<p>on our several trips to NOLA, some of the funniest t-****s we saw dealt with FEMA. I don’t think the moderators would appreciate me posting what they said however. Hey – thanks for the kudos and everything – but we’re not out of the woods yet. Fat Tuesday is three days away. I am glad if she’s pacing herself.</p>
<p>Must have had a typo there, huh, ivoryk? Freudian slip—leaving out the “r” in “t-shirts”!!! lol on the censoring!</p>
<p>Thanks for the elucidation, astrophysicsmom! I was scratching my head over that one.</p>
<p>oops! should I confess to trying out the hurricane recipe??</p>
<p>So how was the drink, Ivoryk? And btw-- I loved your auto-edited typo (speaking as a person who has NO typing skills-as is particularly evidenced by the gazilion typos in post #9860). Hey— we are heading slowly towards the BIG 10,000th post! Time to start planning the soiree?? Ivoryk- you plannin’ to make hurricanes for the par-tee??</p>
<p>“FEMA - the new four-letter F-word.”
That is the t-shirt I remember from our return to NOLA in January 2006. And I think it will pass the cc censors.</p>
<p>My recollection was something along the lines of: “FEMA Evacuation Plan?” … Fill in the blanks. I think when we look back on that time we’ll all remember GWB saying “You’re doin’ a great job Brownie.” </p>
<p>If I can take this to a somewhat serious level… sorry, I know it’s Saturday night… Tulane did send parents this week a link to the current Journal of American History…which deals with Katrina and has some amazing accounts from Times-Picayune photographers: <a href=“http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/projects/katrina/[/url]”>http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/projects/katrina/</a></p>
<p>very sobering indeed. I hope those Tulane students who are down there living it up at Mardi Gras come to have a grasp of the challenge facing NOLA. I think they do. I hope they do. But for now…certainly this weekend…party on!</p>
<p>Is this a bad thing?</p>
<p>H is a “big brother” to an 8 yr old boy…yesterday they came back to our house after an outing to play Wii and watch movies. As soon as he walked in the door, the little guy says, “Whoa, it’s CLEAN!”</p>
<p>Don’t feel bad astrophysicsmom. My 11-year old says the same thing when I get around to clearing the kitchen counter…lol.</p>
<p>Geez, my kids say it everyday when they come home…they never realize that they are the ones that destroy the house as soon as they get home…I feel like the hamster on the wheel, and they just watch me go round and round.</p>
<p>I am about to take up my girlfriends idea…NAKED DAY…this way at least 1 day out of the week I won’t have a laundry basket with dirty clothes in it. It would also be a great motivator for me to go to the gym :D</p>
<p>Taking a break from the stupor bowl. I was falling asleep during the game b/c I don’t appreciate football and the commercials aren’t even doing it for me this year.</p>
<p>Some of them are hitting new lows for tastelessness & cruelty. The worst was the guy who was dragged all over creation by an invisible force, finally hitting a post with his crotch–repeatedly. Ugh.</p>
<p>Ewww, I did not like that one either. D said that guy was Justin Timberlake :eek:</p>
<p>Yes, that was Justin Timberlake. The commercials weren’t so good, but the game was GREAT!!!</p>
<p>Commercials - two thumbs down. The game - one thumb down for the first half, one thumb waaaay up for the second half 
What did you guys and gals think of the halftime show?</p>
<p>Could someone please explain why does it take almost 10 minutes to play the last 2 minutes of the game?</p>
<p>k screaming squirrel, I didn’t want to laugh, but I did</p>
<p>as for the game…zzzzzzzzz…until last last few minutes</p>
<p>basketball is worse…</p>
<p>however</p>
<p>The average NFL game contains about 120 actual plays, which take an average of six seconds each. That’s 720 seconds of play, or 12 minutes. Meanwhile, the average NFL game in total takes three hours to play (the Super Bowl can last an hour longer). This means that a regular-season game contains 12 minutes of action, and 168 minutes of inaction, largely comprised of what Mickey Charles, CEO of <a href=“http://www.sportsnetwork.com%5B/url%5D”>www.sportsnetwork.com</a>, describes as “commercials, time outs, the walking around, replays, getting up off the turf, dances in the end zone and injury delays.” This yields a percentage comparison of seven per cent action to 93 per cent inaction; if we were to plug these figures into what you might call the Great Sports Action-to-Inaction Index, you’d get a ratio of one to 14. For every one minute of action an NFL game provides for a fan, it in</p>
<p>from same article</p>
<p>n 1956, a sports reporter for the Kansas City Star timed the ball-in-play duration of a game between the Kansas City Athletics (that city’s baseball team at the time) and the Washington Senators, which Washington won 15-6 — a game you’d expect to last a while. Wade allowed a second for each pitch that wasn’t swung at or was fouled off, a generous allocation considering that a 90-mph fastball takes just .467 seconds to reach the plate. His stopwatch count? Nine minutes and 55 seconds of actual action. </p>
<p>(THAT explains the zzzzzzzzz ifeel when watching sports) at least soccer they move the whole time!!!</p>
<p>I’m looking forward to the Olympic Games coverage - at least those athletes look athletic, LOL! And they move fast, too!</p>
<p>I’m finishing up the YellowTail that I opened for the Superbowl party that never happened - as soon as our guests heard that the passes finally opened, they loaded their skis in the car and headed out to the slopes!</p>
<p>“Geez, my kids say it everyday when they come home…they never realize that they are the ones that destroy the house as soon as they get home…I feel like the hamster on the wheel, and they just watch me go round and round.”</p>
<p>bulletandpima, no kidding, after surveying the mess my D created in the living room over the weekend, I’m thinking of changing her legal name to Katrina!</p>
<p>Wonder if Justin Timberlake does his own stunts? :eek:</p>
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<p>You have to remember–those are FOOTBALL minutes. That’s what we say whenever we are running really late–be there in 2 football minutes.</p>
<p>Interesting…people complain about baseball being slow, but football is almost as bad, as the numbers show.</p>
<p>The last 2 minutes of the game were pretty exciting, you have to admit. Er…10 minutes of the game.</p>