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Oh SHIT. I'm sorry I couldn't be there, damn man..

Donated and shared the link in a mass email..brought a tear to me eye to watch the interview w/the wife.

You guys are too much.

Dan you're right, the general logic behind it isn't right but I think in this specific case the word "boobies" can be excused.

BTW, the bracelets come in multiple colors, including pink.

If it promotes support and awareness with kids at a young age, I think the benefits outway the "inappropriate" language

There's a good video on the link below. I'm sorry, but that's just bullshit.

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/02/schools-ban-boobies-bracelets/?hpt=C2

Move it, Silly Bandz. There's another rubber bracelet getting students into trouble at schools.

 

Middle and high school students in South Dakota and central and northern California have been facing possible suspension and have had to remove their controversial bracelets that read “I heart boobies."In Rocklin, California, a high school sophomore could be suspended after he refused to hand over a black bracelet with the bosom-embracing slogan, according to CNN affiliate KXTV. The 15-year-old said he wore the black bracelet because his grandmother died from breast cancer. He told the station that he owns various bracelets as a show of support– including the well-known yellow Livestrong bracelet and the pink survivor bracelet from Susan G. Komen For the Cure.

 

Another school district in California does not allow students to wear the bracelets in class because its dress code specifically prohibits 'sexually suggestive language or images.' "That is why jewelry with sexually suggestive language like 'boobies' is not allowed on our campuses,†wrote Kelly Avants, the director of communications at the Clovis Unified School District. “Please understand that the issue is related specifically to the choice of language on these bracelets and the fact that it specifically violates our existing dress code policy.â€

 

The school district supports worthy causes like breast cancer awareness in different activities such as T-shirt sales and volleyball matches, Avants added. Students wearing the bracelets have been asked to remove them until the end of the school day.

 

The schools in California are not the only ones asking students to leave the rubber bracelets at home. USA Today reported on a similar controversy in schools in South Dakota.

 

“We understand that some people find ‘I love boobies’ offensive,†said Kimmy McAtee, the spokeswoman for the Keep A Breast Foundation, the non-profit that makes the school contraband. “Many others find it refreshing in the sea of pink ribbons. We’re really taking a positive style of communication and taking something scary and taboo, and making it positive and upbeat.â€

 

Keep A Breast has sold more than 2 million bracelets, she said. The bracelets proclaiming love for breasts began five years ago and started becoming controversial in February as kids started wearing them to school. The buzz died down during the summer and picked back up when school started, McAtee said.

 

“Tell kids they’re not allowed to wear something, they’ll buy five of them,†she said.

 

The slang doesn’t offend Donna Charpied, a two-time breast cancer survivor who had a double mastectomy in 2006.

 

“I think everybody loves boobies,†Charpied, of Manorville, New York, said. “If the end result is a positive thing for the cause, that’s a good thing. I don’t find it offensive at all.†Read more about Charpied.

 

The bracelets are meant to reach youth.

 

“We feel the best ways to prevent cancer is to start young and to educate them at that age when they’re developing breasts and starting to learn about bodies,†McAtee said.

 

Tweens challenged by grown-up malady: Breast cancer

 

Surely some of the kids are wearing the bracelets to get a giggle, instead of spreading breast cancer awareness, McAtee conceded.

 

"If it gets the conversation started, we’ve done our part,†she said.

check out texas instruments, they're usually solid and moderately priced.

this just made my week. fuck, yes.

Oh Favre's retiring...again? can we get it in writing this time?

the move gun looks like a more modern version of this.

this is going to be the movie that makes me watch a movie in 3d. i loved the original, and i think this one will be even more epic.

No fancy title, i think it's good enough to get your attention.

Buddy of mine showed me this video, and i damn near pissed myself laughing.

Enjoy.

Admins: if you can embed on the new forums - please do so. IDK how to since you switched, but if it's possible I'd appreciate it. Thank you.

is the guy seriously wearing a shirt that says "undesirable" ? if i'm seeing correctly, that's amazing.

The best way to describe Inception is this: Inception is a mindfuck, but it's the BEST sex you could ever DREAM of.. no pun intended.

Inception was suspenseful, action filled, and seriously worth the 16.50 for imax. The plotline was the least bit predictable, for me at least(I'm the type who usually figures out the ending before the plot takes off). The acting was PHENOMENAL, the chemistry that group had was just amazing.

I can't recommend this movie enough. If you can see it in imax, DO IT.

eeeh. i like the integration with the website, always being logged in, having 1 click access to other sections. i dislike the color, and the rest of the forum change. yeah its cool, but there was nothing wrong with the old forum and the look wasn't outdated or anything.. unnecessary IMO.

RNG, the Articles board is just a storage board for the articles you see on the frontpage. It was redundant information and should not have been there. Thanks for the heads up.

 

If you want to leave feedback, goto the FrontPage, Select the Article and there is a comment box for you to leave comments.

ooh okay, word, thanks AC.

what's the "Article discussion" board? why's it off limits?

my bad, no fuckery, just some upgrades as DI mentioned above. sweeeeeeeet.

BUMP.

I normally don't like Geico's advertising, but this is hysterical. "Jackwagon." priceless. Gotta love R. Lee Ermey

I suspect some fuckery.

SO sad for Yankees' fans. Hearing his voice was all apart of the charm, and tradition associated with Yankee Stadium.

link:http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/sports/baseball/12sheppard.html?_r=1&src=twt&twt=nytimes

Bob Sheppard, whose elegant intonation as the public-address announcer at Yankee Stadium for more than half a century personified the image of Yankee grandeur, died Sunday at his home in Baldwin, on Long Island. He was 99.

 

His death was confirmed by his son, Paul.

 

From the last days of DiMaggio through the primes of Mantle, Berra, Jackson and Jeter, Sheppard’s precise, resonant, even Olympian elocution — he was sometimes called the Voice of God — greeted Yankee fans with the words, “Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Yankee Stadium.â€

 

“The Yankees and Bob Sheppard were a marriage made in heaven,†said his son Paul Sheppard, a 71-year-old financial adviser. “I know St. Peter will now recruit him. If you’re lucky enough to go to heaven, you’ll be greeted by a voice, saying, ‘Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to heaven!’ â€

 

In an era of blaring stadium music, of public-address announcers styling themselves as entertainers and cheerleaders, Sheppard, a man with a passion for poetry and Shakespeare, shunned hyperbole.

 

“A public-address announcer should be clear, concise, correct,†he said. “He should not be colorful, cute or comic.â€

 

Sheppard was also the public-address announcer for the football Giants from 1956 through 2005, first at Yankee Stadium and then at Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands.

 

He signed a new two-year contract with the Yankees in March 2008 but was not at the stadium that season, when he was recovering from illness that brought a severe weight loss. His longtime backup, Jim Hall, replaced him.

 

Sheppard did not feel strong enough to attend the ceremonies marking the final game at the old Yankee Stadium on Sept. 21, 2008, but he announced the Yankee starting lineup that night in a tape recording. During the season, his recorded voice had introduced Derek Jeter at the plate, a touch the Yankee captain requested to honor Sheppard.

 

Sheppard was chairman of the speech department at John Adams High School in Queens and an adjunct professor of speech at St. John’s University while becoming a New York institution as a public-address announcer.

 

“I don’t change my pattern,†he once said. “I speak at Yankee Stadium the same way I do in a classroom, a saloon or reading the Gospel at Mass at St. Christopher’s.â€

 

On May 7, 2000, Bob Sheppard Day at Yankee Stadium, the Yankee outfielder Paul O’Neill reflected on Sheppard’s aura.

 

“It’s the organ at church,†O’Neill told The Record of Hackensack, N.J. “Certain sounds and certain voices just belong in places. Obviously, his voice and Yankee Stadium have become one.â€

 

Robert Leo Sheppard, who was born on Oct. 20, gained a passion for his calling while growing up in Queens.

 

“My father, Charles, and my mother, Eileen, each enjoyed poetry and music and public speaking,†Sheppard told Maury Allen in “Baseball: The Lives Behind the Seams.â€

 

“They were very precise in how they spoke. They measured words, pronounced everything carefully and instilled a love of language in me by how they respected proper pronunciation.â€

 

Sheppard played first base at St. John’s Prep and at St. John’s University, where he was also a quarterback.

 

While he was in high school, two Vincentian priests put him on the path toward a career in speech education.

 

“The combination there of one, the fiery orator, and the other, the semantic craftsman, probably presented a blending I wanted to imitate,†he once recalled.

 

Sheppard earned a bachelor’s degree in English and speech at St. John’s and a master’s degree in speech from Columbia before serving as a Navy officer during World War II.

 

He became a speech teacher at John Adams upon his return and served as the public-address announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference.

 

He was hired by the baseball Yankees in 1951, and soon fans were hearing Sheppard’s pronunciation of “Joe Di-Mah-ggio.â€

 

“I take great pride in how the names are pronounced,†Sheppard said. He seldom entered the clubhouses, but made certain to check directly with a visiting player if he had any doubt on the correct way to pronounce his name.

 

“Mic-key Man-tle†was a favorite of his, but as Sheppard once told The Associated Press: “Anglo-Saxon names are not very euphonious. What can I do with Steve Sax? What can I do with Mickey Klutts?â€

 

He enjoyed announcing the name of the Japanese pitcher Shigetoshi Hasegawa and the names of Latin players, particularly pitcher Salome Barojas and infielder Jose Valdivielso.

 

Sheppard feared he would trip over his pronunciation of Wayne Terwilliger, an infielder who played at Yankee Stadium with the Washington Senators and Kansas City Athletics in the 1950s. “I worried that I would say ‘Ter-wigg-ler’ but I never did,†he remembered.

 

But there was at least one flub.

 

When the football Giants played their first game at the Meadowlands, against the Dallas Cowboys in October 1976, Sheppard told the crowd: “Welcome to Yankee Stadium.â€

 

On Bob Sheppard Day -- during his 50th year with the Yankees -- he was honored at a home-plate ceremony in which Walter Cronkite read the inscription on the plaque being unveiled for Monument Park behind the left-field fence. It stated in part that Sheppard “has announced the names of hundreds of players -- both unfamiliar and legendary -- with equal divine reverence.â€

 

He leaves behind his second wife, Mary, two sons, Paul and Chris, and two daughters, Barbara and Mary. His first wife, Margaret, the mother of all four children, died in 1959. He also leaves four grandchildren.

 

Sheppard had his imitators, most notably the ESPN broadcaster Jon Miller.

 

“One day when my wife and I were down in St. Thomas, we went into a restaurant,†Sheppard told The Village Voice in 2002. “I told the waitress, ‘I’ll have the No. 1. Scrambled eggs, buttered toast and black coffee. No. 1.’ “My wife looked at me and said. ‘You sound like Jon Miller’s imitation.’ I wasn’t conscious of the fact that I was ordering the same way I’d introduce Billy Martin.â€

alright, that's REALLY impressive.

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i thought i might give it a bump.

 

LMAO. love it.

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soccer is stupid. thats all i have to say

I only watch World Cup. Soccers better then basketball in my opinion but hey whatever floats your boat.

i can't even do that man, at least basketball is high scoring and can be intense on occasion.