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VolenteHawk

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  1. George Devore side hugged, kissed my then girlfriend now wife on the cheek at Antone’s in 2001...thought she was somebody else. I’ve always hated that guy. I moved here in 99. Lotsa Vallejo and Scab shows while I explored town. I don’t like them but was surprised nobody mentioned Blue October. Then Wiki told me they’re from Houston. Gotdamn they were here a lot for a while.
  2. This whole premise is flawed. Adam Sandler has shown the ability to make funny movies. I even liked some of his attempts at being more serious (I thought Reign Over Me was pretty good). Fans of Sandler can reasonably complain that he’s mostly stopped trying, so he can cash chicks and film with his buddies in Hawaii. We’re not talking about Rob Schneider here that just can’t carry a decent movie. Sandler can, he just doesn’t.
  3. Make it two, I liked 50 First Dates, too.
  4. I took two different girls to see Titanic in the theater. Worked both times. Thanks, Leo.
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    Dallas | BBQ

    I’m in Frisco for kid’s baseball, and the team ordered a bunch of meat from Hard 8 last night. Some of the brisket was pretty dry but there was one chunk of it that’d I’d call pretty good. Consistency varied a lot just on the amount of brisket we ordered. The ribs and jalapeño sausage were both very good. Graded on the serves all day curve (we ate around 7), I was overall pretty pleased with it.
  6. Shot my 2nd career 68 at Great Hills on Tuesday. 5 birdies and 2 bogies (par 71), I haven't been playing much or practicing at all...but I hit the center of a lot of greens, two putted for birdie twice, and made a couple.
  7. I think it's the original Domain, rebranded...so like California Pizza Kitchen to Nieman Marcus.
  8. You can do select/travel baseball sensibly, it's just that you have to be careful that you're putting your kid in the right situation...because lots of teams don't do it sensibly. My son plays 9U Majors (so as serious as 9U baseball gets) and he still has 4 months of the year where he doesn't throw a baseball at all. He plays flag football and both winter and summer basketball. Now, the flip side is, we've had 4 different pitchers throw 85+ pitches against us, and I've lost track of the number of kids that have thrown curve balls...which should both be considered child abuse at this age.
  9. Hmmm, I never thought about that. I played a good deal of poker at the boats in college, would just have a beer and wait for "boarding" if I got there early, but no limit wasn't popular yet...so it was all limit games. It never occurred to me that the chip buying limits would impact NL game size, but it makes sense.
  10. The KU board used to have a regular poster (a firefighter) that literally died in a fire. And some posters there still use "Die in a Fire" in these kill yourself situations. So uncomfortable.
  11. Sexual assault joke? Billy Preston joke? Too vague to tell.
  12. Yeah, the idea that Self would be a good candidate for a rebuild and the RC Buford relationship is what has always made the Spurs seem like a good fit if/when their window closes and Pop hangs it up, even though they've some kept it perpetually open for the better part of 20 years.
  13. That picture makes me want a jalapeño and banana pudding.
  14. He was a little douchier than I'd hoped for at the Q&A, left the moderator hanging a few times. But he was pretty funny.
  15. Dude, you can't cum using a tailpipe at 4 times the legal limit. I mean uh...that guy is weird.
  16. Yeah, they've gotten a little rain.
  17. I still love it. Taught my daughter when she was 10, and refreshed my wife who now keeps the book for my son’s games. Very little in life beats a summer evening, a cold beer, a top of the first, and a clean scorebook to fill in.
  18. It might be worth metioning that there is no distinction here between public and private communication on Snapchat in this situation. The psycho gets notified of who took screenshots in either situation. So your retaliation risk should be appropriately evaluated even if you only disclose information from his (public) story.
  19. I've had lots and lots of sports bets over the years that came down to the very end (the point spread is efficient and all), but two large-ish bets stick out in my head; one win and one loss both on pretty rare plays with under a minute left. I was laying 2.5 with the Colorado Buffaloes a few years back, they score a touchdown to take a two point lead...aaaaaand miss the extra point. I was fading the Cowboys on (I'm pretty sure) Monday Night Football and late in a game that my bet was rarely live the Cowboys are covering by a point facing 4th down inside their own 5. Snapped it out of the end zone on purpose to take the safety / free kick / field position instead of risking a punt. Easy winner.
  20. If Pop decides he’s done and Self took the Spurs job, Chris Mack is basically my entire (gettable) list.
  21. I flew to Vegas just to bet Mayweather against McGregor. Had to figure out the process for wiring money to the cage, etc. My biggest bet on a sporting event by a lot. I considered it more investment than gamble, but with that much money in play I was a nervous wreck all day.
  22. If you've never owned one, it's not surprising you have a negative opinion, I suppose...but gas grills are roughly as hard to regulate temperature in as an oven. I personally cook chicken breasts and (usually) burgers on gas. Steak, bone-in pork, and wings goes on the BGE. Some stuff that's slightly better on charcoal still gets the gas treatment if we're grilling late for whatever reason, the convenience of the gas grill being 700* in 4 minutes is hard to overcome.
  23. In the late 90s, when the blue album came out, every college student I knew loved them. Then Amber happened, and we all tried to forget.
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