I have my own unique theory on why the ancestors of today's Maya built these structures. I think it was to assure them tourists jobs in the centuries to come.

They were selling junk EVERYWHERE!







The best line I heard while there:
"In Mexico, there is a very fine line between souvenir and garbage."











Many cooled off in the sacred waters of the sinkholes endemic to the region after the tour.

Yes! Love it... how long did you spend over there? This reminds me when I spent a week in Mexico City (Polanco) and the surrounding areas. Took a day trip to Teotihuacan to see the pyramids. They had massive penii made out of obsidian for sale. Watched tequila made within the heart of the blue agave, tasted it, loved it. Good times!

My stepmom wanted a "family vacation" and took any member of the family that wanted to one of those "all inclusives" for a week in Cancun, the largest American neighborhood in Mexico born about 40 years ago.


My stepsisters, hubbys and kids went. My bro and sis opted out. It's too phony for them. And, though it was very nice, they are both used to better and neither is going to waste precious vacation days on this. My sister loves to scuba dive. She rather make friends with a cuttle fish, help some University count squid or swim on the back of a sea turtle [all of which I've seen her do on DVD].

Hanging on the beach, a buffet breakfast and theme restaurants aren't much of a substitute.

Most of the vacation was spent on the beach with my elder stepsister's husband complaining about the food. He's a very picky eater. She would have killed him.


I got many smiles from the Mayan-descendant staff because I would try to order what I could in Spanish. No one else really bothered. But, I do that here, too, when shopping in Union City.


On the next to last day, my younger stepsister, her husband and I opted to take a day trip to see Chichen Itza. I loved the site. I hated the bus ride.

BORNYO ADVISORY: YouTube Links with descriptions so you won't miss much by not clicking.

<<A video of the entrance path to the park containing the Pyramid.>>

Technically, it's illegal to have a souvenir stand in the park. But, it's Mexico. Where laws are tools made to better glean graft.

btw, much of that stuff is actually made in China.

[Upon review, Jigaloo might find this clip interesting for all the wrong reasons.]


<<Diving in the Mayan sacred sinkhole.>>

A better illustration than the pic on the setting and practice of tourists swimming in the ancient waterhole.




<<Mayan clog dancing with beer bottles on heads.>>

On the way home, we stopped off for what was billed as a traditional Mayan meal. It seems that Mayas ate overcooked and undercooked foods buffet style. Traditional Mayan fare includes chicken florentine, french fries and spaghetti.

Anyway, after witnessing this traditional waiting-for-people-to-clear-the-buffet dance, I surmised that the reason the Mayan culture failed was that the men decided it was degrading to wear ugly clog sandals and they realized bottles of alcohol were a food/drink and not a fashion accessory.

CHARIN MIGHT ENJOY THIS ... THE REST OF YOU NOT SO MUCH!


In my clean up today I've come across a score card from a Mets/Dodgers game at Shea 29 years ago Sunday.

IIRC, Fernando kicked our butts the day before. I went with a fellow Met fan, his fraternity brother [a Dodger fan] and the brother's girlfriend [who owned the car and found my enthusiastic rooting obnoxious].

It was the soon-to-be failed year of "By George, We Got It!" when George's Bamberger and Foster joined the team. So, there was great disappointed when the team lost like 100 games.

Oddly, I remember it being pretty well attended and surprised we had to pay quite a bit for scalped boxes. So my memory is likely faulty here ... the Mets rarely drew fans then, like now.

Also, oddly, the Mets won the game. But, I think they started GREAT that year and faded. At least that's how I remember it.

The best memory of this game wasn't part of the action. Some bozo ran on the field and former Buffalo cornerback John Stearns laid him out like it was a Jet game.

I went to one other game that year: Joe Torre's "return" with the Braves who had one of the best starts ever. The Mets won that game, too. [I was mad because Kingman didn't play. Always wanted to see a Kingman homer in person, never did. They started Staub, who was hitting like .100, but got a big double].

The next game I went to was a Seaver start in 1983 when Strawberry first came up from the minors. This time just after finals ... so it must have been almost a year from the Dodgers game. So, I saw my first in person Seaver win, Strawberry blast and Strawberry outfield assist ... gunning a guy out at the plate! Loved his arm.

Oddly, my favorite memory of the game was a Ron Hodges bases-loaded walk. I HATED Ron Hodges. There was NO ONE in the stands. NO ONE. 5k. MAYBE 7k. We got boxes in the front section between home and 1B. I was yelling at Hodges to "take". I used to say "He's DEADLY while taking." because he COULD NOT hit. When he got the walk the fans that heard and appreciated my abuse of him, joined me in a standing ovation.

I remember the manager of the other team being Dick Williams, who used quite a few pitchers at a time when it wasn't as common as it is now. So, I'm inferring it was the Padres, but I really don't remember.




I've got to handle some business that will keep me from my PC for about a week. Catch you guys, gals, and half-trannies then ...

Box Score

May 31 Mets over Braves, Staub doubles Box Score

May 17, 1983 Mets over Padres, Strawberry HR and assist, Hodges BB and RBI Box Score

While I like LBFM I have to say Japanese chicks are the Cadillac of Asian chicks. They are so sweet, demure, and feminine they make the young WASP cheerleaders types you foam at the mouth over look like 50 year old bull dykes just off from a 20 year prison stint.

We've had this discussion before, and I agree that the Japanese women are the only attractive Asians. All the other breeds look like pie-faced, slant-eyed flat-nosed whores.

Edit: btw, we still call 'em "Orientals" down here.

Does Phoebe Cates count as being Asian?

Sounds like you need to take a trip to Chengdu. I still think Japanese chicks are the hottest, but the Chengdu girls can definitely compete.

Fatty, thoughts on Freddie Coupon trashing his players?

If I'm Reyes or Beltran, I punch my ticket out of town by letting some Madoff digs go during interviews. I'd do it in spanish too, that way someone has to translate it for Fred.

Wright has another year on his contract, he might have a harder time of forcing the issue.

More Irish & Slavic than WASP, but I understand the point.





As noted, I cannot stand the Wilponzis. I continue to batter them [and get my posts removed]. I didn't want him. I feared the worst when Doubleday sold out since he opposed the addition of Piazza [and did his best to undermine the resigning].

This was confirmed in the Mets doing everything possible to discredit ARod with what should have been disappointed Met fans before his signing with the Rangers. And, once again when he defamed Vlad Guerrero's back when his comments and disinterest further discounted Vlad's price to the Angels.

But, neither one of those guys you mentioned is very aggressive or vengeful. Neither has a history of talking any trash with anyone. They have always been good citizens. And, other than Beltran in 2005, both have always performed well when healthy.

What Wagner or Delgado would have said in such an instance would been interesting, though.

Shakespeare may believe I have died another death.

The continuing failures of Firefox to stay up when idly downloading have forced a "strategic withdrawal" and I am currently typing this through newly downloaded Chrome.

My first download is about to complete.

I am curious as to what that will do with incomplete downloads. I was never happy with Firefox on that account -- it always noted them completed. You had to check the size yourself.

It's finished. Sadly, the Chrome file info doesn't directly show size. Well, that's one for Firefox ...

Another thing about the Wilpon's and their delusions: When it came out they were selling a piece of the team, it was 200mill for 25%. Now the last I heard is 200mill for 49%, because the potential partner will have to assume 49% of the debt, about 200mill. This would lead me to believe that the Family had the Mets leveraged to the max MLB allows. Imagine how highly leveraged the stadium and their points in SNY are, with out any MLB limits? Probably why those assets aren't included.

Truly a house of cards that a stiff fart will topple. They take the Madoff trustee to trial, they will probably be bankrupt by the legal fees, much less the clawback.

After what happened with Mo Vaughn, I don't blame them for being gun shy with Vlad. Arod...they should have made an offer, even if it could have been construed as insulting. Lure of NYC marketing potential may have gotten him to take less.

Also, when they start the fire sale, they would be well served to dump Bay and eat 6 of the 16mill/year he's owed. Some team would give quality prospects for that guy at 10mill/yr.

... and, by inference, the rest of their real estate "empire".

The Wilpons are interesting since they are 100% private and have never been sued. So, their finances are a complete unknown even to the best minds of the WSJ, etc.



What I heard was that MLB valued the team at about one billion and they were selling about 40% for 400MM with NO SAY in the team.

Some bidders wanted shares in SNY and were rebuffed. I don't really keep up with these reports since I think some of them are inventions of the media and others wishful thinking on the part of the Wilponzis. The latest I recall was the 400MM in cash/debt for 49% you relate, but with the added caveat of two seats on the board.

So, while the new minority owners wouldn't be able to vote anything down, they would have to be fully informed [in theory], and if there were a family split, they might be able to wrench control.




Vaughn is a sore point for me since I didn't want him. I don't say that as revisionist. I thought the moves for Alomar and Burnitz were genius. So, I've been wrong as well. But, signing an unproven fatty off injury bothered me.

And, this defines the Mets. They make a mistake and to avoid repeating it, they don't correct it.

Plus, Vaughn cost them close to nothing out-of-pocket. His contract was insured. And, they deferred almost all of their costs to invest his salary in Maddoff.

Even if they weren't interested in ARod. Let's assume they knew and cared about his 'riod-ing. Why pick petty fights with him? Just don't sign him. Still pisses me off [as you can see...]




Knowing them they'll offer to defer his salary to 10 million a year for 100 years or something equally ridiculous.




I may go to the June 2nd day game if ticket prices continue to tumble. If so, I will try to situate myself behind the plate in a middle deck and chant "Sell the Team!" in full voice at each and every opportunity.

Fatscesa keeps talking about tickets on StubHub, good seats going for $5.00. If I was anywhere near Queens, I'd go to games just because it is cheaper than going to the Cyclones.

For the game in question, there are upperdeck seats going for $3. Which is about what I paid the last time I went when the stubhub charges for purchase and delivery out did the tickets.

The seats I have my eye on currently are going for $16.

If I go, I'll be going with my dad and his schedule isn't as flexible as mine. So, I don't know if he'll be available until the day before or so.


I like going to the Cyclones because I get to visit the "real" Nathans and the streets of my young childhood. Maybe when/if I go this year I'll take some pics.

Chrome has issues with ESPN.com as well. Keeps locking up because of some unnamed unresponsive plug-ins. Whatever they are I don't know. I didn't add anything to Chrome.

I've never had any problems with Chrome locking up on ESPN.

It's doing well today. Didn't work the first day without bombing. I don't know if it was something specific on the New York page or if it had to catch up with some flash update or whatever.

I've noticed something odd.

I DVD two shows on LOGO. Absolutely Fabulous. Daria.

I usually fastforward thru the commercials and don't notice them.

Today I had Absolutely Fabulous on while typing and didn't FF.

They had different versions of the same commercials on regular TV, but with a gay theme. For example, the same guy who walks into a bar with men and women in a History Channel commercial, walks into a bar with only men. I would think they would do a different commercial and not tape a gay variant.

They also have a bunch of FSA asking us not to use "Fag". So, I'm going to do my best to use it all the time.

And, if you don't like it, you're a fag.

"Why would a young gentlemen want to go somewhere with a bunch of other men instead of his best girl?I'd much rather get some poon than play a game of grab ass.I guess life really can be like a box of chocolates."

Mets found their money mark. $200 mill, no say, no SNY, unknown if the guy has right of first refusal.

Deal is shady as hell. This Einhorn guy's childhood best friend was next door neighbors w/Selig in Milwaukee. Selig's lawn was a homerun when they were playing ball.

Selig sent Sandy Alderson to run the baseball operations. Now when Freddie couldn't find a buyer that didn't want points in SNY or ROFR or say in the franchise, Selig sets him up with a buddy. This is right up there with the Red Sox/Expos/Marlins shuffling.

If MLB has an anti trust exemption from Congress, Congress should appoint the Commissioner. Selig is a fucking joke.

Yeah. I saw that. Like many on the boards my first reaction was the childish:

"Finkle is Einhorn!"


The Selig thing is interesting. I don't like that it's a Wall Street scoundrel. Didn't they get into this because of a Wall Street scoundrel?

I'm assuming that Einhorn sees this as a chance to either flip an asset or leverage a sale. Or maybe it's just a favor to Bud for future considerations.

None of it good for Met fans.

Fatcesa said that Einhorn:

Allowed the Mets a valuation between 1 and 1.1 billion dollars.

Is buying less than 49%. [more like 35%]

Is assuming some debt as part of the difference in money.

Likely has an under-the-table right-of=first-refusal.

And, possibly doesn't care about share in SNY since he would start his own network if they didn't give it to him cheap.

From another thread:



Brought a story to mind. I never cared for my Russian grandmother. Her parents were from the Ukraine. She was the first of her sibling born in the US. More on her another time ...

... and more to the point that came to mind ...

My father's youngest brother brought back a souvenir from his time in Korea, a wife.

After an accident ended his promising Rodeo career [odd for a Brooklyn-born Yid], he served in the Army after the Korean War. While in Korea he met and fell in love with a daughter of a local leader friendly to Americans and looking to become one.

Years later we were sitting in my father's sisters house and my Korean aunt was talking about how see met my uncle, how excited her parents were that she had found an American [since, like I said, they were angling for a way to move here], BUT he never explained to her what being Jewish was. And, so she never thought it important to mention to her parents.


Aunt "Nazi Tia": "If they knew he was Jewish, they never would have let him marry me."


Grandma: "What a Shandeh! Bubalah, we never felt that way about you. [rubbing her arm, like a mafia guy gives a kiss] When my tatelleh enlisted, we just said a kina hora that the Army didn't post him in Africa."

Enjoyed a "Subway Series" game at CitiField yesterday.

My best friend's sister got his kid 3 tickets to the game for graduation from one of those NYC very expensive, frou-frou private elementary schools. The kid's friend, who is also a avid Mets fan was suppose to be the third.

The reason for there being three tickets required in the first place is that my friend HATES pro sports. So, that third person is there so at least the kid has someone to talk to about the game, strategy, etc.

I was a last minute replacement for the friend. So, there was me in my Brooklyn Cyclone's hat, orange Mr. Met shirt and Met sock. The kid in his classic blue Met hat [which the team almost never wears anymore] and #5 David Wright jersey. And, my friend, in a shirt that in Russian says something like "Show us your tits!!".

The packed stadium was about equally divided between Met and Yankee fans. Like at Yankee Stadium, the majority of those with tickets for the best/most expensive seats spend the entire game in the restaurant/club.

I was fascinated by the number of "mixed" couples. A guy in his Yankee stuff and the girl in her Mets gear ... and vice versa. My first look at what would be a common theme was when I boarded the 123 at Pleasant. A mixed couple entered the bus with us.

We had decent tickets. Second section of field level along the left field foul line. The way the new seats are, seated fans never block your view. The only blind spot is right in front of you. You cannot tell if a ball hit deep down the left field line lands fair or foul.

The Yankee fans were virtually silent until their first hit in the 4th, IIRC, when Cano doubled. Then they rocked the place and we Met fans tried to drown them out.

The population shifted after the top of the 8th when the Yankees took the lead. The specter of the Yankees sweeping the Mets seemed too much for many Met fans and the demographics changed to 60/40 Evil Empire.

This promised to get even worse when the Mets squandered 2 two-out walks with our leading hitter with RISP taking a called third strike.

But, oddly many Yankee fans left, too. Maybe it was the mixed couples thing.

So, as the game headed into the bottom of the ninth, the best reliever in baseball history strode to the mound. And, after making short work of the first two Mets, he had worthless, overpaid Jason Bay down to his last strike and walked him. Duda promptly singled him to third.

Interestingly, Ronny Paulino, a righty who kills lefties, was sent up to bat for lefty Thole. It seems that Collins and the Mets think it is better to hit Mariano from the right side. Beltran chose not to bat lefty, for example. And, after going down 0-2, Paulino gave me a special moment.

I was THERE when Mariano blew a save!!

I was in euphoria when Jeter-lite missed the ball. But, Gardner expected it, pounced on the ball and threw Duda out to extend the game.

Most of the Yankee fans left after the play at the plate. By the time Jason Bay redeemed part of his season with the winning single, the crowd was 70/30 Mets in my estimation.


So while I was denied seeing Jose in person in a Mets uniform for the last time, I did get an unexpected walk-off win with Jason Bay, of all people, scoring the tying run and driving in the winning run.


And, I felt Fatcesa called it since he stressed on Friday that the Yankees should NEVER walk Mets at CitiField since they have no power. The last two runs got BBs.


So my collection of Bison, Bay and Beltran won on BBs. Seems fitting.

Nice day for you Fatty. Did the kid love it? Too bad you sisn't get to see Reyes.


Now for the mixed couples, chicks are allowed to be Mets fans, they don't know shit about sports. And Met losses gives you a reason to console them and seem like a nice guy. If it weren't for chicks and fags, there would be no Mets fans.

About half the "mixed" chicks were Met fans, the rest Yankee.

I noticed that if the chick had implants, she was almost surely a Yank fan.

But, also, in all honesty, most if not all the very hottest, slutty looking girls were in navy and white with the Tiffany designed interlocking NY, and each slut troupe had it's own offering to Mariano, Jeter, ARod, Teixeira, etc, without duplicate.

A surprise was the number of sluts tagged Swisher.

The fact that you can spot such massacres speaks volumes. Hello. Is this thing on?

Any updates on how he's doing?

Fatman, where are you? I'm in the city. Wanna do lunch? My treat.

I remember him speaking of moving to Florida near his mom.

He hasn't logged in since last summer last I checked. That's not a good thing.

Let's hope that things are okay with The Fatman, and that perhaps he is enjoying the sun and warmth of Florida.

Really?

You guys are actually concerned about this sad insignificant man?


Fucking get out of here...


Stupid whores gonna Stupid whore

Yeah, we are. But we don't concern ourselves with you one iota.

And you're one of the Veterans....

Who fucking cares... If you truly do concern yourself with your maggot fat man then....

Just buy a bullet rent a gun and end it

Haha... you're about as cute as red-headed Siamese Twins.

Fatman = Intelligent compelling poster
You = Sebaceous cyst

No Bueno dude.

Looks like a candy bar on a Panzer cooking thread. :barf:

http://jent-manyblessings.blogspot.com/2010/12/chocolate-friday-double-chocolate-nut.html

For the elaborately discriminating the sight of rice crispies should be familiar though.

XXXPORNTALK.COM

The haven of the pseudo intellectual.

I prefer to think of it as a lunch counter. Your kind knows about lunch counters, no?

Yeah I don't think anyone here fancies themselves an intellectual. Ever. Lunch counter is a much better description.

Proves My Point a Pseudo Intellectual would actually argue that they aren't "intellectuals" because they don't have the IQ necessary to even under stand the term. Furthermore, you go on and gravitate the the term "Lunch Counter" that one of the grey matter challenged throws out. So are you and MLK bellying up to the Lunch Counter to discuss the significance of Anita Hill's pubic hair in the coca cola? Lunch Counter, Yeah me, Alice, and Sam The Butcher allays chew the fat about the latest fake cancer porn whore proclamations.

The Pseudo Intellectual




Stupid Whores gona Stupid Whore

What are the intellectual guidelines involving capatilization? You are the expert.

not to pile on but "understand" is one word. just sayin.

welcome back btw. where you been/how's things?.