<div class="quote_poster">igotask8board Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Oh, I meant Bill Walton. Sorry for the confusion.</div> Yeah but, what did he say?
^OK, let's see if I can remember. It all started at the beginning of the broadcast in the first quarter when they were saying how if Houston could score like this every quarter we'd be competing with at least the Spurs. Walton said, "It must be tough being a Houston Rockets fan, having to watch there team grind it out for 48 minutes." Barry said, "Two words, Tracy McGrady." As the game continued, one of them would make a statement and the other would say I disagree. It happened at least 3 times, but those were kind of minor, however you could feel the tension building. Then in the middle of the third quarter the other commentater said something about Shane Battier and Walton said something and Barry responded "Do you even know what you're talking bout?" and they let go of it until about 4 minutes later. They started going at each other again and ESPN blacked out the game for 3-4 seconds...probably to tell them to play nice and do their jobs. That's all I can remember right now. I should have just posted what was said after the game, but I assumed everyone knew what I was talking about since they blacked out the game for a few seconds. Sorry if I wasted your time or you expected something jucier.
<div class="quote_poster">igotask8board Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">^OK, let's see if I can remember. It all started at the beginning of the broadcast in the first quarter when they were saying how if Houston could score like this every quarter we'd be competing with at least the Spurs. Walton said, "It must be tough being a Houston Rockets fan, having to watch there team grind it out for 48 minutes." Barry said, "Two words, Tracy McGrady." As the game continued, one of them would make a statement and the other would say I disagree. It happened at least 3 times, but those were kind of minor, however you could feel the tension building. Then in the middle of the third quarter the other commentater said something about Shane Battier and Walton said something and Barry responded "Do you even know what you're talking bout?" and they let go of it until about 4 minutes later. They started going at each other again and ESPN blacked out the game for 3-4 seconds...probably to tell them to play nice and do their jobs. That's all I can remember right now. I should have just posted what was said after the game, but I assumed everyone knew what I was talking about since they blacked out the game for a few seconds. Sorry if I wasted your time or you expected something jucier.</div> No, that was quite intriguing actually. Bill Walton goes off on weird tangents sometimes.
Steve Snapper used to get into it with him also....Snapp is the only guy that can keep Bill in check, lol......
Friman , Patrick C., McPherson Keith M., Warzak, William J., and Joseph Evans. “Influence of Thumb Sucking on Peer Social Acceptance in First-Grade Children.” Pediatrics 91.4 (1993): 784-786 Chronic thumb sucking in school-age children may reduce peer social acceptance, an important contributor to social development. The influence of thumb sucking on social acceptance was assessed among 40 first-grade children, who were shown four slides of two 7-year-old children (one boy, one girl) in two poses (one thumb sucking, one not). After viewing each slide in their classrooms, the children answered 10 numerically weighted questions related to peer acceptance. To limit the possibility that the children would determine the girl and boy were the same in each pose, the slide presentation was counterbalanced across two sessions 1 week apart. Using a repeated-measures analysis of variance, the authors compared composite scores on each question for both poses. The results indicate that while in the thumb-sucking pose, the children were rated as significantly less intelligent, happy, attractive, likable, and fun and less desirable as a friend, playmate, seatmate, classmate, and neighbor than when they were in the non-thumb-sucking pose. These findings suggest that the risk of reduced social acceptance should be added to the list of potentially harmful effects of chronic thumb sucking in school-age children. The main reason I plan to quit sucking my thumb is because I feel socially unaccepted in my family and amongst my friends who have found out someway or another. This article talks about how someone in the thumb-sucking pose is thought lesser of. I don’t want my kids to wake up and see me in this pose if it makes them think less of me. Ozturk M. “Thumbsucking and falling asleep.” The British Journal of Medical Psychology 50.1 (1977): 95-103 A review of the studies on the aetiology of habitual thumbsucking reveals either contradictory or inconclusive results. In this study carried out in Turkey, 50 thumbsuckers, 50 non-thumbsuckers, 250 school children and 312 'problem' children were investigated through interviews, questionnaires and other clinical techniques with their mothers. Among variables studied were aspects of feeding, onset and incidence of thumbsucking, strength of sucking drive, sex distribution, educational level and occupation of mothers, parental attitudes toward physical contact with children, mother-child relationships, and particular forms of falling asleep. It was found that thumbsucking was aetiologically more related to ways of falling asleep than to other factors. An attempt was made to explain the social, psychological and physiological basis of the aetiological significance of the falling asleep-stage in habitual thumbsucking. These findings now permit predictive longitudinal investigations to test this accuracy. I can not fall asleep without sucking my finger. I do believe there is a falling asleep-stage in habitual thumbsucking that I must go through in order to fall asleep. Friman, P.C., “Concurrent Habits. What would Linus do with his blanket if thumb-sucking were treated?” Department of Pediatric Psychology. Philadelphia: 1990 Thumb-sucking and object attachment commonly occur during childhood. Object attachment is usually harmless, but thumb-sucking can lead to complications when chronically practiced by older children. Effective thumb-sucking treatment is available, but to my knowledge, it has not been evaluated on thumb-sucking children who are also attached to objects. This study, using a multiple baseline design, shows treatment eliminated thumb-sucking in eight thumb-sucking children with concurrent attachment and that seven of the children subsequently lost interest in their attachment object. Since I am attached to objects, I have to look into different methods about quitting. I never use an attachment object when I am not thumb-sucking, so I hope I fit in this statistic with the other seven children who lost interest in their attachment objects after quitting. Wolf, Andreas and Betsy Lozoff. “Object attachment, thumbsucking, and the passage to sleep.” Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 28.2 (1989): 287-292. The authors use cross-cultural studies to suggest that children who sleep in the same room as their parents and who are breast-fed are less likely to use an attachment object. The present study examined childrearing practices that emphasize physical proximity of parent and child and use of an attachment object and thumbsucking at bedtime with 126 healthy U.S. infants. Four child-rearing practices were focused on: presence or absence of a caregiver when the child actually fell asleep; mode of feeding; location of the child's bed or sleeping place; whether or not the child slept with the parents during the night. Children who had an adult present as they fell asleep were less likely to use an attachment object or suck their thumbs. In contrast to cross-cultural research, the results of the present study suggest that where a child sleeps during the night or how the child is fed is not as important an influence on the bedtime use of an attachment object or thumbsucking as whether an adult is present as the child actually falls asleep. Ever since I was born, my attachment object has been any soft article of clothing, or a blanket. Anytime and every time I suck my finger, I have to have an attachment object to squeeze/twist/stroke between my thumb, middle, and index finger. Sucking my index finger just isn’t the same without using an attachment object.
