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kevzilla
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Mr. Pickles
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Ignoramus
Footballguy
This gets my seal of approval.
proninja
Footballguy
Fictitious?Fictitious gay awards that GM has won?This sounds made up.General Malaise said:(I was the 1995 Mississippi Food Network Citizen of the Year).
1992 Mississippi Spelling Bee Champ
2008 Best Boss of the Year (as voted by "Young Nanny Magazine")
Thad Lewis is better than this Eli Manning guy right now (actually true).
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General Malaise
Footballguy
Still can't believe I Miami lost at home off of a bye to Emanuelle Lewis and the sad sack Bills. 
Why oh why did I buy into the Dolphins? Grumble grumble grumble.
I think I might be a better QB than Josh Freeman.
Why oh why did I buy into the Dolphins? Grumble grumble grumble.I think I might be a better QB than Josh Freeman.
shame on you for going against the Bills this week.Still can't believe I Miami lost at home off of a bye to Emanuelle Lewis and the sad sack Bills.
I think I might be a better QB than Josh Freeman.
should have waited until next week when the Saints will roll them by 20 probably.
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mr roboto
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Grace Under Pressure
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BigJohn and GM kids: Awesome. As a dad of a 3 yr old, I'm choked up for you guys.
GL Tim wife and godspeed (or Moses-speed, whatever the case)
GL Tim wife and godspeed (or Moses-speed, whatever the case)
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
NiceGeneral Malaise said:Proud father, tl;dr alert....
Formerly pre-gay 5th grader Kellen Malaise and all his 5th grade classmates are encouraged to participate in something called "Make a Difference Day" in which they can create and organize an altruistic project of some kind for the benefit of mankind (or animal kind, for those Tanner4's who prefer four legged creatures to two). Kellen decided to organize a neighborhood food drive, something that excited me greatly as I ran 3 of them when I was in college and know a thing or two about a thing or two (I was the 1995 Mississippi Food Network Citizen of the Year
First stop, Albertsons, where we procured 250 paper bags (we did a door count of all the houses in our closed-end neighborhood - 216). Next, Kellen created a flier, I tweaked it and we printed off 250 fliers at my office on bright yellow paper (thanks Boss!). Then Kellen stapled all the fliers to the bags and distributed them by the front door of every house on a Friday. Flier had instructions to fill the bag up and leave out on Sunday.
Sunday the entire family rolled up our sleeves and went to work collecting the food. We had wagons, we had a stroller, we had fists-full of enthusiasm and perfect weather. People greeted the boys at the doors with generosity and smiles. If they didn't give food, they gave us empty cans/bottles to collect the 5 cent return (we returned them all on Friday, spending two hours feeding them in one by one, all for $23.55). Some gave a check. Bags of food piled up in our garage and it was simply astonishing to witness the joy on the faces of both my sons, who spent 5 hours on a Sunday going door to door to door asking for food.
My wife organized everything in our living room and I did an informal weigh in yesterday. I am a practitioner of MOP Math, so the numbers could be a little 'off'...but using my calculations, this food drive raised nearly 600 pounds of food and over $40 in donations. That's good enough for 4th place in the Portland Area for privately run Food Drives. Not too shabby and more proud of my family I could not be.
Thank you for reading, I will now tip-toe back into feckless Forrest territory.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
General Malaise
Footballguy
Am I the only one who got eliminated this week? Embarrassing.shame on you for going against the Bills this week.Still can't believe I Miami lost at home off of a bye to Emanuelle Lewis and the sad sack Bills.
I think I might be a better QB than Josh Freeman.
should have waited until next week when the Saints will roll them by 20 probably.
someone lost with the Patriots.Am I the only one who got eliminated this week? Embarrassing.shame on you for going against the Bills this week.Still can't believe I Miami lost at home off of a bye to Emanuelle Lewis and the sad sack Bills.
I think I might be a better QB than Josh Freeman.
should have waited until next week when the Saints will roll them by 20 probably.
down to 7.
Idiot Boxer
Footballguy
I am The EPICURE
Possible origins. Faced with a frightening early life, Seven children diffused their fear by escaping into the limitless possibilities of imagination. They have pleasant memories of their childhood years. Even with an objectively bad scenario, there is little residue of hatred or blame. The skew of attention is toward positive memory. By moving toward pleasure and away from pain, they tend to remember the best.
Flawed Sevens can allow their appetites to get out of control. This is characterized by a bodily hunger for excitement and experience. Sevens have a gourmet taste for experience, little tastes of the very best, rather than an overdose of a single experience meal. Typically they cannot stand inactivity. They stay active, but that activity is not necessarily productive: it has a restless quality about it. They delight in making plans for the future but are not good at following through on them.
As managers, they may introduce fascinating but conflicting options. They don't like to give and enforce direct orders. They try to make everyone feel like an equal participant in order to eliminate the possibility of confrontation.
Well-Adapted Sevens get over their intense fear of being deprived. Instead of consuming life, they learn to contemplate it, to plumb the depths of experience rather than to merely skim its surface. They overcome their wariness of others sufficiently to form, selectively, close and long-term attachments. They stick with tasks and occupations long enough to do them justice. Their enthusiasm and pleasure they take in what they do is infectious. Sevens are sought after for their enthusiasm and vitality and for their desire to share the enjoyment they feel.
They bring an optimism to their work, and once they get engaged they can get a lot done and take contagious pleasure in their accomplishment. At their best, they are highly productive generalists, talented in a variety of areas. Precocious as children, they grow up to be especially intelligent and multi-talented. They may settle successfully into roles in which they can apply their abundant practical intelligence to executing short-run plans or exploring new territory.
Occupations. The entertainment field is filled with Sevens, both well-adapted and flawed. Sevens are often editors, writers, or storytellers. As managers, they are the jacks-of-all-trades, knowledgeable and skilled in a number of areas. Because they learned at a young age to fend for themselves, they are survivors who are good people to have around when an organization is having trouble keeping its head above water. They are planners and synthesizers and idea gatherers.
Finding Oneself:Sevens will probably agree with most of the following statements:
Possible origins. Faced with a frightening early life, Seven children diffused their fear by escaping into the limitless possibilities of imagination. They have pleasant memories of their childhood years. Even with an objectively bad scenario, there is little residue of hatred or blame. The skew of attention is toward positive memory. By moving toward pleasure and away from pain, they tend to remember the best.
Flawed Sevens can allow their appetites to get out of control. This is characterized by a bodily hunger for excitement and experience. Sevens have a gourmet taste for experience, little tastes of the very best, rather than an overdose of a single experience meal. Typically they cannot stand inactivity. They stay active, but that activity is not necessarily productive: it has a restless quality about it. They delight in making plans for the future but are not good at following through on them.
As managers, they may introduce fascinating but conflicting options. They don't like to give and enforce direct orders. They try to make everyone feel like an equal participant in order to eliminate the possibility of confrontation.
Well-Adapted Sevens get over their intense fear of being deprived. Instead of consuming life, they learn to contemplate it, to plumb the depths of experience rather than to merely skim its surface. They overcome their wariness of others sufficiently to form, selectively, close and long-term attachments. They stick with tasks and occupations long enough to do them justice. Their enthusiasm and pleasure they take in what they do is infectious. Sevens are sought after for their enthusiasm and vitality and for their desire to share the enjoyment they feel.
They bring an optimism to their work, and once they get engaged they can get a lot done and take contagious pleasure in their accomplishment. At their best, they are highly productive generalists, talented in a variety of areas. Precocious as children, they grow up to be especially intelligent and multi-talented. They may settle successfully into roles in which they can apply their abundant practical intelligence to executing short-run plans or exploring new territory.
Occupations. The entertainment field is filled with Sevens, both well-adapted and flawed. Sevens are often editors, writers, or storytellers. As managers, they are the jacks-of-all-trades, knowledgeable and skilled in a number of areas. Because they learned at a young age to fend for themselves, they are survivors who are good people to have around when an organization is having trouble keeping its head above water. They are planners and synthesizers and idea gatherers.
Finding Oneself:Sevens will probably agree with most of the following statements:
- I tend to make things interesting, to make things nice.
- There are very few things in life which I can't enjoy.
- I usually look on the bright side of things and don't look for the negative side of life.
- "I must be defective if I need help."
- People say I'm often the life of the party.
- I often feel stuck and bored with commitment -- I like to keep my options open.
- I tend to be very enthusiastic about the future.
- I seem to be attached to youth and energy.
- Most of the time I avoid getting into really "heavy" issues.
- I find myself expressing anger by making fun of the problem.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Trying to figure out which current Minnesota team sucks the most....Vikings, Twins or Timberwolves. Are the Wild a thing?
General Malaise
Footballguy
At least our Golden Gophers are showing some fight. Good win over hated Northwestern.
General Malaise
Footballguy
I think I won Bob's football pool this week with my 35pt MNF point prediction that was still 5 points too high. at least this crap game was good for something.
doesn't quite offset how much I lost betting on the NFL the past few weeks but it helps.
doesn't quite offset how much I lost betting on the NFL the past few weeks but it helps.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Jeez, I didn't even fill that thing out this week. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.I think I won Bob's football pool this week with my 35pt MNF point prediction that was still 5 points too high. at least this crap game was good for something.
doesn't quite offset how much I lost betting on the NFL the past few weeks but it helps.
Frostillicus
Footballguy
It's either the Vikings or the Twins. Probably the Twins, but the Vikings are awfully close.
Mr. Pickles
Footballguy
Can we douse this flip little saying in a highly flammable liquid and light in on fire with great prejudice? Please?
General Malaise
Footballguy
T Bell
Footballguy
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
Drifter
Footballguy
Tecumseh
Footballguy
Guster
Footballguy
I'm The Boss.
heckmanm
Footballguy
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
congrats, kev
Idiot Boxer
Footballguy
YSR
Footballguy
bentley> hey guy
TYPE THREE: THE PERFORMER
Threes need the attention of others: they need to be recognized and even admired by others. Their own personal value comes not so much from how they view themselves as from the prestige and status that other people assign to them. They are compelled to avoid failure.
Success is more important to Threes than just about anything else in their lives, and so they tend to invest themselves totally in their work. They often sacrifice themselves to their jobs and careers and expect the same of others. They are good at rallying people because of their dedication to success, which they define in terms of achieving a goal or realizing a vision. They do not get bogged down in details. Although usually cooperative, they typically have difficulty forming intimate relationships and they are frequently uncomfortable with their own feelings.
Possible origins. Threes were the children who were prized for their achievements. They remember coming home from school and being asked about how well they had done, rather than how they felt about their day. Performance and image were rewarded, rather than emotional connections or a deep involvement in other people's lives. They eventually learned that the way to approval and love was successful performance, so they became adept at self-promotion and at projecting an image that incorporated the ideal characteristics of a role.
Flawed Threes are competitive to a fault. They possess an overwhelming need to be Number One. They can become tough, unrelenting taskmasters. They will be long on making demands and short on offering support as other people try to meet those demands. They often lose friends in their competitive frenzy and are unable to enjoy success once they have achieved it. They are also unduly concerned with impressing their superiors and tend to flaunt any favored standing they achieve. Because they use exploitative tactics to get what they want, their greatest fear-the fear of rejection--is often realized.
Well-adapted Threes are able to get beyond the need for an external affirmation of their worth and to come to a personal acceptance of themselves including their limitations. They no longer need the applause of an audience and they learn to find gratification in committing themselves to someone or something outside themselves. Healthy Threes are self-assured, have good social instincts and good relations with higher-ups, and an ambition to improve. Their natural enthusiasm and their ability to serve as role models make them excellent team players. Well-balanced Threes have transcended their self-focused tendencies and their single-minded preoccupation with their projects The healthy Threes learn to form close relationships for their own sake They also overcome any tendency to take credit not due them and to withhold credit due others In accepting their own fundamental worth as persons, they no longer are so susceptible to envying the accomplishments of others.
Occupations. Attractive environments include small businesses that have been built up through effort and long hours Jobs that require the consolidation of known ideas into workable systems -- packaging, promotion, marketing and sales As managers they specialize in building organizations, in turning their organizations into objects worthy of respect and high praise They gravitate toward environments where they can excel and avoid those where they cannot achieve.
Finding Oneself.
Threes will probably agree with most of the following statements:
I like to keep myself on the go.
I identify with achievement and performance.
Being able to get things organized and accomplished just seems to come natural to me.
"Success" is a word that means a lot to me.
I like to have clear goals set and to know where I stand on the way toward those goals.
I firmly believe that status and respect must be earned.
Projecting a successful image is very important to me.
Making decisions are not a problem for me.
I usually do not stop working long enough to ask myself how I feel about what I am doing.
I'll be happy after the next promotion.
TYPE THREE: THE PERFORMER
Threes need the attention of others: they need to be recognized and even admired by others. Their own personal value comes not so much from how they view themselves as from the prestige and status that other people assign to them. They are compelled to avoid failure.
Success is more important to Threes than just about anything else in their lives, and so they tend to invest themselves totally in their work. They often sacrifice themselves to their jobs and careers and expect the same of others. They are good at rallying people because of their dedication to success, which they define in terms of achieving a goal or realizing a vision. They do not get bogged down in details. Although usually cooperative, they typically have difficulty forming intimate relationships and they are frequently uncomfortable with their own feelings.
Possible origins. Threes were the children who were prized for their achievements. They remember coming home from school and being asked about how well they had done, rather than how they felt about their day. Performance and image were rewarded, rather than emotional connections or a deep involvement in other people's lives. They eventually learned that the way to approval and love was successful performance, so they became adept at self-promotion and at projecting an image that incorporated the ideal characteristics of a role.
Flawed Threes are competitive to a fault. They possess an overwhelming need to be Number One. They can become tough, unrelenting taskmasters. They will be long on making demands and short on offering support as other people try to meet those demands. They often lose friends in their competitive frenzy and are unable to enjoy success once they have achieved it. They are also unduly concerned with impressing their superiors and tend to flaunt any favored standing they achieve. Because they use exploitative tactics to get what they want, their greatest fear-the fear of rejection--is often realized.
Well-adapted Threes are able to get beyond the need for an external affirmation of their worth and to come to a personal acceptance of themselves including their limitations. They no longer need the applause of an audience and they learn to find gratification in committing themselves to someone or something outside themselves. Healthy Threes are self-assured, have good social instincts and good relations with higher-ups, and an ambition to improve. Their natural enthusiasm and their ability to serve as role models make them excellent team players. Well-balanced Threes have transcended their self-focused tendencies and their single-minded preoccupation with their projects The healthy Threes learn to form close relationships for their own sake They also overcome any tendency to take credit not due them and to withhold credit due others In accepting their own fundamental worth as persons, they no longer are so susceptible to envying the accomplishments of others.
Occupations. Attractive environments include small businesses that have been built up through effort and long hours Jobs that require the consolidation of known ideas into workable systems -- packaging, promotion, marketing and sales As managers they specialize in building organizations, in turning their organizations into objects worthy of respect and high praise They gravitate toward environments where they can excel and avoid those where they cannot achieve.
Finding Oneself.
Threes will probably agree with most of the following statements:
I like to keep myself on the go.
I identify with achievement and performance.
Being able to get things organized and accomplished just seems to come natural to me.
"Success" is a word that means a lot to me.
I like to have clear goals set and to know where I stand on the way toward those goals.
I firmly believe that status and respect must be earned.
Projecting a successful image is very important to me.
Making decisions are not a problem for me.
I usually do not stop working long enough to ask myself how I feel about what I am doing.
I'll be happy after the next promotion.
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Guster said:Tecumseh said:krista4 said:kevzilla said:I'm The Boss.
Scarily accurate.
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cosjobs
Footballguy
8s - cos, Bob, K4 & Kev (Tecum and Gusher?)Guster said:Tecumseh said:krista4 said:kevzilla said:I'm The Boss.
Scarily accurate.
too many chiefs in here?
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St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Aaron Rudnicki said:I think I won Bob's football pool this week with my 35pt MNF point prediction that was still 5 points too high. at least this crap game was good for something.
doesn't quite offset how much I lost betting on the NFL the past few weeks but it helps.
Also, very cool GM. Mrs. SLB and the neighbors organized a food drive 15-16 years ago. I wanted to do one this summer, before the holidays, but never got around to it. Also, for Halloween, one of my boys wants to be Darth Vader and the other Harry Potter. Guess which one I sometimes think has caught teh gay?
Kev, congrats!
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Doug nailed it?8s - cos, Bob, K4 & Kev (Tecum and Gusher?)Guster said:Tecumseh said:krista4 said:kevzilla said:I'm The Boss.
Scarily accurate.
too many chiefs in here?
Ignoramus
Footballguy
How you doin?
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Foosball God
Foos
Bob Sacamano said:
St. Louis Bob
Footballguy
Also, I've mentioned before hows part of my walk is a trail through the woods. It was really overcast yesterday and almost dark out. I'm walking down the trail and next thing I know this GIANT bird is in front or me, face high, talons and wings extended. Holy ####### #### was it scary and cool. We both then move back a bit and it flies up in a tree. It turned out to be a freaking owl. I've never seen an owl in the wild before. After some Google search, I don't think this thing is native to around here or was some sort of demon. It was 20-24" high and 12-14" wide easy. Just sat there and looked at the dog and me. I tried to snap a picture but it flew away when held my phone up.
I'm sure this is a good sign.
I'm sure this is a good sign.
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