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  1. For all the folks advocating Hattie B's, how long did you actually have to wait to get in?

    I have a pathological distaste for lines, so I didn't even really bother, but a buddy of mine tried (he needed to sober up from day drinking) and after standing in line for 30 minutes without moving, and still having most of a block to get in the door, he bailed and came back to the bar we were at.

    I'd love to try it next time I'm there, but fuck waiting that long.

  2. 2 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

    Same here, for cars. The only new motorized vehicle I ever owned was a 250cc scooter, and it pushed close to $4,000. But you don't want to skimp on quality with scooters.

    I did buy a new car for my wife. It was a strategeric choice-- she had never owned a new one. Her ex-husband, who made and probably still makes 5 times what I do, would always buy himself a new car and put her in the hand-me-down. I go around doing the opposite of whatever he would do, and it makes everybody happy.

    I also bought my wife a decent vehicle.  Not new, but newer than I'd buy for myself.

  3. I've only been to Ohio twice.

    Once was on the way to Morgantown in 2013 for the Riot Bowl.  My cousin and I drove from north Iowa to Cleveland, where a buddy was flying in from Des Moines (he had to be in Cleveland for work the following week).  We had 4 hours to spare, so we got a hotel to get some sleep.  The clerk at the hotel desk demanded to get his entire license plate number, which he didn't have memorized and didn't want to go back out for.  There were about 10 cars there, and my cousin had Arky plates at the time (had been living in Little Rock earlier that year for a work project).  He said to the clerk "It's a VW Passat with Arkansas plates.  I'm guessing it's the only one in the lot."  But the clerk wasn't having it.  Eventually it escalates to the point where I'm pulling my cousin back from the desk because he's ready to go over the partition and start swinging.

    By the time he calms down, we sleep for about 3 hours and go get my buddy at the Cleveland airport.  The whole place just looks crumbly.  Afterwards, we go to a Dunkin Donuts to grab coffee, and notice that the cop cars parked there all had rusted out bumpers.  That Rust Belt shit is literal.

    The other was this fall for the ISU/Akron game in Akron.  It was kinda dumpy, but we had fun.  Found some good blue collar burger/beer joints.  Had a bit of a run-down East Coast feel to me.  People were fairly friendly, and Yuengling was cheap.  

    It's a mixed bag in my experience.  Nothing that truly offended me, but nothing really stuck out as worthy of a return either.

  4. In the year between undergrad and law school, after my idiot roommates ran up a huge heating bill in our drafty shit hole house during one of the worst winters in Central Iowa history, I insisted we run the heat just high enough to keep the pipes from freezing.  I slept in a snowmobile suit some nights because it got down to below 40 in the house, but fuck it, better than paying more in gas.

    This was the same year where I was working for a lawn mowing/landscaping company for spring/summer/fall and working in a factory in the winter.  I'd get paid on Fridays, and by Thursday night, I'd be down to my last $10.  Rather than buy food, I'd go to Mickey's (still there on Welch Ave in Ames) and buy $.75 wells and eat free hot dogs and popcorn.

    The first time I took my wife out in Ames (she was going to Northern Iowa at the time), we went to Lumpy's, a complete shit hole basement bar.  I asked if she wanted a beer, and when I came back to the table with $.50 PBR tall boys, she was not impressed.

    I sublet my apartment out one summer that I was back working on the farm.  When I came back in August, I found my bed sheets crumpled up in my closet, wet, and molded.  I threw them out, and rather than buy new sheets, I slept in a sleeping bag on top the mattress.

    I've never paid more than $4,000 for my personal vehicle.

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  5. At some point, the lack of Big 12 players in the NFL has as much to do with the NFL as the Big 12.

    Look at Iowa.  They put a fuck ton of players in the NFL, and 90% of the time they're between 6-9 wins in the worst P5 division, routinely struggling against teams outside the Big 10.  But they're loaded with NFL talent because they run NFL schemes and NFL teams are very willing to pass over talent in favor of guys who played in a similar system.
     

    I get why people use it as a measuring stick, but you don't have to look that far to see it's not a great one either.

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  6. I'll second Yazoo Brewing.

    If you don't want to spend 3 hours of your life waiting in line for Hattie B's, we stumbled across a place called Party Fowl real close to Yazoo that had delicious hot chicken.  It's probably not as good as Hattie's, but I was in and out in 45 minutes and had some good beer in the process.

  7. 2 minutes ago, Scholz said:

    OU has had plenty of chances at a national title.  Just because you fall on your face when the lights come on the big stage isn't the fault of the Big XII.

    "The perception".  Yeah, got it.  Keep ignoring that 4 Big XII teams last year had a top 20 SOS.  Just like the SEC.  4.  Facts not what "perception you feel".

     

    I think I have your position now though.  The Big XII is shitty even though it hasn't caused your team (which you don't care about) any harm in the least.  Got it.

     

    Let's not forget that using such crazy metrics like "strength of schedule" and "on-field results" the Big 12 isn't shitty at all.

  8. 1 minute ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

     

    It's about this  being a shitty conference. what else would it be about?

    When the GOR expires, there will be a mass exodus from the big 12.

     

    i dont care about any of those teams who left the big 12. or rivalries with them. 

    I'll take that bet about the GOR expiration exodus.

    Who is leaving, where are they going, and why are they going there?

    The Big 12 is really well compensated, and the members schools all seem pretty damn content.  The mega conferences are seeing reduced fan interest, and in the case of the ACC and Pac 12, they're actually making less money per school than the Big 12.  This isn't 2010.  There isn't irrational butthurt driving administrative decisions, and there just isn't incentive to leave.  Maybe something changes significantly in the next 3-4, but I doubt it.

  9. 3 minutes ago, utee94 said:

    I can understand Sooner fans missing their rivalry with Nebraska and blaming that on the B12 conference.  I'm a fan of neither school but I always liked that rivalry and I miss it, too.  

    Maybe some Sooners also miss Colorado and Mizzou?  Although I don't know any that have stated that, to be honest.

    If OU and Nebraska had wanted to protect that rivalry, they could have.

    When Nebraska started pushing to leave, no one really tried to work with anyone.  As much power as those 2 schools wielded, they could have easily set up cross-division protected rivalries.

  10. 2 minutes ago, Scholz said:

    Give me facts?

    OK, here you go.

    No I don't like those.  It doesn't feel right.  I'll go with my gut.

    Sounds like a plan.

    You just nailed America in 2018.  You win the soul-crushing realization that this is the way the majority of human beings respond to the world at large.

  11. If Lincoln Riley hadn't curled up in the fetal position and shit himself in the 2nd half of that UGA game, OU probably wins the National Championship last year.

    The idea of them switching conferences at this point is just fucking ridiculous, and I really can't see their admins doing it.  None of the schools who left in '10-'11 were having anywhere near the success OU has had over the past 5 years.

  12. 1 hour ago, Lloyd Christmas said:

    I can appreciate that- but i think it matters to teh recruits too.  They look at sec schedules for example and they see alabama, auburn, lsu, georgia, florida on the schedule.  The same players being recruited by Ou and Tx and we got iowa state, kansas state, baylor. I can see how negging the big 12 is helping.  Sure Texas and OU has the stones to schedule big time OOC matchups but that's once a year, and the rest of the schedule looks like pop warner football.  But hey at least the AD  raked in 187 million last year. 

    This sounds like an idiot's perception of nonsense. 

    OU has made 2 of the last 3 playoffs.  They did in 2015 despite having a loss to a team with a losing record.  They have the #3 recruiting class for 2019.  They make more money than most schools in the country.

    How is the Big 12 hurting them in any way?  Changing conference won't make their schedule more laden with blue bloods.  If it does, they'll probably lose more games.  How is playing Purdue/Indiana/Northwestern, Mississippi State/Mizzou/Vanderbilt, or Washington State/Oregon State/Utah any different than ISU/KSU/KU?  Besides being farther away, I guess.

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  13. The Upper Iowa is a bit of a hidden gem.  It was in consideration for being a National Wild & Scenic River in the 80's, but I think in the end the local land owners fought it off.  I posted a lot of pics of our kayak excursions over the years in the old Outdoor Photo Thread on the Shag.

    Northeast Iowa (along with Southeast Minnesota, Western Wisconsin, and a tiny bit of NW Illinois) is part of the Driftless Area.  Basically, the glaciers that steam rolled most of the northern plains missed this area, which is split by the Mississippi, and left a landscape of rugged, forested hills and valleys that drain towards the Mississippi.  It has the appearance of a poor man's Ozarks, I guess.  I live right on the edge of this, and there's a pretty dramatic and obvious difference as you drive off the plains and into the valleys/hill country.

    If the floatilla ever comes north, I'll host you fuckers and get you on the best stretches of river.  Beer and brats will flow in abundance.

  14. 16 minutes ago, PatrickMcHorn said:

    Looks nice man. I can't fathom wearing a hoodie right now. Does not compute.
     

    It ended up nice later in the day.  Iowa weather is weird.  In late April we had a foot of snow.  In late May it was 98 degrees.  First Saturday of June, it was 65 (that wasn't the high for the day, but that's where it was when we went out).  It's not uncommon to see 30 degree swings in a couple of hours, let alone over a couple of days.  I can't tell you how many times I've started the day in a hoodie, and switched to shorts and a t-shirt by noon or run the heat and the AC in a car in the same day.

    At least it looks like things are normalizing in the 10 day forecast (highs in the mid to low 80's).

     

  15. Finally got the long-delayed first kayak run of the year in on Saturday.  It was a short trip, as rain was expected in the early afternoon and it was a little chilly (mid 60's) compared to the previous weekend (mid 90's).  Water was good, and my wife got to try her new kayak out, which did well.  About 5 miles on the Upper Iowa River between Kendallville and Bluffton, IA.

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  16. 1 hour ago, Jhawk said:

    That is awesome.  Really glad to see he is coming back and will be following him all year.  He is probably one of the most "NCAA ready" guards I've ever seen from a body and skill standpoint.  ISU should be on the rise next year.  Pressure is going to be on Prohm to be in the top half of the league and make the tourney with everyone he has coming back.

    We have a talented squad.  If we don't dance, Prohm will be in trouble.

  17. Just now, Vic Mackey said:
    18 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:
    I don't believe this for a fucking second.

    Name a few others that would be mainstream. I might have heard some that i didn't know it was him. But that's the only song that I definitely know that's his.

     

     

     

     

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