Mrs Whiggins

Crossing fingers that you get your electricity back. That's pretty cold.

Agree with Slorch that Rodgers as a QB is a great athlete. Rodgers is entitled to his opinion and since he openly shares it world-wide we are free to mock or idolize it, however intelligent or foolish we are. Trent Reznor's (NIN) score for The Social Network is fantastic. I love that he was a theater nerd in hs. I also love how we mingle art and sports without a second thought: songs written for school spirit, football (the other one) has all of the club songs (some of these are quite inspirational as theme songs), hockey games and their iconic organ music, baseball evolves from the seventh inning stretch to the psychological examination of every slugger's walk-up song; half the time I'm thinking I'd like to watch games w/o the music (loud) and the other time wondering if it's done to keep people from fighting in the stands during the slow parts (only half-kidding here because that is truly one of the reasons it came to be, historians say). Not too worried about the gene pool myself. The human species is fungible on this tiny planet. Enjoy your time here.

"You have to wonder what promises are made, or ..." Or if he stepped off the plane in College Station and said, 'woah, y'all have an insane amount of chicken finger places' and thought about his last well-check at the doctors and said, 'I can get better fried chicken in Alabama.'

The more the pundits opine on the way citizens are turning away from religion (no CR), the more I'm thinking there is a sizable number of citizenry in this country that are perhaps looking out for the welfare of their family by not putting them in danger. Obey, obey, obey and submit, submit, submit are admirable admonitions when discussing quelling harmful and destructive tendencies but it's obvious that they are magnitudes more harmful when used by the powerful against the least of these, the meek and powerless.

This thread has 192 pages to go before it reaches the debacle that is the College Football in 2020 in Danger thread that is also in this Forum so there's that.

Unfortunately, not everyone is as smart/sensible as you are, plus there are people who may be new to a community and just don't know. In the old days, they'd talk about greenhorns who'd get lost on the prairies during blizzards because they didn't know the tips and tricks for how to navigate when there were no trees or other landmarks. As time passed, those tips and tricks evolved into modern day admonitions for how not to freeze to death if your car got stuck, etc. Things that you don't perhaps ever think of because it was something you learned over time. Same thing with people who don't consider their hydration when going camping or hiking in Big Bend or any safety precaution that someone raised in the hotter climes would seemingly 'just know.' Since I'd been raised in a climate where winter temps dropped below freezing, there was often snow, and the area had actual 'seasons,' I figured I knew the score. Then we moved way up north and it was a different scene. My coat was not warm enough for days when the high was a negative number. When I had to crawl into the car from the hatchback because all the other doors were frozen shut and I needed to get to work. And it was a stick shift and I was pregnant. (Don't even try and picture that one). When I high-centered the car on an ice boulder the snowplow had created because I was trying to turn into our driveway and now had two rear wheels airborne. That one took two neighbors and a pickaxe to resolve and my explanation to my bewildered spouse when he arrived home after it was all done about "I just thought if I floored it, the car would go over it like a mogul." Ah, good times, good times. Just be patient with the noobs. We learn eventually.

Maybe it's because you have a Gritty avatar. If one eats the French Dressing Mexican Salad (the recipe that featured said dressing), one is going to definitely Find Out something. What that something is, is subject to interpretation.

Sounds like a reason to celebrate. Slightly befuddled but not too far gone tonight. Martinis: Hayman's London Extra Dry, Noilly Prat Extra Dry Vermouth, and Mezzetta Spanish Queen Martini Olives. Went well with the leftovers. Cheers!

Also, Richard Dawson was involved with the Selma marches and McGovern's Presidential campaign.

No. Please don't even start with that. Thread was trucking right along, so no.

Speaking of them, I haven't looked; this whole outcome may be such an interesting thought process for them. Didn't some of their fans want DeBoer and he wasn't interested so they badmouthed him cause he wasn't SEC capable or something? But now, they don't play Bama this year I don't think; so, if this year goes poorly for him they can talk about how they dodged a bad coach. But then the next year if Bama were to beat them, then it's because Texas obviously politically lured DeBoer to coach at Bama.

RIP to our Kenmore. It lasted for a long long time. Basic model with freezer on the top. Bought a Whirlpool that was similar but it is a pale pale imitation of our former soldier.

When I have a newly purchased container of a food product and peel back the plastic in one swoop instead of the annoying little strips that stick to your fingers...it pleases me.

No kidding. We'd done our regular trip but I ran out of one or two produce items I needed and the HEB near our house was crazy. If you have ear buds or noise-cancelling headphones, wear those. Then you can shop fast and won't be bothered by the shoppers' cries of pain when you hit them with your basket.

New motto? Texas, it's a whole other tinpot country!

Their neighbors in Nebraska that attended rallies will happily remind the freezing Iowans that the buses will be coming soon.

So what you're saying is that what happens in Iowa should be taken with a grain of.........road salt. I'll show myself out now.

Rude; right after I offer praise for getting close to the estimated value, you come along and crush their career aspirations.

Wasn't there also a report/study/investigation that was published somewhat recently that examined how some areas of Texas were seeing greater numbers because they were becoming essentially choke points? Going off memory--some of it was avoiding police/agents and some of it was due to trying to come in through areas that were deemed 'safer.' Safer as in the travel through Mexico was problematic due to violence, robbery, etc and word of mouth influenced which groups tried to get in via which location. To the eye, that might seem like a greater number but only due to other "roads" being closed. A traffic jam that is somewhat artificially created in other words. The highest number of illegal persons in the US is still people who overstay their visas.

21st century Appeasement Policy leading into an eleven month struggle with an aggressor party is exactly what the GOP wants because history may not repeat itself exactly, but it doesn't have to in order to place fascists in power. It would take a lot of tact (by the administration) in order to bring them to heel on their escalations and thusly, nothing will happen and the first sentence will be the likely result (my two cent take).

Elko contract extension coming in five....four...three...

Talk about a minefield. Ignoring all the lawyering stuff for a minute: bunch of men with guns on either side of this. Not great. All the while the leadership in this state is posturing and posing because, heaven forbid one actually have a humanist take and work with the (checks notes) federal government on how to help solve the issue. Someone's going to get hurt and it won't be a politician. It'll be an innocent bystander or someone who was present because they were ordered to do so.

According to The Guardian, Never Back Down, the Super PAC supporting DeSantis, postponed two events due to weather. So they did, indeed, back down.

Hey, that's a pretty good estimate--value was around $6 billion last August according to Forbes. Dallas is #1 at $9 billion.

Of course it is. This is the school that created a memorial for a cockroach: Story went national, here is just one link out of many: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/krishrach/people-built-a-shrine-and-held-a-funeral-to-this-dead-cockro