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Okay, on with some ramblings:

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When I was a kid, I remember strolling down the little stone path behind my house.  I would always go there, back in the woods, and I would daydream that I was Davy Crockett, with visions of evil †Injunsÿ dancing in my head.

As I skulked around the path, ready to kill any Apache warrior that dared attack, I heard a rustling in the bushes.  Was it my overactive imagination?  Was I dreaming?  Was my dream world colliding with the †realÿ world in which I lived in?

Yep.

I shook my head, snapped out of it, and went on down the lane. Boy, I was such a stupid kid.

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Being a resident of Nashville, I have fallen in love with the Tennessee Titans, a great group of guys that play team football the right way (are ya with me, Heinous?).  However, there is one thing about the team that bothers me.

When you think of the Titans, you think of gladiators, warriors, HEROES, valiantly fighting and looting and pillaging, leaving a path of destruction in its wake.  So, what do you think our mascot is?  A bronzed, swords and sandal clad warrior who randomly decapitates people in the stands?  Oh no, itŠs much, much better . . .

ItŠs a raccoon.

Yep.  A fucking raccoon.

You know, nothing instills more fear and trepidation in my heart then a 6-ft raccoon, especially one that occasionally raps and shoots at people with a T-shirt gun.

As a life-long resident of this fine state, IŠve never understood the Tennessee mentality that we should savor and emphasize the commonly held belief that weŠre all a bunch of drooling inbred hicks.  WeŠre the TITANS, dammit, not the Fighting Cletuses.  Remember, if you think youŠre Jed Clampett, youŠll BECOME Jed Clampett.

Ah well, at least we havenŠt nicknamed the stadium †The CE-ment Pond.ÿ

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Ah well, those are just a couple of things I had to get off my brain.  Keep coming back to the site, and if you wanna bitch me out, here to do it.

This is the MangyDog . . . over and out.