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Football / Re: Stern John and Kevin Jeffrey elected to the NJCAA Soccer Hall of Fame
« on: July 19, 2009, 09:53:30 AM »Congrats to Stern!
and 2 Kevin
No doubt, good call!
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No doubt, good call!
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Football / Re: football philosophy: death of possession football?
« on: July 19, 2009, 09:23:24 AM »
Ah lot of crazy events have occurred in the name of mistaken identity ... I would wheel and come again.
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Football / Re: Perpetual Students of the Games
« on: July 19, 2009, 09:12:39 AM »
Seriously ... you're saying whenever you run into ... say, the penalty area ... you hold your breath?
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Football / Re: Warriors in fight to change attitudes.
« on: July 19, 2009, 09:08:46 AM »
Yuh know, I read dis and I REFUSED (actually din entertain) the thought that the man literally meant "sucked" the ring off his finger ... ah well.
14555
Football / Re: Thread for the 2009 Gold Cup Games.
« on: July 19, 2009, 08:57:24 AM »
Ah hoping the Guadeloupe and Costa Rica match-up proves entertaining. Last time around, it was no walk in the park for the Ticos ... although they won 1-love on the basis of an early goal.
With the help of some excellent insight provided by Rodrigo Calvo what we have is:
*6 holdover Guadeloupe players from the 2007 campaign: Vertot and Tacalfred in the defence, Auvray and Capoue in the middle, and Fleurival and Loval up top
* only 3 Costa Rican returnees from the 2007 edition of the GC: Harold Wallace, skipper Walter Centeno (scorer of the item that eliminated Guadeloupe), and Alvaro Saborío
* the same Guadeloupe coach (Salnot has been in the position since 2001); Kenton in for Hernan Medford
*Angloma on the sideline as an assistant
*new Guadeloupe keeper, Fausta ... not doing badly at 36
Should be very interesting ... especially b/c they'll be without the creative efforts of skipper Centeno due to a knee injury sustained on Friday ... Whatever? He's the most capped tico (131), the defensive mid with the most goals (22), and as of last week, he is the leading Costa Rican goal scorer in Gold Cup history (9).
BTW ... training activities in hotel ballrooms seem not to be unique to us as the ticos went about their paces indoors in Dallas the other day
... didn't seem to create a stir though 
With the help of some excellent insight provided by Rodrigo Calvo what we have is:
*6 holdover Guadeloupe players from the 2007 campaign: Vertot and Tacalfred in the defence, Auvray and Capoue in the middle, and Fleurival and Loval up top
* only 3 Costa Rican returnees from the 2007 edition of the GC: Harold Wallace, skipper Walter Centeno (scorer of the item that eliminated Guadeloupe), and Alvaro Saborío
* the same Guadeloupe coach (Salnot has been in the position since 2001); Kenton in for Hernan Medford
*Angloma on the sideline as an assistant
*new Guadeloupe keeper, Fausta ... not doing badly at 36
Should be very interesting ... especially b/c they'll be without the creative efforts of skipper Centeno due to a knee injury sustained on Friday ... Whatever? He's the most capped tico (131), the defensive mid with the most goals (22), and as of last week, he is the leading Costa Rican goal scorer in Gold Cup history (9).
BTW ... training activities in hotel ballrooms seem not to be unique to us as the ticos went about their paces indoors in Dallas the other day
... didn't seem to create a stir though 14556
General Discussion / Re: 40 yr anniversary of man on the moon.
« on: July 19, 2009, 08:01:58 AM »
Classic.
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Football / Re: U-20 tournament in Venezuela
« on: July 19, 2009, 07:45:19 AM »
Tallest: The information I'm getting is conflicting. It confirms that all 5 goals were scored in the first half ... one of the VEN items was a penalty converted by Madrigal. HOWEVER, segments of the Venezuelan press (including the local press in Puerto la Cruz) differ from the FVF's report. At least 2 sources indicate our goal was an own goal attributed to Madrigal in the 35th minute. That said, based on your link, you provided the info correctly.
What I have is VEN goals at 2', 5' 13', and 20'. VEN own goal at 35'
Aside: Iker Casillas is in Venezuela. On Friday he landed by helicopter in the middle of a Caracas stadium, at an event targeted to about 230 kids ... while there he went on record saying he thinks Real should promote more players from within its ranks. That is, players who've been on the youth squads and understand the club's values etc ... While he didn't comment directly on the new big $$ acquisitions, yuh doh have to guess wha going on in his head.
Anyway, ah hadda say, he's doing a lot of goodwill travel in his off-season b/c last week I caught footage of him in in Mali. Interesting note on this is that he's in Venezuela courtesy Real Espport. Espport is a club with ties to Madrid ... financed by descendants of Spanish and Portuguese immigrants ... they just moved into the VEN top flight last year August. Watch de ride!
What I have is VEN goals at 2', 5' 13', and 20'. VEN own goal at 35'
Quote
Sobraron los goles`
En el primer encuentro de la jornada sabatina del hexagonal preparatorio al Mundial de Egipto Costa Rica derrotó 4 goles por 1 a Trinidad y Tobago. Los goles costarricenses fueron anotados por Jose Mena al minuto 2`, Diego Madrigal al 5´de penal, Marco Urena al 13 y Alejandro Castro al 20`todos en la primera mitad. Mientras el tanto trinitario fue un autogol de Madrigal al 35
http://www.elnorte.com.ve/noticiasdehoy/?cuerpo=20
Aside: Iker Casillas is in Venezuela. On Friday he landed by helicopter in the middle of a Caracas stadium, at an event targeted to about 230 kids ... while there he went on record saying he thinks Real should promote more players from within its ranks. That is, players who've been on the youth squads and understand the club's values etc ... While he didn't comment directly on the new big $$ acquisitions, yuh doh have to guess wha going on in his head.
Anyway, ah hadda say, he's doing a lot of goodwill travel in his off-season b/c last week I caught footage of him in in Mali. Interesting note on this is that he's in Venezuela courtesy Real Espport. Espport is a club with ties to Madrid ... financed by descendants of Spanish and Portuguese immigrants ... they just moved into the VEN top flight last year August. Watch de ride!
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Football / Re: Zamora's next stop - T&T.
« on: July 18, 2009, 09:22:30 AM »IF Lata's want Zamora to play...fine, I ain't the national coach. I support the national side regardless of wether I happy with the players selected. But I am in Big Mag camp.....Zamora could score a hatterick in every game remaining in the hex and get us single handed to the World Cup...I will be happy fuh T&T but not him. He is the most blatant, living example of our once favourite term 'waggonist' and nothing he has done so far has proved otherwise. Not that he even actually play yet but, only if he still donning the national uniform after this current campaign......then I will happily eat 'humble pie' (no, one game is not enough, incase yuh reading this Bobby!)
Soldiers, That youth is not a Trinidadian. If he doh want to come here he could feel that way, because he is a not a natural born citizen. He is doing we ah favor, if he come and produce. If we start beating people and make to SA, yuh go still hold ah grievance against de man?
Favor?
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Football / Re: Stern John and Kevin Jeffrey elected to the NJCAA Soccer Hall of Fame
« on: July 18, 2009, 09:00:08 AM »
Congrats to Stern!
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Football / Re: Joe Public to unleash Japanese maestro.
« on: July 18, 2009, 08:53:06 AM »Sorry Okaki if I offended you.
Did not know it was derogatory.
For my education...what is the abbreviation for your nationality?
Abbreviation?
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Football / Re: Joe Public to unleash Japanese maestro.
« on: July 18, 2009, 08:51:34 AM »This move will benefit Joe Public alot now I am sure they will get more support because everyone will want to see this Japanese player play, the Chinese Association might come to games now because he might relay to them.
You trying on purpose to steal the DavyJenny from Tallman or what?
Nah, he shouldn't be considered for any award. Period.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: MICHAEL JACKSON DEAD AT 50
« on: July 16, 2009, 08:52:50 PM »Quote
aside: ah hear, Sam have a MJ-tribute look going. he wearing this one rough glove and singing: 'i'm starting with de meggie in de mirror'
Can ah worms opened.
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Football / Re: Joe Public to unleash Japanese maestro.
« on: July 16, 2009, 08:46:25 PM »
Niceness.
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General Discussion / Re: Will U vote PNm Again
« on: July 16, 2009, 02:50:21 PM »
P.S. part of the problem is "allyuh" the electorate doh believe politics is ah professional activity.
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General Discussion / Re: Will U vote PNm Again
« on: July 16, 2009, 02:43:11 PM »
Fire bun all ah de chatter bcoz when 3rd party agents arrive on de scene iz de same 'lesser of 2 evils' voters who end up blazing ah trail against the 3rd party entrants.
Deal wid de mockery created by your complicity in the state of governance! ... Or, as is 'fashionable', charter a plane and dispatch de entire political class to Costa Rica (personally, I would suggest a country at the bottom of the Human Development Index
) ... and start to expletive again.
Ah sure Bas would unnerstan ... given his recent public pronouncements.
Deal wid de mockery created by your complicity in the state of governance! ... Or, as is 'fashionable', charter a plane and dispatch de entire political class to Costa Rica (personally, I would suggest a country at the bottom of the Human Development Index
) ... and start to expletive again.Ah sure Bas would unnerstan ... given his recent public pronouncements.
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Football / Re: Warner launches Under-20 tour to Egypt.
« on: July 16, 2009, 11:37:50 AM »
An enterprising traveller could fix up fuh less than $37k.
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Football / Re: U-20 tournament in Venezuela
« on: July 15, 2009, 02:38:43 PM »wham if trini and egypt make the final?
Yuh could rule out the possibility of this hypothetical scenario becoming a reality.
Presumably the Paraguayans don't mind cutting our arse twice?
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Football / Re: U-20 tournament in Venezuela
« on: July 15, 2009, 02:33:19 PM »
Another indication of the FVF's commitment to growing the sport.
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Football / Re: Manchester City
« on: July 15, 2009, 01:51:46 PM »
Well, those defensive concerns would be partially redressed if Terry walks.
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General Discussion / Re: Honduras coup warning for T&T—Panday
« on: July 15, 2009, 01:44:24 PM »
July 13, 2009
Honduran Rivals See U.S. Intervention as Crucial in Resolving Political Crisis
By GINGER THOMPSON
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — When President Óscar Arias of Costa Rica set out to find a negotiated solution to the Honduran political crisis, he hailed it as an opportunity for Central Americans to show they could resolve their own problems, and he established some simple ground rules.
The ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, and the man who leads the de facto government that replaced him, Roberto Micheletti, were each to show up at his house with just four of their closest Honduran advisers.
On Thursday morning, Mr. Micheletti showed up with six, adding an American public relations specialist who has done work for former President Bill Clinton and the American’s interpreter, and an official close to the talks said the team rarely made a move without consulting him.
Then on Friday, with the negotiations seemingly going nowhere, Mr. Arias reached out for American support of his own, telling Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that pressure from the United States was crucial to ending the stalemate.
In the two weeks since the coup against Mr. Zelaya, the Obama administration has taken great pains to distance itself from the crisis as part of an effort to make the United States just one of many players in a region that it has long dominated. And Latin American leaders have publicly expressed support for what they describe as Washington’s new spirit of collaboration.
Privately, and not so privately, however, it has become clear that leaders on all sides of this crisis see the United States as the key to getting what they want.
In recent days, Mr. Zelaya and his allies, who include some of the most vocal critics of United States policy in the region, have repeatedly called on Washington to increase its pressure on Mr. Micheletti by recalling its ambassador — the United States is one of the few countries in the region that continues to keep its envoy in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital — and by imposing tougher sanctions.
Even Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, made a rare call to Assistant Secretary of State Thomas A. Shannon Jr. on Friday to directly make an appeal he had issued earlier on television.
“Do something,” Mr. Chávez had said to reporters. “Obama, do something.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Micheletti has embarked on a public relations offensive, with his supporters hiring high-profile lawyers with strong Washington connections to lobby against such sanctions. One powerful Latin American business council hired Lanny J. Davis, who has served as President Clinton’s personal lawyer and who campaigned for Mrs. Clinton for president.
And last week, Mr. Micheletti brought the adviser from another firm with Clinton ties to the talks in Costa Rica. The adviser, Bennett Ratcliff of San Diego, refused to give details about his role at the talks.
“Every proposal that Micheletti’s group presented was written or approved by the American,” said another official close to the talks, referring to Mr. Ratcliff.
With or without the presence of foreigners, Mr. Arias faces long odds against success. Mr. Zelaya and Mr. Micheletti refused to meet face to face and left the talks before the end of the first day. And while there was less hostility between the two delegations on Day 2, an official close to the talks said Mr. Arias was unable to get the groups to agree on a date for the next round of talks or even to shake hands in front of the throngs of reporters gathered outside his home.
“He told them, the Palestinians and Israelis were enemies for generations, and their leaders shook hands,” an official said, referring to Mr. Arias. “You all were friends until two weeks ago. And yet you cannot make one symbolic gesture?”
But people who are familiar with the talks — diplomats, lawyers and government officials who attended the meetings or monitored them from offices in Costa Rica, the United States and Honduras — said the sessions produced at least one important breakthrough: leaders on both sides of the divide moved beyond their blustery statements so that mediators could identify the real obstacles to a peaceful compromise.
Among the most intractable of those obstacles, said three officials close to the talks, was Mr. Micheletti. While Mr. Zelaya indicated that he was willing to accept a compromise that would return him to office with significantly limited powers, the officials said, it appeared that Mr. Micheletti believed he could run out the clock and hold on to the presidency until his country’s presidential elections in November.
The officials said Mr. Arias told Mrs. Clinton that the United States had to make clear to Mr. Micheletti that elections held by an illegitimate government would themselves not be considered legitimate.
However, one official said that the United States wanted to be careful “not to take a huge public role.” He said the United States indicated that it would quietly make clear to Mr. Micheletti that the $16.5 million it has already suspended in military aid could be expanded to include $180 million in other economic development assistance that is still under review.
Mr. Micheletti’s supporters are pushing back in part by paying hundreds of dollars an hour to well-connected Washington lawyers who have initiated a charm offensive from Washington. On Friday, Mr. Davis was testifying on Capitol Hill in support of Mr. Micheletti’s de facto government.
And on Saturday, Mr. Davis called reporters close to midnight to notify them that Mr. Micheletti had fired Enrique Ortez, whom he had appointed as his foreign minister, for having outraged American officials by referring in a television interview to President Obama as “that little black guy who doesn’t even know where Tegucigalpa is located.”
Honduran Rivals See U.S. Intervention as Crucial in Resolving Political Crisis
By GINGER THOMPSON
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica — When President Óscar Arias of Costa Rica set out to find a negotiated solution to the Honduran political crisis, he hailed it as an opportunity for Central Americans to show they could resolve their own problems, and he established some simple ground rules.
The ousted president of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, and the man who leads the de facto government that replaced him, Roberto Micheletti, were each to show up at his house with just four of their closest Honduran advisers.
On Thursday morning, Mr. Micheletti showed up with six, adding an American public relations specialist who has done work for former President Bill Clinton and the American’s interpreter, and an official close to the talks said the team rarely made a move without consulting him.
Then on Friday, with the negotiations seemingly going nowhere, Mr. Arias reached out for American support of his own, telling Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that pressure from the United States was crucial to ending the stalemate.
In the two weeks since the coup against Mr. Zelaya, the Obama administration has taken great pains to distance itself from the crisis as part of an effort to make the United States just one of many players in a region that it has long dominated. And Latin American leaders have publicly expressed support for what they describe as Washington’s new spirit of collaboration.
Privately, and not so privately, however, it has become clear that leaders on all sides of this crisis see the United States as the key to getting what they want.
In recent days, Mr. Zelaya and his allies, who include some of the most vocal critics of United States policy in the region, have repeatedly called on Washington to increase its pressure on Mr. Micheletti by recalling its ambassador — the United States is one of the few countries in the region that continues to keep its envoy in Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital — and by imposing tougher sanctions.
Even Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, made a rare call to Assistant Secretary of State Thomas A. Shannon Jr. on Friday to directly make an appeal he had issued earlier on television.
“Do something,” Mr. Chávez had said to reporters. “Obama, do something.”
Meanwhile, Mr. Micheletti has embarked on a public relations offensive, with his supporters hiring high-profile lawyers with strong Washington connections to lobby against such sanctions. One powerful Latin American business council hired Lanny J. Davis, who has served as President Clinton’s personal lawyer and who campaigned for Mrs. Clinton for president.
And last week, Mr. Micheletti brought the adviser from another firm with Clinton ties to the talks in Costa Rica. The adviser, Bennett Ratcliff of San Diego, refused to give details about his role at the talks.
“Every proposal that Micheletti’s group presented was written or approved by the American,” said another official close to the talks, referring to Mr. Ratcliff.
With or without the presence of foreigners, Mr. Arias faces long odds against success. Mr. Zelaya and Mr. Micheletti refused to meet face to face and left the talks before the end of the first day. And while there was less hostility between the two delegations on Day 2, an official close to the talks said Mr. Arias was unable to get the groups to agree on a date for the next round of talks or even to shake hands in front of the throngs of reporters gathered outside his home.
“He told them, the Palestinians and Israelis were enemies for generations, and their leaders shook hands,” an official said, referring to Mr. Arias. “You all were friends until two weeks ago. And yet you cannot make one symbolic gesture?”
But people who are familiar with the talks — diplomats, lawyers and government officials who attended the meetings or monitored them from offices in Costa Rica, the United States and Honduras — said the sessions produced at least one important breakthrough: leaders on both sides of the divide moved beyond their blustery statements so that mediators could identify the real obstacles to a peaceful compromise.
Among the most intractable of those obstacles, said three officials close to the talks, was Mr. Micheletti. While Mr. Zelaya indicated that he was willing to accept a compromise that would return him to office with significantly limited powers, the officials said, it appeared that Mr. Micheletti believed he could run out the clock and hold on to the presidency until his country’s presidential elections in November.
The officials said Mr. Arias told Mrs. Clinton that the United States had to make clear to Mr. Micheletti that elections held by an illegitimate government would themselves not be considered legitimate.
However, one official said that the United States wanted to be careful “not to take a huge public role.” He said the United States indicated that it would quietly make clear to Mr. Micheletti that the $16.5 million it has already suspended in military aid could be expanded to include $180 million in other economic development assistance that is still under review.
Mr. Micheletti’s supporters are pushing back in part by paying hundreds of dollars an hour to well-connected Washington lawyers who have initiated a charm offensive from Washington. On Friday, Mr. Davis was testifying on Capitol Hill in support of Mr. Micheletti’s de facto government.
And on Saturday, Mr. Davis called reporters close to midnight to notify them that Mr. Micheletti had fired Enrique Ortez, whom he had appointed as his foreign minister, for having outraged American officials by referring in a television interview to President Obama as “that little black guy who doesn’t even know where Tegucigalpa is located.”
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Football / Re: Manchester City
« on: July 15, 2009, 08:39:10 AM »When you look at the list of players coming in to Manchester City.....
I could only see one person being sacked.............
Mark Hughes........
Absolutely! It's a miracle he's still around. However, the fact that he is still there suggests he has some room to work with ...
I don't give him great odds at surviving till May, but maybe for different reasons than some on here. It's clear Hughes has a perception v ability gap in our minds, but MC need not be managed by a 'name' manager.
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Entertainment & Culture Discussion / Re: Dr. Conrad Murray is Grenadian
« on: July 13, 2009, 08:14:01 PM »
Clearly the MJ thread has nothing to do with this.
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Football / Re: Thread for the 2009 Gold Cup Games.
« on: July 13, 2009, 08:09:33 PM »
There was a lot of physical contact by both players on this play ... and, as I recall, Arnaud thought he had been fouled, and also recognized there was a good counter on offer ... hence the holding ... I'd have to look at it again, but I think the ref blew the whistle in his favour. I don't think this was the dramatic beats.
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Football / Re: Possibly a thread people will see as stupid but anyway..... Who is the Greatest
« on: July 13, 2009, 07:58:51 PM »...
One thing I do notice about the players that come to my mind is that they moved to the country they represented very early in their life. It is rare you'll find someone you made an significant or memorable impact who didn't live in that country for long period of time, if at all.... (excluding Robbie Earle - 1st World Cup Goal Ever or Birchall's 'Belter' against Mexico)
Emmanuel Olisadebe (Nigeria/Poland)
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Football / Re: Possibly a thread people will see as stupid but anyway..... Who is the Greatest
« on: July 13, 2009, 07:44:42 PM »Thierry Henry - Guadeloupe/France
Edgar Davids - Surinam/Holland
Mario Balotelli - Ghana/Italy U21
Thierry Henry was Born in France and Balotelli was Born in Italy
The born in "France" distinction in the case of the Antilleans does not "carry" in the same way as does others ... Guadeloupe is France.
Anyway, the sentimental favourite for me from those listed is Tresor ... (first name Marius). Check this article from last year: http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/news/newsid=753188.html
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Football / Re: The Official Transfer Thread (2009-2010 season) players & coaches.
« on: July 13, 2009, 10:59:52 AM »
AM says Kun is staying put.
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Football / Re: Thread for the 2009 Gold Cup Games.
« on: July 12, 2009, 06:21:50 PM »
Guadeloupe running wholesale changes fuh this game v Mexico ... several "new" names on the play list.
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Football / Re: Thread for the 2009 Gold Cup Games.
« on: July 12, 2009, 06:19:24 PM »2-0 Canal Boys.
They looking very good. A friendly with them will be nice.
In principle, I agree. During the match I was thinking about them as a friendly candidate ... might have been nice to ketch them before the tournament ... even after St. Kitts, although their motivation likely wouldn't be there.
However, I disagree with the how they look part ... have you seen all of their games? Is Nicaragua they playing!
Anyway, as far as the friendly ... we wouldn't get the same game because they won't have several of their players at their disposal.
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General Discussion / Re: Outlaws in the United States, strangers at home
« on: July 12, 2009, 02:39:17 PM »14580
General Discussion / Re: THE OFFICIAL BABES THREAD
« on: July 12, 2009, 02:00:16 PM »Lefty, ah feel yuh making ah strong case fuh ah memorable quote being ah visual.
who................... me...................... nah
@ e-man see ah push d limits lil to far, my bad sry
Wham dey? Looks like part of the "mounting" evidence has been withdrawn.