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Duane Moore

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  1. Tennessee will use what little capital they have to keep UK as one of their three. Bama, UK, Vandy, and UK are their traditional rivals going back 75-100 years. The Florida rivalry didn’t really start until 1992 when they went to divisions (other than some rancor around Doug Dickey in 1969-70), and it has been pretty lopsided against Tennessee the last 32 years. Tennessee can rightfully argue that they deserve a break given that they got stuck playing Bama, UGA, and UF every year since 1992.
  2. I keep seeing Alabama having the 3 PO’s of Auburn, Tennessee, and LSU. I can definitely see the first two, but mark my words, Bama still has enough sway still in this league that they’ll get a Vandy, UK, or Miss. St. thrown into their grouping to maintain their competitive advantage.
  3. “They published my letter in Penthouse!”
  4. The King Friday bit always makes me laugh
  5. Fascinating! I feel better now that I know people have been making the same mistake for at least 166 years, to the point where my usage has become its own accepted version of the idiom. And thank you for that site, I’m bookmarking it because I love that kind of thing. Definitely worth a rewatch. I just love that movie. Really scary at parts and laugh out loud funny in others. Best werewolf movie ever. The Dobie Theater talk really takes me back. I lived in Dobie my freshman year and saw tons of movies there. Heavy Metal is one that stands out.
  6. From an Eagles beat writer:
  7. Interesting. I clearly did not know that, and misused it in this context. I had always thought it was a synonym for higher birth status and so assumed it was spelled the other way. You have taught me something today.
  8. Gotcha. That’s very true. Alabama is the measuring stick program for SEC teams because of their history of success. Even in the Bill Curry or Mike Shula years, beating them was a highlight of the season for most schools.
  9. As someone with Tennessee fans in my family and who has followed SEC football for 40 years, it’s my observation that Alabama has been traditionally regarded differently by its rivals than we have by ours. We have long been considered the school in the SWC and Big12 that was the biggest, richest, and most arrogant school in the conference. That we had a manor-born sense of superiority and looked down our noses academically at everyone else besides Rice. Their hatred arose out of a sense of envy for what we had, separate and apart from our football program. Again, Rice and probably SMU excepted. Alabama’s relationship with the rest of the SEC has always been different because football is really the only thing over which they could claim superiority as to the other schools and their fan bases. The original 10 teams were like brothers from the same family, with only Vanderbilt being set apart as a truly distinguished academic institution, but their football program was so terrible as to make them irrelevant. The other schools had heated rivalries with one another, but there was never the inferiority complex with Alabama as a school or fan base that a Baylor or Iowa State had with us. Auburn and Tennessee, it’s traditional rivals, never thought of Bama as anything like “T-Sippers.” Each fan base though the other were trailer trash, hillbillies, rednecks, jort-wearing crackers, coon-asses, etc. And when it came to the national stage, there was enough vestigial collective “Southern Pride” such that Alabama was considered the standard bearer for the SEC’s football excellence and cheered on by its rivals when one of Bear Bryant’s teams would go play a Northern power like Notre Dame or Penn Stste. I don’t think we ever enjoyed that kind of support from a Tech or Baylor when one of Royal’s or Akers’ teams was in national title contention. The other good Shatner Twilight Zone episode is an underrated one. “Nick of Time” is a subtle little story about a young couple stuck in a small town with car trouble that get pulled in by a fortune telling machine in a local diner. It’s a Richard Matheson script about free will and the perils of superstition and is sneakily very dark. Not the kind of episode to leave a big impression as a kid like the gremlin on the wing, but more interesting as an adult. “The Howling Man” is another one of my favorites. A man traveling in Europe gets taken in at a monastery where the monks think they are holding the Devil captive. It’s a Charles Beaumont story, anything by him is usually good. He also wrote the Talky Tina episode (“Living Doll”) with Telly Savalas. It’s probably the avatar, but I always figured you for a “Robert DeNiro’s Waiting” kind of guy.
  10. So much for the ceasefire
  11. Trying to reconcile this post from Iran’s spokesman with the reports of attacks on multiple bases in Iraq.
  12. Good post. You may enjoy this deep dive on how recent events have impacted the influence of Russia and China in the region: https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/israel-zionism/2025/06/how-the-u-s-attack-on-iran-hurts-russia-and-china
  13. From the reports out of Tehran, Israel is getting every lick they can in up to the last minute.
  14. I posted that one earlier, Amit Segal has great sources in the Israeli government so let’s hope he’s right. Very positive if true.
  15. A timely reminder that Tucker Carlson is batshit crazy:
  16. Well this should be interesting. . .
  17. Since it seems like you haven’t heard of Soleimani before, I’d recommend this long profile on him by Dexter Filkins in the Atlantic from 2013. He was an undeniably bad dude. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/30/the-shadow-commander
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