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Napoleon

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  1. We didn’t have cable, but on a moment’s notice, when a friend (who was a Grateful Dead & Drug Taking Enthusiast) needed me to ride along with him from Dallas to Chicago so that his dad would let him take a car (Diesel, NOT Turbo Diesel Mercedes station wagon that topped out at about 62 mph), I said “Sure, I’ll go.” Arrived to Chicago on a Friday to check out the ticket scene a day before the show, then Saturday came and… 1) I saw Ryne Sandburg hit a home run in Wrigley Field followed by… 2) Harry Carey singing “Take Me Out To The Game” followed by… 3) …seeing The Grateful Dead. All on the same day. It was one hell of a Saturday in late July in 1990. R.I.P. Ryne Sandberg R.I.P. Harry Carey R.I.P. Jerry Garcia
  2. Kelly is a killer.
  3. I’m in Montpellier, France and don’t understand why England had to retake the first kick. Explain (in English), please.
  4. Kalinskaya & Raducanu are so hot. Kalinskaya robbed of the US Open final rematch.
  5. How is he with City? Didn’t he show promise, but wasn’t good enough to feature regularly for Philly? Damn, he is tiny.
  6. As long as Duke is OUT, we are good. 😊 🤘👌
  7. #DirtyGirl When anyone gets a link of the goal, please post it.
  8. They have a statue of Vince in the renovated Notre Dame. 🤘
  9. BBC’s stats page has a category that hits different(ly) when we are talking about WOMEN’S soccer. https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/live/cy4yzxrknrkt#MatchStats
  10. Granddaughter of Count Dracula. The game seems to be pretty even so far… Again, I don’t have the game on TV.
  11. QUESTION: Why was Italy 🇮🇹 hosting a World Cup set in Germany 🇩🇪??
  12. Why were there 7 minutes of stoppage time? I don't have a TV where I am, so I don't know what has been going on.
  13. I am NOT the one hooking horns on the left.
  14. TOUR UPDATE: I was heading to the starting area for the Tour de France and people were crowded at the cross street at the end of my friend’s block. Apparently it was/is the route and the sponsor cars were getting ready to come by. I saw the first few from inside the Carrefour, including the lion (🦁) at the front, but got outside to film & photograph most of the other cars that flew by. They were chucking out free samples, key chains, cheap hats, bandanas and more. I am standing near a roundabout that the peloton will likely split around and that is always cool to see, so I am not sure whether I will stay here or walk down to the start. It is a gradual incline, so the cyclists will likely be going slightly slower than normal, so instead of it taking 4 seconds to pass, they may take 5 seconds to pass.
  15. Short answer: YES Longer Answer: Frequently the Tour starts out from the same town that they ended at the day before. Other times it ends in one town and then starts close by the next morning. This year in Montpellier, the day before the start (Today, Monday July 21st) is a rest day. I didn’t know for sure what was going on today, but so knew for sure that there would at least be people building shit up for tomorrow’s pre-start festivities. The Tour always starts off in the 12 o’clock hour, so that leaves hours of shit to see and doing the morning, but it has to get set up in advance. This kind of shit: Was still being set up today, but was only for sponsors later this evening before being open to the public tomorrow, the morning of the start. REMEMBER: 1) Professional sports are really Entertainment & a Platform for Advertisers. 2) The Tour de France is basically a traveling carnival brought to you by major corporations. It is the NASCAR of Europe. It is all about the brands and connecting with the customers. I tried a Lay’s chips knockoff, a Nutella knockoff… …some ready-made pasta sauce… Gave my email out to som VIP events & travel company (CENTURY 21) to get a couple of plastic shopping bags for my friends’ kids, chatted with a guy who didn’t speak English about Pétanque, and what makes OBUT brand Pétanque Balls so special (an official Tour sponsor with Pétanque setups in Lille & Montpellier this year) There were free yellow hats, I got a blue & white bucket cap from some company named “Krys” for waiting in line and having an eye exam. (My distance vision is till “perfect”, but my reading vision is “complicated”. (A.K.A. “It sucks.”) Saw a few different Poloce stands, depending on whether you wanted to be an investigator or a general police officer, and then the fire department had helmets and an obstacle course for little kids.. …and tons more. My hope is that tomorrow we will be able to see team bikes on stands from a close distance. If you have watched the Tour on TV, you can tell that the national board of tourism has its fingers into the overall route of the race, the individual daily routes, and even the camera shots and the information provided the commentators, at least the English speaking ones for the USA. This is the first time that the Tour has passed through Montpellier in 9 years, so it’s a special thing here. Also, I asked the girl giving me my eye exam and a person at another stand and they both told me that they live locally and are only working this Fan Fest, they are not traveling with the Tour. There are likely some who do, and then there are people with a company like the Pétanque ball company who likely will only show up to Lille and Montpellier this year and skip the rest of the tour and not hire anyone for other stops either. NOTE: I am tired of and may have made mistakes. I don’t feel like rereading this post either, so if I made mistakes… fuck it.
  16. 👆 Went to the Fan Fest shit today and talked to a couple of Canadian retirees. Probably in their late 60s They went to 4 or 5 different starts in the Pyrenees and would watch the starts and then go back to their hotel and watch the rest of the race. I don’t which tour group they are with, but they said that after tomorrow they are heading to Oaris and then waiting to watch the final day in the stands on the Champs, so they are locked into something. Here is a Time Lapse from today. I start behind the stage where they will likely introduce the riders and then I walk straight on a walkway that bisects the half circle of buildings that is a lot like the Royal something or another in Bath, England, then I walk to the Fan Fest thing. IMG_5509.mov More photos later. 👆 Click link.
  17. RAMONCE!!!! I think that my phone switched the spelling as I was looking for the period! Apple doesn’t know nuthin’ about Ramonce.
  18. Great paragraph from ESPN’s game summary. I will include the paragraph before. ”Germany were not making things easy for themselves. Sjoeke Nüsken had a penalty saved in the 68th minute, and the former champions were struggling in attack with only seven shots, compared to 18 from their opponents. The majority of referee Tess Olofsson's calls also went against Germany, with only a few being correct. She called 50 fouls across 120 minutes -- but only showed five yellows -- making the game too stop and start for either team to really get going.” https://www.espn.co.uk/football/story/_/id/45776906/germany-defy-odds-reach-euro-2025-semifinal-france-crash-yet-again What a fucking sentence! France is devolving into Un pays de merde! and their women’s team is a shining example of this. They are such trash. Really enjoyed seeing them lose to a 10 woman squad from Deutschland! A team of whiny cheating cunts.
  19. I’m in Montpellier to watch the Tour start out on Tuesday. Staying with friends, but a negative first impression of the city, will refrain from spending money here and will likely leave town after the race departs on Tuesday. Will scout out the Tour plans after I wake up.
  20. And a smidgen of a jumbo Romance.
  21. There was Seaman all over that shot.
  22. Polar opposite of the England vs Norway shootout. So many of these women’s kicks would have scored on men’s keepers. They cut away to a commercial as they showed Ralph Macchio crying on the field. I felt a little bad. France is a very skilled team who couldn’t stay onside as they tried to retake the lead.
  23. So many of the German women look like they gleefully worked at Concentration Camps. Not to make any accusations about their character, just to stereotype. I think that Germany’s 4th kicker was subbed on late in the 2nd OT… only to miss off the crossbar.
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