Party Time! Michael Vick is free

PeteyPirate · Jul 20, 2009

Marcus Vick and I took home ec together. It was a night class in continuing education at Tidewater Community. One time, on pasta night, we were paired up as partners. He's not as bad as some make him out to be, although he certainly has his skeletons. The guy is a natural in rolling ravioli squares, though. Nobody can take that away from him.

slappy4428 · Jul 20, 2009

FirstDownPirates said:

Marcus Vick and I took home ec together. It was a night class in continuing education at Tidewater Community. One time, on pasta night, we were paired up as partners. He's not as bad as some make him out to be, although he certainly has his skeletons. The guy is a natural in rolling ravioli squares, though. Nobody can take that away from him.
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Nice to know he can work at any Fazoli's in the nation...

Drip · Jul 20, 2009

FirstDownPirates said:

This from Wikipedia.
The moderators (short singular form: "mod") are users (or employees) of the forum which are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion (similar to arbitration) and also keeping the forum clean (neutralising spam and spambots etc). Because they have access to all posts and threads in their area of responsibility, it is common for a friend of the site owner to be promoted to moderator for such a task. Moderators also answer users' concerns about the forum, general questions, as well as responding to specific complaints.[18] Moderators themselves may have ranks: some may be given mod privilege over only a particular topic or section, while others (called 'global' or 'super') may be allowed access anywhere. Common privileges of moderators include: deleting, merging, moving, and splitting of posts and threads; closing, renaming, stickying of threads; banning, unbanning, warning the members; or adding, editing, removing the polls of threads.[19]
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You forgot about instigating.

PeteyPirate · Jul 20, 2009

Drip said:

FirstDownPirates said:

This from Wikipedia.
The moderators (short singular form: "mod") are users (or employees) of the forum which are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion (similar to arbitration) and also keeping the forum clean (neutralising spam and spambots etc). Because they have access to all posts and threads in their area of responsibility, it is common for a friend of the site owner to be promoted to moderator for such a task. Moderators also answer users' concerns about the forum, general questions, as well as responding to specific complaints.[18] Moderators themselves may have ranks: some may be given mod privilege over only a particular topic or section, while others (called 'global' or 'super') may be allowed access anywhere. Common privileges of moderators include: deleting, merging, moving, and splitting of posts and threads; closing, renaming, stickying of threads; banning, unbanning, warning the members; or adding, editing, removing the polls of threads.[19]
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You forgot about instigating.
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Oh, I didn't forget. Wikipedia forgot, if you're challenging the throughness of the entry.

Flying Headbutt · Jul 20, 2009

Wait, Wiki didn't have the whole story? THAT'S BULLSHIT!!!!

PS - Dook sucks.

JackReacher · Jul 20, 2009

The Big Ragu said:

This from Wikipedia.
The Birmingham News is the principal daily newspaper for Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and the largest newspaper in Alabama. The paper is owned by Advance Publications. Advance, owned by the Newhouse family, also owns two other Alabama newspapers, the Press-Register in Mobile and The Huntsville Times.

The Birmingham News was launched on March 14, 1888 by Rufus N. Rhodes as The Evening News, a four-page paper with two reporters and $800 of operating capital. At the time, the city of Birmingham was only 17 years old, but was an already booming industrial city and a beacon of the "New South" still recovering from the aftermath of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Newspapers joined with industrial tycoons, academics and real-estate speculators in relentless boosterism of the new city. Rhodes was working as editor of the Daily Herald when he found his campaign for a viaduct spanning the "Railroad Reservation" dividing Birmingham's north and south opposed by his publisher. He determined to strike out on his own and launched the News with the slogan "Great is Birmingham and The News is its Prophet!" The "News Bridge" (21st Street Viaduct) was dedicated on July 4, 1891, deemed by his paper the "grandest of all municipal achievements of great and glorious Birmingham."

The News circulation grew from 628 in 1888 to over 7000 in 1891, when it became the largest daily in Alabama and won the contract to publish the General Laws of Alabama. The name was changed from The Evening News to The Daily News and then, in 1895, The Birmingham News. The newspaper continued to grow, reaching a circulation of 17,000 in 1909.

Staunchly progressive in its political stance, the News supported a straight-ticket Democrat platform in election seasons and championed progressive causes such as prohibition. The News led the drumbeat for the "Greater Birmingham" movement to annex suburban communities. The successful campaign caused the population of the City of Birmingham to grow from 40,000 in 1900 to 138,685 in 1910, at which time Birmingham was the third largest city in the South. That same year, Rhodes died and was succeeded by his vice-president and general manager, Victor H. Hanson.

Hanson, only 33 years old, was already an accomplished newspaperman, having at age 11 founded the City Item in Macon, Georgia which he sold four years later for $2,500. Hanson helped modernize the newspaper's format, tone and operations, oversaw an increase in subscriptions from 18,000 in 1910 to 40,000 in 1914 when he boldly claimed the title of "The South's Greatest Newspaper." In direct competition with the morning Age-Herald, the News began a Sunday edition in 1912.
The 1917 Birmingham News building, vacated in 2006 and demolished in 2008

In 1917 the News moved to a new six-story Jacobethan-style office building on the corner of 4th Avenue North and 22nd Street. At the time of their move, the News published this opinion: "The News is proud of its new home and believes it to be the handsomest and best equipped in the entire South. Publishers from other cities have been kind enough to say that nowhere in the land was there a more adequate, convenient and efficient newspaper plant. Many thousands of dollars have been expended with that end in view."

A year later the paper made good use of its new space by purchasing the rival Birmingham Ledger, increasing the size of its staff to 748 and its circulation to 60,000.

In 1927 the Birmingham Age-Herald was sold to Hanson, who continued publishing both papers. In 1950 Scripps-Howard, which already owned the Birmingham Post bought the Age-Herald, but entered into a joint-operating agreement that moved the new Birmingham Post-Herald into the Birmingham News building. The News press printed both papers and handled advertising and subscriptions sales while the editorial and reporting staffs remained independent. The agreement lasted until the Post-Herald ceased publication in September, 2005, leaving the News as Birmingham's only daily newspaper.

In 1997, the News Company switched the morning and evening publications, making the News the morning paper and the Post-Herald as the evening paper. This move reinforced the News's preeminent role as morning papers were the norm.
The current home of The Birmingham News, opened in 2006.

On August 10, 2006 the News cut the ribbon on their new headquarters building across 4th Avenue from their 1917 plant. The $25 million, 4-story, 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m2) brick and limestone building, designed by Williams-Blackstock Architects, borrows several details from the older building and is dramatically bisected by a glass atrium. The 1917 building was demolished in 2008 in order to make room for a surface parking lot serving employees of the paper. The lot is between the new office building and the facility that houses The Birmingham News presses.

The Birmingham News maintains suburban bureaus in Hoover and Trussville, as well as bureaus in Montgomery and Washington, D.C.

[edit] Honors

In 1991, Ron Casey, Harold Jackson and Joey Kennedy received a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for their editorial campaign analyzing inequities in Alabama's tax system and proposing needed reforms.

In 2006, staff photographer Bernard Troncale took top honors at the Society of Professional Journalists' Green Eyeshade Awards for his work on a series about AIDS in Africa.

In 2006 the News editorial staff were finalists for another Pulitzer for Editorial Writing for a series of editorials reversing the paper's longstanding support of the death penalty. That same year the paper won two Awards of Excellence from the Society for News Design for the paper's overall graphic layout.

In 2007, reporter Brett Blackledge won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for his series of articles exposing corruption in Alabama's two-year college system.

[edit] Features

Every edition features main news, Local News, Money and Sports sections.

The Monday edition features the TechKnow section.

The Wednesday edition features the Food section and six regional sections: The East News, The Hoover News, The North News, The Shelby News, The South News, and The West News, covering local stories from those areas.

The Thursday edition features the Health section.

The Friday edition features City Scene, a local entertainment magazine.

The Saturday edition features Spaces, a home design section.

The Sunday edition features Viewpoints, a commentary and opinion section; Play, a leisure magazine; Travel; LifeStyle; and Parade magazine.
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Nice.

Drip · Jul 20, 2009

FirstDownPirates said:

Drip said:

FirstDownPirates said:

This from Wikipedia.
The moderators (short singular form: "mod") are users (or employees) of the forum which are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion (similar to arbitration) and also keeping the forum clean (neutralising spam and spambots etc). Because they have access to all posts and threads in their area of responsibility, it is common for a friend of the site owner to be promoted to moderator for such a task. Moderators also answer users' concerns about the forum, general questions, as well as responding to specific complaints.[18] Moderators themselves may have ranks: some may be given mod privilege over only a particular topic or section, while others (called 'global' or 'super') may be allowed access anywhere. Common privileges of moderators include: deleting, merging, moving, and splitting of posts and threads; closing, renaming, stickying of threads; banning, unbanning, warning the members; or adding, editing, removing the polls of threads.[19]
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You forgot about instigating.
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Oh, I didn't forget. Wikipedia forgot, if you're challenging the throughness of the entry.
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Challenging? LOL
This is a message board. It's not Club Web or the Good Ol Boys site like many would like for it to become.
I'm shaking my head because it hurts at how serious you're taking this.

KYSportsWriter · Jul 20, 2009

El oh el.

hondo · Jul 20, 2009

Michael and Marcus Vick ... has there been a bigger waste of talent in one family, ever?
Their mother must be so proud. Especially since she won't be living as high on the hog as she thought she'd be with those two meal tickets.

Batman · Jul 20, 2009

slappy4428 said:

FirstDownPirates said:

Marcus Vick and I took home ec together. It was a night class in continuing education at Tidewater Community. One time, on pasta night, we were paired up as partners. He's not as bad as some make him out to be, although he certainly has his skeletons. The guy is a natural in rolling ravioli squares, though. Nobody can take that away from him.
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Nice to know he can work at any Fazoli's in the nation...
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There's more to the job than rolling ravioli squares. He might have to settle for working at Domino's. With all those speeding tickets, we know he's damned serious about delivering on that 30-minute guarantee.

PeteyPirate · Jul 20, 2009

Drip said:

FirstDownPirates said:

Drip said:

FirstDownPirates said:

This from Wikipedia.
The moderators (short singular form: "mod") are users (or employees) of the forum which are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion (similar to arbitration) and also keeping the forum clean (neutralising spam and spambots etc). Because they have access to all posts and threads in their area of responsibility, it is common for a friend of the site owner to be promoted to moderator for such a task. Moderators also answer users' concerns about the forum, general questions, as well as responding to specific complaints.[18] Moderators themselves may have ranks: some may be given mod privilege over only a particular topic or section, while others (called 'global' or 'super') may be allowed access anywhere. Common privileges of moderators include: deleting, merging, moving, and splitting of posts and threads; closing, renaming, stickying of threads; banning, unbanning, warning the members; or adding, editing, removing the polls of threads.[19]
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You forgot about instigating.
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Oh, I didn't forget. Wikipedia forgot, if you're challenging the throughness of the entry.
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Challenging? LOL
This is a message board. It's not Club Web or the Good Ol Boys site like many would like for it to become.
I'm shaking my head because it hurts at how serious you're taking this.
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I'm dead serious. Roger Goodell and I post on the same message board elsewhere on the Interwebs (no, I won't say which one so as to protect my friend's privacy) and he PMed me that is truly conflicted about whether to give Michael Vick a second chance. I don't appreciate you throwing up irrelevant facts about Marcus when a man's livelihood hangs in the balance.

WWGBD?

Drip · Jul 20, 2009

FirstDownPirates said:

Drip said:

FirstDownPirates said:

Drip said:

FirstDownPirates said:

This from Wikipedia.
The moderators (short singular form: "mod") are users (or employees) of the forum which are granted access to the posts and threads of all members for the purpose of moderating discussion (similar to arbitration) and also keeping the forum clean (neutralising spam and spambots etc). Because they have access to all posts and threads in their area of responsibility, it is common for a friend of the site owner to be promoted to moderator for such a task. Moderators also answer users' concerns about the forum, general questions, as well as responding to specific complaints.[18] Moderators themselves may have ranks: some may be given mod privilege over only a particular topic or section, while others (called 'global' or 'super') may be allowed access anywhere. Common privileges of moderators include: deleting, merging, moving, and splitting of posts and threads; closing, renaming, stickying of threads; banning, unbanning, warning the members; or adding, editing, removing the polls of threads.[19]
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You forgot about instigating.
Click to expand...

Oh, I didn't forget. Wikipedia forgot, if you're challenging the throughness of the entry.
Click to expand...

Challenging? LOL
This is a message board. It's not Club Web or the Good Ol Boys site like many would like for it to become.
I'm shaking my head because it hurts at how serious you're taking this.
Click to expand...

I'm dead serious. Roger Goodell and I post on the same message board elsewhere on the Interwebs (no, I won't say which one so as to protect my friend's privacy) and he PMed me that is truly conflicted about whether to give Michael Vick a second chance. I don't appreciate you throwing up irrelevant facts about Marcus when a man's livelihood hangs in the balance.

WWGBD?
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yeah. Ok. what is wwgbd?

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