Ahhhh, I tried to tee it up for some one and failed miserably.
What a deflating moment.
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Wonder what the world looks like when it hits 100k?
We should time capsule some predictions on the thread.
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I’m actually going to watch the super bowl today, at least to start out. If it gets out of hand or I get bored, I’ll go to bed.
Halle looks good.
No sportball championship for me tonight. Unfortunately, NBC reception on my tv is subject to the whims of the atmospheric deities and they decided not to grace me with their presence this evening.
With that said, bring one home to the 'nati, boys!
Pretty much the only halftime show I have ever enjoyed.
Okay, streaming it on my phone.
Oh, well...
put the game on DVR then watched it in barely over an hour. Stopped to watch one or two ads, then wondered shy, they were pretty over the top stupid. Exciting finish to the game, though.
Hahaha! I know. I recognize he is one of the greatest guitarists of all time and an otherworldly song writer. Just not a fan. Y'all have to remember that prior to 1990 or so I legitimately listened to only country music. I could not tell you the difference between the Stones, Zeppelin, the Who. Just completely unaware and I don't like it. At all. Same with 80s pop. Unaware of it. So no nostalgia. 70s and 80s County, 90s rap and 90s grunge I would fight to the death over.
I'm sorry. I overreacted there. Thank you for the sporks.
i thoughtthe half time show was great...some really nice moments...
marshal is the goat of hip hop..
prince is still the goat of half time shows...
The best song of 1992 was Hip Hop Hooray, just saying.
How do I know? I was there...
Sometimes I'm disappointed by how controversial something I say is.
LOL. I accidentally heard Achy Breaky Heart live in Charleston, WV when the Cyrus craze was in full swing. Just driving around in the mountains in my new '92 Miata, I decided on a whim to go to West Virginia. Wall-to-wall people for a quarter-mile. I had no idea who the guy was. I think the event was the Sternwheeler Regatta?
No, not Mt. Airy, but I did grow up in a little town called Mayodan, NC. The late Roy Thompson, a writer for the Winston-Salem Journal, wrote an article on the meanest towns in the Piedmont and Mayodan was in the top 3. Mayodan back then was a poor mill town and Saturday night fights were common in the 2 pool halls. Most of the citizens didn't like the article but couldn't put up a good argument that the article wasn't true. As for the music, I still love the Mo-Town greats. Give me the Temptations, Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops and my all-time favorite, The Platters.
Yeah I don't want old white people (and I say this as an old white person) commenting on something they never liked in the first place. I won't tell y'all how to experience classic rock and 80s pop. I wasn't listening to it during my formative years. The first music I spent my own actual money on was LL's "Radio". I was all in on rap and hip hop from the early days. I was literally the only white kid on my AAU team, and discovered rap hanging out with those guys. It was an amazing experience for a kid who grew up priming tobacco in the summers. Completely changed my world view. And rap was the musical background to it.
And that's why this is my first comment related to the half time show. Depending on how you count, I have catalogued at least 25 different languages in my music collection (and that's after intentionally excluding some that were used in a piece of music non-organically), so I like LOTS of different styles of music. But hip-hop and rap are really pretty much the only genres I don't really care for (and even there, I make exceptions). Needless to say, that halftime show just didn't do it for me. I actually preferred the one a few years ago that featured the Black-Eyed Peas, since I preferred their poppier* sound.
*Look, mom, I made an adjective.
I am not qualified to criticize anybody's musical tastes because I tuned out of the popular music world when disco became a thing, and I have not tuned back in since. So I am stuck in time, and across several musical genres. Anything rock or pop post-"Staying Alive", anything classical post-1900, anything country post-1990, and anything jazz post-1960 are pretty much unlistenable to me in general. I'll grant that there are the odd exceptions to each (for example, I have an odd liking for Andreas Vollenweider). It is pretty difficult for me to find anything to listen to on the car radio, although since moving to Tennessee I have found an oldies country station that is mostly tolerable. The groups y'all discuss on this board read like alphabet soup to me.
One day at work I got a new perspective on short buses. Our facility had a short bus shuttle that ran back and forth between two major buildings which are a bit more than a mile apart. Always considered the short bus to be just a smallish unit of no particular merit.
However, one morning the short bus driver, a middle-aged woman, went completely rogue. She started smashing into cars that were moving, the cops showed up and did the old blockade maneuver around her bus, at which time she more than decimated the Essex Junction police force's cruiser fleet..I think she mangled five or six of them before they yanked her off the short bus. They may be short, but they pack a wallop.
Why on earth would they make black-colored toilet paper?
I really think it was Le Word, but then they realized...
Also Wake Forest is the ACC team I hate 2nd most.
Well we know who OPK’s most hated ACC team is…BC, with that fake mascot of theirs.
I met some Wake Forest alums up here in the Boston area once. We were talking ACC hoops before they realized which ACC school claimed my allegiance. They were talking about the uppity, snooty Duke types until I told them that I was one. One of them told me that I was the nicest Duke alum they'd ever met. I thanked them then asked them how many Dukies did they actually know. Answer - not many. I said that I was more representative than they had been lead to believe. I then told them, as gently as I could, that growing up in Durham, Wake Forest types were the snooty ones.
I do explain to my New England friends that if they ever decide to move to North Carolina, they will be forced to pick a team. I tell them that if they really want to be left mostly alone, claim to pull for Wake. I say, "People will look at you funny, but they won't give you much grief."
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I have to admit, I hate Wake fans, too. They are stupid. I would to to games with friends from the W-S area, lifelong WFU fans, and they were the worst! They would boo every single call, even if it was an obviously good call. A friend started screaming at the ref after a foul was called on a Wake player. I said, "What? He fouled the crap out of him!" She shot me a deathray look. Like I was a traitor for saying that.
Plus they are very whiny, like most of their players last night. They need to get over that.
They are also completely unimaginative. Boring cheers, and when they started copying Duke cheers, and I laughed at them for it, well, it did not go over well.
I had a good friend on campus who was the son of a prominent Duke law professor. We would sit by ourselves at the Duke-Wake basketball games so we could cheer on the Devils.
anyone who eats BBQ with tomato sauce has to be considered suspect.
That is the truth!!! I had a couple of guy friends who wanted to go eat BBQ one night at a place they had found. One had lived all over the country and one was from NJ. Being from Durham, I was staring at the gloppy red pile of "meat" on my plate and asking, "Why is there BBQ sauce all over the slaw?!?" I don't think they ever asked me out to eat with them again.
I think there's room in this world for many different styles of barbecue. Having now sampled it all across this great land, I think my favorite is Kansas City-style. Love those dry-rubbed beef ribs. Like y'all, I also love Eastern NC style, but I also like the stuff with the red sauce.
South Carolina with that weird white orangey stuff can eff right off, though. Oddly, I like all the individual components of the sauce, but I have no use for SC barbecue, especially if purveyed by that Maurice a-hole.
Come to think of it, I have no use for pretty much the entirety of South Carolina, Charleston and environs excepted.
I will never give Maurice a dime. But Rodney Scott's Whole Hog is simply amazing. He also uses a peppery, vinegar sauce and not the mustard sauce. I am definitely in agreement that all the iterations of BBQ are great and I loathe ideological purity when it comes to BBQ. I am a brisket person. And word on the streets is Lewis's is the best. Charleston has an amazing food scene, but people have the tendency to eat someone's take on fried shrimp/crab cakes/shrimp and grits. All delicious, but the best BBQ in the country may be in that city.
Good recs. I've actually not eaten much (any?) BBQ in Charleston; I tend to be in the mood for seafood & soul food when I go there. I mourn Jestine's Kitchen, for example.
Vinegar:BBQ is as crunchy: peanut butter, in my book. Not a fan boy.
Yankee!! Heretic!! I shun you from (eastern) NC!
My uncle's recipe for 3-alarm BBQ sauce is amazing and no tomato whatsoever. It is red, but only b/c of all the ground and crushed red pepper. Definitely cleans the sinuses!
I could share the recipe, but then I would have to kill you all.
I just bought tickets to see Elvis Costello in Boston in August.
I wouldn't mind visiting Moscow.
More recent times...
Three Russian doctors fall from hospital windows, raising questions amid coronavirus pandemic
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/04/europ...ntl/index.html
The KGB got to fondle my underwear on a daily basis (true) though I was not in them at the time. A really bizarre trip...only when I got home was I informed that we were being followed all over the city, including the subway....true Evil Empire days (1983)...really sad that particular country made so much progress, only to be sent back in time by the evil Vladamir, who longs for the days of olde...
Brandi is very close to the top of my "absolutely do not miss a show when the opportunity presents itself" list. I've had the pleasure of seeing her in quite a few different venues and settings, and she never fails to take me places. I love her. So sorry the weather ruined that show for you.
People on the main board care very deeply about seeding. Seems strange to me. There are a lot of really smart people on there who say exceptionally intelligent things until they say that past seeding and championships are closely correlated (they might be, but we don't know that) and that past seeding has some sort of relationship to the current season (it definitely does not). People care so deeply about things like that. I find it strange.
Exactly. And people are so unbelievably bad at being happy or thankful. It doesn't mean anything if Duke doesn't win it this year. Five championships. How freaking lucky are we? It would be neat to win in his last year but settle your mess down if you think it has larger implications.
Along those lines...it is beginning to dawn on me (right or wrong) that so much of our popularity among top recruits is that we send top guys to the league just about every year, and I suspect that in the recruits' eyes, the fact we are the school of Zion, Ingram, Kyrie, Tatum et al trumps whoever won the last national title...we're really good, sometimes we win it all, no horrific thing if we don't. When I graduated I would have given one small finger for one national title so that's my perspective.
It's Michael Jordan's birthday today, btw.
I got curious - Bill Russell retired after the 68/69 season. Michael Jordan's NBA career began in 1984, a 15 year gap. Michael Jordan has now been retired for nearly 19 seasons.
Okay.
If you're Russian when you go into the bathroom and you're Finnish when you come out, what are you in between?
Eur-a-pean!
I'm an effing treasure.
Because "One Night in Krung Thep Maha Nakhon" is hard to fit into a rhythm.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...nge/ar-AATYybj
On my initial foray into Russian toilet conditions upon my arrival in Moscow, I was able to confirm the rumor that they don't bother stocking toilet paper because people only steal the rolls, so I had several sections of a newspaper torn up on the floor to "assist" me. Nice touch, literally.
If I had a name like 'swood', I whisper it fiercely in the ears of unsuspecting strangers in the grocery store.
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While living in Seoul, we somehow became acquainted with the officers stationed in the Joint Securry Area (PanMunJom) of the DMZ. My mom would often arrange for visitors to get a tour of the JSA. One of the times, she asked the officer if she should stay back at The Monastery (the officer's club) since she had been up there a lot. He assured her that the North Koreans already had a file on her, so there was no reason to stay back. I went up there quite a few times also, so I figured they probably had one on me as well.
The stories they shared about the North Koreans trying to top the UN side were pretty funny. At the time, the one thing they couldn't do was have tall soldiers. The US Army required that the personnel stationed in the JSA be over 6 feet tall. The first officer I met was 6' 11".