Search your soul, dear readers, and find out which Cubs blogger you’re most like:
Look Inward
Posted by Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® on 09/05/08 at 05:05 AM • 177 Comments
2. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 05:19 AM
I answered all of the “Chuck” responses, and got GM again. This test sucks and so do you, sir.
Wrong.
Your result for Cubs bloggers Quiz…
Chuck
Ethnic Divider
You think you’re better than Al Yellon, but you’re not. You’re actually Al Yellon in denial. The only difference between you and Al Yellon is that you openly dislike players of non-white ethnicity while Al Yellon hides behind playing the game the right way.
4. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 05:23 AM
I got it the second time around.
Unfortunately this isn’t really an objective quiz to find out which blogger you are. If you or anyone else can figure out a way to make it so (without sacrificing humor), let me know.
5. oog of ulam, Assistant Key Grip — Sep 05, 2008 @ 05:50 AM
I got Jame Gumb. It says that I am totally dominate and can resign a contract.
6. oog of ulam, Assistant Key Grip — Sep 05, 2008 @ 05:51 AM
Your result for Cubs bloggers Quiz…
Jame Gumb
Great, big fat person.
You will be taken down by fifty-year-old German ninjas for your censoring ways. You’re libertarian and like guns.
Take Cubs bloggers Quiz at HelloQuizzy
7. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 05:53 AM
I got Jame Gumb. It says that I am totally dominate and can resign a contract.
That means you believe in survival of the fittest and that you’re the fittest.
8. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:07 AM
That means you believe in survival of the fittest and that you’re the fittest.
Yeah….
A fit, great, big, fat person.
10. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:16 AM
This is the Sig I made for my post in my gaming clans forums. I get razzed all the time. Like all Cubs fans do.
11. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:17 AM
Important things.
Unacceptable. I expected a book or movie review and was totally let down.
12. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:20 AM
Gotta love that the Cubs have lost 5 in a row and only 1 game in the standings.
14. pmayo — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:25 AM
I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying about the sexism comment regarding Jenny Finch.
She’s an excellent softball player, but why does she get the attention that 99% of female softball players don’t?
Is she really that much better? Or is it because she’s easy on the eyes? If she were the same stature as Lisa Fernandez, I doubt she would attain to her current level of notoriety. There’s a disturbing trend in sports media that only attractive female athletes, often regardless of their skill level (Michelle Wie, Kornikova, etc.), get the notoriety that other, less attractive female athletes don’t. That’s all I’m saying.
And, yes, SK, I’m intending my last post as part of a series. Nice catch on the “Strange Fruit” drop.
And I get GM, no mattter what set of answers I give.
15. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:28 AM
Big time Bears fan
I bleed orange and navy blue like I bleed Cubbie blue but how involved I am in the Bears every season early on is determined a lot by how good the Cubs are.
If my life depended on knowing a lot about the early 84, 89, 03, 98 or 07 Bears I’d be dead.
Scary thing is if given a chance Z might be better than Rex or Kyle!
Go Cubs
by cubstoseriesby100 on Sep 4, 2008 11:10 AM CDT to parent up reply reply
Har Har, KOW, you ol’ card! It is to laugh!
16. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:32 AM
My god, these people haven’t any idea for how to construct a joke.
Reason No. 2: LSA
17. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:34 AM
And I get GM, no mattter what set of answers I give.
TWSS
The only way to get other bloggers is to answer all (or maybe all but one or two) questions as that blogger.
If any of you get bloggers other than GM or Chuck, feel free to post the results.
20. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:37 AM
I am 99 percent gravy and clotted cream
Fixed.
21. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:38 AM
If my life depended on resembling a human being I’d be dead.
Fixed.
22. oog of ulam, Assistant Key Grip — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:41 AM
If my life depended on eating buffalo wings one at a time I’d be dead.
yup
24. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:48 AM
this isn’t widely known, but if you give KOW a spinal tap, you’ll find that the cerebrospinal fluid consists of shortening, high fructose, and high concentrations of a haldol/water solution.
25. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:51 AM
I’m going to continue my time tested practice of starting each semester with 18/19 hours and then dropping a class when I figure out which one sucks, today.
26. oog of ulam, Assistant Key Grip — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:53 AM
I’m going to continue my time tested practice of starting each semester with 18/19 buffalo wings and then dropping a deuce when I figure out which one had a laxative in the sauce, today.
27. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:57 AM
my good friend got suspended for a week during our senior year of high school for filling brownies with laxatives, and then feeding them to his spanish class.
Good times.
29. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 06:59 AM
I’m all math and hard sciences this semester, which pains me greatly.
I took Calc BC in high school, and the toughest math I’ve had to do since was a low-level statistics class. Long live english and the soft-sciences!
32. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 07:08 AM
There’s a disturbing trend in sports media that only attractive female athletes, often regardless of their skill level (Michelle Wie, Kornikova, etc.), get the notoriety that other, less attractive female athletes don’t. That’s all I’m saying.
I got a letter to the editor published in Sports Illustrated a while back because I told them Sue Bird was more desirable to me than Anna Kournikova because she’s actually good at her sport.
It probably had more to do with me thinking that if I met both in a bar, I’d have a shot w/ Bird, but not w/ Kournikova. Well, that and having dated a basketball player in high school.
Anyway, that someone would have such a view was so outside-the-norm, SI thought it “weird” enough to be published.
33. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 07:11 AM
I took Calc BC in high school, and the toughest math I’ve had to do since was a low-level statistics class. Long live english and the soft-sciences!
Word. I took Calc BC my senior year of high school, and didn’t sniff a math or science class all through college. Majoring in history/classics was fucking awesome.
34. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 07:12 AM
I took Calc BC in high school, and the toughest math I’ve had to do since was a low-level statistics class. Long live english and the soft-sciences!
I did the same I took Diff. Equations, too. Except that I’m soooo lazy, I decided to retake Calc 1 & 2 in college to get easy A’s. God, I was probably one of the worst graduating college students around.
36. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 07:22 AM
Kournikova is a bit of a dumb skank, but she gets a bad rap. She was in the WTA top 20 during parts of her career, if I’m not mistaken, and she was a huge force in doubles for a minute. I’d still call that pretty fucking good in her sport. There are plenty of female tennis players who never achieve what Kournikova has accomplished, and don’t get bashed for it.
Obviously, she’s profited on her looks, and objectified herself (usually used as a pejorative, but I don’t believe this is always necessarily a bad thing), and while I agree that female athlete coverage should center mostly on talent, and not looks, I have no problem with calling a spade a spade, and an attractive woman thusly.
37. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 07:24 AM
math easy for oog. onetwothree done!
Actually, oog, I’d like to inform you that 24 is the highest number; not “lots”.
38. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 07:30 AM
I have no problem with calling a spade a spade
Racist.
39. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 07:59 AM
I’d still call that pretty fucking good in her sport.
At the time, Bird had just helped win a Nat’l Championship at UCONN and been drafted No. 1 overall. I should have said “great” instead of “good”. Neither athlete, in my opinion, got the media coverage their play “deserved”, which was my point.
40. pmayo — Sep 05, 2008 @ 08:03 AM
she’s profited on her looks, and objectified herself (usually used as a pejorative, but I don’t believe this is always necessarily a bad thing), and while I agree that female athlete coverage should center mostly on talent, and not looks, I have no problem with calling a spade a spade, and an attractive woman thusly.
I think you’re conflating a few things here. One, I agree that if she chooses to objectify herself, it needn’t carry the negative connotation. Her body, her choice. Of course, we could get into discussions about dispositional coercion here, but that’s probably more than is necessary to make the point. But in this case, she’s not doing the objectifying; the sports media was doing it from day one with her, before she really began to capitalize on it herself.
Second, it’s not simply that attractive women are being labeled as such, but often they are solely labeled as such. In Kornikova’s case, any accomplishments she may have had are almost nullified by the coverage of here as an attractive women. Even in Jennie Finch’s, or Amanda Beard’s case, or even Candice Parker’s, they’re almost known as beautiful women who happen to be good at sports, rather than the reverse. Male athletes aren’t subjected to this same standard; if they’re good, they’ll get covered. One need look no further than Randy Johnson. Can you in all honesty tell me that if there was a women that played her sport at the level at which Johnson has played baseball, but happened to be greasy-haired, pock-marked, and gangly, that she would be covered the way Johnson has been?
43. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 08:19 AM
My wife has the exact same thing Z has: rotator cuff tendinitis. Now thankfully she isn’t built the same as Z, but seeing the kind of discomfort she is in, I can’t imagine why they would have Z only skip one start. It will simply reappear again. Sit him till the playoffs.
44. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 08:31 AM
You sound tired.
But did your faggot stats (laughing) predict that?
45. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 08:34 AM
I’m sending e-mails out to the media and it’s pretty much the same e-mail so I’m copying and pasting. I was about to click send to the following e-mail:
Dear NY Daily News editor whose name I won’t divulge on a Cubs site,
You sound tired.
My name
46. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 09:09 AM
The roster for instructs is out and includes (among others) the following:
Ryan Acosta, RHP
Jeff Beliveau, LHP
Alberto Cabrera, RHP
David Cales, RHP
Chris Carpenter, RHP
Andrew Cashner, RHP
Dan McDaniel, RHP
Brian Schlitter, RHP
Aaron Shafer, RHP
Larry Suarez, RHP
Matt Cerda
Jovan Rosa, 3B
Josh Vitters, 3B
Brandon Guyer
Jericho Jones
48. Maddog — Sep 05, 2008 @ 09:28 AM
Is she really that much better? Or is it because she’s easy on the eyes? If she were the same stature as Lisa Fernandez, I doubt she would attain to her current level of notoriety. There’s a disturbing trend in sports media that only attractive female athletes, often regardless of their skill level (Michelle Wie, Kornikova, etc.), get the notoriety that other, less attractive female athletes don’t. That’s all I’m saying.
That’s what I figured you were saying, but i didn’t know if it was something specifically regarding softball or just women athletes in general. It was early and I must have not read your comments thoroughly enough.
If you want to start a study on the sexism of female athletes, look no further than the olympics themselves as we already discussed not long ago. You’ve got teenage chicks made to look as if they’re older than they are and while they may be tremendous athletes, as we saw around here, most people could care less about their skill level and only care about how they look. It’s scary.
50. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 09:30 AM
I got GM as well. Seems many others did as well. I was trying to get Chuck.
I ranked them in terms of douchiness. Most people got GM because he was the middle of the road. I couldn’t figure out a better way to do it. I didn’t want random answers because if you answer every one as thehawk you should be thehawk.
I didn’t really know too much about Chuck other than he hates Soriano for some reason.
51. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 09:30 AM
Your result for Cubs bloggers Quiz…
TheHawk
You hate ‘statfags’ and their ‘faggot stats’ with a passion. You also hate feminists, ex-addicts and faggots, though your best friends are gay. You enjoy the company of Filipino women and only wear clothing made by them. Your favorite food is orange chicken. The most important thing in baseball is a catcher with taped fingers who displays a good target. You know for a fact that no team wins games the day after a dugout fight. Everyone reads every word you write.
53. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 09:37 AM
The sun is trying to come out here and it just finally stopped raining.
All you need now is a beautiful scoreboard.
54. Maddog — Sep 05, 2008 @ 09:41 AM
My wife has the exact same thing Z has: rotator cuff tendinitis. Now thankfully she isn’t built the same as Z, but seeing the kind of discomfort she is in, I can’t imagine why they would have Z only skip one start. It will simply reappear again. Sit him till the playoffs.
Don’t make the mistake of comparing injuries of “normal” people to injuries of athletes. they are very different even if they are the exact same. Normal recovery from tendinitis in the shoulder is about 3-5 days, which he is taking off. Your wife would still feel pain or pressure that she confuses with pain, but the tendinitis would be gone.
57. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 09:49 AM
My favorite line from TheHawk was him telling us emphatically that you cannot win with a rookie catcher.
Or a mid-season catching acquisition.
59. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 09:51 AM
(dying laughing), I forgot about that one.
If I ever have a day where I have nothing to do, I might just go back and read what he used to write here. It wasn’t as over-the-top as it is now, but it was still funny.
60. pmayo — Sep 05, 2008 @ 09:58 AM
All you need now is a beautiful scoreboard.
Re: Irreverent Comments about the scoreboard.
All I need is a sunny day, the glorious scoreboard, and my good friends Lee Tammers, Doug Stopanski, and Mary Gerdle. We used to sit in the bleachers in 1977, where we wrote and sang “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” many times. It had nothing to do with cancer. You only mock the true Cubs fans. We used to call you people “placksackles.” Stop behaving like Dodger fans.
61. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 10:16 AM
Some pearls of wisdom:
Maddog, pay special attention to home runs. It’s astounding. I’m telling you… a pitcher performs much better when a quality target is presented.
Were Michael Barrett not our catcher, we’d have about 8-10 more wins this year. You’re not going to find that in his VORP.
Tyger, stay the fuck out of this you little dumbfuck. I’m sick of your shit.
62. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 10:17 AM
Tyger, why not just write, “I hate TheHawk” every post. It would make your life simpler and easier. You’re obsessed. You’re truly Inspector Javert in Les Miserables… obsessed with Jean Valjean… only, I’m not an ex-con.
OWNED
63. Maddog — Sep 05, 2008 @ 10:25 AM
If I ever have a day where I have nothing to do, I might just go back and read what he used to write here. It wasn’t as over-the-top as it is now, but it was still funny.
You probably won’t be able to find it. Almost all of the comments prior to January were transfered over to Expression Engine as Maddog so it’s almost impossible to read through thread prior to January and know who was really saying what. Not to mention that many accounts were labeled with other names due to the strange setup of WordPress.
Off topic here. I’ve tried not to say anything about politics around here for awhile because it’s a baseball blog and it’s only going to create arguments, but…
I didn’t watch either Convention. I have read all the speeches and have been cracking up all day long as I’ve talked with my aunt and uncle (both very liberal). They’ve been trying to say, with a straight face no less, that the RNC speeches were more negative than the DNC ones. I turned on the news a bit ago and that was the topic. I thought they were the only 2 nuts on the planet, but it turns out there are thousands of silly people. I’ve been laughing, literally laughing, most of the day today because they apparently didn’t listen to all the attacks directed at the Republicans during the DNC.
Is it really that hard for people (honestly, is it that FUCKING hard?) to admit that both parties attack the other one and accomplish nothing at all of any interest to any living person on this planet? No. It’s not difficult. Sadly, we’ve now got 2 parties fighting over which party was more negative than the other. you just can’t beat this. You don’t even need SNL when you’ve got Republicans and Democrats going at it during an election.
it amazes me how ignorant people are. It amazes me even more how ignorant people make fun of ignorant people. it would be like chuck and Al arguing over who is smarter. That’s exactly what we have here between the Republicans (all of them) and the Democrats (all of them). They are chuck and Al. Both fucking worthless and one group making fun of the other might just make someone dumber than we think possible.
That is all.
65. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 10:32 AM
You probably won’t be able to find it.
I did find the last few threads before he was banned. That and the fallout are hilarious.
66. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 10:58 AM
Another top 10 list
I came up with this the other day and was waiting for a place to put it.
“Top Ten Signs You’re In Love With Geovany Soto”
10. You are actually Mrs. Geovany Soto.
9, You decide to learn to be a catcher just to be like him despite being 40 years old with bad knees.999
8. Your card in your wallet says “In case of emergency call Geovany Soto”
7. You watch Star Wars Movies because Solo is so close to Soto.
6. You buy a Chevy Geo because it makes you feel close to him.
5. You watch the CUbs with your eyes closed imagining every batter to be Soto.
4. You’ve replaced the pictures of your kids with pictures of Soto.
3. You wear #18 hoping he notices.
2. You get 2 cats just to name them Geovany and Soto.
And the number 1 sign you’re in love with Geovany Soto
1. Your BCB screenname is Sue369!
(Sue please don’t think I’m making fun of you here)
9
Go Cubs
by cubstoseriesby100 on Sep 4, 2008 11:21 AM CDT reply reply
68. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:05 AM
9, You decide to learn to be a catcher just to be like him despite being 40 years old with bad knees.999
And fat. Don’t forget fat.
73. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:08 AM
And I hate Norwegians.
And we hate you right back.
74. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:09 AM
and a 7th inning bathroom tryst.
That still cracks me up.
75. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:10 AM
And we hate you right back.
I know you aren’t Scandinavian. I can smell a Scandinavian from two miles away. You’re either anglo-saxon, or german. OK?
77. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:13 AM
That still cracks me up.
Is this running joke grounded in some sort of real occurrence, or is this simply an assumption you’re making based on Al’s documented proclivity for seeking out glory holes?
80. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:14 AM
Is this running joke grounded in some sort of real occurrence, or is this simply an assumption you’re making based on Al’s documented proclivity for seeking out glory holes?
I’ll see if I can find actual quotes.
82. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:16 AM
Ryno, I’ll protect your home from any german ninjas if you change Tyger’s username to “Inspector Javert”
86. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:34 AM
Hmm… Signatures are enabled and I have a signature, so why can’t I see it?
88. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:37 AM
Hmm… Signatures are enabled and I have a signature, so why can’t I see it?
You probably haven’t had enough REM sleep, resulting in a condition known to Costa Rican coffee bean farmers as “cansado”
90. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:42 AM
You probably haven’t had enough REM sleep
I can’t help it as I’m losing my religion.
condition known to Costa Rican coffee bean farmers as “cansado”
Spicking it up doesn’t make it more right.
92. BellwetherMeltdown — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:51 AM
Not to get too personal, but I got a new job today, AND it’s my birthday.
Yay me!
94. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:53 AM
Not to get too personal, but I got a new job today, AND it’s my birthday.
Yay me!
I’m only happy when other people get taken down a peg or two.
95. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:54 AM
Not to get too personal, but I got a new job today, AND it’s my birthday.
That’s only impressive if you replace ‘new’ with ‘blow’.
97. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:55 AM
That’s only impressive if you replace ‘new’ with ‘blow’.
I would also be impressed if he just had some blow.
99. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:57 AM
What’s the new gig, BM?
Please… I’m sure he’s not getting paid to take a shit, pmayo.
100. BellwetherMeltdown — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:57 AM
What’s the new gig, BM?
Let’s just say that…
in the corporate sense, I got a LOT closer to the Chicago Cubs.
101. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 11:57 AM
in the corporate sense, I got a LOT closer to the Chicago Cubs.
It sounds like you’re saying you’re a vendor.
105. BellwetherMeltdown — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:02 PM
Nice. Congrats!
If we ever chat again in the ACB room I’ll be happy to fill you in, my live blogs get saved so I won’t be talking about it too much in there.
106. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:03 PM
I’ve been trying to get that job for years now.
They’ll never replace me.
111. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:06 PM
I’m actually going to keep someone on my payroll whose job will be simply to take a semen.
Steal one? Just one?
113. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:08 PM
I don’t believe I said that.
I just hit copy and paste, man.
114. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:11 PM
I just hit copy and paste
You should apologize to both of them, immediately. Violence is only acceptable when directed at women.
115. BellwetherMeltdown — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:12 PM
Antoine Chigure broke his wrist hitting his hand against his bat.
What a dumbass, hopefully this is a lesson to Zambrano, but I’m sure it probably won’t be.
116. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:13 PM
Violence is only acceptable toward women.
They refused to fix me a turkey pot pie. What was I supposed to do?
119. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:17 PM
They refused to fix me a turkey pot pie. What was I supposed to do?
Have a dialog with them where you all use your real names. That way, you can become a real boy.
129. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:33 PM
I think Christianity is funny, yet quaint.
Isn’t life quaint?
130. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:34 PM
I’m going to see if BTI allows me to post under the nom de interweb of “Straight Jesus”. My guess is there are no complaints.
131. Jame Gumb, editor-in-chief ® — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:34 PM
I’m going home to enjoy this wonderful day.
133. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 12:47 PM
If nothing else, it appears to be an easy path to political office.
It doesn’t hurt to be a bona fide, ice queen, hottie, either (even if she is batshit nuts).
136. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 01:03 PM
already there, SK.
get me a 40 of some OE and 3 pounds of beef jerky.
139. HORNY GOAT — Sep 05, 2008 @ 01:14 PM
Lou and Sinatro almost didn’t make it tonight. They decided to drive from Chicago, Sinatro behind the wheel, Lou took a nap, Sinatro got lost and was closer to Cleveland than Cincy.. took almost all day. Sinatro kept sayin’ “don’t worry about it”
Zambrano had a small presser with the beat-off writers. Mood was good, might throw earlier than expected. No pain like in June. Said he didn’t take the MRI first time because of the dye would keep him out a couple weeks and he didnt think it necessary. decided on the regular MRI next day. Also, his wife had surgery that morning so wasn’t in a great mood anyway.
Harden threw on the side today. Felt much better. Lou had a team meeting before the game. they all took shots of wild turkey. Lou said go get ‘em.
Rain is delaying this fucker. Maddog’s fault. 1st pitch scheduled for 6:25 central hick time.
that is all, or most of it.
144. HORNY GOAT — Sep 05, 2008 @ 01:40 PM
six in a row
should we try 7 with Marquis tomorrow? 8 with Marshall sunday?
147.
1. — Sep 05, 2008 @ 05:17 AM
I answered all of the “Chuck” responses, and got GM again. This test sucks and so do you, sir. I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.