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Paper_jam

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  1. Is the XFL doing anything creative with offensive (or defensive) formations? I feel like the NFL has too many rules governing how you position players, how many must be on the line of scrimmage, who is/isn't an eligible receiver, etc. Why can't (for example) you just have a center, a QB, and 10 guys going deep? Or a V-shaped phalanx formation to make a blocking wedge for your runningback, or... whatever insane formation a coach can dream up? (Subject to the 11-man limit, and a rule that you can't be offsides before the snap.)
  2. I'd support a program to pay people living in Austin to move away.
  3. Trivial road design issue that makes me surly: why doesn't the far north end of Lamar extend that last little bit to Howard Lane? There's a southbound connector from Howard/I35 to Lamar, but If you want to take Lamar **northbound** to Howard it forces you to turn back on the southbound 35 service road. *Unless you can cut through that school campus off the left, which is still not ideal
  4. I thought Marketing execs dreamed up marketing strategies. Which a $20/hr guy could also do, but he doesn't have an MBA or Marketing degree. I don't know shit about Marketing but I've always liked this Bill Hicks routine:
  5. I think this effect is slowly but steadily killing performance cars. Unless you have access to a track ($$$), or live someplace very rural, it's really difficult to drive with any degree of "sportiness" -- there's so much traffic congestion (and law enforcement) that you can't really do anything "fun" anymore on public streets.
  6. Dumb question about residential mortgages: lets say someone with a strong credit history (800+), a solid employment history (25 years+), and no debt is planning retirement fairly soon. However, they're also interested in upgrading to a nicer home, just about at the time when their annual income will be dropping substantially (due to said retirement). This person has investment assets which could be collateral against a mortgage, but they are not really interested in liquidating a lot of those assets in the short term (i.e.. for a down payment). TL: DR If your income is on the low side, can you still qualify for a good-size mortgage on the basis of your prior credit history and the value of other assets? Or would banks run away screaming because there's not enough traditional income to support the mortgage?
  7. I was living in Victoria at the time and I heard that explosion at Carbide 20+ miles away. It was the middle of the night and I thought it was thunder or a truck tire blowing.
  8. After seeing that line for Luby's, I would've taken my chances at the IHOP in the background. Shit, maybe the Valero has some burritos or something...
  9. Doesn't matter if it's offense, defense, or ST--Dallas can''t string together more than two plays without a critical fuckup. Fire fucking everyone.
  10. Chocolate/mississippi mud pie > Pecan > Banana Cream > Apple > Blueberry > Coconut Cream > Cherry > Key Lime > Lemon > Pumpkin
  11. The insane thing about LHOP was you could never be sure if you were going to get a lightweight country story about Pa building a chair or Ma's apple pie winning the fair, or an episode where a woman and a baby go up in flames on camera, or an episode where a clown rapes children complete with POV shots from inside the clown mask. I mean talk about a wide range in tone.
  12. Shit I hope they don't use SH130 to get up to Parmer Ln because that's gonna fuck up my life
  13. I'm not a lawyer (as will immediately become apparent) and I'm also not well-informed about the current criteria that apply when a sentence of death is being considered. However, in the finest American tradition, this will not stop me from proposing my own ridiculous solution to these kinds of cases. When the prosecution is seeking the death penalty, the guilty/not guilty determination should be modified so that the jury either finds the defendant A) Not guilty; B) Guilty, based on the current "beyond reasonable doubt" threshold; or C) Superguilty. "Superguilty", as defined by me, means that the evidence is so clear and incontrovertible that virtually no doubt remains that the accused committed the crime. In the sentencing phase, the death penalty could be applied only for a "Superguilty" conviction. (This is a hypothetical kind of concept and I'm not making any claims about whether Reed is guilty or "superguilty" based on my terminology.)
  14. Brief moment of terror when I thought thread title was referring to Jimmy Dean products.
  15. I haven't followed tire issues that closely, but I hear a lot of complaints from fans about the Pirelli tires in F1. What's the TL:DR version?
  16. For me, it seems like there is a Schrödinger's Cat effect going on with the Texans. As long as I ignore them, they do well -- but as soon as I start to follow them, they shit the bed in spectacular and amusing ways.
  17. Kansas State @ Texas: Don't Forget your Power Towel https://youtu.be/-A-05wPlQQ4
  18. I heartily endorse Shoxthemonkey's post above. I miss the creativity, ingenuity, and variety that used to be a part of racing. Now everything is regulated and handicapped and homogenized to the nth degree. Some of it is economics, some of it is safety, some of it is to keep sponsors onboard, and some is the natural progression of engineering and optimizing a car towards a specific goal. But I still want more 6-wheel F1 cars, turbine cars, and maybe even full-electric someday, all competing in the same field.
  19. COTA obviously must have done geological studies of the soil at the site, so the characteristics of that black clay can't have been a surprise. Was the subsurface soil stabilization and track construction and engineering done properly, or did they skimp on it like SH130 did? Why didn't they pick a site somewhere west of I-35, where there is actually bedrock?
  20. https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AngelicThirstyDavidstiger-mobile.mp4
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