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Felix

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  1. My wife sleeps late so on occasions requiring a card I get up at my usual time and, using a piece of copy paper and colored pencils, I make a card with whatever the appropriate markings for the occasion. I'm a terrible artist but a decent writer so I usually come up with something that works and amuses her with it's childlike whimsy. I'll be damned if I'm spending $8 on a damned card or going to pick one out.
  2. Dude, I like you as a poster but you're seriously bitching out in this thread. Smoke a bowl or something and relax. If it's still shitty in a month then you can lose your shit.
  3. Unless he putts better than he ever has in his life, I doubt it. It's the only thing holding him back IMO.
  4. Felix

    Rodney Terry

    The players also aren't game planning and scouting. To me the coaching staff have done an excellent job in that regard.
  5. When I was at Ft. Knox in the early 90s the orientation for incoming troops included warning to the black soldiers as to which towns they should not go to. They weren't strictly off limits but it was made very clear that bad should would very likely happen to you if you went there at any time of day. The one I remember was Shelbyville.
  6. The first book is slow go get going but once the Cacafuego situation manifests it gets much better. I'd say try to finish it and then make a call. Like any series it takes a while to develop the characters and hit it's stride.
  7. I don't know about that. I think both football and basketball are ripe for parody.
  8. Announcers are cheerleaders these days. Not serious commentators on the game.
  9. I would just start loudly laughing whenever he said some of his stupid talking points like it was the biggest joke in the world.
  10. Two fouls on the rebound though.
  11. Reminds me of the two Florida linemen blocking each other.
  12. He might have killed her but she wasn't a very sympathetic person so that may have had something to do with his acquittal.
  13. I agreed it was a good no call. I also found it interesting that the closest ref was he one who was standing next to Terry when the technical was called. He looked super surprised when she called it. I think it was a make up call.
  14. Especially when you play so may games on the West Coast. With a 2.5 hour game I might be able to stay up to the end. Getting old sucks.
  15. Felix

    LBGTQ

    Just put him on ignore. Something broke in him a few years ago. He used to be someone whose posts I respected. You'll feel better if you don't have to read his disingenuous snark.
  16. My biggest issue with the current trend of broadcasting to "sell" the sport. We never get replays of controversial calls or non-calls. The announcers are relentlessly positive about the calls and the officiating with one or two disagreements allowed per game it seems. There is no neutrality in any broadcast because the networks and the leagues are partners. I hate it.
  17. George Washington was the President of the Constitutional Convention so this is not an incorrect statement. He generally stayed out of the wrangling but he ran the meetings, if you will, so he did technically oversee the creation of the Constitution.
  18. Pretty sure that was an M1A1 with 120mm main gun, but the 105mm on the M1 and M1IP could definitely kill them too. Maybe not through a berm though.
  19. Got called recently and went down to the cattle call. Judge came in and gave us the spiel asked for anyone who really needed to not be there. Ten or so went up and gave their story's. He released them all. Time to get down to brass tacks and start the selections process. Defendants attorney approaches the bench. Prosecutor called up. Whispered conversation. Judge clears to court room and asks us to wait in the hall. Thirty minutes later they call us back in and release us. Defendant fired his attorney and went back to jail. Judge said it was the second time he had done this. Counted as having served so won't get a criminal one for a while I guess.
  20. Yeah know issue with most Soviet era tanks. Because of the small turrets and later the auto-loaders they had very limited main gun elevation so if you had the high ground you could shoot them and they couldn't shoot you.
  21. Knew a guy like this. One day I came to work and realized I hadn't seen him in a while. Turns out he was just sentenced to 25 years for Tax Evasion. Sole breadwinner for his family. Wife and six kids. Brilliant IT guy. That was about ten years ago. I think about that knucklehead sometimes and wonder if his family is ok.
  22. We're probably learn more by monitoring any emissions from the balloon and taking pictures of it than they learn from sending it.
  23. Just watched three big ass limbs break off of two of the cedar elms outside my home office window. I trimmed everything back from the house a couple of years ago when I got a new roof, thankfully. This sucks.
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