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Gil Bang

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  1. I'd put Axl ahead of DLR, but that's just me.
  2. The hobby lobby version would have "I play rhythm, Jesus plays lead" painted on it.
  3. Y'all misunderstand me. I don't hate the player, I hate the game. I think Martin should have kept their brand "pure". I don't blame anybody for finding something that they like and can afford.
  4. I'm just not cut out for the modern world. Nothing made outside of PA should ever have the Martin name.
  5. I fucking hate this relic bullshit. this ugly fucking thing is in worse "shape" than my '37 Gibson, which has oh...87 FUCKING YEARS ON THIS PLANET. I fucking hate this shit.
  6. Sorry to hear about Slorch. At the end of the day, he made a positive contribution here.
  7. Lucky bastard doesn't have "service for 16" in the drawer.
  8. James Garner once got in a road-rage dispute, and he fared about as well as Rockford.
  9. Gil Bang

    Getting old sucks

    This is my 2nd round. First time was in 2019. I have a terrific hand doc. He did the Xiaflex injection. So, he did the fairly painful injection in several locations in the hand. The hand turned black, formed big nasty blisters, etc. It was a mess. A few days later, you go in, he numbs the hand, and then manually "snaps" the fingers back in place. After that, it's several rounds of occupational therapy. When he did it, he told me "see you in a few years". It came back, but not nearly as severe. This time, it was just the pinky, but it was bent pretty severely. He offered to do surgery, but said it was strictly my choice, so I opted for the injection again. This time, when he did the snap, he also did a "needle cut" on one particularly nasty band of fascia. I haven't started therapy yet, but my hand is drastically improved. This round was much better than the first. One of the big problems with the first was that my skin had tightened in the claw shape, so when the fingers were straightened, it tore the flesh and I had nasty open wounds. Also, this time he waited 5 days between injection and manipulation. He said that FDA guidelines still say 2-3 days, but he went to a conference in Toronto, and other docs were reporting better outcomes with a longer wait, so he's doing 5 now. The doc told me that this condition is usually found in men (by a large percentage) in their late 40's and older, and almost always of Northern European extraction.
  10. PHOENIX — This winter, Kari Lake was facing a daunting reality: The voters who rejected her in her 2022 run for governor could now jeopardize her entire political future. If Lake — “Trump in heels,” as she has referred to herself — didn’t begin to quickly change the minds of those she had shunned or ridiculed, she could lose, again, in her 2024 Senate bid. “I have never thought of myself as divisive. But it’s not enough for ME to believe that. I need to prove it,” Lake wrote in a social media post in December, acknowledging the need to step away from her tendencies to make incendiary comments and broaden her appeal. Do you have a news tip? Let us know But with just over seven months until the election, several key Arizona Republicans tell NBC News that they believe Lake’s campaign is facing an increasingly uphill battle. “What I hear is, everybody has just resigned themselves that we’re going to be stuck with a Ruben Gallego — that’s what I hear from all the major players, the big-money people,” Shiree Verdone, a longtime GOP fundraiser in Arizona, said, referring to Lake’s Democratic Senate opponent. “I haven’t heard anyone say, ‘Kari Lake is going to win.’” Lake continues to deny that Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, tweeting this month about President Joe Biden: “81 million votes, my a--.” She continues to call her 2022 election loss “a sham,” promotes right-wing provocateurs like Laura Loomer, and hosts fundraising events with controversial political figures like Roger Stone at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. Since launching her Senate bid, Lake has set up meetings to mend relationships with other Republicans she cast aside during her run for governor, like Kathy Petsas, a former local party chair in Lake’s home legislative district. Lake’s campaign tweeted at her in 2022: “Kathy, You’re exactly the type of demographic that we feel no need to appeal to.” “I don’t know one person that she’s gotten on her side of the people who she offended,” Petsas said, suggesting Lake’s overtures have fallen flat. “There’s nobody from my circle that she’s gained, and she’s even alienated some previous supporters, too, who I know.”
  11. That Ueli Kunkel wrote some cool tunes for a fucking nihilist.
  12. This old white guy (and huge Chris Rock fan) really loved "Good Hair". I had no idea how much went into black women's hair.
  13. To clear the record: “Magnum” wasn’t part of Rockford. The Selleck character was “Lance White”
  14. I'm running out right now, but food for thought: it's easy to take the train from SD to both Angel Stadium and Dodger Stadium. The Anaheim stop is in the shadow of the stadium, and the dodgers run free bus service from Union Station to Chavez Ravine. I'll have more for you later.
  15. He's so old that he can't even remember who was Governor of "commiefornia" when "Rockford" came out. (hint)
  16. you're the asshole that went all political on a fucking TV thread. Go fuck yourself.
  17. wait 'till you see the episode about the "tort reform" governor in the wheelchair with millions in the bank from his lawsuit. That one's a hoot!
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