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McCarthy is a mediocre college QB on a very good team. I can't imagine he goes in the first two rounds of the NFL draft if he comes out this year. And I have no doubt that he will suck as an NFL QB. That said, I hope that he declares. Michigan should be very underwhelming next year.

Save her seat?!?! I would LICK her seat!! 🍑 👅 ❤️💦

His daughter looks absolutely lovely. (Or is that his granddaughter?) Wooodddd... bang!

Yep, he was measured at 6' 5 1/8" & 239 (or 238) at the UA weigh in and measure. This was announced within the last 3 or 4 days. If he were 6' 1/8", he would normally be listed 6'1" or 6'2" on a team roster. At 6' 5 1/8", I don't think that he is going to push to be listed 6'6" or 6'7". He'll just keep it at 6'5".

Re: Thompson... Maybe he has trouble reading LEFTIES. Perhaps that's why he doesn't play baseball. Come on... Don't you guys remember The First Rule of Volleyball?

We are starting on St. Thomas and hitting "Virgin Gorda" & "Jost Van Dyke", so I'm guessing that we'll also hit that big island between those islands on this map. These are the two excursions. The first one can handle the entire boat, basically. (Minimum of 20 people, Maximum of about 100 people) The second one said "Minimum of 20 people, Maximum of 30 people" and I didn't RSVP for that trip until the middle of December... though some RSVP'd over the summer of 2023, so I don't know if that line of 30 is real, or if they may have 2 or 3 guided groups. I'm not getting my hopes up. I have a good friend, former apartment roommate in LA (and Texas Ex), who lived in St. Thomas (I think) for a few years when her (British) mom chose to live there as she fought cancer. (The mom preferred the beaches of the Caribbean to a boring street in Dallas if she only had a few years to live.) My friend stopped going to college and lived there in the 1990s (not sure how long) and they definitely didn't have money. Her stories of what it was like living there were much more "This broke down, or this person got hurt and we're driving on washed out roads in a rusty Suzuki Samari..." The stories were of someone living day-to-day in a 3rd world country rather than a person staying at a beach resort. Rice & Beans are poor people food. Hispanic, Black, White... that doesn't matter. Isolated living drives up the prices of everything, so "local cuisine" usually ends up being "shit that's cheap & plentiful". In Costa Rica I stayed with an ex-girlfriend (American girl who went to tOSU) and who is very budget focused. Her living room/kitchen cube (her place was basically 3 cubes with her bedroom/bathroom cube stacked on top of the living room/kitchen cube and accessed via an outdoor set of stairs) had screens for windows and metal bars keeping people out, plus one or two sliding doors of metal bars. I had a room that she normally AirB&Bs that was pleasant, but I was most definitely NOT staying in an all-inclusive resort. I have looked at AirBnBs for St. Thomas and there was a similar vibe to the "architecture" of my friend's town in Costa Rica. Exterior paint that needs to be redone, various wires (electricity? old phone/cable/internet?) with green foliage trying to retake the land. Good to know that it won't be miserably uncomfortable while I wait out Friday's departure. I wouldn't have slept without an A/C unit in Costa Rica. I prefer to travel to places where English is NOT the national language, though I did enjoy my time in Ireland. I would never have picked the Virgin Islands, especially the US ones, if I hadn't been invited on a free 3-day cruise to celebrate something (not sure yet) for a friend I've known since kindergarten.

I’m going down to St. Thomas next week. Arrive on Wednesday afternoon and then board a small cruise ship (110 passenger limit) on Friday and we’re going to float around and hit 3 different British VIs. We float back to St. Thomas on Monday morning and then I don’t fly out until around 5pm. The cruise is billed as a joint birthday party for a couple who are both divorced and I think that a fair amount of attendees expect it to be a wedding. I tend to like to see various things and try different foods when I travel. I don’t care to lie in the sun. I don’t know what I’m going to do for the 44+ hours before boarding the ship other than sweat. I went to Costa Rica last March/April for a couple of weeks, so I have been in the humid decaying tropics recently, but there I did a surf camp for 5 days. I don’t believe that I’ll rent a vehicle and I signed up for a couple of snorkeling things that would be day excursions while on the ship, but don’t know if I will do one or both until I get on the ship and they let us know if enough people signed up for the excursions and/or too many people signed up. Is there any cuisine that I should try? Or is it just Rice, Beans, Plantains, & Pork?

The BOLD section sounded a little Sandusky-esque.

“Fantasy Island: Origin Story”

There are so many people I now want to take up punting.….especially at Charlie Strong coached teams.

1) My brother learned this opening back in about 1982-ish when his guitar teacher was teaching him to pick strings rather than just strum. It was his first “learning to pick” / “learning to play lead guitar” song. 2) The bass guitarist has the bassiest bass guitarist hair that you’ve ever seen in your life. 3) I remember talking to someone random guy at a party sometime between the early ‘90s and the early ‘00s who was upset that the songwriter for Boston didn’t produce more songs because the lead singer’s talent was being wasted (or had been wasted) just sitting around waiting for new songs to be written. I recall saying that the singer could have written his own songs or joined up with others if he really wanted more songs. That fell on deaf ears.

Just sayin’. ✊

Earlier this month, PBS TV in Dallas (KERA) had a show/pledge drive special that was a collection of performances from folk greats that I think was put together in 2013 that was hosted by the Brothers “Smothers”. I looked them both up and found that they were still alive. R.I.P. / Q.E.P.D. the old white guy who inspired “A Mighty Wind”. PS- Those folk guitarist mother fuckers didn’t need 10 pedals to sound like great guitarists. They were just GREAT GUITARISTS.

SF uses one some and I think that their presence is increasing around the NFL. He won’t get drafted, but I would think that he will sign with a team and at least get a year on a practice squad if not several with irregular call-ups.

He can play OLB. His first college game won’t be for 20 months and that if he doesn’t redshirt. It may be 32 months from now. He’s long, quick, and “sudden”. He will be fine. Likely at least 215 the first time he sees the field and maybe up to 225. Will be 230 to 245 when he finishes college.

What in the actual fucking fuck is taking you fuckers so long to post…

I will be pulling for the girls from Mizzou. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1XGvAKOrA4/?igsh=bnJqMHhsZ3c0cHI4 These girls have hooked up before. 😍

And I’m running out of… 💦 💦 💦 💦 💦 💦 💦 💨

S E C Where Gentlemen’s Agreements don’t mean shit!

I thought that he looked like he had been crying. Maybe it’s just Houston pollen.

Have no idea where the spelling comes from, but it is officially “yarmulke”. 🤷‍♂️ And even that word, I found out when I was about 35, is the Yiddish word for it. Sephardics, Persians, Ethiopians, and others would use “kippah*”, which is the Hebrew word. *just had to look this spelling up, because I thought that it was “kipa”.

It took me a while to get through undergrad, but in my “second tour” down in Austin I spent two semesters rowing with TEXAS CREW, so I’m glad that your trip to the cinema tied my story all together for you. It’s about fucking time that Hollywood found an American Cinderella story from the 1936 Olympics. Glad to see these 8 white boys have finally given America something to cheer about 87 1/2 years later.

Betting line last Thursday afternoon (12/22) when I told my gambling addict friend to lay money down on Okie State… Betting line from a few hours ago (late Tuesday evening, 12/26) that I just found after reading about A&M’s latest opt out at 1:30am (12/27)… Last week I told my friend that I had thought that Okie State would be favored -5, but when I saw that Okie State was +2, I felt the need to let him know. For over 25 years, when I’ve seen a line that I felt looked totally wrong, I’ve let him know. I am not always right, but A&M being favored while their program was decomposing before our eyes seemed bizarre.