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Boston's David Ortiz is flirting with a World Series record. He's got 11 hits in 15 at-bats. That .733 batting average eclipses the rest of his team's. Boston players not named Ortiz are hitting .144. The Sox could wrap up the championship Wednesday. St. Louis hopes to extend the Series to a Game 7. Can everyone say MVP?

Dumb Ways to Die http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=IJNR2EpS0jw

Sox in six.

Game four was an example of blinking and missing the whole thing. What unlikely thing will happen tonight?

A guy is walking along a beach when he comes across a lamp partially buried in the sand. He picks up the lamp and gives it a rub. A genie appears and tells him he has been granted one wish. The guy thinks for a moment and says, "I want to live forever." "Sorry," said the genie, "I'm not allowed to grant eternal life." "OK, then, I want to die after a Democrat government balances the budget and eliminates the debt." "You crafty little bastard," said the genie.

A teacher was reading the story of The Three Little Pigs to her class. She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to gather building materials for his home. She read. "And so the pig went up to the man with the wheelbarrow full of straw and said: 'Pardon me sir, but may I have some of that straw to build my house?'" The teacher paused, then asked the class: "And what do you think the man said?" One little boy raised his hand and said ..."I'll be damned!! A talking pig!"

A tourist in a bar in Florida asks an Irishman sitting at the bar "Why do Scuba divers always fall backwards off their boats?" To which the Irishman replies: "If they fell forwards they'd still be in the fuckin' boat."

Forget that 109 years of statistics. There are too many stats in baseball as it is. Puppies Predict the World Series

Getting women to exercise...

Get used to it, Dave. Are you settled in for the short haul? http://wapc.mlb.com/play?content_id=31172945

Psychology 101 If you start with a cage containing five monkeys and inside the cage, hang a banana on a string from the top and then you place a set of stairs under the banana, before long a monkey will go to the stairs and climb toward the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, you spray all the other monkeys with cold water. After a while another monkey makes an attempt with same result... all the other monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon when another monkey tries to climb the stairs, the other monkeys will try to prevent it. Now, put the cold water away. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and attempts to climb the stairs. To his shock, all of the other monkeys beat the crap out of him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs he will be assaulted. Next, remove another of the original five monkeys, replacing it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment...with enthusiasm, because he is now part of the "team". Then, replace a third original monkey with a new one, followed by the fourth, then the fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Now, the monkeys that are beating him up have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs. Neither do they know why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey. Finally, having replaced all of the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys will have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, not one of the monkeys will try to climb the stairway for the banana. Why, you ask? Because in their minds...that is the way it has always been! This is how Congress operates... and this is why, from time to time: ALL of the monkeys need to be REPLACED AT THE SAME TIME.

Here's something that will boost Paya's admiration of US politicians even higher. From the New York Times: Politicians’ Extortion Racket

The drunk Scotsman...

I believe that would be illegal in some jurisdictions.

Great rant, Brink! I really like it. I really do. Alas, the interenet world is such that when I tried to "Like This", I get the message "There was a problem storing your reputation vote." It seems the internet attaches your name to some things you don't want it to, but sometimes defeats your best efforts to leave your mark. I kicked Facebook out of my life years ago because of its invasive nature. Now it seems Google has become Facebook on steroids. Edit to add: There seems to be delayed action at work; I check back three hours later and my Like This" has been recorded.

Guess who kept everyone else up last night...

On a bitterly cold winter morning a husband and wife in Dublin were listening to the radio during breakfast. They heard the announcer say, "We are going to have 8 to 10 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the even-numbered side of the street, so the Snow ploughs can get through." So the good wife went out and moved her car. A week later while they were eating breakfast again, the radio announcer said, "We are expecting 10 to 12 inches of snow today. You must park your car on the odd-numbered side of the street, so the snow ploughs can get through." The good wife went out and moved her car again. The next week they were again having breakfast, when the radio announcer said, "We are expecting 12 to 14 inches of snow today. You must park...." Then the electric power went out. The good wife was very upset, and with a worried look on her face she said, "I don't know what to do. Which side of the street do I need to park on so the snow ploughs can get through?" With love and understanding in his voice, the husband replied, "Why don't you just leave the car in the garage this time?"

You get what you pay for... Click on the perfume bottle below:

Podga has it...Erich Priebke. He died just last week. The Society of Saint Pius X has been accused of racist, anti-Semitic views and practices. Podga's turn to stump us.

What is a calorie? Calories are the little bastards that get into your wardrobe at night and sew your clothes tighter. MY CLOSET IS INFESTED WITH THEM.

I know your "admiration" is proclaimed with tongue in cheek. There is little that is admirable in Washington these days. The problem is "safe seats", the primary result of gerrymandering. Certain politicians, who have no fear of losing the next election, are free to say and do whatever they please. There are entirely too many of these idiots loose in the nation's capital. Their home districts continue to inflict their idiocy on the entire nation and the world. The state of Texas can elect a Republican idiot just as easily as San Francisco can a Democratic one. Gerrymandering should be against the law. Actually, it is illegal, but the safe seat politicians can ignore the law with impunity. While many are quick to place the blame for the shutdown/meltdown on one party or the other, they are both to blame. Politics in America has deserted leadership in favor of winning points over the opposition at all costs.