Cool gesture and something a little weird
 

At the metro area MS season ending girls tournament, one 7th grade team comes out with temporary tattoos on their legs just above their socks. The tattoo is a basketball with the number 30 on it. I asked one of the girls what was going on. It seems one of their teammates had to leave their previous game at halftime two days earlier to go to the hospital to have her appendix removed. All the girls were wearing her number to show their support and to wish her a speedy recovery. She said the pics were just makeup and could wash off easily but they were going to leave them on until the girl was OK and could come home. I thought that was really cool of them.

The weird thing was with the other team. They had ten players. There starters wore numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the subs wore 11, 22, 33, 44 and 55. I just thought it was kind of weird.

The next tournament was MS boys and they sometimes wear "illegal" numbers. We're told to let them. One kid had on number 99. I asked him if it was to honor George Mikan. He replied "Who?" When I asked his coach (who looked to be in his 40s) the same question, I got the same answer.

How soon they forget.

http://www.croatianhistory.net/gif/mikan.jpg

Padgett is posting something weird.

In related news the sun will come up in the east tomorrow and a politician is caught up in a prostitution ring.

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Holy Hands, Padgett ! That ball looks tiny! Do you know if it was? http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/sp...smiley-003.gif

Nope - Mikan was just huge (plus the camera angle makes it look smaller still)

I guess I better not let my wife see me from that angle then. :D

I was thinking that was a hand drawing/painting, Duane.

The man.
 

When I introduced the "Mikan Drill" to my 5th grade boys team this year I told them it was named after the greatest player in NBA history. It became a running joke on the team as Mikan became a my pretend "hero". I came up with different pictures and stuff.

Everything I've read about the guy indicates he actually had big balls.

And then he went on to become the commisioner of the ABA. Read "Loose Balls" for a great synopsis on the history of the ABA. My favorite story was about Marvin Barnes who was supposed to fly from Memphis to St Louis for a game. Departure time 9:55. Arrival time 9:50. Barnes takes the bus. He declares, "I ain't gettin' on no time machine!"

Once there was a big fight during a game between the Lakers and the Nats (Syracuse). Except no one would fight Mikan. He was the only player on the floor by himself. It wasn't that he didn't like to mix it up. In fact, he has said he gathered 166 stitches in his pro career. He was just so big, no one would mess with him.

Here's a quote from "Easy Ed" Macauley: "George knocked the filling out of my tooth one night in St. Louis. He came around with that elbow, and I was going up to block the shot with my right hand when he hit me on the right side of my face where my teeth are and really rattled me. I spit the filing out and went down the court and tried to score on him. His elbows should be in the Hall of Fame."

That would be cool - having your elbows inducted into the Hall of Fame.

BTW - Mikan wore another number with the Lakers after he wore number 99. Know what it was? I do.

21?

Yes! Go take a cookie out of petty cash.

Mikan played in the days of the 6 foot wide lane that sort of resembled a light bulb with the whole free throw circle included. Not sure if it was due to him or to Wilt that it went to 12 ft.

And in reading this, you'll know why that drill is called the "Mikan drill."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mikan

Kinda shaped like an old fashioned key hole. Probably where the name "key" came from. ;)

It was because of Mikan, not Wilt, that the lane went from 6 to 10 and then 12 feet. In fact, there's a story that the owner of the Lakers at first refused to widen the lane on their home court because he was so mad at the new rule.

Minnesotans can be petty like that.

You're joking right?

There's no way I picked a random number from pluasible numbers and got the correct answer.

If you don't want the cookie for the right answer, I'll take it ! I'll take it! http://www.clicksmilies.com/s1106/ak...smiley-065.gif

I'll split it with ya: I break it, you choose your half.

Yeah, but Larry Craig gets the cream filling. http://www.runemasterstudios.com/gra...es/roflmao.gif

Wait a sec... I don't know all the political jokes, and I think this is one of them. CNN has had the NY Govenor thing on all morning. :p

If you aren't aware of the Idaho Senator Larry Craig story, perhaps you wouldn't mind applying for the intern job he has open. I;m sure it's a very interesting "position".

BTW - do you know why there's going to be only 49 contestants in this year's Miss America contest? Because no one wants to be "Miss I-da-ho". :p

I think I just put 2 and 2 together: Larry Craig is the bathroom stall guy?

Edit: th not ll. Ooops

Ballroom stall? Are those for private waltzes?

Yeah. And be careful about putting 2 and 2 together when you're talking about him. He likes that - so I'm told.

Geeze again!!??

This is how he got in this mess to begin with!!

Geeze, that's a new one... last time I heard it JR fell off his di-no-saur.

:rolleyes:

Was that his Dotusauras?

Yes, the Dotusauras - from the Greek DOTU (fragrant or fresh nether-region) and SAURUS (lizard).

Somehow this thread is giving me that not-so-fresh feeling.

Might I then suggest you try a DOTU on your lizard?

You need some of this...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...7L._AA280_.jpg

:D

(Edited 3/13 so image appeared.)

confused
 

:confused:

I searched the forum to find out how to insert an image instead of a link, did what was mentioned, and it didn't work.

I had [IMG]link[/IMG] - what am I doing wrong? :confused: :confused:

Looking at the Message section when entering a reply, look for the 5th icon from the right, in the second row of icons. The icon looks like a dark mountain in front of a light mountain, with the yellow background and a grey square in the upper right corner. Click that icon to bring up an IE script prompt. Enter the URL of the graphic and click Ok. The graphic will then be inserted into the post.

http://www.despair.com/ap24x30prin.htmlLike this?

Oooops. Did I make a mistake in my instructions? Like a good tech support engineer, I didn't test my reply - just went from memory. :eek:

You may have been right. I've never had an easy time with this one.

Sounds fair very fair. :)

should work as written...got me.

YOU ARE USING ALL CAPS!!!!!

http://blog.billauer.com/pics/capslock.jpg

You did it the right way but you referenced an html page as the image. You need to point directly to a .jpg file. The image from the page you were apparently linking to...

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...sterapathy.jpg

Okay...thanks for the comments.

The image was actually supposed to be...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...7L._AA280_.jpg

Tried the original link again and evidently I have to be careful of the links from google image I use. The original didn't work but this one did...hum...