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  1. 20 hours ago, 1978horn said:

    I have heard of kids going to Bowie the first couple of years and then transferring to Crocket to get into the top 10% or 6.5%....whatever UT is requiring these days.

    There's been rumors forever of Westlake kids living on their parent's South Texas Dear Camps  for their Senior year and going to whatever public HS serviced it to avoid the competition for a UT auto admit. I have no idea whether it's true or not. It was always some Ferris Bueller 32 Flavors type story.  Usually told in the same breath as the similar "They got into Duke/Vandy but not UT" fable. 

  2. On 5/4/2024 at 3:30 PM, Hawndoh said:

    Gozer the Traveler. He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldrini, the traveler came as a large and moving Torg! Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the McKetrick supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Slor! Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!"

    It’s hard to overstate how much Grand Scene Theft of the First Degree Rick Moranis committed in that movie. 

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  3. 1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:

    That extends to doing anything, including standing. By definition using a space is going to keep others from using it as the same time. Logically, we shouldn't let anyone use the space at all because any of use of it makes it unavailable to others. But that's obviously self-defeating. As I outlined earlier, the same goal can be met with less restrictive means, e.g., requiring registration for use of tents or limiting how long they can be used. 

    Yeah, the whole "abusing a public space" thing starts to sound like Aggies and their grass rules. 

    To me, if you don't want them actually camping, like @Brisketexan said, I'd pull the leaders aside day 1 and say "You can't sleep here, that's just the rules.  Here's what we can do:  Facilities will set up a floor/grass protecting cover, and we will allow y'all to set up early in the morning and help facilitate tear down at night.  We can even get some porta johns in here and allow groups to donate food and such during the day.  Y'all have to be out of here two days before graduation, period, so we can clean and set up.  That's non-negotiable and we will crack skulls if you try and cross us on it.  Anyone who crosses the two day mark will also be expelled, without recourse. 

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  4. WIthout weighing in on the UT protests, there is a precedent for tent protests that turned into a problem: Occupy Wall Street, which started out as a legitimate protest (I worked a block from the McPherson Square encampment) and eventually turned into just a homeless/unhoused community that the NPS had to clear away.

    I'm not saying that's a thing here.  But if I was a University administrator, once Spring term was over, I'd clear out any community to prevent it from becoming a public health nuisance. Again, in the case of UT, it sorta feels like they went right to the "clearing out" portion without some of the interim steps that usually occur with a protesting group.  But I haven't followed it super closely.  

  5. Hello, I'm having a slow day, so I thought I'd do some education to distract everyone yelling at each other about the Campus protests.

    For those that don't know, every major rule or regulation (but not Executive Order) is potentially subject to the Congressional Review Act.  

    In short: the CRA allows Congress to overturn any rule by law, in an expedited and filibuster proof procedure.  It must be signed into law by the President, and if successful, prevents future administration's from substantially similar efforts. There is a time limit to when it can be used.  This year that day is probably May 22.

    For simplicities sake, this year, if the Biden Administration wants to prevent the next Congress and future President Trump from overturning a rule or regulation, the rule needs to be finalized and printed before Memorial Day.   

    This is why you are seeing daily rules about health, labor, environment being released.  In 2015, the Obama administration was lazy about the CRA and lost over a dozen rules because they thought Hilary was going to win. 

    Educate Yourself Shooting Star GIF

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  6. As a human being, I like Boomer Esiason, by all accounts a very solid dude. 

    I can't find a single fuck to give about who the blah-blahs are on any of these shows. Fox or CBS. Sports talking heads come and go, as it has been and always will be. As many have mentioned, you put them on and mute the broadcast while pregaming. It's just background at this point. 

  7. 2 hours ago, Fud said:

    Reportedly some teams in the top ten don't want to draft him due to the low historical hit rate in the top ten for the position 

    I saw that article. This is kinda of a weird draft in that it's deep, but outside of Harrison Jr., Bowers, and maybe Caleb Williams, none of the players jump off the page at you.  Don't get me wrong, many of them may be stars and all pros, but this draft seems to lack guys that just scream "IT"

  8. 39 minutes ago, 6th Street said:

    This is going to be almost as bad as that 2021 class where a bunch of QB hungry teams pass up guaranteed starters like Micah Parsons to chase bums like Trey Lance, Zach Wilson, and Josh Fields.

    Brock Bowers is going to fall to some team in the 10-20 range because people lose their minds reaching for QBs. 

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  9. 11 hours ago, Ignatius said:

    Denver trying to keep that mo going of QBs named Wilson…at least this flameout will come cheap…

    whelp. looks like Penix and Nix are definitely either late firsts or second round picks now that Denver is probably looking at other positions. 

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  10. I'll be the outlier here: Chinatown is good, not great. It gets draggy for me, but I realize I'm the exception. 

    Jack is excellent of course, "Forget it Jake, It's Chinatown" is easily one of the most qoutable lines in movie history (Although I use it less than "Deserves got nothing to do with it") but when I think of 5-10 greatest movies ever, Chinatown isn't something that springs immediately into my head.  

    @henrygandorf is right: that was such an epically productive time for Hollywood.  It is my fervent hope that as comic book mania recedes, much like Western's, we will see another burst of creativity and innovative film making. 

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  11. 13 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

    Exactly.  I don't think of Dawn Staley or Lisa Bluder as bitchy, at all.

    I have no idea what they are like behind closed doors, and I would guess they work very hard to keep it that way.  I thought most of my childhood that Tommy Lasorda was some genial, good natured guy.  I had no idea he had a mouth and attitude that would make a sailor blush.  

  12. So this scene from Bull Durham, as much as it is played for comedy, is a actually a guide to how to handle the media:

     

    There's a reason why you hear so many athletes giving the same boring "110% , didn't get the breaks, faith in God" blah blah speech, that makes you tune out the interview after checking out Erin Andrews:  It doesn't create media ripples.  Angel Reese decided she wasn't interested in the traditional route to handling the media.  She had thoughts, and she expressed them.  For better and worse.  Winning cures a lot of problems. Reese just found out that losing tends to make things unreasonably and exponentially worse. 

    America is still an incredibly racist and sexist country. And if, as a celebrity, you elect to raise your profile in the media ecosystem, it's going to come with some very real, unfair, and scary consequences.  That doesn't make it right, but Reese's post game speech didn't seek to tamp down on an already volatile and awful situation, it poured gasoline on the fire. 

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  13. 9 hours ago, Napoleon said:

    Not as Longhorn friendly as some previous mock drafts.

    I still can’t believe that Penix isn’t seen as a 1st round QB.

    That last quarter of the Michigan game was eye opening.  If you give him a clean pocket and time, he's Mark Rypien and will tear you to shreds.  If he has to do it on the go/underpressure, he's also Mark Rypien and his game falls apart pretty quick. 

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  14. 2 hours ago, Longhorn94 said:

    if you're a 6'5 250+ Lb dude and there is a 5'9 guy who is not only willing to engage in a fight but enthusiastic about it - you might want to re-think things.

    As a 5'9" guy who was very unenthusiastic about fighting in my bar crawling hey day, can confirm that avoiding aggro little dudes is a very wise course of action. 

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  15. On 3/6/2024 at 12:36 PM, Dutchrudder said:

    I saw it a few months ago and agree, she was great. Although the movie felt like a simple Bradley Cooper Oscar-bait vehicle, and nothing more. I thought the choice of a prosthetic nose was a bit over the top, a lot like Steve Carell in Foxcatcher, but they both got Best Actor noms with it, so maybe it's a trend. 

    Lol.  When it came out and the controversy about the nose occurred, all I could think about was Tropic Thunder:

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    The Academy has gotten pretty good at sniffing out thinly veiled Oscar bait. 

  16. 15 hours ago, kevwun said:

    This was one of the strangest movies I've ever seen and also very good.  Interesting flick and Emma Stone most definitely deserved her Oscar.

    Este.  It was easily one of the horniest movies I've ever seen. Not sexy. Just horny. Either way, I'm totally glad I saw it. 

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  17. On 3/23/2024 at 12:29 AM, LTtxfan said:

    Playing on a shitty Cocks team made Rattler better.   He needs the right team to draft him, sit him at least a year, and he has a chance to be an NFL starter.  ATL is possibly one team for Rattler to end up with.  

     

    Rattler is a perfect 4th round pick.  He might just pan out and become something special, because he's had to play in hero mode most of college, but if he doesn't, it's not that big a deal.  A team that can afford to make him 3rd string and let him grip it and rip it a bit in preseason to see if it will pan is the ideal location. 

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