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  1. Nebraska had one reason to be hopeful before yet another long, cold, bitter winter: their women providing them some oride in the form of a championship in volleyball

    Oh well. Texas--for the umpteenth time--was significantly better in every facet of the game. Our women get to celebrate their championship for a 2nd consecutive year while enjoying the spoils & comforts that co.e with being a winner in Austin.

    Fuck off, corn.

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  2. 13 minutes ago, runthebone said:

    That was some weak ass shit

    Wonder what it's like to cheer for Joe Mixon.  Must be like having soul cancer.

    I'll raise a toast the day he has a career ending injury. POS deserves a compound fracture that makes Theismann's break look like a hang nail.

  3. 7 hours ago, Dennis Taylor said:

    I worked at a college as a janitor even though I was smarter than anyone that went to school there. Sometimes I'd see a equation halfway done on a professor's blackboard and I'd just figure it out

    It's not your fault.

    It's not your fault.

     

    OK, fuck that. But in the summer of '88--3 days after I'd graduated from HS--I got a job a summer job as a custodian at the company my old man worked for. They had a program where HS grads and college students could get a 3 month job doing the shit that's now farmed out to subs across the land: mailroom, cafeteria, security, janitorial, etc. You pretty much had to be at least a sophomore in college to get the security gig which was the best: highest pay, plenty of OT, get paid to do homework. I didn't start UT until the fall so I was stuck cleaning floors and emptying the trash. Which wasn't so bad, really.

    But I came on about 6 weeks before their new, massive campus was opening up just north of Tumbleweed hill. Which was out in the middle of BFE back then. 1.2 million square feet of still under construction R&D space. Our first job? Clean the bathrooms. All 32 sets of them. This is when I discovered that construction workers can apparently piss and shit anywhere, at any height or angle imaginable. They didn't care that the plumbing wasn't working. If there was a urinal, commode, sink or fucking water fountain it was a repository for bodily fluids. Additionally, they liked instructing the foremen they hated the most how they should suck their dicks, fuck their mothers, and eat shit & die in english, spanish and/or spanglish by writing it on the walls...in their own shit. Quite a feat, actually.

    I was 18, 6'1 and 165 lbs soaking wet and I couldn't wrap myself in enough Tyvek and gloves. We used every industrial strength cleaning chemical known to man to try and clean that shit. There were 2 or 3 other kids like me, plus a handful of "professional" janitors who were probably about 35 but looked like they were 90 to us. They'd walk into any spot without a fucking bit of PPE on because that would make it harder for them to smoke their cigs. 

    I spent a solid month scraping, cleaning and washing away shit. On the bright side, I was making $9/hr which was a king's ransom for a HS kid with a fake ID in those days. The place had multiple locker rooms (which we cleaned first and were kept spotless). We'd work 3P - 11P, clean up,  and could get from Four Points to Pearls in 15 minutes. 6th Street wasn't much longer of a drive. 

    In retrospect, that might have been my best job. The shit I dealt with then was a lot more honorable and direct than the corporate bullshit I spent the following 35+ years being covered in.

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  4. My aggy BIL is filling his own jizz jar over the Moffitt hire. He's been drooling about him for years and as recently as this Sept 9th--before aggy lost to Miami and we beat Alabama that--he was telling me that Texas blew it by not hiring Moffitt and we'd never be physical enough for the SEC. Lulz

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  5. On 9/18/2023 at 10:13 PM, Burt said:

    So I was bored tonight and just scrolling though the Roku app.  Saw a news channel from DFW and thought, "sure, lets see the crazy shit going on down in Texas".  About 30 seconds in, this monster popped up on my screen. Fitlump in on TV 20230918_205007.thumb.jpg.bac5967613396a360b7870042fe1f58e.jpgall the way up here in Montana.

    Repping you for that awesome Samsung PNF8500 plasma and the fact that it's still running! I loved mine until the power supply went tits up. Still the sexiest integrated stand on a TV ever.

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  6. Ahh, a true Irishman to the bone. Nicely done, Bono. And I misread your original post, JJ, and thought you joined your friends in Chicago for this quarterly get together, or at least on occasion. I was kinda jealous of that level of friendship.

  7. Definitely a cool pic, @jimmyjazz More details, please, on how this happened. Bono just walked in, saw how awesome y'all were and said "I want to take a selfie with you cool dudes"? And I realize it's all camera perspective, but he almost looks taller than most of your crew which would make y'all a bunch of liliputians.

     

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