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Irish Wrist Watch

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  1. Five year projection Cowboys stand by Dak. His stats get worse every year. The team gets worse every year. Cowboys can't get rid of him. Trey Lance traded. Makes strides as backup. Gets starter role. Wins Super Bowl. Junior Jones arrested and imprisoned for trying to smother father in his sleep. Jerry Jones continues to run team from Iron Lung. As hail mary, rehires Jason Garrett to return Cowboys to greatness. Garrett, who has been in his garage workshop studying NFL trends for three years, brings back Dave Campo, another Trend Watcher. Cowboys convince Dak to retire and then win ten games. Senile Jones loses Cowboys in poker game to unemployed construction worker. Court upholds. Fans celebrate. New era begins. So folks, only five more years of this shit and we'll be ready to roll.
  2. New Influencer named Andrea Botez. Has a nice look. Chess Player
  3. Jones has always gone cheap on coaches... probably did so with Jimmy Johnson too. It occurs to me, or wouldn't surprise me if there wasn't a deeper story behind Johnson's sudden departure. What if a big talking Jerry Jones told his pal Jimmy that if he came to work for him in Dallas, and if he was successful, Jones would give him a piece of the pie, or some amazing incentive, and that after three Superbowls, Jimmy decided to call his bluff... Jones of course would have said no. I dont need you to win. It would be the kind of "disagreement" neither could really talk about afterward, but it would also be the kind of broken verbal contract that someone like Johnson wouldnt stick around to bitch about - that he would bolt immediately.
  4. Follow up: decided against using the Roundup Broadleaf on the St. Augustine except in a spot or two (as a test). The Roundup seems to be working pretty good on the broadleaf everywhere I sprayed. It's only been a week or so. In the test areas, can't see any damage to the St. Augustine. It's starting to green up a little. Re the beauty of St. Aug in Texas: As a kid in San Antonio we planted a front and back yard with st. aug runners by punching a hole in the ground with screwdrivers. The yard had some shade and always looked great when it got enough water. Good shade helps, OTOH pounding a baseball (wiffle ball) diamond between the front door and the street, the pyracanthas and the driveway on the sides, took its toll. Now I'm dreading going after the broadlear I didn't poison. Hoping that mowing with a grass catcher will do the trick - just let the grass choke out the weeds. That's suit my pallet just fine.
  5. Dateline: Central Texas So late last year laid down a palate of St. Augustine over existing weeds (getting nasty) and Bermuda (weakening). Watered twice a day for two weeks and seems to have taken hold. Looked great for five or six weeks then winter hit and it went dormant. Seen more broadleaf weeds then in previous years. I've been warned that pre-emergent on this new lawn was unwise, so I didn't do any. Same for spraying for broadleaf. But I'm wondering, since most of the grass blades are dead, is a broadleaf spray gonna hurt anything? The one someone gave me is made by roundup, actually - not the traditional kill-everything Roundup. I suppose there's a case to be made for the broadleaf killer to affect the St. Augustine roots. (I'm seeing some green blades, already). So what's the verdict from Surly's Lawncare Gurus on the broadleaf treatment? And while we're at it, I did put down pre-emergent on my existing Bermuda sections a couple of weeks ago. I think I got that in under the wire, but what say you on using it now (on a friend's yard) which will soon be sodded. Is it too late? And by the way, I'm catching a lot of flack for not watering enough during the winter. Seems to me it was a fairly wet winter. And if the ground is so fucking dry, why the hell is all this broadleaf coming up. Thanks in advance.
  6. Red Right Hand - Orlando Bloom. He's changed since he was an elf in LOTR. I like some of the stuff he's done in the last few years, but this one was about a 5 outta 10. Lot of plot holes. Some characters you like, but just a shoot'em up at the end.
  7. Cowboys McCarthy and Zimmer's absence at combine raises eyebrows in NFL circles (msn.com) 10h ago
  8. It occurs to me that Jerry's plan is to hire an OC - and now a DC. His tight ass can squeeze out enough money for that level, but to get the very best, he's gonna have to promise one that if your Offense (or Defense) shines, you will be the head coach when FatLazy's contract runs out. He'll throw in that "you have to continue to exhibit the leadership of an HC, but we already know you got that." Now with two Coordinator slots open, he can play one against the other for that HC position. Make the same promise to both. Also, he can tell each coordinator candidate "Look, you can just ignore anything the Fat Fuck tells you. Do your job and make your Offense (Defense) shine, and you'll be a shoe-in come next season." The plan could work. If you're a cheapskate, how else you gonna get a young, innovative HC ala Shanahan?
  9. Vikings vid is VHQ. Saw Safety Harris - was Phil his first name. Wonder if Charlie Waters was in that game. Six years later, Dorsett breaks his 99-yd TD run from scrimmage against the Vikes. We all knew at the time it had to be the longest in history and that it would never be broken. Dorsett was fucking awesome. His rushing records stood until Emmett came along. Smith was no slouch either.
  10. Leone put together big budget cinematography with big budget music, slowed the pacing down and threw in Clint Eastwood. Guess you gotta think big. Ennio Morricone was no slouch either. Big budget movies out the ass. Orchestras all over the world have been playing his stuff. If you want to see something astounding watch the HM Royal Marines perform Ecstacy of Gold (from the graveyard scene in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly). Make sure your speakers are on. Likewise, check out Deborah's theme from Once Upon a Time in America (featuring young Jennifer Connelly and the adorable Elizabeth McCovern. That's a good fucking movie. Long but 8.3/10 on IMDB
  11. Aikman talking to Stephen A - short version. Hope this hasn't been posted, but it's worth a listen. You can gleen a few tidbits from Aikman's comments. Some commercialization by Sports Junkie I could do without. Biggest takeaway, Jimmy Johnson was more upset than the Dallas coaches at halftime. Re Aikman: it was a miracle we got him instead of Mandarich. He continues to give back to football and Cowboy fans. Talk about a throwback to better times... Outstanding announcer IMHO.
  12. Glad KC won. That said, once again, a close game is ruined by a failure to call an obvious holding call in the secondary. Same old shit.
  13. Fucker wanted to be the hero, forgot the first rule of carrying the ball.
  14. Ferrari. Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz. Awful. No real story, just a few dramatic moments. Lead character never does anything except talk to other people - actually, that's pretty much all any character does.
  15. No doubt, at some point, drunk or sad as hell, Jones confided to his son or his wife - I just didn't realize what I was doing when I gave Prescott that fat ass contract. The Jackass of Cheap ruined this team.
  16. Change team colors to pink. Dallas Pussyboys. "Coach McCarthy cares about us as human beings..." "He's just a big lovable Teddy Bear..." "We'll get better - we promise..."
  17. Apparently the NFL has now decided that beginning next season, receivers will begin wearing harnesses with large chrome handles on either side of their back that make will it easier to grab onto them when they try to run a route. This was a response to the outcry from D backs that it was getting too hard to try and keep up with the receivers and it was requiring all kinds of exercise during practices.
  18. So just finished the final episode of Rome (2005) (8.7/10 at IMDB). Haven't seen it since it premiered. What an amazing piece of historical fiction about the last days of the Roman Empire condensed into a few years. A strong friendship forms between two warriors who in many ways couldn't be more different. Great acting all around. Unforgettable characters include Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Cleopatra and about twenty others. Epic. The two men are Lucius Veronus, a by the book Roman commander and Titus Pullo, a brawling drunk, also in Caesar's army. Brings to life the daily life in ancient Rome. Very authentic realization. The story was not designed to go for more than two seasons, and the producers didn't sell out.
  19. Haven't seen those. Thinking about it. It's pretty cutting edge.
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