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Joined: 24 Jan 2009
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:02 am
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Hey @pest how about you and me tag team against @ET80 and SDG.
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les paul wrote:
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:03 am
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Rearviewmirror wrote:
Hey @pest how about you and me tag team against @ET80 and SDG.
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@pest: Or Dove Guy. Hell add all three of those ****** ******* in their. We'll #$*$%& do a handicap match with these goons.
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Location: Sarasota, FL.
Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:57 pm
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***Press Release***
After a successful return to FX!, Alpha! returns to you LIVE 6/26/12 from US Airways Center in PHX, Arizona!
The semi-finals of the historic FFWF Title tournament will take place:
Mikey Scars v. Savior
Lebron Bonds v. J.T. Smoove
Commissioner Bishop (with his brand new bodyguard in tow) will have some huge announcements for the PPV that is coming up - a little more than a week away- the action is at a break neck speed around here, so try to keep up.
Also (just signed) SDG will be in action; one-on-one with ET80 AND the Pest will be on commentary!
Hart Thompson will face Rumba Perez
Mike Tako will take on Jason "Son of Slam" Thanos
....and we're hearing whispers that the enigmatic DOVE GIVER will be in the building this Tusday on ALPHA!
All that and so much more as we gear up for our June PPV extravaganza Lethal Injection, ONE TIME ONLY ON A SATURDAY. 6/30/2012 ONLY ON PPV!!
***Press Release***
Up to the Second - Tournament Brackets
the Savior
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 7:21 pm
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Rearviewmirror wrote:
Rearviewmirror wrote:
Hey @pest how about you and me tag team against @ET80 and SDG.
via Tweeter @TheSmilingKiller
@pest: Or Dove Guy. Hell add all three of those ****** ******* in their. We'll #$*$%& do a handicap match with these goons.
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@TheSmilingKiller oh comon man, stop selling yourself short. hell- the cage door beat up SDG, ET can be outsmarted by a two year old and just bring some bird feed for the doves and Brandon Lee loses all his power
Keep close to your phone though- I've got some upcoming plans and I might just need this thing that people call a "friend"
and by plans i mean tickets to a concert on wednesday
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 10:18 pm
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@pest wanna have a match this Tuesday on Alpha!?
Put on a little show for the fans.
#PeoplePower. haha
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les paul wrote:
There's only one thing that determines a teams performance on any given sunday
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:17 pm
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[Pest is sitting in a dingy room, but this time he has a better bottle of booze and a camera man]
I've had time to sit and reflect upon the events of last week. While reflecting on my handywork, excuse me, our handywork- I realized something- I've neglected Mr. John K. Taxpayer for quite some time.
Johnny-Boy must have it rough. I heard the Ol' Ball and Chain was sitting at home today and you forgot to get her Xanax refilled. I mean, its a legitimate mistake that someone can make- especially when you're worried about paying your multiple mortgages, and making it to Timmy's soccer practice on time. Wait- today is Wednesday- is it soccer day or is it Kimmy's piano day? And well the boys at work, oh man- they are just a hoot. They just wont leave it alone. They told me about your little mistake on the trading floor. Since when was 1.4 billion dollars a "little mistake". Times sure are changing.
Have you told your wife?
Oh... you haven't... told your wife... that you lost your job because you made a "misjudgment of risk". A little "risky" to be stringing your wife along like this, don't you think? Pardon the pun- I thought of that one three hours ago and just HAD to use it.
Here's the kicker Johnny- Timmy was being teased at school this past week by little Joey down the street. Not that you would know anything about that because you simply have just enough time to tuck Timmy in before you have to bury yourself in scotch and FoxNews just to make it through tomorrow- well I guess you have a little more time now, but thats beside the point. Well, you used to work with Joey's dad didn't you... I wonder if you can guess why Joey was making fun of Timmy- father like son right? Apparently Joey thinks Timmy's a "loser" too. I mean you did lose 1.4 billion dollars, didn't you?
Well, long story short, your wife knows. She's known for a week. But her Xanax and her SSRI's have kept her so zombified that well, she just didn't have the mental capacity to care. Until NOW.
Now, she felt that fresh air we call reality for the first time since Kimmy was born- by the way, you should probably check Kimmy's room when you get home.
[Pest leans forward and starts to whisper with his hand by his face]
I have it on good authority that Kimmy ran away with some 27 year old rock guitarist in a Nickelback cover band. Great choice Kim.
[Pest leans back and takes a sip of booze]
Back to the old Ball and Chain- well she finally had reality Danza Slap her in the face today and that fresh air didn't feel so good- left her feeling helpless. Left her feeling stranded. Left her feeling like there was some conspiracy against her. Left her feeling like no matter how much she yelled and she fumed and no matter how much she BEAT THE S*** out of whoever she could get her hands on, there was NOTHING she could do to win.
[Pest is getting angrier and takes a big swig, leans forward and his lips start to curl while the anger starts to become visible in his eyes]
Do you get the metaphor, you uneducated antique of a human being- the FFWF is not the Colosseum and YOU, you son of a b**** have to finally come to. When you start to feel what its like to be helpless, to be stranded to be worthless- that you can do NOTHING to stop the impending doom, that you can do NOTHING to stop the me from f***** up your life- then Johnny boy will realize that maybe he shouldn't have been such a [inappropriate/removed] human being for his entire life. Maybe THEN, I'll just find life a little bit more tolerable.
[Pest finishes his glass of whiskey in a single gulp]
Welcome to reality, b****.
[Pest throws the bottle at the camera man, hits him, and he walks away. The camera is out of focus but you can see his feet walking with a sense of entitlement. As if he had won.]
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 11:23 pm
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@theSmilingKiller the people don't deserve any power #realtalk
@theSmilingKiller i do challenge you to a thumbwrestling match though
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 1:05 am
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Where you at @Scar? Afraid to show you pathetic weaselface?
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les paul wrote:
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 2:59 am
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SDG is wearing a beautiful suit, with a beautiful girl on his arm.
SDG wrote:
My arm is still battered and bruised, and I still have all 10 stitches in my head. I've had trouble getting out of bed because the pain is almost unbearable.
SDG and his lady take a seat on a coach in SDG's home, some music has kicked on, and you can see a few more well dressed people, chatting and sipping the finest wine.
SDG wrote:
When I move my arm at all, it pains me deeply. The funny part is, I love the feeling. It is why I haven't been able to sleep in days, no, no, the pain isn't the issue. It's my mind.
SDG eats a cheese cube and takes a sip of his wine.
SDG wrote:
The pain reminds me of what ET80 did to me last week on Alpha. The way he psychotically attacked me, after I won my match. Well, ET80 better make sure he has a doctor ready after our match on Tuesday Night Alpha. The pain I feel now is nothing compared to how he will feel when I get through disfiguring him.
SDG takes a big sip of his wine and lightens up a bit.
SDG wrote:
ET80 made the biggest mistake of his career crossing me, and for what? He's a jealous, Saxon Douglas-Goldsbourne wannabee. He can't stand to look at me, because I'm everything that he wishes he was. I'm the man in this industry, I call the shots!
SDG smirks and finishes off his glass of wine.
SDG wrote:
This week, will mark the first step I take into personally ending ET80's career. While your out breaking cardboard heavy bags, and playing grab a$$ with your trainer on top of that steel cage, I'll be getting stronger, and while you walk alone and take care of yourself, I'll have the last laugh.
SDG grabs another glass of wine from his butler, nods his head, and gives "cheers" to the camera.
SDG wrote:
Remember ET80, having friends benefits me a lot more than going it alone does you, and I have aligned myself with some powerful people. I'm not asking you to watch your back, I'm TELLING you that if you want to walk out of Alpha on your own power, you had better watch every side of the arena.
SDG smiles and and gives a slight laugh.
SDG wrote:
Good Day!
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 9:23 am
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Scene fades in on someone training in a gym in MMA, boxing, and wrestling.
It's been far too long for me to not have my true passion realized...
I've been waiting for the right shot, and right time.
But I will be there.
I will be arriving soon.
I will win.
I will win a lot.
I will....
destroy all challengers....
and whoever faces me...
will be...
Scar'd 4 Life.
Screen Flashes a word...
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:20 am
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So my next opponent is LeBron Bonds. As I see the tape on him, I'm honestly not impressed, I think that he's been the luckiest person in FFWF right now. If he wants to live, he gotta do like what LeBron's hairline is doing and lean back. This is why Bonds chose wrestling over any other sport, since FFWF is rarely timed.
So I propose our next match to be a 20 minute match four 5 minute quarters, and each quarter will be something different.
1st Quarter- Standard Pinfall
2nd Quarter-Submission
3rd Quarter- No DQ
4th Quarter- Falls Count Anywhere.
This man also happens to have split personalities during matches. Why should I care about this kind of stuff. This is only the kind of stuff that you see on soap operas like One Life to Live. You know what I really don't have to explain myself. Just like your counterpart, you're gonna cramp up tonight and forefit tonight.
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LeBron has done for the NBA what Teen Mom has done for teenage pregnancies
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2012 11:10 pm
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First of all I don't smile like a killer. I'm The Smiling Killer.
And it's a damn menacing smile too.
Looking forward to being able to finally WRESTLE. This commish Bishop straight blows.
Can't even give me one match?
I'm so good that once I get in the ring people won't want me to get out.
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Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:15 am
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Its a hot cloudless day on a golf course as a drawing using ping pong balls similar to the NBA Draft is happening. An official for the event is going to reveal whats on the ball and wholl be on teams.
Official: Before we announce whose on teams Id just like to welcome you all to the Lebron gold charity tournament for those with MPD and other personality disorders. With that said enjoy the event.
The crowd cheers as the first two balls come out of the machine.
Meanwhile Lebron is signing an autograph for a child with multiple personalities.
Child: Thanks a lot, youve always been my role model. People have always acted as if theyre better than me just because of my disease but seeing someone else like me being successful reminds me to not give up. I want to be a wrester when I grow up so thanks for paving the way, by the way mister here,I want you to take this. Its my lucky penny what good that has come from my life seems to be when Ive had that penny with me. Like that time the penny told me to go into the womens bathroom, I got in trouble but I also found $5 in there.
Lebron: Thanks, wish me luck. Hopefully well find a way to beat this so no one else has to go through hell like we have.
Official: The first pairing of the tournament will be . Tony Romo and Jessica Simpson.
Lebron goes over to shake hands with Romo and Simpson to welcome them to the tournament.
Lebron: Are you two still dating?
Romo: Uhm no.
Lebron: Damn my bad.
Romo: No not your fault just that damn drawing, I dont know what I did to lady luck to deserve this, probably that time I went out with her sister.
Simpson: Maybe this was fate, Ive missed you really bad ever since you left me. I still have my pink Romo jersey hanging on the wall, I cry a single tear on that jersey and none more each morning and say an ancient Japanese chant known to bring good fortune in the hopes it will bring you back. I know its been a while since youve left me but do you ever still stop and and think about us?
Romo: No in fact, whenever I do think about you its about why it took me so damn long to dump you.
Official: If I could have everyones attention please, the drawing is done.
As the official finished the drawing the crowd cheered in anticipation of not golf, they rather just wanted to see which celebrities were on the course.
Did you really think anyone actually came to watch golf lulz omg.
Official:but Lebron it appears you didnt put yourself in the drawing, you still need a teammate.
Lebron: I am my own teammate, think about it.
Official: You really need a partner still and luckily theres one person left whom everyone he was teamed with refused to play. Gary! Where are you Gary, we found you a teammate!
The official then quickly headed away from the two as if to give Lebron no choice.
Gary Busey ran over in a drunken happy stupor at the sound of someone actually being on his team.
Gary: I wonder why nobody wanted me on theyre team, its as if everyone here hates me. But thanks for being my teammate Ive never had many friends before, and when I did they seemed to be alienated by me because of my extremely confrontational nature. It just doesnt make sense.
Lebron shook his head in disapproval and made a beeline to the official.
Lebron: You cant do this to me, Ill go insane if I have to team with Busey, give me a different partner, I dont care who.
Official: Fine I can pair you up with someone else we didnt think was fit for this tournament your new partner is Abe Vigoda. I think hes talking to Adam Sandler somewhere you just have to find him.
Lebron walked in and overheard theyre conversation.
Abe: I heard youre remaking Billy Madison?
Adam: Yeah its going to be even raunchier then the last one listen to the tagline we made for it: School is like a @#ner long and hard.
Abe started laughing until his dentures fell out.
Lebron: Abe youre my partner now so stop fraternizing with the enemy alright?
Abe: Why I never, whats with young folks nowadays, thats preposterous, partners?
Lebron: ill I didnt mean it like that you old coot now lets play some golf.
Abe: Fine first just let me do something real quick on my phone: Siri put me on Footballs Future then head onto the log on screen.
Siri: Will do.
Abe: Username, Vike Daddy Password, Pimpin in my overalls.
Siri: Did you mean Pumpkins over all?
Lebron grabbed the phone, shut it off and handed it to Abe.
Lebron: Now lets hope you play golf better than you read scripts, really Good Burger?
Abe is the first up on a fairly simple short straight course. He nearly breaks his back as he readys his swing until his phone goes off.
Siri: Abe dont forget to take your Viagra, then party like its 1856.
Abe: DAMN IT SIRI!
Abe readies his swing again but once again the phone turns on.
Siri: You have received a call from Commissioner Bishop grandmother do you want to answer?
Abe: Tell her to call me maybe later.
Siri: Do you want me to search for Call Me Maybe.
Abe: Yes, I mean no!
Call Me Maybe blares through Abes phone.
Abe: Get off my phone, this is the devils music!
Abe frantically tried to shut off his phone to no avail so he chucked it into the nearby river. The phone floated for 3.14 seconds before an alligator dove out from the bottom and swallowed it. It shed a single crocodile tear after learning it had swallowe Call Me Maybe which created a breakout of Blue Waffle in his stomach it would go on to die 4 years later. Lesson learned: Call Me Maybe kills.
Lebron: Dude that phone costs you a lot of money why would you do that?
Abe: Iphone4S $250,keeping your sanity in tact priceless..
Then a montage of the tournament plays as Lebron shows inconsistent play at his best when hes calm and worsening as his mood wildly swings throughout the day. The very strong play of Abe Vigoda is enough to have them in first. Until Abe hits the ball poorly into the bunker and they struggle to get out. Garey Busey is heard from the audience.
Gary: Thats what you get ya rat bastid shouldve stayed on my team, you cut me real deep when you teamed up with that bastid instead.
Lebron very calmly
: Well sorry about that now please stop making a scene.
Gary: Youre patheticyou little $%^$ Im owning you at your own tournament you crazy, psychotic, biplolar $%^%^.
Lebron snapped and punched Gary right in the jaw, sending him rolling into the bunker and quickly followed suit but security guards quickly came to pry the two apart.
The crowd began a riot as they stormed onto the grass and started creating havoc, more guards were dispatched to sort the chaos out. After 30 minutes of mayhem things were slightly normal.
Lebron: So are we going to continue.
Official: No its been cancelled everyones getting theyre refunds right now.
Lebron looks rejected as he reaches into his pocket and looks at the penny.
Lebron: Damn it what have I done?
mission27 wrote:
I would consider myself an extremely aggressive person, though not violent.
For example, I once attacked a stray dog.
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You guys are dumb af
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 5:07 pm
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Lebron Bonds is off his freaking rocker.
What the hell was going on in that promo of his?
If you ask me this guy should be in the looney bin
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Location: Sarasota, FL.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:51 pm
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[Highlights from last week's show; including Commish Bishop's speech, the attack on Dove Giver, and finally the three way dance and the eventual chaos involving ET80 being lifted into the rafters]
Obscene Amount of Fireworks
Darryl Sunquist - Thank you for joining us! We are LIVE, from the U.S. Airways Center in BEAUTIFUL Phoenix, Arizona. I am Darryl Sunquist and my partner to my left-...
Lance "Thousand Island" Killings - Is this what it feels like to work two weeks in a row?? This is new territory for FFWF.
Sunquist - ...is as always, Lance "Thousand Island" Killings.
Killings - The pleasure - much like your wife's second child - is all mine.
Sunquist - (sighs) What a show we have for the fans tonight. This is the last show until our annual June extravaganza - Lethal Injection - where we WILL crown our first FFWF Champion.
Killings - Annual,
. It's the first FFWF PPV ever. No need to put the cart before the horse.
Sunquist - Last week was a phenomenal show. Although, not without controversy. You got scared and ran off but the fact remains, the Pest had someone in the back raise the cage. Everything that happened last week was apart of some master plan that I don't think we'll see the end game of for some time. Thousand Island, your thoughts?
Killings - Should I even say? I mean, it could be ANYBODY. I'll keep my thoughts to myself...
Sunquist - Tonight, Thousand Island, we have the Final Four in our ground breaking tournament. Who do you like tonight? Mikey Scars v. the Savior and the enigmatic Lebron Bonds v.s J.T. Smoove.
Killings - Is our tournament really THAT ground breaking? Also, do we pay the NCAA money whenever we use the term, "Final Four"?
Sunquist - ...we probably do now.
Wilson Feathers - THE FIRRRRST MATCHHHH IS A SEMI FINALLL CONTEST TO SEEEE WHOOO WILLL BE IN THE MAAAAAAAAAAAIN EVEEENT AT LEEETHAL INJEEECTION!!!
[Mikey Scars makes his way to the ring, he looks around and takes in the overwhelming amount of boos]
(camera's picks up free agent Charlie "Nighttrain" Frederick for the 2nd week in a row. he has a tall, blonde, beauty, huddled up close to him, he pushes his sunglasses down along the bridge of his nose and winks at the camera)
Sunquist - Look at that Thousand Island! Nighttrain is here! Again! I wonder if he's any closer to signing with FFWF?
Killings - I imagine he wanted to make sure there was a 2nd show in a row before he started even discussing the idea.
Feathers - ANNND HIS OPPONENT..... THEEE SAVIOOOR!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Savior by Skillet hits to an enormous ovation)
Sunquist - Would you listen to this Thousand Island!
Killings - I'm trying. Some little creep threw one of Savior's new t-shirts at my head. If I find out who threw this....
Sunquist - Let's relive all the animosity that leads in to this terrific bout.
[highlight package of the history between Savior and Mikey Scars & his gang]
Killings - It's official; Savior is the dumbest human being alive. He couldn't save a toddler from a box of kittens.
[bells rings]
Sunquist - The size and power advantage definitively go to the Savior. Collar and elbow tie-up. Savior easily pushes Scars back into the corner.
Killings - These PHX fans need to respect the participants of this match and stop chanting for Steve Nash to re-sign with the Suns. Newsflash - it ain't gonna happen!
Sunquist - That's low, Thousand Island. Bodyslam by Savior. Now a headlock. Fat Tony on the apron distracting Senior Offical Vic Mourning.
Killings - You would think if you were a
Official, you would have seen every trick in the book. Apparently not.
Sunquist - In Mourning's defense - this is a chaotic atmosphere. Irish whip by Savior - no - reversed, Scars sends Savior bouncing off the ropes. He's tripped up by Johnny Conolies. Savior looks down at Johnny - RUNNING AXEHANDLE to the shoulder by Scars. The big man is down to one knee.
Killings - I wonder if Scars and his buddies would say "yes" if I invited them to my house game of poker this Thursday?
Sunquist - I'm not sure you'd want these men anywhere near your home.
Killings - What a terrible thing to say. They're Italian, Sunquist. Not Mormons.
Sunquist - Oh god, we're gonna get fired. Scars, now; pounding away on the back and shoulder area of the Savior. He locks in a camel clutch. Savior eyes are half open.
Killings - Every week, Scars is showing off a new move in his arsenal. Gosh, he really might be the best in this company!
Sunquist - That remains to be seen, Thousand Island. Savior looks as if he's coming to life. He powers out of that camel clutch - Scars holds on though.
Killings - WOW. Scars sure is good!
Sunquist - Scars turned that camel clutch into an elevated sleeper hold as Savior stood up out of the clutch. Impressive to say the least from Scars.
Killings - I can hear it now: your neeew FFWF Champion...
Sunquist - Savior not out yet, he's fighting, fighting some more. Looks like he's going to flip Scars over using a modified judo toss.
Killings - Cousin Vinny is up on the apron! I think he's got a few words of encouragement for his buddy, Mikey.
Sunquist - NO! If by words of encouragement - you mean he just hit Savior square in the face with brass knucks - then perhaps you're right! Savior drops to his knees while Scars still has that sleeper locked on. Savior is now face down on the canvas and out of it.
Killings - There's a commotion coming from the crowd!
Sunquist - Vic Mourning, now, checking an unconscious Savior!
Killings - Wait, we know this guy....
Sunquist - Thousand Island WHAT are you babbling abou-... oh MY! The Smiling Killer has jumped the guardrail!!!!!!!!!!
Killings - HE JUST DOUBLE CLOTHESLINED FAT TONY AND COUSIN VINNY!! SOMEBODY STOP HIM.
Sunquist - The ref stops checking on the Savior to tend to the commotion outside of the ring!!
Killings - Security! Security! Get Triple H's stunt double for his straight to DVD releases out of this arena! He's ruining the show!!
Sunquist - Finally some justice! There goes Johnny Conolies! The Smiling Killer just chokeslammed him through the timekeepers table! He's gone!
Killings - Criminal offense. Welcome to the prison system yo-... what am I saying, this guy is clearly no stranger to the prison system.
Sunquist - The Smiling Killer and Mikey Scars lock eyes. Scars is beckoning him inside the ring. You can hear the curse words spewing out of Scar's mouth.
Killings - Savior is still out cold.
Sunquist - The Smiling Killer slides in the ring and tackles Scars. It is pandemonium in Phoenix!! Listen to this crowd!!!!!!!!
Killings - I've never been so ashamed of the first four letters of my last name.
Sunquist - The officials are calling for the bell. Here comes more referees from the back. Scars, somehow rolls out of the ring and collects his beaten and battered cronies and starts retreating back toward the locker room. You can hear Scars screaming "THANK YOU!" in a sarcastic way in the direction of the Smiling Killer.
Killers - Oh my.. This is great...
Feathers - LADIESSS AND GENTLEMEN. DUE TO OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE SENIOR REFEREE VIC MOURNING HAS CALLED A STOP TO THIS CONTEST. THEREFOR THE WINNER OF THIS MAAAATCH....
Sunquist - No...
Feathers - ...AND GOING TO THE MAIN EVENT OF LETHAL INJECTION......... MIKEEEEY SCAAAAAAAAAAARRRS!
Killings - YESSSSSSSS! yesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyesyes Daniel Bryan, you owe me one...
Sunquist - This is outrageous! What about all of the outside interference from Scar's crew leading up to that??
Killings - Are you mixing medicines again? I worry about you.
[vignette for Stan Carano shown]
Chael Sonnen speaks at length about the credentials of Carano - then the sillohouette of a man standing with an American flag background
(replay of the ending of the last match is shown)
Sunquist - As you can see we are back - and fans - there appears to be a commotion back stage. Olivia, what's going on...
Olivia Cortez - Darryl, it's strange back here. The Savior has come to and he is on a one man warpath to find Scars and his crew. He's taking out camera crew, other wrestlers, he's out of his mind. He's a very big man who is VERY angry right now. We'll keep you posted.
Sunquist - And rightfully so. He was screwed out of a shot at the FFWF title due to-...
Killings - The rules? Rules are put in place to keep order, Sunquist. If you followed some rules once or twice, maybe you wouldn't come to work dressed like Burt Reynolds fresh off his 3rd court appearance of the week.
Sunquist - What's that? Folks, apparently Commissioner Bishop is making his way to the ring after this short commercial break!
((commercial for Lethal Injection))
The Commish's music hits!
Sunquist - Well, here he is. Dressed to the nines, with his bodyguard in tow - who we now know as PWN - and carrying a... briefcase?
Killings - Oh, I think I heard about this. I believe he is going to give me a briefcase of money for having to deal with you on a weekly basis. Should be fun!
Sunquist - He's got the mic. Let's find out...
(a-hole chant stars and dove-giver chant drowns that out)
Bishop - First of all - hello! Hello, Phoenix, Arizona!
Bishop - I couldn't think of a better place to make some HUGE announcements in regards to FFWF and the upcoming PPV - Lethal Injection.
(more boos, also a Lebron Bonds chant breaks out)
Bishop - As you know, Mikey Scars will face either Lebron Bonds or J.T. Smoove in the Main Event at Lethal Injection - for the FFWF Championship.
Bishop - But that's just ONE of the two belts the FFWF roster will have to fight over.
Bishop - There's also a FFWF Television Title. A belt fit for a man who not only deserves to be seen a television but who the fans WANT to see on television.
(ET80 chant starts)
Bishop - So myself, and the board of directors met all week and we crunched the numbers and came up with a worthy FIRST FFWF Television Champion. I'd like to ask that man to come down to this ring now.
(crowd murmurs but no music hits - all of a sudden the lights go out)
Sunquist - Wait, is Bishop going to give the belt to the Dove Giver?? That's highly unexpected.
(lights come back on - it's still only Dustin Franklin Bishop and PWN standing in the ring)
Bishop - Ladies and gentlemen - the NEW and FIRST FFWF Television Champion..... Perry Wade Neeson!! PWN!
(PWN is handed the belt from inside the briefcase and throws it over his shoulder as the crowd boos mercilessly)
Bishop - Now then, I know what you people are thinking. Gosh, Commissioner Bishop - you really must have your finger on the pulse of the FFWF fanbase.
(thunderous boos)
Bishop - And it's true - without any of you - what we do would just feel... hollow. But I assure you - that Television Title will be defended and it will be defended often! Starting with this Saturday night on PPV! When my bodyguard PWN will take on-....
(lights go out)
(HUGE pop)
(lights come back on and Dove Giver is standing in front of both men wearing an awesome all black costume with a scary mask on)
(PWN instinctively steps between Bishop and the Dove Giver - this creates an awesome staredown between the two men)
Bishop - Okay, okay, okay... although, not my first choice - perhaps people might pay to see you two get in on. So I suppose for the FFWF Television Title. The 2nd match signed for Lethal Injection...... PWN v.s the Dove Giver!!
(enormous pop)
(Bishop motions to security but all of a sudden the lights go out - when they come back on security, Bishop, and PWN are in the ring - but Dove Giver is gone)
(louder pop)
(Bishop's music comes on again as everyone looks confused and we go to commercial)
Sunquist - Fans, we're back - and I know we have Jason "Son of Slam" Thanos in the ring and Mike Tako is about to come out but we need a moment to catch our breaths.
Killings - PWN is the greatest FFWF Television Champion that has ever lived and he is going to crush the Dove Giver this Satruday for the whole world to see.
Sunquist - Or at least the parts of the world that get PPV....
(bright lights and loud, fun, dance music hits as Mike Tako makes his way to the ring - he dances around and high fives fans to a thunderous ovation)
Killings - My favorite...
(bell rings)
Sunquist - Tako offers to shake Thanos' hand but is met with a hard right that drops him. Thanos now, putting the boots to Tako as the crowd claps and dances. trying their damndest to rally their fallen hero.
Killings - I'm looking around and I must say - there is literally no one in Phoenix, Arizona that can dance worth their weight in Winn Dixie brand ice cream.
Sunquist - Winn Dixie is a fine grocery story. They are carrying our collectible cups!
Killings - They're not carrying MY collectible cups.
Sunquist - Tako sent off the ropes, comes back and gets a sidewalk slam from the Son of Slam, Thanos. Thanos goes for the cover... 1....2.. kickout. Take kicks out and immediately starts clapping.
Killings - We had kids like Mike Tako where I grew up. They were called the handicap.
Sunquist - Thousand Island, stop it! A lot of our great fans are handicap. The FFWF is also a great partner to the Make a Wish Campaign. I know for a fact that ET80 was there this wee-...
Killings - Zzzzzzzzzz..........
Sunquist - Back to the match - Tako reverses a clothesline attempt into a spin out rocker dropper type move. His offense is so unpredictable!
Killings - His offense makes me long for the days of a Kevin Kolb led Arizona Cardinal passing attack.
Sunquist - Take somehow on the top rope now - flying crossbody!! BEAUTIFUL. Now he's back up - swaying his hips - having some REAL fun out there!
Killings - Those hip motions are arguably sexual in nature. No place for that on cable television.
Sunquist - Tako is signalling for the Spear!!
Killings - Why would someone signal for a move like the spear by doing the macarana??
Sunquist - SPEAR!!! But Thanos only goes down to one knee! No matter - Tako rolls through his the ropes - comes back with a SHINING WIZARD! Thanos is OUT!
Killings - Thanos appears to be more bark than bite at this point. Unfortunate. His name is pretty neat.
Sunquist - Tako is really dancing, and moving around the ring right now. He's making the motion that it's time for the skyhigh drop, which will surely mark the ending of this particular match.
Killings - Ugh.
Sunquist - THERE IT IS! He hit it! 1.... 2.... 3.............!!!!
Feathers - Your winner of the matchhhhh MIKEEEE TAKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
(Tako invites a few fans into the ring of all ages and they all dance and sing and have a good time as Killings makes a motion of putting a gun in his mouth and Sunquist calls for commercial)
Sunquist - Annnd we're back...
Killings - Never again. Never will I put myself through that. We had to run long on the commercials just because Mike Tako wouldn't leave the ring!
Sunquist - What a fun young man!
(Rumba Perez's unmistakable music hits as he makes his way to the ring, a mixed reaction in tow)
Killings - Rumba Perez's quest for the FFWF title got a little side tracked last week - trying to keep track of all of Lebron Bond's different personalities.
(Hart Thompson makes his way to the ring to a surprisingly pro crowd responce. the pink and black lights in rare form)
Sunquist - These are two men that lost last week. Looking to get back in the win column.
Killings - Does being in the win column even matter in pro wrestling? I can't tell you how many title shots I was awarded during my career coming off losses.
(bell rings)
Sunquist - Rumb charges in with a monkey flip, Thompson lands on his feet. Rumb charges in with a clothesline, Hart ducks it, catches Rumba on the comeback with a tilt-a-whirl backbreaker.
(crowd oohs and ahhhs)
Killings - This Hart Thompson certainly is a handful inside the squared circle. I wonder if he really trained with any of the Harts.
Sunquist - No way of knowing for sure, Hart to the 2nd rope - drops down with an elbow. Shades of Bret Hart.
Killings - Pun intended?
Sunquist - Always.
Killings - OH WOW! Hart already locks Rumba up in a kneelinjg inverted sharpshooter!!
Sunquist - Rumba taps! He taps! His face showed exactly how much pain he was in.
(Hart celebrates in the ring for a little while before the camera cuts to commercial)
(when we return we see Bishop at his desk with a piece of paper and his glasses on)
Bishop - Welcome back fans. So far we have two matches signed for Lethal Injection - but we need so many more. That's why I have signed; the winner of this next match FACES.....
(crowd pops)
Bishop - .....THE PEST! At Lethal Injection - this Saturday night!
(The Pest's music plays and out he walks - heading to the commentary table. He's holding something under his arms. He puts on the headsets and shakes Thousand Island's hands)
Pest - "thanks for having me thousand island- in fact i brought you a present."
(opens a big box and pulls out a big bag of birdseed and hits Sundquist upside the head with it)
Sundquist: That was uncalled for.
Pest - "i was hoping the doves would come and eat sundquist"
Thousand Island: Stop, you'll make a man blush.
Pest - "the little people in my headset are now telling me that doves don't eat people, such a bummer"
Thousand Island: Its the thought that counts.
Pest - "well at least if that [inappropriate/removed]*g dove dude comes, they'll attack sundquist first"
"Sundquist: So there's no real presents, are there?
Pest - "(bleep) you sundquist, and if there were, you wouldn't get one"
"hey! look! its the battle of who did more steroids during the two month break"
"i wonder if SDG will copy my copying of ET who copied ted dibiase jr who copied ted dibiase just like he copies everything i do"
"because I'm SO DAMN GOOD"
"that should be my nickname, not his"
"i retroactively change my nickname to SO DAMN GOOD"
"stop copying me, sheep"
Thousand Island: Yeah, ya sheep
"(bleep) you sundquist"
[when we return the match between ET80 and SDG is in mid-match]
Sunquist - These two men wasted no time going after each other. There's no love lost. ET80's MMA training v.s SDG's ring general-ship.
Killings - Stop making up words.
Sunquist - And of course we are joined by the Pest - the FCC's worst nightmare, as it were.
Pest - You have 2 seconds to stop looking at me in the eyes, Sunquist.
Sunquist - The action inside the ring is all over the place, ET80 seems to always have one eye at the announce table. So Damn Good levels him with a back elbow. Now SDG is laying into him with headlock and punches.
Killings - We need a new series of words that the acronym SDG can stand for. The Pest as clearly taken the moniker SO Damn Good. Might I suggest Salty Dog Gaspacho?
Pest - Savory Delicacies Get'em?
Killings - Settle Disputes Grouchy?
Pest - Suck Deez .... Guh, Guh, Guh-.. what a terrible series of random letters!
Killings - ET80 just planted SDG with a belly to back suplex!!
Sunquist - ET grabs SDG..
Pest - You better call him Saxon Douglas Gold..Grimsl... who cares
Sunquist - Stop interrupting me.
Killings - Don't tell him what to do.
Sunquist - Well thanks guys, you made me miss the call.
Pest - Hey, why don't you tell the people at home what's going on.
Killings - We're doing our jobs.
Sunquist - Guys, come on. The ref is down.
Pest - Why's the ref down Sunquist?
Sunquist - As I was saying, ET grabbed SDG and did some sort of wild suplex, and in the middle of it, he hit the ref in the head with SDG's foot. Now he's fum..
Pest - Ok, now
Sunquist - OH MY GOD WHATS GOING ON? WHY ARE THE LIGHTS OFF? AND I TOLD YOU TO STOP INTERRUPTING ME PEST!
Killings - Oh man, that present that Pest gave me is sure going to pay off.
(huge pyro goes off)
Sunquist - NO! ITS NOT DOVE GIVER; HE DOESNT USE PYRO!
Killings - You seem awful jittery. Are you afraid of the dark, Sunquist?
Sunquist - Shut up.
Sunquist - Wait- what is that?
Killings - What is what? Its still too dark. Even with that awesome pyro. Its like a Jon Bon Jovi concert. I love that guy. Let me get my night vision goggles.
Sunquist - Wait- it looks like someone has a chair and he's running towards ET--- OH MY GOD, he just struck ET in the back of the head! Who do you think that could be Pest?
Killings - Um, Sunquist- Pest is gone. He probably went to go get us some pretzels. Not you though. I don't think he likes you.
Sunquist - NO! THAT IS THE PEST!
Sunquist - He just double arm DDT'd ET onto the chair! The ref is still out- SDG is waking up--- wait! Pest hit him with the chair also!
Killings - No way that the Pest is in the ring doing that. He was such a nice gentleman. He brought me a present.
Sunquist - No! This cant be. Pest is placing SDG's arm over ET- he's shaking the ref. He's running off like the little Pest that he is! As he runs, the ref counts "One, two, three"!
Killings - How dare you! We are nice to our guests here in the FFWF!
Sunquist - OH STOP! Look- there! The pyro stopped and the lights came back on. You could clearly see someone in a leather jacket run through the curtain. It's Pest.
Killings - He's a fashionable man. I mean, look at the statistics- we sold 2 studded leather jackets on the Merch website last week. Thats 2 more than we ever sold- thats an infinite percentage increase! I'm sure someone is- how do you say it- jacking his swag?
Sunquist - Stop it. This is a tragedy. This is a travesty.
Killings - I know right- now all this birdseed went to waste since the Dove man didn't come and peck your eyes out.
Sunquist- No- what did the Pest say right before the lights went out?
Killings- As I recall, he said "Thank you Thousand Island for having me on this broadcast".
Sunquist - STOP! He said "ok, now"! This is?!?! a conspiracy?!?!
[replay of the ending of the last match and then a promotional image of SDG v.s the Pest for Lethal Injection is shown]
Sunquist - Fans, we're back - and once again - the Pest is proving that he may have friends in high places. How could he oversee such an elaborate scheme?
Killings - He's clearly working with somebody or multiple people. All I know is that it's not me. Heck, it could be you! I don't trust anyone! I'm just glad he seems to like me! Can we get a close up on that present he got me??
Sunquist - Fans, we now have one more word from our Commissioner before we go to our main event....
(Once again Bishop is shown at his desk - PWN standing in the back with his arms crossed)
Bishop - Lethal Injection is shaping up to be a historic night for the FFWF. I'd like to add two more matches to the card - right here, right now...
Mike Tako will face the loser of this next match and The Smiling Killer will have a debut match... but against who?? Tune in and find out.
Sunquist - What a chaotic show. So much information to process. And we still have this Main Event!
Killings - Let's get to it, then!
(This Fire Burns hits and Smoove can be seen via spotlight making his way through the crowd. He finds his way to the guardrail, hops it and slides in the ring to a chorus of boos and "Smoove sucks" chants)
Killings - Did you see that? Some of the fans were actually grabbing and pushing J.T. Smoove! I hate our fans.
Feathers - ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNND HIS OPPONENT
(crowd on the verge of huge pop)
Feathers - FROMMMMMMMMMMMMM JUNEAU , ALASKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(biggest pop of the night so far)
Feathers - Lebronnnnnnnnnnnn BONDSSSSSSS!!!
(Bonds makes his way to the ring holding a teddy bear and a ice cream cone)
(bell rings)
Sunquist - Bonds starts spinning around in place and making strange noises, Smoove charges in by Bonds moves and starts laughing maniacally.
Killings - We should offer our fans a chance to hang out with Bonds for a day. I bet that would be a popular contest...
Sunquist - I think it would be! Bonds, now - pounding on Smoove's back with rights and lefts. Not necessarily technical - but getting the job done - Smoove executes a small package out of nowhere - ...1 ...2 ...kickout.
Killings - So close.
Sunquist - Bonds all of a sudden starts strutting around the ring with a decidedly feminine walk. Smoove seems irate and hits Bonds with a short arm Samoan Slam.
Killings - Look at Smoove in his face now calling him a crazy mofo.
Sunquist - Smoove stomps Bond's knee and beckons him to get up. As soon as Bonds gets to his feet Smoove plants him with a release overhead belly to belly suplex.
Killings - I wonder how many of his personalities felt that. I feel fairly confident that at least she-Bonds felt that.
Sunquist - Smoove hoists Bonds over his head, gets him set up now a DOWN he slams him with his version of the Alabama Slamma... cover - 1... 2..... kick out.
Killings - Oh god, Bonds just shot up like the pain woke him from a deep slumber.
Sunquist - Bonds is now singing in tongues. His rolling around like a primate. Smoove seems seriously creeped out.
Killings - If he were to snap and kill have of rows A thru H do you think we'd call the police or animal control?
Sunquist - Bonds hits Smoove with a spinebuster, right int he center of the ring. Now a single arm DDT. Smoove is in a world of pain.
Killings - This man is not fit to be strapped with anything aside from a straight jacket.
Sunquist - Bonds reverses a powerbomb attempt that Smoove tried to sneak in and pushes him into a corner - OMG - WHO AM I out of the CORNER.... forget about it!
........1 .........2............ 3!!!
Killings - Worst thing that has ever happened to this company. This main should not be main eventing a show that people pay for.
(Bonds music plays but is quickly interrupted by Mikey Scars music - Scars comes out... oddly, by himself and gets in the ring - the two men get right in each other's faces - Lebron's face contorting and his lip quivering as if he could break out into hysterical laughter or song)
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Hi !
First post, I doubt it will be the last
Got this TrendNET USB stick.
TEW-424UB (CA) H/W:3.1R (I figure out this is the rev. number)
Running lsusb on it gives me 0bda:8189 Realtek blah blah.
I crack open it to see what's inside. I attached a pic. The chip inside is a Realtek 8187B.
It is not recognized at all.
I'm using Backtrack Beta 3 latest, on HD.
At boot, BT3 doesn't even recognize it. Same thing on BT 2 Final. Tried on PC's and laptops. No luck.
I tried loading modules manually (insmod some ieee*.ko + r8187.ko) and it did not work. I tried to do exactly what's on aircrack wiki concerning r8187, no luck. Output with errors anyways (I install kernel.lzm and everything needed, turn the makefile executable, and all the stuff ...)
Any ideas ? I'm no linux expert but I can figure out many things. Last thing I would say is I tried on USB 1.1 ports, not USB 2.0 but It shouldn't matter. The stick is running fine under XP.
Previously, I had a lot of fun with a PCI Gnet crap based on a TI chipset. After 3 days, it runs perfectly under BT3 Beta, injection included, so making this Trendnet usb stick working is my next challenge.
Any comments appreciated and many thanks

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No, really! You can trust me! Walmart is selling the iphone 5 with unlimited data!
What is unlimited ?
Let;s ask Bill Clinton:
"It depends on what the meaning of the words 'is' is." –Bill Clinton, during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair
"It depends on how you define alone…" –Bill Clinton, in his grand jury testimony
"There were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were." –Bill Clinton, in his grand jury testimony
But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people. Thank you!
Sprint offers "truly" unlimited data and "truly" sh1tty network.
was my comment removed? I still dont get the first comment. I doubt any iPhone on any carrier will ever have unlimited data. There will always be underlying or hidden fees or throttling or whatever.
I wish companies wouldn't pull this kind of stuff. By definition, unlimited means without restrictions. This means that tethering and no data caps should be allowed.
T-Mobiles offerings are nice, you can buy either completely unlimited or limited high speed that gets throttled after a set amount based on how much you are willing to pay.
BILL CLINTON!! Lol thx for that dude, hilarious. You reminded me why I love that guy so much!
It's actually not as bad as the article is making it. I bought a ST SIM to use for my iPhone 4 to tether to my iPad (my iPhone 5 with AT&T has unlimited data and after getting busted twice on a tiered data plan---I got unlimited by taking over an unlimited-data line). They throttled me at 2GB, but the throttling speeds seem to be better than AT&T's (AT&T's throttling speeds seem to wildly fluctuate while doing a speed test---it constantly freezes--- while ST's does not). For browsing the web, the speeds are fairly decent. I get about 100-150kbps, which is on par with my dad's 3G speeds on his Galaxy S3, so, at least in my case, ST's throttled speeds are better than Sprint's normal speeds AND it is cheaper!
By the way, I have heard stories of people calling ST and complaining about their throttled speeds and that they would unthrottle you if you stay adamant. I personally haven't tried it yet. My Service End Date is tomorrow and they are closed, so I will need to shell out another $45 to try this.
Throttling doesn't make your data limited. You're still allowed to use as much data as you want, just not as much as you normally could in the same amount of time. Infinity divided by a billion is still infinity.
Thats the normal unlimited plan here in Aus.
ALL mobile unlimited plans are capped usually at 2GB then it slows down to a snails fart speed.
It should be illegal when ISPs started it many years ago. They advertise as unlimited but put a limit in it. Thats false advertising and should be illegal and they should be fined and the plan removed.
I don't care how "not as bad" you think it is, it's NOT unlimited. If there weren't so many idiots that put up with this bull crap, IT WOULD BE!!!
"All-you-can-eat": Maximum of two trips to the salad bar.
A better analogy would be that you can fill three plates up with as much food as you want. That's enough for most people. After that, you can continue eating as much as you want; you just get smaller plates to carry your food on. It's still all-you-can-eat. Nobody ever said they had to give you the biggest plates they had just like AT&T never agreed to give you the fastest speeds available for your unlimited data.
I have iph4s on Verizon unlimited and have never noticed any throttling. Last month used 7GB and never saw a speed reduction.


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'Of course the real problem the Sabres have to take care of is to somehow coordinate the good goaltending nights with some goal scoring. In more recent times Buffalo have had nights where they score goals, but the goalies have let them down. On other nights the netminding has been outstanding, but the Sabres couldn't bury their scoring chances.'
Miller time in Buffalo
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Insights and Opinions: Protection by Execution
Story by Ben Dyer
Entrepreneurs frequently question me about how you protect your prized IP or your business methods from theft by others. The less you disclose, the less help you will get from your mentors and peers as your company evolves. And, potentially, fewer opportunities will come your way if you hold your cards too close to your vest. I've repeatedly seen companies hide or delay their best product features for fear others would copy them, only to see themselves surpassed by competitive surprises. What's the point in waiting until you look like the follower and not the innovator? If you've created demand for your product and your customers have some switching costs, always give them the best you can to reward and retain that loyalty.
Then there's the topic of patents. Those are a daunting task, especially in lean startup software companies where the product at risk may well be long obsolete before any patent can be granted. Plus, even having a patent only gives you a hunting license to spend your capital chasing infringers. Patents, like any serious litigation, in my view are falling into the general category of the "sport of kings." For most startups I see, patents are part of the equation only when the product is more tangible, more scientific, and derived from funded research at a university.
Everyone has a natural fear of giving away the great idea. Too many open the conversation with potential investors by asking for a signature on an NDA. That almost guarantees an immediate dismissal. VC's and serious angels who invest repetitively aren't interesting in managing NDA's from the flood of deals coming over the transom. It's in their best interest never to be seen as a conduit of secrets among their current or prospective portfolio companies. That said, however, I would advise not shopping your idea to an investor who has an obvious direct competitor already in the portfolio. You're wasting everyone's time in the process.
As your company grows from the startup stage, one of the best strategies is what I call "Protection by Execution." MailChimp is a great example of that. Look at the total transparency of the annual report they Tweeted today; it doesn't show the financial data of this privately held and no-outside-investment company, but it lays out all the stats, even the number of pizzas consumed by the staff. This report is aimed at MailChimp's customers. It sends the message that the train is accelerating, and it makes you glad to be aboard. If you're a prospective customer, you'll want a ticket on that train. There's no braggadocio, just the facts. And, when your facts are that good, that's all you need. There's nothing there for competitors, except perhaps envy. MailChimp operates, supports, and innovates – and has cool hats. They let the data do the talking.
Public companies seem to have a different view of transparency. They have to disclose the financial facts simultaneously to all interested parties, but a lot of the operating data like MailChimp provides is far more carefully protected. Is there truth in today's reports that Apple has cut in half its component orders for the iPhone 5 for next quarter, or is some analyst gaming the stock price? Apple is certainly not going to provide any data of that nature. Whatever the case, they have a prized institution to protect by continuing to innovate and execute as well as they have done for the past several years. (Well, except maps, but no company has to get everything exactly right.) They're at the size where they can employ all the weapons of king-size competition, notably patents, but they've still got to deliver or risk the declines of even legendary companies like HP.
On the other extreme of the spectrum, I've also been observing the competition among SMB's that depend on local listings, reviews, ratings, organic SEO, and paid ads. There's an area where there is seemingly very little transparency or even consistency over time as to how Google determines its rankings, and there is plenty of snake oil being proffered by "experts" in that arena and by various sources of supposed ranking boosters like directory and review services. Frankly, I've seen a lot of cheating by the businesses themselves, e.g. a whole bunch of testimonials using the same phrasing and obviously written by the same hand. Businesses that don't have natural referral partners in the community or that provide services like weddings, for example, where repeat business is not too common are engaged in a form of trench warfare for clients. Even dirty tricks are not unusual, where you pay more attention to elbowing aside others' rankings rather than optimizing your own. (Perhaps I will gather up some observations along that line for another "how-to" post.) At any rate, how you build and protect a business in that environment can be more about executing your enemies than executing your own plan.
The bottom line: If you want to protect your great idea, just take care of business. You'll be unstoppable.
Ben Dyer is a technology veteran, investor, and blogger who publishes TechDrawl, which promotes technology business across the South, is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Austin Technology Incubator, and is best known as the founder of Peachtree Software. He originally posted this on his blog, TechDrawl, and gave us permission to reprint it here.


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Is there a rule of thumb for how to tweak a recipe's baking powder or soda if your going to a larger pan or smaller?
I know its recommended not to but how do I substitute pans in a recipe? My go to pans are cupcake pans, and 9 x 2 pans. I see in the back of RHC Rose gives how many cups of batter go into each sized pan but I find when I use a different pan, even if make the right amount of batter, the cake texture, or moisture is way off. I'm not a big fan of bundt pans lookwise, is it possible to make a mini version of fluted pan by placing a core in the center of a cake pan?
Lastly, I noticed i RHC Rose inserted a nail head in a cake. Is that to let you know when a cake is done baking or does that act like a core?
If there is a thread on these topics or advice I do appreciate it.


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BRONC SOCCER COLLEGE SIGNEES - In an unusual event yesterday six Sheridan Bronc soccer players signed to play college soccer next season with the same school.
The "Sheridan six" will all be student / athletes the South Dakota school of mines this fall.
They are seniors Hunter Reece, Braden Drell, Sam LeTempt, Cole Smith, Gabe Dahmke and former Bronc Cody Schellinger who graduated from Sheridan high school in 2010 and from Sheridan college this spring and will join his former teammates on the field once again.
The Bison soccer team got their first loss handed to them at home Tuesday as they fell to Worland 3-1 in overtime.
The loss gives the team a 9-1-2 record with two games left in their regular season.
The girls played at Worland Tuesday, but no score was yet available.
TRACK AND FIELD - The Wyoming track classic was run Monday Micheal and Katie Rotellini won their events in the all-star meet Head coach Art Bauers.
And he says both have put themselves in a great spot for great finishes at the regional and state championships.
He says not only the Rotellini's did well but all their athletes competed well Monday in Casper.
From left to right: Wren Baker, Mollie Caiola, Morgan Nance, Anna Miech, Jamy Townsend, Bailey Bard, Coach Anna Bailey. In front: Kaycen Townsend. Not pictured: Abby Buckingham
Jamy and Kaycen are from Sheridan Jr High, and the rest are Big Horn Middle School players. This is a U14A team made up of 7th and 8th graders.
We've had several open gyms this spring at BHMS, and these girls wanted to do some traveling volleyball.
Buffalo's soccer teams will wrap up their regular seasons this week with three games, the first tonight against Worland.
The Bison, 9-0-2 overall, will take their #1 ranking against the #3 Warriors tonight at BHS with games at 4 and 6pm.
The Lady Bison, 6-5 overall and ranked #2 in 3A, will play at Worland with games also at 4 and 6pm.
Thursday the teams will switch up as the girls will host Douglas and the boys play Douglas on the road and then both teams will wrap up their regular seasons Friday with the boys at Newcastle while the girls host the Lady Dogies.
WYO TRACK CLASSIC - The Wyoming track classic was run yesterday in Casper. Micheal and Katie Rotellini from sheridan high school both won their events. Katie won the 800 Meters and Micheal was first in the 3200 Meters.
The Broncs Chris Garber place 3rd in 1600 Meters, Kyle Dietsche was 5th in the 800 Meters and Taylor Kraft was 4th in the High Jump.
Lady Broncs Marrisa Hegy finished 9th in the 1600 Meters and Shayla Christensen was 7th in the Shot Put.
Nate Plymell from Tongue River competed in two events Tuesday he finished 4th in the Pole Vault and 9th in the 300 Meter Hurdles.
BRONC / LADY BRONC SOCCER - The Broncs swept two games over the weekend beat Cheyenne Central 4-0 and finishing up the weekend beating Cheyenne East 1-0 Saturday.
Head coach Kevin Riser says to stay in the race for the conference title and an automatic bid into the state tournament they needed both victories.
Weather conditions were brutal for both games but Riser says the Broncs fought through the wind and rain to pick up both games.
The Bison and Lady Bison soccer teams had the weekend off but will wrap their regular seasons up this week with three games beginning Tuesday with Worland, Thursday with Douglas and Friday with Newcastle.
The Bison track and field team hosted their Crazy Woman Invite Friday and had a number of athletes perform well, including Shannon Horn winning the girls 100 meter dash; Hannah Chapin in the girls 1,600; Matt Scarlett in the boys 1,600; and Taylor Hepp in the boys high jump.
Both the Bison boys and girls teams won the meet.
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Tigers rout Vols to stay on top in SEC EastNov 3, 2013 - 6:11 AM Columbia, MO (SportsNetwork.com) - Maty Mauk threw three first-half touchdown passes and No. 10 Missouri bounced back strongly from a gut-wrenching loss by posting a 31-3 rout of Tennessee in SEC action from Faurot Field.
Mauk managed only 163 yards on a 12-of-25 completion rate, but delivered a career-high 114 rushing yards on 13 attempts as the Tigers rebounded from last week's 27-24 double-overtime setback to South Carolina and remained in control of the SEC East race.
Missouri (8-1, 4-1 SEC) blew a 17-point fourth-quarter lead against the Gamecocks, but prevented any chance of an encore by holding the Volunteers scoreless in the second half and churning out 339 rushing yards.
The win kept the Tigers as the division's only one-loss team.
Marcus Lucas hauled in one of Mauk's scoring strikes and finished with 75 yards on four catches, while Henry Josey rushed for 74 yards on 16 attempts for Missouri.
True freshman Joshua Dobbs completed 26-of-42 throws for 240 yards in his first career start for Tennessee (4-5, 1-4), but was intercepted twice and lost a fumble as the Volunteers were handed an 11th straight road loss in SEC play. Alton Howard finished with 11 catches totaling 89 yards in defeat.
"When you give up over 300 yards to the other team rushing the ball and your team has less than 100, I think that pretty much tells the story," Vols head coach Butch Jones said.
The Missouri offense started off slowly, recording just one first down while punting on each of its first two drives. The Tigers put up points on four of their next five possessions, however, en route to building a comfortable 24-3 lead at the half.
Mauk engineered an efficient 14-play series to put Missouri on the board, with the Tigers converting four third-down chances on the 63-yard trek. On the final one, Dorial Green-Beckham took a short screen, cut back across the middle as the Volunteers overpursued and waltzed into the end zone for a 5- yard score late in the opening quarter.
A 10-play, 74-yard sequence in which Mauk came through with a pair of big third-down scrambles enabled Missouri to extend the margin in the second quarter, though the Tigers wound up settling for Andrew Baggett's 24-yard field goal after the drive stalled in the red zone.
"We started off a little slow but focused up, started to put some drives together and started making plays," Mauk said.
Dobbs, pressed into starting duty when Justin Worley tore a ligament in his right thumb during last week's loss at top-ranked Alabama, was picked off by E.J. Gaines on an underthrown ball on Tennessee's next touch to set Missouri up at the Vols' 26. On the ensuing play, Mauk rolled to his right and found L'Damian Washington wide open on a blown coverage to stake the Tigers to a 17-0 advantage with 6:35 left in the half.
A 33-yard run from Dobbs led to Michael Palardy's 51-yard field goal for Tennessee's initial points, but the Tigers quickly struck again when Lucas got past the defense to haul in Mauk's well-thrown deep strike for a 40-yard score and a 24-3 cushion.
The Tigers put Tennessee in a further hole with a swift touchdown drive midway through the third quarter, with Russell Hansbourgh capping the four-play jaunt by racing 26 yards virtually untouched on a shotgun draw.
Tennessee had a couple of chances to cut into the deficit thereafter, but came up empty on both occasions. Dobbs was intercepted in the end zone by Braylon Webb late in the third quarter after the Vols had crept into Missouri territory, and the young quarterback was stopped short of the mark on a 4th- and-6 situation from the Tigers' 13 on Tennessee's next possession.
Game Notes
Missouri went 10-of-19 on third-down conversions for the game, while Tennessee was just 2-of-13 in such situations ... The Volunteers have also lost 19 in a row on the road against Top 25 teams, including all four away tests this season (No. 2 Oregon, then-No. 19 Florida, Alabama, Missouri) ... The Tigers came through with a 51-48, four-overtime decision in Knoxville last season in the only previous meeting between the schools ... Palardy's 51-yard field goal was one yard short of his career best.
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You're simply ignorant. No need to insult you. I can tell you haven't been educated in any biology.So far you've presented nothing of substance apart from the usual evolutionary brush offs. I can ditto the above for your own beliefs. Same old arguments in favor of evolution. All of which have been debunked. Nothing new. Ever. And your arguments are applied to your beliefs, too, because what you believe is a BELIEF and nothing more.
Give me one shred of factual, testable, repeatable evidence for how particles popped into existence, and then turned into plants, pandas, and people, all on their own. You see, even thinking people need to believe something about origins, so they have chosen this particular myth, which has no basis in reality.
The desperate attempts to "prove" the myth, like appealing to antibiotic resistance in bacteria (another falsified tenet of evolution) are pathetic at best. Here's the typical philosophical leap the evolutionist takes: "Bacteria develop antibiotic resistance. That PROVES that bacteria turned into Bob and Barbara over millions of years!" Oh boy!
Antibiotic resistance does not demonstrate evolution for the following reasons: First, it arises in genetic material that is ALREADY present. I can't say that enough, but evolutionists just don't seem to get it. Second, when an antibiotic is introduced, bacteria that are ALREADY PRESENT and have resistance flourish, where the normal flora is killed off. Third, when the antibiotic is removed, the normal flora return and the resistant strains die out. Now, if you can tell me how that demonstrates how bacteria arose from nothing and turned into bacteria, then we'll be getting somewhere.
Reading book?Been doing that for over 10 years.
Now, I'd suggest you go do what I've done, and read lots of books that discuss your beliefs from every angle (not just the ones you like) so you know what it says, and aren't just going on what someone else told you.Then read some of the late books out on darwinism's influence on Hitler, Stalin and the like.
Once again. To pick at your earlier statement, search Sickle cell anemia.


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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 3:58 pm
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I wonder if it might help to establish some kind of volunteer group / pool that only has responsibility for something like Breakfast Buddies without Board responsibilities and meetings on top of that.
Define the commitment as something small - you and perhaps your buddy will lead ONE BB event in 2013 - and write up what is involved with recommended tasks and timelines. One board member (at large member? or maybe even a super volunteer?) to assign months and follow up with the volunteers to remind them of commitment and encourage/advise.
If not enough volunteers, there are fewer BBs (quarterly, annual . . . .) or these events just end.
If not enough volunteers in certain regions of the state, BBs are not held in those regions.
If the volunteer bags out, there is no BB that month.
People who volunteer do so because they personally value BB and want one in their area at a time and place convenient to them.
ALL OF THIS IS OKAY. BOARD MEMBERS ARE NOT REQUIRED TO OPEN A VEIN. It's bad for organizations when they do.
It's unrealistic though to expect members to write the board and ask to run BB events when in the past, it seems like these are official MNGCA events that MUST be run by the board, and even now it seems like you need the official Mark of Trust to be worthy of running one. Is some of the problem member laziness? Sure! But you need to make sure people with the energy and desire to run a BB feel invited and empowered and embraced to do so, not wondering if they're good enough. Additionally, almost everyone is going to need to be personally asked, even if they'd be happy to do it. That is human nature.
It's also important to ask what's the minimum needed for a quality event and then let go of control (for example don't they have shirts and coins etc. . . maybe that's a pain and not needed to maintain the spirit of BB?). I'm not sure I've been to an official one, I never travel outside Eden Prairie for events. : )
Some ideas:
1) ID a board member to oversee BB volunteer recruitment.
2) Set up a "BB Volunteer thread" for people to volunteer, pair up with others in their area as organizers, and propose months/general locations.
3) Board organizer uses thread plus outreach to individual cachers they may want to recruit to set the calendar - frequency depends on how much people care about it to agree to run one.
4) Publish locations (general city/area) and dates and the lead volunteers for general planning purposes. If people think there aren't enough or they should be in their area of the state or certain times of year, then that's their chance to volunteer or not, depending on how important it is to them.
5) Board organizer follow up with BB leads as needed to ensure event locations / times are finalized, and event caches are created and cross-listed here.
If no board member or super-volunteer has the passion for BB to organize the volunteers, IT DIES AND THAT's OK. If people do care, there's got to be a way to spread the load and make volunteering for MNGCA fun.
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Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 11:37 pm
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Here's the thing: You can go back in the history of this organization, particularly in the Octoberish range of every year when once a year everyone raises holy heck about having more representation on the board, and more this and more that and a committee to do this and volunteers to do that, but the reality of it is until you get more than the current 12 or so people who shoulder 90% of the organization's operations to actually step up nothing will change, except more people will get burned out, reducing that dozen to an even lower number. I hate to sound negative about it, but it is a fact... probably 50% of the membership forgot they have a membership, 25% lurk or rarely do anything with their membership, 20% expect world class events and will raise heck when there isn't a coin, a t-shirt, 3 month's notice of any social event or the geographic location of said event, and leave it to the remaining 5% to make it all happen.
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Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 8:10 am
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My Feelings...and they really have not changed over the years since I posted this in 2008...
"We (all members...not just the board) represent the MNGCA...it is not the other way around!!!" The Board Members manage the Organization...but we all are responsible for making things happen in the name of the Organization...
If we (the collective we) want to expand the role of the board and/or it's members...then we need to expand the board...however...the trouble with that can be seen below...
Pear Head wrote:
Current nominations:
AerosmithPA [accepted]
tonkaMN [declined]
Vice President:
BigChiefS4 [accepted]
Copaman [declined]
tonkaMN [accepted]
MamaDuck-24 [accepted]
Rustynails [declined]
Member at Large:
Copaman [accepted]
The nominations process has been open almost a month...and this is where we stand...
Until things change within the Membership of this organization, the Board itself cannot. There is only so much a small group of individuals can handle on top of their own lives. I think that can be seen in the relative history of Board Members. How many "active" geocachers have be lost to "retirement" once their stint on the MNGCA Board was over? Active...some very active in the everyday happenings of geocaching (in general) and in the happenings of this organization...but now...gone...not heard from...
I wouldn't question what the Board is or isn't doing...I question what our Membership is or isn't doing...
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Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 10:47 am
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With the help of member discussions at the state fair and also through recent email communications, I have another brainstorm to share. Looking for input on these thoughts-
Event Coordinator position:
Board appointment
Appointment runs concurrent with board term
Needs to be a voting member
Facilitate the organization of events
Schedule events calendar
Disperse events around state, keeping in mind population bases
Solicit membership volunteers to host events
Work with MnGCA members whom would like to host events
Maintain MnGCA geocaching.com event pages
Solicit board attendance at events- If no board member able to attend, event goes on with host being MnGCA representative.
Just thoughts typed out. This person would not need to attend the events, simply organize a calendar and assist people who want to hold an event in their area.
If a member wished to be involved in the organization and not raise their hand for a board position, this would be a great avenue to do just that. Keeping the membership involved...
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Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 12:51 pm
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The thinking is good for an event coordinator, but that still sounds like a big job to me. If you don't get takers, you might also consider breaking it down into smaller chunks, which might be regionally, or just in charge of organizing BB, or just in charge of organizing the spring or fall event. Really define what somebody is committing to (I will organize this one big event -- I will organize hosts to run 4-12 BB events statewide in 2014). Then those people get others -- I will take charge of the paper plates and cups for the event - I will plan a game for the kids - I'll run a BB in my hometown in October.) It makes it a lot easier for someone to say "I can do that" and pitch in vs an undefined time suck. Time-limited and carefully defined projects are the key to getting "worker bee' volunteers that can support the awesome folks who stepped up for the board and make the job so much easier.
I also think it's fine to have fewer mngca official events. The infrastructure is there through gc.com for individual cachers to host events, big or small - anything from weeknight caching to KB's Hoopla or bflentje's canoe expeditions. If it's a question of limited energy, I think that park relations, media and outreach are things that mngca, as an organized group and a voice for all of us, can do better than an individual.
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Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 2:33 pm
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I don't foresee the event coordinator planning any events, simply to be a real live person who the membership can turn to when they say "I want to run a BB in my hometown in October". The coordinator can take a look at the MnGCA event calendar to make it balance, update the MnGCA event page on geocaching.com, and work with the board in an attempt to insure MnGCA presence at the events.
I would not think this person would be inundated with work. Also, I don't think this person would/should feel they are working on an island with no place to turn. It would be my intention this person would
work together with the board
to avoid burnout for everyone.
Two scenerios I can see happening:
1) Sue Micro emails the coordinator wanting to hold a BB in Rochester in October. Event coordinator looks at calendar, and sees no BB for the month yet. Coordinator solicits the board for attendance and creates geocaching event page. Sue Micro makes reservations. On date of event, a board member or designated host (Sue Micro?) can show up with MnGCA stuff and logbook.
2) Event coordinator is looking at the calendar in January and notices no BB is scheduled for March. Coordinator can send a note out on forums to the membership stating opportunity to have event in your backyard, or email the board and ask if anyone of them would like to host one.
I suppose on rare occassion someone may want to hold an event in October, but there is already a BB scheduled as well as Fall Event. The coordinator may need to suggest doing this event in January, where there is nothing scheduled as of yet. It would be my intention the judgement of the coordinator would be supported by the board.
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Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 4:41 pm
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Thanks for clarifying, that seems to make a lot of sense to me.
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Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2013 11:00 pm
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Something I think you seriously need to consider is who is going to step up. I don't know if you looked at the elections, but there isn't exactly a huge rush of people dying to try to serve this organization. We barely have someone running for each board position. It's one thing if you have 20 people highly energized to lead the organization and only 5 can make the board, you can easily draw upon the other 15 to join in a position like that. We don't have that situation that I see.
I would suggest until you can get a bigger base of people even willing to try to run that you assume that the 5 to 6 board members are going to be your "core" group of organizers. Google calendars is a magical thing. I'm guessing someone can answer this but I think you could put the "Master" Google calendar on the webpage with the board members each having an account to modify the calendar as necessary.
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Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2013 12:01 am
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I'm simply throwing ideas out there to generate discussions. Of course the decsion rests upon the shoulders of the board to decide how to proceed. The event coordinator could be, but does not have to be a board member. I'm hedging my bet there are members out there who prefer to stay behind the curtain and want to be involved without committing to a board position. That is okay, it is working with people's strengths.
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Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:24 pm
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So has there been much interest shown in this new position? l
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Posted: Mon Sep 16, 2013 9:37 am
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There has been interest shown from the membership in helping out in this area. It's good to know there may be options.
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Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 1:58 pm
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The MnGCA is developing a calendar for the next 12 months of Breakfast Buddies (and/or pizza events). If anyone wants an MnGCA event in their community, or know of a community which has not had one, or had one in a long time, please shoot an email to
. I'm betting that together we can make it happen.
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Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:10 pm
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AerosmithPA wrote:
The MnGCA is developing a calendar for the next 12 months of Breakfast Buddies (and/or pizza events). If anyone wants an MnGCA event in their community, or know of a community which has not had one, or had one in a long time, please shoot an email to
. I'm betting that together we can make it happen.
Is this going to be a calendar that is viewable to all of us? Google doc, or something similar?
"We never seek things for themselves-what we seek is the very seeking of things"-Pascal
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How many single moms are in Pennsylvania who would probably love to have free child care because they are trying to swing multiple jobs and juggling their kids and forced to spend much of their paycheck on day care? My guess would be lots and there is probably a waiting list a mile long. Not to let those people stand in her way, Kate Gosselin also asked the state of Pennsylvania for free child care, calling her children disabled, just so she had a better chance of receiving the benefit. The author of the new tell all book about Kate managed to get his hands on the letter which says in part, "We have eight children four years old and under. Our six youngest are 11 months old. In a sense our children (our six 11 month olds) are disabled. They cannot feed themselves, transport themselves up and down stairs or at all, bathe themselves, get a drink when they are thirsty, go to the bathroom by themselves, put themselves to bed or dress themselves. Any one person cannot safely care for and keep eight children safe from danger, 12 hours per day, 5 days per week!"
My first suggestion would be not to have that many children. My second suggestion is to use some of the millions of dollars you have earned to hire a couple of people to take care of your kids. She probably wanted someone there so she wouldn't have to watch them at all and could go do what it is she does.The even more crazy thing is that she got one of her Senators to write a letter supporting her request. Seriously? I wonder if he gets to bodyguard her on the weekends for that.


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This PSA is to help those who are new to cloth diapering, those who are having issues and those who have questions.
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