What They Said

[tony romo]

"i'm in better shape then I get credit for,it's just because I have large bosoms and I have a big ass...I was just in the locker room staring at my body,and I'm like,am I really not fit? I think if I were not to eat for two years,I still wouldn't be size two...We're living in the Mary-Kate Olsen world...I'm just not built that way...I'm bootylicious and that's how I'm always going to be"...Serena Williams after winning the 2007 Australian Open

[tony romo]

Q: Are you going to vote for yourself for Album of the Year?

A: "Nope,the Dixie Chicks.I was so proud to be given 2 guitar solos on that record.Especially since they were able to write great songs and channel all of what happened in the last few years into palatable music,despite having everything that could be going against them going against them." - John Mayer commenting on upcoming Grammy Awards...

EDITORIAL COMMENT: it should be a good year for Natalie Maines,lead singer,of Dixie Chicks

(1) band is nominated for 4 Grammy's
(2) husband is one of the stars of runaway new hit,HERO'S , on U.S.television...

[peewak]

"This is what happens when you play against a second rate team"
Raphael Benitez,Liverpool F.C. manager after playing our city rivals Everton(nil) last saturday.

[stchrissie]

Has this thread changed name?

[Axe victim]

Taken from The Sun ' Farting ruined my sex life' ( Irritable Bowel Syndrome sufferer tells her story)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/section/0,,11000,00.html

[fixxlevy]

They treated a girl with IBS and I was absolutely amazed. I felt like there was finally a light at the end of the tunnel.

Apologies to MacGonagall.

[Axe victim]

[tony romo]

Led Kaapana,Grammy nominee for Best Hawaiian Album, on opening for Bob Dylan in 1998..."After I got the offer,my wife said to me.'Do you know who Bob Dylan is?' I said,'He's on Gunsmoke.'She said,no that's Matt Dillon.' She took me record store to show me who Bob Dylan was,I mostly only knew Hawaiin music."

[tony romo]

"Iraq's Shitte majority is the insurmountable obstacle,the lurking snake,the crafty and malicious scorpion,the spying enemy...the danger from Shia...is greater...than the Americans...I come back and again say that the only solution is for us to strike the religious ,military,and other cadres among the Shia with blow after blow until they bend to the Sunnis." - Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi,self-oppointed leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq,in letter to Bin Laden

[tony romo]

Gene Upshaw the exectutive director of National Football League players union commenting on retired players complaint about connection of concussions while playing ,to Alzheimer's disease later in life... "the brain damaged old-timers can complain all they want,they don't pay my salary."

EDIT: this topic should be a thread all by itself...There is proof that players in high-contact sports suffer from Post-Concussion Syndrone leading to early stages of Alzeimers Disease...the University of North Carolina tested 2,552 retired NFL players and found 24% had suffered at least 3 concussions making them 2 to 3 more likely to suffer from depression and 3 times as likely to have mild cognitive impairment,a precursor to Alzeimers Disease...

[tony romo]

Willye White,the only USA athlete to appear in 5 Summer Olympic games from 1956 to 1972,commenting on going from chopping cotton in the Mississippi delta to being an Olympian..."Before my 1st Olympics,I thought the whole world consisted of cross burnings and lynchings."