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  1. 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".

  2. 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.

     

    Link

    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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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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  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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. 

  11. My newly formed concrete company was working on an apartment complex right across from the Albertson's .  There was shit all over the place and there were no port-o-potties to be found, anywhere.

    Back in the spring of 1982, we were getting ready to perform in a UIL concert band competition in Taylor.  We had just gotten warmed up and were ready for our first downbeat when school administrators rushed in with news of a Tornado warning.  They ushered us out of the auditorium and sat us under the lockers in a huge hallway next to the auditorium.  I felt like a sitting suck but I guess it was the safest place on such short notice.  Although I do not remember seeing the administrators hanging out there, hmmm.  Storm passed crisis averted.

  12. We are here because we, the voters, have for decades failed in our civic duty to stay engaged, to research, to vote, to participate in a meaningful way in our democracy.

    In many ways we are almost fortunate that Trump was elected and has outed our failures as democratic participants.

    Trump, just as much or more than Obama has revealed that we still have deep problems with racism.

    Had someone just as nasty as Trump, but smarter, been elected (think Dick Cheney), the outrage and participation would have been just as it has been for decades. 

    As it is, the Trump administration has stumble bummed its way into illuminating corruption, eroding of the EPA, regressive taxation, influence pedaling, money grabbing, and any number of dysfunctional behaviors that will hopefully jump start some form of heightened participation by we, the voters, to rid our democracy of self serving representatives and replace them with those that will truly work for us. 

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  13. This reminds me of some musing I had back in the late 1990's:

    I had heard on the radio or perhaps watched on TV a report of some new Federal regulation and its immediate implementation concerning air traffic control.  There was the usual background of what air traffic control was and how it worked etc. and then the intro to the new law, which was basically a definition of what air traffic controlling was-which was "now air traffic controls will have the ability communicate with multiple planes and coordinate their landings using computers that talk to each other"-or something equally obvious.  I was like, "wait, we don't already have that, what have you people been doing the last 60 years?"

  14. 38 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Until very recently this alone would have most likely forced a President to resign in disgrace.  Instead this is the minor footnote while people wait to see what happens with the real scandals.

    And again, I know Trump wouldn’t release tax returns and was cagey about his private info in the campaign, but how does none of this come out while he was running?  Those fabled political opposition researchers must be the most incompetent people in the world if they couldn’t expose the blatant fraud of the most obvious con man in the world.  

    Instead it was “OMG - did you hear what he said about Megyn Kelly!”  Yeah, dipshit, the only reason his people like him is because he doesn’t adhere to political correctness, so by all means highlight that instead of following up on 40 years of crookedness, likely criminal activity, and stealing from charities.

    Trump has a long and troubled past that is documented, in the public record and has been properly investigated.  During the election it was a major failing of main stream news organizations to openly expose his know and fraudulent actions.  Threat of litigation was certainly a factor, but the overwhelming cause was reluctance to open up a complex subject (that the general public would find difficult to understand) when Trump was handing out all of this other low hanging fruit, which in the end served only as slight of hand.

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  15. 2 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    This seems important. 

    Par for the course and a matter of public record.

    Trump has pulled this type of stunt before:

    There was a tax return (state) that had been prepared and signed  by Trump's CPA and given Trump for signature and filing.  Years later the return was under audit and the CPA was questioned, however the return was not the one the CPA had signed, nevertheless his signature was on the return.

    One of Trumps first big projects, what came to be known as the Grand Hyatt Hotel remodel, was under audit by the city of New York as it is had tax break clauses and ongoing operation sales taxes involved with it.  Trump went to great lengths to hide the records from auditors.  In the beginning he put them off saying it was a bad time and kept rescheduling and pushing back the request.  When finally  pressed, he insisted the records were not on site, but in storage.  When the auditors looked they could find no records at the storage facility.  Then the story was the records were destroyed but existed in electronic form at some record keeping facility out of state.  Moths went by while auditors attempted to set up a meeting to review the records.  The night before they were to fly out and meet with data records people, allegedly a water main broke and destroyed the records. eventually the records were found in a storage locker in New Jersey, where they had apparently been all along.

    The above were paraphrased with possible minor errors from a lecture by David Cay Johnson. 

  16. One of the fumiest memories I have from this was when Pat Summerall was doing the Fox broadcast with Madden and it came time to promo  Fox's Sunday night lineup.  It was almost an American institution to hear Summerall que up what was going to be going on with 60 Minutes and other long time running shows on CBS.  Pat did OK with The Simpson's , the X Files, and In Living Color, but the one that got me was House of Buggin'.  I remember Summerall saying something to the effect of  "...and be sure to check out Fox's new hit comedy show House of Buggin'" followed by a long pause then almost shouting " House of Bugging" then silence.  You could hear Madden chuckling in the background.

    FWIW, I did see the House of Buggin' a few times and it was actually pretty funny.

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