a playoff game at home in New England against his former Cleveland Browns....now Baltimore Ravens.

It must have hurt when the revered Belichick threw a temper tantrum and refused the traditional post game head coach interview after the score board showed he was the losing head coach.

That Raven calling your Bill Belichick an arrogant prick must have really personally riled you.

"According to Yahoo Sports Dan Wetzel, the Ravens linebacker had a few expletive words leveled directly at Bill Belichick and Company.

'Tell them to have fun at the Pro Bowl, arrogant pricks' Suggs said in the locker room.

He then suggested the Patriots's arrogance has hurt the organization.

'Those are the most arrogant pricks in the world, starting with Belichick on down', Suggs exclaimed.



I was hoping the thought of the inauguration today might have put you in a better mood....

Did not hurt at all. (Belichick) Only little kids and drunks cry over sports or think adults do.

If you used your eyes and ears as much as your mouth then you would know that I was not a supporter of Obama during the election.