Earth Hour - 8 P.M.

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:55 pm

Lights out people! http://www3.earthhourus.org/

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BLOOD AXE · Post by **BLOOD AXE** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:29 pm

I AM CAPTAIN PLANET!!!!

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:37 pm

Yahoo article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080329/ap_ ... lights_out

Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Hour

Lights out at Google:
http://www.google.com/

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Coleston the Cavalier · Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:22 pm

Sounds suspiciously like the perfect plan for black dark matter aliens from beyond the universe to invade our planet to me.
I'm just kidding, of course!
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serleran · Post by **serleran** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 4:46 pm

I do not observe fake holidays.

Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:25 pm

Coleston the Cavalier wrote:
Sounds suspiciously like the perfect plan for black dark matter aliens from beyond the universe to invade our planet to me.
I'm just kidding, of course!

They're here already ~ they are called global warming deniers!
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 5:27 pm

serleran wrote:
I do not observe fake holidays.

Well, it's more like a celebration of people getting together globally for a good cause!

It'll be a good excuse to get naked, put on body paint and feathers and run around my house and back yard with a torch ~ howling at the moon!
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seskis281 · Post by **seskis281** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 6:52 pm

Rhuvein wrote:
Well, it's more like a celebration of people getting together globally for a good cause!

It'll be a good excuse to get naked, put on body paint and feathers and run around my house and back yard with a torch ~ howling at the moon!

What!?! We need an excuse to do that!?!?

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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:27 pm

T minus 30 minutes and counting . . .
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:50 pm

"I'm shutting the power down, Luke . . ."

Furnace and lights off. Now network shutdown commences in 5, 4, 3, 2, . . 1.
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Fat Dragon Games · Post by **Fat Dragon Games** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:05 am

I accidentally switched all of my lights on...my bad.
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cuchulainkevin · Post by **cuchulainkevin** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:50 am

Didn't notice any drop in lights here in Naperville
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Harry Joy · Post by **Harry Joy** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:54 am

cuchulainkevin wrote:
Didn't notice any drop in lights here in Naperville

First time I heard of this was today. And I sincerely doubt that anyone in Memphis will dare turn their lights down for an hour.

cuchulainkevin · Post by **cuchulainkevin** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:10 am

Harry Joy wrote:
First time I heard of this was today. And I sincerely doubt that anyone in Memphis will dare turn their lights down for an hour.

I certainly wouldn't advise it in Chicago or New York. Either that or make darn sure you don't leave the home.

Heck in New York in the 70's they had riots in the city when the power went down.
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 1:56 am

cuchulainkevin wrote:
I certainly wouldn't advise it in Chicago or New York. Either that or make darn sure you don't leave the home.

Heh, I'm sure they were ready in Chicago - at least I hope so. I mean it wasn't a powergrid shut off or anything silly like that.

So far I've heard that about 200 buildings shut down lights - John Hancock, Sears Tower, etc.

And the Wrigley Field sign at 1044 W. Addison!

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cuchulainkevin · Post by **cuchulainkevin** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:04 am

Rhuvein wrote:
cuchulainkevin wrote:
And the Wrigley Field sign at 1044 W. Addison!

And may it never turn on again!

Sorry...my family's Southside Irish...can't help myself at times...

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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:06 am

OK, here around Castle Frankfort ~ we played naked Twister under candle light. Then put on the body paint, feathers and Viking helms and ran around the neighborhood egging those houses with full lighting.

I pulled out a Cuban cigar for this special event.

Then back inside for some singing Kum Bay Yah and hand holding.

I then saddled up Silver and took him out for a ride with my pet worg, Leon. Heh, that scared the crap out of the people at Gas City and 7 Eleven!!
Oh yeah, I hugged three trees.

Pretty good participation in my realms.

Next year, I'm going down by my buddy Kim Khartsfield in Little Rock, to kick some ass and break windows at his house. Hmmm, perhaps a large paper bag of Silver's horse droppings lit on fire on his door step???

What'd y'all think about that??

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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:07 am

cuchulainkevin wrote:
Rhuvein wrote:
And may it never turn on again!

Sorry...my family's Southside Irish...can't help myself at times...

Hehe, no problemo, Kevin.

I'm a North and South sider. Cubs and Sox. City series in my lifetime!!!
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Orpheus · Post by **Orpheus** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:16 am

Rhuvein wrote:
Cubs and Sox. City series in my lifetime!!!

If you have the secret to immortality, please let us in on it.

cuchulainkevin · Post by **cuchulainkevin** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:24 am

Rhuvein wrote:
cuchulainkevin wrote:
Hehe, no problemo, Kevin.

I'm a North and South sider. Cubs and Sox. City series in my lifetime!!!

Ross,

Surely that would usher in the Endtimes? Dogs and cats living in sin?

I'm a Sox fan to the core...I doubt I'll ever get beyond that- unless maybe they skip town. Even then... Grandma Rutherford cheered the Chiacgo Cardinals and cursed the Bears to the end of her days.

That stubborness might be a Irish/Scottish thing, or it might be that my family's full of @@@@heads. Maybe both.

I did make a concession to my Cub fan buddies last year. I didn't actively root against the Cubs in the playoffs. No rubbing it in after they lost.

I was just...cheerful...the next day.

I must have got soft after the Sox won it in '05
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:26 am

Orpheus wrote:
If you have the secret to immortality, please let us in on it.

Haha. No, only this ~ my wife is a south sider and I'm a north sider. So, I'd wear Cubs, she the White Sox. And my daughter would have one of those split uniforms.

And we'd ride the elevated/subway trains to the games - north to south, south to north.

Gary's spirit would sit with us in the left field bleachers of Wrigley in the special bleacher bum's section.

In fact, he'd throw out the first fireball!
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:34 am

cuchulainkevin wrote:
Rhuvein wrote:
Ross,

Surely that would usher in the Endtimes? Dogs and cats living in sin?

I'm a Sox fan to the core...I doubt I'll ever get beyond that- unless maybe they skip town. Even then... Grandma Rutherford cheered the Chiacgo Cardinals and cursed the Bears to the end of her days.

That stubborness might be a Irish/Scottish thing, or it might be that my family's full of @@@@heads. Maybe both.

I did make a concession to my Cub fan buddies last year. I didn't actively root against the Cubs in the playoffs. No rubbing it in after they lost.

I was just...cheerful...the next day.

I must have got soft after the Sox won it in '05

Funny, Sir Kevin. You haven't mentioned it, but I'll assume you've been to Wrigley.

If not, every Sox, no every American League fan, no every American ~ must go one time in memory of the Babe.

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cuchulainkevin · Post by **cuchulainkevin** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 2:54 am

Rhuvein wrote:
cuchulainkevin wrote:
Funny, Sir Kevin. You haven't mentioned it, but I'll assume you've been to Wrigley.

If not, every Sox, no every American League fan, no every American ~ must go one time in memory of the Babe.

Sure, several times. Back in grade school they used to give free Cubs tickets for making Honor Roll.

As a youngster I even cheered for the Cubs until I was brought back into Orthodoxy by my older brothers.

One time I was even right behind homeplate as my brother got free tickets from a client. I did have particiapte in OPERATION MAYHEM in a small way- so I filled out a bunch of Allstar game voting forms selecting any player who WASN"T a Cub.
I should get you up to a Bears game one of these days. I have Sox tickets as well, but for not as many games as the Bears.
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Otto von Grunwald · Post by **Otto von Grunwald** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 3:57 am

Watched the Cubbies on WGN today (I still can't get over that fact we get a Chicago station in Texas)...Cubs Win!

BTW, sorry Sox fans...a certain South side team didn't. hehehe

-Otto

P.S. Opening day vs. Brewers this Monday lunchtime!
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Tadhg · Post by **Tadhg** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 5:31 pm

Otto von Grunwald wrote:
Watched the Cubbies on WGN today (I still can't get over that fact we get a Chicago station in Texas)...Cubs Win!

BTW, sorry Sox fans...a certain South side team didn't. hehehe

-Otto

P.S. Opening day vs. Brewers this Monday lunchtime!

Hey Otto. Nice avatar. LOL.

Wow, opening day. It's hard for me to think baseball as it's still snowing here as of late. Seriously, we gotta get some spring time weather going for Wrigley field. Send some of that nice Texas weather up 'round yere.

As Ernie used to say, "Let's play two!"
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cuchulainkevin · Post by **cuchulainkevin** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:27 pm

Rhuvein wrote:
Otto von Grunwald wrote:
As Ernie used to say, "Let's play two!"

He only said that in the hope that they might win one.
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Julian Grimm · Post by **Julian Grimm** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:46 pm

Squibble all you want. I happen to be among the elite Cardinals fans. All your field are belong to us.
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Otto von Grunwald · Post by **Otto von Grunwald** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:12 am

Julian Grimm wrote:
Squibble all you want. I happen to be among the elite Cardinals fans. All your field are belong to us.

Sombody set him up the bomb!
http://www.allyourbasearebelongtous.com/flash/

P.S. I'm forced to root for the Cards whenever I visit my Grandma in Dexter, MO.
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