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  1. My mom tried to make homemade mac and cheese once.  It got all curdled and disgusting.  It was bad.

    My dad wouldn't let any food get wasted, and he was making us eat it for lunch.  My brother spit it up on his plate in a fake demonstration of how disgusted he was, and my dad made him eat the regurgitated mac and cheese, which made him almost legitimately puke.

  2. 4 hours ago, HouTex said:

    This was thoroughly discussed on the old site. Mayo only has a few uses. BLTs, cole slaw, tartar sauce, roumalade. Not much else.

    Potato salad.  There are some solid flavored aiolis out there, but I believe aioli technically isn't mayo because it uses olive oil.

    Mayo is gross as a straight up condiment, but it can be effectively employed as a binder ingredient if it's taste is masked by the stuff it's used with.

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  3. On second thought, don't hire Pelini.

    I can't take any more Snyder.  I'm praying that we win an improbable, come-from-behind, ref-assisted Farmageddon this Thanksgiving, and Snyder evaporates in a cloud of dust at the end.

    In all likelihood, he'll announce his retirement before the game, we'll blow a 21 point lead, and he'll get every fucking call down the stretch.  You know, the usual.

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  4. 12 hours ago, Walden Ponderer said:

    Honestly, I don't have the first fucking clue why "down and out" programs don't go this route. Triple option, wing-T, just something different that you can recruit to specifically and give yourself a niche chance of succeeding, rather than trying to beat out the established programs on their own terms. Seems axiomatic to me that Kansas is not going to get better by trying to do the things that the established schools are already doing -- why would any recruit choose them if they are not different in some way?

    It's not exactly triple option, but a big part of why our offense has improved, IMO, has to do on an increased focus in running the ball, and using a ton of play action in the passing game as opposed to trying to be a more air-raid style of offense.  Campbell knew we couldn't get ahead by trying to do the same thing as the rest of the league while getting mostly 2nd tier athletes.

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  5. Shiflett has a new album coming out this year, just a year after "West Coast Town", which was one of my favorites last year.  Pretty stoked.

    Every once and awhile I see people who act like they hate Grohl/FF.  Those people are trying too hard to be edgy.  Even if you're not that into their music, I can't imagine how any music fan wouldn't appreciate their enthusiasm, vigor, and general likability.  The whole band is cool as shit, and they're always championing the cause of lesser known artists, and doing as much as they can to bring great music to as many people as possible.

     

  6. 18 minutes ago, JimmyHoffa said:

    44K average out of 50K capacity with no sellouts. 

    All while being the only D1 (let alone P5) school in their state and being located within a Top 15 largest metro area.

    There aren't many schools whose stadium is smaller than their student body, but they make that list.

  7. 21 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    So what's the over/under on how much longer Todd Snider will be alive?  Jeez.  He's always had demons but it doesn't appear to be an improving condition.

    Recent videos have looked better than a couple years ago.  

    When HWA made their last album (2016?), he seemed withered away and out of his god damn mind.  I had kinda thought Todd might be the next Keef, but he looked rough there.  I remember him giving an interview where he said he wasn't drinking, but doing a ton of acid all the time.  Like with the tone that this was some kind of improvement.

    It was like a diabetic saying they're giving up red meat.  He seems less fucked up recently and in general better overall health.  Who knows.  His real battle is with pain killers, and that shit isn't easy to get past.  And it'll kill you pretty quick.

  8. 1 hour ago, Jhawk said:

    Realistically, you want to go after a Pelini or a Schiano.  We need someone that is as disgraced as our program is so they can both build their reputations together.  I'd even take the fat fucking retard at this point. We need someone who will bring discipline and organization to the team. 

    The AD and coach are saying on sports radio that we cannot compete because we don't have a full field indoor facility and the wind hampers our practice abilities.  That was literally said on live radio a month ago.  We don't play well because we practice with windy conditions.  Someone must have told the AD (who never goes to football games but sits from row for basketball) we play our games in a dome.

    Pelini would be a good hire.

  9. 1 hour ago, Jhawk said:

    This is the worry.  Our chancellor has shown nothing but support for Zenger.  A guy who's job is 100% tied to the success of Beaty.  My worry is that Zenger pulls the trigger quickly and without warning on Beaty.  Then elevates our DC (Bowen) who Zenger wanted as coach before beaty.  If that happens then our pushover chancellor probably won't fire Zenger.  Then if we somehow win a game with Bowen as HC (Bowen is statistically the worst DC of all time.. seriously... he is given his tenure as a DC) Zenger will look like a genius because a steaming pile of crap won 1 game.  Based on the UT game in 2016 that will get Bowen a 5 year deal and we will b estuck with Zenger for another 5 years while we win a total of 8-10 games during that time.  Zenger cannot be allowed to make any decisions because he cannot elavuate the program without bias at this point. Since that is the case there is no logical reason for him to even be around right now but he is.  Which is evidence that the chancellor doesn't have a clue what he is doing.

    Wasn't Bowen the interim coach when you beat us and tore down the goal posts a few years back?

  10. Is there some young KU alum coaching somewhere?

    I feel like that or bringing back Mangino is their only hope at this point.  But maybe it really is the deal with the devil that they made to dominate in basketball.

  11. 16 hours ago, BlueGreySky said:

    Both states would be better off.

    Waco is God's way of punishing Texas for its hubris.

    Sort of like how KU football is God's way of punishing KU for basketball.

    Yin and yang.  Time is a flat circle.

  12. 33 minutes ago, G650 said:

     

    I understand the feeling, I was off the bike for over 6 months due to all sorts of stuff, life mostly. 12 weeks in and I'm just now feeling barely reasonable.

     

     

    To me, the key is really knowing the roads and their rhythms. And it's not something you can get from Google maps, you have to actually know them. 

    Also, I spend a lot of time riding at 4:30 in the morning, which helps.

    Agreed completely.  I only road ride on roads that I've driven frequently, and like you said, know the traffic rhythms.  I tend to pick non-primary roads with low traffic.

  13. On 4/13/2018 at 11:09 PM, gsoda3 said:

    what lunacy is a marian and will scarlet marriage. 

    Yeah, that's just a garbage angle for a manufactured conflict that never existed in any version of this story.

    I thought the Kevin Costner/Morgan Freeman/Christian Slater/Hans Gruber Robin Hood was the shit when I was a kid.  I saw it recently and couldn't help but laugh at how cheesy it seems as an adult.  Still, it was the catalyst for a lot of adventures in the woods on our farm, and my brother, cousin, and myself hurting each other with sticks.

  14. On 4/15/2018 at 12:07 PM, Chuychanga said:

    I’m a mountain biker turned roadie turned back mountain biker.  Part of it is my own ADD and losing interest in things after immersing myself into them for a few years.  But part of it is safety-driven too.  I’ve had too many close calls on Austin roads.  I still keep up with my roadie buddies but I ride alone on trails now or occasionally with a group on a night ride in the dark.  

    I get skittish with road biking as well.  I'm lucky to have a ton of paved trails, and that's where I do almost all of my solo riding, and about 2/3rds of my group riding.  The main exception is my old man and I ride a 40 mile loop past some of our farms once a week come summer, but that's in the flatlands where you can hear cars coming from miles away, and they can see you.  Never felt uncomfortable in that scenario.

  15. I was fascinated by this, but ultimately felt it left a lot on the table.  I was expecting more exploration and the darkness and evil that was clearly lurking throughout.  The intimidation, the poisoning, etc.  Like when they commented that they had found the lab, they didn't really follow up on that even after it became clear that the cult had been identified as the poisoners.

    I do think that early on, the cult would have kept to themselves if left alone, and I don't have much issue with that as a whole.  However, they quickly went from sympathetic sex cult to obvious sociopaths very quickly.

    Agree with whomever else said the attorney seemed like a douche who's unwilling to acknowledge that he just wanted to runaway and bang a lot of chicks.

  16. Lorrie is the girl in Tulsa.  The Mercury puts her there.  The line in Bird Hunters "if you'd married that girl, you'd married her family, you dodged a bullet my friend" references the fact that Lorrie's family hates the narrator of Good Lord Lorrie, whom I believe is the subject (but not narrator) of the The Bird Hunters.

    I think the narrator of The Bird Hunters is also the narrator of Down Here, and that the subject of all these songs (the guy involved with Lorrie)  is a slightly fictionalized Felker.

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