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Bateshorn

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  1. Burn that outfit, Gus.
  2. I got a bit verklempt at the very end. Damn, I’ve been watching Corso since I was in college. It’s been a hell of a ride.
  3. He was very nice to me the day I visited, came out and chatted with me and my wife while we were eating. Didn’t know him from Adam but mentioned the Shag. I also didn’t give him any money other than the beef rib and brisket…..
  4. My grandmother sold a plot of land in the heart of the Eagle Ford in 1998. It was an overgrown patch that none of the family other than my grandfather had ever visited she had bought as a favor to a near do well realtive decades before. It was property locked, so even getting to it required getting permission from the surrounding owners. I think she sold it, and the mineral rights, for maybe 10k. Personally, I had 1000 shares of American Airlines in my Schwab check out basket when they were on the edge of bankruptcy right before they merged with US air. It was 2-ish dollars a share. I forgot to execute the trade because somebody walked in my office and I have the attention span of a dog.
  5. The Saints are sitting over here. Why wear an ersatz bag on your head in team shame, when you can get the original product?
  6. This. The only possible scenario where Manning comes out early is if the Saints have the first pick AND somehow Gail Benson takes a break from defending pedophilia to totally overhaul the front office. And that’s not going to happen.
  7. You forgot: and
  8. Good for them. I expect much hilarity from Jason and Travis as this progresses. Don't act you haven't bopped out to Shake It Off.
  9. Still the greatest Babylon Bee Headline of all time: https://babylonbee.com/news/loud-cheering-heard-from-lockheed-martin-board-room
  10. My Aunt and Uncle were died Red Reagan Republicans. He was an oil man. They are liberal now. Trump's behavior during his first term bothered them, but his rejection of Science during Covid infuriated my Uncle.
  11. From my anecdotal experience, the California kids coming out of California who did not get into UCLA/UCSD/Berkley/Santa Barbara/UW and have money go to Colorado. The others look at a range of other schools (Oregon/Arizona, etc.)
  12. The reason why there are so many Maryland kids sprinkled all over the eastern seaboard is because in state admissions to College Park is brutal. UMD makes a lot of money off mediocre full freight kids out of New Jersey.
  13. Ever since I rolled into DC in 1997 I’ve said the same thing: America is a center right nation that is deeply racist at its core. Everything else stems from there.
  14. The joke I always tell is whenever you see a Colorado Vs. Oregon game, the stands are full of a lot of California kids who didn’t get in their first choice UC school.
  15. Reed is a hard study school, like Swathmore or Chicago. Those kids spend all their free time in the library. You don’t go to Reed to rip toobs and play beer pong. You go to Reed to prep for a graduate degree.
  16. In all fairness to Midwest winters, they are cold as fuck, but the sun does come out. In the PNW a mood lamp and Vitamin D supplements are real. Do look at Lewis and Clark. They offered my son an enormous amount of money.
  17. Salem is fucking small. My wife went to Reed for a year and looked at Willamette. She hated Salem. The Willamette Valley is a weird mix of pretty and meth, and Salem is candidly an ugly little town. If you are going that path, you might as well chuck Lewis and Clark in there. Do your college visit in February. Make sure she understands what she is getting into with PNW weather. My oldest didn’t even do the campus tour at L&C because he hated the weather so much: he just flew home. My youngest was fine and is a rising senior at Oregon. With Trinity, she has to Early Admission. They just don’t let people in Regular Decision. The class is full by then with kids who didn’t auto admit UT and don’t want to go to SMU or Tulane.
  18. Son graduated from Trinity last year. We loved it, especially how cheap it was for private school if you have good grades. My kid is still sitting on 75K in his 529 because of how much Merit and Need Trinity gave. Going to a rich ass school is nothing to sneeze. The school can hold your daughter's hand as long as she needs it. The dorms are clean and spacious, resources good. The only school draw back the two level campus. Going up and down those stairs is PITA. OTOH, Monte Vista is great, and you are just across 35 from the Central Markets over by Incarnate Word. Also, San Antonio fucks. As an out of state parent, flying in and out of SAT is so easy because it's close-ish to downtown.
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