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  1. 17 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    Then the Steelers destroyed them to be team of the decade instead of Dallas. 

    Same year as the mike renfro catch in the afc championship, right?  Could have been Dallas vs Houston. 

    Well, LA did have the lead going into the 4th quarter.

  2. On 1/5/2019 at 2:48 PM, ADHD said:

    Sam Ehlinger looks just like this actor from the Melissa McCarthy movie The Life of the Party. (Luke Benward)

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    Hey, it worked for Sam Bradford.

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    and Columbo.

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  3. 1 hour ago, Chooky said:

    That seems like a new precedent for being "soft on crime."  Maybe every criminal should be allowed to correct any charge being brought by a county, state or federal prosecutor.  From now on if someone gets drunk and goes on a vandalism spree they should be able to modify the language in their charge by changing the description from "smashed windows and spray painted 'fart' on a Chevy Tahoe" to "accidentally bumped windows with a steel pipe and indulged in perfectly legal artistic expression and the canvas just happened to be Dave's Tahoe." 

    Yeah well, "Dave" had it coming.

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  4. 11 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Just wanted to say that Dennis, Cajun, I think both of you are fucking stupid, and having a pointless conversation.

    BUT, you're managing to have an argument about artistry and Pink Floyd on a thread about immigration, so, you still get Surly points.

    Pink Floyd "The Wall" talk, not going away.

  5. 6 minutes ago, housious said:

    If you take the time to humble brag, please make sure it's worth bragging about first. 

    Not sure if my sarcasm meter is broken, but the point of all my text was to illustrate that even those with fiscal responsibility and not living paycheck to paycheck are having a hard time getting ahead.  I thought the detail was warranted as a preemptive strike.  Carry on.

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  6. 12 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

    While that is fucking astounding, it is the case and we can't just chastise them and say they should be better with their money.  This is a massive issue.

    Indeed...and it affects not just those with minimal savings.  Things have gotten expensive for the middle class.

    In my own case, my house and cars are paid for and I have already put one kid through college.  I own my own business (which is debt free as well) and get plenty of right offs and never pay anywhere close to retail for home improvement costs.  The wife and I have a few hundred thou in 401Ks and plenty of emergency savings (a couple years worth).  Wife is self employed and also makes another 30K/yr from property she inherited. We go on vacation during the summer up to Wisconsin and stay with my BILs family at their cabin, go to Port A a couple time s a year, and go to some other USA locations in connection with my youngest kids being competitive rock climbers-so no crazy expensive travel stuff.  We have two dogs and two cats, shop at the farmers market and Costco.  One kid goes to public school and the other a small private school due to some learning issues. i don't own a boat or any other expensive high maintenance toys. We have no medical issues and are in good shape. I am so cheap that I don't have garbage service at the house (I take it to my construction yard and use the dumpster and recycling bins), I don't buy firewood (I go to my parent's ranch and load up on mesquite a couple time each year), our home electric bills have never been more than $300, and I don't even donate to the church.

    We are in our early 50s and I see no hope of retirement by 65 and/or not having the kids burdened with staggering student loan debt should they go to college (have a 529 plan but it is woefully underfunded).  In the last 5 years we have not been able to save much at all.  Health insurance, property taxes, and rising food costs real food) really take a bite. i can't even imagine how tight things would be if we had a house payment and/or car payments.

  7. 12 minutes ago, Mileslong said:

    Let me go ahead and put to bed this uniform discussion by giving the definitive uniform list. As the uniform czar this is non negotiable.

    (These are the normal unis and not the color rush or alternate bs unis)

    1) cowboys
    2) raiders

    3) bears
    4) colts
    5) saints
    6) rams
    7) giants
    😎 steelers
    9) vikings
    10) chiefs

     

    Not so fast my friend.

    Probably blasphemy, but I like the Bears with the Orange jerseys.  Might even look cool with a white helmet.  Kind of a San Diego (white helmets light blue jerseys).

    Also, I think the Dolphins should go back to their old helmet logo and they could use some clean up on their unis as well.  Lotta good combos there.

    Luv ya Blue's were great(home and away), don't change a thing.

  8. The counter should come with a package of stickers with different types or vermin on them. Stick 'em on the trap to post your kills just like WWII pilots did with their planes. Maybe throw Betty Grable on there just for shits and to complete the "look".

  9. 15 minutes ago, triplehorn said:

    The dossier also didn't touch on the inter-communicating servers between RU Alfa Bank <--> Trump Tower <--> Spectrum Health (DeVos/Prince).

    That coming down the pike.

     

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    I had forgotten about that and all of of the other stuff that is not mentioned.  There are so many tentacles to this jellyfish, they are everywhere.

  10. 36 minutes ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    Always funny to me and the irony shouldn't be lost. Blue blood + P5 + G5= practically killing ourselves before conference play. Blue blood + 2 G5s= we're turning into pussies (aka secX3). Surly gonna Surly. 

     

    FTR I like the first format better. Of course I'd like to not lose to Maryland or Cal but you can't be scared to play anyone. 

    ..or NC State, Colorado, Rutgers (old SW conference OOC), Stanford, BYU etc.

  11. On 1/6/2019 at 12:30 AM, El Diablo said:

    Not sure how FB links work, this is prolly old and prolly in the Jade thread. Whatever, 'beetus.

     

     

    Disappointed.  Thought we were getting:

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  12. 2 minutes ago, sushihorn said:

     

     

    All very true and good catch on the small classes.  I like what we've seen so far on the evaluation and development from from Tom Herman.  One small and one small-ish class have produced plenty of early contributors.  Well above average so far for Herman but Dabo has been absolutely top shelf for years.

    I remember USC having some small classes back in the Pete Carroll years and it seemed like every player was a 5 star.  Some of those classes were ridiculous.

  13. 36 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    In the days before mobile phones, my grandmother tells a story of calling up at the frat house Knights of Columbus place and asking for my grandfather and invariably someone would say, "no he's not here, i'm sorry".

    When he passed away, they had some interesting farewell ceremony complete with hats and sabres and the whole thing

    Yeah, my dad is a 4th degree knight-so that is when you get all the hats and swords and stuff.

    However, it is not like it is some lifetime pursuit of moving up the ranks to get that stuff like in the movies.  A couple of years at most.  My dad is 85 now and I don't think he even joined the knights until he was 80.

    I myself am a 3rd degree knight and got moved up to that from 1st degree in a "2 fer" ceremony that was both 2nd and 3rd degree.  Must have been like 18 years ago.  I don't even attend church anymore but the chapter still pays my dues and sends me mail so I guess I am still a member.

    As for all the oaths you have to take etc., I don't remember any of that stuff, but being a catholic organization, they are going to be in line with the Church.

    As for my own personal recollections: I did not participate in any of the knight activities when I was going to church on the regular as any time I spent doing church stuff was devoted to more spiritual matters.

    The initiation ceremonies felt like they were left over from 1950's Baltimore or Boston  or some other old east coast city where everybody in your neighborhood was catholic.  They tried to make the initiation all serious and skull and bones like, but you could tell that it was a relic of a time gone by, kind of like the aggy bonfire.

    They were really big on selling you some K of C life insurance, so I guess that is their profit center.

    My overall impression was of a bunch of dudes who wanted something to do that sort of had to do with church but did not want to deal with touchy-feely spiritual stuff, or feeding the poor or religious education etc.   Possibly some networking going on. Like others have said, half the guys in there are in it because their wives were bagging on them to get more involved at church and they chose the bar-b-q beer drinking men's club.

    As far as the race stuff goes, I am just not seeing it from my experience.  Yeah it is mostly white, but we had all races represented and everybody got along.

    I remember when I was a kid, they were a big deal back in the 70's, but I suspect even their best days were behind them even at that point.

  14. Back in '84, I did some minor damage to my '79 Mazda Station Wagon on the way to my high school job.  I tried to avoid hitting a squirrel after a brief rain that had left the roads slicked. I swerved did a 180 and ended up in a ditch.  I might have been slightly impaired.  I pretty sure there was a squirrel involved, but over the years I am not sure if I am confusing my stories or remembering the story I told my parents about how the car got damaged. Either way, pretend they are not even there.  They know the score.

  15. I think Texas will be in the discussion later in the year than we were this year.

    Concerning is Herman led teams' propensity to serve up a real stinker out of nowhere(Maryland, OSU) and their tendency to  gravitate towards close games in an offensive conference.

    Also, until I see otherwise, Texas is not going to get a favorable selection committee bounce that OU always seems to get.

    I think conference championship is the goal.

    At this point I am just glad we have actual football to discuss and debate along with a consistent program vision, as opposed to the complete confusion of the later Mack years and CS tenures.

  16. 8 minutes ago, sushihorn said:

    BTW, how the HELL was the hit by #2 at the 2 yd line NOT called targeting on Sam's scramble to set up 1st and goal on the last TD drive?  He clearly launches, even leaving his feet.  Lowers the head, striking Sam with the TOP of the helmet, not just the area above the facemask.  Head to head blow with a straight on collision.  It was deliberate and blatant; Sam's head didn't change levels - which is how accidental targeting usually happens.

    I saw that too.  Pretty much textbook.  Not sure how they "missed" it.

  17. 18 hours ago, sushihorn said:

    Looking back, I think Georgia's ball carriers were surprised several times by the quickness and change of direction of the Texas defensive front.  When facing DLs that go 300 lbs across, they become non-factors once the back is past the LOS unless he slows down a lot.  They certainly aren't accustomed to first level defenders coming back and making a play downfield.  I think that was definitely a factor when Ta'Quon Graham stripped the ball from Swift on a straight draw play.

    This was an aspect of size vs speed and quickness that I completely missed and it was key to shutting down the ground game.

    Very Miami-esque circa 1980's performance by Texas defense.  Could have gotten ugly had Texas capitalized more on Ga. miscues and had more depth. I considered the penalties at the end a tribute to the U.

    Also, somewhat reminded me of '92 Cowboys style of play with ball control on offense and speedy defense.  That Cowboys team had extraordinary defensive depth especially on the line, such that they really did not need a ball control offense to keep them fresh.  The ball control was to protect young secondary and LBs  (Ken Norton notwithstanding). That defense was very good at making the opposition work hard for points. 

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