Like this:

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/102110-cordova-woman-found-stabbed-in-garage?obref=obinsite

artie_fufkin wrote:

What is "The Med?"

It's a hospital in Memphis that specializes in low income and emergency cases.  They were about to go under a few years ago until they worked out an arrangement with the University of Tennessee Medical School (which is located in Memphis -- 400 miles from the main campus).  It provides absolutely fabulous training for folks who want to specialize in emergency room work.  Much like being a medic with an Air Cavalry unit in Vietnam.

I think the full name was "The Memphis Medical Center" and still goes by the short form.

Last edited by Mags (11/03/2010 3:26 pm)

artie_fufkin wrote:

"400 - * - * from the main campus"

5 stars. And that might be the first association of - * - and the number 400, unless it's in reference to his height in millimeters.

You'll have to give APRTW credit for those recs.  He's got it hard-wired so that the decision to substitute is done electronically.

OK, I'll bite.

Cedeno

There are only three names that I made to do that on.  Kip_wells will be changed to Cement-head. 

I think that feature is ment to be used to stop curse words but I like the word fuck a hell of alot more then Cement-head.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/nov/24/teachers-reject-no-fail-policy/

As Montaigne wrote about 5 centuries ago:

"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. "

Mags wrote:

Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse:

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2010/nov/24/teachers-reject-no-fail-policy/

As Montaigne wrote about 5 centuries ago:

"Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages. "

I hear a lot BS on both sides.  I am not invested in the issue one way or another, other than I would like for public schools to succeed in their mission.  But here is what I read:

For starters, it is common at the university level to give students a term, or even a year, to bring their grades up.  So, it's not like the superintendent's policy is out of the blue. 

Second, the spokesperson for the teacher's union claim that 99% of 7000 teachers are against it sounds very fishy.  If the history of democratic elections in communist countries didn't teach us that 99% of a population are never in favor of any actual choice, then modern polling results teach us that 99% of a population cannot be counted on to answer a survey correctly.

And our retailers are not letting the recession hinder their sales:

http://www.abc24.com/news/local/story/Memphis-Store-Near-Top-of-Crime-Guns-List/H1Y8ibgZ_E-jHOMBgFI6sA.cspx?rss=59

Mags wrote:

And our retailers are not letting the recession hinder their sales:

http://www.abc24.com/news/local/story/Memphis-Store-Near-Top-of-Crime-Guns-List/H1Y8ibgZ_E-jHOMBgFI6sA.cspx?rss=59

I always wanted to open a store called "Guns and Butter" that sells neither.

Mags wrote:

It looks like the University of Memphis will be getting a very large donation to their athletic program if they have the same starting QB next fall:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-memphis-smitharrested

How bad a kid do you have to be for the University of Miami to chuck you?

Mags wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

Mags wrote:

It looks like the University of Memphis will be getting a very large donation to their athletic program if they have the same starting QB next fall:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-memphis-smitharrested

How bad a kid do you have to be for the University of Miami to chuck you?

I don't know but this guy had an older brother who created a huge controversy at the University of Va. as a wrestler when he was involved in an incident that left another boy paralyzed.  There apparently were widespread protests by students over the leniency shown the Smith kid by the school administration.  He later was admitted to a law school (not the University of Memphis), which has since received a very large contribution to its endowment.

Think Lord Acton.

I call b.s.
Lord Acton was a linebacker, not a quarterback.

Mags wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

I call b.s.
Lord Acton was a linebacker, not a quarterback.

I stand corrected.  But he was teammates with King Hill.

Speaking of King Hill's teammates, did you know Frank Ryan was the only QB in NFL history to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics while still an active player?
Except for Dan Marino, of course.