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  1. On 6/29/2025 at 8:14 PM, dcbc said:

    I did 3-1-1 last time I cooked spares and was pretty happy with the results.

     

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    I'm moving this direction.

    The last few times I've done 3-2-1 it was too long.  Not sure if my thermometer is off or what, but the ends of the rack were getting too dry.

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  2. 2 minutes ago, PGFrog said:

    5 miles you say? 

    Do you realize how many strip malls with vape/ cbd store, cell phone store, tanning/massage salon, and a gas station with a wall of six liners that could fit into that amount of space?

    I'm slightly exaggerating, but all you left off the list were white-ass Mexican restaurants and liquor stores.

  3. Just now, Iceman said:

    Yeah it's no Ankeny... yet.  
    I worked the area for about 3 months last year.  I also did the drive from Des Moines to Sioux Falls and they asked me what I thought.
    "It's real pretty.  I loved the farmland and homesteads."
    "No national folks ever say that.  How country are you?"
    "Enough..."

    Ankeny and Huxley are basically attached at this point.  If Ames had grown to the south as much as it's grown to the north and west the past 30 years, it would be one unbroken urban area already.

  4. 1 minute ago, DFW Horn said:

    Farmageddon on 8/23 from Ireland? Who lost a marquee home game, ISU or KSU?

    I hope the TV money and exposure is worth it.

    They did.  They come to Ames in '26, and then in '27 the game finally won't be played (unless we both make CCG).  It will be 5 years without Farmageddon in Manhattan.  A lot of KSU folks aren't real thrilled about it.

    This is nothing but a boon for us.

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  5. I could live in Ames again.  It's only 40 minutes to downtown Des Moines, and while Des Moines isn't a truly big city, it's really urban for it's size (metro around 800K).

    But I'm a small town guy.  I grew up on a farm between a town of 150 and a town of 20ish.  I live in a town of 3900 currently.  It takes an incredible level of isolation for me to feel truly isolated.

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  6. 7 hours ago, PGFrog said:

    I have been to both and there isn't much at either besides the schools.  

    Thought it was nicer to say that than the middle of fucking nowhere.  Not Pullman bad, but not much around them. 

     

    That’s what I like about those places.  You get that classic “college town” atmosphere because the community utterly revolves around campus.

    Ive been to TCU, and it’s a beautiful campus in a great city, but it’s a totally different experience than a college town.

  7. 50 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Big 12 coaches pick KSU and ISU as the title game matchup in Dallas

    Since the Big 12 discontinued the preseason media poll, On3 asked each coach to predict who would play in the league’s title game. The coaches were granted anonymity and could not vote for their own team.

    Kansas State led the way with eight votes, followed by Iowa State with seven, Arizona State had six and Texas Tech received five. TCU (three votes), Baylor (two votes) and Utah (one vote) were the other schools getting votes. Seven of the league’s 16 teams received votes.

    I just looked up how feasible moving the Big 12 CCG to Arrowhead would be in this scenario, but unfortunately the Chiefs are home that evening.

  8. A priest told me once that we don’t pray because God intercedes and gives you what ask for, but rather we pray to help focus ourselves on what’s important to us, in order to help us be better examples of Christ’s love.

    And I think way more people need to get that message on Sundays.

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  9. 21 minutes ago, LTbear said:

    Montana vs NDSU in the 2023 semifinals was one of the most fun games I've ever been to, at any level. 

    I very much enjoyed watching them beat Iowa and KSU

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  10. 1 hour ago, Mittens said:

    Same.  And we likely wouldn't have the ridiculous concentration of power programs there is today.  

    This would be true had you guys not left the Big 12 as well.

    TV wanted the power programs more concentrated and that wouldn’t have changed with a Pac 16.

  11. It would have failed, for many of the same reasons the Pac 12 failed

    Thats an insane cultural disparity, and all the shit you guys talk on Big 12 schools applies more so to the Pac schools.  Far away places that don’t care anywhere near as much about football.

    The SEC is the only place it ever made sense for UT and OU to go outside of the Big 12.

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  12. 3 minutes ago, stc said:

    people who go out of their way to point out "i have such diverse taste in music" are insufferable. oh wow, you like rap AND jazz. incredible! it's called being a music fan. other than your aunt franny who only listens to polka, actual music fans listen to a whole array of music. i've never once found someone with a record collection that only contains one genre. these must be the same people who think the weather in their state is special "if you don't like the weather in (insert state) just wait 5 minutes and it will change!". no shit, that's what the weather does everywhere. /rant

    While I completely agree with your general premise, I had a buddy who lived in SoCal for 5 years and somewhere after year 3 got sick and tired of the weather never fucking changing.

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