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Traci

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Mar 10, 2008, 12:29:00 AM3/10/08
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Have y'all got a touch of the March Madness Fever? I know I have. And
with Selection Sunday only a week away I thought it time to get the
annual bracket contest rolling. Here's the info...


To join the group, first sign up for the contest at
http://wane.collegebasketball.upickem.net,
which enables you to win prizes for each round or a grand
prize for the tournament.
Then, after you log in, click on the "My Groups"
tab, and then click on "Join a
Private Group," and submit the following:

Your group name: AFL Bassetball
Your password: LtEaston

One screen name per person, please. Any duplicate entries get kicked to
the curb.

See you all on the brackets!

Traci

Brady

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Mar 10, 2008, 12:33:18 AM3/10/08
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Traci wrote:

> Have y'all got a touch of the March Madness Fever? I know I have. And
> with Selection Sunday only a week away I thought it time to get the
> annual bracket contest rolling. Here's the info...
>
>
> To join the group, first sign up for the contest at
> http://wane.collegebasketball.upickem.net,
> which enables you to win prizes for each round or a grand
> prize for the tournament.
> Then, after you log in, click on the "My Groups"
> tab, and then click on "Join a
> Private Group," and submit the following:
>
> Your group name: AFL Bassetball
> Your password: LtEaston

That password actually made me chuckle out loud. It made me COL, if you
will.

> One screen name per person, please. Any duplicate entries get kicked to
> the curb.

You speak the language of today's youth.

Brady

Capn...@gmail.com

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Mar 12, 2008, 8:52:56 PM3/12/08
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I got a fever:

> See you all on the brackets!

Oral Roberts is in!
Woohoo!!!


Carl

WWJP?

Brady

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Mar 12, 2008, 10:03:36 PM3/12/08
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CapnCarl wrote:

He saves. He shoots! He *scores!*

Sorry.

Brady

Helen Read

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Mar 12, 2008, 11:29:05 PM3/12/08
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Capn...@gmail.com wrote:
> I got a fever:
>
>> See you all on the brackets!

SPRINGFIELD, Oregon (AP) -- For guys who park in front of the TV during
college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a
suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/vasectomy.ap/index.html


--
HPR (I am not making this up)

http://homepages.together.net/~hpr/daveorama/

johnny bobby bee

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Mar 13, 2008, 4:12:28 AM3/13/08
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Helen Read wrote:
> SPRINGFIELD, Oregon (AP) -- For guys who park in front of the TV during
> college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a
> suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy?
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/vasectomy.ap/index.html

I'm confused. Are they advocating or trying to sell guys on the idea of
vasectomies or just saying, if, on the unlikely chance that you get one,
March Madness would be a great time?

--
As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously.
--Benjamin Franklin

Brady

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Mar 13, 2008, 4:21:19 AM3/13/08
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johnny bobby bee wrote:

> Helen Read wrote:
>> SPRINGFIELD, Oregon (AP) -- For guys who park in front of the TV
>> during college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology
>> Institute has a suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a
>> vasectomy?
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/vasectomy.ap/index.html
>
> I'm confused. Are they advocating or trying to sell guys on the idea of
> vasectomies or just saying, if, on the unlikely chance that you get one,
> March Madness would be a great time?

I heard a report about this on the radio. It's a 'March Madness'
vasectomy promotion. (Each vasectomy comes with some complimentary
'March Madness'-related goodies.)

Brady

Rod Fernandez

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Mar 13, 2008, 8:58:58 AM3/13/08
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Helen Read wrote:
> Capn...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I got a fever:
>>
>>> See you all on the brackets!
>
> SPRINGFIELD, Oregon (AP) -- For guys who park in front of the TV during
> college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a
> suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy?
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/03/10/vasectomy.ap/index.html

After the big games the boys cut their nets. So before the big games,
why not cut the nuts your boys?

dsi...@yahoo.com

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Mar 13, 2008, 3:32:04 PM3/13/08
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On Mar 12, 8:29 pm, Helen Read <h...@together.net> wrote:

> SPRINGFIELD, Oregon (AP)  -- For guys who park in front of the TV during
> college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a
> suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy?

I used to live in Springfield, and believe me, getting a vasectomy
would be about the most interesting thing to do there. It's either
that or the DQ.

Oh, and it's a white-supremicist, anit-gay haven. The wife won't even
admit we lived there.

--Dave Sikula

Capn...@gmail.com

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Mar 13, 2008, 4:36:44 PM3/13/08
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Captain D writes:

> Oh, and it's a white-supremicist, anit-gay haven.

And that differs from the rest of Oregon, Washington and Idaho...how?


Carl

dsi...@yahoo.com

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Mar 13, 2008, 5:46:36 PM3/13/08
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There are some pockets of civilization in Eugene, Portland, and
Seattle, but, yeah; you're right.

--Dake Sikula

Capn...@gmail.com

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Mar 13, 2008, 6:01:20 PM3/13/08
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Dake-o-rama writes:

> There are some pockets of civilization in Eugene, Portland, and
> Seattle, but, yeah; you're right.

I remember a line from an old Jon Carroll column about Washington...

"On Saturday nights, the Idaho KKKers drive across the line to party
in Pullman, thereby raising the IQ of both states."

About 6 years ago I looked into moving to Oregon, but realized that I
and my special friend Javier would never be welcomed...except at Tom
and Kiki's house, of course.


Carl

Tom Cronin

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Mar 13, 2008, 7:28:24 PM3/13/08
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On Mar 13, 3:01 pm, CapnC...@gmail.com wrote:
> About 6 years ago I looked into moving to Oregon, but realized that I
> and my special friend Javier would never be welcomed...except at Tom
> and Kiki's house, of course.

Yup. We're always happy to encourage hot, man-on-man action.

I always laugh when Dake mentions his Springfield days. One mile west,
across I-5, is Eugene: one of the most liberal, progressive cities in
the country. In comparison, Springfield is defiantly redneck: gun
racks, deer jerky and Confederate flags everywhere. I LOVE thinking
about what it must have been like for the Sikulas when they lived
there.


Tom

Alan Page

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Mar 13, 2008, 11:32:55 PM3/13/08
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"Tom Cronin" wrote...
> Confederate flags everywhere.

Whenever I see one, I just think "Losers" and get on with my life.

--


Alan

www.best-page.us

~WWWWW~
What a Wonderful Web We Weave


dsi...@yahoo.com

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Mar 14, 2008, 11:32:03 AM3/14/08
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On Mar 13, 8:32 pm, "Alan Page" <alp...@spamsucceed.net> wrote:
> "Tom Cronin" wrote...
> > Confederate flags everywhere.
>
>     Whenever I see one, I just think "Losers" and get on with my life.

Honestly, Alan; one would think you thought that celebrating a region
that promoted slavery, inbreeding, and ignorance, revolted against the
United States, and lost a bloody war was something to not be proud of.

--Dake Sikula

katycren

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Mar 14, 2008, 12:42:09 PM3/14/08
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Hey! I'm sitting right here!

Not everyone in the South "promoted slavery, inbreeding, and
ignorance." And they didn't revolt necessarily; they *seceded*. That's
why some called the Civil War the "War of Northern Aggression," though
my high school history teacher taught that the "War Between the
States" was the proper term.

That's all.

Katy Scarlett


dsi...@yahoo.com

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Mar 14, 2008, 1:56:24 PM3/14/08
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On Mar 14, 9:42 am, katycren <Katyc...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Mar 14, 11:32 am, "dsik...@yahoo.com" <dsik...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mar 13, 8:32 pm, "Alan Page" <alp...@spamsucceed.net> wrote:
>
> > > "Tom Cronin" wrote...
> > > > Confederate flags everywhere.
>
> > >     Whenever I see one, I just think "Losers" and get on with my life.
>
> > Honestly, Alan; one would think you thought that celebrating a region
> > that promoted slavery, inbreeding, and ignorance, revolted against the
> > United States, and lost a bloody war was something to not be proud of.
>
> > --Dake Sikula
>
> Hey!  I'm sitting right here!

No offense intended. I refer, of course, only to those who still
proudly wave the Stars and Bars. I can only hope you're not one of
them.

--Gen. Dake Sherman


katycren

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Mar 14, 2008, 6:37:53 PM3/14/08
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<psst>
Hey Brady... Remind me to take down that Rebel flag from over my
mantlepiece before Col. and Mrs. Dake come visitin', 'ya hear?

Just joshin' with 'ya, Dake. I ain't got one of them flags hangin' up
round here. When me and Bub (good ole boy ex-husband #2) split up, we
flipped for it and he lost


Babycakes


Rod Fernandez

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Mar 14, 2008, 8:17:51 PM3/14/08
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The way I see it, he lost when became your ex.


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Brady

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Mar 14, 2008, 8:40:10 PM3/14/08
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Kate wrote:

>>>>--Dake Sikula
>>
>>>Hey! I'm sitting right here!
>>
>>No offense intended. I refer, of course, only to those who still
>>proudly wave the Stars and Bars. I can only hope you're not one of
>>them.
>>
>>--Gen. Dake Sherman
>
> <psst>
> Hey Brady... Remind me to take down that Rebel flag from over my
> mantlepiece before Col. and Mrs. Dake come visitin', 'ya hear?
>
> Just joshin' with 'ya, Dake. I ain't got one of them flags hangin' up
> round here. When me and Bub (good ole boy ex-husband #2) split up, we
> flipped for it and he lost

Let me ask you this, Kate: Do you have a sticker on the rear windshield
of your vehicle depicting Calvin (of *Calvin & Hobbes* comic strip fame)
urinating on a Ford?

Attention Dr. Rod - Your post in this thread didn't show up on my news
server! For weeks, I *have* been receiving your posts. Did you revert to
your old news server, or something?

Brady

Rod Fernandez

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Mar 14, 2008, 8:53:43 PM3/14/08
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Yep, a different news server. I had been using Earthlink, but I keep
getting an error message today "Rejected by RADIUS.". So I went to the
one my ISP used to use but no longer supports, if that makes sense.

katycren

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Mar 14, 2008, 11:16:07 PM3/14/08
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On Mar 14, 8:53 pm, Rod Fernandez <ro...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Brady wrote:
> > Kate wrote:
>
> >>>>> --Dake Sikula
>
> >>>> Hey! I'm sitting right here!
>
> >>> No offense intended. I refer, of course, only to those who still
> >>> proudly wave the Stars and Bars. I can only hope you're not one of
> >>> them.
>
> >>> --Gen. Dake Sherman
>
> >> <psst>
> >> Hey Brady... Remind me to take down that Rebel flag from over my
> >> mantlepiece before Col. and Mrs. Dake come visitin', 'ya hear?
>
> >> Just joshin' with 'ya, Dake. I ain't got one of them flags hangin' up
> >> round here. When me and Bub (good ole boy ex-husband #2) split up, we
> >> flipped for it and he lost
>
> > Let me ask you this, Kate: Do you have a sticker on the rear windshield
> > of your vehicle depicting Calvin (of *Calvin & Hobbes* comic strip fame)
> > urinating on a Ford?
>

Why Brady! I used to be a Mustang owner! I cherished my Mustang and
wouldn't desecrate any of my vehicles with stickers of somebody
pissing on a Ford. Now there's an old story behind my Mustang and my
fondness for it. It's titled "A Redneck, a Mustang, a Repo Man, and a
Dumb Brunette," soon to be a special Hallmark presentation.

> > Attention Dr. Rod - Your post in this thread didn't show up on my news
> > server! For weeks, I *have* been receiving your posts. Did you revert to
> > your old news server, or something?
>
> > Brady
>
> Yep, a different news server. I had been using Earthlink, but I keep
> getting an error message today "Rejected by RADIUS."
>

I denounce and condemn Radius for its rejection of our good Dr. Rod.
Anything that rejects Rod does not stand for my values and deserves
the strongest repudiation.


Kate

katycren

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Mar 14, 2008, 11:23:43 PM3/14/08
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Well, bless your heart, Rod! You must have some Southern blood in you
cause that was a charming and gentlemanly thing to say. <dabbing eyes
with blue card>

I'd say Husband #2 leaving me was one of those blessings in disguise
-- sorta like my washing machine overflowing and my new kitchen.


Kate


Capn...@gmail.com

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Mar 16, 2008, 9:49:17 PM3/16/08
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> To join the group, first sign up for the contest athttp://wane.collegebasketball.upickem.net,

> which enables you to win prizes for each round or a grand
> prize for the tournament.
> Then, after you log in, click on the "My Groups"
> tab, and then click on "Join a
> Private Group," and submit the following:
>
> Your group name: AFL Bassetball
> Your password: LtEaston

Still time for the rest of you slackers to sign up.
Nothing that you have to do at work this week can be more important
than this...unless you work at Bear Stearns.

Carl

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