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CHIEF

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    Getting old sucks

    I don't know if this would make a good different thread, or if the discussion will be short enough to kinda get everyone's input. I was thinking about James Earl Jones, tonight, dying at age 93. To me, the guy not only had a full life, but even more. I've always kinda viewed death in several categories, by age: 0-30 - Absolutely tragic. The more tragic the earlier it happened. 40-55 - Horrible. Possibly left young children. Not there for college expenses. 56-65 - You got jobbed. Paid in all those years, and SS doesn't even give your spouse $250. 65-78 - You can complain to management about your genetics, but that's about it. You were either low mileage, and garage kept, or a 35k a mile/year commuter that hit the salvage yard in an eighth of the time. 78-86 - You made it. Relish every day. 86-99 - Do you need more relish? 100-100+ - What did you do to have been cursed enough to have to walk this Earth so long. CHIEF
  2. I have to say, 93 years is a good run. CHIEF
  3. Those shoes are definitely "business in the front, party in the back." CHIEF
  4. All three of Jadon, Tre, and Jerrick would be the premier back in at least the top 50% of FBS schools. Tashard and the blessings he has given this team, with the talent, the character, the hard workers, and his hard work is something that is recognized and honored. He is, by far, may favorite position coach, and the second most important person on this staff. CHIEF
  5. I swear Sark called off the Dogs after scoring 31. Not by subbing, or telling guys to give less than 100% effort. But he went conservative and ran clock. If he would have kept his foot on the gas it would have been an embarrassment for Michigan. The score really wasn’t as bad as it could have been. CHIEF
  6. We don’t even eat at the Don Melquias, here, in Granbury. CHIEF
  7. Oh, Good God. Someone has to do it....1,3,2,4,and 5. There. CHIEF
  8. Please tell me they still play, "Turn Up the Radio" at places like the SPJST in Round Rock. CHIEF
  9. That's what I was always told. Gasoline and Tide laundry detergent. A fireball with a chlorine gas chaser, mixed thick so it would stick. CHIEF
  10. That is 100% true. I worked in the Midwest one summer leasing up farmsteads for O&G. The only people able to afford to buy farmland were wealthy people that made their money in something besides farming, and bought a farm for a "hobby." When you would run title, the farms had been in the same family since the Civil War, one had the Deed issued from the sovereign State of Illinois in 1851. The farmers weren't poor by any means, but don't have the capital sitting around to pay $3.6 million in taxes for their half section that has been in their family for over 150 years. I've been looking for farmland to buy for the last 15 years, after putting numbers to it, there isn't anything that will even pay for itself fast enough, much less provide a living. CHIEF
  11. It's a storm shelter, but not for a physical storm, but a fiscal storm. CHIEF
  12. Be sure to order the 68 extra fat, and the 12 dwarf. CHIEF
  13. A decimal off? They always forget that mundane detail. CHIEF
  14. I have landscaping guys that I have used for new builds to put in flowerbeds and sod, and I have used them at my home for almost a decade. If they came in and robbed me, I couldn't pick out a single one in a police lineup. They are covered from head to toe. CHIEF
  15. That's exactly how I read that. "Do you see how bad our starters suck?" is an interesting position to take on the recruiting trail, but is probably an honest assessment. And to think, this year, 2024 was the year that they have been pointing out as the year they "would play for all the marbles." CHIEF
  16. I finally got Mrs. CHIEF to realize that what I have bought up is not really an investment. It is never to be sold. I bought it to have something to trade with if the dollar becomes worthless. It might not happen in my lifetime, or even her lifetime. But could definitely happen in CHIEF Jr.'s lifetime. I think having precious metals for such a situation is prudent. CHIEF
  17. An older single guy, in our neighborhood, always takes walks for exercise right at dusk. He isn't real social, but has a few friends that he hangs out with occasionally. He went out walking on Monday evening. A buddy went to check on him on Wednesday, as the guy is starting to have a bit of dementia, and no one had seen him since then. He wasn't there, or any of the other times that the friend went by, so they put out a missing persons report last night. They searched all night with dogs and spotlights, we even went with the Ranger for lighting, since we can light up half of Hood county. No luck in finding him. This morning they found him dead on Hole #1 of the golf course. All of that area was checked last night. Apparently he had been wandering since Monday where no one could see him, and died of dehydration, and heat exhaustion sometime in the early morning hours today. CHIEF
  18. Not elite speed, but that was a couple of years ago. He needs to be at least a second or a smidge more speed to be a sideline to sideline, dropped for no gain kinda guy. CHIEF
  19. Yeah, you get in the northern suburbs of DFW, and Norman is probably an hour to 1 1/2 hours less of a drive than Austin. I've always thought that pulling anyone from north of DFW was a feat, on it's own. Especially when OU is hitting on all cylinders. CHIEF
  20. So, how many "carbon credits" will Russia have to purchase to offset this? CHIEF
  21. Need a .12 gauge shooting 3 1/2”s with a skeet choke. Coulda got at least half of them. CHIEF
  22. Exactly. Texas has a backlog of excellent young tackles. Fasusi would be behind Gosby, and probably Baker for the left tackle spot, and would possibly only start his senior year at Texas. Guys that talented want to start for more than one year. If Turntine is already the best tackle, in Texas, it wouldn't hurt to skip a year to give him a chance to start as an underclassman. It's not like the NIL funds couldn't be used somewhere else. CHIEF
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  24. Do the Israelis not have their own cruise missiles? They are a nuclear power after all. Just use their own shit. CHIEF
  25. It may be a chickenshit idea, it is a funeral after all. But if I were Israel, I would have sent about three cruise missiles as condolences. It would have taken out most of the high ranking Hezbollah command structure as well as high ranking officials from any country that is sympathetic with both Hezbollah and Hamas. If the shoe was on the other foot, neither terrorist organization would miss that opportunity if they had the weaponry to pull it off. CHIEF
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