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  1. I'm going to look into that Rain Bird. It's probably 40-45' from spigot to the trees. We're planting 4 of them in a straight line, trunk to trunk span will be 50' or so. We're basically building a large evergreen privacy fence/shade from the morning sun. Oak wilt took out the two massive split trunk oaks we had a number of years ago. Looking for hardy, drought tolerant trees that will block the sun when I'm watching sports early in the morning on the patio TVs & hide the view of the neighbors behind us (renters w/ young boys, a trampoline & a crappy grad they don't maintain.

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  2. Legend. He made bad movies worthwhile, good movies great, and great movies iconic. The Conversation is a masterclass in acting.

    I'm sure others have read about how he thought that Hoosiers was garbage during the production & how he told Hopper it would end their careers. He was as shocked as could be at the final product.

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  3. Anyways, almost every word from the film was on the page.  Every "um", "yeah", "well", etc. Every beat. Nothing was improvised by the actors. I once sat down and watched the movie while reading the script. It had to be 99.5% accurate. The Coen Brothers are notorious for not having many revisions. 
     


    Yep. Peter Stormarme (nihilist) talks about how while filming Fargo (Grimsrud) during a first cut of a scene he said "we stop at the pancakes house" and the Coens immediately yelled 'cut'. They told him to check his script and to read it as written (we stop at pancakes house). He said when read the line he figured it was just a simple mistake by the typist to leave out the word 'the', but then understood it was intentional & integral to his character's speech patterns. He said that's when understood that not only did the Coens know every single word of their script, they considered all of them to be essential, and it was his job as an actor to deliver every word with that level of respect.
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  4. I'm selfishly kinda bummed about the fact that John Goodman was too big to fit into the car the Coens had originally scripted the Dude to own-a LeBaron-because I had a '79 as my hand me down ride in high school and you know I could kinda sorta claim some degree of coolness all these years later.

  5. Can any of you pros offer recommendations for good soaker hoses? We're going to have 3 or 4 Arizona Cypress trees planted in our (large) backyard next week and we know that we'll need to give them a lot of water and TLC throughout this first summer. We've only got one spigot available in the back so the plan is to coil the soaker around a tree daily and then alternate throughout the week.

  6. 14 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    That dude will 1) be in charge of a major federal agency within 7 days, and 2) will be using that agency to exact revenge upon his "enemies" within 7.1 days.

    Y'see, I had him going for the easy bags of cash available by going on the fundagelical church speaking tour for the next 6-9 months. During that time, he'd have a ghostwriter pen "Wokeness Wounded Me, But Lord Trump Saved Me: One Man's Journey to Salvation through MAGA" which the GQP would buy 3 million copies of to hand out at their klan  rallies. The book tour would merge nicely w/ non-stop guest appearances on Fox, OAN, Newsmax, etc., where he could publicly fellate dotard. This would last until about the end of the first year of Trump's term so he'd likely be up for a cabinet post by that time since dotard will have begun firing those unqualified losers he'd nominated 12 months ago who didn't have the courage to hold the Constitution to his boil covered butt while wiping his ass with it.

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  7. TCM is in the heart of their 31 days of Oscars right now. Yesterday was something to behold, and if I didn't have an early start this morning, I could have binged for 10 hours straight. But man, when you look at these winners, the turd in the punch bowl is obvious.
    5PM Driving Miss Daisy
    7PM All the President's Men
    9PM China Syndrome
    11PM Network

  8. For every response to this art that condemns it, there will be five times as many that either praise it, hail it as lib tear provoker, or excellent trolling (aka "can't you take a joke"). Sad.
    I'm expecting to see that on t-shirts in the wild by next Wednesday. Grift don't stop.
  9. The Trump as a lit match in front of a room full of pissed off bombs cartoon is Pulitzer worthy. It's only become more relevant.

    When it was published during his first term I shared it in a group chat. Got called out by one particularly odious harpy I never really could stand. Severed what limited "friendship" I had with her. Never regretted it. She was the first MAGAt I disassociated from, and it's only become easier.

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  10. Any of the 3 broadcast news channels could--no, SHOULD--be doing at least a weekly if not nightly fact check on these purported DOGE savings. Just hammer away at the lies constantly. Have 60 Minutes do an expose and reveal their ridiculous math where 2+2= a billion.

    Instead, Musk and Co will just keep throwing out fantastically fake numbers that will be repeated over & over. If we're lucky we might get a humorous bit from Jon Stewart or John Oliver.

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  11. Buck who? I mean, I know our OL was mostly hammered dog shit for the better part of a decade, but what the hell was BB gonna do to improve the situation?


    And I wouldn't call him a flame out & don't mean to derail the intent of the thread, but fuck the off-season so I feel for guys like OJ McClintock. Classic "athlete" take that kept out growing his natural position but was never strong or capable enough to make a difference where he ended up.

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  12. I get the Eddie Bauer First Assents for less than $50 on Amazon Prime. Got four pairs. 
     
    CHIEF
    If you're a Costco member, they have a knockoff brand (Weatherproof?) that's damn near identical (I have both the EB and Costco version) for about twenty bucks. Too good of a deal not to have a couple pairs stashed away for emergency use.
  13. Yep. That’s what my playing partner and I got sloshed on while winning the Epic Fail Trophy for finishing last place at the Inaugural Shaggybevo (RIP) Open at Mo Willy, circa….fuck I can’t even remember. I only really recall getting cart stuck in mud and my buddy form tackling me on the 18th green. 
     
    for you old timers, I believe Snow Dog was one of our foursome. 
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    Epic day. I'm pretty sure I was behind you at the pro shop for check in. I broke the ice by announcing loudly "looks like a bunch of assholes are gonna play today."

    My friend who didn't even have a shaggy account was my partner so I was having to explain inside jokes to him the entire time. For some reason I decided not to drink anything that round. I chose... poorly. We were paired up with Blacklab & some guy who I think was his personal swing coach/CrossFit guru. There was a lot of flexing & stretching going on. Few jokes.

    Enjoyed the Franklin's afterwards & jawing with Jive Turkey. He's much taller than you'd think in person.
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