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"Joe, joe don't do that, oh oh!" had me cracking up.

Interestingly, this song also wins the "best song with bagpipes in it" category.

real grass would never work at TopGolf, but I'd love to see someplace with a decent amount of land try it - maybe Clay/Kizer, who already have lights in place, and a short course requiring maintenance. They could take the last ~20 yards of the range, and bulldoze the fake practice green on the short course. Together you could put 12-14 really good holes on a meandering, real-grass putting green complex. Charge me $20 for unlimited play, $10 for an hour.

I"d pay well to be able to play legit mini-golf in a topgolf-like setting. Well-maintained turf, holes laid out in a realistic way, games that can match golfers and non-golfers (like the OG topgolf product). Find a way to capture the "expansive putting course / 19th hole" feel from places like Pinehurst (the Cradle) and Bandon (the punchbowl), and it could work. I'm not sure how to run the business, but I'd pay for a quality experience for certain.

This is the show I've been turning people onto when I get asked what I'm watching. It feels good to be able to recommend something that's fundamentally about good people treating other people well. I think I might start a re-watch tonight!

LMK If you want to fire him, and hire me.

Hit 6 greens, 35 putts for a smooooooth 85 yesterday (and lost a pile of benjamins in the process). Fuck this game.

Scaife is a GREAT pick.

Weird concept, eliminating ones alma mater. I'm going to include them anyway. QB: Farve (Vince. If you say anyone else you're either older than 70, or wrong) RB: Barry Sanders (Ricky because I was in college for his Heisman year, and on the field for that A&M game, but Ced for what he meant to our leap into a national title contender) WR: Megatron (Mike Adams for my formative high school years watching the horns win some games they shouldn't, Roy Williams for that freshman campaign, and Jordan Shipley because Jordan Shipley) TE: Tony Gonzales, who made every Rob Gronkowski possible (David Thomas. If you say anyone else you're either older than 70, or wrong).

Is there a chance that mold is in the framing? Looks like it's been leaking for a while ... are you gonna pull the drywall?

Fact is, basically all of the womenfolk, sans Gail, are smoke, and they all bring something to the conversation that the others don't. Marie-Fred - can hang with Wayne (well, *could*) Anik - legit model, ain't afraid to use it Katy (stop spelling it Katie, please) - the complete package Bonnie - girl next door Gaye (I LOVE GAYE SEX) - give-a-fuck meter permanently pegged at 0 Ms. McMurray - straight-up freak Angie - ain't nothing wrong with a little hate fuck every now and again

This, plus NGE's clarifications, is exactly where Freakonomics landed as well (saved you that 45 minutes). While probably not perfect, this idea is one of the better "new ways to incent saving behavior" that's come out of a VERY stagnant market.

EHT Barrel for $80. Rock Hill for $51. What the FUCK is happening right now ...

I say this with love - fuck you.

It would have made a great EP, but having it be Eddies wine-fueled playground turned me off. I definitely agree that the 'real' songs are all awesome, I just transparently prefer both guitars present in the mix, and a solo or two every now and again. I couldn't get enough of the opening to Brain of J when it dropped. That was a return to greatness (I realize that skips a shitpile of time, I'm not saying everything between the two sucked ... BoJ is just a great example of what I like out of PJ).

oh. You're one of THOSE PJ fans. (lol ... takes all kinds, even the ones that like foxymophandlemoma and bugs. Immortality and STBC are both a fucking JAM, tho.)

All three Chris Stapleton albums ... dude is really amazing.

@texased, some other thoughts. You've got one design element that I have, and it's the one thing I'd change. With the hot tub between the patio and the main pool body, you've introduced a blind spot into the pool. It's not a huge thing, and our kids have learned to not linger there, but I don't love it. Think through where you'll likely be sitting most of the time, and where the kids will want to jump from (hint - it's from the elevated hot tub ledge). I'd HIGHLY suggest sinking the hot tub a few feet so you can see all of the pool surface area. You can do some cool things with a small retaining wall, or maybe a circular set of steps down to the hot tub coping. The second item that our pool builder completely missed is fucking accent lighting on the decking areas. I get it, they're pool builders and not backyard designers, but still. I notice the same in your renderings - you'll want low voltage lights in the face of those steps down, probably some LV lights in the retaining wall (down-firing), and some accent lighting in the plants. Think about being able to get around at night without having to turn on the floodlights from the house, for example, or having enough lights to have guests out back but still maintain the night-time look. Plus you don't want people eating shit going down (or up) the stairs. It cost me a pretty penny to add direct-bury LV wire and have them put in the boxes before they poured the concrete, but I'm so glad they did. I had them run two sets of wire to each box, in case I ever got a short that melted one of them. I had the step lights and the retaining wall lights put on separate switches, so I can turn on one or both, and they're wired to extra "slots" on my pool pump controller (and thus, to the app). Also, run 110v power outlets while the electrician is there - decking framers will need to run conduit for that, too, but it's never going to be any easier to do than now. Put a few outlets out of the back side in the yard while you're at it - future power tool use, xmas lights, projector for movie night, etc. When the electrician is out to hook up the eletrical for the pool, you can pay him in cash on the side to hook up those outlets (mine are all on the same circuit), but you gotta have the conduit there first. It's not possible to have too many power outlets. Lastly, we did the oval spa shape on the advice of a neighbor, and love it. Our spa is in that 7' range, but we can sit 6 adults very comfortably, and even cram a few kids in there too. Making the spa an oval actually gives you more "butt space" vs a circle. Fuck I love my pool, so glad I made that decision early last year. We've been in almost nightly, esp the hot tub.

I'm so glad other people share memories of this place like i have. I stumbled into the Usual Suspects havingn NO IDEA what it was, and it BLEW MY MIND. Also saw Napoleon Dynamite with my then-girlfriend (now wife) there when something else was sold out. Fun times.

Ive always liked LD, and this is taking it to the next level. Dude is leading his squad, and doing whats right.

He's come so far!

They sort of took care of that with Vitalogy; lord what a weird album. Still a difficult one for me to get into, and I wore the FUCK out of Ten and Vs. (Ten is what inspired this thread).

As I think back, I might have been in that room WITH you - I think you might have been our sponsors that day. The regular SE from my company who would have covered it was out, so I flew out to handle the meeting with our rep.

I played a qualifer on Monday at River Crossing - what an exceptional track. If you get the chance, definitely go. Easy drive from Austin. Incredible shape. Smooth, fast greens. No goofy golf, but some fun architectural choices - a couple of split fairways, some fairway bunkering, an island green par 3. Good mix of short and long holes. I was just really, really impressed. Didn't play for shit, but that's neither here nor there.

I suspect I was in the same conference room after you, for another vendor presentation. The technical leadership in that particular state was pretty forward-thinking, but couldn't get anything done.