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GhostOfTomJoad

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  1. Yeah, but Mar-A-Lago is worth $1.8 billion or more, libtard.
  2. Holy shit did they nail it, other than making the man & woman in Oklahoma good looking with full sets of teeth.
  3. In the Esquire article they indicate it was Ray Charles speaking up and saying "ring the bell, Quincy" loud enough to be heard by most that led to Quincy regaining control & focusing the group on the task at hand. Did that make the doc? I can't imagine how much weight Ray Fucking Charles could throw in a room just by speaking up.
  4. He's in his afterglow during those 6-12 hours.
  5. Baylor is heading back to their roots.
  6. That's just the kinda hot take slorch uses to keep him warm while tech wanders the cold, desolate wasteland of irrelevance (aka "Lubbock").
  7. They all seem to have moved to "inflation has made all of my gains meaningless."
  8. Two key Niners players go down on non-contact plays.
  9. Expect plenty of McCaffrey on this drive.
  10. Chiefs line isn't moving the niners D.
  11. Niners will kick themselves if they don't get at least a fg out of this.
  12. Mahomet with the duck for a pick. Hahahaha
  13. Great start to the 2nd half. Lulz
  14. False start out of the 2 minute warning. Lulz
  15. I hear ya, and since I'm only the SIL (least tenured at that) I keep my mouth shut when it comes to her finances. I'm here to support my wife as she tries to manage it. Her older brother is the Chosen Child and both parents have always deferred to his input. Since their dad died 3 years ago his influence has only grown. The sister is almost as much as a holy roller as their mother so whenever their mom says "God instructed me" she clams up and bows her head in servitude. The MIL did well when she sold the old ranch. For the first time in her life she was flush (the FIL was a financial idiot and unemployed by choice by his mid 40s). She bought the place she's in now w/ cash, paid for the renovations, and oh yeah, replaced her car twice inside of 2 years with newer (but smaller...yay) models. She should die with plenty of money in the bank which makes the reduced property taxes as a reason for moving ring hollow. So thankfully, her money shouldn't be an issue. She's agreed on a price for her friend's place and it's less than what she should get for her place. The bigger concern is her moving farther away from the amenities a woman her age needs. The more I look at it, the more I see the fingerprints of her son influencing a lot of this. The ranch community has features that he exclusively would benefit from. He may be positioning himself for a great inheritance while my wife & his sister get the shaft. That was the what their father intended to happen originally, BTW. But after his death & the MIL's relocation her will was supposed to have been updated for a clean, 3-way split. I'll let the other BIL dig into that deeper (he has zero qualms about putting his nose into the finances). Fun days ahead...
  16. MIL announced via group text to family last night that God has told her to move to a house on 5 acres in the middle of a working ranch community outside of Kerrville. Now, it wasn't even 2 years ago that God had instructed her to sell the 250 acre ranch north of Harper and move into an idyllic, gated 55+ community in Kerrville. All the family applauded that decision and her being 3 minutes from an HEB (when it's open) and 5 minutes to doctors, hospital, etc. Plus she was getting far more frequent visits from her kids (we're the closest in Austin, the others are in Houston and Dallas) which she appreciated because the house + Kerrville were just more inviting. This was her "dream house" that she was so thankful God had provided for her. Welp, apparently her god is easily bored & wants her to move her senior citizen butt 20-30 minutes farther out into the sticks. Which means we get to help pack up her shit again & help her get settled. She'll be farther away from her friends & essential services which is a concern at her age. My wife sent a WTF text to her sis and bro last night and asking if they knew anything about this. Both responded with "it's mom, what are you going to do when God gives her instructions" kinda shrug. When pressed about why she no longer likes her "dream house" she offers taxes and not being able to see the night sky as brilliantly as she could at the old ranch. She just had a new stone patio w/ gas fire pit installed that we all gathered around drinking wine & marveling at the beautiful sunset from the bluff above the river at Thanksgiving. So only my wife is raising the concern about their 76 YO mom making massive decisions due to instructions from god. Moving from a one-story, senior-designed home that she's pumped $150K into in renovations over the last 12 months to a larger, two-story house on acreage she will have to pay to have maintained that a church friend of hers is trying to unload should be setting off warning alarms everywhere. All I know is that this means I get to help re-pack and move all of her #%^$@ books and knick-knacks again, and then spend countless hours on the phone being her remote IT support again.
  17. Cross-posting from the thread on this in Music, but if you liked the doc then you'll probably enjoy this read: https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a32868751/we-are-the-world-history-interview/
  18. Esquire magazine did a great write up on this a few years ago. It probably touches on much of the stuff in the Netflix doc. At least I hope so, because I canceled NF and don't want to re-up just to watch this. Was Billy Joel in the doc at all? He's always good for a solid quote and unvarnished take. And somewhere Darryl Hall is still telling anyone next to him that he had the best voice and performance out of the entire group.
  19. I fell asleep to the Joy of Painting last night. Ol' Bob Ross ain't gonna leave any mistakes, just happy accidents and a trail of crimson paint.
  20. Fuck cancer, but Kristofferson said about all that needs to be said when it comes to the subject matter.
  21. So the question is, does Green Bay draft/trade for 1st ballot entrants to the Cunts HOF, or do they develop them through a year's long regimen of flat beer & cheese curds?
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