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re: Meet my parent's grandchildren, Version 2.0 and 2.1

Mark Maley — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:59:08 GMT

Congrats, Michael! Looks like you're going to have your hands full!

re: Red Fish and Blue Fish have arrived!!!

Julie Shea — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:59:05 GMT

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!

re: Red Fish and Blue Fish have arrived!!!

Michael James — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:26:27 GMT

Tee hee hee... Rockin' Eve. I really impressed myself with that one.

re: Red Fish and Blue Fish have arrived!!!

Laura Beyer — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:41:53 GMT

CONGRATULATIONS... YOU ARE A HOOT!!!!

re: Could "A Christmas Story" be remade succussfully?

STUBBORNOLDMAN — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 20:56:26 GMT

Mitten:

You're more 'hip' than I am since I first heard of this song a few days before I posted the link to it here. I cracked up at the lyrics AND I thought the video was very well-done. I laughed so hard the first time, I had to play it again just to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Belated Merry Christmas. (I refuse to wish you a Belated "Happy Holidays").

re: Could "A Christmas Story" be remade succussfully?

The Official Son- Mitten — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:57:21 GMT

lol stubbornoldman man i love the song but hate the music video. (well at least this one!!!!!)

re: Could "A Christmas Story" be remade succussfully?

20-SomethingWestAllisFamilyWoman — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:44:17 GMT

A few years back they did make a movie called "A Summer Story" or something like that and it was supposed to have been the same family. I believe Raphie was played by Kieran Culkin, Charles Grodin played the dad, and Mary Steenburgen was the mom. It has some of the same quirkiness, but it not the same. I think the story revolves around Ralphie getting a top at the World's Fair, the Dad's fight with the Bumpuses, and the mom's quest for a full set of dishes from the movie house. Yeah, it kind of sucked. =)

re: Could "A Christmas Story" be remade succussfully?

STUBBORNOLDMAN — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:26:20 GMT

A movie such as "A Christmas Story" probably couldn't be made today. I think that the left-wing Hollywood crowd would tend to produce something like this instead:

www.youtube.com/watch

re: Could "A Christmas Story" be remade succussfully?

gooey3161 — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:11:32 GMT

Merry Christmas to you to,

I think A Christmas Story just wouldn't be A Christmas Story with out the leg lamp or the BB gun.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night

re: A cobbled together semi-rant

Michael James — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:45:13 GMT

WAM - Merry Christmas to you, too!

What in the hell are you talking about? The burden of proof is on you. Hijacking a topic is one thing. An accusation like that without any hint of... well, you are anonymous for a reason. I'll stop feeding the trolls.

re: A cobbled together semi-rant

W.A.M. — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:02:57 GMT

Did you really shake a baby to death as someone claims? If so I hope you rot in hell for ever. Try shaking me tough guy.........

re: A cobbled together semi-rant

STUBBORNOLDMAN — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:10:39 GMT

MTGMOM,

I contacted City Hall about this only to learn that they had already implemented that particular ordinance. I was glad to see it as well. On Mark Belling's radio show, he said that it was merely a 'symbolic' gesture that doesn't really do anything. I don't know if that's true or not. I'd advise you to contact Staskunas and Sullivan (if that's who your reps are) to tell them about the disasterous effects on the local economy a similar referendum in WA would have. See if they come up with any way to change state law to prevent a repeat of what happened in Milwaukee in November. Sullivan & Staskunas don't seem to want to start a dialog with me on certain topics that I bring up to them. Both of those guys are lawyers, so you'd think that they'd be conversant with what legislation needs to be implemented more than I would be (a non-lawyer). Maybe you'll have better luck.

I have a hunch if you send Sullivan a few 'dead presidents', you might get his attention. I haven't tried that method yet and that might explain why he doesn't answer MY specific questions. It's just a hunch. He IS a Democrat, after all...

re: A cobbled together semi-rant

STUBBORNOLDMAN — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:57:12 GMT

My clueless neighbor finally learned his lesson! Yipee! After clearing his driveway a few hours ago, he moved his cars back into his clean driveway! I guess he remembered how tough it was to get his car out of that snow a few days ago. Like I said, "Experience is the best teacher" and this guy just got 'schooled'! There's hope for humanity after all. ;)

re: A cobbled together semi-rant

mtgmom — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:24:48 GMT

I have to admit the city has been doing an ok job so far with plowing. Now to get the city to institute one side of street parking (snow emergency) when a certain amount of snow is on the ground would be great. Just yesterday as I walked back from my son's school, the school bus had to park 2 blocks down because the parents parked up both sides and it couldnt fit down the street. What if that was a fire truck or ambulance?

And on one other note, I have to commend the common council about that ordinance on sick pay, hopefully preventing what is happening in milwaukee.

re: A cobbled together semi-rant

Michael James — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:29:47 GMT

My apologies for the delay in approving comments. My computer is in the shop and didn't have access to the login page. Just today I had the brilliant idea to E-mail the editor.

WaveFan - Because of the weather (and the fact that My-Sugar-Na decided to snowblow our entire driveway - people, I was soliciting cheap plowing earlier - her back was hurting pretty bad and we decided not to go to this past weekend's game. I agree about the short season, I remember the 44-game seasons compared to this season's 20-game schedule, but indoor soccer is a money loser, so the thought is that playing a dozen less home games will allow the marketing staffs to really market the existing games (thereby making more revenue per game). We'll see if it works.

re: A cobbled together semi-rant

wavefan4life — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:18:41 GMT

What do you think about the XSL and this year's wave team?I think we are looking good as a team. Would me nice to see a longer season and more teams though.

re: A guest blog from Mitten

The Official Son- Mitten — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 22:02:26 GMT

Haha Steve that was not a cut and paste. I wrote that for a term paper in my "Damn Good" Economics class, and decided I'd fill a blog post with it. But thank you very much!

re: A guest blog from Mitten

ontheoutskirts — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:05:16 GMT

All,

I have to say as Mitten's mom, I am (even though I don't agree with his opinions) very proud of him. Despite procrastinating on a regular basis, he works very hard in school and his GPA and growing intelligence reflects his effort.

Rufus King has always been MPS's most demanding school for the college bound. As an MPS school it boasts the highest college-attendance rates in the state.

Despite popular belief, MPS has many "Gems," but as in any situation, it's up to the caring, involved parent to find them. Mitten's sister will be attending another one of MPS's "Gems" in the fall (Lincoln Center of the Arts). I'm proud of my children, their abilities, talents and accomplishments and believe that the MPS schools that have been carefully chosen for them and by them support them in ways that many suburban schools could not.

re: A cobbled together semi-rant

STUBBORNOLDMAN — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:12:22 GMT

A fairly clueless neighbor of mine has the moronic habit of moving his vehicles into the street, snowblowing his driveway, and then LEAVING his vehicles in the street despite the fact that he now has a perfectly clean driveway to park them in. During the last snowfall, a plow came by and boxed his two vehicles in on the street. The plow driver had no choice. The ruts in the road from this lasted for almost a week and I blame my clueless neighbor entirely for that.

Fast forward to today... I saw him outside clearing his driveway and I walked over there to remind him to pull his cars in his driveway as soon as he was done clearing it. I told him that the snow plow drivers can do a much better job on the road if you (my neighbor) didn't park in the road. He said, "Sure". Did he REALLY listen to me? Hell, no! He was nowhere to be found after he cleared his driveway when the plow come by and box his car in. Did I be a good neighbor and help him push his car out of the mound of snow caused by the snow plow? Hell, no! Experience is the best teacher and I hope he learned his lesson, but I doubt it.

My cars were NEVER parked in the street during this snowfall today. I did part of my driveway, moved the cars around a bit, and then did the other parts. It really wasn't that tough to figure out. Darwin might have his sights set on this neighbor of mine as well as some of the stupid drivers out there. Unbelievable.

Now, GET OFF MY LAWN! ;)

re: A cobbled together semi-rant

jadedeye — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:30:17 GMT

I have to give credit to West Allis. Three vehicle echelon plowing to clear Greenfield Road!! Someone has a clue.

Now only if others would realize that a minivan can't go through a 2 1/2 foot deep mound of plowed snow? Between my place and Pick 'n Save on Greenfield, I counted 12 vehicles stranded on these piles. Problem is that most of these stranded vehicles are right in the middle of the street as a display to their clueless nature.