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You mean that Freddie not knowing if he can make it, and not calling Jonathan to confirm that he can nor answering his calls, and showing up on the dock just as they're throwing lines was staged?

Someone posted a link to a boat sale site some time back that had a red boat exactly like the TB, and thought it was the TB repainted red. It wasn't though because when I perused through the site I found the actual TB listed on there in its traditional black coat.

100% pulling for Rose. I know a good guy who's uber friends with him. He can't talk highly enough about him. I really think he's going to pull it out.

Does the poster who has those badass dark green Masters bourbon glasses still post here? Please post another pic of those. Had the opportunity to buy that set at the member's pro-shop a few years back and talked my dumbass out of it.

If they were tranny strippers he'd be a-ok

Amazing game. When the Bruins got the ball with 20 seconds left, down 2, I was expecting, and really hoping, that they'd go for the win. As underdog, it's not to your advantage to keep extending the game.

Landed a new job at a Fortune 200 company, probably easiest interview process ever had: an outreach by a recruiter, a ten minute call with the hiring manager, a two-hour total interview with the hiring manager, two would-be colleagues and the CFO, respectively. In the interviews with the other three I picked up that this role was dreamed up by the hiring manager, faced skepticism within the exec ranks, and he had to use a lot of political capital to get it approved. Anyway, get hired and am excited but feeling the pressure. First day on the job I learn the company's annual all-day meeting with vendor partners will be held in two days at a hotel in San Diego. As I will need to work with these folks I pushed my new boss to let me attend. He was dubious, given I had just started but agreed. Go to the event, top notch event all around, 300 or so reps of vendors in attendance, introduced myself to a lot of folks. Late in the day, my new boss comes over and says, "Bob, I'd like to introduce you to ** ******" (with no augmenting info of who he was). I smile, shake his hand and ask what his role is with the company. "Uh, I'm the President", he said with notable annoyance. Out of the corner of my eye I see my boss's face drop. This was his direct boss. I don't recall how I responded, but the conversation ended quickly after that. Fortunately, the guy (who I later came to know had a healthy ego) never held it against me.

Years ago, some guy wrote an excellent detailed analysis of the final scene to prove Tony's death. Big part of his discussion was the fact that the show turned the real ice cream shop into an orange toned space. Orange everywhere.

Interesting take, and seems to align with what's gone on in this thead. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/meghan-markle-oprah-interview-prince-harry-american-conservatives-liberals-474407 “Because of their support for the status quo and the existing cultural, political and social order,” she wrote to me in an email, “conservatives would tend to attribute responsibility for negative outcomes to the individual rather than to the system.” But liberals, she wrote, “are less wedded to social and cultural traditions and norms.” So they’d be in favor of broader change, tearing up the system altogether, “so that fewer individuals face those risks.”

Yeah, I was going to say, that wasn't really recognizing the pitch, it was the pitcher fucked up his pitch and hung one.

You just being silly. Your argument is that if you weren't there personally you can't know for sure and can't form an opinion. It's a classic defense mechanism of a side one has chosen. And you chose based on a one-sided emotional interview with the best in the business at manipulating narratives.

Well, actually you are defending her, quite vigorously. And with no more (and I'm pretty sure less because you are going off one tilted interview done by the best in the business and forming narratives) information on the whole thing than me. Am I not allowed to formulate and offer an opinion based on what I've read about this thing ?

This has been an enjoyable diversion from the typical heavier shit going on. Very much looking forward to the RF's counter offensive. A couple of things, very well played by Oprah and Meghan to showcase those side by side headlines on Kate and Meghan, respectively, eating avocados when pregnant. Based on that blatant example of bias there were able to give the impression that all Meghan headlines were hogwash, and that she was sitting innocent and bored in her palace room while horrid stories were being made up about her with the RF providing implicit if not explicit support of same. I just don't buy that. I also don't buy that the Queen would allow her grandson to be unprotected by security. There is more to that story. Meghan invited a bunch of Hollywood A-listers to her wedding who she never met. What does that tell you about her personality and intentions with this marriage?

1989 Flyin' Illini loss to Michigan in the Final Four. They were a dominant group of 6-4 to 6-6 guys who got up and down the floor, dunked, and blew teams out. Just a huge amount of fun to watch, and grew to love that team. They scored 127 points of Dale Brown's Tigers and he thanked Henson for not running up the score (and wasn't being sarcastic). They lost 4 games in regular season because Kendall Gill broke his wrist, otherwise would have had one loss tops. Handily beat Michigan both regular season games including blowing them out on the road the last game of the regular season. Defeated a loaded Syracuse team in Final Eight in a war. Final Four game was intense back and forth with 33 lead changes. Tied with seconds left, Nick Anderson had proper position but inexplicably didn't jump for a defensive rebound and let Sean Higgins jump over him for a put-back with two seconds left. That one crushed me as was a big Illini fan back then, and they hadn't won a title to date nor have they since.

The coaches thinking was that they needed 8 and even if the get the TD there and fail the conversion, they still need a score anyway. Terrible logic. Kick the FG and you still need a TD to win. Go for it and fail and you have four time outs and TB inside their own ten. Go for it and get the TD and conversion, game is tied. Go for it, get the TD and fail the conversion, you still need a score to win, but it's a FG, something that can be feasibly accomplished with 30 seconds on the clock

I'm 57 and feel the same way. What people may not fully understand was how lowly regarded the military was when we graduated high school (just before Reagan). The stink from Vietnam was still strong, and it was basically a last chance bastion for losers and criminals. No one I knew even gave a thought to joining.

I remember watching that scene during first airing. Blew me away then and still does. Tony and Chris hugging each other with eyes wide open to close....amazing

Might be my favorite Sopranos scene. So, damn ominous, especially when the closing song drumbeats kick in. Say what you want about Phil, but he was a badass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD2hHGF81OU Sorry for the lack of embed. I can't figure this fucking site out

Ok, going through my rewatch and saw this episode this morning. Re. the fight, my man Tony was just about to take full control of things when Carmela jumped on his back. Bobbie put a quick end to things after that. Not sure why when Tony was fretting over the loss he was pissed about the throw rug but not that.

My favorite is, "you woke up early...no one cares" I've been known to whine to family and neighbors about lack of sleep and waking early

Would be a tough choice between Selma and Maria Bello

My thoughts as well. He was good in this role, but it was his wheelhouse and there were plenty of times where you could see through his acting. That AAA baseball stadium was bad as hell. How has no other director used that in a film? Re. Davidson's success with pretty women, rumor is he's packing a monster.

My dad was in WWII, he died fairly young in 1989, before getting to enjoy retirement. I never thought much about it as I was growing up, but as I see these interviews with men from various war documentaries, and they talk about their comrades. I realized that the relationship my dad had with his squadron mates was at a different level from any friendships he developed after, even though they only spent a few months together and later a few days a year at a pilot reunion. There was a level of respect and endearment he had for this group that he didn't have for anyone else. My dad was as tight with a buck as one can be, grew up poor in Great Depression (our stove for years had a screw hook to hold the oven door closed.) But when that group was due to stay at our house for a few days because the annual reunion was close by that year, he spent thousands of dollars fixing up the house. That's the level of respect he had for them.

Just watched that episode today. Seen that scene a few times before and I never drew any sexual connotations from it. They even flashback to the young German he shot as he's looking at the boy, it's obvious he reminded him of that shooting.

Sad. I liked that dude.