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  1. Time for an appointment at, say, Snook cemetery?
  2. didn't he walk after pushing?
  3. Doh. For my east and west mixed up.
  4. I guess I am too used to reading aggy screenshots. The same visit to aggy would be described by their mods in far rosier terms filled with Elko’s gravitational pull on the said recruit and pointless potshots at the overrated school to the east, not to mention berating the 2%ers on not getting onboard the roller coaster.
  5. That's not how middle age is defined. Typically, middle age range is 40~45 to 60~65 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age), with the breakup being 0~20 as teen and earlier, 20~40-45 as adulthood, 40-45 to 60-65 as middle aged and 65+ as old.
  6. My only close encounter with an athlete: This was in mid-90s (94 or 95) when we were having an all-day event at a Houston mosque and during mid-day prayers (~1:30pm), Hakeem Olajuwon walks in and I stand next to him during prayer. I don't see him at the afternoon (~4:30pm) prayers but he is there for the next (~7:30pm) one. One of my friends asks him where he was for the earlier one. Hakeem's response: "I was busy beating Spurs."
  7. Nowhere close. That was No. 1 OU, playing at OU, and a single loss. The Missouri debacle was against the worst conference team, playing at A&M, with a consensus pre-season #1 rank team, and 3 consecutive losses. It would be like losing to the 2003 0-8 ISU football team at home, three consecutive times, while having top 5 talent.
  8. And if we had Ricky or Bijan, we would have won the NC. And if we had Dicker or Tucker, we would have won the NC. And of course, if we had Colt or Vince, we would have won the NC.
  9. Based on very limited interactions with Aggies in the Bay Area (a total of 3 in last 20 years): it initiated with them getting to know that I went to UT and their first response is that they don't like what goes on in Austin and is said with a searching glance, as if to discern whether I am getting their drift and agreeing with them. When they see that I am (deliberately) not catching their drift and ascribing their question to mean UT's recent poor football season (and they have been plenty over the past 2 decades), they immediately put me down as the enemy. In other words, it is "othering" of UT/Austin in the fullest sense, politically, religiously, culturally, etc. The psychosis sets in when the enemy, fully in the evil camp, is somehow excelling in what they hold dear. This is like evil triumphing over good. The only way this can happen is that the evil is temporarily too powerful and the good will rise soon and vanquish it. Even if the temporary period lasts decades and centuries, good is axiomatically good and evil, however successful, will always be evil.
  10. I think athletic bigs like KD and Hakeem have a decided advantage against the edge cases such as Steph and Shaq. Against Steph on offense, they will just dominate the basket and if they miss, they will be playing volleyball by themselves. On defense, they can defend the basket and make him shoot from beyond 10 feet. Can Steph shoot >70% beyond the free throw line? Against Shaq, they have the range to shoot from middle range to pull Shaq away from the basket for an occasional drive. On the other hand, Shaq, starting his possession from beyond the 3-point line (I am assuming), can he consistently back his way to the basket without occasionally turning it over since he has no shooting range? KD/Hakeem have clear advantage against both types. MJ has athleticism, Lebron has strength and height, KD has reach and height and Hakeem has footwork and height. I chose MJ for sheer athleticism and KD for extending the range and defending the basket.
  11. Is this a pre-season "paid" game? Grizzlies are being treated like little kids.
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