I'm a giver Aimo.Quote:
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I'm a giver Aimo.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
I was actually thanking DiK.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
awkward.
Oh. Well did I just make this weird now?Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
I’m not ready for the FBI puns to go awray yet.
I think many have bureau'ed their heads in the sand.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Nah, that was like 2,994 posts ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Despite what Clemmons says, I’ve always maintained you don’t suck like a Hoover!Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
This is soooooooooo good!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I just realized that you can click on the post number and it will open up a window populated just with all a poster's posts --- and if you click the hyperlink embedded in the post, it will take you to point in the thread the post was posted.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
That's pretty useful. For who and for what, I'm not sure.
So the bumpkin Wombles headed to Boston Monday, checked into the nice hotel, then walked a couple blocks to the Star Market on Huntington to get some provisions. Going up the narrow concrete steps to the second floor (weird second floor market) we found our selves in the middle of a lot of pushing, shoving, yelling, all part of a busted Fried Chicken Heist...store undercover guy had found three droogs exiting with a nice pile of friend chicken tucked under a coat, not a good scene...wondered for a moment if we might get sucked into the fray.
Wait, really? That’s quite a scene. A real fluster cluck!Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Someone fire off some good mojo! Big morning.
This reminds me of a time I went to the old Pepper's Pizza on Franklin St with three guy friends. The place was packed, the service was WAY behind, and the customers were getting very aggravated. Plus quite a few were intoxicated. It got to the point that when the guy would come out with a pizza and call out the name, any random person was claiming it as his just to get some sort of food. Well, apparently, a sort of ex-football player-looking type realized that someone else had claimed his pizza. He was not happy, and he was also a tad inebriated. He began to cause a scene. He was at the window yelling at the kitchen folks when (no idea what was said) a guy in the back came literally FLYING over the counter and started punching the guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
My friends and I were sitting just two booths away from the action and I was freaking out. All of a sudden the big guy and his two friends ran out of the restaurant. As we all started to talk about what had just happened, I was saying something like Holy crap! Someone could have gotten really hurt! While the three guys I was with were all saying Yeah, but did you see what happened to the pizza?!?
Apparently, while the two guys were flailing around (where I had focused MY attention), a waiter guy who looked like Wendy from Wendy's hamburgers (we were in Pepper's, after all) was caught in the middle of them trying to get out of the way all while carrying a pizza. I did not see this, but my guy friends all saw the pizza go airborne, land toppings-down on the floor. One of the big guy's friends scooped it up and ran out the door with it. That's when the others followed suit.
I totally missed this b/c I was focused on people getting hurt while the guys were watching the food. Typical.
Mojo heading your way. You've go this!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
A sunny place for shady people!!!!!!! Frequented that place a lot!Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Crush it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Destroy it like you do the self esteem that of Daylight Savings Time!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Championship-caliber call back. You have an amazing skill set here.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Anything going on I should know about?
Also - good mojo for any and all that need it this morning.
I really appreciate that!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Last I checked, it's Thursday. Why are we just hearing about this today?!Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
I was down in Boson for some annual medical tests, see friends, eat way too much food, I just didn't prioritize posting as I should have. It was quite a scene.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Years ago a bunch of us were in the Zoom Zoom room in Chapel Hill eating those cheap sizzle steaks that someone tasted greasy-good, when two of the VERY sizeable waiters collided and started throwing punches, each weighed in the 220-240 lb range, blood ended up on some of our plates...disquieting.
Did you get your steak bloody as hell or burnt to a crisp?Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
I do remember we got it free. (steaks were all the same, cheap meat, heavily pounded, grease sizzling on metal platters, just right for growing boys).Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
And how much did the milkshakes cost?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Fi' dolla shakes.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Sounds like they did bring all the boys to the yard.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Does anyone else like a good malted milkshake? I know it's old school, but that little malted fizz really adds something. I discovered how much I like them (vanilla malted) a few years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
I love malts. I think the malt is an especially good complement to certain flavors like chocolate, vanilla, peanut butter...those more "savory" flavors, as opposed to strawberry or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Yes, I use malt syrup instead of powder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
Malt syrup, btw, is the secret ingredient for homemade N.Y.-style bagels. That and high gluten flour (more than just bread flour).
I still remember the day I discovered chocolate malted shakes, many decades ago now ... I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
Remains found yesterday confirmed to be those of Brian Laundrie.
I just saw that.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Turns out he was exactly where they thought he was. I hope the Petito family gets answers but seems unlikely. Also seems the Laundrie parents may face some serious questions.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
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Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I thought it was highly unlikely that they were going to find him alive. Given the amount of publicity and photos on TV and all over the internet, it's hard to stay "on the lam" for very long, especially if he did not have his cell phone or wallet with him (as has been reported).Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Yeah, I did not believe he could survive that long in the elements. I assumed if he was alive he was holed up with support somewhere.Quote:
Originally Posted by duke79
I watched the interview with the family lawyer who was pretty hostile/angry but had an interesting response when asked if the Laundrie parents were ethically bound to respond to Petitos parents even though they exercised their legal right to silence. The lawyer basically said he wasn’t prepared to discuss that at this time.
Yea, unless you're well prepared and very experienced with outdoor survival skills, it's very tough to survive long times in the wilderness (especially when dozens of law enforcement people are out looking for you). It's also not easy to try to "run from the law". You need fake ID's, access to cash, a place to stay, some form of transportation and a lot of luck to escape the long arm of the law.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Interestingly, I worked at a law firm many years ago (decades) where the biggest client of the firm, who was the CEO and president of a large federal credit union, who had engaged in massive bank fraud. Right before his sentencing (and he was given a 24-year sentence by the federal judge), he fled and was on the lam for over a year, despite being on the FBI's most wanted list and being spotlighted on the TV show "America's Most Wanted". He eventually turned himself in (after "finding Jesus") but he had spent a large amount of time planning his escape and how he would live.
I remember a Fort DeSoto park ranger telling me about a guy who "disappeared" from the area while paddle boarding only to be found elsewhere in the country much later on. Apparently some people were after him. And that ranger was the one I had read about in the paper who found a sock full of foot bones on Egmont Key. Ew. I also remember maybe ten years back when a drunk guy tried to swim across this fairly narrow waterway at the north end of the island and was never seen again. A very strong current, an eddy, and sharks probably explain that one.
Did he stay stateside or flee to outside the U.S.? There are certainly places you can go in the world that don't have extradition agreements with the U.S.Quote:
Originally Posted by duke79
Cambodia doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the U.S., and they absolutely revere teachers there.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Not that I’ve given this any thought or done any research.
The season opening episode of Succession dug into the extradition issue rather nicely this week. Gotta be careful where the executive jet takes you.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
I believe he spent the year to 18 months, on the lam, in the United States. The federal judge, as part of releasing him on bail prior to sentencing, had required him and the other convicted defendants to give up their passports. He was also required to wear an electronic ankle bracelet which he was able to remove (somehow) right before he fled. Apparently during the time he was wanted by the authorities, he was spotted in several locations around the country but managed to stay one step ahead of the Feds. It was a fascinating story and I'm surprised no one ever wrote a comprehensive book about the whole caper.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
After serving his 24-year sentence in federal prison, the defendant did write a book about his personal failures.
https://www.cutimes.com/2020/03/06/b...ceo-tells-all/
Interesting. Had not heard of him but he’s in Madoff, Belfort territory.Quote:
Originally Posted by duke79
France does not have an extradition treaty with the U.S. last time I checked.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Well, maybe not in the same league as Madoff or Belfort or some of the other Wall Street crooks, but, I believe, at the time, it was the largest case of criminal fraud involving a federal credit union in the history of the country. The case received a tremendous amount of publicity in Boston and Massachusetts in the early 90's. Definitely an interesting and prominent cast of characters who were involved in the fraud. Unfortunately, the lawyer I worked for (who had been a very successful lawyer and basically at the tail end of his legal career) got caught up in the scandal and was disbarred and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Creamy? Chunky? What am I supposed to put on a PB&J?
Is this really still a question?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
GrapeQuote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Creamy, strawberry, fight me
You only seek to divide this thing you helped create?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Are there jellies, jams, preserves that call for crunchy and some that call for creamy?Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Nothing ever calls for crunchy.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
OPK does.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
(Slow clap)Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
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Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I need clarity and guidance. I know, not the right place to get it. But where else do I turn to?
*yawn*
Good morning
Your better and more successful friends?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
How did the thing you needed our (im)moral support for go?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Find out soon. So far so good.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Yuck. Packing up to head home from the beach. Had a great time with the granddaughters. I am not looking forward to making up missed work next week.
Overnight trip to Asheville to see a band my son likes (Gojira). Gonna be loud.
Yay, Asheville! What's the rest of your trip all about?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
The trip is around seeing Gojira at the Thomas Wolfe tonight. Will try to get up this afternoon to show SonPK the town, grab a bite (and beer for me) before the show, and then wait for the ringing in my ears to subside after the show. Maybe work in a short hike tomorrow morning before heading back.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
And then you will look homeward, OPK?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
No. I will eradicate smooth peanut butter with extreme prejudice.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Couldn't you just sprinkle peanuts into it?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Umm . . . I wish you had mentioned that idea before I had already set certain “things” in motion.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
This escalated quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Smooth peanut butter is that wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Hmm, I see that Drive-By Truckers are playing just around the corner from Gojira. How to make both happen . . . .
What is this foreign language you speak?Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
That’s…quite a double bill.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
I’m trying to convince my wife that I can handle my annual Thanksgiving responsibilities while also attending the Mastodon show the night before.
What a random sultans of swing main page article.
I’d vouch for you, but your support of smooth peanut butter above gives me pause tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
We had our first frost today, 28 degrees, and IN1 (Idiot Neighbor One) was out on his zero turn riding mower (think love affair) wearing a ski hat and gloves as he (unnecessarily) mowed his lawn, which ha grown about .0001 inches since he mowed it three days ago. It's like something from the Coen brothers.
I was happy to shift to once a week. There is a case to be made for picking up and mulching leaves on the yard using the mower rather than raking.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
You will sooner see IN1 juggling chain saws than see him perform actual physical work like raking. No leaves, he cut down all his trees...it's a pure grass experience. Reminds us of a guy we once knew who mowed his entire lawn on his riding mower with the deck up, never cut a thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
He was threatening the grass.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Lol, so they are both just riding around.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Grow again. Grow again,I dare you,I double-dare you fescue, one more damn time!Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Raking is an aesthetic exercise as far as I’m concerned.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
most of the time my leaves blow away in the Fall. If they're still around in the Spring, I'll give them a wee raking...local gardening guru advises leaving them in place for the Winter, decomposition is good.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Late to the party as usual, but I had an EXCELLENT PB&J the other day.
CRUNCHY with homemade muscadine jelly.
FIGHT ME!!!
Intriguing. Was this Muscadine jelly made in your home?Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
I do think we don't spend enough time on the J side of the equation.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Yes, it was. Hence, home-made.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
My grandmother made stuff in her home which was consumed by me. I will fight you over the term homemade meaning it was made in your home. It simply means it was made in a home.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
I give credit where credit is due, so if someone else had made it, I would have said, "my aunt's homemade muscadine jelly."Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I withdraw my prior statement.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Were you seeing a pink object approaching when you typed that?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I didn't type that. She took my phone.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Do you ever wag your finger and say, “oh no you muscadidn’t”?Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
who knew that musk oxes gave off jelly? Certainly not me.
I definitely don’t think you’re ready for that jelly.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
My old man always told me if you milk a bull you have a friend for life. I never knew what he meant by that.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
That’s funny right there.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Well Duke not playing today meant I only had to watch one loss today.
At least they kept it close with Miss State...Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I got stuck overnight in Calgary and it is cold! 30 degrees this morning. Headed to the airport and to get on a plane to Winnipeg.
do they still have the car plug in thingies on the street?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I asked about that and was told they do.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Creamer or cruncher in your coffee?
At one point it was 24-6 and I briefly thought there might be a chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Easy, never coffee.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
No crunchy peanut butter macchiato for you at SBUX?Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Made me giggle.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Rats, was hoping for a chortle!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Guffaw is better.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
True. And a giggle is more of a demure, “I’ve got a secret” response which makes me think there’s whiskey in your coffee.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
thereby making it a thing!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Well, it's not like we are debating pizza crust.
I would say that is a smirk. A knowing smile in my book.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Thin. The toppings are the star, not the bread. Unless you are a godless monster.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I had a conversation about pizza with my daughter last night. She grew up on NYC and northern NJ pizza and now lives in CT, where everyone told her she MUST try the pizza in New Haven. She finally got around to Frank Pepe's and said it was very good, but would still put it behind most NYC pizza, notwithstanding this ranking that puts Pepe's as #1 in the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
https://www.thedailymeal.com/eat/101...s-america-2020
Dissent. If you don’t get the crust right, it doesn’t matter what the toppings are. I can enjoy lots of styles of pizza but if the crust is off, it can torpedo the whole pizza much more than inferior, say, pepperoni might torpedo a pizza with good crust sauce and cheese.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Really, you need all aspects of the pizza to be top notch to produce the symphony of flavor and joy that goes with a great pie.
Interesting, makes me think of a dormmate who was in this film:Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/i/stream...zza-131017.jpg
(Mystic Pizza, Annabeth Gish on the left was my year and lived in House H when we were both juniors)
So Microsoft is saying it is my turn to upgrade to Windows 11. It's a trap, isn't it?
Never heard of House H.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Too bad for you it wasn't the one in the middleQuote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
I really should get up to Austin for the F1 race.
We had Fall Fest at church yesterday - we had 24 trunks for Trunk or Treat. I'm not sure anyone expected the crowd we had. We collected candy from the congregation and supplied the trunks with candy and some trunks brought their own candy. The donated candy filled a 55 gallon barrel. At 4:36, there were about 5 bags of candy in the bottom of that barrel. The event started at 4 and kids were taking just one piece of candy.
Pastor Howard went out and got about $90 more candy. We started distributing the Treasure walk prizes to the trunks and even grabbed the mints from the Gingerbread House supplies to supplement at the end.
We are estimating maybe 500 people but that could be low. I think we gave out 1200 - 1400 bags of popcorn. It was crazy - but what a great day!
That is a lot of kids!Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
Can anyone point me to the Ted Lasso thread? I'm late to the game. Searching on mobile is... Unfortunate
Please do the research and report back to us!Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I'm not seeing a thread on it when I search. But I did use a 1 year filter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
I’m not sure there is one here. (there is one on Deeber).Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Lasso is incredible. Where are you in the show? I don’t want to give any spoilers.
Whoa!Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
Guffaw!Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Almost finished with season one. Inwas skeptical, but wow. What a phenomenal show.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
It is a great show. I was late to the party too. It is everything I heard it was.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Nice, sounds like fun! Unless all the candy was candy corn…Quote:
Originally Posted by DukieInKansas
I HATE candy corn.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Agree. It doesn’t matter if it’s crunchy or creamy, it sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Suuuuuuucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Candy corn should only be sold in small sacks to pelt blasphemers that say their halibut was good enough for Jehovah himself.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I support all of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Enjoy the series! Worthy of the accolades.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Aaaaaaand the Kyrie thread takes a racist turn.
Kyrie brings out the opinions.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
Correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Several of them must have been deleted.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
They were.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
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Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I gave up on that thread a while ago, it fell into the same rut that the original (now locked) Kyrie thread did.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I commend the OP for raising what was new information. But there’s only so much to say in response before the discussion hits the same base points.
Yeah. Tonight went a darker direction. Troubling actually.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
Sorry to hear. Glad I missed it I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
JK shut it down quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by OldPhiKap
did some nice yard work yesterday and managed to lose a tool in the process, which is slightly beyond embarrassing, since I was working in a small area.
Attachment 13700Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Everyone in the family managed to get a cold. Been 2 years since my wife and I have had anything. We visited a daycare for our oldest and pretty sure he got it there since he’s too young for a mask (they start at 3 around here) and then gave it to the rest of us.
Eye opening how easy it all was after feeling like we’d been very careful for so long.
Did you check the refrigerator?Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
I'm someone who thinks that you find out a lot about yourself in a stressful situation. I worried that I would be good at taking care of babies until I was in emergency situations and had to respond appropriately. I found that I was capable. The thing I can't handle is being cold. Normally I am someone who thinks deeply about climate change and how to fix it. But when I'm cold I want fossil fuels to be burned and for the planet to warm up. Winter makes me abandon my core principles. I'm not proud of this. And also it's only Thirty in Winnipeg. I wonder if it gets colder than that up here?
Stay a few months and then report back.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I mean the temperature was 0 Celsius. It can't get colder than that Ymo. It is as low as the scale gets. Sorry that you don't understand math.Quote:
Originally Posted by YmoBeThere
Sounds like the opportunity to buy the Binford 3000 you've always been wanting.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
https://forums.dukebasketballreport...HlVLLkqR//2Q==
On a few occasions I've been carrying stuff out to the car, looking for the car keys, which are in my mouth. Not embarrassing if no one else is around. Maybe a little bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
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Originally Posted by budwom
Last week, my office-mate and I nearly tore the office apart looking for a tube of toothpaste that she had JUST taken out of the box. We could not find it anywhere. And yes, we checked the fridge and freezer. Finally, it was on her chair, slid to the back crevice and her sweater was hanging over it. I thought we had lost our minds. She thought the office was haunted. Lucy and Ethel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
I lost my wallet a couple of weeks ago, turned the house upside down, was unsuccessful and thus canceled my cards and got a new wallet.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Then I found my wallet ensnared in the impromptu pallet my dog likes to create in our bed as we get ready in the morning.
But at least now I have a sweet new Donald Duck wallet.
This is a win in my book. Dog did you a favor.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
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Anyone else ever lose their phone...while talking on it? If not, never mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Thought we'd been there, done that already.Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I forgot your question.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
I was on my way to a weeklong canoe trip (so dressed accordingly). I was fortunate and bumped to first class. This was when I lived in DC and knew I had been seated next to someone important because people from coach kept coming up to give him books and ask him questions. Also lots of coach bound media.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
About halfway through the flight I notice him start to panic. He’s looking everywhere around his seat, getting on his knees in the aisle to look under his seat. Turns out he lost his blackberry. Pretty soon they’re making announcements over the loud speaker and all his hanger-ons are on their hands and knees looking for the blackberry too. I’ve gathered by now the guy is some sort of Republican bigwig based on comments made to him and that this is a VERY important blackberry.
I volunteer to let him look around my seat but am getting nervous because I am unshaven and in a pirate teeshirt so thinking I might be suspected of being some sort of proto-antifa mole.
This all goes on for a while until we finally land. When we’re preparing to leave I reached into the crevice between our seats and, sure enough, find the blackberry. He is ecstatic and a roar of applause literally erupts from the peanut gallery.
As Im headed out of the airport I’m followed out by a few reporters who tell me the guy was Ken Mehlman, the head of the RNC at the time. It was a presidential election year.
I feel like that was my moment to alter the course of history and I blew it.
You just needed to draw proper inspiration from your shirt.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
I have looked all over the house for my reading glasses which were on my head a couple of times.Quote:
Originally Posted by budwom
Tomorrow is Barves spirit day at school, and I will of course be trolling. Current frontrunner shirt choices are NASA (because Houston) and Jetsons (because Astro). Also considering just jarring, head-to-toe black.
Any other suggestions?
I once fussed at myself for forgetting my sunglasses. I not only had them on my head, I was actually WEARING them as they should be worn. Sun must have been really, really bright that day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bostondevil
Let's just say, Yes, and leave it at that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rich
There's always not being a poozer and actually wearing a Braves t-shirt. Just a thought! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Steal signs?Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
First, smooth peanut butter. Now, this.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
It’s like I don’t even know you any more, man!
I’m not sure what a poozer is, but there is precisely zero chance I ever wear a Barves shirt again under any circumstances.Quote:
Originally Posted by aimo
Well now, there's a story...Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
at least I have my memories of seeing a profoundly ticked off Chief Nok-a-Homa threaten to whack a ten year old kid in the upper deck at Fulton County Stadium... he had a decent argument to make. If I had that on film, I could make $100k selling it, easily.Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
Not really; I was a fan for 25 years or so and wore Barves shirts frequently and with pleasure. Now, they’re dead to me and not touching my skin.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
See, that's a preamble to a story...Quote:
Originally Posted by wilson
I suspect it’s because the Braves famously left Atlanta for the suburbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15
Yes, exactly.Quote:
Originally Posted by bundabergdevil
Long story short(ish):
About a month after the conclusion of the 2013 season, the Barves announced the consummation of a backroom deal that would move them out of the city of Atlanta and into Cobb County. They proclaimed that it would move them closer to their ticket-buying fanbase and alleviate the difficulties of getting to Turner Field (the stadium they played in for two decades following the 1996 Olympics, a building that Atlanta got literally for free), owing to the fact that traffic sucks and public transit in Atlanta is underdeveloped.
Nevermind that one of the main reasons Atlanta's transit infrastructure is underdeveloped is because of 6 decades of obstructionist white flight politics centered directly in Cobb County. In the ensuing years, the Barves and their hypocritical politician partners (the ones who are adamantly opposed to "government handouts," but who managed to find half a billion dollars in tax revenue to help buy a new stadium while simultaneously furloughing teachers) then made it abundantly clear that this was about prioritizing certain parts of the fanbase and certain elements of the Atlanta region's populace:
Just this week, the team amplified the 8 years of dog-whistles by inviting Cobb County native Travis Tritt to sing the national anthem just a few days after he made headlines by canceling all of his tour dates in areas with vaccine mandates of any kind.Quote:
It is absolutely necessary the (transportation) solution is all about moving cars in and around Cobb and surrounding counties from our north and east where most Braves fans travel from, and not moving people into Cobb by rail from Atlanta.
--Joe Dendy, Cobb County Republican Party chairman, November 2013
The Barves can burn in hell.
...there's a thread about this if anyone's interested.Quote:
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you got that right. Pitiful move.Quote:
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I hate this. I hated it when it happened and I hate it more now. I think they abandoned the city and I think they did it in a manner that promotes some structural racism. As someone who thinks and cares about inequity in society their move was dishonorable. Everyone has to decide what a bridge too far is for them. And you made your stand and I respect the hell out of it. I have a few of these as well. There are artists whose music I will not listen to because they are such reprehensible people. I'm not sure if I lived in Atlanta how I would have responded. Because it would certainly mean something different to me if I lived there. I'm not in love my relationship with the team. I broke with the Mets in my early teens and with the Cowboys after college. Politically I was never a straight ticket voter until about 2015. People can probably figure this part out. My point is I respect the hell out of your decision. And there are parts of the team that trouble me deeply. But there are parts of sports that trouble me deeply on the grander scale. I can't enjoy boxing and I have never watched a UFC event because winning can frequently mean causing a concussion. And we know the ramifications. Football has been deemphasized in my life, but I still watch it and feel a bit slimy sometimes when I do. Hell, I went to Carolina and both love and respect the University and their educational mission while thinking that the academic Scandal was horrible and that the University abrogated its responsibility to hold itself accountable by trying and succeeding in skirting NCAA ramifications. Institutions should act in an honorable Manner and self police. The university failed to do that and I am embarrassed. To close this book report, the United States is a vast and varied land.Quote:
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I couldn't agree more with this point of view. The Barves' move was a major catalyst, but in the years since then, I've significantly divested myself of sporting allegiances. Less than a year after the Barves turned their coats, the Failcons likewise came with their hand out looking for public money to replace a stadium not nearly old enough to need replacing. So that was, on principle, bye bye Failcons for me as well (a move that ended up being wise, because the Failcons just keep failing).Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I don't watch much football of any kind anymore, in fact, because it's physically disastrous and culturally toxic. I haven't watched the Super Bowl since the Failcons failed in it almost 5 years ago, and I don't watch much college football either (I'll make an exception this year if Georgia actually manages to make the college title game).
I've been vocal about how my Duke basketball fandom is withering on the vine, because there's so much turnover that I don't feel like I know who the players are and the system is just too disjointed year by year.
I root for the Hawks because I like basketball and they're very entertaining, but I don't have nearly the emotional investment I once did in my teams.
I'm an Atlanta United (soccer) season ticket holder and will keep being so for the foreseeable future because 1) They're a good, well-run club, and 2) just as importantly, it's the most diverse and inclusive fanbase and gameday experience I've ever been a part of, by a wide margin.
But that's it. My level of interest in big-time sports is precipitously lower than it was 5-8 years ago, and it continues to decline annually.
If it’s Tuesday, it’s for tacos and soapboxes.
I kid, I kid…
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Can someone hold this high horse for me so I can dismount?Quote:
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As always, riposte!
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I agree with all y’all, just mcribbing….
Holy crap, and we've been letting you post here this whole time?Quote:
Originally Posted by ClemmonsDevil
I'm still into sports, but the sports are different. I am a Tour de France junkie, so much so that I've started watching the Vuelta too. I still love Duke basketball but I don't arrange my schedule around the games anymore, if I'm home and they are on, I will watch them. I'm still a big figure skating fan but I find the ladies' event to be the most boring, interchangeable Russian teenagers with careers that last, maybe, if they are really lucky, more than 3 years are ruining that particular sport. It's like the one and dones in college basketball. Russia has figured out a training method to get 16/17 year old girls doing quads, but then they are so injured by the time they are 19 they are out of the sport. I would like to see them bring back the school figure, quite frankly.
Fun fact, since 1994, only one Olympic gold medalist on the women's side has ever come back for a second Olympics and only 2 have ever come back and won a medal at the World Championships after their Olympic win. Kim Yuna won gold in 2010 and silver in 2014. Alina Zagitova won the world title in 2019 after her win in 2018 but is now out of the sport. That's it. I can't even remember the name of the flash in the pan Russian teenager that won in 2014.
ah, this is getting interesting, there could be more beans to be spilled, yes?Quote:
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NOW do you see why I wear the pink boxing gloves?!?!?Quote:
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By the way, even though you are a 'hole,
Happy Respiratory Care Week!
I know. I get it. I am a Devil though.Quote:
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Thanks Aimo!Quote:
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Clem is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, and slathered in bacon.
We would also have accepted "weird".Quote:
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I'll take the bacon; you keep the rest. 😂Quote:
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I dunno, Clemmons is allegedly pretty beefy from all those push-ups.Quote:
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Man. COVID booster still laying me out.
I'm sorry for you, and I truly do empathize. Hang in there. If you're like most people with bad reactions (including me), when it does go away, it will be fairly quickly over and done with.Quote:
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It's what I expected. Second shot kicked me hard too.Quote:
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