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SimonBolivar

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  1. Well that was borderline erotic. 6-1! Watkins hat trick!
  2. Nah people that aren't fat are going to live longer than ever as medicine gets better and restriction leaves the ability for an ever-aging population to be unrepresented. We all know what happens when Americans feel that they're unrepresented...
  3. How many colleges did y'all take your kids to growing up to scout? My parents love college sports so we went to probably a hundred campuses if you count everything between driving around and taking formal tours as visits. If it was up to my parents, they would have had one at Flagler College, one at VMI or Washington & Lee, and one at Northwestern. I guess it didn't really end up mattering though since two of us went to BU just like they did and everyone else in our family did and the 3rd went DIII in Texas for sports purposes. Oh well it was still fun.
  4. Might be a different version. My Dell paperback from 1968 just mentions "Among the passengers were the daughter, son-in-law, and three grandchildren of the American ambassador Mr. Henry Morgenthau". (p.183)
  5. So I decided to take the plunge into complete nerdom. I'm watching every episode of every season of every series in airdate order along with the movies. I've seen probably 90% of TNG episodes, first season of Discovery, first season of Picard, and 90% TOS episodes over my life but that's it on the TV shows (not a single episode of Enterprise, TAS, DS9, SNW, Lower Decks, Prodigy, or Voyager in my life) so I have a shit ton to watch. Luckily, I take long lunch breaks every day and knock out an episode or two a day that way and can have a day here and there where I'm lazy and just hit 4 at once. Right now I'm on TOS S2E10
  6. I'm not looking forward to getting old. The things some of y'all would bang...
  7. Probably because she was "there" as a small child when it happened, which she omits from her book like the proper mid-century historian that she was. One of the recent editions has a good forward that gets into it quite a bit. David Blight always complains that nobody reads Tuchman anymore, but I still like Guns of August even if it is out of style historiographically today.
  8. Maybe but I ended up paying less for Baylor than my wife did for Oregon State and I wasn't special in the top 20% with a middle ass 26 ACT. They have to give out big scholarships or they'd have 5,000 students instead of 20,000 students.
  9. It doesn't really make sense since Scotland Yard is in London, but I could see Trump letting a dog raise his kids.
  10. Port Angeles itself is pretty cool though, but it's just a hippie mountain town.
  11. I'm not sure any of the ones allowed to be on the video has ever been on a roof.
  12. Not if you can blame it on liberal cloud seeding. Yup that's it.
  13. Cen-Tex Roofing Systems, which has a huge presence here in McLennan Co (shocking I know). I tried to find the ad on YouTube but it wasn't anywhere on there that I could find. What I did find though is that apparently the sponsor a segment on a local news station that is just kids reciting the pledge. https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?id=100064805465330&story_fbid=10157252924560742 I could use their biggest competitor Johnson Roofing, oh wait...
  14. There's a local roofing company that has an ad on tv that's just all of their employees in a field saying the pledge of allegiance and then giving a Trump like thumbs-up at the end. Not one word about roofing or anything. Civil religion is fucking weird.
  15. Fun team that should grow a lot this year. You finally have to love the trajectory.
  16. I'll never get tired of listening to Al Michaels. He's not a great announcer, but I hear his voice and it's a cool fall night and I have to go to bed at halftime to get ready for school in the morning.
  17. Mildly off-topic, but some of my happiest memories come in these towns and we never stay in them. You hike all day then find a restaurant like Claire's in Estes Park or Tommyknocker's in Idaho Springs and sit down with a burger, fries, and a beer and swear it's just the best meal you've ever had in your life. It doesn't matter if the food is really just average because you're so hungry, tired, and cold that the warmth of the food just overtakes everything else. We did the same thing on our wedding night as we got married on the top of Mt Storm King in Olympic which was a pretty intense uphill hike in wedding clothes. Getting back to Port Angeles at midnight we put a whole large pizza we had bought at a local pizzeria that morning in the oven and ate the whole thing sipping on champagne. Good times, good times.
  18. Que? There are plenty of cities that have both from as big a city as Houston on down to El Campo (is that small Buccee's still there?).
  19. Were the dogs like "nope, not getting there" or did you just keep them away from the water?
  20. Has anyone seen Indio at any shops in Austin? It's always my shit beer of choice at taquerias in Mexico and I'm planning on having a Carne Asada soon and wanted to have some to complete the experience.
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