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Beantown Express 2.0

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  1. Died, no, but we had no power for the last 4 hours in my neighborhood which sucked. Not just no power but no cell service/internet/texting available right when the tornado sirens were going off up here in DFW which for the first time in the 15 years I have been in this house I felt totally disconnected from the world when I really wanted to get some weather news. I guess I need to invest in some emergency radio thingy for the next time this happens.
  2. I am guessing most on here aren't familiar with this, but I grew up eating Shrimp and Lobster Sauce, Boston Style. I was taught this dish came in NY style which was a white sauce and Boston style which is a dark sauce. Really simple dish but quite delicious. The key to making it like they do in Boston is using Molasses in the sauce. I will put a link to the recipe I use from an old restaurant in Boston called Kowloon's. I don't add the egg and I use a black bean garlic sauce that I buy at the grocery store Asian section. Once the sauce is done just add the shrimp and cook a few minutes until done. You can also add cooked lobster pieces to this sauce instead of shrimp. Throw some sliced green onions on top when serving. This is a really popular dish in Boston Chinese restaurants and the best way I can describe it is it's like a ground pork chili consistency but with shrimp in it also (it doesn't taste like chili though). Serve it over roast pork fried rice and add some chow mein noodles on top and it's fantastic. Kowloon's Lobster Sauce (From Kowloon's of New England Ma) Recipe - Food.com
  3. Blues Brothers 2 and Caddyshack 2. .......Wait, what is the title of this thread?
  4. I posted the above in November on this thread. The source is my nephew who is a FSU alum and he was at the FSU-Miami game in a box with the big wigs for FSU and their Alumni Sports leadership (like the Longhorn Foundation executives I guess) and they flat told him all of this about the ACC and the infighting going on of where FSU should go. Maybe what he was told is starting to happen.
  5. Well, the couch story gets worse. We are moving in a few weeks and the couches I own are too big for the living room in the new house (they are the wrong color also) so now I have to get new couches anyways. Been looking at every furniture store the last few weeks, and everything is crazy expensive. Even the cheap stores are charging a lot for a couch that will probably fall apart in a few years. I went to Havertys, and they wanted $6K for a sofa and love seat. I then went online, and all the reviews of that particular couch say it looks like shit after a few months and the fabric starts to get beads in it like an old sweater. One of the reviews said they complained to Havertys, and they were told to just buy one of those sweater shaver things and use it on the couch. Fuck if I'm paying $6K for couches and then have to shave them on a weekly basis.
  6. Sad to hear, but he is a great man who lived a great long life. When he was running for President in 1975/1976 and I was only 5 or 6 years old my parents took me to a small rally at the Diplomat hotel in FL and I shook his hand while he was leaving. No idea why but I still remember that moment all these years later, but I can still picture him coming up to me and me reaching out my hand. RIP
  7. I would think the diplomatic problems would stem from their kidnapping of an earthling in order to harvest his human horn. The upper one.
  8. Just curious but are you a Chiefs or tech fan? As I said in previous posts it's not that there was a hold there it's that I feel the call was terrible within the context of how the game was called. The fact you bring up Lane Johnson jumping every play and no calls shows the refs swallowed their whistles the entire game for both teams until that one defensive holding call. Unless you believe that both teams defenses played perfect pass coverage the entire game and didn't hand fight/hold/touch the receivers until that one play when it was so egregious it just had to be called.
  9. All the cowboys and chiefs/tech fans think it was a great call. Almost everyone that doesn't have a dog in the fight feels it should have been a no call. Your point about calling something in a vacuum makes no sense because it seems for the entire game they chose not to make those calls. Same goes for both offensive lines and holding. They let them play in the Super Bowl for some reason and don't make a lot of calls. They did the same last night but then on the most crucial play they chose to do something different than they have all night.
  10. I agree mostly with your post, but I think the bigger issue isn't was it a hold or wasn't it (I think it was a very soft call personally). The question is, did they call the entire game the same way. For the other 58 minutes of that game are we to believe that both teams played perfect pass defense with zero PI's or Defensive holds and then this was the only time either team committed a foul? I saw numerous times on both teams thorughout the game that they could have called a penalty but they were "letting them play", which is fine. The bottom line is the refs allowed both teams to play physical all night and swallowed their whistles the entire game until that call. They only called penalties that had to be called like false starts or offsides and let the players do what they wanted except when the game came down to one play and then they inserted themselves. I can't believe you all are making me argue for that piece of shit Eagles team.
  11. He won’t come close. Not because of Mahomes but the team surrounding him will have to be remade over and over which is pretty impossible. Plus he will have another coach at some point since Reid is already pretty old. He could pull a Lebron and switch teams 2-3 times to other stacked teams but I don’t think that will happen.
  12. How many Defensive holding and PI were called the entire game on either team? The refs let them play and both teams played physical like that the entire game but on the one crucial play where they could literally end the game they make that call which is bullshit. By the way, I could care less which of those two shit teams one the game. The ref robbed the fans of a great finish where who knows which team wins the game.
  13. They told me I want to avoid a jumbo loan as the rates are much higher.
  14. Thanks. It seems like I have to do a jumbo loan to start with though for a month or two until my house sells but I don't want that long term so hopefully there is a way around that.
  15. Can you explain this to me like I’m a second grader? I literally just got news that my offer was accepted on a new house. I was planning on putting a bunch down but still had a sizeable loan since I wasn’t taking the equity out of my current house as my offer was not contingent on me selling my current home. I was told I could re finance or do something else a month or two later once my current home sells and dump the equity into this new home as to have a very small mortgage going forward versus a jumbo type loan. Am I now not able to do this? I will hang up and listen.
  16. It's not rock but if I wanted that 1970s feel for a road trip I would add this song even though it's country. I would also put some Coors light in my trunk to make it feel like I was bootlegging East of the Mississippi.
  17. He just came back last year to get his wife to leave so he could spend the rest of his life banging other super models.
  18. sorry but confused on that. You give back the 1 and the 3 to the customer?
  19. Not sure if this is the correct thread but I needed some help with a realtor quesiton. I am considering putting an offer in on a house in my neighborhood and the realtor that is handling the sale of this house has a big agency with multiple realtors under her. So one of her people is handling the sale of the house and she said if we use another one of her realtors for the sale of our house she would cut the commissions or something form 3% down to 2.5%. Is this a big deal? She made it sound like by using the same realtor brokerage for both ends would help us get the new house possibly since they all work together. She did say one works for the seller and one for us the buyer and they don't talk as that would be illegal. Unfortunately, this agency/agent is the biggest in our neighborhood and controls a lot of the sales/market here for some reason. Any advice would be appreciated.
  20. This has been a game changer for my putting.
  21. By far my favorite Dire Straits song and this video is not bad either.
  22. RIP. She is reunited with the Big Ragoo in Heaven right now I guess. .
  23. I was just on a Celebrity cruise in the Caribbean from Xmas to New Years on the Reflection. I was with my entire extended family which we have never done before so it was pretty fun. The big negative was the dining room seemed understaffed due to either covid or cutbacks. The waiters and staff were working their asses off but there just wasn't enough of them so service really sucked. I am looking forward to my July cruise in Iceland/Norway/ Belgium/Netherlands on NCL Primo with the wife and kid. Never done NCL so hopefully it doesn't suck too bad.
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