This is post #9987--wanna help me hit 10,000?

[joeybee12]

Might as well do it on DU's fifth birthday celebration!

Ask me anything!

:hi:

[Reverend_Smitty]

1. Cool I'm looking to hit 7,000 soon

[joeybee12]

4. It's taken me a while...I was well over 9,000 prior to the summer, and

then I spent the summer in Yellowstone...now I'm just racking up those numbers again!

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. I've been stuck in the 6000's for a while too

I was posting like a madwoman over the summer but once school started back up I just got too busy.

Here's to your soon to be milestone :toast:

[joeybee12]

8. Thanks!

Yeah, I go through phases where I post and post, then I take a break.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. Heck yes!!

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[joeybee12]

7. Ok, then here's another post....

although you didn't pose a question I could respond to--but hey, a post's a post!

[bigwillq]

3. Why do you like the Red Sox??

:shrug:

[joeybee12]

5. Because I'm intelligent and have a sense of style!

And because I grew up in New England!

[bigwillq]

11. That intelligent part

is questionable!! :P ;)

Who is your favorite Red Sox, past or present??


P.S. I grew up in New England too and it never made me a Sox fan!! :)

[joeybee12]

12. Gotta go with Yaz!

Grew up with him...way back when players stayed with teams throughout their entire career! Yeah, it was slave labor, but it was alos loyalty!

[bigwillq]

13. Good choice.

How well do you think the Sox will do this year??? :shrug:

[joeybee12]

15. I'm not optimistic...I haven't paid too close attention, but I do believe

that all teams need a shortstop. I don't think they've filled that yet.

[bigwillq]

20. Any thoughts on Theo

returning to the club??

[joeybee12]

25. None whatsoever...

I haven't even read any of the articles about it--just seen the headlines. I guess I should read something, because it all seems so strange!

[Call Me Wesley]

9. Do you like Crazy Guggenheim?

And if so, why?

[joeybee12]

10. Of course!

Knew his sister Peggy--wonderful museum she has in Venice!

Besides, he's crazy--who couldn't love that!

[Call Me Wesley]

14. Ah, Peggy Guggenheim ...

Wonderful woman. Those days won't come back.

But she has nothing to do with Crazy Guggenheim. He just stole her good name to show off Yaks and brag about Psychology. Oh, and he yells quite a lot. (He's also an IT professional, if ya know waht I mean. :crazy: )

[joeybee12]

17. Have you ever been to Venice?

If so, you MUST go to Peggy's museum. It's off the beaten path, which is part of its charms, and it has a backyard patio that stretches above the canal and you can sit and watch life go by!

Great collection, too.

[Call Me Wesley]

19. Yes, been to Venice

and have visited the Museum, since Venice is some two hours away from where we live. Heidi (my wife, another DUer) still wants to go there this year, although I'd prefer the Tuscany, where my dad's family is coming from. :hi:

[joeybee12]

22. I was watching PBS last night, the great trains series, only to see the

train finally arrive in Venice!

Gotta get back. I've been there twice, only once to Tuscany, but loved that area also.

So, what'd you think of the horse out on the patio? And, specifically, the guy riding it!

[Call Me Wesley]

27. Well,

he seemed quite, ermm, pleased? :rofl:

Marino Marini, 1948, L'angelo della città. (Can't post the picture here.)

[joeybee12]

31. Yeah, I saw the pix in your other post...

...bet taht damn horse was jealous! Talk about being out of proportion!

[yewberry]

16. Do you still live in New England?

And if not, have you found Italian food like back home?


(I haven't. :cry:)

[joeybee12]

18. I live in Denver now....NOBODY heer knows what good pizza is!

:cry:

[yewberry]

21. Eeewwww, Denver pizza!

:think:

However, there are some good & cheap felafel places over by the U in Denver!

[joeybee12]

23. I know, it's like bread with ketchup!

Thanks for the tip!

[bigwillq]

24. You can't beat New England pizza!

:bounce: CT has some very good pizza!!

[yewberry]

26. I always meant to take a special trip to New Haven

just to try the pizza.

Never did--but I wish I had!

[bigwillq]

29. New Haven pizza is the best!

:bounce:

Make a trip and then we can go have lunch!

[joeybee12]

30. Yeah, but New Haven isn't the best...city, that is...

...hope I haven't besmirched your hometown, but it's not in great shape these days. BTW, I'm a CT native/

[bigwillq]

32. Of course it's not the best city

It's not in too bad of shape though. Of course, it could always use some improvements. Most cities could.

[joeybee12]

33. It's got Yale, though, bastion of Bush-hating, America-loving

people!

[bigwillq]

34. Yale pumps a lot of money

into the city. Most of the buildings (downtown) are owned by Yale (the University and the hospital)

[joeybee12]

35. I was back in CT for the holidays--lots of ads running by unions, etc.

blasting the proposed expansion of one of their hospitals, I believe. I could be mixing it up with some other hospital, but I think it was Yale.

[bigwillq]

36. Yeah it was Yale

they are trying to build this big cancer center by it's being met by some opposistion. Yale wants to take over some already established buildings in order to build the center and some of the building don't want to sell.

The gas station that my mom parked in (she works at the Yale school of medicine) got bought out by Yale for $3.5 million.

[joeybee12]

37. I also got the impression that Yale wants to keep the unions out

of the new facility.

[bigwillq]

38. I think so too

Which is sad. There have been a few union strikes at Yale in the last few years.

[joeybee12]

39. It's strange how some colleges that have such a reputation for

being so liberal can be downright Repuk-li-can over business issues!

[bigwillq]

40. That's what money will do to you!

What a shame.

[joeybee12]

41. They were right--money IS the root of all evil!

[bigwillq]

42. Indeed it is.

Money is something I will never have but that's ok, I'm cool with it. :)

[joeybee12]

43. I'm convinced wealth is almost as confining as poverty...

...your life really isn't your own anymore.

[Call Me Wesley]

28. Congrats on the five-digits!

:toast: