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Hornius Emeritus

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  1. Zipper mergers deserve a special place in hell.
  2. I can see where you went wrong.
  3. About 35 years ago I was the best man at the wedding of another Surly poster. It was held in a relatively small town in northern Ohio, where his wife is from. We got up there and it turns out pretty much everybody in her family was enormous. I mean ridiculous. They were farmers and you'd think the physical work would have kept them slim but good lord most of the men, even the younger brothers, were on the order of 350 pounds. The sisters, the cousins --- all of them huge. Tall people, but huge. I was a hard core cyclist who was averaging 40-50 miles a day and could really put away some groceries myself but I was, and still am, skinny. It was a week of celebration, of course, and these people's lives were governed by food, so every morning breakfast would be pancakes and waffles and syrup and bacon and eggs and sausages and hash browns and all of it in staggering quantities. We would all sit there and gorge ourselves at breakfast and I'm thinking "I can't move. I won't be able to eat until dinner, I've had so much." They'd be sitting there picking their teeth with toothpicks and talking about where they wanted to go for lunch. I was thinking "Holy crap ... how can you POSSIBLY be thinking about more food when I just watched you eat four pounds of food in the form of five pancakes, two waffles, eight slices of bacon, a half tube of Jimmy Dean sausages, some eggs, a plate full of hashbrowns etc?" I'm the kind of guy who eats when I'm hungry and that's it. Being there with them really clued me in to how some people's lives revolve completely around eating. I had never understood this before.
  4. I guess I just don't get this. My family is much more direct. If somebody "demanded" that one of us get a second plate of food, the response would be on the order of "Or how about this? You eat what you want and I'll eat what I want and neither of us try to tell the other what to eat. Does that work for you, dickhead?"
  5. Two of my best, longest friends are Sooners. They are so beat down right now that they won't even offer up the smallest amount of trash talk. It's actually taking a lot of the fun out of it for me.
  6. I am going to this place and buy every one of these beers. It's in Houston, right?
  7. Jeff Bridges addresses the question.
  8. Dude ... https://forum.tracesoftexas.com/
  9. And then there's Traces of Texas on Facebook, pumping out good content on a daily basis. Just about every day I get a DM from somebody telling me they'd leave FB except that they want to keep reading Traces. So I guess I'm part of the problem.
  10. According to ON 3, he ran a 10.7 in high school. Here's an interview with Emmett.
  11. Can't believe how much weight Sark himself appears to have lost.
  12. Just watched an interview with Tom Bucovac. He said that Joe Walsh has multiple storage units around LA with thousands of guitars and amps in them. Joe is basically a hoarder, it sounds like. So much that even Joe doesn't know what he's got --- but he won't part with any of it. Sounds like my grandfather, who was an auto mechanic for 50 years. When he died we were hauling stuff like the transmission for a 49 Edsel out of his basement, and I can just hear my grandfather's reasoning for keeping it when he put it down there 30 years before ... never know when you're going to need the transmission to a 49 Edsel.
  13. He is pretty good if not very good. Pretty good size. Ran a 10.62 FAT 100m.
  14. Abe Lincoln and his favorite Fender Stratocaster. Photo by Keith Richards.
  15. Flip Wilson
  16. Was that wrong? Should @HenryJames not have done that? https://liveandletsfly.com/man-flashes-singapore-girl-sia/
  17. They can pretend it's named for Russell Lee, that's what they did in Austin with Robert E. Lee elementary. Just renamed it.
  18. Beto might have been enough had he not uttered the words about the guns.
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