Though the rules are being reinvented as we speak, to be sure, Autumn is considered September, October and November in the Northern Hemisphere, and March, April and May in the Southern, if you're keeping score? It has somehow come to be the time of the year when the arrival of night comes noticeably earlier; the pageants forever forward in march, but none of this is calculated from a purely astronomical perspective...

Up in the mornin' and out to school. The teacher is teachin' the golden rule . Everything is shiny and new, but teacher, don't you fill me up with your rule! Smoking aint allowed ANYWHERE, I'll not be played the fool. Like deciphering the unfamiliar word at the tiny tip of the tongue. No bother, a student must remain alert. Here's to learners, even if they ain't so young!

Begin and end with consonants. Finish school related projects. Start with new Velcro snap backpacks. Commence transition from Summer into Winter sharing ideas at the fountain of knowledge with lots of different learners. Begin alienation process. Bus bullies. Book fairs and pizza on Fridays. Classmates joined forever at the hip, learning to develop brand new voices along a multitude of paths.

At this time, the stay-at-home parent rejoices! It's the...MOST... wonderful...time...of...the yeeeeeeear!

The MLB Playoffs and it's picture grows clearer for richer or poorer. Your affinities for a team have been studyin' so hard and hopin' to pass. With the right ingredients, the sky's the limit, turning mirrors into windows without high risk, plus that strong return on reward!

It all happens so fast. Seasons change. Most everyone grows old. It pays to do your homework and gain insight into the line between black and white. This makes anyone less uptight as it is a marathon and not a sprint for lack of one single step.

Learning ken be fun but the insanity of the first day of school is on a high-rise of levels. Summer fun fades to distant recollections as the foliage of Fall...only to slip and slide away! Parents begin to unpack sweatshirts and hats, boots and mittens, readying for the worst Mother Nature has to offer, as the boys of summer continue to play.

This is by no means the house of detention, but a new season in the scheme of life. Stop and take stock, even with the dark storm clouds of NFL and NBA lockouts looming. Sow ye rosebuds whilst ye may! This entire process, like water heading to the sea, brings a feast of newfound friends, on a vicious whirlwind cycle with scores of cameos from complete characters that slowly begin to fade. Akin to shiny red apples for the teacher long since rotted. 123's and ABC's. Job security in the learning process means theres always students in need of a teacher and vice versa.

It's about time we got wise. Prostrate to a profession? Come empty. Leave open...nothing is important in a classroom if numbers needn't be learned. Spend time counting, begin at the beginning, keeping progress in proper sequence. This will help with the score...

Ring ring goes that bell. It's not hard to tell who's a Beary Good Worker. Happy New School Year! Any pertinent material will go in the appropriate file for any eligible gold stars. Athletes get clauses and cars, but try to smile and have fun. Master a craft within the appropriate perimeter. Let's minimize interruption. Ask questions and please take a stand. Understand, everything is to be neat and tidy. We've certainly made a mess of this apparent mockery!

As there are rules, if you behave, there is football Saturday, Sunday, Monday and sometimes Thursday and Friday all across the country! The appropriate parties, deemed responsible, will be notified in advance.

The hall bulletin is in the hall. This will provide news, notes and scores. Roster amendments, transactions and worse! If you get yourselves into groups to discuss shapes and focus on classifications, know we're in trouble! Instead try to develop those savory skills and a solid sense of self. Keep your sneakers clean. Stay on the scene.

Experience and education are often mistook for the other...

The Harvest is meant to be imparted. Never sporadic. All well within due process. For what is left of the NBA? The revamped Heat, featuring their own version of Cream, now consists of trio, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and LeBron James, who will open the NBA season against the Boston Celtics Oct. 26, on a nationally televised clash, cite TNT.

As compared to the proud processional that is this New England Fall, which changes vestments royal in ceremony like a full moon harvest festival, trust I'll stay till my seeds all dry up.

The chill of winter is on the horizon. Skies will turn grey, and people, inward. Let's not beat around the bush. Tell the tourists what they want to hear. There is a gladness for the fruits of the Earth mixed with a certain melancholy linked to the imminent arrival of Old Man Winter. Layers are often required in compensation as it does tend to grow cold. You do what you are and become what you do.

The NHL is getting old! This season, which will be the 93rd, hockey starts on October 7, 2010! It will be the fourth consecutive season that will open in Europe and a record, three events are scheduled with tons of hoopla built in!

Some will say, to be cool, know-how comes down to size. Weight and measurement, but check your World History. Read between the lines. You're sure to use practical math. This could be, yet another, rags to riches story and your involvement in the learning process is critical, crucial and potentially mandatory.

I don't like Mondays, though I have to admit it's getting better, it's getting better all the time. Money can't buy love, happiness or an education and these are the class rules, which are tools for workin' your fingers right down to the bone.

Subtract to add, creating patterns, which would be, in your estimation? Positive or negative? Have a bad neighbor? Well, now you ken throw in the fact, the one who lives next to you won't leave you alone, otherwise, you're well on the way toward success.

This change in seasons has little to do with a well fed female adorned with fruits but remains a classic nonetheless. For every reason...turn...turn...turn. Show solidarity in your efforts. If all else fails, blame it on the school district.

Voluntary relinquishment is a surrender in a sense of sorts. A known right or privilege has been betrayed. Let's waive all formalities. To refrain from claiming is to forgo, which, as you know, would be negligent. There is less to be alarmed about than you think.

There are all kinds of waivers for as many different occasions. Raise a toast in praise of new scenery. Time has a way of making changes.

Transactions made to the roster of a major league team during or after the season includes any player under contract that may be placed on waivers at any time without rhyme or reason. Time after time this is the flavor of waivers season after season.

Ice cream is also an American past time and offered for sale in various confections. Ice and milk concoctions. Available in a broad spectrum of flavors, bomb pops and the latest crazes, drop by your nearest shop for some intense refreshment.

If a player is waived, any team may claim it. If more than one team claims the player from waivers, the team with the weakest record in the product's league gets preference. If no team in the product's league claims it, the claiming team with the weakest record in the other league gets preference. Product preference is determined using the previous year's standings in the first month of baseball in any new season.

If a team claims a player off waivers, the current team, the "waiving team", may choose one of the following options: arrange a trade with the claiming team within two business days of said claim; or rescind the request, effectively canceling the waiver; or do nothing but dump and retrieve, leading the claiming team to believe and assume all future responsibilities, paying the waiving team a fee to place the player on its active roster and be washed of any further doings.

Scott Boras is your ice cream man, stop him when you're passing by.

Shop. Sell and buy. If a player is claimed and the waiving team exercises rescission, which is a hop, skip and a jump from rocking the boat, the waiving team may not use that option again in the same season. Effectively shutting the door on future entertainment. No more monkey business.

"At times you have provided, left something of your youth, performed more than injured, now get lost, Sour Grape!"

If no team claims the player from waivers in three business days, it's all over....baby blue. Into the icebox! Condemned to freezer burn and a spot start in the UFC.

Return to sender. This no welcome zone.

The player has cleared waivers and may be assigned to a minor league team, traded, or released outright as expired product. Say goodbye to the scenery and anyone else you knew.

The waiver "wire" is a secret flavor within the circles of Major League Baseball clubs; no announcement of a new player waiver is made until a transaction actually occurs. Then both parties would chat on wooden benches enjoying the sinking summer sun with a sugar cone a piece.

Many players are waived discreetly during the August "waiver-required" trading period to gauge interest. If a trade can't be worked out, the waiving team will rescind the waiver to avoid losing quality product to what may amount to the local mafioso.

Each team maintains a 25 and 40 card roster. The 40 card roster allows for the broken cones or a Cherry sundae down in the minors, who may grow to be part and parcel of the "September call-ups" with the school clothes and backpacks.The rule being hard and fast, products must be placed by August 31st to be eligible for post season play. The only exception being the ___ ______ clause as a product on the 60-day disabled list you've since forgotten about. A product designated for assignment is immediately removed from the 40 card roster. Say goodbye to Hollywood. All seems lost. Sometimes these things happen for a reason. If a player is put on waivers another team can claim the baggage within 48 consecutive hours.

Virtually every flavor to savor in the major leagues will be placed on waivers this month, whether a team intends to trade that product or not. Heckle and haggle but at a price to be bought. No use growing cold. Let's be reasonable. Sometimes in a transaction the deal involves more than one paying customer. Its all cat and mouse and meticulous paperwork. If nothing else, the sheer volume of calling cards can at least disguise players whom clubs do want to sneak through so they can be dealt.

It's getting in touch with how you felt when the Good Humor man was always around. Drowning your sorrows in a dreamsical always made me feel better...

To be civil, certain procedures must be put in place. Certified letters. Court documents. The hand-cranked freezers were a major breakthrough for sunshine on a stick, but, likewise, in Baseball negotiations, the gauntlet had to be raised. Having a party that submits to the courts also works. One open to almost any option. Akin to the wooden bucket freezer with rotary paddles to help improve ice cream's manufacturing process.

Players claimed by more than one team, are so as the spoils of rags, as the club with the worst record in that product's league gains priority -- and the player can be traded only to that team. If a deal can't be worked out or the team doesn't want to trade that player, it can be pulled back off the shelf once in August. If it is placed on the shelf again before September, it can't be recalled a second time.

Fear has it's limitations, which I'm afraid, frightens me. If a team is hoping to dump a product's salary, a la Canseco, it simply allows a team which claimed that player to have them for a small waiver fee. If that happens, the team that gets the player has to pay the price.

Optional assignment is part of a 40 card roster not active and may be moved freely between two relative points: the Majors and the Minors, which are simply two different freezers. This may not occur for any part of more than 3 seasons or the player may no longer move without first clearing waivers. In the past many teams claimed players just to keep them from being traded to contenders with a better record.

This topic is obviously NOT the sunshine at the end of the rainbow. Or like ice brought from the mountains and combined with fruit toppings but business dealings in a weary and wired world.

Up around the bend. Just on the horizon. A jam-packed athletic event full of social consequence. Student athletes fielded frenetically by American Universities to play out the odds for the main money men. Held in high esteem on the gridiron rendering smash mouth legit. Attending classes in classic Americana all across campus in as many different subjects. Herded into hallowed cathedrals were everyone knows the game. Go team!

Welcome to college football Saturday! Oregon is picked to win the Pac-10 and USC say's they'll be back again, but how will it play out on the field?

Feed the frenzy in the lot. Feel the pulsations, tailgating outside the stadium within a 10 mile radius. Or jam-packed into residential driveways hustling an extra buck parking cars on a private lawn. Following the slabs of plywood all the way around to the backyard making an indent in the grass.

Passing colored lots haphazardly arranged upon every block with College Gameday firing off some powered satellite generator. Everywhere you turn preparations are being made. Plans laid for the outcome and the grand entrance of the appetizers. Checkered tablecloths filled to the brim beside sizzling grills of smoked sausage. Tailgaters of every genre. Suds and tortilla's. El Capitan Margaritas flaunting foam fingers inside a mob of gang colors set just so, coloring another college campus across America.

Be true to your school. Even if Alabama is ranked number 1 in the pre-season polls. Celebrate the action with thousands of your closest friends. Watch the drama unfold on every play. Faces painted. Rah. Rah. Rah. All decked out in a sea of red (this could be green, orange, yellow or blue. Dependent on the view.). Adulation works a great many ways with facets of love and hate, betrayal and envy, which will further induce or foster the elation of victory or the agony of defeat. We shall see...

The over-abundant athletic supporter goes all out. Knows no bounds. Tomorrow will have to wait until we're through with TODAY. Rah rah sis-boom-ba, EVERYTHING in a conference has been realigned. Some names will be changed. Where's the guidance of the North Star? Teams have run amuck in most every conference. Use pen and paper. Please, everyone, stand still, so we may get a accurate count of who's here and who's not!

The Big 10 and Pac 10 have pillaged the Big XII, in an epic face-off to claim conference superiority, but do you care if Nebraska plays Purdue instead of Kansas? Honestly?

What about a well played game? Plays on both sides of the ball. Solid special teams. This being said, is the Rose Bowl better football than the SEC?

An extremely popular game throughout the U.S., college football is the most dense in terms of popularity in the Southeast. 'Bama. Georgia. Louisiana. Tennessee. Perennial powerhouse, Florida. The list goes on...

Talk tradition, it the fancy of conditioned experts, all you like, but three of the greatest programs in the history of college football still come from the state of Florida. Miami's 2001 team may call into question the best there ever was.

Remember, one foot in bounds constitutes a legal catch and any player is down when a part of their body touches the ground. There are no exceptions! The Clock stops on a first down.

Who wants a grilled dog? Maybe a basket of fries? You wanna sing the fight song again? Most impressive about college ball? There are NO ties!

Smell the ribs a-sizzlin as the sun sets wild purples and pink along the crest of a brilliant orange. Supreme as the eye catching coal slowly rolling over 'cross country to call it a night. Turn back into black. Another phase of the attack amid a successful day and service.

Tune in Thursday, September the second. Open the season with all the amenities long since considered the fan's traditional fare. Like room and board or a card in the union. College Football Saturday. Where every game counts!

Whistle blowers, it would seem, are getting the finger. Pointed directly back at them. No more Mr. Nice Crowd. Surprise! Under the hood monkey business for 15 minutes of commercials in a whirlwind of advertisements to come back with insufficient funds is not time well spent. For the money of sponsors! You retain the incorrect call? Visualize not world peace but a colored sea of angry faces with tormented souls and generations of disappointment built up.

This venue is not new with every major sporting endeavor having their share of problems. From infidelity to larceny to felony...but a betting referee and officials who can't seem to agree makes me think Ahmad Rashard should go back to football?

We the people in order to form a better union want the correct call good or bad. Sock it to us. Fair and true.

There is nothing judgmental about a strike zone...should Man play ______? The mere mortals want to be left alone to cheer and sneer and poke fun and then go placidly home.

With a surplus of fines, bad calls, technical fouls and the latest offspring, the double technical, which is a negative plus a negative equaling............nothing, if anyone is keeping track, the flood was fit ta burst in the NBA. Right chivalrous of the gates, to hold out 'long as they did. Bound to happen...officiating out front and under the boards has been erratic, intensely subjective and at times......personally vindictive but gross understatements tend to blow things out of proportion. Who's kidding! It's a device! The NBA is arguably the toughest game to officiate in the world, made more difficult with Black Sox scandals and star favoritism.

Has it always been this bad? The true fan, more often than not, feels had and bad if there is true nature in the outcome.

If the NBA cares piece together the puzzle. The hustle and bustle leads to more in-house studies studying the studiers but fails to analyze the meat and potatoes at our dinner table. It's soup or salad and free breadsticks... never you mind the delightful garnishments...but don't fill up! You'll miss the pie! As if an intended target or full scope of information were an enigma.

Amazing happens when the officiating does not factor into the outcome of any competition. This is not limited to the play-offs. Today, subjective calls are measured as part and parcel of a list one thousand miles long. The ticky tack foul is filed by personal grievance. It's all such a mess. Touch fouls add up to the biggest pile of nothing next to being and nothingness.

What if a double negative wasn't so and instead illuminated? It gets one to set about thinking. This isn't wrasslin' now, is it? The use of marquee players run rampart, flowing in fields of favoritism, seemingly to do no wrong, which is supported by conclusive studies designed soley to investigate such phenomenon in the most covert of fashions. A subdivision unto another subdivision that goes way back to the old neighborhood days.

The shining rays of star power can not be missed...'tis alive and well, under the boardwalk and over the rainbow, which could support the theory that it would in fact exist if this wasn't a hypothesis. But get this...for any potential contested loose ball, a foul would be called 42 percent of the time if the call were against a "star, or golden child", which is merely fictitious and does not represent an actual person, if this had been an actual person there might have been a test, and 57 percent against a "non-star grunt."

Pavlovian, wouldn't you maze? A foul is a foul is a foul....five minutes in, just before the half or at the end of the game. Isn't that Dr. Naismith screaming from the sidelines calling for a 20 second time-out?

Someone would remember Dick Bavetta and Bob Delaney in Game Six of the 2002 Conference Finals between the Kings and Mavericks where forward was backwards...North unto South, like the original Wonka before the freaky second take with Johnny Depp?

Some golden ticket! Upside down you're turning me with paper thin credibility which keeps on giving me...false security that anything could ever work out.

Why would officials play a vital role in the outcome of any game? Heard but never seen and certainly not identified? This is not a dream but a situation grown piss poor. Less than warm but still all the same...yella!

It is more than a hobby, mind you, to speak openly about the taboo or such topics. The well seasoned and informed demand justice. You are messing with near perfection.

22, here comes the cops! Just answer a question if you could semi syndicated. Use the force of logic to accept the conclusion of a simple deductive argument, "the fun never stops", let's take the less of two evils and tie it between the prongs of Morton's fork. In light of the issues with comparisons and repercussions, more than two roads kinda diverged. With me thus far?

There are 22 yards in a chain but try to explain that to the recently incarcerated, who spend all day in count anticipating the next notch, more than ill fated with plenty of time to spare. Dried to a sponge. Waiting on the never-ending story with a decision for the ages.

Could such a reader exist? Let's employ a physical specimen as an simple example to begin. "The Jay Hey kid", once considered the top prospect at the beginning of the MLB 2010 season, wears number 22 and plays right field for the Atlanta Braves and this sequentially represents the ravens paradox which purports all ravens are black-I'm mean-are of color.

To push the envelope further, citing common ground, avoiding perceived slurs of any kind, Jason Heyward, who turned 21 last Monday, homered in Atlanta's 10-4 loss to Houston and became the fourth player to homer on his 21st birthday, joining Ted Williams (1939), Frank Robinson (1956) and Alex Rodriguez (1996).

This is merely melody and rhythm caught in the clause of conundrum. Like a room without windows. Nobody said nothing about any door.

Caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. Weigh the possibilities. Left with only your thoughts, asserted propositions, implication and inference, seeing is believing. Perceive this as so. Real, but not represented as logical formula with rooms and passages. Between a rock and a hard place because...............you ken always give more to the King. Spending denotes sufficient income. Substantial savings stems from frugality and thus should be taxed. This figgas the caged bird's song.

Now that you've accepted T, V, B and D, you must accept me! You've no choice, you see. Being in a situation with only options where the question will be asked in it's own rightful time if ever and providing an answer is optional, we'd havta agree! The King could find you in contempt of some crime or court. Perhaps one below your name to swoop in and set a date. Throw your remains into prison to await that fateful event. Perhaps you had done nothing in neglect but were between a sword and the wall. Faced with an illogical set of circumstances. Metaphorically behind the "22" in rugby union, which is 22 meters from the respective try line. This has significance in a number of laws particularly relating to kicking the ball away but the suspense will have to last.

Thankfully, progress does not hinge upon non-compliance. Let's make a deal of circular cause and consequence with this here deadlock, double bind game of chicken which defies intuition between two beloved entities as a horse of some other color unto the age old question (which may or may not be your question per say...),

"Why would 'x' go with 'y'?", posing as the ultimate paradox. Who should stay and who should go. To fly or not! Life comes in stages. Shapes and sizes. Ready or not! Delusions brought can be bought and sold but theres always a price. Regardless of what we, society, may foresee as importance or the absolute truth, or nice, a soldier must do what the commanding officer tells you to do, no questions asked. This makes for the lady or the tiger set and scenery...

Believe in magic or else it wouldn't exist....'tween you and me. 22 stars are where all the entities could pass to achieve the complete cycle of their evolution. Any man, women or child with a head constituted of 22 bones: 8 for the cranium and 14 for the face, may know that.

Watch out for room 22 in the hospital morgue! A particular person may explain this objectively, the manifestation of it's being is in its diversity and long history of humanity.

When cutting a circle with just six incisions, the maximum number of pieces that can be so created is 22. With a perfect plan of execution the jagged details of piecemeal stick together like glue! An urgent movement toward the infinity with 22 elements created as the recipe may be a matter of necessity.

Insane versus insanity happens to be put in process if we keep with plan "B", which is by far the worse!

"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. All they had to do was ask; and as soon as they did, they would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. If they flew them they were crazy and didn't have to; but if they didn't want to they were sane and had to."

"Catch 22" intercepted Peyton Manning for a touchdown and squashed any hopes of a comeback in Super Bowl XLIV, which is interesting unto itself. It all makes sense. Murphy's law borrowed from the Secretary of Defense.

Snakeyes! This is no G.I. Joe fallen to the hands of infidels! There are tiny tidbits. Nutritious bug bites burned as ends meat with logic as flimsy as Jim Palmer in his skivvies on prime time family TV. Maybe it's in these difficult situations and performing admirably given a choice between your actions, each to the detriment of the chicken and the egg, which of course is a logical paradox in the circle game, which goes round and round, to end up at the unsolvable logical dilemma.

It's wrong to steal and I'm starvin'. No Exit. I should have told you at the beginning. The 'master number' includes all the attributes of the number 2, twice over, and also those of 4, if this is indeed real and not some false dilemma contrived like reductio ad absurdum. The attitude opens any door. Go for the gold. Grow forever bold never to be sold under-price at the human swap meat auction. Great Scott, we've a tiger by the tail, we do! There is no homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers or outwardly react. Just looking fair share. Too many unmanageable missions makes for mania and melancholy. Seeing things that just ain't there.

If any of this is to be considered personal, people who are 22's are said to find themselves feeling as if they live in two worlds, one which is overwhelmed by the mundane and the other by the fantastic.

Qualify this year's Heisman trophy winner, Mark Ingram, a running back from Alabama, in this last category. He is the first player for the Crimson Tide to win the Heisman trophy, coincidentally wearing 22, with more than a few things on his mind, in the same year Alabama won it's 22'nd SEC title.

Man is composed of twenty-two evolutionary bodies and regulations do say you have to obey every order unto the 22nd level of conscience. This could prove to be rather deep. The cosmic conscience given over to the hands of man would rather subdivide, breaking a man down into an unrecognizable part of the machine. Possessing little information to the contrary, it is a matter of interpretation whether The Fool or The World is card number 22 according to the tarot but like the man says at the corner store, "never open vindow vone't clause..."

Lincoln freed the slaves. Hitler dug them graves. This was a state of Man. Understand this does not strike a healthy balance between work and relaxation or creed and color. Justice can't be satisfied without one or the other. The world offers quandary. Take it or leave it.

The jersey number 22 has been retired for NBA players Clyde Drexler, Elgin Baylor and Dave DeBusschere, but not all 22's are retired so don't say nevermore. I also remember Rolando Blackman and John Salley as well as the NFL's All-time leading rusher, Emmitt Smith of the Cowboys, who wore the number 22 to rave reviews in my household. My brother's first dog was named in his honor, Emmy, the fun loving Labrador. A catch-22 in herself, but to have love and lost is better...

22 is obviously a highly charged 4 and potentially the most successful of all the numbers reportedly turning the most ambitious dreams into reality with some quality and appropriate assistance. The 22 has the intuitive insights of the 2 combined with the practicality of the 4, which is still working towards the realization of larger goals that are beyond personal ambition. Consider it a tradition. Like the classic principle of oversimplification.
The Titanic was traveling at a speed of 22 knots before it crashed into an iceberg. Everything not black is not a raven doesn't mean that monkeys aren't misbehavin' now or nevermore. 22 was also the number worn in high school by Sarah Palin, which sinks to a new low much like that infamous ship. 

Kicked out of the military on a "section 8" declaration! Who's insane! This isn't anything I'm not! Who's pretending! That's some catch, that catch 22. Therefore, I pledge witness...pigs fly. It should be clear that in all circumstances where ________ is true, ________ is also true; and likewise, in all circumstances where _______ is false (i.e. if we imagine a world in which something that was not simple, yet was simple, existed), ___________ is also false. This could establish logical equivalence. Like that the NFL's All-time leading interceptor Paul Krause of the Minnesota Vikings, with a mention of the name, wore number 22 by the very nature of this...what is this we are currently engaged in?

Come aboard Jacob's ladder. There's not much in me duffle 'tis true...but the offer is mine fair and true. I've seen David De Devil Jones I did.  Right by me onsies. It's giving me the Davies just thinking about it.

Jolly Rogers! 'Tis a long time out at sea it 'tis. In league with the Devil, the goddess of deception will do more than distract. Swallowed whole by a great sea creature down to the deep ocean bottom is no mermaid myth! On an isolated patch of land I was. Must have been a ghost at sea or St. Elmo's Fire. Down I fell like buried treasure.

I was trapped!

Bury a barrel in a dead man's chest. 'Tis mutiny! A Jonah befalls bad luck to any ship that I know. Like a giant cuttlefish lurking in a mysterious blue hole.

Complete with fear and intimidation in a rousing tale of seafarers, I'm going belly up! Dragged down to the depths of Davy's locker! Indifferent about defense. In search of the black pearl. This song could be an official 21 gun salute just like custom dictates, only and curse you for moaning phantom voyage, I've never returned. No, I've never returned, so I must use another voice. It comes and it goes. Such is the life of a wandering spirit!

Now you know. When the wind blows...sails flap in the wind. Sometimes the sound is your only friend. It's a long time....wonder. The scenery...NOW...look at me! Here I am to mumblen..........willya look at the ship! A fast decaying deck and worse beneath the helm. Promise not to tell? On board, for lack of a window, there are various neon lights with a steady stream and buzz. Grog is on the house: Bumboo or Hogshead. Has been for some time. Cargo as of yet has been determined to be unclear. The occasional buzzard. Not much else.

Don't expect much...once you come in you don't come out. Time is represented but not with a clock. Watch the bleeding horizon from the crows nest with a belly full o rum 'bout the best service a place like this ken manage.

A 21 gun salute originates in naval tradition and we are, after all, out at sea, literally driftin' and driftin', at least this here spirit 'tis, so drink up! This will be the rule and not the exception, the driftin' I mean. We'll play a round of cards to pass the time. Under the current waves of economy 'tis no other option.

How the blazes they get that huge ship there in that tiny glass bottle? Makes cause to wonder...time passes. Crews quarters sinks deeper and deeper into a black oblivion and a whole lot of nothingness as an abandoned vessel to sail the seven seas without true purpose.

What we doin' 'ere? All by me onsies with time for only a tale having spied not one spit of land in a dog's annie.

'Tis not nautical nonsense, I remember to a day I do!

Bloody red! LaDainian Tomlinson sure broke bread and could play back in his day.

Tim Duncan still runs the floor for the Spurs with little delay.

A spry Kevin Garnett wore 21 for the Timberwolves.

Dominique high-flying for the Hawks.

Once fired out to sea, the ammunition entirely spent, meant more than a lot was given up in the New World for Lent. For you see, me hardies, out at sea, if you were the enemy, it was required of thee to spend every ounce of ammunition as a sign of unconditional surrender, thus signifying not a show of hostile intent. Trapped immediately in A Brave New World . Dismantled as yet another weary captive swabbing the deck on the cursed pirate walk-through.

Walking the plank is your fault if you fail to pay attention to detail and spend too much time in the tavern with the lallygoo.

Do you have the courage and fortitude to give respect where it's due? If you do then fire! Fire the booming cannons. We ken do little else but sail, drink, play cards and fire.

Light a fire. A vast ye! 21 gun salute. In pursuit of the semblance of sacred shores. Of course as one condemned to wander these seven shores, there will be no positive identifications permissible to blow me down legally. This is recognized in a court of law on the seas and on dry land as well in the spiritual realm.

Legend be told, Roberto Clemente had a cannon and was a humanitarian killed in a plane crash delivering aid to victims of an earthquake in Nicaragua. Taking up arms against the spread of misfortune. A pirate with a kind heart. Pittsburgh saw fit to retire the number 21 in 1973 in honor of Roberto Clemente and all who saw him live, work and play.

Look here, now; this ain't lucky 21! I've got to make it home again mate. Do we have an accord? What's going on?

Thar she blows! Fire in the hole! Full metal jacket. Play another hand? Understand all I have is time.

Fire in the name of the late Washington Redskin Sean Taylor, who wore number 21 and for fellow teammates Chris Cooley and Chris Samuels, who wore number 21 during the Pro Bowl in his honor.

Smell the gunpowder. It is written to code. Known by any swashbuckler. Taking up arms as a (military or naval) honor in a rite of passage, 21 volleys came to be discharged for heads of state, with the number decreasing with the rank of the recipient of the particular honor.

_________ rolls downhill. Always will.

The system of odd numbered rounds economizes the use of gun powder. Even numbers indicate a death. Odd numbers prove irritating......'specially after an extended period of stay on a ship! With the increase in quality of gunpowder, honors rendered at sea were increased to the shore salute. Cutbacks will not allow the discussion to go any further. Meanwhile, 21 guns becomes the highest national honor and a hit for Green Day many, many multrons later.

Hall of Famer, Warren Spahn wore the number 21 for the Milwaukee Braves and this is final. The number is now retired.

Performing for a national audience, the captain of the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic Hockey Team, Mike Eruzione wore number 21 representing the country's still beating heart. USA! USA! USA!

To have a home! When you're alone, there's no place like home. For what lacks in a weary traveler, let's refresh the rules. In the modern game, a "natural" or "blackjack" is simply an ace in the hole, plus ten and freneticism taking hold and note of cash and carry, calmly nodding to the wingman and at all that supports the large body of evidence; all the non diminishing returns that will just not go away, can not go away, hooked like decrepit street junkies surrounding the ghetto like buzzing flies.

There are hand signals used to assist the "eye in the sky," an entity located above the tables but concealed behind a one-way glass mirror always watching. Waiting. Instigating guerrilla warfare at the forefront of commerce. Spoken in a language using only these terms. Seeing all.

The flavor of the fever catching. Intensifying. Spreading like wildfire and disease. More than 200 plus million wanting to strike it rich in a game of cards. Playing any old hand as a sideshow unto itself. A carnival of the macabre and morose. Not quite dead but hardly breathing.

A current unwavering. Steady as the relentless tributary-used to be me. To this day, more than two independent hands rest awkwardly upon some green table of felt in a casino somewheres wishing on majesty from her lady luck. Just like me. Waiting to be freed. Whatter the odds? Here's hoping on the hole card! Reach a value you feel comfortable playing, or you're busted! Like dealing with 2007 NFL Defensive player of the year Bob Sanders. 21 guns. Bet on it. Lights out! You're fired!

The double down may provide redeeming social value for one lucky individual but not Captain Flint or Long John Silver. Disheveled vagabonds very rarely have long strings of continuous luck. Arrrrrgh!

Bright lights, big city. What a bummer! After a while it's just another strange design somewhere. Somehow.

Odds offer incredulous bonus payouts to get players to the tables from the outskirts of the perimeter. Come out, come out, whatever you are! Theres the 10-to-1 payout if your hand consists of the ace of spades and a black Jack (either the Jack of clubs or the Jack of spades).

You ken bet Neon, Deion Sanders, a two way player, was electric in number 21 for the Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys and Washington Redskins and provided some highstepping highlights along the way. Priiiiiiiimetime!

Here at the tables...look for signs. Behaviors that give away your opponent's slightest intentions. They always ring true. That they do. You catch that?

The winner holds a hand with a value of, or nearest to, twenty-one without exceeding it. The player can take as many hits as they want as long as the total in the hand is not above a hard-20. However and please understand, if the player busts, they lose that hand (after all players have completed their Garciapara rituals, the dealer then reveals the hole card and plays out his or her hand according to predetermined rules.).

Don't bet against the house far away lost at sea with a spirit haunting the planet!

In the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series the number 21 has long been the car for Wood Brothers Racing if all bets were on but this is a song with a little bit of dance. Pip. Pip. Cheerio! In badminton, 21 points are required to win a match. Just so you know. Catch a fire or the fever! Do me a favor. While the 21-Gun Salute is the most commonly recognized, the number of rounds fired in any given salute will vary depending on the conditions. Who hasn't heard that before!

Don't ye know? Soft headed lubber! Given the black spot is a warning it 'tis! Like reading people's souls at the initial meeting. No good'll come o' that on sea or dry land.

This will be the initial two card hand in hopes of arriving at the value of twenty-one. Keep the Ace in heaven as eleven or for fun in the sun as one in a mix of chance and skill with as many different variations.

Fetch me some irons. Raid. Pillage and plunder. Merchant marine come dancing along these yardarms. Despite what I like to say, keep a black cat while I'm away. One if by land. Two if by sea. Man the posts! Come what will be. Led into ruin at the hands of a tempest.

Now.....you can't outrun a storm!

No worries scoundrels. Yo ho! It's a pirate's life for me. Come on...lucky sevens! Times three.

You see, 21 is also variation of street hoops, in which each player, there can be any number, plays for himself; the name comes from the requisite number of baskets. Some call it jungle-ball so call your own fouls. Keep a low profile.

If you did get 21 in caahds, the hand was called a "blackjack" and the name stuck, even though the lush bonus payout was soon abolished even in the shadowed Captain's quarters...

On board this ship I'm just plain stuck. Caught between a pirate and an ordinary vagabond. Shiver me timbers from bow to stern. Good people, it's time we summon Charlie Noble! Join the pirate crew or jump overboard! This binnacle, tis not holy. Landlubber, I have seen between the shores I have. A life of a pirate for me. "Tis not heaven, but a common variation. Drop anchor.

One legend of the sea comes like me to be of the damned. Watch for imminent danger. Shedding their seal skins, selkies are able to transform any human form into the Devil reincarnate. Bring rest to the soul of the condemned!

Keep your arm clean and fit for engagement! The gun for gun campaign was returned on 18 August 1875 entirely spent. Every red cent. Given up to chance without choice or voice. Led like a stranger into a stranger land.

All hands on deck. Hit port without dread or foreboding. Existing without myth or monster within a corrupt authority. Dooty bound.

Wot did I say? I'm one to talk. All the blank edges of the map have been filled in. With a compass gone south it would never work out. Mind the tide! Athartships! A secret stash of booty will get ye shot in your sleep! Thrown overboard. Marooned with the natives. Are ye daft? You'll be cap'n next!

"Ah, Jim Smollet sails by rules and laws, that's what being a captain's all about. Me? I sail by the stars."

Are you ready? Let's encourage deductive reasoning and
creativity in as many avenues as there are possibilities. Keep on keeping
on rockin' steady. Is this a possibility? Reportedly, taxes, death and
drama are the only real certainties. Would you tend to agree?

Is it animal, vegetable, or mineral? Could you put it
in your mouth? Is it alive or dead? Let it be said, all pertinent
examples in the game of 20 questions. 

Our game today will be based on the format for the
successful weekly radio quiz program with brash liberties taken merely for
gross purposes. Subject material chosen reflective of the number 20. 

Sound simple? But of course! Keep in mind, this will
have little to do with Winston Churchill's cigar, but may blow smoke just
the same...

Have we started the game? Is this the price of
progress? What ken be divided by 20 among this style of dress? 

20 is the code for __________________ or phone calls to
Egypt? 

Don't stress! It's all such a mess!

The what refers to the pattern of presidents of the United
States who were elected to office in 1840, 1860, 1880, 1900, 1920, 1940
and 1960 only to die in office? This pattern ended with the 1980
presidency of Reagan, who survived his time in office and, notably, an
attempted assassination. 

You are the answer.Today. 

Bands with the number twenty in their name include
_____________? 

20 is an album by ____________________.

________ still wears number 20 for the San Antonio
Spurs. 

Hip. Hop. Hooray!

Should copyright laws be amended? Without disease would
there be a cure? Can homelessness and poverty be helped and handled? Is this
prying? Trying? More than 20 Questions. A game for anyone to play. No
creed or color discouraged, name disparaged.

There may be 50 ways to leave your lover and reportedly 20 sure ways to see the world through a million or more pairs of eyes, but how many agents out among the perimeter are disguised as spies?

Is this worthwhile?

A group of twenty units true, is a score to be sure, but of what?

Losing no sense of self. Slipping into a comfortable oblivion as a cocoon of sorts. Pay day may make it here sometime soon. Tender currency by the twenty in crisp clean bills.

Are you a true friend? 
Mike Schmidt was? Mark Fidrych has? Lou Brock could be?

What has happened to liberty?

Why can't human's show the loyalty of a Labrador? What is your action of exact resolve? Who's thinking a making a choice or forming a decision in what you NOW see? 20/20 vision is rare. Beyond compare like an electric runner with the uncanny ability to cut back. This player was the 1st to rush for 1,000 yards in his first 10 seasons and also led the NFL in rushing 4x's! He is?

Thirsty? 20 is the atomic number of calcium. Got milk?

Is what bigger than a breadbox? Who ken shine a light?

Does this procedure feel you uptight?

Are there only two choices: wrong or right?

So what you're saying is.........I gut a chance?

Will this require physical movement? .............you mean......right now?

Have we come upon a scope beyond understanding and study? Hey, who shut out the lights!

Shooting is a sweet touch like the answer to a question on most NBA nights.......'cept 6 in last year's finals. Giving sight to the blind!

Is this movement possible? Would you consider a conundrum? We could dress 'er up real fancy to make the inquiry probe a matter of considerable social importance.

Interested?

What could make you break a promise?

Number twenty is good and plenty and hardly ever at rest.

After two-time Nascar Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart left the #20 team in 2009 to drive for himself, rookie __________ took over the car.

Does this even matter?

"It is the same thing with you," so says the mad hatter.

Twenty for the many. Tell all the people.

Is all TV bad?

What makes for fair and just punishment? Who says?

It is who being had? Is there a foot in this mouth? Why do fools fall in love and birds fly down South?

Has there been a natural disaster plan put in place? What's it mean to save face along a global realm?

Who wears the best 20 among NFL defensive backs designed to defend?

Will I ever improve this right now?

Jorge Posada ties into this right now because a bigger bit, as opposed to a bigger butt, was Frank Robinson, who hit almost 600 home runs and finished with a .294 carrer batting average. Guess how many years he played?

Well, gaaaaw-lly, tie a yellow ribbon 'round an old oak tree and see what becomes of the land. Understand, none of this here is for sale, but you nailed the audition!

Welcome to the stage. Play your part.

Let's start!

A twenty-game winner in baseball is acclaimed as having attained a milestone in a season. Can you name the MLB baseball pitchers with the most 20-win seasons (since 1901)?

Phone a friend? Name an item packaged by the 20? Should you use that lifeline?

Why does rain fall down? Have we run out of time? Hey, what kinna experiment is this? Are character flaws the jaws of life and if they happen to be alive, are they curable?

20 was worn by Luc Robitaille, who had his number retired by the LA Kings, not to be confused with any apparent gang affiliations...or those type-a things.

Does the river run any deeper? Is this an issue of life and death? Honor and integrity? Courage and temptation? Addiction and invention? Inspiration? No use explaining how a hero is different from a celebrity..........

How we live is determined by how we think. Thinking the wrong thoughts will lead to puddles of mediocrity in a pool of waste. How ken we surround what truly matters?

What is exquisite taste?

What is based on principle?

What does it mean to be genuine?

What truly is indivisible?

Why ask why? Ginger? MaryAnne? The Stones or the Beatles?

What is that specific niche to boost daily productivity exercising each individual with a mission? That which kindly repays the passenger with nutritional sustenance? Strategy like stratego for the street soldier?

Observation and reflection running like water through a polished periscope. Broad in scope. Timeless as Nature.

Why do transcendent questions elicit more contemplation? What is the worst consequence of globalization? How far should one push biology and chemistry? Is there such an entity as perfect government? Is science and religion sworn enemies, like coke and Pepsi, forever to be?

Does the frontier for technological advance ever end? What is essential? What does it mean to be free? What does it mean to be a friend? What is considered human? Is everything permissible?

Is _________ the absolute sovereign?

Why can't this be love?

20 was the Glove.

How could anyone lose focus on their one true goal? Why is the middle of a difficulty called an opportunity turned inside out?

What's the function of a square peg anyway?

Is clockwork orange?

Why is the same person different at different times? Why are responses automatic? Is it all in the mind? If something is genetically embedded in the fabric of our lives, is there a way to prevent it's manifestation? Did curiosity kill the cat and if so, why? Doesn't curiosity open up new worlds? Another window. Don't it draw conclusions that run down the hall through a wall after a man that gets at the heart of the matter?

Don't take to guessin'...it'll show...

Do all men, women or children, by nature, desire to know?

Is research development? Versus the protection of the environment?

Within the quest for clarity, to be or not to be?

Single or married? How many dependents?

Is this a question of faith? Purpose? A mad play of betrayal?

What points toward the settlement of any challenge?

Of course, these questions endure, shifting evolution with respect to time and condition, and may still be deemed and proven unanswerable, frustrating the researcher the entire way until the end of the experiment. But these questions remain all the same. Is this a good place to end?

Number four to be sure is Bobbby Orr. None of this....should I stay or
should I go. Are you leaving? I just don't know. Put me in coach. I'm ready
to play.

Today?

Mr Fun Loving sticks another one in the oven. Gives birth. Will he or won't
he when the time comes to ________ or get off the pot? This is no drug ad,
though this is your mind on Favre.

Believe in Jean Beliveau. I've got a peaceful, easy feeling when speaking
about Duke Snider. Hot to trot was Mel Ott not some media whore who refuses
to go away gracefully. Respect the love. Respect the toughness. Learn to
understand Life's subtleties. Shoot, I'd rather get kicked by Adam
Vinatieri than engage in this soap opera circus again.

This could be a forecast as to how the future will turn out. Mirror mirror,

on the wall, this may or may not be based on information, knowledge or

experience, but it is to you I call. With a prediction, an outcome is

always expected and sometimes gained through the use of opinion polls and

guaranteed information. A crystal ball is believed by some to aid in

clairvoyance.

From antiquity until the present this helps to focus any attention to

develop reasonable expectations about the future. Accurate data makes these

plans possible. Statistics are a part of sports. Always will be.

Author Arthur C. Clarke was famous for his 3 laws of prediction. British

Prime Minister Winston Churchill said that to understand the future it was

necessary to understand the past. Joe Willie made a guarantee that to this

day still lasts and perpetuates his "Broadway Joe" legend. Nostradamus may

be the world's most famous predictor around the supermarket checkout

counter.

Outside the rigorous context of science, prediction is often confused with

informed guess or the almighty opinion and not to be confused with

prophecies. Try not to listen to emotional athletes at a press conference

and base this information on a sincere story if possible.

Opinion polls using paranormal or supernatural means observing omens at

times. This could go a whole slew of different ways, none of which are

remotely positive. Methods, including many forms of divination, have been

used for millennia to attempt to predict the future. These means of

prediction have not been substantiated by controlled experiments, and are

disputed by most, including scientists and skeptics alike. "What is," is

valid through sound reason season after season regardless of the venue.

Best of luck to the Jets as well as the Bengals this coming season!

School groups, universities, athletic teams, the military, and other social
and professional organizations participate in this process. Hazing is a
complex social problem that is shaped by power dynamics with the Alpha Dog
operating a group and/or organization within a particular cultural context.
80% of college athletes have been hazed. The process itself, observed
through various ritual and other activities involving abuse, harassment and
or humiliation like making rookies adopt a surname, is done to initiate a
person, no longer thought of as such, into a larger group. They are made to
complete demeaning tasks and referenced as a piece of _________, the
scapegoat for every nightmare and a sounding board for pent up frustrations
and made to complete humiliating ceremonies.

Falling from a barrel and landing on a broken bottle to pierce the jugular.
Bleeding to death by the side of the road. Made to ingest raw liver the
size of a club sandwich soaked in oil. Pledge sneaks, where the unlucky
participant is blindfolded and dropped somewhere vacant and expected to
find their way back with little resource. Imagine being woken from bed,
stripped to your underwear, given a pint of Jack Daniels, a 6-pack of beer
and a bottle of wine while locked in a trunk of a moving car only to have
your lungs fill with fluid and die alone in the dark.

J.T. Todd, a freshman at Michigan University, reportedly was given large 
quantities of alcohol in a player's off-campus house in what had become an 
annual initiation ritual. He allegedly was stripped, shaved, covered with 
jam, eggs and cologne and left outside in near-freezing weather for 90 
minutes. Michael Davis was beaten so badly that he was left with broken 
ribs, a lacerated liver and kidney, multiple bruises all over his body. 
The bleeding in his brain eventually killed him. 

Drowning 30 feet from the shore while intoxicated may be another red flag. 
Enter the Chad Meredith Act. Forced to ingest too much water unto brain 
swelling and water intoxication is no way to die! Criminally negligent 
homicide. In a hazing similar to a gang "jump-in," rookie Cam Cleeland 
suffered an eye injury when bashed with a flying bag of coins, and rookie 
Jeff Danish was sent through a window and hospitalized for stitches. 
Danish sued the Saints, teammate Andre Royal, an assistant coach and five 
other players, seeking damages from the team of more than $650,000. The 
lawsuit against the Saints and six of the defendants was settled; terms 
were kept confidential like independent contractors subjected to the 
salary cap and self imposed societal standards. Sub unit police task 
forces softening the senior corps of soldiers in their final year of 
conscription. 




Hazing is used as a method to seemingly promote group loyalty and
camaraderie through shared suffering (male bonding in fraternities), either
with fellow participants, past participants or both usually reflective of
pissing circles and ________ size. Rescue services, such as lifeguards or
air-sea rescue teams may have hazing rituals. The senior ranks within Boy
Scout Troops have sometimes developed hazing practices. Some workplaces use
hazing to initiate newly hired employees. Inmate hazing is also common at
prisons around the world, including frequent reports of beatings and sexual
assaults by fellow inmates when the lights grow low.

This trend in society is most common among North American schools as a rite
of passage. A cow brand. Tied, gagged and blindfolded. Led down an empty
alley and beaten with pillow cases filled with bars of soap. Gangs. Clubs.
Sports Teams. Military units. Workplaces. Fraternities. Hazing is often
prohibited by law and may be either physical (possibly violent) or mental
(possibly degrading) practices. It may also include nudity or sexually
oriented activities and it may cost your kid their life!