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Macanudo

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  1. Sooners.
  2. I don't always carry a quiver but when I do, there's 2 field hockey sticks, a persimmon Wilson 3 wood and a fraternity approved paddle.
  3. Go on.... I'm almost there....
  4. I had that happen once...
  5. How does one "lose" a SCAR?
  6. Honestly, as much as a loss would have made Trump meltdown and that would have been fun to see, Milei getting the win might have been for the better. Historically, the proof is in the pudding that Argentina will continue to be a cluterfuck. The $20b has already morphed into $40b. When that's not enough? Who knows what happens then.
  7. When I was in my early 40's I had that "These guys are old enough to be my kids" moments and started to care a little less. I'm 55 now and it's wont be that long until they could be my grandkids. Now, when one of them does something dumb off the field or on, I just don't let it get to me anymore. Not my rodeo, not my clowns. I was in Austin on T/W this past week and was in West Campus dropping one of the Macanudo-ettes off at her friend's apartment in West Campus. Damn, I felt really, really old and extremely out of place.
  8. I will continue to stand by my idea that a mini series about the Pacific naval battles would be kick ass. Episode 1 - The Japanese planning and rationalization for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and other IJN attacks in December 1941. Episode 2 - The days before Pearl as the IJN left Japan and got into position Epsiode 3 - The attack on Pearl plus Clark/Subic, Malaya, Guam, etc. Episode 4 - The aftereffects of Pearl, HMS Prince of Wales and Renown, Wake Island and then the lead up to Coral Sea. Epsidoe 5 - Coral Sea and losing the Lexington, getting Yorktown back to Pearl and patched up in time to head out for Midway and giving the codebreakers at Pearl more credit for breaking the IJN code Epsidoe 6 - Midway Episode 7 - Guadalcanal sea battles and coastwatchers Episode 8 - Philipine Sea. Mitscher's wreckless but ballsy "turn on the lights". Episode 9 - Leyte Gulf. Taffy 3 is the star here with the Battle off Samar getting the attention it deserves. Emergence of kamikaze attacks. Episode 10 - Okinawa, the ramp up of kamikaze attacks, sinking of the Yamato and then just this footage of the Missouri pulling into Tokyo Harbor and flag officers arriving on board https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/battleship-uss-missouri-pulling-into-tokyo-bay-fleet-news-footage/169568035 Roll credits on the number of men, ships and planes involved on all sides of the conflict. Losses, etc. I could justify this being 12-16 episodes because some of those could be split into multi-parts and I didn't throw in stuff like the Java Sea battles, Santa Cruz, a bunch of other smller engagements, sub warfare and the Indianapolis delivering the bomb to Tinian and the aftermath of that.
  9. It has been quite the experience to see our offense struggle. If the Oline is having trouble, rolling the pocket, bootlegging in general and more,quicker checkdowns to the RBs are the way to go.
  10. Die Hard gets the best Christmas movie nod. T2 is the running for best action along with Predator..
  11. I used to be that guy (except not at an Applebees.) I'm not anymore. Per my FCS to FBS comment. look at what has happened with college stadiums. I sort of understand why they get renovated since most of the top schools have been playing in their stadiums for decades. But then you see Sam Houston gutting a perfectly good "small" stadium because they have to have a larger one to fit FBS standards and rules. Places like Sam and SFA have/had great small stadiums.
  12. I would argue that the proliferation of bowl games over the past 20 years and the movement of so many FCS teams to FBS has drastically affected CFB unfavorably.
  13. One of my brother-in-laws is from the Chicagoland. On his first trip to Houston, we went to Ninfa's one night. He proceeded to tell us that one of his friend's mom was from Mexico and he could get better Mexican food at her house and our meal was was below average. I told him that I didn't doubt that because restaurant food is usually inferior to a home coooked meal if the cook knows what they are doing. Especially an abuela who knows her shit. My wife thanked me later for being cool about his comment. A few nights later we took them to Pinkerton's on Airline. We're all digging into the ribs and brisket when he proceeds to tell us that he can get better BBQ in Chicago. I lost my shit. My wife side eyes me with a "Ok, yeah, you can tell this fucker off." In a low volume told him no fucking way and that there were a half dozen places minimum in Houston alone that were far superior to anything he could get up there. That within 2 hours of us, there were another 10-12 places that would shame Chicago and the entire Midwest with the exception of maybe some places in Kansas/Missouri. If we expanded that out to the Austin/San Antonio and DFW areas, we could add on another 10-12 or more. Never mind the number of backyard warriors who do amazing BBQ in their own right. Since then, he's stopped being such an insufferable "Chicago" prick. But that night really pissed me off.
  14. I have been getting to this point too. Sports has become so commercialized and corporate that I just don't care. Attending games in person is a clusterfuck. Tickets are priced too high for me to enjoy it. Concessions are extremely overpriced. Watching people beat their brains in for my entertainment, well, it's not that entertaining.
  15. Are you sure that's not just a typo and it was made in the good old U.S.A in Anahuac?
  16. We've been waiting for 10 years for someone to speak up/stand up to the GOP but here we are.
  17. I don't even remember where I heard this said but some talking head somewhere said that once all the data centers get built electricity costs will decrease. WTF? Once they're up and running, their usage won't decrease.
  18. Do we really want that anwer?
  19. Well, the football game are played in modern day colosseums...
  20. I kind of dug it. They showed the reactions of several characters. SECDEF's, um, exit was something.
  21. Bwahahaha. Macanudo: Designated Driver for the World
  22. Shit, I might try heroin to be cool like RJK, jr.
  23. I stopped drinking in 2022. Been sober 1,349 days. But when that fucker dies, I have serioulsy been considering ending that streak.
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