Zombo said:

Unless your son is Retarded, he would not be eligible for the special program for Retards that Decastro was able to take advantage of.

Zombo

If a Stanford grad is Retarded, then I've been misusing that word for a long time now.

@harry-buffalo said:

I don't see anyone on here using racial slurs or ethnic slurs so I just don't understand why the R word needs to be used. For the most part I have been ignoring it if someone uses it randomly since I know most of you guys are older and more set in your ways, but the whole last page of this thread was riddled with people using it post after post after post.

In reality, what is the difference between using the R word and the DA word? Should Dumbasses also be considered a protected class?

@the-gipper said:

So, I gather that you want us to be totally politically correct on this board?

No N words

No R words

No S words

No K words

No P words

No F words

No TH or RH or CJ words

No C words

No J words

No SE words

No D words

No L words

No H words

No SC words

No JB words

No B words

No WB words

etc?

I don't see anyone on here using racial slurs or ethnic slurs so I just don't understand why the R word needs to be used. For the most part I have been ignoring it if someone uses it randomly since I know most of you guys are older and more set in your ways, but the whole last page of this thread was riddled with people using it post after post after post.

@harry-buffalo said:

Yes thank you. It was getting irritating reading it in almost every single post.

So, I gather that you want us to be totally politically correct on this board?

No N words

No R words

No S words

No K words

No P words

No F words

No TH or RH or CJ words

No C words

No J words

No SE words

No D words

No L words

No H words

No SC words

No JB words

No B words

No WB words

etc?

@the-gipper said:

OK, despite how well my kid does in school he can act like a Dumbass sometimes....as any father can say about their kids. Better?

Yes thank you. It was getting irritating reading it in almost every single post.

@harry-buffalo said:

1. Please cut out the r word. 2. school is much harder than it was just 10 years ago do to NCLB and changes of the requirements to graduate.

OK, despite how well my kid does in school he can act like a Dumbass sometimes....as any father can say about their kids. Better?

Bunker said:

3.9 4.0 gpa who gives a rats ass. most kids growing up today were given a A+ for showing up to class. they lack a lot in work ethic and social skills. so in regards to calling a son a Retard it is probably true 99% of the time.

I can guarantee you that where my son goes to school they don't give him an A just for showing up. Not to brag (but I will brag) he goes to a premiere academic institution in this country who have had graduates become Presidents, Chief Justices, Prime Ministers,Oscar winning actors, Nobel Prize winners and Poet Laureates, etc. all at a school of only 1600 students:

Greg Andorfer, 1973, Emmy-winning producer

Nick Bakay, 1981, actor, comedy writer, and television producer

Doug Ballard, 1976, actor

John C. Bauerschmidt '81, Episcopal bishop of Tennessee

Jim Bellows, 1944, journalist and editor

David Bergman, 1972, editor (The Violet Quill Reader), poet, and writer (The Violet Hour)

Jackson Betts, 1926, U.S. congressman (Ohio)*

Jim Borgman, 1976, cartoonist ("Zits") and former Cincinnati Enquirer political cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize winner

Francis Key Brooke, 1874, first Episcopal bishop of Oklahoma*

Mark Brown, 1981, general manager, Youngstown Vindicator

Ralph Pomeroy Buckland, 1838, U.S. congressman (Ohio) and brigadier general (Civil War)*

Ken Burgomaster, 1991, composer

John Carman, 1968, former columnist and television critic, San Francisco Chronicle

Caleb Carr, 1977M, writer (The Alienist, Killing Time)

Jay Cocks, 1964, film critic and screenwriter (De-Lovely)

James Cox, 1960, physician, researcher, and educator, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Meg Cranston, 1982, artist

Robert Crosser, 1897, U.S. congressman (Ohio)*

Adam Davidson, 1986, director and Academy Award-winning filmmaker

Adam Davies, 1994, writer (The Frog King, Goodbye Lemon)

David Davis, 1832, U.S. senator (Illinois) and Supreme Court justice*

Edwin Hamilton Davis, 1833, archaeologist (Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley), medical educator, and physician*

Henry Winter Davis, 1837, U.S. congressman (Maryland)*

David Diao, 1964, artist and educator

Carl Djerassi, 1943, birth-control-pill developer and writer (Cantor's Dilemma, Menachem's Seed)

E.L. Doctorow, 1952, writer (Ragtime, The March), National Humanities Medal winner

Rolla Dyer, 1907, typhus-vaccine developer and National Institutes of Health director*

Chris Eigeman, 1987, actor

Daniel Mark Epstein, 1970, Academy Award in Literature-winning biographer (Nat King Cole, Lincoln and Whitman) and poet

Novice Fawcett, 1931, former president of Ohio State University*

Joel Fisher, 1969, artist and educator

Donald Fischman, 1957, physician, researcher, and former dean of Cornell University Medical College

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Eric Gaskins, 1980, fashion designer

William Gass, 1947, writer (Omensetter's Luck, The Tunnel), National Book Award winner

Alfred Granger, 1887, architect*

John Green, 2000, writer (An Abundance of Katherines)

David Goodwillie, 1994, writer (Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time)

Graham Gund, 1963, architect

Ulysses Hammond, 1973, vice president, Connecticut College

R.S. Harrison, 1953, retired chief executive, Baldwin Piano and Organ Company

Rutherford B. Hayes, 1842, U.S. president*

Laura Hillenbrand, 1989M, writer (Seabiscuit)

L. Rust Hills, 1946, former fiction editor, Esquire*

Murray Horwitz, 1970, director and chief operating officer, AFI Silver Theater and Cultural Center

Margaret Livingston Howard, 1973, vice president, Drew University

Grace Keefe Huebscher, 1982, vice president for capital markets, Fannie Mae

Charles Huggins, 1949, retired president and chief executive officer, See's Candy Shops

Allison Janney, 1982, Emmy-winning (The West Wing) and Tony-nominated actress

Brendan Keefe, 1990, Emmy-winning television news correspondent and anchor

John Kirkpatrick, 1973, newspaper president (Harrisburg Patriot News)

P.F. Kluge, 1964, writer (Eddie and the Cruisers, Alma Mater)

Harvey Lodish, 1962, biomedical scientist and educator, Whitehead Institute at MIT

Leopoldo Lopez, 1993, mayor of Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela

Robert Lowell, 1940, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner*

William Lowry, 1956, former vice president, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Robie Macauley, 1941, writer and editor (Kenyon Review, Playboy)*

Allison Mackie, 1982M, actress

Wendy MacLeod, 1981, playwright (The House of Yes) and screenwriter

Stanley Matthews, 1840, U.S. senator (Ohio) and Supreme Court justice*

Don McNeill, 1940, U.S. Open tennis champion (singles, 1940)*

Robert Mezey, 1955, poet

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Paul Newman, 1949, Academy Award-winning actor and philanthropist*

Daniel Sheldon Norton, 1846, U.S. senator (Minnesota)*

Kevin O'Donnell, 1947, former Peace Corps director

Oronhyatekha (Peter Martin), 1863, Mohawk Indian leader, physician, and Supreme Chief Ranger of the Independent Order of Foresters*

Olof Palme, 1948, prime minister of Sweden*

C.A. Patrides, 1952, educator and John Milton scholar*

Alfred Humphreys Pease, 1859, composer*

Neil Pepe, 1985, actor, director, and producer

Kristina Peterson, 1973, publishing executive

Coles Phillips, 1905, illustrator*

Josh Radnor, 1996, actor (How I Met Your Mother)

William Rehnquist, 1946M, U.S. Supreme Court chief justice*

Alphonse Rockwell, 1863, physician and electrotherapeutics pioneer*

Arthur "Chip" Sansom, 1973M, cartoonist ("The Born Loser")

John Sharian, 1984, actor

Byers Shaw, 1972, physician, educator, and liver-transplant pioneer

Shaka Smart, 1999, head coach Virginia Commonwealth University

Thomas S. Smith, 1944, former president, Lawrence University*

Ned Smyth, 1970, sculptor

Zachary T. Space '83, U.S. congressman (Ohio)

Edwin M. Stanton, 1834, U.S. attorney general and secretary of war (Lincoln administration)*

James Storer, 1949, retired broadcasting executive

William Swing, 1958, former Episcopal bishop of California

David Taft, 1960, chief operating officer, Landec Corporation

Peter Taylor, 1940, writer (A Summons to Memphis, The Old Forest), Pulitzer Prize winner*

Richard Thomas, 1953, retired chief executive, First Chicago NBD

Geri Coleman Tucker, 1974, deputy managing editor, USA Today

David Turpie, 1848, U.S. senator (Indiana)*

Bill Veeck, 1936M, baseball innovator and major-league team owner*

Fred Waitzkin, 1965, writer (Searching for Bobby Fischer, The Last Marlin)

Bill Watterson, 1980, cartoonist ("Calvin and Hobbes")

John Weir, 1980, educator and writer (The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket), Lambda Book Award winner

Matthew Winkler, 1977, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg News

Jonathan Winters, 1950M, actor, artist, and comedian

Peter Woytuk, 1980, sculptor

James Wright, 1952, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner*

Stephen Young, 1911, U.S. senator (Ohio)*

John Celivergos Zachos, 1840, pioneering educator and inventor (stenotype)*

Nancy Sydor Zafris, 1976, writer (The People I Know, Lucky Strike), Flannery O'Connor Prize winner

@the-gipper said:

Who is the guy in the picture with him? Is that a Rooney?

Art II.

Choco they signed Starks to push Adams. It also allowed them to cut J. Scott who cost far too much money for his very marginal play. Personally I couldn't care less if Adams isn't ready right away. Starks is in amazing shape and was playing great football before he got injured this last time. He's a bargain and at the very least a fantastic back up.

@slowburn said:

Med school prospect?

No, he works with plants, not people. His job may be to figure out how to grow good healthy crops despite the impending drought disaster.

@the-gipper said:

He has a 3.9 GPA in Molecular Biology at Kenyon....but sometimes, yes, he acts like a Retard. But every father can say that about his son at some point in time, fair to say? If that special program at Stanford is open to molecular biology grad students I would take it.

Med school prospect?

Zombo said:

Unless your son is Retarded, he would not be eligible for the special program for Retards that Decastro was able to take advantage of.

Zombo

He has a 3.9 GPA in Molecular Biology at Kenyon....but sometimes, yes, he acts like a Retard. But every father can say that about his son at some point in time, fair to say? If that special program at Stanford is open to molecular biology grad students I would take it.

@the-gipper said:

Ya think? What are you trying to say? My son is looking at going there for grad school.

Unless your son is Retarded, he would not be eligible for the special program for Retards that Decastro was able to take advantage of.

Zombo

@diehardbrownsfan said:

He looks like a typical inbred Steeler fan, so perfect fit, LMFAO!

Who is the guy in the picture with him? Is that a Rooney?

Zombo said:

The reason he went to Stanford is because they have a special progam for Retards.

Zombo

Ya think? What are you trying to say? My son is looking at going there for grad school.

Zombo said:

Yep, first Down Syndrome baby to make it all the way to the NFL.

Zombo

--Can't wait til Phil Taylor gets a hold of Corky.

He looks like a typical inbred Steeler fan, so perfect fit, LMFAO!

@the-gipper said:

Not that I mind busting the balls of any Steeler player, but DeCastro did go to Stanford which may be one of the top 5-10 academic colleges in the land, so lets just say he looks nerdy for a football player, not Retarded.

If there is a Steeler OL that may go bust it will more likely be Mike Adams.

The reason he went to Stanford is because they have a special progam for Retards.

Zombo

Zombo said:

Yep, first Down Syndrome baby to make it all the way to the NFL.

Zombo

--Can't wait til Phil Taylor gets a hold of Corky.

Not that I mind busting the balls of any Steeler player, but DeCastro did go to Stanford which may be one of the top 5-10 academic colleges in the land, so lets just say he looks nerdy for a football player, not Retarded.

If there is a Steeler OL that may go bust it will more likely be Mike Adams.

@feartheroo said:

Did the Steelers sign that lineman they drafted yet? I honestly don't know because no one talks about the 50th pick. He must be holding out...

Yep, first Down Syndrome baby to make it all the way to the NFL.

Zombo

--Can't wait til Phil Taylor gets a hold of Corky.

@feartheroo said:

Did the Steelers sign that lineman they drafted yet? I honestly don't know because no one talks about the 50th pick. He must be holding out...

Yeah, DeCastro signed. It's down to five left- and I won't spoil the fun but it isn't hard to guess who's one of them. Unsigned First round picks

@bills-n-browns-fan said:

Yeah I guess hes holding out with that new contract he just signed.

Did the Steelers sign that lineman they drafted yet? I honestly don't know because no one talks about the 50th pick. He must be holding out...