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  1. That was not an 'invite' ...

     

    9-Tim Duncan

    10-Jerry West

    11-Kobe Bryant

    12-Moses Malone

    13-Hakeem Olajuwon

    I know he was my fave player but Olajuwon was better than Duncan. A better rebounder, better defender, better scorer.

  2. Wilt Chamberlain (# 1 IMHO)

    Oscar Robertson (best all-around)

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (take a peek into the league and some dude has 26 points and 13 rebounds in a game, come back 20 years later and the same dude has 26 points and 13 rebounds, wtf?)

    Michael Jordan

    Magic Johnson

    Larry Bird

    Bill Russell

    Jerry West

    Hakeem Olajuwon

    George Mikan

    Moses Malone

    Elvin Hayes

    Karl Malone

    Shaquille O'Neal

    Kobe Bryant

    Bob Cousy

    Pete Maravich

    Charles Barkley

    LeBron James

    Tim Duncan

     

    Scottie Pippen

    John Havlicek

    Bob Petit

    John Stockton

    Walt Frazier to round out that top 25.

     

    Edit: is an unordered list.

  3. Gog - good catch. That's an original from yours truly and a real one from my life. But she didn't say "Huh??" and it wasn't really a date from before ...

     

    Here are some more:

     

    You Know You've Watched BACK TO THE FUTURE too many times when ...

     

    1. You buy a sports almanac that gives every major sports victory in the latter 20th century, just in case.

    2. After you first see Cal in "Titanic", you spend the rest of the movie looking around wondering where Skinhead and 3-D are.

    3. You've frequently been taken to the hospital with head injuries after hitting your head on the bathroom sink, thinking it will give you inspiration.

    4. When Caroline and Richard finally got together on "Caroline in the City", you cry out "What about George!?"

    5. No one invites you to birthday or Christmas parties because the only present you ever give is pictures of yourself standing next to a clock.

    6. You frighten the guy trying to repair your telescope with the funny looks you keep giving him while describing what's wrong with it.

    7. Police keep catching you loitering in the parking lot of the nearby shopping mall at 1:15 AM.

    8. You keep hanging around a nearby ravine hoping to rescue any damsels in distress on a runaway.

    9. When in Maths, you get a BTTF answer such as '88' or '1.21', you exclaim "Great Scott!"

    10. Your idea of fun is logging on the internet at 2am to discuss which Jennifer was better, complete with visuals.

    11. You want the BTTF theme played at your wedding instead of the wedding march.

    12. You start a campaign to change the name of your mall to Lone Pine Mall.

    13. When you look in the mirror, you immediately look away thinking it is your other self.

    14. The clock turns 10:04 PM and you start making a lightning-strike-noise.

    15. Every time you see lightning or hear thunder, you whisper "The Storm" a la Doc.

    16. Someone asks what you're writing and you pull it away, saying, "Oh! No! No! No! I ... I never let anybody read my stories."

    17. You get really mad when someone misquotes a line from one of the movies.

    18. You want to go to California for a vacation just so you can see the DeLorean display at Universal Studios.

    19. You watch the movies with the sound down and make all the audio with your mouth, including sound effects and music.

    20. You get praised b/c you tell someone if they put their mind to it, they can accomplish anything, and they think it's your original advice.

    21. You're seriously planning on buying a DeLorean as your first car.

    22. You buy a pair of aviator glasses just like Marty's and you take them off and go, "Whoa...rock and roll".

    23. You cry when the DeLorean model kit you wanted was auctioned off to someone else on-line, and you swear he's not as much of an enthusiast as you and he doesn't deserve it.

    24. You practice dancing like 'pre-9-o'clock' George so that when you're in a dancing environment, you can bust your George grooves.

    25. You wake up later than everyone else and walk past the kitchen during breakfast, turn back say "Hey! What the hell is this?!"

    26. You are always acting out or adapting parts of the movies as if it applies to your life, or you try to set up a situation in dialogue where you can say a line.

    27. Your friend is trying to get you to ask a girl to the prom and you say, "But I'll miss my favourite television program Science Fiction Theatre!"

    28. You record all the movies onto cassette tapes so you can listen to them on your walkman when not home or around the TV.

    29. You try think out a logical way for a hover board to really work.

    30. You told some kids to get out of your way and when they didn't, you snapped "Are you deaf and stupid, I said move!"

    31. On your last road trip, you only eat at cafés with an owner named Lou.

    32. You're proud of the fact the other people in your town think you're a crazy wild-eyed scientist.

    33. When you get depressed you rub your head and whisper: Man this is heavy!

    34. You keep an eye on anyone with an -iff name just in case they are Tannen relatives.

    35. You wear red life preserver-like vests everyday, even in 110 degree weather.

    36. When you see anybody touch your girlfriend you yell: "Hey you get your damn hands off her!"

    37. Every time you visit the aquarium, you say: "the shark still looks fake."

    38. You start a riot at Universal Studios because they never made BTTF action figures.

    39. You think you're good at gun galleries just because Marty was.

    40. Every time you try to show a younger person a video game, you preface the tutorial with "And remember, it's not a baby's toy."

    41. You laugh every time your science teacher says density and then correct it.

    42. Your car won't start so you smash your head on the steering wheel.

    43. You spend hours on eBay looking at all the cool BTTF stuff, but you have no money to buy any of it.

    44. Some guy is grabbing a girl you grab his shirt and say "Get your meat hooks off..."

    45. You tape Vh1's behind the music on Huey Lewis and the news... hoping that they'll be a mention of Back to the Future.

    46. Your mom comes home you say "Mom, mom is that you?"

    47. You dehydrate a pizza so you can hydrate it later at Level 4.

    48. You ask the store worker if they carry "Oh la-la" magazine.

    49. You feel most comfortable falling asleep with the movie playing on the TV in your bedroom.

    50. You avoid a fight with the reason "I'm afraid I'm just not good at...confrontations...".

    51. You decide to read Jules Verne just because Doc did.

    52. You ask the store employee if they have "Pepsi Perfect" and then complain about how old-fashioned they are.

    53. You wear your jacket when using your hair dryer and pronounce "Drying Mode On" and when finished, you announce “Jacket Drying" ...

    54. You tried skateboarding because Marty does it.

    55. You marked down when BTTF is showing on TV on your calendar.

    56. You buy a DeLorean even before you get your license.

    57. You brag to your friends that you know more about BTTF than anybody else - then a bigger BTTF fan stumps you.

    58. You go 88mph in hopes that your car has a secret flux capacitor

    59. ... but cry when the officer hands you a ticket.

    60. You create an incentive game based on BTTF for your staff at work.

    61. The cop doesn't believe you when you try to use the old time travel excuse.

    62. You build a LEGO replica of the clock tower for your friends then apologize for its crudity because it's not built to scale.

    63. You arrive at work early, you say "Precisely On Schedule!"

    64. ... but if you're late, you say "Damn I'm late!"

    65. Someone hurts themself and in a shaky voice you ask "Are you OK?"

    66. Your friend your says, "Enough about Back To The Future!".

  4. You Know You've Watched BACK TO THE FUTURE too many times when ...

     

    1. You name your dog Einstein

    2. You call one of you buddy's "Doc"

    3. You try to start on the topic named 'you know you've watched BTTF too many times when'

    4. You spend your life savings to purchase a DeLorean

    4a. You demand your money back when said DeLorean doesn't travel through time

    5. You chop off the wheels of your skateboard so you can make it hover

    6. You have a lot of tickets for speeding on the highway at 88 mph b/c you were trying to attain the necessary speed

    7. You set fire to your tires so you can leave a blazing trail on the road

    8. Your last date ended with:

    You: Oh, you live right here?!

    Date: Yes, right on the main road.

    You: Roads? Where we're going, we don't need 'roads'.

    Date: Huh??

    9. When you order your drink at the counter, you say "Lou, gimme a milk ... chocolate!"

    9a. You adamantly say this even though you ordered an orange slurpee.

    9b. You adamantly say this even though the clerk is a female named Susy.

    10. You're ecstatic to find out that BTTF is coming on TV even though you've seen it a dozen time and your DVD is within reach.

    11. You stay up 'til the wee hours of the morning reading FutureGirl123, bttf444 and emmettbrown55's fanfiction.

    12. You see the words "back" or "future" in an article and begin to look for the other words regarding the films

    13. You make friends with a person just because his name is Marty.

    14. Your family turn off any film or documentary made in 1955 or 1985 because they don't want to get you started.

    15. If your reading this right now

    16. You get an 88% on a tough test at school and you exclaim "88 miles per hour!"

    17. The only songs you get stuck in your head are from the BTTF movies

    18. You laugh at your neighbour b/c he named his dog Copernicus

    19. Your home page is the official bttf website

    20. You name your son Marty and your daughter Jennifer

    21. You watch other time travel movies and complain about how "wrong" they are compared to BTTF

    21a. You do this even though you were the first person to start a thread about the "temporal inconsistencies" in BTTF

    22. When doing a report on Albert Einstein, you mention Doc's dog

    23. You're thinking of moving to Scotland so you could say 'Great Scott' constantly

    24. Your girlfriend who's on a diet gets turned off whenever you use the term "this is heavy"

    25. You point and run from the nearest public clock if it's 10:04

    26. You form an NRA hunting party ... for pine.

    27. Every November 12th, you take the day off from work citing "cosmic significance"

    28. You try and bring together famous gameshows and the BTTF movies, somehow

    29. You take hours to typing a glorious post on the BTTF Boards in order to discuss, in detail, the scientific possibilities of time travel and how they relate to the BTTF trilogy. Then, after you hit "post", you find that four other people have just posted the same thing!

    30. You find out that your new friend's birthday is November 5th and you tell him that that is "a red-letter date in the history of science"

    30a. You imagine no longer being friends when he didn't understand what you meant.

    31. You stop in your parking lot to reminisce once a week, remarking how "this was all farmland as far as the eye could see."

    32. You wipe the toilet constantly to make sure no one slips if they were to climb ...

    33. You hear a train whistle and you say "I've wanted to do that ever since I was a kid!" even though you're nowhere near the train.

    34. You know how old you will be on October 21st, 2015

    35. You tell the busboy at the local diner that he will become mayor one day because he said he was going to night school

    36. You demand the Pepsi be free.

    37. You keep extension cords near the biggest clock in town in case of an emergency

    38. When someone says they have a headache, you tell them that "the last thing" they need

    39. When your mom tells you to dump that "floosy", you surprisingly agree with her, stating she's just trying to keep you respectable

    40. You get a GREAT price reserving Wrigley Field tickets for the 2015 Series

    41. You angrily chase the installation man from your home when he suggests multiple fax machines

    42. You refuse to eat chicken at family gatherings, fearful that someone will use the proverb "you are what you eat"

    43. You can't hear the song "Earth Angel" without getting teary-eyed

    44. You switched from Coke to Pepsi after watching the film

    45. You think Johnny B. Goode was sung by Michael J. Fox

    46. Every time you see your friends you open conversation with "I love Back to the Future. It's the best movie ever."

    47. You can't get the cool theme song out of your head

    48. You taped the cartoon

    49. You start a petition to have Riverside Drive in your town renamed for JFK

    50. Someone calls you a name and you say "Mad Dog? I hate that name. I hate it, you hear?! Nobody calls me Mad Dog!" before you realize they didn't call you Mad Dog at all

    51. In the middle of the day you get the urge to go home and watch it

    52. You downloaded it even though it had viruses

    53. Whenever someone says "I thought ... ", you immediately interrupt with "You Thought Wrong, Dude!"

    54. You say "didn't that guy ever have hair??" about every bald person you see

    55. Every program on TV somehow reminds you of BTTF

    56. Your science teacher can't understand why you think Copernicus is a funny, outdated old name

    56a. You wonder how this person became a science teacher not understanding this

    57. During a lightning storm, you urge the pilot lower the aircraft's speed to below 88 mph

    58. People ask you your favourite band and you say "Marvin Berry & the Starlighters"

    59. You're on the Black Panthers hit list b/c you think white people invented motown

    60. People ask you what you want for your birthday and you shout "a hoverboard!" without thinking

    61. You ask your parents to explain in detail how they met; just in case you ever need to know

    62. You hang up the phone and can't remember if it was Craig or Greg who just called

    63. You own a red vest that you lovingly call your life preserver

    64. When you win the lottery, you donate a chunk of it to the Coast Guard Youth Auxiliary

    65. You drool everytime you see a black Toyota truck pass by

    66. You suddenly realize your birth year has some meaning

    67. You dream for consecutive nights about modifying your DeLorean into a BTTF one, but you don't have any car whatsoever

    68. You're campaigning to raise the speed limit to 90 so you can do 88mph legally

    69. You shop at JCPenney's after hours

    70. You get excited every time a clock just changes to 28 minutes after the hour

    71. When you see a baby inside a crib, you say to it "better get used to these bars kid"

    72. You only buy light beer just in case some mean guy follows you home and breaks in

    73. You ask every Joey you know if they've ever been in jail

    74. You raise heck at the DMV b/c "OUTATIME" is taken

    75. You name your kid Marty just b/c "it's such a nice name"

    76. You hover-convert a kid's LEGO car and ask for "only 39,999.95"

    77. They love you at the local diner b/c you pay with a 50 every time you buy soda and don't ask for change

    78. You ask your vegetarian girlfriend EVERY DAY if she doesn't eat "bee-bee-beef or pork"

    79. You decided to watch Part 2 when Michael Jackson passed away

    80. You wear your jeans with the pockets inside out

    81. You get arrested for "borrowing" a train for your science experiment

    82. "Beat It" is the only Michael Jackson song you know

    83. When a friend mentions how he wishes he could go back in time and live his life over, you go nuts and say "ARE YOU INSANE??? HAVE YOU NO REGARD FOR THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM???"

    84. You always keep a picture of yourself with your brother and sister just in case

    85. You point and laugh at people who only wear one tie at a time

    86. Your only criteria when voting is if the candidate will preserve the nearest clock tower

    87. Upon seeing Tim's second completed hot-rod on the show "Home Improvement", your first reaction was "Nice of him to clean up Biff's old car!" (It was a '46 Ford)

    88. You run away screaming every time you see a blue VW bus.

     

    Hope those were fun, most are not original.

  5. the Triple Crown.

     

    Just in the past 25 years...

    Johan Santana

    Randy Johnson

    Pedro Martinez

    Roger Clemens

    Roger Clemens

    Dwight Gooden

    You said Roger Clemens twice.

    :angel:

     

    Saints points scored against Tampa Bay this weekend - 35

    Since my selection stated 25, I'll have to stick to that and go with the under.

     

    Edit: Most points scored by a team this NFL week @ 39.

  6. Whoa, ask and ye shall receive ...

     

    Edit: If you all will note in the 'Guest Appearances' section, it says it's Corey Dillon, and not Cory Dillon.

    Hallelujah, I've been confirmed!!

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