Captain_Curmudgeon
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Yes, although there are over-all rankings and prizes and like that. When you go to the private group, you see only the members in the groups and their standings relative to one another. You have a tiny message board and you can compare your picks with the other members and stuff like that.So would we set up a private group for us and we would just be competing against each other?
You can belong to any number (including none) of private groups once you register with the site.
I seem to recall that once you've joined a private group, you get to it without having to know the password. I stay logged on to the main site all season, so I only have to remember my site password once.After that I get too confused as to who's on what team and the different passwords.
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I read the Ensign article. Thanks for the link, Pam.
Great contrast with what people believed when I was a kid.
My paternal grandmother was much taken with the ice-flowing and rock-smiting and highway-building. She thought the lost tribes were pretty much still together, if "lost", and would show up in the gathering, marching from the arctic regions along that highway. When I think about it, I think about the word "literal" in the Article.
Heard a long talk somewhere (Sacrament meeting? fireside? BYU?) by someone who was convinced that the Ten Lost Tribes were in Russia. Proof? "Roosh" in Hebrew means "hat." And Russia is north of the middle east.
And a close friend told me that the Ten Lost Tribes were on the moon and North meant "up."
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I would have said "Just you and me, Sioux (which in my family, we pronounce SIGH ox)." "You and I" is, of course, correct.Just you and I, Cap'n??
(I don't see anything in your profile to indicate that you're an English major, but you do read a lot and that's almost as good.)
While I'm thinking about it, here is a link to the site (old style):
UtahFantasySports.com: Pro Football
so curious people can find out all about it and register.
Naturally,
R.O.
PS. Wow! The forum looked up the link title and used it instead of the raw link.
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Zero, zip, nada. It's completely free and if you live in the Trib/DNews circulation area (aka Utah), you can win prizes every week and at the end. Almost won the end of year prize last year (dang those Giants).hey cap'n! how much money with it cost us to play this game?
Later. There are also prizes for everyone living everywhere. In fact, the local prizes may have been eliminated.
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Speaking as an inactive member, I think Ben is on the right track. The main reason for my inactivity both as a kid and now is that going to church is not interesting nor worthwhile. Believe it or not, I try to go to church after Super Bowl Sunday just about every year -- this year, as well. First, I can't find out my ward's schedule. Second, when I talk with my active friends, what I hear is not encouraging. No more lively discussions of the lessons. From what I hear, it's yes or no questions with obvious answers. No one is EVER going to talk about pre-existence (to use a recent example from here) and stem cell research.Try to get them involved in the other activities of the church that are not just meetings. Do you scouts camp? I have hardly ever found a boy who didn't like camping, fishing, hiking, pizza night, something.
Ben Raines
Now scouting -- that kept me very active until the troop seemed (to me) to have stopped the camping and hiking in favor of studying for merit badges and making Eagle. That seemed too much like school for me.
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You got me here and only now are you introducing yourself?
Well, good for you.
I don't think I count as an apostate, but I don't know the counting rules. I was born a member, am still a member (the ward teachers come every month), but never really believed any of it. Oddly enough, no one thought to ask me if I believed until I was about 20.
Naturally,
R.O.
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I hate to pile on, but what if the sig and the user name are different?
(Did you know that you can turn the display of sigs off? Go to your User CP and Edit Options.)
Naturally,
R.O.
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Gosh, cboy, you seem to have missed the whole sarcasm thread.
But you have reminded me to read the introductions more often. I think I should make an effort to welcome new members who are a bit out of the mainstream, like me.
I've got to say that I appreciated replies to my introductory thread and they did make me feel welcome, although I'd come here for a fight (or bet, if I could get one;). They made me believe what Heather had written about the whole forum.
Naturally,
R.O.
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Anyone interested in an NFL picking contest?
I think a private group on the Trib-Dnews site might be the way to go.
If there's enough interest, I'll set up the private group and post the name and a hint to the password (or maybe just the password) here.
Naturally,
R.O.
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Something like Libero. A defensive specialist that rotates in to replace back line players. Has restrictions on play.
Is this a move to having two volleyball squads, one for offense and one for defense? Football used to be two-way and then they started messing with the substitution rules so that you have the rather strange and specialized game we have today. I can see a future that when you have the serve, you have one team out and another when you're receiving. Should slow the game way down the way it did football.
Naturally,
R.O.
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I can't help wondering how many women think that many, many men would be better off with a dog than a wife.
Naturally,
R.O.
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Maybe we should do a picking contest? I once wrote some software to do this for our company, but abandoned it in favor of the stuff that the SLC newspapers sponsor.
We've had a private group at our company for the NFL. We could do the same for either the NFL or College football.
I prefer the NFL because I have some chance of keeping up with it. College? Too many teams, too many obscure teams.
Naturally,
R.O.
PS. I almost won the SLC version last year. Just couldn't quite believe the Giants and picking against them all the way knocked me out of first.
PPS. "Why have an argument when you can have a bet?"
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If you're prompted, you're prompted and my advice would be to follow that.I gotta tell ya though, giving up some of these is hard... I really like Conan... and the Excalibur movie has scenes in it that send a chill down my spine (Like the part where the knights are riding into battle again after Arthur is restored)... But I just really feel like I've been prompted to do it...
I would like to point out the possibility that not all nudity is necessarily sexual. I can't comment on the nudity in Conan or Excalibur -- that's for you to judge. But you might try watching it again with that possibility in mind.
When I was a scout and in the Aaronic priesthood here in Salt Lake City, we often went swimming nude at Deseret Gym. Nudity was required there and in my high school swimming gym class. So far as I can tell, none of us became porn addicts as a result. YMMV.
Naturally,
R.O.
PS. I used to be a Unix kernel hacker. I'll have to go look in the computer names topic to see how you became unixknight.
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Hi, E.
Mr Cotton? No, no one has said that. I used to keep a small collection of picture collected from the Internet of people I thought looked like me. Then I realized that the reason I thought that was that they all parted their hair on the opposite side, which looked natural since I see myself mainly in mirrors.
If I bought a parrot, my cat would soon have it for lunch.
Naturally,
R.O.
PS. I can't tell if Mr Cotton even has much hair, let alone which side it parts it on.
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As it should turn out, Erik the Red, early real-estate scammer, "named the land Greenland, saying that people would be eager to go there if it had a good name."This was done to confuse the enemy at one time. I am probably totally off on this but it's what I learned years ago.
Sort of like the builders in my neighborhood, who cut down all the trees (couple of firs and a lot of scrub oak) on a lot and called it "Maple Cove."
Naturally,
R.O.
PS. You can read about it here.
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Getting up and working an hour and then going back to bed sometimes works for me (been telecommuting exclusively since 1998).
Getting in the hot tub before going to bed really does the trick.
While I was meditating regularly, I never had insomnia. Down to bed, turn off the lights, and boom -- asleep.
I think getting away from the Internet, the radio and TV, and everything else for about an hour before going to bed might be a good idea.
Naturally,
R.O.
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Love it! Like your approach and I'm writing that line down for future use.You're pretty insightful for a heretical, inactive adulterer.
Naturally,
R.O.
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I am sure it has grown a lot. There are now 1.4 million people in Idaho. 200K in Boise, 80K in Meridian, 75K in Nampa and another 75K in Caldwell.
Sigh. Guess I'll have to move even farther north to find what I want, namely not many people and cool weather.
Spent a whole summer when I was 12 out at my Uncle Parley's dairy farm on the Black Canyon Project, north of Caldwell. Learned how to drive and drove the pickup truck on the hay crew. Learned that farming is mostly very hard work so I was quite immune to all the communes I heard about in the '70s.
We used to get into Caldwell now and then and it was a pleasant, sleepy little town. Albertsons sold ice cream cones in the store and we'd always go by and get some.
Naturally,
R.O.
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Got it in one! Although it's a little more general than that.And I'm guessing you're an Open Carry kinda fella cuz you got no pockets, yeah?!
Got a suit, but I wear it only for funerals.
And thank you for your kind welcome.
Naturally,
R.O.
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You are the coolest LDS hippie -in the world-, Captain.
You are a rockin', nudist, beard-wearin', people-lovin' person. Welcome to the group!
Thanks, FT. I'm flattered.
LDS and hippie may be a stretch. I spent most of the '60s in the Navy or at BYU. On the other hand, except for the Navy, I've had the beard since '47. Had it all the time at BYU.
Rockin'. Hmmm. Adjective, maybe. Musically, I started with Country and Western, added Classical, and then folk. Still like 'em all, although my C&W tastes run to outlaw. Waylon, Willie and me.
I like people but I have to take them in small quantities. (I'm not only a curmudgeon but a sort of hermit as well.)
Naturally,
R.O.
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Meridian! My grandparents used to live there with my Uncle and Aunt and we were up to visit with them just about every summer. Probably grown a lot since. My uncle had a corral in the back with a deer pony (meanest and smartest horse I ever met), Snip. Next door neighbor kept a cow and Uncle Mac bought milk from him. We used to make hand-cranked fresh peach ice-cream every visit.
Hope you have as much fun as I did, Ben.
Naturally,
R.O.
PS The '82 trip was on a road bike, Trek (6000?) designed for road touring.
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Let's get back to Starberry's dream or other aspects of dreams.
Naturally,
R.O.
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Whereabouts? A lot of my '82 bike trip was in Idaho.Once I move to Idaho, in a couple of weeks I plan on getting back on my bike.
Found the Open Forum, BTW. Thanks for the info, though.
Naturally,
R.O.
PS. You now know why I'm an Open Carry guy.
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Me neither, but I'm an advocate of Open Carry.CC, Not the only ones I have :)
Ben Raines
Naturally,
R.O.
PS. I don't usually wear enough clothes to conceal much.
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Newspaper Agency Corp. I seem to recall that some of the prizes are gift certificates and the providers get a free plug on the site. I'm old enough to remember when they'd give you greeting cards or dishes or something if you agreed to take the paper.
Have you registered, Pam? If they charge you anything or even want your credit card number, don't give it to them. Maybe you'll get an e-mail urging you to subscribe to the Trib AND the DNews. The two newspapers have their banners around on the site and if you click them, you will go to Newspapers' web-sites.