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ImissWallyPryor

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  1. Well, that was dumb.
  2. When Sports Writers Attack!
  3. It’s almost like ESPN tells them to take opposing sides on issues.
  4. Do you really think a female would do anything dramatic without posting it or filming it or doing it in front of a live audience?
  5. Who’s a bad doggie? https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/woman-drowns-after-jumping-into-a-river-to-see-if-her-dog-will-save-her/ar-AA1dyFgM
  6. I deleted my PayPal account after 10 years of never using it. That was several years ago, and no ragrets (not regerts, get it right, Surly). I have a minimum of $12,000 in cash, $100,000 in gold coins, 10,000 rounds of ammo, 12 months of survival food for 6, 3 cords firewood, 2,500 gallon cistern of water in case my two wells fail me, two 500 gallon propane tanks, 25,000 watt generator, and solar panels/wind turbine. I can’t stand paranoid doomsdayers. P.S. Can’t forget the bumper sticker on my truck.
  7. We had front row seats to see Bob Hope at the SA Stock Show and Rodeo, compliments of Harry Freeman. None of my kids ages 23-30 know anything about him, although the oldest 2 humor me by pretending to be familiar with his name.
  8. At least she stays in shape.
  9. There is a thread for the most Texan thing you’ve ever done.
  10. The legacy admissions thing is probably exaggerated, at least in terms of under qualified applicants gaining admission. There simply aren’t a huge number of multi-million dollar donors relative to the number of children of those same donors. That, along with the fact that most über-wealthy families send their kids to really good prep schools, means that most of their children probably have good enough SATs to warrant serious consideration without legacy status. Sure, there are exceptions, but they comprise a tiny fraction of one percent of all applicants. As others have pointed out, legacies have a lot of loyalty to their alma mater, so they are more likely to make the kind of donations that benefit a multitude of students they’ll never meet. I’d bet any amount of money that multi-generation UT families donate much more than one-and-done grads. I don’t really care if legacy admissions are eliminated because I don’t think it will make a huge difference. And do the people complaining about legacy admissions really want admissions to be solely merit based? For every single unqualified legacy admission there are probably dozens of athletes admitted who are under qualified academically. What about international students? Maybe there is a foreign student SAT I haven’t heard about, but I suspect schools are so eager to take on foreign students because they pay full tuition on top of donations from some of their home countries (i.e. OPEC and China).
  11. Is hiring your best man as OC considered a comfort hire?
  12. Wood *deleted*
  13. My wife just had her eye exam, and - much to her disappointment - her cataracts haven’t worsened. She was kinda looking forward to not needing glasses. She had lasik surgery 23 years ago by Michael Dell, and that is still good enough that she would only need a lens that will correct her near vision. Note: Her current eye doctor has told her several times that the lasik scars from Dr. Dell’s surgery are the best she’s ever seen.
  14. We were given a partial box of generic Oat-eos and a half empty jug of milk in a Minnesota AirB, so there is that. Not to mention numerous opened condiments, peanut butter, and jams.
  15. A little bit Holy Shit.
  16. 17.5 years…and yes, we’re all getting old.
  17. *raises hand* He’s decent until he gets excited, then it’s like nails on chalkboard to me. I’ll take controlled exuberance like Ron Franklin gave us. Maybe that’s why I liked Wally Pryor so much.
  18. He still owes Derrick Johnson a Bednarik and a Lombardi.
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