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GhostOfTomJoad

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  1. In the bunker off the tee for Rory. Damn.
  2. If he goes on to win it, that will be the equivalent of Phil's shot from the pine needles.
  3. Bro a club short and in the sand. Rory damn near holes out from the trees. Holy shit!
  4. And the audio just cut out again on the CBS/YTTV feed.
  5. Yeah, he limp dicked that eagle attempt. Not bueno.
  6. Solid up & down, Rory.
  7. Scottie filling the jar. Get an eagle on 8 and you never know.
  8. And Rory didn't want us to think this would be comfortable with that drive.
  9. Back to back 3 putts for Bryson.
  10. Don't sleep on Rose. His putter's been his enemy since Friday but he's a bulldog who can go low.
  11. And a dart on 4 by Rory.
  12. Gag by Bryson!
  13. In the heart!
  14. Nice touch on the approach there, Rory. Go ahead and get one back.
  15. Patty's cover of Stolen Car is incredible. It's kinda funny because when my wife & I were dating, she made me a mix disc of some of her favorite songs for me to take along on a business trip. Very heavy on female artists including Patty, Alanis, the Chick's plus some Radney Foster, etc. Two of the tracks on there were Bruce covers: Stolen Car and Because the Night by 10,000 Maniacs. I called her from the hotel one night & she asked me if I missed her, was I thinking about her, etc. All the things young lovers do when everything is fresh & new. She asked me if I liked the music & what I thought about the CD, and I told her I liked it & the Bruce songs were a nice extra touch. She says "huh? I didn't put any Springsteen on there" very defensively. I think for a second she might have thought I had another GF who had sent me some traveling music. I had to tell her to go look at the liner notes & see who wrote them. She was shocked. She knew only the radio hits. When I got back home I made her a disc of deeper cuts & she was stunned. If I Should Fall Behind (live in NYC version) makes her cry to this day. Racing in the Street and Southside Johnny's cover of Hearts of Stone left her gobsmacked. She became an instant convert.
  16. Well fuck. It was gopher country then so...
  17. Mid-ranking security detail acting like a drunken asshole who probably tried to pull the 'do you know who you're messing with,pal' act before getting lit up? Hegseth better watch his step. His replacement as Sec of Defense is already on deck.
  18. Damn. The lunch ticket/free lunch pass hits home. We had a similar setup in MN when I was a kid. We were fortunate enough not to qualify for the free lunch, but my friends who did suffered teasing from classmates & even scorn from the lunch lady we bought our tickets from each week. That just brought back a painful memory from 45 years ago.
  19. I helped my dad steal dirt. We'd drive a few miles to the neighboring town which was mostly farm land. On the side of one backroad was probably a 10' bluff of good top soil. We'd shovel the dirt I to plastic tubs then throw them in the back of the '73 Plymouth station wagon & take back home to level out a section of our backyard. Probably made twenty trips one summer weekend. People would drive by occasionally but nobody said anything. The land nearby was clearly fenced and there was a driveway about 100 yards past where we'd dig. The closest we came to being caught was when I noticed so.e teenagers looking back down at us from top of the bluff, but they were just a young couple out smoking & poking.
  20. Lots of hand me downs. But because I was the only boy & had 2 older sisters I was getting girls' clothing. It was pretty much limited to winter sweaters which also meant my sisters were forced to wear plain, drab shit (not easy to do in the '70s). The worst part was not being able to have my own boy's bicycle w/ the top bar. I had to ride a girl's bike for the first few years which meant I was picked on constantly in my shitty, poor MN town. When my sisters moved up to 10-speeds, my dad took a bottom bar off of one of their bikes and had it welded upside down on another bike to make it a boy's bike. Except it still had the two bottom bars so yeah, I was still teased ruthlessly & got my ass kicked because of my hybrid boy/girl bike.
  21. I was watching the Longhorn baseball game at the local watering hole yesterday and was catching up w/ a friendly acquaintance I haven't seen in a few months. He's in his 60s and could retire at any time but is waiting for a package out the door. He must be a Fox News/Newsmax type because he decided to sneak in a talking point about "well, the stock market was overdue for a correction after hitting 45,000 so in the long run this is probably a healthy thing." I damn near choked on my beer w/ laughter and told him "that's the equivalent of saying 'well, my car two-year old car with 12,000 miles on it was due for an oil change so it's really for the best that an uninsured motorist plowed into it and totaled it in the parking lot of Home Depot.'" Totally clueless.
  22. I don't know if a hundred people have heard this. Came out exclusively to independent stores on Record Day in 2014. It was a scathing indictment of the Bush/Cheney years. It's even more applicable today. "She says, in this house it's so easy/To set a world on fire/All you need is a name/The money/And a soul full of reckless desire"
  23. Plus we opened up huge doors for farmers in South America to penetrate while American farmers were caught in the middle of the original tariffs war. Take a look at which countries' farmers are experiencing real growth in APAC and which ones are struggling to return to pre-2018 levels.
  24. If there's justice in the universe, all of their Kentucky homes will be destroyed by the storms moving through the area. And when they stand there, hat in hand, waiting on FEMA and federal assistance they are greeted with "too bad, so sad." And a bunch of Canadians should be allowed to stand there, point, laugh, and say how they think it's funny.
  25. Overlooked but worth watching for the performances. That's a solid cast in a film bigger than it's budgetary restrictions.
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