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[OldPhiKap]

What kind of chocolates?

“Crunchy Frog?”

[bundabergdevil]

What kind of chocolates?

“Crunchy Frog?”

Pennsylvania has an odd set of chocolate magnates. This guy has been running red politics in PA for a long, long time and also is a 4th generation chocolatier. He was like a big ol' conservative Easter bunny around DC, just flinging chocolate at everyone left and right. Well, right...

Anyway, he got in trouble for a whole slew of things and his co-conspirator committed suicide in front of an audience on live television. It's a morbid read so if that sort of thing makes you uncomfortable, avoid it.

Weird chocolate PA.

[OldPhiKap]

Pennsylvania has an odd set of chocolate magnates. This guy has been running red politics in PA for a long, long time and also is a 4th generation chocolatier. He was like a big ol' conservative Easter bunny around DC, just flinging chocolate at everyone left and right. Well, right...

Anyway, he got in trouble for a whole slew of things and his co-conspirator committed suicide in front of an audience on live television. It's a morbid read so if that sort of thing makes you uncomfortable, avoid it.

Weird chocolate PA.

Learned today: Christian Pulisic is apparently from Hershey.

I saw an out of control Grateful Dead show in the pouring rain at Hershey park in ‘85 IIRC. Simply electric, in every sense possible.

Wilt Chamberlain had his 100-point game in Hershey.

I have toured Hershey several times, but never saw an Oompa-Loompah.

That’s all I’ve got.

[bundabergdevil]

Daycare issued the joint weather-Omicron alert. No surprise on either. They're adding precautions to the COVID protocol and offering credits to any parents that want to keep their kids out this first post-holiday week, which we had planned on doing anyway.

Meanwhile, the temperature is starting to drop. Looking forward to it getting cold again, frankly.

[YmoBeThere]

Overnight lows in the 20s for us. Brrrrr!!!!

[YmoBeThere]

For fans of a school that will likely never participate, we seem awfully concerned about a playoff format.

[OldPhiKap]

For fans of a school that will likely never participate, we seem awfully concerned about a playoff format.

You can be a fan of the sport independent of Duke’s chances of participating though.

For example, I like the Winter Olympics. It does not concern me that Duke has only had one Olympic athlete compete in those games (earning a silver medal memory serves me right, and I believe that he and a teammate were the first two African-Americans to medal for the U.S. in a winter event). The events are fun.

I like college football. How it is conducted interests me. FWIW.

[bundabergdevil]

I like curling but wish there was more blood.

[Bostondevil]

The Figure Skating Championships are now requiring proof of vaccination or a negative test for entry. If you are planning to go to every session, one negative test won't cut it for the full weekend. I will be wearing my day-glo orange sweatshirt for the Men's Championship event on Sunday. If the cameras pan past me, you won't miss the sweatshirt. I'm not sure how far down I am. I'm not front row, but I might be visible in a wider crowd shot.

[OldPhiKap]

I like curling but wish there was more blood.

There is the way that I bowl the stone.

[ClemmonsDevil]

The Figure Skating Championships are now requiring proof of vaccination or a negative test for entry. If you are planning to go to every session, one negative test won't cut it for the full weekend. I will be wearing my day-glo orange sweatshirt for the Men's Championship event on Sunday. If the cameras pan past me, you won't miss the sweatshirt. I'm not sure how far down I am. I'm not front row, but I might be visible in a wider crowd shot.

Have fun and be safe!

[TruBlu]

For fans of a school that will likely never participate, we seem awfully concerned about a playoff format.

I’m a fan of Kate Upton, but will likely never participate.

[ClemmonsDevil]

I’m a fan of Kate Upton, but will likely never participate.

Mutual decision?

[YmoBeThere]

Mutual decision?

Ouch...

[bundabergdevil]

I’m a fan of Kate Upton, but will likely never participate.

Hah! Cannot spork. I have to say your statement was less definitive than I would have imagined but maybe I’m not giving you a Lloyd Christmas chance…

[75Crazie]

For those of you like ClemmonsDevil who can't get enough puns, Tank McNamara has a great one today: http://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2022/01/03.

[ClemmonsDevil]

For those of you like ClemmonsDevil who can't get enough puns, Tank McNamara has a great one today: http://www.gocomics.com/tankmcnamara/2022/01/03.

How dare you.

[YmoBeThere]

1st work day of 2022 done.

[TruBlu]

1st work day of 2022 done.

Slacker! I’ve worked twice as many days as you this year.

[bundabergdevil]

I went down a google wormhole and started playing Stratego, a game from my youth, online. Good game. No idea why I thought about it yesterday.