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Leave it to Saturday Night Live to come up with something like this. SNL video clip (926K) later.......

Link Monday, March 10, 2003 Do-gooder fired Pizza delivery driver aided gunshot victim By TAMMY MARLOWE, STAFF REPORTER A single mom was fired from her part-time job delivering pizza after rushing to the aid of a gunshot victim while she was still on the clock. "We feel just as bad as the next guy but we don't pay employees to be EMTs, which she isn't," Jason Boyd, a supervisor at Frank's Pizza in Selkirk, told a local newspaper last week. Marcella McAulay was on shift for Frank's Pizza about 8 p.m. on Feb. 26 when her friend and passenger received a frantic cellphone call from her daughter. "She said, 'There's been a shooting two doors down,'" McAulay recalled yesterday. McAulay knew she was on duty, but she said she just expected to drop off her friend at her Robinson Avenue townhouse and continue cruising Selkirk streets while waiting for the next call to deliver a pizza. But the situation escalated quickly when she stopped her car near the scene of the shooting. "One of the victims opened up the door and yelled at me to come and help him. Another man was on the floor and was bleeding quite badly," she said. McAulay, 34, rushed out of her running car and into the stranger's house. The man who was lying on the floor had been shot in the stomach, and police or ambulance officials were yet to arrive. McAulay said she quickly made the decision to do what she could to help. "I'm in. I can't leave the scene, I've been asked to help. It was my civil duty," she said. "I hope someone would do the same for me." 'PRETTY SCARED' She sat with the victim, kept him awake by talking to him and pressed pillows on his wound to slow the bleeding. "He was pretty scared and he felt he was dying," said McAulay. "I just basically held his hand, told him to hang in there and that help would be there soon. I said, 'You're not going to die. You're not going to die here.'" When RCMP and paramedics arrived, McAulay learned she was going to be held up for another few hours because she had to give police a statement. She called Frank's Pizza and asked a co-worker to phone her supervisor and fill him in. When McAulay finished with investigators and returned to the restaurant about 10:30 p.m., Boyd was there to deliver the bad news. "He said, 'What the hell were you doing there?'" she said. "He told me I was fired because I was a threat to the business." McAulay said she tried to explain, but Boyd told her he "didn't care." "I was shocked. Actually, disgusted," she said. "I'm not an EMT and I know that, but ... I wouldn't want anyone to turn away from me. It's a person's life that's at stake." Boyd told The Selkirk Journal he didn't fire McAulay because she helped the gunshot victim. "She wasn't dismissed because she was at the shooting scene," he said. "She was away from her job for no good reason." McAulay's still trying to deal with the trauma of the violent incident and will start looking for work in the next few weeks. "I really relied on that job," she said. "Everything's really changed because of this." Daniel Keep, 33, has been charged with aggravated assault and is being held in custody in connection with the shooting. The shooting victim is still recovering. "She was away from her job for no good reason." You really have to wonder what would be considered an acceptable reason. later......

You should know better than to get me started later......

For those of you that missed it, The Pioneer 10 Spacecraft was designed for a 21 month mission --- but it lasted more than 30 years! "They just don't build them like that anymore." NASA News later.......

Actually, you are both wrong. Yankee Stadium use to be 310 down the right field line, but it is now 314. ESPN Yankee Stadium Dimensions and MLB Yankee Stadium Ground Rules should show it well enough. Here is a site with some Y.S. History, including all the dimension changes thoughout it's history. Yankee Stadium Info later........

Just by the way the statements have gone so far, I'm guessing the bet is about one of the distances to the fence. Maybe Yankeefan can give you a set to show how the fences have come in over the years. Damn I'm getting old, I remember the Monuments being in play later.......

Doesn't matter to me, I don't show up at most chats anyway. You're a bum Admin. Oh wait, I don't show up for most of them either :blink: nevermind......

link Grisly Mexico Factory Breeds Man-Eating Flies Fri February 21, 2003 10:17 AM ET By Elizabeth Fullerton TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Tucked away in southern Mexico's jungly Chiapas state, scientists work around the clock using radiation and powdered blood to produce one of the area's most cutting-edge exports -- man-eating flies. Tuxtla Gutierrez, the capital of Chiapas, better known for spawning an armed rebellion in 1994 by guerrillas fighting for Indian rights, is home to the world's only New World screwworm plant, breeding millions of insects each week. Named for the corkscrew motion with which they burrow into flesh, the screwworm larvae can kill their victim -- human or animal -- in five days. The worm's Latin name, cochliomyia hominivorax, means "fly that devours men." "They feed off fresh blood, not dead tissue as other species do. That's why they are extremely dangerous. It's very hard for an animal to defend itself against something like that," said Alfredo Alvarez, a biologist at the plant. In the 1950s, U.S. scientists pioneered a strange but effective way of eradicating the pests. The flies are zapped with high doses of radiation to sterilize them then released into the wild to mate with their fertile counterparts. The females only mate once, so if they do so with the sterile flies, they will not reproduce. Using this technology, the United States by 1982 wiped out the bug that had threatened swathes of the nation's livestock. With the aim of gradually eradicating the worm from the American continent, the fly-producing factory in southern Mexico was started in 1976 by a joint U.S.-Mexican government commission and by 1992 Mexico was declared free of the screwworm. But there have been recurrences in Mexico recent years, some, ironically, due to errors at the fly factory that allowed millions of the killer flies to escape. Machine failure at the plant caused an outbreak of the disease in January that Alvarez described as a "disaster." But thanks to the 27-year-old plant, the flies have been mostly wiped out in the southern United States, Mexico, Libya and across most of Central America. In the early 1990s, Mexico exported the flies to Libya, which was contaminated by South American cattle imports. The U.S.-Mexican commission is now selling its unusual product to Panama and Jamaica, where what look like cardboard lunch-boxes packed with black buzzing flies are dropped from planes to rid those areas of the bloodthirsty insect. VITAL ORGANS A fetid, overbearing stench of decay -- the odor from the waste that about 90 million flies produce each week -- hits a visitor on arrival at the fly plant. It pervades clothing, hair and nostrils long after one leaves the plant, despite obligatory rigorous showering. Security is tight. All visitors and personnel are given clean overalls and boots for entering the production area, which is locked after them and has no windows. In the so-called "fly colony," a loud buzzing emanates from row upon row of metal cages where thousands of fertile flies are kept alive and fattened for breeding. To the untrained eye, they resemble common house flies with blue-green bodies but these have bulging orange eyes. After seven days, the flies are mature enough to lay their eggs and are taken to a darkened room. They lay their eggs along long wooden sticks smeared with a gel that to them smells similar to a wound. The fly's average life cycle is 20 days. One fly can lay up to 400 eggs in a wound. Within 24 hours these hatch into larvae and begin burrowing into the meat. In two days, an open sore in an eye, for example, will turn into a grapefruit-sized festering wound of raw, pulpy flesh. The larvae eat their way toward the victim's vital organs. "If the wound is in the stomach, they'll try to get to the liver or intestines. If it's in the head, they'll attack the eyes, the ears. They can reach the brain and then it's adios," said Alvarez, who is employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. The worm comes in two species -- the New World screwworm, native to the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World screwworm, found in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and parts of Africa. TRICKING THE WORMS In the incubation room, live wounds are mimicked in racks of hundreds of trays, using a brown gel containing powdered blood, milk and egg among other ingredients. Workers scrape the fly eggs off the wooden sticks and deposit them in these trays on top of a piece of paper towel. As they hatch into larvae, tiny white grubs begin to swarm over the brown muck. "They are totally convinced they are attacking a warm animal," said Alvarez. Within 48 hours, the grubs have grown fatter and their diet must be replenished. "This is equivalent to a worm moving to another zone of the body to find fresh flesh," said Alvarez. From a distance, the huge trays resemble baking trays of brownies but at close range the mixture bubbles with the gouging and squirming of around 20,000 worms per tray. By the third day the trays brim with thick brown-red goo as more gel is added to satisfy the worms' rapacious appetite. The smell is at its most rancid. As they reach maturity, the grubs jump out of the trays, falling into funnels where they are scooped up and poured by the thousands into trays with sawdust covering them. They are left for 24 hours to develop a shell and become pupae. After five and a half days the pupae are put in plastic cylinders and exposed to around two minutes of radiation. The amount of radiation is 11 times the minimum needed to kill a human being but the flies are tough. Once they have been irradiated, the pupae are placed in ice coolers to slow the process of their maturing into flies. The high-tech plant, a rarity in the impoverished and heavily agricultural state of Chiapas, exports the "chilled flies" twice-weekly to Panama and Jamaica. INVASION OF THE FLIES The United States now plans to build a plant in Panama to create a sterile fly barrier against flies from South America. But the story has its failures too. Despite stringent security procedures such as numerous fly traps in and outside the plant, special clothing and the stationing of boxes of sterile flies around the perimeter to mate with fertile escapees, there have been outbreaks. Last month, the plant had its worst ever when a radiation machine malfunctioned. Millions of fertile flies were sent into the wild in Mexico and Panama. To date 50 cases of the disease have been found in animals in Panama and 44 in Chiapas. The damage could escalate and take months to repair. "It's a disaster for us. We're on national alert," said Alvarez. "The outbreak gives us an inkling of what could happen if the flies were used as a biological weapon in a terror attack. It could be very dangerous." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I love technology later......

It's good to be a man. Here's why. Your a** is never a factor in a job interview. Your orgasms are real. Always. Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. You never feel compelled to stop a friend from getting laid. Car mechanics tell you the truth. You don't give a rat's a** if someone notices your new haircut. Hot wax never comes near your pubic area. Same work, more pay. Wrinkles add character. You don't have to leave the room to make emergency crotch adjustments. Wedding Dress, $2,000. Tux rental, $100. If you retain water, it's in a canteen. People never glance at your chest when you're talking to them. New shoes don't cut, blister or mangle your feet. One mood, all the damn time. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds. A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. You can open all your own jars. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. Your underwear is $10 for a three-pack. If you are 34 and single, nobody notices. Three pairs of shoes are more than enough. You can quietly watch a game with your buddy for hours without ever thinking, "He must be mad at me." If another guy shows up at the party in the same outfit, you just might become lifelong friends. You are not expected to know the names of more than five colors. Christmas shopping can be accomplished for 25 relatives, on December 24, in minutes. You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. You are unable to see wrinkles in clothes. The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades. Your belly usually hides your big hips. One wallet, one color, all seasons. You can "do" your nails with a pocketknife. The world is your urinal.

For those men that may not really be the "king of their castle" Man Song later.......

For those that love it, and those that hate it: AOL wav later.....

Canadian Baseball HOF Selection No Rose, but former Blue Jays slugger Carter voted in -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Associated Press TORONTO -- Pete Rose failed to make the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Baseball's career hits leader -- who spent part of the 1984 season with Montreal and got career hit No. 4,000 with the Expos -- did not win the support of at least 75 percent of the selection committee. Tom Valcke, president and CEO of the Canadian Hall of Fame made the announcement Monday on a Canadian TV show. The hall does not release vote totals. The 2003 class for the shrine in St. Marys, Ontario, features former Blue Jays slugger Joe Carter, Canadian pitcher Kirk McCaskill, administrator Richard Belec and the Vancouver Asahi team. There were 46 nominees. Rose is ineligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. He agreed to a permanent ban from the sport in 1989 following a gambling investigation. Tony Riviera, chairman of the newly formed Canadian Baseball League, nominated Rose for the Canadian hall. Rose's autographed batting gloves used for the historic hit are on display in the museum along with photos. Rose joined the Expos at the start of the 1984 season and batted .259 with 23 RBI in 95 games. He played first base and outfield. The 61-year-old Rose broke in with Cincinnati in 1963. He went to Philadelphia as a free agent in 1979, returned to Cincinnati in 1984 and managed the Reds until he was banned. Rose repeatedly has denied betting on baseball, and he and commissioner Bud Selig have met to discuss his ban. Rose has said he hoped to be reinstated by the time of the Canadian hall's induction ceremony -- in St. Marys on June 28. later......

I have met Mike Redmonds Uncle in Philly Was that his Uncle John? Just curious since I have corresponded quite a bit with him over the last couple of years. later......

except to me.... But you deserve it! later.... :jackass

Pudge is a stud i am very that he here in Florida but he still kinda ga* cuz he doesnt sign. He passed me 3 times with noone around and i said Ivan autograph plz he look at me like saying ' yea right ' and kept walking i was like ' u stpuid fa* Ah yes, I've always judged someone's sexual orientation by whether they sign autographs or not. Some players are just better at others when it comes to signing. It has always been that way. later........

...put instead of trading Redman we trade Pierre and get Long because Long and Pierre both play CF Only one problem with that. Sherman proposed trading Redmond, not Redman. And while your point is taken regarding Long and Pierre, your trade must include someone that fills a void for another team. Sherman saw Redmond and not Pierre as the player needed by another team. later.......

If I could, I'd get you that $400 back right away. However, that's just not possible at the moment. But remember everyone, 2 cents a day not only gets you MarlinsBaseball.com, it get Sally Struthers to come over and clean out the leftovers in your fridge. Great job Admin! Hopefully the suport link will help to defer some of your losses. later.......

.......Who the hell is John McDonald? John McDonald SS with Cleveland. later......

I actually use both IE and Netscape. It just depends on my mood at the time. The majority of the time it is probably IE. later.......

A blonde is suffering from a sore throat so she goes to see the doctor. She explains the problem to the doctor who asks her to sit down. He gets out his light and says, "Open wide." "I can't," replies the blonde, "this chair's got arms."

A man returning home a day early from a business trip got into a taxi at the airport. It was after midnight. While en route to his home, he asked the cabby if he would be a witness. The man suspected his wife was having an affair and he intended to catch her in the act. For $100, the cabby agreed. Quietly arriving at the house, the husband and cabby tiptoed into the bedroom. The husband switched on the lights, yanked the blanket back and there was his wife in bed with another man. The husband put a gun to the naked man's head. The wife shouted, "Don't do it! This man has been very generous. I lied when I told you I inherited money. He paid for the Corvette I bought for you. He paid for our new cabin cruiser. He paid for our house at the lake. He paid for our country club membership, and he even pays the monthly dues." Shaking his head from side-to-side, the husband slowly lowered the gun. He looked over at the cab driver and said, "What would you do?" The cabby said, "I'd cover his a** up with that blanket before he catches a cold."

Q: What have men and floor tiles got in common? A: If you lay them properly the first time, you can walk all over them for life.

or "duck tape?" later.........

"People often state that lip balm is safe, legal, substance that causes no ill effects. We addicts know the truth. We've been living with our addiction for years. And folks, it is getting worse. The lip balm industry is a powerful force for change, using methods known by some as the "Chap Stick Conspiracy"! Over the last few years, the number of addicts has risen sharply, as the companies who force this stuff through fancy marketing and uncaring tactics." Deal with your addiction my friends: Lip Balm Anonymous later.........

Put a wrinkle in it, make it the 3 players with the best OBP. Or, accurately predict the number of strikeouts by the Fish pitchers for each week. Or, predict the attendance for each home series. Or, predict the players that will get the first HR, hit, RBI, W, and save for the season. Or, predict what couple Max and Marisel will dress up as for the party...oh wait, wrong thread. later........