> > > > > There IS something besides football.
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> > > > Of course there is - there's baseball. I watched the Cubs-Brewers game last night... I love watching the Cubs lose. 'Course, I'd prefer to watch them win, but that never happens.
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> > > > I tell you, all their faults notwithstanding, the Chicago Cubs are the best team in the league when it comes down to beating the Chicago Cubs. They could be such a good team, but they always fall apart in the endgame. Last night was tied 4-4, and then the Cubs let *three* runs through in the fourteenth! Three! There is no excuse for that. Nor is there any excuse for losing to the Brewers. At least Sammy got his sixtieth home run.
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> > > Hehe. I gotta professor that let's his mood be determined by whether or not the Cubs win. Needless to say, he's a grouch. Guess it's going to be another *fun-filled* class this week....sigh.
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> > I bet he just tells you that 'cause he feels that he needs an excuse for being a grouch all the time. No one would be foolish enough to let his mood be determined by the sucess of the Chicago Cubs... That's like betting your life savings on the Brewers, for example. Provided, of course, that they're not playing the Cubs. ;-P
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> Yup, you're probably right. Although he is originally from Chicago, so he has some right to claim that. He's just a big poop anyway. He killed us with a horrible exam last week. Toughest exam I've ever taken. I don't claim to be good at memorization, but I thought I had most of the stuff down cold. I was wrong. OR at least his test thought so.

We had a teacher in my old high school who was a notorious grump (he's retired now) - smoking is illegal on school grounds, so he'd just sit there in class and chew on a cigar. He was always a hoot... my friend Fred had locker #666. It wouldn't open. We figured that's because this teacher lived in there, and held the door shut...