Tuesday Talkback

I don't give them hell. I just talkback to those moaners and they think it is hell. "I think I'll just quit watching the local news. All they say is 'go to .com .com .com .com.,' so I may as well go to .com and not bother watching the news." - Avon Better yet, just be ignorant. You'd be a natural at it, I can just tell. "I wish all these Bush-haters and protesters would give it up already, and get behind this president, so we can end this war instead of fueling the enemy and killing off our kids. A country divided will never survive." - Maple Heights How many things are wrong with this moan? I keep losing count. Tell me, how many times has this country ever really been united? Yet we remain the lone superpower. Go figure. "It's nice that they have a place to take your phone books for recycling, but for some of us it costs $7 to get there. You would think they would have something more accommodating: for instance, a mall." - Parma Here's a better idea all around: save your phone books and use them for kindling this winter. "All the PA basketball announcers at NBA home games are getting out of control. Too much hoopla for the home teams and the players." - Parma Here's a man with no sense of the theatrical. But I bet he does a little dance before he dallops the sour cream on his pierogi. "To the clubs or restaurants that are so cold that you need a sweater or coat over your summer dress. I also think these places would sell more beverages, alcoholic or otherwise, if they would keep it warmer." - Euclid If you think you know so much about how to run a restaurant, I invite you to try it. See you at bankruptcy court in six months, doofus. "You ought to be fined if you don't take down the garage- and estate-sale signs you put up all over the neighborhood within 48 hours of the sale's conclusion. When I get there, I find it was last week." - North Olmsted Better yet, how about this: If you show up for an estate sale just to find out it was last week, you should get to kill someone on the premises, and then take their used bed linen and eggcups for pennies on the dollar. Yeah, that'll learn 'em. "Shame on people who have dogs and cats and let them run around and use other people's yards for their dumping grounds." - Cleveland Just do what I do. If someone walks their dog on my lawn and lets it take a dump in my yard and doesn't scoop it up, I run right out, put the owner in headlock, and rub his face in it. I'll tell you, word gets out quick! I don't have any problems with those bastards anymore. "Architects are proposing another glass box for the county offices in downtown Cleveland. Do these architects ever consider energy costs or are they only concerned with awards for themselves?" - Middleburg Heights Uhhhhh, instead of aethetics, you would make energy costs the primary consideration in the validity of a design? I don't know that a glass box is any harder to heat and cool than any other building, but what a bizarre thing to be fixated on. Now, if you want to debate the aesthetics of a glass box versus other forms of architecture, bring it! At least we were spared that Frank Gehry skyscraper. "During these hot, sunny days we have been having, I have seen infants and toddlers fully exposed to the blazing sun in strollers, without visors, hats or shade of any kind. They were blinking, squinting and rubbing their eyes." - Lakewood For god's sakes, can't kids even be out in the sun anymore? Do we have to protect them like little cult objects? How's a kid supposed to live? Stop pussifying the children! "The red-light cameras are nothing but taxation without representation once again. They need to go." - Cleveland You know, Cleveland, you live in Cleveland. You are one of the few who is actually represented by the people that can put a stop to this nonsense, and you could vote the bastards out. I do appreciate the sentiment, even if your logic is shite. "No one said 'great job' to the booth workers who put in over 22 hours of training, setting up and starting at 5:30 a.m. on Election Day, and all for $122.10. Wow." - Broadview Heights President Bush learned his lesson after Mike Brown. Everyone else learned by example. You don't compliment someone for doing a helluva job when the job they've done is hellacious. "Does anybody remember when Larry Dolan bought the Indians and said he was interested in bringing, not just one, but lots of championships to Cleveland? Thanks, Mr. Dolan, you have been able to bring us the sixth lowest-paid team in the American League and not one championship yet. Will anybody ever buy the Indians who actually wants us to win?" - Painesville Township If you want to root for money, go root for the Yankees. The average IQ of the fanbase for each team will then go up. "To the person who found my $25 that I forgot in the change return at Giant Eagle in Parma. I hope you spend it wisely. It was from my Social Security money." - Parma Quit blaming everyone else for you being a fool. Like it is anyone elses fault that you left your money behind. If that money was so important, you'd have managed it better. Idiot. "The United Church of Christ in Cleveland whose TV ad shows a woman with a walker being ejected from a pew. No denomination would do this." - Cleveland I especially like the UCC ad with the crab. "We welcome everybody, even openly gay couples." "I pinch." I love a church with rubberized mats. The UCC rocks, and it has room for surfboards.