Vent Town

[Emeritus]

Can anybody remember a more boring Pro Bowl? In my opinion, Terry Bradshaw isn't much of a color man, but I doubt if anybody could have added color to that game. I went and sat in my porch swing and watched things grow.

[TryThinking]

Can anybody remember a more boring Pro Bowl? In my opinion, Terry Bradshaw isn't much of a color man, but I doubt if anybody could have added color to that game. I went and sat in my porch swing and watched things grow.

I don't watch it anymore since they put it on before the Superbowl, you don't get the best players playing their best. I remember the days when it actually meant something more than a free trip to party. Guys use to actually somewhat try to win. I read the crib notes, looks like I didn't miss anything this year as usual....
Can anyone tell me why this game is worth watching?

[cklaurence]

Can anybody remember a more boring Pro Bowl? In my opinion, Terry Bradshaw isn't much of a color man, but I doubt if anybody could have added color to that game. I went and sat in my porch swing and watched things grow.

I don't watch it anymore since they put it on before the Superbowl, you don't get the best players playing their best. I remember the days when it actually meant something more than a free trip to party. Guys use to actually somewhat try to win. I read the crib notes, looks like I didn't miss anything this year as usual....
Can anyone tell me why this game is worth watching?

Like Try--I'm done with the ProBowl. It's going to be difficult to even watch the SB this year. I will, but it'll be a stretch.
(Oh Peace! I just love the new icons!!! I know you don't go out of Switzerland, because you're not a blogger--you just have to deal with us; but I was talking to Try and Becky back on FB about getting a Swiss Ap that could be downloaded so everyone would have easy access to us. I that a silly impossible wish, or might I get a surprise

[Emeritus]

Can anybody remember a more boring Pro Bowl? In my opinion, Terry Bradshaw isn't much of a color man, but I doubt if anybody could have added color to that game. I went and sat in my porch swing and watched things grow.

I don't watch it anymore since they put it on before the Superbowl, you don't get the best players playing their best. I remember the days when it actually meant something more than a free trip to party. Guys use to actually somewhat try to win. I read the crib notes, looks like I didn't miss anything this year as usual....
Can anyone tell me why this game is worth watching?

Like Try--I'm done with the ProBowl. It's going to be difficult to even watch the SB this year. I will, but it'll be a stretch.
(Oh Peace! I just love the new icons!!! I know you don't go out of Switzerland, because you're not a blogger--you just have to deal with us; but I was talking to Try and Becky back on FB about getting a Swiss Ap that could be downloaded so everyone would have easy access to us. I that a silly impossible wish, or might I get a surprise

I try to watch the Pro Bowl because it's the only game that week and I'm a football junkie. I agree that the game has deteriorated to being a joke. I, too, can remember when players were proud to play in the game and tried to impress their peers.

[TryThinking]

I try to watch the Pro Bowl because it's the only game that week and I'm a football junkie. I agree that the game has deteriorated to being a joke. I, too, can remember when players were proud to play in the game and tried to impress their peers.

I would just get too frustrated watching that level of football where no one really cares and probably start throwing things at the TV!

[Keeping The Peace]

getting a Swiss Ap that could be downloaded so everyone would have easy access to us. I that a silly impossible wish, or might I get a surprise

WHISTLE BLOW!!!

Are you talking about for cell phones? If so I haven't done any of those "applications" as of yet. I'll add it to the wish list though for now.

Moderator Peace

[Emeritus]

Since I absolutely refuse to carry a cell phone, that's not a high priority for me, but everybody to their own thing.

[cklaurence]

getting a Swiss Ap that could be downloaded so everyone would have easy access to us. I that a silly impossible wish, or might I get a surprise

WHISTLE BLOW!!!

Are you talking about for cell phones? If so I haven't done any of those "applications" as of yet. I'll add it to the wish list though for now.

Moderator Peace

Yer the Best, dear PEACE!!!

BTW...I left you another little icon request in the "Breaking News" Topic Room....

[dredwak]

Understanding Derivatives-a Primer

Heidi is the proprietor of a bar in Chicago .

She realizes that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can no longer afford to patronize her bar.

To solve this problem, she comes up with a new marketing plan that allows her customers to drink now, but pay later.

Heidi keeps track of the drinks consumed on a ledger (thereby granting the customers loans)..

Word gets around about Heidi's "drink now, pay later" marketing strategy and, as a result, increasing numbers of customers flood into Heidi's bar. Soon, she has the largest sales volume for any bar in Detroit .

By providing her customers freedom from immediate payment demands, Heidi gets no resistance when, at regular intervals, she substantially increases her prices for wine and beer, the most consumed beverages.

Consequently, Heidi's gross sales volume increases massively.

A young and dynamic vice-president at the local bank recognizes that these customer debts constitute valuable future assets and increases Heidi's borrowing limit.

He sees no reason for any undue concern, since he has the debts of the unemployed alcoholics as collateral!!!

At the bank's corporate headquarters, expert traders figure a way to make huge commissions, and transform these customer loans into DRINKBONDS.

These "securities" then are bundled and traded on international securities markets.

Naive investors don't really understand that the securities being sold to them as "AAA Secured Bonds" really are debts of unemployed alcoholics. Nevertheless, the bond prices continuously climb!!!, and the securities soon become the hottest-selling items for some of the nation's leading brokerage houses.

One day, even though the bond prices still are climbing, a risk manager at the original local bank decides that the time has come to demand payment on the debts incurred by the drinkers at Heidi's bar. He so informs Heidi.

Heidi then demands payment from her alcoholic patrons, but being unemployed alcoholics, they cannot pay back their drinking debts.

Since Heidi cannot fulfill her loan obligations she is forced into bankruptcy. The bar closes and Heidi's 11 employees lose their jobs.

Overnight, DRINKBOND prices drop by 90%.

The collapsed bond asset value destroys the bank's liquidity and prevents it from issuing new loans, thus freezing credit and economic activity in the community.

The suppliers of Heidi's bar had granted her generous payment extensions and had invested their firms' pension funds in the BOND securities.

They find they are now faced with having to write off her bad debt and lose over 90% of the presumed value of the bonds.

Her wine supplier also claims bankruptcy, closing the doors on a family business that had endured for three generations, her beer supplier is taken over by a competitor, who immediately closes the local plant and lays off 150 workers.

Fortunately though, the bank, the brokerage houses and their respective executives are saved and bailed out by a multi-billion dollar no-strings attached cash infusion from the government.

The funds required for this bailout are obtained by new taxes levied on employed, middle-class, nondrinkers who have never been in Heidi's bar.

[Emeritus]

I find a few logical flaws in the analogy, but then reasoning by analogy is always risky. To say that something is analogous is to say that it isn't the same.

[TryThinking]

Perusing the sports articles I come across "Prosecutors trim Bonds charges to five," seriously this thing is like a festering sore.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Prosecutors-trim-felony-charges-against-Barry-Bonds-021011

If anyone isn't familiar with it, read "Game of Shadows" by Mark Fainaru & Lance Williams. Dude was/is a train wreck that had tremendous talent, yet felt he needed more......

[16Forever]

TT - I put both Bonds and Clemmons in the same bucket. Both think they're above the law and the law is going to come down on them.

ps - GO GIANTS!

Perusing the sports articles I come across "Prosecutors trim Bonds charges to five," seriously this thing is like a festering sore.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Prosecutors-trim-felony-charges-against-Barry-Bonds-021011

If anyone isn't familiar with it, read "Game of Shadows" by Mark Fainaru & Lance Williams. Dude was/is a train wreck that had tremendous talent, yet felt he needed more......

[TryThinking]

TT - I put both Bonds and Clemmons in the same bucket. Both think they're above the law and the law is going to come down on them.

ps - GO GIANTS!
No arguments from me about the both of them.... the Go Giants? um not so much...

Perusing the sports articles I come across "Prosecutors trim Bonds charges to five," seriously this thing is like a festering sore.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Prosecutors-trim-felony-charges-against-Barry-Bonds-021011

If anyone isn't familiar with it, read "Game of Shadows" by Mark Fainaru & Lance Williams. Dude was/is a train wreck that had tremendous talent, yet felt he needed more......