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Thanks for the updated list. Through your link, I found the T+L 2008 list, on which no Ohio hotels were included (the Cleveland Ritz was the only Ohio hotel on the 2007 list). I was referring to the Best Business Hotels List, which included far less Ritz-Carlton hotels. I couldn't find a 2007 or 2008 list in this category, however.

Was the Cleveland-themed guitar done by Hector Vega? It looks like a lot of his work.

LOL, I love MayDay's Master of the Obvious, obnoxiously large, The More You Know-type graphical posts. I would look into an area around the end of the blue line (Warrensville/Chagrin) or eastern University Heights (around/east of JCU). Both are close to the rapid (blue and green lines, respectively) and both will give you a reasonable commute to Solon. You can avoid the freeway congestion by taking Green Rd. south to Harvard or Emery, over to Brainard, south to Cannon, and come down the parkway onto Aurora Rd. It doesn't take very long and will save you traffic headaches.

How's come, KJP? I would think a person as active in the community as you would vote every chance they got.

I suppose you're right on that. Painesville just feels more like a downtown I guess because it has much larger buildings and takes up a bigger area, but a lot of that comes from being the county seat. Along those lines, I guess you could say Madison has a downtown as well (and maybe even Mentor at 615 and Mentor, even though most people that live in Mentor probably have no idea the center of town isn't the Great Lakes Mall).

Well, according to the Travel and Leisure: 2006 Worlds Best Business Hotels list, only 5 US Ritz-Carltons made the list, and Cleveland's was on there.

There is no possible way to have the value replaced in the same cell without using VBA. If you want the answers to be shown next to the numbers, it would be easy using either vlookup or hard-coded (and messy) nested IF statements similar to what SmittenKitten showed (although it'd be in reverse as he was going from text to number). You could have the columns next to each other and have the headings span both columns. I think you are bordering on trying to use Excel for something it was not made to do (which I find to be all to common in the business world). Access (or any other database system) was tailor made to handle tasks like this. I wish Access would become more common with people instead of Excel because I think it forces you to think about how to organize your data more (by defining a relational database structure). Then you could write any number of reports against the data that would display it however you want, without mixing the ideas of storing data and viewing data.

And we have a 970 foot p3n1s!

More catering to the "freeway crowd". I think they could have put half the money into the current facility in downtown Painesville and had a nice building in a more sensible location (in the heart of the only city in Lake County with a downtown).

^ditto

Yay for MoDOT!

As is shs96.

Shouldn't the smoking ban a very anti-Republican idea? More government, less freedom, mucking with free-market capitalism... I support the ban, I just don't really understand why someone who is hardcore Republican would also support it.

Can either Barfield or Carroll play short? If Asdrubal keeps hitting this miserably, then we may want to rotate Carroll or Barfield in at SS for AsCab sometimes.

EXACTLY what I was saying when I said "whether or not you or I think it is right or wrong or would want to do it ourselves is not the issue." However, I was then arguing that I see no reason for the government to ban gay marriages, because the sole argument seems to be based on religious beliefs, which is where the individual choice comes in (freedom of religion, and the individual choice does not harm others). If you (or anybody else against it) have a better reason for banning it, then let us know.

Oh boy I got home and look what I caused! I need to stop having a bad day at work. Well, anyways, sorry MTS, I was taking your terms of endearment the wrong way. Chalk it up to me being in a pissy mood. Anyways, MTS, glad the punk is scared of you. Also, I prescribe you with 3 months of absolutely no suburbs and you should fully recover.

There someone goes again with the sick comparison of gay marriage to pedophilia. Do I really have to explain this again? Someone that young is deemed not old enough to be able to make a mature decision on those matters, but two men certainly are. BIG difference. Correct, liberties is the word I was looking for. Thanks.

I'm not arguing that there isn't something to stereotypes many times or that somehow creativity and homosexuality seem to be positively correlated, but its the "my people" vs. "your people" argumentation that the thread was devolving into that prompted my Bad Thread comment. And while I'm in a pissy mood wishing I could leave work already...I mostly enjoy what you have to add to the forum and you seem like a nice person MTS, but you need to quit with the pet names (dear, honey, sweetie). They are annoying and condescending (regardless of who you are talking to).

There's SOMETHING to most stereotypes, but the discussion seemed to be degrading into this myth that all gay men are muscle-men, and all straight men are slobs. I've know plenty of exceptions on both sides of that rule, and I am one of them (and people generally don't even put me in the "metro" category).

Here's my take. It's very similar to the "most smart people don't have any common sense" myth. A smart person SHOULD have common sense, so when they do something that seems to show a lack of common sense, it's more shocking to people than when someone of lower intelligence does the same sort of thing. A gay man SHOULDN'T have women hitting on him because he's not trying to attract them, so when they do it's more of...you see where I'm going.

Sorry, I was just observing the thread turning into Gay/Straight Man Stereotype Central. :-P

A Bad Weekend is starting to turn into A Bad Thread.

No, because by my second statement I am saying that it is not the government's job to say who can and can't marry. It is each individual's choice. Thus, what each of us thinks is right or wrong shouldn't even be the issue here. Even those who think it is wrong should still be able to accept others that do not see a problem with it since it does not affect their rights. Also, sorry CWMccann18, I meant to quote YTown, and I must have hit the wrong quote button. My reply had nothing to do with your posts.

1 bedroom for $3.1 million? Where do I sign up?

^Some of those comments were far more disturbing than anything I've ever seen even on cleveland.com. The worst part about it, though, is how no one even acknowledged that there was anything wrong with some of the previous posts displaying some of the worst and most blatant racism I have seen.