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  1. Take it all, bitch.
  2. Thoroughly discussed here.
  3. Nifty little touchdown there.
  4. Refs in midseason form.
  5. From the shores of mighty Lake Texoma-TEXAS!!!!
  6. To be fair, Roger is my third favorite aggy singer. "Gulf Coast Time" and "River Song" are on my all time favorites list. This, though-this is horrid.
  7. bmbmd

    Getting old sucks

    Male members of my family either live til ninety or have a stroke in their early 70's. My middle brother just had a devastating stroke this week at 73-dense right paresis, aphasia, the whole shebang. He was too late to the hospital for thrombolytic therapy. He was flown to El Paso and had urgent bilateral carotid stents. (a little like closing the barn after the horse was gone) He has regained some speech and 2/5 right leg movement, so he has a puncher's chance at meaningful independence. So , yes-getting old sucks, and the worst is watching the decay of your friends and loved ones.
  8. Looks like the Denison Yellowjackets will win their 11th straight Battle of the Ax against the arch rival Sherman Bearcats. 35-0 at the start of the fourth quarter. This was the 125th playing of the game making it the oldest high school rivalry in the nation. It was also the hottest on record with temps at 104 at kickoff. edited to add: Final Denison 42 Sherman 0. Temp down to 92.
  9. bmbmd

    Chandrayaan-3

    Anybody watching as India attempts to join the soft moon landing club?
  10. https://apnews.com/article/texas-am-diversity-settlement-kathleen-mcelroy-9408f1196417e4cc554ffc74a19956e2 AP) — Texas A&M University reached a $1 million settlement Thursday with a Black journalism professor whose hiring was sabotaged by backlash over her past work promoting diversity. The nation’s largest public school agreed to pay Kathleen McElroy and apologized to her while admitting “mistakes were made during the hiring process.” Texas A&M, which is located in College Station, about 90 miles (144 kilometers) northwest of Houston, initially welcomed McElroy with great fanfare to revive its journalism department in June. A former New York Times editor and Texas A&M alum, McElroy had overseen the journalism school at A&M’s rival — the more liberal University of Texas at Austin.
  11. Bludgeoned to death by the fuck-stick, no doubt.
  12. bmbmd

    Getting old sucks

    I recommend this book to all my fifty-somethings. I also post out that Dr. Lodge, Harvard internist, died in his early fifties from prostate cancer. He broke one of the book's cardinal rules-set your checkups, meet your benchmarks.
  13. Mine was aggy and Irish.
  14. Give her a couple of years.
  15. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/07/11/texas-a-m-kathleen-mcelroy-journalism/ When Texas A&M University announced last month that it had hired a director to revive its journalism school, it included the kind of fanfare usually reserved for college coaches and athletes. The university set up maroon, silver and white balloons around a table outside its Academic Building for an official signing ceremony. It was there that Kathleen O. McElroy, a respected journalist with a long career, officially accepted the position to run the new program and teach as a tenured professor, pending approval from the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents. McElroy, a 1981 Texas A&M graduate, was the director of the University of Texas at Austin’s School of Journalism between 2016 and 2022, where she is a tenured professor. Earlier, she spent 20 years in various editing roles at The New York Times until heading to UT-Austin to pursue her doctorate. She has studied news media and race, with a focus on how to improve diversity and inclusion within newsrooms, and spent her career covering other areas like sports and obituaries. Her master's thesis focused on the obituaries of civil rights leaders. Now, she was excited to head back to her alma mater to build a brand new program there. But in the last several weeks, McElroy told The Texas Tribune, the deal with Texas A&M fell apart. In the days after the signing ceremony, she said, A&M employees told her an increasingly vocal network of constituents within the system were expressing issues with her experience at the Times and with her work on race and diversity in newsrooms, McElroy said.
  16. I worked as a prosector when I was in school. I dealt with all the people who “donated their body to science”. The vast majority are used for student dissection, a few are used as demonstrations. After the process is completed, the remains are cremated and returned to the family. If nobody claims them, at least at my school, the ashes were spread in the rookery across the parking lot. (Right next to the tennis courts)
  17. Fell asleep late one night on the porch and was awakened by a possum licking my fingers.
  18. Hines Wald?
  19. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dean-smith-dead-stunt-performer-1235523400/
  20. Rex Cramer, Danger Seeker. Before Super Dave was Super Dave.
  21. In an mmmbop-she was gone. Badu.Yeah.
  22. I heard Reverend Walker preach in Brownwood in 1985 at a regional UMC convocation. He was spectacular. I was devastated when this story broke. Feet of clay etc…,
  23. I got my picture made with the MIckster at a character breakfast-they let me put my hand on his shoulder. Bra Strap.
  24. CSB alert. My sister-in-law is a picker/antique dealer. She spotted an antique Buddy Lee doll in a football helmet, gold pants, white jersey with a maroon T on the front, and leather helmet at an estate auction a few years ago. The deceased owner of the doll was an elderly (late 80's) veterinarian. Being a smartie, she reckoned that the doll must have some relationship to Texas A&M since the preponderance of vets in Texas are aggy. She waited all day in the chill central Texas February for a chance to bid on the little feller. Her plan was to bid up to $300. When the doll soared past that point, she picked up her things and prepared to leave. On an impulse, she turned and shouted "$400". The other bidder tipped his hat and exited the auction. She knows that aggy is a little different, and was counting on that weirdness to make a profit. Five days later, she sold the doll on Ebay to somebody in Tokyo for just under $8000. There had been a spirited back and forth between the two bidders-one in Tokyo, Japan, the other in Conroe, Texas. (imagine that). The doll apparently dated back to around 1900, when the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas first fielded a team. You guessed it-they sported a big maroon "T" on their jerseys.
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