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Ghost of LL

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  1. Hell—they bear the Chargers just two weeks ago. They’re a dangerous team with Dart playing at MetLife. But on the road, they still look like hammered dogshit.
  2. Speaking of places that we're sure are money-laundering operations . . . that TCBY on the corner of MLK and Lavaca is definitely one, right? I don't think I've ever seen anyone go into or out of that joint. But it's been there since I was in college (which was a very long time ago). I mean, there's just no way that place is legit, right?
  3. Ghost of LL

    2025 ACL

    I never heard of Dylan Gossett, but he’s pretty good.
  4. Ghost of LL

    2025 ACL

    Starting tomorrow afternoon, I'll be there and holding court in the Platinum Lounge.
  5. The really weird thing is that the ban on facial hair in the Navy is a pretty recent phenemenon. It was only implemented in 1984 to ensure a proper seal for modern firefighting equipment. But before that, facial hair in the Navy was very common, if not the norm. And of course it was. We're on a fucking ship. We have limited supplies of freshwater. We can't run around wasting it on fucking shaving. Save that shit for shore; when we're underway, that's just a fucking waste of time and water. I wonder if Pete Kegsbreath wants to go back in time and ask Bull Halsey or John Paul Jones why they were being so woke for allowing beards in their command.
  6. It’s a sad moment when you’re in the very last games of the day and ESPN switches its scorebug to the NFL.
  7. There is no way these two teams are going to score 21 points.
  8. What the fuck did Auburn do to SEC officials?
  9. I hate the way the tush push is officiated. Whatever yardage Hurts might get is given, no matter for how long his forward progress is stopped. But the second he fumbles, well his forward progress must’ve been stopped.
  10. So it’s just now the ACC’s bit that every year they’re going to have a preseason top-10 team just crash and burn?
  11. I love football again!
  12. It’s not just that they lost, it’s that it wasn’t a fluke. It was actually kind of a fluke that they got it to within a touchdown. They really weren’t competitive.
  13. Bud Light was/is a very working-class brand. But beyond that, Bud LIght is kind of a stale brand. It lacks the hipster appeal of Old Style and PBR. At the same time, it lacks any marker of being new or different or better than any of its competitors. Against that backdrop is the fact that in America in 2024, "working class" increasingly means "Hispanic." You don't need to have had much experience with Hispanic workers to know that Bud Light has been a perinneal favorite. Bud LIght has now taken a hit. It's no longer the best-selling beer in America. The best-selling beer in America is now Modelo. Which is owned by . . . [checks notes] . . . AB InBev. You know--I've never subscribed to the conspiracy theory that New Coke was just a ploy to take Coke off the market for six months to cover for the introduction of HFCS. It's a fun theory, but I've never bought it. If I did buy that theory, then I'd definitely believe that AB InBev purposefully concocted the entire Mulvaney kerfuffle to manufacture a "popular" shift from a stale brand to a brand that is more marketable to the 21st Century American working class.
  14. That's the only answer. Even if 1% of its subscriber base canceled Disney+--and that would be a metric fuckton of people--that's a tiny price to pay for Disney to remain in the regime's good graces. If, however, the talent refuses to produce the content, that's a gamechanger. Nobody pays for Disney+ for movies that came out 30 years ago. It requires new content to command the fees they charge. If the talent goes on strike, then Kimmel is back in a couple weeks. If they don't, then I don't want to hear all their overdramatic speeches at the Oscars about how democracy is at risk.
  15. Did UCLA fire its coach yet? I didn't catch that memo.
  16. Now you're sounding like Brisket. By which I mean, you're entirely right. Well, not entirely. It won't just be justified. It'll be state-sponsored.
  17. Everyone on this board owes @Brisketexan an apology. I mean, it was probably a bit late in the game for the Trojans to shout, "we're sorry, Cassandra" as they're being stabbed to death by some Greek. But still, . . . .
  18. How big is a prairie dog, exactly? Because I used to bull's-eye womp rats in my T-16 back home, and they're not much bigger than two meters.
  19. It makes me kinda sad that T. Boone died just before the NIL era. God, he would've loved it and had so much fun. And it would've been absoluely wild to watch.
  20. This is exactly what we have an independent press for, and what the NYT should be doing more of. That they have largely swallowed their whistles makes me even more pissed off.
  21. There is no question that SMU football is trying to do what Schnellenberger did at Miami 50 years ago. It's a good play. Good for SMU. But also, good for Dallas.
  22. I don't disagree with any of that. Molly Ivins wrote about it when she characerized Dallas as "Boosterville" (she wasn't being complimentary). Historically, Dallas is a great city in large part because it has the regional Federal Reserve Bank. And it has that entirely because it out-hustled everyone else (primarily Houston, but also New Orleans) just before WWI. But a lot of the shit Dallas has gotten done (or tried to get done) has been dumb, stupid, ill-advised, or outright wicked. In the former group is the stupid-ass standing wave in the Trinity River; in the latter group is the stupid golf course in the middle of the Great Trinity Forest. Still--the biggest thing I will say is that Dallas has real, legitimate philanthropists. It has people who pay hundreds of millions of dollars to put their name on parks, museums, hospitals, theaters and other things build and dedicated to the public good. Austin has none of that. It's not that Austin doesn't have plenty of rich people; a quick drive along Highway 360 on a Saturday afternoon will disabuse you of that notion. It's that hte rich people in Austin--with the sole exception of Michael Dell--don't have a philanthropic bone in their bodies. There's no Perot Museum here; there's no Winspear Opera House or Meyerson Symphony Center; there's no Klyde Warren Deck Park. And that is to this city's very great detriment.
  23. Dallas's civic leadership--which is to say the Citizens' Council--is problematic on a lot of levels. But this isn't the thread for that. It will suffice to say that you damn with faint praise when you say it's better than Austin.
  24. It's kind of a mixed bag. Contrails during they day in some areas will reduce heating by reflecting the Sun's radiation back into space (the same as natural clouds). But contrails at night definitely have a warming effect (again--same as clouds). I think the current consensus is that they have some warming impact, but on balance we don't know how much.
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