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Old 12-03-2009, 10:25 AM   #6796
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yep - Amazon did that to us one year - continually promising delivery by the 23rd ... leaving us too late to react when on the 23rd an e-mail arrived stating delivery would be in January !!!!
one year the son was to get a very fancy (and expensive) video game controller. it didn't come, so I did the old box in a box and so on, and the final internal box had a picture of the controller as well as a pound of round balls (bullets for a muzzle loading rifle) his anticipation had built so high and his face fell so heartbreakingly, I'll never do anything to that extent again

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I have so much trouble taking a sports seriously that has the same name as something one tends to do after a night with WAY too much booze!
however quite often there is a good dela of hurling after rugby!
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Old 12-03-2009, 10:31 AM   #6797
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Old 12-03-2009, 10:52 AM   #6798
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Old 12-03-2009, 11:15 AM   #6799
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Old 12-03-2009, 04:41 PM   #6800
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Oh, be a bother, what are older cousins for, other than to cater to the whims of the younger parts of their generation. Maybe he could get an actual game jersey and give it to her. She'd be in heaven over that, probably.
My saga continues, even the New Orleans Saints Pro Shop is out of the jersey in her size. Who would have thought that there would be a run on Saints jerseys in size 10/12?!?! I did find out something interesting in my travels across the web, most of the web stores are actually interconnected and ultimately lead back to one main store. Who knew?!?


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A couple of years back my kids had ordered their gifts for everyone from Amazon and other places on line for last-minute UPS delivery. Turns out we had a terrible blizzard and the UPS deliveries slipped by one day. Christmas was on a Monday and UPS does not deliver on Saturday (at that time at least) and Saturday was a perfectly clear, driveable day!

They had to wrap up Pictures of the presents and put them under the tree for Christmas.
I think that was a great idea. At least they knew what they would be getting as soon as the roads cleared!

Our first Christmas here in NoVA, we decided to use our "family money" to buy a new digital camera since our old camera was no longer working. They had a deal at Best Buy where they would wave the overnight shipping charge, so instead of just driving 30 minutes to the store (and justifying this laziness by thinking that I had too many other things to do) I went ahead and had them ship it to me. As it turned out, UPS got so far behind with deliveries that they never delivered the package. Consequently, we had no pictures for that Christmas. I cried for a good ten minutes on the phone to both UPS and Best Buy telling them how they had ruined my memories of my 3 year olds first Christmas in Virginia. I was pretty pathetic and cringe thinking about it now. In all honesty, it was really my own fault for not driving to pick it up myself.
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Old 12-03-2009, 05:05 PM   #6801
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My saga continues, even the New Orleans Saints Pro Shop is out of the jersey in her size. Who would have thought that there would be a run on Saints jerseys in size 10/12?!?! I did find out something interesting in my travels across the web, most of the web stores are actually interconnected and ultimately lead back to one main store. Who knew?!?
this probably isn't a good time to tell you about car rental companies then I'm guessing
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Old 12-03-2009, 05:08 PM   #6802
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this probably isn't a good time to tell you about car rental companies then I'm guessing
Yeah. One of my favorite sayings is, "Ignorance is Bliss!" Of course, I mostly apply to that to things my adult children are doing. I also tell them that, "No news is good news!"
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Old 12-03-2009, 07:22 PM   #6803
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That's hurling, an other Gaelic specialty sport.
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Old 12-03-2009, 07:25 PM   #6804
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Rugby keeps interfering with my drinking practice...
You're not drinkin the right booze.
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Old 12-03-2009, 10:55 PM   #6805
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I think that's hurling rather than Gaelic football.
The similarities between Aussie Rules and Gaelic Football I think allow a touring team of Aussie Rules players, post-season, to go over and play Gaelic Football, I think sort-of as a "twin-sports" type arrangement.

Hurling, on the other hand, is completely insane, and to be much admired for it. I love watching it on the rare times it makes it here on the telly.

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Old 12-04-2009, 05:35 AM   #6806
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That's hurling, an other Gaelic specialty sport.
Not to be confused with that other Gaelic sport, Curling, which is a curious mixture of housework, bowling and ice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling
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Not to be confused with that other Gaelic sport, Curling, which is a curious mixture of housework, bowling and ice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling
Love that description!
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Not to be confused with that other Gaelic sport, Curling, which is a curious mixture of housework, bowling and ice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curling
A good friend competed in the Winter Olympics in curling. He's the only Olympian I personally know.

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Old 12-04-2009, 05:59 AM   #6809
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Cruling is one of those sports that is really stupid, but for some reason, at the same time incredibly fascinating. I usually manage to get stuck in front of the curling matches during the winter olympics for some reason
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Cruling is one of those sports that is really stupid, but for some reason, at the same time incredibly fascinating. I usually manage to get stuck in front of the curling matches during the winter olympics for some reason
Ouch. How long were you in the hospital?
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